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Monitor Show 23:00 09-23-2023 23:00
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Special Interview Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat
"Welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk Podcast Network. I am your host today, Danny Nelson. Our co -host Ben is experiencing technical difficulties, so we'll be flying solo. Today I'm joined by Johan Kebraat from Robinhood. He's the general manager of all things crypto over there. We're going to have a nice little chat about what Robinhood is up to, what its vision is for the crypto universe, and where he thinks all this is going. So welcome to the program. Hey, Danny. Thanks for having me. Excited to have this one -on -one, I guess. Yes, we're making it up as we go along. Anyway, I want to start off by understanding what's your perspective within Robinhood on the crypto space. Do you see this as an investment that every Robinhood user should be plugged into? Because we have to remember, Robinhood is much bigger than just its crypto protocol. Yeah, absolutely. On Robinhood, you can do a lot more things than just trading or transferring crypto. And our vision is to democratize finance for everybody. And we want to make sure that the people that are interested in crypto, they have a place to do it. And we think Robinhood is probably the best place for them. So we keep investing in that division for the company.
Cyber Security Weekly Podcast
A highlight from Episode 377 - Artificial Intelligence and Operational Resiliency
"This is Jane Lo, and I'm at the Global Resiliency Federation office here in Singapore. And with me today, I'm very pleased and very privileged to have Mark Orsi, who is the CEO of GRF or Global Resiliency Federation, all the way from United States of America. So thank you, Mark, for your time today. Thank you for having me. And so Mark will be sharing with us the latest in terms of artificial intelligence, which is causing a lot of excitement nowadays, as well as the operational resiliency framework, which has been developed by GRF over the last year or so. So Mark, you know, give us a brief introduction about yourself and also GRF and what, you know, the organisation does. And I also understand that you're very passionate about AI. So tell us about the history of your career as well. Sure. So I started as an aerospace engineer many, many years ago. And after aerospace, I was in computer science and I was working on computer vision. So it's really been interesting to see the journey until today. But additionally, so the last 15 years or so, I've been in the financial services sector primarily and technology risk and cybersecurity. I worked at Goldman Sachs for about eight years, KPMG for a few years, JP Morgan for a few years. And then in the past four years, I've been at Global Resilience Federation and we're a non -profit. We manage and support 17 different sharing communities. ISACs, which are really information sharing and analysis centres, they're collective defence communities where organisations join together to help protect themselves against the various threats that are out there. And of course, you have your conference later in October, later this year in Texas. Yeah, Austin, Texas, October 11th through 12th. Anybody who's local or who wants to make the journey, please come. We also have an OTI set conference on September 6th coming right up. More local. But yeah, it's an iteration of it, sixth year running. And it's security and third -party risk. So we have practitioners, CISOs, third -party risk practitioners, business resilience practitioners. And we have a whole track on AI security. So we've worked for the last six months with 20 organisations on two papers. One is a CISO guide to AI security and one is a practitioner's guide. So let's start with AI, which is what gets people excited nowadays. So tell us, you've got a great vintage point from America, which is a leader in many ways when it comes to technology and innovations. So what is the conversation like in terms of the business use cases that you see in America? Sure, we're coming from a cybersecurity and resilience perspective. And so I was on a call, it was about a week and a half after ChatGBT was released in November of last year. A hundred different chief information security officers on the call, really all concerned about maybe business forging ahead without really taking any security considerations into play. But also about some of the major strengths that they could, how can we use this for good as well, right? How can we use it to find vulnerabilities? How can we use it to secure our code? So an example is one of the organisations had been using a tool like it to actually rewrite their code base and translate into different language, which added memory management to their code and then translate it back to the original language. And they were also using it then to multiply their developers time by tenfold, because they didn't have to write the test cases and additional code around developers. So there's plenty of benefits to it and there's plenty of risks, right? We need to think about the whole pipeline, whether we have in -house AI models or whether we're using third parties, there's different kinds of risks that we need to consider. There's also been a lot of talk of using AI large language models to do predictive diagnostics in healthcare, right? And GRF, of course, you have more than, what, 20 member organisations? It's 17 different ones, yes, 17. And one of them is Health iSAT, right? So talking to your member communities, do you see a difference in terms of the pace of adoption in terms of using AI? Yeah, absolutely. And so we worked with 20 different organisations, including some healthcare, some manufacturing, some energy and others, to put together a guide on AI security, both the practitioner guide and a CISO guide. And yes, there's different pace of adoption. There's organisations that have been using machine learning and AI for many, many years. And but with the advent of this generative AI, there's just a tremendous amount of concern and the pace of change is much more rapid. It used to be every year you'd have change and now it's every week. There's new things happening. So of course, artificial intelligence is not new in cyber security. How is this latest innovation of using large language models, how is that going to be different in terms of adoption in cyber security? I think you mentioned a few sort of like... I think some of the power of it is that ultimately, if you think about the resource limits that we have, there's always constraints on the number of resources that are available that are cyber focused and cyber educated. And so for us to take the power of some of those large language model generative AI and sort of multiply the efforts of the staff that we have, then we can also meet some of the needs that we have from a resource perspective. Also, I think ultimately we're going to get into very targeted threat intelligence to where it'll be based upon our own assets. So if you're an enterprise and you have specific assets and you have specific threats in your sector, then the intelligence that you're delivered would be very targeted to your organization specifically. So it's going to get much more powerful over time to give you tailored threat intelligence. Do you think that the rate of adoption on the cyber defense side is possibly faster than how the threat actors are adopting... Yeah, I mean, that's a big concern, right? I think probably we'll be behind the curve. All right, okay. I think there was even talk early on about just pausing the pace of developments, making sure that we have the regulatory framework so that we know how to do this ethically and responsibly. So I think from a machine learning perspective, we could be doing very well, but I think from a generative AI perspective, we may be behind the curve a little bit. So I think the complexity of attacks, I think we'll be putting essentially nation -state tools into every threat actor's hands. So I think it's a very sort of concerning few years as we work to try and match the pace of change. You think that is something that is quite realistic that will happen, or is it just kind of like a hype? Because there's some part that human developers or human threat actors are possibly a lot more sophisticated when it comes to developing the malware code. And you can kind of tell the difference between one that's generated by generative AI and one that's written by human developers. I'll give you an example of just a very personal use case. So I was working with my son just a couple of weeks ago, and we found an old Nintendo DS. And so he wanted to run videos on his old Nintendo DS. And so we used ChatGBT to learn how to hack into our Nintendo DS to make it display videos. So he never had any programming experience, but we were able to do this. So this is exactly what I'm like, you know, we can put these tools into everybody's hands. So how do we, you know, we need to be extra vigilant as this change happens. So what do you think is the immediate step that cyber defenders have to take in face of this threat? Well, I think there's a few things. Number one, we need to be moving forward to be using it in the right ways, to be using it from a defender perspective. So if it is helping us to find vulnerabilities quicker, if it's helping us to develop threat intelligence better, that's more tailored towards each individual organization. But also just from security and ethics perspective, there's all sorts of different attacks that can happen to those, whether it's on the input data, whether it's in the model itself, you can embed undetectable backdoors in these models. So if you're using a third party to develop your models, you need to be very concerned and maybe even have multiple models to compare the answers. Now, some people also say, right, let's just get the basics right, right? So for example, we'll get more sophisticated phishing emails, right? So that just means more awareness in terms of how to spot a fake email from a genuine email. So that's kind of like the basics that we need to sort out. Yeah, but it's also addressing all the different aspects of that. You know, I mentioned the models themselves. So protecting the models, protecting the data. You don't want data poisoning. You want to detect and monitor these things because they may evolve over time. And you need to be really concerned about your third parties because every third party is going to be introducing AI. So we talk about an AI bill of materials. So the same as you have a software bill of materials, we want to think about how can we develop an AI bill of materials? So how can you ensure that the training data and the model that's being used, right, how do we know which models we're using and which training data is being used? So if we find an ethical bias or we find some, let's say it was trained on a set of a code that had malware embedded in it or a set of code that had logic bombs in it, you don't want to embed logic bombs in your new code that you're writing by using these tools. So we need to make sure that the training data is clean. For example, let's just take the example of data poisoning, right? So that is perhaps, you know, looking at how you provide access levels to your data set. So it's not any difference from sort of the basic cybersecurity measures, right? Right. It's using some of the same constructs that you have across others. But one of the things that you need to be concerned about too, though, is these are dynamic, some of these are dynamic models. Right now, it's a very static world. We have these models that were trained in, you know, 2021 data, right? But in the near future, these things will be much more dynamic and actually responding to the inputs to change their behavior. So you'll need to be monitoring. Yeah, that's very different. Right, okay. So I think one final question on the copy of AI before we move to operational resilience framework. A lot of people say, right, AI is going to mean, you know, perhaps job losses, right? And how do you see that playing out in the cybersecurity field? So I'm, you know, concerned in general. I studied AI 30 years ago. I was concerned about it then. You know, I thought the first sort of impact would be with self -driving cars and in our transportation industry. I think it turns out that, you know, these models advanced very quickly, maybe quicker than people were expecting. But it's going to take a very long time for us to sort of digest that through all of our business models that we have right now. But I think it's going to multiply our efforts. I think cybersecurity is an industry where we're very resource constrained, where people, there's way more cyber resources are required than we have people. So it'll just multiply our capabilities and maybe meet the needs that we have. So I think that's a very positive thing. Ultimately, I think our economy will be changing in the next decade or two decades in different ways. And I think we can only imagine what those changes will be. Right. Okay. So talking about overcoming some of these challenges, it means like resiliency, right? So that plays into the next topic, operational resilience framework. So tell us what this resiliency means in the context of this framework and perhaps cybersecurity. So back in 2018, there was a paper from the Bank of England. So regulatory guidance on operational resilience and impact tolerance. And so it was really thinking about the potential systemic impacts of bank failures on customers and partners. And so the question was, well, how do we respond to that? What are the things that we need to do to ensure that we can continue to operate our critical services through a crisis, even if it's an impaired state? So we, Trey Moss, who is the CEO of Sheltered Harbor, it was an initiative from FSISAC to help protect consumer data. So if there was a bank failure or a bank disruption, you could still access your bank account information. So it would prevent sort of a run on the bank or this systemic impact from it. So we took that concept and Trey was always thinking, hey, we probably need to do more than just protect this little piece of data. It was in a distributed and immutable way that the different banks and the standard format that different banks could access. We need to also prevent the bank from failing its critical services. So we were working with him, Bill Nelson, who is the CEO of FSISAC for 12 years. And he's our board of directors. Trey and I, we met for about a year to say, well, what should we be doing beyond just protecting this little piece of information? What are those critical services that we need to protect? And we need to make sure that through a crisis they would operate, even if it's an impaired state. So we developed a path to operational resilience. We worked with 100 organizations and financial services regulators to develop a very simple path that was meant really for every industry, not just for financial services. And so it's a path of seven steps, 37 rules. We tried to make it very simple. It's aligned to NIST and ISO standards and extends existing business continuity and disaster recovery type standards and frameworks. It takes a holistic approach and really looking outward instead of inward on saying these are internal business services that we need to keep running. Those we call business critical services. Operations critical are those things that your customers and your partners depend upon. And so making sure that those continue to run through a crisis. If you have a wiperware attack, you have a ransomware attack, you have a data center fire, you want to make sure that your customers' critical services continue to function through that crisis. So take an example of, say, a ransomware attack. So attack ransomware hitting one of these industrial organizations, right? So how would this resiliency framework help, you know, plug some of the gaps? So what's interesting is we've done this very much from an IT focus. We want to extend it to an OT realm as well. So we'll be working with OT ISAC and manufacturing ISAC late this year, early next year, and we'll set up a working group to do that. But actually one of our first scenarios that we put out there, it's, you know, freely downloadable from our website, grf .org, is a scenario that we call it ACME pipeline. And it was essentially a replication of colonial pipeline incident to highlight the benefits of an operational resilient framework approach. And so we looked at, you know, what are those critical services from a pipeline? And it was really just delivering petroleum. So there are a bunch of regulatory responses they have to have. There's payroll, there's all these different systems. When it comes to what do you actually deliver to your customers and your business partners, it was just delivery of petroleum. So making sure that they could deliver petroleum through that crisis, if they had a ransomware attack or a wipe away attack, what are those things they needed to do to ensure, even if it's an impaired state, how do I deliver that to my high priority customers and my low priority customers and designing so that let's say I could only operate at 80 % capacity. Can I still provide service to my low priority customers or do I need to only provide service to my high priority customers? So understanding at what point do you cut off service or do you are you going to disappoint some people because it's no longer a service to them. Designing that into your system and pre -planning that is part of this framework. Right, yes, yeah. So it's kind of like looking at from a sort of a consequence perspective on the mission factors rather perspective than start from the asset inventory kind of that traditional. It was interesting, I was hearing some of the same language that we were developing over the last two years coming from the OT experts on the panels as well about exactly that, about operating through a crisis, about the mission critical functions. Right, okay. So we just talked about one scenario which is ransomware and you are looking to sort of, I guess, expand to different types of scenarios to try to help organizations assess where they are in terms of their maturity when it comes to resiliency, yes? Yeah, so it really doesn't matter what the type of attack is, right? And also I think one of the concerns, we've been very sort of IT focused and very much we talked about the data and making sure that it's distributed and immutable, but also from a service perspective. So you want to make sure that you can deliver those services. That's right. Whether it includes manpower or whether it includes just technology. So that's very important. So what are the next steps then? So you say that the efforts started in 2019, yes? There's two active working groups right now. So one is we're developing a maturity model. We're going to release the next iteration in October of this year at our conference, which is in Austin, Texas. So not local. But so the next iteration will come with a maturity model, some of the comments that we've received from multiple industries, and we're still actively seeking, we want to make sure it's a cross -industry approach. We also have another working group focused on a scenario that's in the financial sector. So in ACH payments network disruption, ACH is, you know, domestic cash payments are made through this ACH network, and it's $76 trillion a year. So it's a very significant system. And so what would a disruption like that, how would it impact banks? And how should we be thinking about operational resilience in that scenario? So working through that, we'll probably do an exercise in November of this year, which would be open to many banks to have that discussion. So we'll be looking at the next steps. Like I mentioned, we'll be looking to extend the framework to OT, ICS concerns. And we'll be looking to, you know, develop the third iteration and additional scenarios. So what is the first thing that organizations have to do if they want to adopt your framework? So they can go to our website now and freely download it. It's available. They can actually review it and give feedback. But also think about how they can use it in their organizations, right? What some in major banks, they're using it just to develop training materials. So organizations, they're different business units across the globe regionally, and different business units can consider operational resilience and how they work. So I think it's a really good learning tool. And ultimately, as they implement it, the first steps are, number one, we build it upon the baseline of NIST and ISO standards. IDLE, change management, making sure they have core standards, core practices in place, core controls, and then naming an operational resilience executive. So really getting somebody who has visibility across business and technology. Yeah, a champion of it, who can sustain it through organizational change, right? Who can really have some power and authority to implement it. That's really important. And then you can start walking through the framework and doing the things that are necessary. It'll take investment, it'll take some work to really become more resilient. And so we're working on the maturity model as well, so people can evaluate sort of where they are and where they think they might have gaps. Can they participate in one of your working groups so that they can assess to see how they can practically use it? Yeah, they can contact me. No, happy to have that. Happy to have people reach out to me and contact us. Again, our website, grf .org .org. And yeah, we're continuing to develop new working groups and new sector focal points. Our goal is to make the whole ecosystem more resilient, to figure out how organizations can do that and to contribute to security and resilience in any way that we can. So this is one way to do that. Possibly there's a way to incorporate AI element, the latest generative AI element. I would love it, right? I love it. I mean, that's a real passion of mine from many years ago. So it's great to kind of see it finally come into play. And we just have to address it in the right way and with the right security concerns. So, well, Mark, thank you so much for your time today to talk to us about generative AI, as well as operational resiliency framework that GRF is developing. So thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Thank you, Jane.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: How to 'Rage Quit' a DAO, Safely
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. And hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the Coindesk podcast network and I am Ben Shiller and I am the features editor here at Coindesk and joining me today is Danny Nelson. Hi Danny. Hello and I am not the features editor. I think I'm the managing editor of data and tokens but everything's always in flux here. Who knows? Maybe I'll just call me senior reporter Danny Nelson. You're pretty senior and an important figure here at Coindesk which is a ship that's still sailing along despite a few eruptions recently. How are you holding up Danny? You know I have this wonderful bottle of High West bourbon, not a sponsor of the show. Hopefully they'll become one one day. It's helping me get through these bear market blues I guess I could say. That's right. We've all got to struggle on intoxicating ourselves as best we can. Absolutely. So what do we have on the agenda this week Danny? Take us inside the newsroom. Well before we step inside the newsroom I want to step outside for a bit. I want to hear why you weren't here last week Ben. Oh good lord. Could you share with me in the audience what you were up to? Stuck in the mud maybe. I was actually on international news as it were attending what is known as Burning Man 2023 which is an annual event in the Nevada desert which was quite the escapade this year because of unseasonable rain falling there. First time in 24 years of that great event and it turned the plier as it's known into a quagmire which stopped all vehicles including the port -a -potty vans from coming on site and doing what they needed to do. We ran out of food, ran out of wi -fi and phone access and there was a potential Lord of the Flies situation. It didn't quite come to that but it was certainly a grueling and physically demanding experience although I had a great great great time and I would highly recommend the event to anyone if you've got the stomach for it. So Ben was this your first burn? It was my first burn yeah. Did you adopt a plier name? What was it? I was known as Shillington. So Shillington? Oh my god. You don't actually adopt a name. Someone has to give you the name and then you adopt it for yourself so you can't just call yourself Danny or something. Very good. Now Ben I hate to ask this but you know this is a crypto podcast at least by the name it is. Was there a big crypto scene there? Like how can you pay in Bitcoin if you have no wi -fi? Well first of all there is no money at all so everything is about gifting so you can go around for instance with your cup and get free drinks and free whatevers and there's no exchange of money. But there are a lot of crypto people there, a lot of crypto talks about blockchain decentralization and I actually saw a lot of similarities or parallels between crypto and the Burning Man ethos. It's very much hyper individualistic, it's about helping yourself, preserving yourself first before helping others and you've kind of got this hyper communitarian vibe as well which is very crypto as well. So I can see a lot of the values of Burning Man and crypto kind of intertwining which was interesting. Except for that part about no money right? Because crypto is all about new forms of money and Burning Man is about stepping away from that and becoming one with something different I think. I don't know, I've never been, I'd like to go. It's certainly very interesting yeah it's about you know hyper self -reliance, self -expression and inclusion and doing away with money although you know although there's no money it is quite capitalistic in terms of the exchange that's going on so it's like it is sort of a marketplace of innovators kind of swapping services and whatever with one another so that's kind of capitalistic. How many pairs of shoes did you lose in the mud? That's a good question. So I mean the mud was so deep that if you had a boot on as I did you kind of got you know a double boot as it were so it was like your boot and then kind of a foot of mud underneath and it was kind of impossible to walk anywhere because you would kind of get this kind of huge lump of muddy ply on your foot so it was real struggle to walk around so a lot of people just took to being barefoot or in kind of plastic bags around their feet so it was kind of easy to walk around like that. On the other hand it kind of brought everyone together you know so I mean people were sort of doing their own thing and partying, taking drugs and whatever and this sort of extreme event did kind of bring our camp and I think other camps together to kind of work through it so it was kind of interesting to see people in extreme circumstances and how they reacted and some people freaked out and some people worked and worked it out. Well, Ben, I have to say I'm very jealous of you. I really would like to get out to my first Burning Man. A cousin of mine goes every year he's on the psych team helping people who are going through mental crises which is quite an important role when you have 70 ,000 people on mushrooms in the desert.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Saved by Grace - Ed Nelson Biography
"Well, greetings everyone. I'm here today with Emily Nelson, a 2016 BJU graduate, somebody I very much want you to meet. She has some exciting things to tell you and I pray that you will hang on with us for just a little while, maybe eight or ten minutes, and be blessed by what Emily has to say. She has written a biography of her grandfather, Dr. Ed Nelson, a graduate of BJU. I've known Dr. Nelson since I was really young. He's a few years older than I am, so you can imagine how ancient he really is, but you'd never know it. He's as energetic as he was when I first knew him. I've never met a man so restless for the cause of Christ and the gospel than Dr. Ed Nelson. Emily, thank you for taking your time to be with us. Thank you for having me. I want a quick question to get into this. Why should anybody want to read about your grandfather, Ed Nelson? Well, I'm biased for sure because it's my grandfather, but he really has had a remarkable life, and it's a life full of the miraculous, a life full of just believing God and expecting him to work. And I know as I helped him write this book, it was a real challenge to my own faith just to believe God at his word and to expect him to work. My grandfather, who loved your grandfather very much, as did my dad and as do I, my grandfather said, every great man at some point comes under the dominating influence of some great truth. What would you say is that dominant truth that gripped your grandfather when he was young and that kind of drove him through his life of ministry? I'd say it was probably this. I am a sinner, and I have a great savior, and I want to do everything I possibly can to further his kingdom because of what he's done for me. That's very well put, and I think it absolutely describes what propelled him through life. He was always in motion. I've never met him when he was not just like a meteor crossing the sky. His energy was remarkable. I've been with him on some long mission trips, and no moss ever grew under his feet. The title of the book is A Sinner Saved by Grace, so that was a good description. Tell me about the time, the point in life, when he became a grace -saved sinner. What was he doing at the time? What influence did God bring into his life that got his attention and brought him to Christ? Well, he grew up on a farm in Windsor, Colorado, which is a little bit north of Denver. He had aspirations of being a great farmer just like his dad was. When he was 17 years old, he was in a farming accident. They were a very moral family, and his dad would take them to church every Sunday, but it was not a Bible preaching church. When he was in that accident, the doctors said he wouldn't make it through the night. He prayed and said, God, if there even is a God, I want you to hear my prayer, and I want you to save my life. If you do, if I live, then I'll get a Bible and I'll read it. Well, he made it. Spoiler alert. He made it, but he did get a Bible, but he didn't understand it until about four years later, your grandfather, actually, Dr. Bob Sr., was preaching at the First Baptist Church in Fort Collins, and his mailman came by and invited him to the revival meetings. He didn't really want to go, but out of respect for the mailman and his testimony, he was like, fine, I'll go. So he went that first night, and your grandfather preached and said that he was a sinner and that he deserved to die. It made him so angry that he found that he would never go back. Well, the next day on the tractor out on the field, he was like, I wonder what he's going to preach about that would make me mad again. And so he went back, and that happened four nights. And on the fourth night, he was like, you know what? What this man is saying is true, and it's not, I haven't been angry at him. I've been angry at God because I know that this is truth. And so he surrendered his life, and he came to know the Lord that evening. And I asked him when I was writing the book with him, I said, Grandpa, what were you saved from? And he was like, I was saved from my own goodness, because he was such a good moral person. He was saved from his own goodness, and he said that he knew deep down inside that there were things that he would think or say or look at that were not godly. And nobody else knew it, but that's what he was saved from. From that point in time, his life changed forever. The self -righteous sinner may be the hardest sinner to open his heart to the Lord.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Did Centralization Cause the Base Blockchain Outage?
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Welcome to Carpe Consensus. I'm your host, Danny Nelson. The only surviving host after the apocalypse that is layoffs and or holiday breaks. This week we are joined by Sam Kessler, another wonderful reporter here at Coindesk, which is of course the network that brings you all these wonderful Coindesk podcasts. Sam, welcome to the show. Hey, Danny. Happy to be here. Awesome. And just a listener note, Ben will at some point in the future return. But not this week. This week we're going to be talking about outages, outages, outages, outages. The latest outage in crypto world is on the biggest blockchain or rather not the biggest blockchain but the most notable one of late. That's Coinbase's base. Earlier this week, I think it was on Tuesday, the base chain stopped producing blocks, which is a wonky way of saying that it stopped working because if you don't produce blocks in your blockchain, you're not adding anything to the chain. And if you're not adding anything to the chain, nothing's happening. So Sam, do we have any idea why nothing was happening on the base chain? So they say they being Coinbase, it's a little bit confusing Coinbase, the company created base, the blockchain. And there's always these divisions that they try to do to make it clear that the blockchain is not the company. But anyway, in this case, they said that they had a delay in block production due in part to our internal infrastructure requiring a refresh. Then they said the issue was identified and remediated and they did eventually get the chain back online. I think it was like 45 minutes altogether. In those 45 minutes, you can learn quite a lot just about how base is because Coinbase is making all this noise about, well, we're over here, base is over there. We're going to be influential within base, but we are not base. Well, someone is base and whoever that someone is had to do a manual refresh of the chain in their own words to make it work. And this reminds me of all the times that Solana has gone offline, which is one of its skills as a blockchain, just going dark. In those instances, what happens is in the discord, all the different people who run the infrastructure, because there isn't internal infrastructure, this is spread out across many different people in many different countries. These people come together and they organize usually with a Google doc and a lot of cursing, how to initiate a restart by basically moving their validators back to an earlier version of the software and hoping that it works without a hitch. From my understanding of what base said here, which isn't much, well, they had their infrastructure internally and they needed to unplug the router and plug it back in to make it work. Is that an oversimplification? So is it an oversimplification? A little bit, but I think it kind of does get to the main point that people started focusing on when this outage happened this week, which is that layer two products like base, like optimism, like arbitrum, like all these things that are trying to speed up transactions that still settle on Ethereum. These roll up chains, these layer twos are not equivalent to using Ethereum, the base network itself. It obviously is not a good look for a blockchain to go offline. But then when we look specifically at what a roll up chain is supposed to do, what a layer two chain is supposed to do, those are terms used to refer to what base is supposed to be. These networks are supposed to bundle up transactions from users and then send them to Ethereum. So they're separate networks, but they still settle transactions on Ethereum with ideally the same security guarantees that you'd get on Ethereum itself. This was an example of how, at least today, the promise of equivalence with Ethereum is not true. There's a lot that we can get into. Danny, what do you think? I don't know, like, I can't get over this idea that you have to practice what you preach and this whole world is all about decentralized infrastructure. Okay, well, maybe then if we're being purists, we shouldn't have a layer two. If the thing that you're building on is so fundamentally unusable, that you need to have a centralized solution on top of it to make it work, which is, I think, fair to say the core premise of all layer two networks, that being ETH is valuable, but it's also not useful and therefore we can be useful on top of its value. Well, it's a pretty big concession to say, use our thing that we will update. We will decide what the update is. We will push the update. And then if the update doesn't work, we're gonna roll it back and try something new. And maybe we'll tell you what it is. They haven't actually told us what it is, but they say internal infrastructure. This is happening inside, they're making the decisions. We don't know what those decisions are. And so to me, it just makes it not valuable as a platform to use. To give them a little bit, them being base and these other layer two networks, a little bit of the benefit of the doubt. They are very transparent in a sense, at least if you go into their developer docs, even though it's not in their marketing. They're transparent that they still use training wheels. And that's a term they use to refer to things like a centralized sequencer, for example, which is kind of the method that Coinbase, the company uses to propose blocks on base, the blockchain. Right now, base is centralized in that Coinbase is the only entity that is allowed to do this. It's the only one that runs the sequencer. It essentially is the sole entity responsible for bundling things up and passing them down to Ethereum. But there are things that are coming around the bend that will allow Coinbase to decentralize elements of its infrastructure like its sequencer. And the reason why they haven't been implemented according to Coinbase and all of these layer two networks that still have specifically centralized sequencers is just that there's security risks today to implementing that kind of functionality. There's more outages that we might see because of the state of that technology. So in the long term, they are going to decentralize, but they haven't done so yet. It's not just about these, in this case, these sequencers that I'm talking about, the fact that Coinbase infrastructure in the case of base is the only entity running the base blockchain. There's so many other things that you can look at under the hood that in my mind is way more compromising to the integrity of these systems than just the fact that they can go offline. So you're saying that the trading wheels are fundamentally a flaw. I wouldn't say that they're fundamentally a flaw. I would say that they exist. And that's just the reality of how the systems work today is they have, they're called training wheels. You eventually take them off. So today, if you look at these systems, if you want to say, hey, use layer twos, they're cheaper, they're faster, and they're equivalent to using Ethereum. It's just like using Ethereum, except it's just better in all of these different user experience ways. That would be a false statement. And that is the statement that you often see reflected in the marketing from base optimism, Arbitrum and so on. So that is true. That is a flaw. But if they do hope to live up to that marketing, these training wheels are necessary. So yes, they're a flaw, but if they go away, it doesn't mean they're fundamentally destroying the entire premise upon which these things are built.
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Time to Treat Like Cases Alike, Judge Says in Grayscale ETF Appeal
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. I'm your host, Danny Nelson. Ben Shiller is out this week. So I'm anchoring the show with a couple of guests. We're going to talk about the latest and greatest in the crypto world. We're going to start off with inside the desk. Inside the desk today, I've got Margo Nykerk. She's one of our excellent tech and protocols reporters at Coindesk. Margo, I hear you've got a story for us that gets into decentralization base, Coinbase, all this good stuff. What do you got? Thanks, Danny. Thanks for having me here today. So I recently wrote a story about Coinbase. They came out with their principles known as the base neutrality principles, which basically is like a framework for how Coinbase's layer two base is going to tackle decentralization and neutrality when it comes to the order of transactions. And basically, just to give a high level overview of what it is, they're drawing their principles off of optimism's law of chains, which is basically like a set of principles aimed at uniting optimism's chain under one framework and one vision, as they like to say, called the super chain. The law of chains basically sort of sets up guidelines for different optimism's governance groups to head towards that. And since base is using the OP stack, which is optimism's technology, that's where they've sort of drawn this inspiration from. I think this is very interesting because it sort of shows Coinbase's delicate dance when it comes to trying to reap the benefits from its associated network, but also not exude too much control over the layer two. So Margo, let's talk tech for a second. What is Coinbase's actual role in keeping base running? Yeah, so that's a really good question. For those who don't know, when you're transacting on an L2, that data always gets compressed and sent to an L1. In this case, the L1 is Ethereum. And Coinbase plays a role in this because they are running a sequencer, which is basically that node or the computer, basically, that sends that transaction data to the L1. As part of that, a sequencer is able to get some revenue based off of the user's transaction fees. The more users there are on base, the more profits Coinbase is able to generate from that. And so this has brought sort of into question, what's the fine balance for Coinbase in terms of how much revenue it's able to make off of this while also trying to stay a little bit away from this project as they pivot towards decentralization. But yeah, the sequencer is a big component in this path towards, I keep using the word decentralization, whatever. Well, we can talk more about decentralization because I'm wondering how seriously one should take a copy like Coinbase saying at all that they're ever trying to be decentralized. Coinbase is the main custodian provider for all these Bitcoin ETF applications, which we talk about in a different part of today's episode. It's also a big part of the USDC stablecoin. It's also the biggest US exchange. It also has a derivatives market. It also has its own blockchain. If you want to think about crypto companies in terms of power, and if you think about it in terms of power, you also think in terms of centralization, Coinbase is a power center. So how can a company like that ever be saying, well, we are this giant with all these different things, and by the way, you should use our chain, but we're going to make it decentralized. Does that make any sense? How does that work? Yeah, no, that is what we're trying to make sense of because on the one hand, like you said, it is a very centralized entity, and this is another way for them to generate profits. And also who knows what, especially around the sequencing, how that falls into legal battles right now with the different products that they offer. It's not necessarily a product that they're offering, but it is another way of generating some kind of revenue. On top of that too, from what I've heard from the base team itself, it's always been part of their roadmap to participate in decentralization. And the protocols teams at Coinbase have participated in, I can only speak for the Ethereum ecosystem because that's what I cover, but they have participated in various EIPs and important upgrades to scale Ethereum. So they are involved in those conversations and it is sort of part of the roadmap, but this is sort of a, like an oxymoron what's going on right now. So yeah, those are great points.
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A highlight from THE HASH: Mastercard, Binance to End Crypto Card Partnership; Why Meme Coin PEPE Is Tumbling
"Hey, everybody. Happy Friday. Welcome to The Hash. It's Coindesk TV. I'm Zach Seward. That's the show. We've got two special guest stars on the show today. Sam Kessler, the real Danny Nelson. Let's do this thing. How are you doing, guys? Doing well. It sounded like you were calling me the real Danny Nelson and I was confused. Well, yeah. That's a fake one. My bad. Anyway, forget all that nonsense. Let's talk about Binance. I'm starting this off today. Mastercard ends Binance card partnership in latest blow to crypto giant. A bit dramatic of a headline, I would say, by CNBC. I think this is certainly in line with the reputational risk that is associated with Binance right now and Mastercard acting on that reputational risk is saying, hey, we're not doing those cards in the Middle East and Latin America anymore. We don't want your name on our product. I think it stems from a lot of stuff going on with Binance that we've been documenting over these last few months as regulators worldwide. Kick the tires and understand if anything shady is going on, including US authorities. I'm going to toss this straight to Danny for his thoughts on this one. What do you think? Mastercard, Binance, breakup, does it matter? What do we think of this? Well, it certainly matters and I don't know the numbers of this deal, but let's pretend that I do for a second. Let's just think about it. If you want to stick with the business decisions that are making you money, I don't know in this environment how much money this was bringing in, right? How much revenue was being driven for Mastercard by this tie up with Binance? Then does that revenue make it worth the reputational risk of just being associated with Binance? The answer, regardless of the numbers, which I don't know, but will pretend to, obviously was no. I don't think that bodes well for any crypto payment device. You have to remember the way these cards generally work. You can't pay with Bitcoin from your Bitcoin wallet at a point of sale. What you can do is have it in some sort of vault, some sort of account where that can be drawn from by a credit card processor, such as Mastercard or Visa or another layer that feeds into them. Then they pay with dollars or euros or pesos or whatever at the point of sale. The merchant doesn't actually have to deal with the crypto and no cryptos going across Mastercard, Visa's networks, but the name Binance is still associated. That's just not good in the eyes of Mastercard to be associated. Sam, what's your take on this? Yeah, I think if you look at this from both ends, both from the Mastercard and Visa end, as well as from the Binance end, I think the best way to view this is in terms of reputation and marketing. As somebody like Danny, who does not know the exact numbers, my last recollection when I was trying to kind of learn about this stuff a while back was that this card thing was not actually a huge part of Binance's business, something in like the single digit percentage points in terms of its overall revenue, but it was a key way or seen as a key long -term way for Binance to recruit new users and to turn specifically Bitcoin and other virtual currencies into day -to -day payment methods, which is something that crypto has always kind of seen as its eventual golden goose and just hasn't come to happen. So when you look at this from a reputation and marketing standpoint in the Binance end, and then it's on like a crypto writ large, and I think the erosion of these partnership deals from Visa, Mastercard, and probably long -term with other companies and other cards, it's actually going to be a blow more towards the idea of crypto in general being a sort of payment method. I think it's less of just like a Binance, Mastercard, Visa thing, and the reputation of these assets as those sorts of payment methods is going to go away. Zach, what do you think? I don't know. I mean, I am long -term bullish on stable coins being used for payments in new and novel ways. But again, I think your point generally stands as it relates to like these cards, which I think historically these cards have been very overblown, right? There'd be like a lot of like, yeah, there's a Visa card attached to Coinbase or something. And I think a lot of it was just sort of very far again from the roots of crypto and probably ultimately not that impactful outside of just some initial euphoria of, oh, the big brands like us now. So now we get to see the flip side of that play out. And I think that's all well and good. But I will say, despite your proclamation, I think there is a bullish case for stable coins on these open blockchains being used at scale to do cross -border payments much more conveniently than these existing cards are configured to do. But I got to get Jen's take. I got to throw it to you. Well, I tried to use one of these cards, not the Binance one, and it has never worked. So I am, because of that experience, just not bullish on any of these credit card exchange partnerships. My money is still there. I should probably get it off at some point. I agree with all of you. I think from a business and PR perspective, MasterCard looked at what has been going on with finance, not only in the US, but in countries all over the world. They've exited Canada, they've exited the Netherlands. They are facing regulatory scrutiny in various different countries and just thought, you know, this probably isn't worth it. From MasterCard's point of view, they've been exploring Web3 too. You know, I think last month we heard that they had a bunch of partnerships for this Web3 music accelerator. They were recently talking about CBDCs, a consortium with Ripple and Fireblocks. And so I think they're starting to explore where their foothold is in the Web3 space and starting to realize that maybe it's not in these exchange partnerships. And Zach, to your note on the stable coins, you have turned me. I am also becoming very interested and bullish on stable coins as payments, especially after PayPal's PAI. Before the end of next week, I will say PAI USD properly. We have the PAI USD and then we have that new Shopify partnership with Solana's payment infrastructure where people are going to be able to use USDC. So I think the credit cards are out and the stable coins are in. And that is my hot take here. You are going to be sitting pretty when USDC pumps to $2 after these proclamations, my friend. Let's do this thing.
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Insights From El Salvador's Pioneering Legal Tender Experiment
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk podcast network and my name is Ben Shiller. I'm the features editor here at CoinDesk. And joining me today is Danny Nelson. Hi, Danny. Hello, Ben. How are you? I'm good. It was a tough week for CoinDesk last week with a series of layoffs that we were impelled to make. How are you feeling about all that? You know, it's a tough situation. You got to just keep looking forward. Right now I'm looking forward to the next step of my day, which will be procuring a sandwich. So Ben, I have to ask you, what's your stance on cheesesteaks? I'm not a big fan of cheesesteaks. I kind of gone off meat recently, but I... Off meat? What are you, a communist? Maybe I'm a communist, but I'm definitely off meat. But I appreciate and respect anyone who does like cheesesteaks. And I know that's a popular thing down your way. Yes, in Philadelphia. And of course, Philadelphia, out of my mind. Later in today's show, we will be having a guest who had a recent stint in Philadelphia before moving to more tropical pastures. But more on that later. That's right. That pasture would be El Salvador, and we'll get to that in a minute. Okay, so what's on your sort of docket in terms of work, Danny? On my docket, I'm going to be later today thinking about base, what's going on with that network, Coinbase's blockchain, what's going on in terms of activity on base. I don't have an answer for you yet, because I haven't started the story. Okay. I mean, it seems to get quite a lot of attention, this base product, and maybe more than you might expect in a down market like we have. And that seems to be linked to a couple of sort of hypey projects like FriendTech. Yes. As far as I know, FriendTech is a platform that lets you buy and sell shares in other people in a social media setting. I don't fully understand it, but the big ball of money that moves between different ideas and crypto from ordinals to other NFTs, it's a DeFi. Right now, it's focusing on FriendTech, like a tropical storm passing over a city. And that's where the money is. I don't know how to make the money though. That's why I'm here on this podcast. Right. So you seem to think that that's like hot money. That's not like real money. People really investing in the project, it's more speculation. Oh, 100%. Maybe, maybe some of those people, maybe 10 of the 20 people who use it might stick around to actually utilize it. But right now, it is succeeding because it is appealing to people who think, I can make money on this thing. They're not so concerned with what that thing is beyond what they need to understand in order to exploit it. And that's by design. That's with all these crypto systems. It's an incentive mechanism. How do we monetize and gamify a system to get people engaged? And then can we retain that engagement and carry it forward so that people actually use the thing? So right now, FriendTech is having its boom. What will happen next? If it's like every other crypto anything, then much of the activity will dissipate as the big ball of money moves elsewhere.
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The Republican Party Sabotaged Barry Goldwater's Presidency
"York Nelson Rockefeller he was sabotaged you by the governor of Pennsylvania another Republican Scranton he was sabotaged by Republicans all over the country been part of the ruling class some even had claimed to be conservative Barry went too far. He was conservative a and he actually meant it. He meant it. They did everything they could to destroy Barry Goldwater because they didn't want the Republican Party in control of this controlled by this guy didn't matter that he was running for president didn't matter that he was running against one of the great American racist and segregationist of all time Lyndon Lyndon Baines Johnson didn't matter if if they couldn't control the Republican Party in the Republican nominating process and if Barry here's Goldwater who now organized them one more delegates one fair and square they were gonna destroy regardless schools back in session and that's what they did. It would uphill have been an battle anyway since Kennedy had been assassinated and his vice president became president and you had all that going on but but the ruling hated Goldwater. They just hated tried to destroy him
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Season Tickets for the Crypto Theater
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk Podcast Network and my name is Ben Shiller. I'm the features editor here at CoinDesk. And joining me today is Danny Nelson. Hi Danny. Hello Ben. How are you? I'm OK. It's been a tough week here at CoinDesk and we'll explain all about that in a minute. And we should just say that our normal co -host Cam Thompson is not with us today and will not be with us going forward. And we'll explain why in a minute. But how are you feeling Danny? It's been a tough week for CoinDesk so far. We made a series of layoffs recently. And how are you feeling about that? Yeah, it's the crab market, bear market, however you want to call it, takes its toll on everyone including media companies such as ours. So we had pretty extensive cuts this week and everyone's feeling the pain in the newsroom. Yeah, it's definitely a tough time. And anyone who's been in the media business for as long as I have seen a lot of these layoffs before. So it's not totally unexpected. But this is also connected obviously to the crypto market, which has been in a spiral for a while now. And we were protected by our parent company for a while. But that's gotten into trouble and we've now gotten into trouble. So it's a tough time. But we're going to soldier on through this, aren't we Danny? Well we'll certainly see, right? You know, this is my first job out of college. I've been here for four years. We can say I've levered up in my exposure to risk, right? Media is a struggling industry and crypto, the coverage of crypto is, as some might say, a dying fad. So I am in a struggling industry that focuses on a dying fad. So we don't know what's happening in crypto media, but it's not good at the moment. Yeah, so we're not going to sugarcoat this. It's been a tough week for us. And Cam was a casualty in a big round of layoffs here at Coindesk. And we're very sad to see her go. She was a very important member of this podcast and also the wider editorial team and a good egg and a good journalist. And we're very sad for her and for us and for the rest of the team. There were about 20 or so members of the editorial team that unfortunately no longer working with us and through no fault of their own because they all did all good work. So that's very sad. We don't want to make the whole show about Coindesk and the media, but it is an important part of the crypto industry. And we do play a role here in bringing transparency to the industry and holding people to account for what they say they're going to do and what they don't do. So we do feel that we need to discuss what's been going on at Coindesk recently and also in the wider crypto media. Do you feel that there's a loss of faith in what we're doing and in the media generally as regards crypto, don't you? Oh, I don't know about that. I mean, I think that broadly in American society, there's a lack of trust in media institutions. I don't necessarily think that crypto media is prone to the same risks as, say, the New York Times or something like that. But it's worth noting that we are in some ways a casualty of our own success. Coindesk was one of the leading publications that led to the dominoes falling on FTX and Sam Bankman -Fried that had ramifications for the entire industry, including DCG, our parent company, which owned Genesis Lending. And all these chickens come home to roost because even though we are editorially independent from DCG, they do not tell us what to do. They still own us, at least as of August 15th, and therefore their fate and ours are not unlinked.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | Aragon Mulled Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, August 11th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. Danny Nelson here, in for George Kaloudis. On today's show, I'll be looking at the bleeding edge of Dow governance. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. I'm Danny Nelson, Coindesk's managing editor of Data and Tokens. And the story we've got today is one that really digs into an alternative way of making money in the crypto ecosystem, where instead of just passively buying and holding cryptocurrencies, you're an activist investor who acquires a position, goes out and then bends the targeted company or project to your will. And this is a story that I've been following for months. It's about the Aragon Association, which is itself a company that focuses on DeFi governance. So let's get into it. The piece is titled, Embattled Aragon Mold Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows. The Aragon Association, one of the biggest crypto projects building tools to support decentralized governance, is trying to get out of its own governance pickle. After months of pressure from activist investors eyeing its $180 million treasury, the Swiss -based Aragon project in June explored, quote, selling the project, end quote, to an undisclosed bidder for an unknown price. That's according to a leaked conversation held between activist investors, including the firm Arca. The screenshot is part of a 24 -page investigative report written by the crypto trading firm, Patagon Management. On Wednesday, an anonymous crypto wallet sent the report to Aragon's head of ecosystem. The undated report accuses the Aragon Association of years of missteps, including squandering its hulking $180 million crypto treasury. It also questions Aragon's compliance with Swiss nonprofit law. Coindesk could not immediately confirm those allegations. For months, activist investors engaged in crypto's quote unquote, risk -free value, or RFV, trading subculture, a digital age version of 1980s corporate raiders, have targeted Aragon. They bought up Ant governance tokens in order to wield influence over Aragon Dow. Most crypto traders try to passively make money by speculating on price. But RFV traders have a different strategy. They buy tokens that are trading below book value, which is to say the value held in a project's treasury. Then the activists push to close the gap and capture a hefty profit.
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A highlight from Featured Story | Aragon Mulled Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, August 11th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. Danny Nelson here, in for George Kaloudis. On today's show, I'll be looking at the bleeding edge of Dow governance. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. I'm Danny Nelson, Coindesk's managing editor of Data and Tokens. And the story we've got today is one that really digs into an alternative way of making money in the crypto ecosystem, where instead of just passively buying and holding cryptocurrencies, you're an activist investor who acquires a position, goes out and then bends the targeted company or project to your will. And this is a story that I've been following for months. It's about the Aragon Association, which is itself a company that focuses on DeFi governance. So let's get into it. The piece is titled, Embattled Aragon Mold Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows. The Aragon Association, one of the biggest crypto projects building tools to support decentralized governance, is trying to get out of its own governance pickle. After months of pressure from activist investors eyeing its $180 million treasury, the Swiss -based Aragon project in June explored, quote, selling the project, end quote, to an undisclosed bidder for an unknown price. That's according to a leaked conversation held between activist investors, including the firm Arca. The screenshot is part of a 24 -page investigative report written by the crypto trading firm, Patagon Management. On Wednesday, an anonymous crypto wallet sent the report to Aragon's head of ecosystem. The undated report accuses the Aragon Association of years of missteps, including squandering its hulking $180 million crypto treasury. It also questions Aragon's compliance with Swiss nonprofit law. Coindesk could not immediately confirm those allegations. For months, activist investors engaged in crypto's quote unquote, risk -free value, or RFV, trading subculture, a digital age version of 1980s corporate raiders, have targeted Aragon. They bought up Ant governance tokens in order to wield influence over Aragon Dow. Most crypto traders try to passively make money by speculating on price. But RFV traders have a different strategy. They buy tokens that are trading below book value, which is to say the value held in a project's treasury. Then the activists push to close the gap and capture a hefty profit.
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: PayPal Steps Into the Stablecoin Game
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller, Danny Nelson and Cam Thompson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk Podcast Network and I am Ben Shiller and welcoming today Cam Thompson. Hi Cam. How are you? It looks like you're on holiday. Yes. Well, not on holiday, just working remotely from another location. I am currently in Maine right now and it's very nice, very breezy, a little chillier up here, but I'm not complaining. You know, lots of lobster. Mmm, lobster, nice. Lobster for breakfast, lobster for lunch. Literally, lobster at every meal. So we've got a bumper packed show today. Danny Nelson is out. He's at a hackathon in Utah, which is a nice place to be this time of year as well. And then we're going to get to some big news in the world of crypto, which is the issuance of a new stablecoin backed by PayPal. We're going to talk about its very big news and we'll have David Morris, who's the chief columnist here at CoinDesk to talk about that a little later on. And let's get to that. OK, we're going to get to our next segment now, and we're joined by the great David Morris here, the chief columnist here at CoinDesk. Welcome, David. Hey, glad to be here, Ben. Good to have you. So we're going to get to the big news this week, which is a new stablecoin from PayPal. It's on Ethereum. It's USD backed and it's very big deal in crypto. PayPal has about four hundred and thirty five million customers. So this is seen as a big mainstreaming moment for crypto. What do you make of this, David? What are your big takeaways? Yeah, the implications of this are, I think, pretty big. I think there are a lot of questions that still remain to be answered about what PayPal's real motivation is here, what their business case is. But it's going to have, I think, pretty significant impacts, particularly on regulation, because I think this this does put a fire under people in terms of getting some kind of structure in place by which these things are supposed to operate. And I think there are some interesting possibilities from a consumer perspective, although I wonder about exactly how PayPal is going to get people to to use this versus their regular service and how those will interact. So lots, lots to discuss. Definitely. So David, about 30 minutes ago, you tweeted PayPal USD will be the most censored and seized centralized cryptocurrency of all time. What are your thoughts behind that? Yeah, well, I think this is a very important thing in the fact that I think it's not totally widely understood is one of the reasons I tweeted that thing is because, you know, everybody talking here, but maybe not all listeners know that not just Circle and USDC, but Tether, which is, you know, mysterious offshore entity. They still cooperate with governments when they get anti terrorism, anti money laundering notices asking that they block particular users. So there are, you know, pretty constant cases of censorship on Circle and Tether. I say PayPal will be the worst for two reasons. One is that PayPal already has a really established track record of being very quick with blocking people, seizing people's accounts, providing very little explanation, doing it for unclear reasons. And then second, I think that there will be probably a decent number of people who try and use this product in an illicit way thinking that it is uncensorable because it's crypto. And I wouldn't put it past PayPal that that is at least like part of their thinking here, not to say that it's part of their strategy or the reason they're doing it. But I think that they they must be aware that there will be a certain number of people who misuse this product thinking it's something that it's not. So that was what I was thinking there. So just to get on that kind of centralising point that you made, I mean, a lot of people are quick to say this is good for crypto. But I guess the question becomes, what do you mean by crypto? Because, you know, okay, if you have this stable coin, you can buy Bitcoin and Ethereum on PayPal with it. But it isn't necessarily an endorsement of an open source version of crypto, is it? I mean, a stable coin issued by a company like PayPal is not really crypto in the sense of, you know, what we mean by the Bitcoin white paper. Yeah, I mean, I think that we're in the territory now where there is a, you know, it's not just PayPal, there's a debate within the crypto community about what that means and what we're actually going for. And I think it's a legitimate debate at this point, because you do have fully decentralised, fully uncensorable things like Bitcoin. But stable coins are clearly a part of the ecosystem.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Leaders Perspectives on Strengthening YSA
"Hey everyone, this is Kurt Frankam, the host of the Leading Saints podcast, and I'm excited to announce that we will be helping premiere a new podcast that is actually produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. This podcast is called At the Table, creating space for single members of the church. I actually had the pleasure of partnering with the church to produce this podcast, and so I wanted to make sure the Leading Saints audience is aware of it. We will be publishing three episodes over the next three weeks on the Leading Saints podcast feed to give you a little flavor, and then you can hear the other episodes by subscribing to the At the Table podcast on whatever platform you listen to Leading Saints. This will most likely be a semi -annual series. To help the church improve the podcast content, each episode will have a link in the show notes for a feedback survey. After listening to each episode, we encourage you to take the time to fill out this short feedback survey. Now let's jump into the first episode. on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire -Manchester mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At the Table. I'm Kami Castrijon, and we're happy to be here at the institute, and we're here with some phenomenal leaders, and we'll give you the time to introduce yourselves. All right, my name is Bishop Wessel. I am the bishop of a geographic ward north of here, and I've been the bishop for about two and a half years. I'm President Bigelow. I'm the stake president of the Riverton YSA stake. I am President Boha, the second councilor in the stake presidency of the Riverton Young Single Adult Sake. We have this new document, this strengthening YSA that was just released in the library, and we just kind of want to go through with initial thoughts and impressions that you have or anything like that. Like, what did you think when you first saw this document or when you piloted these things in your ward? Yeah, I'll jump in there. Just the idea that the church is thinking about young single adults and trying to come up with something to address young single adult needs, and their participation in the church I thought was awesome, was amazing. As I look at the church, I think it's really well organized for the youth, and it's really well organized for older people. Maybe there's some opportunity there in the middle for young single adults for us as an organization to meet the needs or interact with young single adults in a better way and invite them, invite you to come in and participate in this church that is ours together. And so I was really excited to see that the church was doing something there. It just, when we were called to stake presidency, the General Authority 70 who came made a comment. He said to our stake, he said, this is not, he said, I want you to think about yourself as a YSA stake. You are a stake of Zion, just like any other stake in the church. And I think this document really speaks to that idea of young single adults taking the leadership roles for their stake. But there's a wonderful balance that can come when you have some people who have had lots of years of experience together, yoked together equally with young single adults to create some pretty spectacular things. And I think that's what I felt as I went through the document is that this is setting the stage for a great deal of growth for young single adults. You know, it just really just got broadcasted and put on the tools. For me, it started, my awareness kind of started when the, when him and his wife gave the fireside for young single adults. You know, at the moment I was teaching a class for single adults in my stake. And then they had the broadcast that came out in May where him and Sister Nelson talked. And in his beginning speech, he said, they've been waiting months for this. So, it'd been something that he's been inspired to kind of head and to be able to address the young adults before anybody, you know, in the beginning of the year. And so, he also gave that charge for us to take charge of our testimonies. He gave that to the young adults first. And then he mentioned it again during conference, where he says, hey, I just want to remind you of the charge I gave to the young adults. And this is something that I guess I boast of the young adults is he kind of gave the young adults the charge first. And he's kind of like giving the young adults the baton and saying, hey, here you go. You run with this. You're the one that's going to do it. And so, you know, that, and I don't know if in sequence that was planned or not, but just his ability to say, young adults, I'm going to give you the charge to take charge of your testimonies. And then he gives a couple principles and teaches us about that. But just glad to be able to take this on and apply it to our great members of the young adults. I mean, you've kind of got our responses as leaders. How do you young adults feel as you kind of see the initiative of the church coming out with special attention to your growth, especially in your leadership skills and your leadership abilities? I mean, how does that make you feel? You're the direct, I guess, the direct audience of this revelation and of this initiative. How does that make you feel? No, I love that question. And I was, as you were speaking, I was trying to think of my experience in the YSA world, I guess, because I'm a convert to the church and I was baptized when I was 17. And I remember when I turned 18, I was in New York and I didn't want to move to a YSA ward. I wanted to stay in my family ward. I was kind of scared. I went and visited the YSA ward there and I just didn't feel like I belonged, you know? And then I went on my mission, moved to Utah, and I've been here for a few years, but it wasn't until recently that I felt like I belonged somewhere, that I had, that my voice counted, you know? And I've been able to see how other friends of mine, and I was in a Spanish YSA ward, and so it was great for me to see how our culture, our Hispanic culture, we're being given the opportunity to lead and to learn more about how everything works in the church, especially like me being a convert. I didn't really know how everything worked. And so when I was given the opportunity to lead, I was given a calling and that's how I started understanding, oh, this is how the church works. This is how we do things and we often hear that we're going to be the future of the church. We are right now leading the church and I think that's great. So that's been my experience.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"nelson nelson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"And a driver or an eater and a courier and a restaurant and making sure where everything in that transaction happens perfectly, no errors, mistakes, no cancellations etc. And at the same time it takes a lot of cost discipline in terms of overheads. Our head count has been flat and if you look at our head count compared to 2019 pre -pandemic, our total cap count is up 10 % during those years and our gross bookings in the core business has been up 80 % versus head count growth of 10 %. So it past, absolutely it's taken that discipline but at the same time the company continues to innovate and gain category position which is what it's all about. Now you formally announced that CFO Nelson Chai will be leaving the company which Bloomberg reported a few weeks ago. What is the interim plan and what are you looking for? Nelson is going to be staying with us really through the balance of the year to make sure that we have a smooth succession plan. The next CFO is in seat and can be coached by Nelson as well. And really what I'm looking for is another partner like Nelson. Nelson came in at a very difficult time and teamed up with myself and the rest of the team, taking us through an environment of deep operating losses, taking us through the IPO, getting us a really strong balance sheet so that we could come out of the IPO and could deal with issues like the pandemic to where we are now, which is a leading company. The next five years of her journey are about scaling and becoming that true global platform that can grow top line in a 20 % range, can continue to innovate and continue to drive the kinds of margins and the incremental margin growth that we have been driving historically. We told investors that incremental margins as a percentage of gross bookings growth will be 7 % and consistently we've above come in that because we've been innovating but at the same time been disciplined at the bottom line. I'm looking for a partner who can deliver kind of the next chapter of our growth just like Nelson did, Uber 2 .0 so to speak. Adara, a look at the quarter gone, number of trips, gross bookings, active drivers, demand and supply side, all at record, strong gross booking forecasts. Why wasn't that enough to kind of raise expectations for adjusted EBITDA next year? You'd said in February I we guided for Q3 adjusted EBITDA well above street estimates we got her 975 million to a billion 25 which was a substantial increase versus expectations out there and consistently if you look at our track record we put out our targets we've consistently beaten those targets you know by anywhere five ten plus percent and we intend to beat that five billion dollar target just as we've beaten every single target that we put in front of our investor so we think continued discipline execution strong top -line growth increased margins and more of the same along with innovation is to going get us well beyond the five billion dollars em's been all around san francisco in a cruise i've been all around san francisco in a waymo and i appreciate for our audience around the world jumping in a robo taxi with no driver is yet not a reality but for lots of people that i asked on threads twitter linkedin that's their question for you when is uber going to take that fleet of autonomous vehicles as more of a priority well we are very uh... bullish on autonomous it's taking time we have to make sure that the technology is safe and we're partnering amongst all of the significant verticals verticals that we have not very only global are not only are we the largest platform with the biggest audience a hundred thirty consumers coming to us every single month but we operate in every significant vertical for autonomous passenger vehicles with uber delivery food and grocery delivery delivery with eats and then freight as well autonomous trucks are absolutely going to be a big part of our future and if you look at each one of those verticals we're partnering with leading companies waymo for example in passenger neuro and and serve amongst others in delivery and then in trucking of course aurora with which we have a strategic investment as well so we absolutely believe that autonomous is going to be part of our of the future and we are working to expose our leading marketplace to autonomous technology as it develops in a safe efficient manner well speaking of another kind of technology artificial intelligence insta carts now out with the but door dash as well is there an uber bot in the works uh there's definitely going to be an uber bot bot in the works but but i tell you that we have been working with machine learnings artificial intelligence uh systems deep learning systems for years and years and years every time you get matched up with a car or get matched up with a courier uh there are ml algorithms that are making that match the pricing that happens time and day uh and distance all of that is uh is driven by machine learning algorithms so that has been going on those algorithms only get better and the data sets that we work with are the largest that's globally uh and the more data we have the smarter we get the more personal uh we can get we're now focused more on productivity applications so for example introducing github copilot for our developers or helping summarize situations for customer service agents so that they already know context of what's going on with a particular customer and how they can help uh we will absolutely put our ai agents out there to help the consumer but also don't forget about the driver drivers who are driving on uh our marketplace they also want want help where i should go what ride should i accept etc so we're also working on ai to power drivers and couriers so that they can make smarter decisions every day to be able to earn flexibly but to maximize their earnings based on their time so hang on just to double down there is an uber chatbot something that you're working on right now uh we're working on it right now absolutely but it's a very very small part of
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | Solana Tokens or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Points
"This episode of Market Staley is sponsored by Kraken. It's Saturday, August 5th, 2023, and this is Market Staley from Coindesk. George Kalouda is here again with your weekend story on today's show. We're taking a look at Solana and just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. I'll be reading an opinion piece by Coindesk managing editor Danny Nelson titled Solana tokens or how I learned to stop worrying and love the points. Salt Lake City. The way Barrett from Cypher Protocol sees it, Solana's comeback depends on one thing, tokens, specifically new tokens from teams on the Solana blockchain that haven't issued them before. They're the key to driving liquidity, trading activity, and most important, new users into a decentralized finance ecosystem that sorely needs all three. Barrett, the founder of crypto trading platform Cypher, sat down with Coindesk on day two of this summer's Mountain Dow, the biannual hacker house, now in its fourth edition. He's the event's emcee and chief organizer and via Cypher, its main sponsor, alongside MarginFi, an on -chain lending platform. The two have charged up Solana's growth leaderboard in recent weeks, partly because of loyalty programs that give points to crypto traders who participate in their respective markets. These points aren't themselves tokens, but nearly everyone amassing them is convinced they'll transmogrify into a token payday, possibly soon. Barrett, who has gone by his mononym first name at least since Cypher launched in 2021, won't confirm whether the crypto lending startup is on the cusp of landing a token or will ever hold an airdrop. It hardly matters. All those askers of when Cypher airdropped are plowing their points earning capital through Cypher's markets for trading crypto assets like Sol, ETH, and BTC anyway. This excitement is giving Cypher its first taste of success after three years and just as many pivots. On Wednesday, Cypher V3, which Barrett describes as a generalized decentralized exchange, crossed $2 million in total deposits for the first time ever, we are consistently ranking top five in growth across one, seven and 30 day periods in the Solana ecosystem on both users and TVL that's total value locked. Said Barrett, the protocol has grown 1 ,384 % since launching a liquidity incentives program and more than doubled since debuting points. He added, he continued trading volume is picking up on spot and perps markets referring to perpetual futures contracts. Cypher is part of what Barrett calls Solana DeFi 2 .0, a loose confederation of protocols that are hitting their stride deep in the super fast blockchains bear market, many of the teams that were around during Solana's payday in summer and fall 2021 when token linked protocols like Mango Markets, Saber and Serum commanded the ecosystem's attention.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Featured Story | Solana Tokens or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Points
"This episode of Market Staley is sponsored by Kraken. It's Saturday, August 5th, 2023, and this is Market Staley from Coindesk. George Kalouda is here again with your weekend story on today's show. We're taking a look at Solana and just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. I'll be reading an opinion piece by Coindesk managing editor Danny Nelson titled Solana tokens or how I learned to stop worrying and love the points. Salt Lake City. The way Barrett from Cypher Protocol sees it, Solana's comeback depends on one thing, tokens, specifically new tokens from teams on the Solana blockchain that haven't issued them before. They're the key to driving liquidity, trading activity, and most important, new users into a decentralized finance ecosystem that sorely needs all three. Barrett, the founder of crypto trading platform Cypher, sat down with Coindesk on day two of this summer's Mountain Dow, the biannual hacker house, now in its fourth edition. He's the event's emcee and chief organizer and via Cypher, its main sponsor, alongside MarginFi, an on -chain lending platform. The two have charged up Solana's growth leaderboard in recent weeks, partly because of loyalty programs that give points to crypto traders who participate in their respective markets. These points aren't themselves tokens, but nearly everyone amassing them is convinced they'll transmogrify into a token payday, possibly soon. Barrett, who has gone by his mononym first name at least since Cypher launched in 2021, won't confirm whether the crypto lending startup is on the cusp of landing a token or will ever hold an airdrop. It hardly matters. All those askers of when Cypher airdropped are plowing their points earning capital through Cypher's markets for trading crypto assets like Sol, ETH, and BTC anyway. This excitement is giving Cypher its first taste of success after three years and just as many pivots. On Wednesday, Cypher V3, which Barrett describes as a generalized decentralized exchange, crossed $2 million in total deposits for the first time ever, we are consistently ranking top five in growth across one, seven and 30 day periods in the Solana ecosystem on both users and TVL that's total value locked. Said Barrett, the protocol has grown 1 ,384 % since launching a liquidity incentives program and more than doubled since debuting points. He added, he continued trading volume is picking up on spot and perps markets referring to perpetual futures contracts. Cypher is part of what Barrett calls Solana DeFi 2 .0, a loose confederation of protocols that are hitting their stride deep in the super fast blockchains bear market, many of the teams that were around during Solana's payday in summer and fall 2021 when token linked protocols like Mango Markets, Saber and Serum commanded the ecosystem's attention.
Northwest Newsradio
"nelson nelson" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"FM 97 7 Stay connected. Stay informed. Good evening. Here's what's happening. Businesses will not be allowed to to go cashless under an ordinance barely approved during a contentious King County Council meeting. Northwest News HBO's Ryan Harris. The ordinance calls for requiring businesses in King County's unincorporated areas to accept cash for transactions up to $250 with an exemption added for service businesses like banks, the meeting got pretty heated with council member Joe McDermott clearly upset with the lack of enforcement provisions, which he says weakens the measure. He didn't troubled because I spoke to the value of allowing people who are unbanked to participate in our economy. I think it's a very weak statement as it's before us today, probably because we haven't done all the work we should have done. The sponsor council team member call. Gene Well says there have been plenty of ordinances and budgets passed with the best information they had only to find out things change and measures need to be fixed. This legislation, it's dealing with a very important issue for a huge number of people that is going to increase as we move forward in becoming a cashless society. In the end, the council took the narrowest five to four vote to pass the ordinance. Ryan Harris, Northwest News Radio, the Seattle Public Safety Committee spent another agonizing day trying to protect app based workers. The workers have lost opportunities because they didn't accept jobs enough or didn't fill orders fast enough. Council member Sarah Nelson, Nelson offered this option. This one allows for a temporary suspension up to 48 hours to verify the basis of alleged misconduct Sometimes a complaint is exaggerated or false. The city is trying to find common ground for the unfairly or subjectively deactivated app workers, but the ordinance is detailed, complex and still a work in progress. A dramatic shift is coming for the way 911 calls are handled in Seattle. Northwest News radio's John Lobertini reports the plan to pair police officers with behavioral health workers is about to begin. Innocent people have been killed because cops didn't know they were facing a psychiatric episode. We anticipate hiring six behavioral health responders and a clinical supervisor. Amy Smith is deputy director community safety and communications. Police already have a fantastic crisis response team. We're a highly skilled, highly trained officer and a highly skilled, highly trained mental health professional respond together. The approach to 911 calls is still developing, but deputy mayor Monisha Harrell says lessons have been learned from cities like Albuquerque. They of get a referrals lot actually from those who are responding and it is helping to train their 911 response to say, actually this should have never been a police call. This should have never been a fire call. This should have gone here to start. In fact, are expected the first teams to hit the streets in October. Amy Smith. It would be really lovely to just continue to research, but we don't have the luxury. People are really suffering and we know enough to help right now. Help like never the state's tax collections continue to grow up 341 million dollars for the current two -year budget cycle, but the growth is slowing. The latest revenue forecast shows the capital gains taxes, the big driver at close to 600 million dollars this cycle. State economist Steve Dr. Lurch says some other revenue sources are up, but a big one is down. There are some increases we saw, you know, public utility and liquor taxes and some positive revenue impacts from the legislation, but we also have taken the real estate excise tax down a little bit further and property tax and cigarette tax for a bit weaker. Lurch says the real estate excise tax has been driven downward by slow home sales blamed on high interest rates. The state's revenue growth is expected to fall to 147 million for the 2025 through 2027 cycle. Construction is about to begin on 202 units of low income housing in Seattle's International District. This is all privately financed, so it's a great opportunity to show how entrepreneurs and the free market can help solve some of our affordability challenges without having to take public financing. The Housing Diversity Corporation has purchased land at 7th and Jackson and is developing it into a two -building eight -story complex, but the land is contaminated from decades as an automotive service station, CEO Brad Padden. We're going to be digging down about 20 feet, removing all the contaminated material, treating it off -site. Construction is expected to begin later this year. It says the Mariners' home stand continues against the Washington Nationals. We're at the top of the second right now. Mariners are up to 2 1, and the Seattle Storm playing basketball at Minnesota. Minnesota won tonight. Final score, we'll be right back. In earning a playoff spot last season, Seattle was a terrific road team, and the Kraken will launch this fall with seven of their first ten games as visitors. Their schedule begins October 10 at Vegas, where the Golden
Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"nelson nelson" Discussed on Greg Bedard Patriots Podcast with Nick Cattles
"And I said, do you think he has that inside outside versatility versatility similar to what we've seen out of Dante Hightower in the past year? I'm not comparing him to Dante Hightower. I'm just saying, do you think he has those traits that could he do something similar? And it Bill says it's a stress to compare almost anybody to high tower. You're talking about one of the best linebackers that's ever played here. You idiot. So everybody knows, I'm not comparing Joshua to Dante Hightower. Like, I'm not. And I would never do that in a million years, but just, you know, could he be a mini junior training wheels version of Dante Hightower being inside on early downs outside on later downs, which I think that's what it looks like they're doing, but of course Bill just wanted to throw a loogie at me. So thank you, Bill. I'll have another. You heard her here first, Greg bidar thinks Joshua, the next Dante Hightower. Nelson Nelson Aguilar. Where is he fitting in right now with the upper Echelon of the wide receiver class? And that's a good question. I did not watch him very much in this practice. So maybe somebody else reported something about I thought, I think he's been out there a lot. I know the first practice, you know, he was out there a lot with the starters and it's devonte Parker and Nelson Aguilar a lot, and then they sort of filter things around, but it was tough to tell in this practice. There wasn't a whole lot that they were doing and it was mostly run focused when they were looking at things. All right, three rapid fire for you. New linebacker combinations. What are you seeing? What are you thinking? So I thought that was a little bit interesting because like we said, we did have Josh uche there last time. So this time, they basically went too deep and it was juwan Bentley and jelani tavai..
Made of Mettle
"nelson nelson" Discussed on Made of Mettle
"If i butchered that pronunciation too terribly you have my full permission to absolutely destroyed me in the online forums. But no that i try. Okay give me my credit i tried. But nelson's father was a chief who provided guidance to the tribal leadership and his mother was a stay at home mom who helped to raise the children and maintain the household so nelson had a large family with more than ten siblings who all lived relatively close by. Nelson's father held a position of respect within the tribe which afforded their family wealth instability within the village unfortunately after a disagreement with a tribal official nelson's father was stripped of his position and the family suffered major financial losses. They were forced to flee to a village which allowed them anonymity and the opportunity to start over. The village was located in the rural grasslands. Much more remote in agriculturally focused nelson learned to adapt to living a country lifestyle spending most of his time outdoors playing with the other boys in his village. Another really cool. Tidbit is that nelson was the first of his family to receive formal schooling. Now i don't know if you guys noticed in my previous episodes. I always clarify by saying formal schooling to essentially differentiate between other methods of learning. I'm a firm believer that there are other avenues for gaining knowledge. Other than going to an institution so it's important to acknowledge those as well but it was at this early juncture in. Nelson's life that he would. I be exposed to the consequences of colonialism in his country. When the south african children would attend school they would often be given christian names to replace their birth names. This is where holy law i became nelson as the name was given to him by his teacher. In one thousand nine hundred thirty after his father passed away. Unexpectedly nelson was adopted by an old family. Friend this family friend was a chief and nelson was again. Returned to the more refined lifestyle. He'd become accustomed to as the son of a tribal counselor. Nelson was able to reap the benefits of having access and status continuing his schooling along with the chiefs. Other two children. The children learned about many subjects but nelson was naturally curious about african history. Nelson was also exposed to different cultures and tribes. While he was living with his adopted family. The tribesmen would educate nelson on their history. And how they were. Once they connected people before the perils of colonialism when nelson was in his teen years he participated in a traditional male rite of passage with other boys in his village during the ceremony. Nelson was disheartened by speech. Given by one of the chiefs native south africans had been suffering tremendously at the hands of colonialism and the chiefs spoke on just how bad the circumstances were for the men. It was at this event that nelson fully committed to the goal of uniting south africa while living with his adopted family nelson was trained in the same position as his father preparing to act as an advisor to the tribal leadership after coming of age nelson attended college at the university of fort. Hare a prestigious university that was known for accepting only the greatest of mines while not university nelson engaged in his first act of political resistance by aligning with a student body who demanded change while serving on the student council. He was ultimately kicked out of school due to his actions in sent back home. When the chief heard about nelson's actions in expulsion from school he moved quickly to demand nelson return to school and adhered to a plan for an upcoming arranged marriage. After hearing the chiefs plans for his future nelson ran away from home to the city of johannesburg in order to strike out on his own. While in johannesburg he enrolled in law school and became a lawyer beginning a lengthy career in criminal justice now before we discussed the latter part of. Nelson's life. I wanted to give a formal definition of apartheid and this was taken from wikipedia. Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in south africa in south west africa from nineteen forty eight until the early nineteen nineties. It was at this point in. Nelson's life that his goal of fighting for the freedom of his fellow south africans became a reality around. Nineteen forty two nelson would join. An anti-apartheid group called the african national congress and along with other young and like minded individuals formed the african national congress lee youth league these groups work to create a movement that would inspire south africans to fight for their independence using modern strategies and more direct action as opposed to the usual peace talks that had been in progress so far nelson dedicated more than twenty years of his life to working on fighting. The south african government with violent means starting his own law firm with a friend from law. School this was the first black law firm in south africa in specifically worked on counseling and representing the native south african people during this time nelson was organizing nonviolent campaigns to gain the attention of the south african government bringing awareness to the plight of his neighbors and working to dismantle. The racist discrimination in place nelson wasn't just in the office coordinating change. He was also boots on the ground on the front lines. Pushing the agenda of freedom for all in response the government would employ intimidation tactics such as false arrest and imprisonment for any activists that were caught. Luckily nelson was initially able to escape imprisonment until the fateful day in one thousand nine hundred sixty one although he was arrested more than once by this time over the years nelson was able to establish himself in the anti apartheid community as a leader in a such was able to mobilise. His own group called m. k. The south african people had become disillusioned and lost faith in the government to fairly remove. The apartheid with the government always pushing back any attempts to peacefully move forward in the early nineteen sixties nelson helped to coordinate a massive national worker strike across the country in order to highlight the mistreatment of native south africans around nineteen sixty three nelson was captured in arrested for his role in the strike resulting in him being brought to trial not just once but twice nelson had to endure an unfair trial and was sentenced to life in prison. This would have been a devastating verdict for any person but they did not know. Nelson nelson was severely abused in actually contracted to burke ulysses while he was incarcerated incredibly. The south african government still considered nelson a threat and made attempts.
The Money Advantage Podcast
"nelson nelson" Discussed on The Money Advantage Podcast
"That money is being committed for long term growth and it is actually has the highest amount of death benefit proportionally just like if you had a a residential property and you built a three thousand square foot residential property and you put a sun room on it of of ten by ten or twenty by twenty. Most of the value would actually be in the three thousand square foot property. Not in the sunroom. Now let's flip this and say okay. We're going to build a five hundred square foot building. And then we're going to put in a bunch of p way properties at a bunch of sunrooms added onto that like ten or twenty of them. What should a look ridiculous it. Although it has value it has value when somebody else's go to come to buy it. That's the only reason has value or the bank's gonna look at it and say a. We think we can sell this. They're going to say that's absolutely ridiculous. It's not gonna have that greater value so we're not going to give it that much death benefit just like a bank's not gonna sign as much value to but he played freidan right. But if you flip it and you say. I'm gonna build a six thousand square foot. Hold that i'm gonna pay over time it. I'm going to add another garage to it. Then that garage is going to add value to its. Yes it's gonna add immediate liquidity and the other one. You're going to have to build a quantity over time. But it's going to be much more valuable when you try to sell it or get it appraised because people are gonna go. Wow look at this six thousand square foot home. It's going to have a lot more value. But what's happening in the infant of banking community. Right now and nelson nelson nash. Tatas this a long time. The value of of having base premium is that the death benefit is higher. And that's really that's really the value. Not only to you. But to the financial institution because that's what they're using took to collateralized the loan along with the premiums that you're putting in so just like a bigger hole will command more appraised value because more people are gonna find that appealing that then. That is why you can actually borrow against that a much easier than you can. A paid up additions. That is going to be just simply sixteen little Sunrooms attached on there..
Get Up!
"nelson nelson" Discussed on Get Up!
"Good news from indianapolis where quarterback carson wentz and guard quentin nelson will return to practice this week on a limited basis to nelson nelson both coming off foot surgery in early august holtz head coach. Frank reich had this to say about his quarterback last week in the perfect world. We have a really good idea after that third preseason game and carson would get to work two weeks going into the first game. That's the perfect world. The nets perfect world is the only gets the work of game week. I don't know if that's going to happen would be week to week. Three is still some mystery here regarding the timeline on carson wentz. What do we make of the recovery. Time line here. It seems to be going pretty well. Kimberly what are you hearing. In terms of carson wentz in the colts yeah it was somewhat surprising just because the initial time was five to twelve weeks and you know when i asked people around the league. Oh carson may be back in practice. Look at this. they're like. Oh is that an indictment on the other guys. I don't think that's the case. But i think india's a very delegates only because we've seen frank reich Gold took in my opinion go above and beyond in solidify this carson's team then and we. I love nick foles. But this is carson's team gotta hear this nicole stock and it just seemed a little extra and when you think about how carson has been described by people in league as far he needs to feel security needs to feel wanted. He needs to know that this is his team. The colts clearly are doing that. So this tie him being back at practice so soon you want you wanna make sure that he's not rushing himself back before he needs to be because this is a team that could go really far
The Loudini Rock and Roll Circus
"nelson nelson" Discussed on The Loudini Rock and Roll Circus
"I know you know things would have to put up with you. Keep coming back for millan. Jose was up on facts generally to. I don't think that's what it's called is that was that what the actual songs call. I believe so. Is it into the fire. let's let might bring up. Docking brings up a couple of things. I find it real quick hilson. This song was recorded. yes and no. It's not it doesn't come up on song fax but there's a great documentary about nielsen. Nelson nelson milton nelson shneltsa. N- in fact that's the title of one of his albums But there's a great documentary about this and this was something that they that he worked on with john lennon and They took a take after. Take after take literally. There was blood on the microphone. How hard he was screaming. He did irreparable damage to his voice and even though he was still able to sing he never quite had that same sort of lying sparkle after that he had gone. It was kind of going through like a dark period. This was at the time that john left yoko ono to kind of go. Some wild oats like in southern california and he started hanging him in nilsson part up the beatles of him. Paul mccartney john lennon loved harry nilsson the absolutely thought he was the absolute shit so they. He was flattered to work with them. They were flattered to where you know. They were happy to work with the Ha total excited to work with john lennon. And but yeah. That's that's that's true blood sweat and tears on that on that track. Yes you know. I definitely had with echo and everything you definitely. Has that john lennon back. I definitely has that that definitely at that sound on it. But that's a good pick. Kevin what do you got kris. Okay the next one is It's another singer where. I have a tie for the songs for the singer and actually i think today is the anniversary of holy diver by by. Do chris. i was listening to your podcasts. With vinny app.
600 WREC
"nelson nelson" Discussed on 600 WREC
"To Fox News. Good morning. It's 803 at Alabama's Morning news with J T I'm Leah Brandon, a controversial medical marijuana bill now headed to Governor. Kaine, Ivy's desk. State Senate, giving final approval to the measure. 20 hours nine days. One abstention. The Senate concurs. Senators voting to accept changes made by the House, which passed the bill hours earlier. Measure legalizes the use of marijuana to treat about 10 conditions. Republican State representative Mike Ball of Madison led efforts to pass the bill in the house, claiming it will ease pain and suffering people with epileptic seizures. Will definitely be helped. And we're talking about Children who have been dying. But Republican opponents like state representative Jim Carnes of Estee via Hills warned the law will put Alabama on the path to full on legalization based on what has happened in other states when they adopted medical marijuana and then after a short period of time. They had recreational marijuana. A spokeswoman for governor Ivy did not say whether she'll sign the bill, calling it an emotional issue. I'm Jim Farraday After the massive gambling proposal stalled, Alabama House leaders hastily called up a lottery on Lee Bill that caught many lawmakers off guard Republican State representative Jim Carnes of a stadium expressing surprise. I've been hearing rumors of what's going on, but None of the rumors came true. And then suddenly this put on my desk. Maybe 10% of people in here have read it. But maybe less minutes later, the plan was withdrawn and sawmills that were shut down during the pandemic last year, working very hard to make up for lost time. The demand for lumber is skyrocketing. Jim Henderson owns mobile lumber, He says prices are up nearly 400% over last year. The manufacturers cannot produce enough to meet the debate. If you've got it so many of the wholesalers and dealers and saying I don't care what the prices can you ship it to me. I'm Leah Brandon, and this is Alabama's morning news Now back to your host. Here's J T. All right, Lee, thank you very much. It is 806. We're live at the Holiday Inn Resort in Panama City Beach. Once again absolutely gorgeous here. Alisa's here with the resort and you guys are always so gracious to invite us down, And we really appreciate one thing to say Thank you. First of all to you and your staff and everybody, We have a great time. You guys have a amazing crew. That is, so I mean, reminds me that the state farm commercial where Jake's going, you know, I don't need £25 of stakes here because, you know, everybody gets this deal. Not just you, you know so and the deals here. And how you treat your customers. It's on. It's you and Disney do it better. Anybody I know. Well, we left that to be compared to Disney is a wonderful thing. Well, you never have any complaints that I'd never seen anybody in a bad mood. You know, with the crew here, it's always what can I do? And I just saw what was the gentleman's name. The guy that's like six. FT six is the second in command there. Nelson Nelson Nelson is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, and he and the owner Actually cruise around all day. Long talking people do it Z, You know, did they do any administrative work in their offices or anything? Because they're always out here, you know, but that's what's important that you know you want Everybody that comes in like I've told you before. Everyone that comes in the first time your first time guests, but you leave this family so every time after that. You're gonna be treated as family, and it's one of those things that it's important, like, like, Cheers. You know you go where everybody knows your name. Right? So it's the same thing with. I'm sorry, right? Right. And that's what we pride ourselves on. Well, when you bring the whole family here, you could just stay. You don't have to go anywhere. Everything's here for you, including the kids. The lazy rivers Now open. Thank goodness you're associated with the holiday golf down the road here. The food is Fabulous, Just incredible next level, And here's the deal if you come this weekend, and they've got availability for Mom, Mother's Day. What a great gift this would be for Mom. Surprise her. Hey, we're on our way to the Holiday Inn resort in Panama City Beach. I've called the number We got 20% discount, Not only on the nights but a lot of the amenities and services beverage and you're gonna use that. Yes, yes. And the number to call serious 877230 40 86 877230 40 86. I'll make the reservation automatically because you said Hey, heard J t talking about this and you've got a radio discount and boom! You're good to go 20% off. Fine, but very easy. Well least we'll talk later this morning. About all the entertainment that's going on here as well. And the incredible food Plus or on the lazy river and fun things for the kids coming up in just a bit. It's +809. Now. Alabama's morning news. John Decker, R Correspondent at the White House will join us next. Amazing what White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had to say. When it comes to our border, and why Joe and Kamala have not been there. Unbelievable response. Wait here. There's three minutes. Stay with us. There's no doubt.
The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"nelson nelson" Discussed on The Road to Rediscovery: A Life-Learning Journey for Growth
"Has reached a point of rediscovery with gratitude with friends with time with the gift of life he's on a mission to leave world better than when he entered it his blogging youtube channel the positive drip chronicles has challenges and the insights learned from them. Get ready for a great conversation with mr nelson nelson. How are you doing man a. Aj how are you. Great day to be above ground. I tell ya it. Sure is man. It sure is in man. We are so thrilled to have you here for sure. So let's just go ahead and dig into it right. I want to know first off. Can you usually ask my guess to share a little bit of background. Where they're from and how they came up and everything but for you. It's a bit different for me. Man i mean you have been through an incredible journey and i just want you to to to just start off sharing with us. You know the beginning when the diagnosis happened. You know what was your state of mind before. It happened before the diagnosis okay. And then the immediate. The immediate internal response when you received the diagnosis. me go back in time. Here get really introspective. And well the first thing i want to say to you and your audience is chances are there's nothing new that's gonna come out of my mouth today that you haven't heard but maybe maybe just aubrey and i'll have this conversation that'll to lear ears. That'll tickle your ears and they'll make this conversation memorable now. How was i before got sick. My man men and that was like a lifetime ago but to your audience. I just want to let you know that i am nothing but an imperfect soldier for christ and if i never say anything after that i'm all good but but you know i'm a guy that bleeds red just like everybody else I'm a guy faces. Adversity like every other person on the planet right but before that happened i was enjoying life enjoying movement. I was very active guy in sports in the community. I just loved enjoying time. Love people a loved experiences. And then you know if i can ask your audience. If there's anyone out there that is ever ever had lights hand you something that you didn't expect put a high five in the comments section.
The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
"nelson nelson" Discussed on The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
"I know that that can sound overwhelming. But listen kristy. Cameron has a new verse mapping technique. That really simplifies it. And there's actually a bible to go along with it. So be sure to listen to all of these wonderful tips that christie shares because the bible is not only come alive in her study. It's come alive in her heart. That's what matters most. Welcome to the living room kristy cameron. I'm so glad that you have joined us today. How thanks for having me. I've been excited to come and visit. Yeah yeah you know your your name came across my desk. And and i thought i know that name and then i realized oh. She's all over the place in my kindle. You are just prolific fiction author. And i love. I love your rioting but it was so exciting to see that you're not only a fiction girl. You have a deep deep love for the word. And i am so excited to talk to you. About burst mapping and the new bible study bible. That's come out from zondervan and we tell us. How did you even get started in. Bursts mapping how did a fiction author tie. She's she's not only does jesus girl but she's a word girl. I love that question. It has a very long answer. Does fortunate we are that we are on a podcast conversation and we can talk through some of that. I would say I'm asked often. I would say it has more to do with the space of ministry that god calls you to as a storyteller burst is being a fiction author or nonfiction author or any number of things that you can do that. The lord has called me to the space of ministry from where art and history and faith intersex so that can look like a lot of things right. It can look like historical fiction and it has. I'm working on my eighth ninth and tenth novel so he looks like that but also just this great love of stories and storytelling and that for me has bridged across to nonfiction. Into verse mapping and somewhat. I didn't college I went to art school. So i'm art girl Not really good into drawing painting not that kind of art art research and research writing. So that's my background. And it's just this love of like. I said art and history and faith coming together in the ward saying once you start telling the stories that i want you to tell and just stepping stepping out if you will into that. I love it. Eleven in so you know verse snapping at. There's a lot that are listening today. That maybe have no idea what that is. Could you tell us a little bit about it. Yeah in the background for me. For verse mapping there was this journey that our family. We've really been on this road for about seven to eight years now. And i started in corporate america so i was a corporate trainer in healthcare of all things. Healthcare is a little far away from mystery. And what you think like writing ministry. But i started their and the lord began to impress upon my heart that he wanted me. I said to do begins telling the story is he wanted me to tell and so it felt like thumb join us. That's like the way that i can described thumb of just a pressure allow more than a little bit more pressure and that was about three to four years. You know my husband. And i are praying and it wasn't until i graduated with my undergrad degree which i was a nontraditional adult students and it took me thirteen years. Great so paid cash. You know every semester wouldn't pay cash because we didn't want to. I was working in corporate america. We had three babies. I mean it was it was all these points intersecting and when god really impressed upon my heart now i don't want you to take your path which was i was going to be an art history professor like that like that was the plan. Go get a doctorate and teach at the collegiate level. That was my plan. But god turns that on end and some note. I want you to go for publication. And i i don't know if you have a lot of spirent authors. You're listening we're dream chasers. Or jesus chasers. Who are like god has called me to a purpose he called. He called me to a purpose to step out and to write Started in fiction. So i know we talked about that a little bit. I started in fiction. When i'm from small towns southern indiana friends and i got b's in english i knew nothing about writing or publishing or anything just stepped into that and it wasn't until we had a couple of years of rejections so i have a big heart for those of you who are on this roads publication but a couple of years rejections and when we finally got a yes. We had all these intersection points right so i finally got yes on my first fiction contract an hour later i got a call from my dad and he said this could be back. I may have leukemia insulin. Wally yeah so. We went on this five month journey of editing. My first novel at the local cancer center while he would have his chemo infusions and a gentle goodbye for now so he is with the lord. Here's here's where verse mapping came out of all of that. My dad was saved and baptized at sixty years old and he had two short years with jesus before he went to go face to face and after he passed away. We had three bibles. I've talked about this on podcast story. And it's kinda funny right near three. Bibles one was the one that my mom bought when they were dating late seventies burgundy leather cover old pages. All that you can picture this bible and it was not really used very much in all the years of their marriage and we had two other bibles one sister and one for me. And the one that i received i picked it out because it was nelson nelson study bible now my publishing family so i said okay. I want that one. I had no idea. Joanna what was impinges of this bible highlight remarks everywhere of this bread crumbs journey. If you will have my dad's time that he spent those two years with jesus. So once i left corporate america you know god grave my husband and i we prayed about it for three to four years and said okay. The lord's calling me to this and we're going to step out and have no idea what this journey looks like. I did the one thing. I'd always wanted to do with had never had time to do and that was to join women's bible study community at our church and i took that bible and here are the two things. Here's where bursts mapping. Because the two things that i realized very quickly i hear all the time for women who are interested in verse mapping. Want more time in the word. You're the two things the first one is. I didn't understand.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"nelson nelson" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"The motorboat. Vince Vaughn is strange. You both inside of dodgeball. That's the Vince finally won That guy. That guy e may want to stretch out a little bit. And you know you need your growth and all that. But damn it, Do it on your own time doing indie movie that nobody sees. Let me that crabbiness. What about exactly? Jim Carey who don't need like spotless mind, Sunshine. One of the hell that movie will any of that crap. We need another basement tour. That's what that's what we want. That's what this is calling for. We want another ace mentor a up in a family do it because we wanted. Yeah, I know you want to grow as an actor. We don't need that crap. All of a sudden, you too highbrow to talk out of your butt on film, man. Yeah, Okay. You know what, Then? You know what the hell with me then? Yeah, in this imaginary conversation. Okay, let's go. That's we want That's RDF Ed. That's what we did to the idea of fun. Let's go, let's do it. E think Woody Harrelson was actually part of those, Uh, Nellie Poker games on occasion with with Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson and Owen Wilson. Hey, man. What you doing here, Mr. Munson? Uh, that's right. King feels incredible. So give me give me give me the crew for that for those. Poker games. Is that do the finger quotes and no one would have clearly ulcer in my household? Chris last smoker games, so Yeah, really. Nelson, Willie Nelson Nelson, huh? You had Nelly. Up. Hey, had the fore mentioned Woody? Yep. And who's the other one? Owen Wilson own Wilson? Yep. Oh, man. I bet you they smoke copious amounts of weed. Oh, there's no doubt adopted. Today. Elephant. Wow back. Nellie said it I go how you just had to do he goes. I just wait for the rest of you get high and take their money. Yeah, set up. Do you think about that for like, like minded cannabis.
WZFG The Flag 1100AM
"nelson nelson" Discussed on WZFG The Flag 1100AM
"Knocking that went down his barb. Oh, he's got his three of the evening. He is up to. Ah, 21 total, and he's the reason the Knights were in it for most of the evening. Yeah, just just mean they're getting a great game from him. We're gonna get a real good night from Graff says tonight, but it's just They're not enough to keep up with this West Fargo Packers team canoes and download appears little turnaround floater. Is it just making that look too easy? James 6 FT. Five wing player can post up the smaller guards. Just a little turnaround. Jump shot over and over the smaller defender knocks it down. Upto what 25 now. I believe so. Another shot is up this time by Central, no good. Getting the rebound And going to the way will be the backers with Nelson Nelson at the top of the key over to peace, and that's something where we've been harping on all the evening, and it just seems as though I mean all season. Jesus such an improved player, and he's proved it this evening in every game this season, even in the game that they've lost the double double and their loss against Davies last Friday night, and just unbelievable to see is graphic, three years up off the iron and no good In transition. Looking to go are the Knights left hand corner looking for grabs set little forced into the land shot is up there looking for a charge he has of getting the blocking Following grabs, said Lock two free throws coming his way. As a follow on the Packers will be there. Seven foul. It's good for the second foul of the evening. It's a 16 follow the half and two freezers come in The way of Mason grabs that I think that graph shoot was in position. He was just in the restricted area looked as though because it looked as though he was sitting there for What had seemed to be almost three seconds. First free throws up and no good here by grab said he has 10 points in total, and.
WZFG The Flag 1100AM
"nelson nelson" Discussed on WZFG The Flag 1100AM
"Score more leads the Packers over the night with 13 11 remaining in the second half, Never to stay tuned for satellite solutions Postgame show longer. She apparel play the game at the conclusion of this one, as The ball is taking a court by Lemke and the Packers. Looking to try and get something going back up. The top piece of three is up and a little bit short of that one out of bounds, and it will be central basketball. That kind of cut both of us off guard. There was wide open. Had the look he wanted from the top of the key stepped into it just didn't get enough on it. You have a little bit more short than I normally does on most of his shot at samples that ball is tight defense being played out their stolen away by appearing cut left hand side too heavily loses his handle is able to control it back up to the top right hand corner and Nelson Nelson, looking to try and find an open teammate kicks it all right, looking for Lin Qi. Three, is up and rolled around off the iron man A couple of times. It's even know it's happening. The Packers where they've been able to get the most generous of bounces. Another three point and to have 12 31 remaining here in the second half, and it looks as though we're gonna get the second team found the Packers. There's limpy second following this evening as well, and the Packers leading 57 38. Looking for an imbalance past year trying to get something going and love forces shot up. One of the following get in transition goes the other way is Parker now said, forced to shut up, But I am trying to draw a charge right there. Look to be. Loretta was not able to get it. And Nelson gets his second bucket of half. He's up to a point in total. I mean, there was contact James, but you know that Dr thereby parking else and he was going around and wasn't trying to initiate contact with him. So the rest Let's play go. 15 seconds. The shot clock ball me move slowly around the perimeter by central back over the love at the top of the key looking to spend around the defender trying to drive decides not to fix it. Back up the top looking for Strand del Shannon l freezer line back over left hand wing loves three is up to no good trying to get the board draft set, but it's stolen away by Here in counting the Packers gold the other way with the Only one point lead left handling, looking for haggling, little floater up from the free throw on.
KOA 850 AM
"nelson nelson" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Jungle boogie. Yeah, calling the game. Oh, cool in the gang. I mean, when I first heard this had to be convinced this was actually cool in the game. Why? Because they didn't have a cooling The gang sound to it. Hmm. Um, this and how it was that Hollywood boogie always swingers. Hollywood Swinging swinging? Yeah. What swinging? Yeah, kind of similar. Really cool in the gang stuff. I'm reading about NFL ratings and all the sports radio's. This is really interesting. That during the pandemic And the run up to the presidential election. More people were watching. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. Than ever before. In fact, According to this s I article it was diluting the ratings for All the sports Mm, including the NFL, but the NFL Did not take a big hit. For the season. Down overall about 7%. But they point out that after the election in early November, NFL ratings went way up. For the rest of the year. Because people were done. Watch it. It was all the run up to the election. And the pandemic news and all the coronavirus stuff, so people were watching more and more news and they were not watching sports the Stanley Cup playoffs. We're down 38%. In the year before. The U. S. Open down 55% Wow, the Preakness down 56%. I mean, this is stunning. What happened to a lot of these numbers the in baseball The American League Championship, Syriza's lowest It's ever been in the history down 66%. Baseball just tanked in the ratings. Blood. Fox News Up 63% MSNBC up 38% CNN before the election the right for the election. CNN in up 172%. And then after the election, things kind of went back to normal. Hmm. Wow. Yes, sort of. I'm TV race watching. Yeah, only on TV watch a little bit, but another factor is streaming numbers continue to go up across the board for everything not include those I don't know if they include those in those ratings. I think you know what I do. I don't think they do. I don't think that I don't think these include those. I mean, in some radio markets, streaming numbers are included. Other stations do not include stripping numbers. I don't think streaming numbers are factored into the TV ratings. No big deal. I don't think so, either. But I don't know it's Nielsen does. I think they do both, don't they? They do the TV ratings and do they also do the streaming numbers as well? Not sure, I'm not sure he's not sure from the 719361. There's a certain demographic of people who keep hoping the NFL will go away. I have bad news for you. It ain't going anywhere. Yeah, I don't know. I grieve part of that comment. I don't think it's going anywhere either. I don't know if there is a certain demographic that hope it goes away. What? What demographic would that be? There were some people that didn't like the politics. Part of the National Football League. There's some people that That you know the With the concussions in the CTE that There's a certain percent of people that wish football would just go away. And I, you know, I talked to those people occasionally. I just think it's bad. Because of the damage it can do that. Young men. Um, brain damage and your body gets beat up and all the other things, but I think that's a pretty small number. Yeah, I do, too. Those were different things. If they're if they're people that don't like football because they're genuinely concerned about the health and where welfare of the participants, Okay, I understand that. Um But I'm not sure that's the demographic are textures. I think it's political I'm guessing that's what the textures referencing. Also on the prime time games. For the most part, like Monday night football and Thursday night football. They were down like 3% from the year before, so not a big hit, especially when you factor in The numbers. Overall, we're down big for all sports leading up to the election. But Sunday night football for some reason what took a big big hit? Is that is that the Al Michaels and yes yeah, For some reason, Sunday night football was way down there times where it depends pretty much on what the matchup is. I have to go back and look where there's some word or some Bad matchups. On Sunday night Football. I remember a lot of bad ones on Thursday night. This year. Yeah. But their radio Thursday night football ratings were not down that much. This single digit Which when you compared to everything else? That's not bad. No, For sure. From the 01. To 3 to streaming is awesome. I'm an airline pilot, So I'm listening on the road as well in Salt Lake where I live. Yeah, and we've been hearing the last couple days that are screaming is down here on this radio station. Not only streaming the high, hard up all of it Has been down the last couple days, so I don't know if that's still the case today. We haven't had any complaints, but we were sure getting him Friday in yesterday. So we got some this morning on the morning, okay? That said I can't get on that I I heard up. From the 74 to 9. No, I don't want to see the NFL Go away. I just want the politics removed from my entertainment. Okay? Three or 3901. Nielsen ratings does both. TV and streaming. You wonder if they then combine them for the number the overall number May I guess they probably would. Well, according to the Hollywood reporter who covers these things like No one else. Streaming ratings are not really a thing. Nelson Nelson does measure the audience for streaming shows. But Netflix and other streaming platforms have disputed the rating services numbers as they don't take into account viewing on other devices. So only on the TV set, I guess so. Well, that doesn't make any sense. And you know you have, like 45 people using the same app to stream whatever they're streaming on Hu Lu are CBS Sports APP Whatever it could be. It makes no sense then..
KTRH
"nelson nelson" Discussed on KTRH
"Also means there, three open lines behind Lee 713212. Ktrh. And when you do talk to Callum first, you need your first name. Where are you calling from? Specifically like this parallel in Conroe. That's exactly what I need here and If you can just be brief with him about what do you want to talk to me in detail about? Hey, I got a herbicide question. Hey, I got a grass question. But then you give me the details. He doesn't need the details because he's processing more than one. Call it a time, so to speak, so he needs to be able to move on to one call. After the Plus, he could care less about the history of the question. You're gonna ask +713. 21 to Ktrh. Okay, So here's the first female radio heard you just hit the tail in the last hour talking about where to get fruit trees Since we don't have that those fruit trees sales. I'm in Fort Bend County. Where would I go? The enchanted Nurseries for sure. Enchanted Forest is on 27 59 about 45 Miles east of Crab River Road. I like to say it's behind great wood in a major way. Enchanted gardens of the corner of 7 23 and 3 59. And not only do they have the fruit trees, they have the vegetables, but I got me thinking one of the things they sent out this past week on their email to its rose time. Ladies and gentlemen, you need to get to these rose nurseries because they not only make a great gift for Valentine's Day, you're going to get a permanent rose. But this is the time to get roses planted. As well as long as you're making significant raise. Bet they got all the products we talk about from the Asia. My to the fertilizers definitely have the lawn fertilization schedule have the organic lawn fertilization scheduled products, and they have all those feeds. We talked about aggressively feeding things. I don't want you to go overboard, but you know it's The bottom line. Let me give you that the Enchanted nurses website and I want to kind of go into this discussion about aggressively feeding and how. I think Nelson plant could figure it out a long time ago. But the website for Enchanted Forest and Enchanted Gardens is my enchanted dot com and again. Roses, Man. They're loaded vegetables, herbs. They definitely have the fruit trees. They got the perennials. They're ready for you. And I don't think you guys in the Richmond Rosenberg. We have to worry about this Far South West side, But they got the frost Kloss. Just in case you're worried about next weekend at all. I think as we get closer to next weekend, even tomorrow, I'm gonna bring it up again. I'm gonna run a couple more models. Make sure that you know, I was just right. When the weather forecast for first saw that thing about the Arctic blast coming down, they disguise falling. They love doing that to get you to watch and or listening as often as possible, And I don't think it's going to be near as bad as they say north of here. Yes, but my listening region is is vast. It's alright, but I have to talk in general advice. To the Houston area and everything model I've seen. Barely has it getting into the thirties. And most of the Houston areas. Now, if you are north West West way out north of us, you need to follow up with me on this and what you can and should worry about. Feel free to give us a call 713 to 1 to Ktrh. So I've been in the last hour was kind of talking about aggressive feeding. Of course, I knew that would lend list some emails. Let's use the specific plant foods as the example. You don't just feed roses as we were just talking about one time a year. It is interesting when I go out on these consultations from time to time, but I'll I asked what was the last time you fed these roses and they looked either I get the You have to feed him or well, like last year. I just do once here lot of plants, azaleas, roses, high biscuits, You name it. They are heavy feeders. And you That means that's where I mean the aggressive feeding here. You want to feed them at the very minimum every other month, or some cases, every like 30 to 45 days, And Rose is a good example that You know credit to Dean Nelson Nelson plant food and you could check this out online for yourself if you want to it, Nelson plant food dot com, But he came up with the marking line a long time ago. Your plants are hungry. Feed him. And roses are the break Great example. They have a rose food. A specific rose through from Nelson planted. They have a specific hibiscus food. Azalea food, You name it. Yes, we're huge Fans of the color star for all your annuals and perennials. But when we talk about aggressive feeding It's with the specific plant foods, and I would just leave you one more time with that line from Dean Nelson in Nelson plant food. Your plants are hungry. Feed them. Yeah. Let's go to Brett in peril. And as promised, I'm going to parallel and today to you wanna meet up for a beer later, Brett, what's going on? Well, welcome to Caroline. Hey, some grass I've got about Almost an acre of ST Augustine grass, and I'm calling to brag on the schedule. I'm a true believer. I've reinvested the money that I was spending with one of those national Long Cos. It's made a huge difference. It looks terrific. It's done. Great. Save a ton of money. Yeah, well with an acre of grass. It's still a little pricey with buying all this stuff, but it's at least I know why. And what's being done? I didn't know that before I've learned that Mo Hi made a huge difference last year. This had never been a raided twice last year ago. The Korea reaction and compost. Once professionally once about myself. You are you're a firm believer. I'm loving everything you're saying So I have one area where have struggled. I've got about 43 trees. So have some light issues at one area, especially And, um, yesterday I had four Chinese Tallis. Hadn't removed in stump ground. My question is they left all the sawdust. What did I do? Don't lead out of there. Break it up! Get it out of there! Shot back! Okay. Big old route back. Okay? Yes, thanks. Yeah, they advise it would fill in and it would go away. But that's not good thing. The other thing I would do is it is investing in a little bit more. Money, but like No. We talked about products that air Hugh mate based stimulate from soil Menders a great example of this love this product. If you can't find, stimulate or don't feel like you want to spend that amount of money on the stimulate, But it is molasses and Hugh mates blended together. And after you shot back what you can. Then you coat that area with the hue mates and the molasses combo and it'll start breaking down The left. Can't get it all the leftover saw. Does we recommend soil mentor? Stimulate a lot for trying to break down thatched build up and yard when people can't really physically get out there and break all out, And even if you do rake out and much of thatch I still love the idea of this stimulate going down on top of that, Hugh mate. And molasses. Both do this. This product is both of those combined into one. Cool. Okay, we'll get that shot. So if anybody else needs that information, let me do this real quick. Brett, go to soil mender dot com. Look up, Stimulate. I know like in the you know, parallel, and there you're gonna find it at the Ace Hardware store. The parallel embrace hardware store work. It was probably a couple other places, but I know that Solomon has always been available at the Ace hardware stores. Okay. The one of the things I had in my front yard. I had some brown circles come up around November raked out what? It could put the compost top dressing on top of it. They're still there. Nothing you know, obviously hadn't grown, but It's pretty defined circles on there's still some loose crafts in those areas. Will that grow over? Do I need to do something else, too? Yeah, you could green your way out of this. The springtime If it was brown patch, just the compost top dressing is gonna be your best friend. Just lightly dusted in those areas where you think you're still seeing Distinctive circle. Hmm. Well, I just did last recommend. Yeah. Last weekend of the days and nights in the barricade and the imperial So all that's down, hopefully green that pretty soon, but I didn't know if I needed to do something more in those areas..
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"nelson nelson" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Place 363 Is your house a 11 bubble? 10. It's It looks a dome. like the markets Find are corners unnecessary at Liberty Mutual. Slightly That's how up. we feel about Not over a lot paying for insurance. that sex But up about I a half do of miss 1%, having the S shelves. and P s up about a third What would of you 1% put on them? Nothing. small Obviously cap stocks on and Lee Russell pay 2000 for what you need is up at liberty barely. mutual dot com. And the Dow is down. Barely. I don't I'm even recognize going to say that myself Dale's flatlined anymore. It's not even, I'm really um worried about him. down enoughto. His addiction. Even I haven't mentioned seen him like very this. small fraction, Ever. so it is down a little bit. I I never wonder wanted to start if using. 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That's a I battle work cry the number coming four out him. of the I M f the International Monetary Fund. But There may be Few central banks around the world. All right. That might 63 63 come alongside 11 chains 69 363 the I M F. 11 10. But Migrant workers. This will be in Report all likely just out the year Migrant workers. be it the end of the year but Sent will home be the year. $40 You know, likelihood, we'll billion we will start hearing this about year. things. Or I'm Like sorry last year, So The last year, Electronic they sent $40 currencies billion home. like Bitcoin If you wonder why kinds Mexico of things, it won't be Bitcoin. is so against And I wouldn't be surprised the border wall. if it starts with the $40 I M F. billion is an We are huge in a vory vory stimulus unique into their situation. economy. And We that could money have a situation continues where we and continue constantly to have consistently global flows. slow down So throughout. it's an enormous Economies. amount of wealth Lots of to people a company out of work, like the country like mountain Mexico. debt That is flowing rising in in from most all the migrant nations, workers. and So you've got a pretty amazing. That's group a fair. I of mean, that's a lot of our money. $40 demographic billion of is the a world. lot of money. Mostly So, that demographic um, from it'll 35 it'll be interesting 40 by the way on down it was up. that is getting more and more comfortable It was up in 2020. with the notion off. No, that can't happen. I'm gonna be up. President Trump Hated migrant workers, didn't he? All, Obviously not. Nobody's making that tie in between this And the lies. So we had stricter border control more people working the border. More people being sent back. Yet those migrant workers that came here Did the paperwork they needed to do to come here and work. Well, it's the highest amount of money that we've ever seen. Sent back to. In this case, Mexico Be amazing. So you mean everything was a lie? I'm I mean, if you want to follow the money, it certainly was. Interesting. All right. 16 363 11 10. Let me go to phones. Let me go to Walt Walt Corners from Georgia. Hey, Wall. Good morning, Dan. I'm looking morning. Two questions. I'm looking at the Timothy 65 into retirement asset allocation model on the portfolio tracker. And I'm just wondering if the changes that you have made her final second start executing those changes. Yes. I mean, nothing final on those They could always change again based on what might happen in the economy. Um Any changes that are likely to happen from here on in will probably be an increase in cash or decrease in cash One or the other. Um so But yeah, I would say there is not any changes coming at this point, if you notice Each day this week. I've added a few more companies to the buy list Monday. I believe I took a couple off. But I'm gradually doing some different analytics and building that so. Yeah, We're good, Okay? Second question. Um Another. Essentially you've deleted T. M 35 replaced it with the TF one and changed the percentage of Uh, Did I make those changes in one fell swoop. In other words, fail what I need to sell and out all of what? You've had their changes at one time, or should I run that over a longer period of time. No, I probably wouldn't make if you already own the other. Which I should have made a note on it. I should. Maybe it just keep it. Keep that, and that's fine. If you do want to make the change, I'm okay with it, but I would do it gradually. I wouldn't do it all once. I would do it over. I'd almost say four months. Okay? Makes sense. Okay, thank you very much. All right. Well, I sure appreciate it. Thank you for your partnership. God bless We go to Mike, my scones from Virginia. Hey, Mike. No, we don't have Mike. All right. Let me go to, um Nelson Nelson calling us from Louisiana. Hey, Nelson. Hey, Dan. Good morning. Good morning. Hello..
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"nelson nelson" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"That memories have shown that the microbes ever long term studies have shown they've studied the study's scientific studies have shown and hear what their findings are. Study buddies, the president, couple, Donna and Steve. When I got mine removed in third grade, they gave me a little hospital slipper tow walk out with it was just for that night just to get home. Sorry. Like they give you after you get a pedicure. You know you. Yeah. What's on those little paper things, but I wanted attention. What a stretch So I wore the little mesh slipper into school the next day and brought crutches. Oh, God. Also once were a neck brace to school. Yes. Cousin Bill got me in a wicked headlock. Two thirds of people say they feel physically older than they actually are. I feel like I feel About 40 in my bones in my body. And I'm 37. For me. Thanks for asking. I'm just starting to feel a little tight and cricket E like this year like this. 21 Church. Oh, no, I meant the year 2021 u mean this year of your life this year? Yes, Age watch age wise just starting to feel that way, And it could be because I went through a significant change in the past year. You know what I'm saying? Isn't it interesting that you always look back on going through that change, and I was with you there through it all like a friend who's with you at the hospital holding your hand the whole time, but completely different. But maybe even more impactful because when you had What you called microwave moments where you would just take off whatever outer garments you had on Who was with you the whole time. Well, Rock steady over here. Hmm. I love you. You're different now. But I was with you through the change. Right. You missed it, man. It was awesome. It was awesome to watch was just a beautiful thing of nature transformation. It's like a freaking butterfly. You're darn right when I signed on to this show. Trust me. She was full caterpillar. Now let her go. She's a monarch. Beautiful Mark. Thanks, guys. Now, three quarters of us Despite how we physically feel my back hurts right now. My legs heard Ivan exercised in a while. Why does my back hurt? Uh, I'm sorry. I just decide. Note. Natalie sent an email that she says I'm even more thankful than ever to be working from home today. I laughed out loud at an embarrassing decibel level when Steve said And I quote while battling battling my anal fissure. Oh, okay. Wait a minute. Hang on. No. Someone's just tuning in e u two are the reason l o. L was created. Yes, Steve, we don't have time for your explanation. Keep going with your mother. I was using it in the form of a sentence. Okay. We're trying to figure out a double s always made a sound issue. Yeah, I need a team. You could've gone with that. But now I need a tissue for my Fisher Hill, Tana. Three quarters of us feel mentally younger. That's a positive That's because we always feel like Children. We always feel like we're not quite mature enough to have whatever that role is like you being a dad for shore. That's strange off four Children, right? Mm hmm. Um, I'm gonna do a different study now. Okay? Do you need another study? Just give me the first. That's it. That's all microbial Mike. That's right. They report somebody said yesterday a twin city side, Somebody said studies have shown and immediately I have, like, who I know is in my head. I'm saying studies have shown yes. You need to control yourself on this show like you do on that other show that would be most helpful. I'm starting to do it less, though, because of this show, the radio. Was infiltrating me on the TV show where if somebody says something, and then I just want to repeat the words slower. You know? Yep. Zucchini soup, Kini. You're like that kid on the middle. Yeah. Someone showed us him a couple years ago, And I thought well out that you just like that Nelson Nelson Lounge. Ella Loan, Elsa. Uh oh, no Long loan. Yeah. The cook The Negro Wahlberg. Yeah. Niekro love, eh? Yeah. Nigella Lawson. That's what I said 59% of people get a package delivered at least once a week. Donna recently dipped her toe into the pool that is Amazon. I'm really starting Tonto. Rethink the buffalo head in my kitchen. No, no, no, no, no, You gotta just because it's patina, and it looks a little real. So now my roomie won't like, look that way in the kitchen because he's grossed out. Okay? I'm like it's not like it is for on it or anything. It's a piece of art. Time. The bump the rent on that.