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What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Bitcoin Debate with Jeff Booth & George Gammon
"Bitcoin us gives the ability to transact outside of the system. I think there is massive, massive, massive value and Bitcoin is sensational and Bitcoin will, in my opinion, overachieve. Hello there. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are all doing well. Just getting ready. It's a few days. I'm going to be heading out to California. We're going to be heading out to Pacific Bitcoin. Got loads of interviews planned and we can't wait to get to the conference. Corey and the Swan team, they absolutely smashed it last year. It's a great conference. So looking forward to seeing some of you out there, catching up, talking Bitcoin and catching up with some LA friends. Also, I think we've got a real Bedford game out there, so I'll be finding somewhere to hide away and watch that game. Hopefully some of you will come and watch it with me. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today I have perhaps my favorite show of the year. We've got Jeff Booth and George Gammon on the show to discuss and debate Bitcoin. Now, these two have gone back and forth a bit on Twitter. Actually, it started quite a while back and I kind of threw myself into the conversation and said, hey, guys, let's do this. Let's get on the podcast. Let's talk this through. And they both agreed, but it's taken some time to get together. And listen, while they certainly disagree on some things, they were both very respectful of each other. And I think they both made excellent points. I think, I don't know, it's really difficult. I kind of found myself agreeing with both of them at times. I think it comes down to like, are we entering a new world or is Bitcoin existing in the old world? Because if Bitcoin is existing in the old world, then I think George makes some really great points and I kind of agree with him. But if like Jeff thinks like Bitcoin is creating a new world, well then I find myself agreeing with Jeff. So yeah, it was a great interview. Got about 90 minutes out of this one. I felt like a spare part of time sat there with two heavyweights. But anyway, I love doing this. I love hanging out with you super smart people. I think you're going to love this one. I certainly did. But if you've got any questions or feedback, you know what to do. You can hit me up on hello or what Bitcoin did dot com. All righty. Smashed it, right? What a show. And you know, what a nice ending. What a really nice and pleasant ending. I think they're both really respected each other. They didn't come for the fight. They came to get their points across. But I think they both listened to each other. It was great. I really enjoyed this. I'm also going to get George back on the show. I like George. I think he's asking good questions. I think he's prodding and poking in the right areas. And I think that's an important thing to have happen in this world of Bitcoin. So yes, big, big thanks. I'm very grateful to both Jeff and George for doing this, for coming on and making this happen. It's very hard to sit in the middle of a conversation like this when they both make such good points. I've found myself going back and forth a little, but maybe you do too. So I would love your feedback. Please do get in touch. I think the crux of the debate comes down to, as I said in the intro, Jeff's framework is for a new system in which Bitcoin has emerged and is the dominant form of money, whereas George looks at how Bitcoin fits into the current system. I pushed back on both of them. I think a couple of times they both got things that are slightly wrong. But yeah, I want your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello or what Bitcoin did dot com.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Breaking of the Global Economy with Nik Bhatia
"You can imagine a world in which people actually have more power than institutions and governments. Bitcoin has the ultimate power in making the world a better place for people. Hello there from sunny Bedford. Hope you're all doing well. Got a nice weekend planned ahead. Obviously for me, it's going to be football weekend. We've got home games for the men's hopefully getting through to the next round. And our ladies who won every game this season, they're going to be playing some Auburn. So it's a busy weekend of football for me and obviously talking about Bitcoin to people. We've actually got a meetup at the game tomorrow. So if you get in this early and if you're in and around Bedford, you want to come down, come down to Bedford. We're going to talk about Bitcoin before the game. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at RS Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, and today I've got my buddy Nick Bartier back on the podcast to get into all things macro and Bitcoin. Now, when we planned our trip to Australia, Nick was a very obvious person to ask to come out and take part in the live event. And while we're there, we took the opportunity to record another show with him. And the legend he is, he absolutely delivered. Now, the first time I spoke to Nick was about four years ago. I met him in LA. I can't believe it. It's gone so quickly. But Nick has always been a solid person to have on the podcast over the years. And as ever, he absolutely killed it. He has a very good and simple way of explaining complicated macro stuff, which I know some of you listeners love. So big thanks to Nick for coming out to Australia and for all the support he's given the podcast over the years. And if you haven't checked out his book, please do go and get it. It's an amazing book, and Nick is an amazing asset to Bitcoin. Also, if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do hit me up. My email is hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Just a few things outside. We're going to be heading out to LA in about 10 days. It's gone around so quick. Actually, even soon. I think it's nine days. Going to be heading out to Pacific Bitcoin. But we're also going to be doing some interviews there. With regards to the two films we've made, Argentina's in the final edit. That should be released in the coming week, maybe two weeks, but the coming week. And then we will move into editing the Lebanon film. Two amazing films. Just, I mean, not the films are amazing, not that we're privileged to have gone out to these places and made these films. And just another big thanks to RS Energy for sponsoring all this because without their support, I couldn't have done this. Okay, on to Nick. Hope you enjoy the show.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from All Roads Lead to Bitcoin with Checkmate
"0 .1 % to 1 % is gargantuan numbers, just extraordinary numbers, right? If Bitcoin does, in fact, achieve 1 % balance sheet capacity everywhere, it makes a lot of sense. It's the perfect currency to settle between enemies for oil, which creates enemies. Hello there from Bedford. How are you all? Yes. I got back from Lebanon yesterday. What an amazing, profound trip. I cannot wait to get the film out to show you what I saw. Also can't wait to talk about it with people. You learn a lot about Bitcoin when traveling, things you can't read in the book, things you can't get from a podcast. And so, yeah, I'm looking forward to talking about my experiences. And I also do, I just want to say a massive thanks also to everybody who helped. A whole bunch of people came out to Lebanon or were in Lebanon and helped us with making this film. So sorry if I forget someone, but massive thanks to Ralph, Tony, Francois, Ellie, Ralph's dad. Who have I forgotten? If I've forgotten someone, I'm very sorry, but you know I love you. And I thank you all so much for your hospitality and help in putting this film together. And speaking of which, I obviously want to say a massive thanks to Iris Energy because without them, I couldn't do this. They came to me last year, was it last year or this year? I think it was the end of last year, perhaps it was this year. I don't know. It's all blown into one, but said, how can we help you? What do you want to do? What do you need? What do you need to do Pete? And I said, well, I need to make a podcast, but I want to make some more films. And they fully backed this and they said, look, here's the money, go and make every film you want to make. So listen, a massive shout out to everyone at Iris Energy, specifically Dan and Will Roberts for backing me and Danny and all the things we want to do. Anyway, enough of that, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by those massive legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. Yes, I'm your host, Peter McCormack, and today I've got a banger of a show. One of the best ones I think I've recorded this year with my boy Checkmate from Glassnode. And we initially planned to talk about on -chain data and we touched on that a little bit, but we quickly moved into all sorts of areas from Bitcoin incentives to macro to politics. It was almost like just a couple of friends talking about all the bullshit in the world and figuring out the role of Bitcoin in this. So yeah, I love this one. I love Checkmate. What a guy, what a massive human as well. He's like six foot 11 or something ridiculous. Like he towers down on Danny. With Danny's next to Checkmate, it's like me being next to Danny.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Orange Pilling Through Sport with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan
"The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is if it works with baseball, it works with anything. If you think about value for value, the model, it changes everything. Right. Hello. How are you all? Hello from Lebanon. What a cool country this place is. It's really strange. As I travel around the world, sometimes I go to these places where you worry about the economic situation, you end up meeting the most amazing, incredible people, most amazing resilient people, and Lebanon is exactly that. So I cannot wait to get this film out. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today we have Perth Heat on the show. We've got CEO Stephen and chief Bitcoin officer Patrick, Patrick O 'Sullivan. I was going to try and say Stephen's name. I think it's Nelkowski, Nelkowski, I think Stephen Nelkowski. Danny, what is it? Nelkowski. We've never had Danny on an intro before. Nelkowski. Yes. CEO Stephen Nelkowski. Now I've known Stephen for quite some time. When we announced Rael Bedford, he'd already announced his Perth Heat Bitcoin project, and then I met him out in Miami. He gave me a jersey, and we've kind of been knocking back DMs on Twitter for this whole time sharing ideas, talking about what they're up to, what we're up to. There is so much alignment between the Perth Heat baseball team and what they're doing in Australia and what we're doing with Rael Bedford over in the UK. And so yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their progress, been impressed with everything they're doing. They're definitely a little bit ahead of us, but there's so much alignment between us and them. And I know not everybody loves the football side of things, but this Bitcoin and sports thing, I'm telling you, it's so important. It's important on so many levels, there's so many chances to orange pill people by meeting them where they're at. And I'm telling you, Bitcoin and sports is going to be big. So give me your feedback. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy the show. Absolutely loved it. Steve is a legend. Patrick is absolutely beavering away like a legend trying to get all the Bitcoin stuff going for them. I'm going to be nicking some of their ideas. Hopefully, we will have some cool ideas. They can nick as well. But yes, let me know your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Welcome, brother. Good to be on. Who's your friend? This is the chief Bitcoin officer of the Perth Heat. You actually the chief Bitcoin officer? That's it. That's the title. Chief Bitcoin officer. That's all I do. That's what I'm trying to get Ben Ark to do for us. You know Ben Ark? Yes. He doesn't even like football. But he comes along. He gets the whole thing. Great role to have. Emerging role. Yeah. You saw that job ad for that Bulgarian team. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. We've got a call with them. Joe Hall's trying to get me to talk to them. But there's two upcoming Bitcoin football teams, young whippersnappers. The league is expanding quickly. We've had a couple of recent inquiries from teams in Europe wanting to speak about what we've done with the baseball team. But as we've said so many times on Twitter and in comments that the Bitcoin sports league is a lot closer than what most people think. There's a lot of interest. Yeah. You beat us to it. I think you beat us to it. We had a couple of weeks between us, I think. Was it that close? It was. There was a nose between, I think, the two announcements. We were early November. I think you were late November, early December, something like that. We're talking 21, aren't we? 21? 20 said? Yeah. It was 21. Because I think I announced - November 21? Yeah. I think I announced December 21. Yeah. And we took over the team in April 22. Yes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just beat us. Justin. So many things have changed since then as well in so many ways. What we thought we'd be doing in two years has just dramatically changed so quickly. It's awesome. There's loads we can get into and we're going to. But let's just do a bit of background stuff just for people listening so we can build the picture of what we're doing. So, like, introduce yourself, what you do, and yourself. I know we know you're the Bitcoin officer, but like, and then just tell people about Perth Heat, who they are, and then we'll build from there. Yeah, easy. So my name's Steven. I'm the chief executive of the Perth Heat, who are Australia's most successful baseball team. We've won 15 national titles. We've had 34 players who have played Major League Baseball. We've got an exceptional relationship with the Tampa Bay Rays, who send us out six to each eight players Australian summer. And these are top end draft picks. So one of the players they sent us last season, Junior Caminero, is on the verge of playing in the big leagues right now. So they send us the best of the best in terms of their young talent. And we build a squad and we play a season in the Australian summer. We've got a history of winning. We've got a history of producing great players. We're also the Bitcoin baseball team. And it's been, yeah, it's been an incredible ride. How big is baseball in Australia? It's big. It's look, it's obviously we've got the big sports in terms of Aussie rules. You've got rugby. You've got strong national teams with the Australian cricket team. You've got the Socceroos, you've got the Matildas. So it's not a tier one sport. But in terms of the quality of the competition, if you look at the fact that Perth Heat have had 34 players who have played for the Heat and then gone on to play Major League Baseball, there's no other team or competition that could produce that sort of statistics. So if you looked at one of the football teams like the Perth Glory, they haven't had 34 players who have played in the Premier League. So it's the competition is extremely tough and would be one of the best winter leagues in the world, especially with our association with Major League Baseball. So they send players out to you to get game time. And they also scout players that you have got of your own. There's a bit of scouting. There's international scouts in every city. But the idea of sending them out to us is they will see how the players will react in a foreign environment, a different style of baseball, different time of year. How do these players go in an environment over Christmas, New Year? Some of them are coming back from injury. Some of them have had interrupted seasons. That's a good chance for some of them to also build game time. But it's a program now with Tampa. Then in the last five years, we've had five players already play Major League Baseball. Jacob Lopez was the last just a couple of weeks ago. And as I said, Junior Caminero is knocking the house down, his 27 home runs this year. It's just a phenomenal generational athlete. And what kind of crowds do you get? Yeah, they vary across the weekend. We play a series. So we'll play Friday night. We'll play two games on a Saturday. Two? Two games on a Saturday. And then we'll play another one on a Sunday. So there's four games in the space of 72 hours. And the crowd's roughly between 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 over the weekend. OK, wow. So two in a day. What kind of demands are put on the players? Well, it's different. So baseball, if you're a pitcher, the demands are extreme. Every time you throw the ball, it is logged. It is monitored. It is counted. If you're an outfield player or an infielder, one of the batters, then that's what you're built for. You're built to play every game. So all the pressure's on the pitcher? Pitchers, yeah. Good pitching will win you championships. You need a really strong pitching lineup to bring in the different times of the game. And that's the part of your lineup which you really have to monitor so carefully. Because you could start a series with a pitcher. And if he doesn't perform well, when you bring him out of the game, when you introduce someone else. And then if they don't perform well, how quickly do you run through your rotation knowing that you've got four games to get through? So there's a lot of analytics that we look at, we monitor. And as we said, that pitch count is very, very closely watched. I've been to a few baseball games. I've been to see the A's. I've been to see the Dodgers a few times. I've been to see probably your team. Yes. We went to the Yankees. Yeah, we went to the Yankees. It was too hot, wasn't it? Yeah, it was so hot. It was so hot. Our knees were burning. There's not many roofs on the stadiums, yeah? So you're sitting out in the sun, yeah, baking. But there's heat, but it was too hot. Our legs were in shorts, our legs were burning, so we just went and stood at the back and drunk beer. Then the Yankees get absolutely back. I think they were 10 down within two innings. It was like insane. Yeah, but it's a crazy game. It can be 10 down, and you can still win. My wife has now accepted that no matter how far in front we are in a game, she won't relax until that last out. You can be 6 -0 up, 8 -0 up, and you can still lose a game just like that. It's very, very different of football. In football, if you're 3 -0 up, it's effectively game over, yeah? But in baseball, a three -run lead, a four -run lead, it can change with just one pitch if a batter walks, and then suddenly things just change. It's taken a while to understand and to even get comfortable with it. When I first started in the role five years ago, baseball traditionalists would say, well, that's baseball. It's like, no, it's not. It's bad game management. But yeah, it's baseball. It happens in the big leagues. It happens in Australia, and sometimes it happens with Perth Heat. And so your wife, is that because she's got into the baseball, or she's planning for what your move's going to be like? Bit of both. She has to be into it, but I'm not a good loser at all. Yeah, I'm not probably the best person to speak to if we lose a game for a good 24 hours. After we lost the championship series, that 24 hours was probably four months. Mate, honestly, I know exactly how you feel. We lost three games last season in the league. We lost one cup game, and then we got thrown out of a cup because we played an illegible player should have been suspended, administrative error. Every single one of those, I was not good for 24 hours. I spent the next 24 hours saying, what did I do wrong to contribute to that? Even though it's the team and the manager, it's like, what could I have done more? Could we have prepared the team better? Did we not provide the right resources, or did we not get the balance of the roster correct? There's so many things that go through your mind, but yeah, I'm certainly not a good loser. Were you a Perth Heat fan before? No, with a surname like Neil Kobski, you grew up with a round ball in my household. I was a football fan from an early age. This is a true story. Before I took the role with Heat, I had not watched a baseball game from start to finish. I had not watched a full nine innings. I'd watched parts of a game, but I hadn't watched a whole game. That first year in charge was challenging because you'd be with corporate partners, and I didn't know all the rules, and something would happen during a game, and they'd ask, why did that happen? I'd scratch my head and say, I'd have to find out for you. I'm obsessed with it now. My wife loves watching players steal bases, just running from base to base or trying to steal. Then I look at my family, Grey Caritage, and they're all into it and enjoy coming to the ballpark. Most people I introduce do enjoy it because, again, it's a different sport in terms of the pace of the game. You can relax a little bit more and then sit back and enjoy the menu of the hot dogs or the crackerjack and see some home runs in the background. Well, you don't understand the sport. It's a bit like cricket, right? Most Americans, almost every American does not understand cricket. Are you trying to explain test cricket, that it's five days, two innings each, it could rain and end in a draw? Nobody understands it, but when you understand the game, you understand what brilliant test cricket is. Like my son, he watched the Ashes with me, and I had the first two tests, I was explaining how this works, why they might declare, what the follower knows, which never got used. Trying to explain the strategy of it all. And then once he understood, he got into it, and I was mentioning going to watch baseball. I said to you before we started recording, I was dating that girl in LA, so we were going to watch the Dodgers. It was a playoff season, and I must have gone to maybe five games. I went to the game, I don't know if you know the one where Justin Turner hit a walk -off home run in the playoffs. I think it was against, it might have been the Cubs, but by the way, that itself was an unreal moment. The great finish there. Unbelievable. But I had a guy who was sat with me each game explaining it to me. And one of the things I'd never known about is the whole pitcher strategy. My from assumption the little I'd watched here or there, it was just one guy all game. And if somebody came on and it was injury, I didn't realize you're strategically placing different pitchers in the game, especially towards the end of the seventh, eighth, ninth innings. I didn't know any of that. And so once you understood that, you understood the strategy. And then there's huge strategy, whether you're bringing in a left -handed pitcher to pitch to a right -handed batter, left -handed batter, or someone that can face up to a curveball better than a slider, et cetera. Explaining the game to someone in baseball is a lot easier in the ballpark. If you're watching it off the screen, it's a bit harder to pick up. If you sit in the ballpark and you've got someone that can explain the rules, you will understand it a lot quicker than watching it at home. But the strategy behind pitching is nuts. The movie Moneyball and the strategy behind the analytics is spot on. There's so much you can gain out of the numbers. And that's a big part of our relationship, even with Tampa, is the Tampa front office and what they have in terms of identifying talent and how they use it is something that is a great benefit to an organization like the Perth Heat as well. There's a whole Moneyball thing that started coming to football as well. I know specifically teams like Brentford and Brighton have used it. But they're using it in a different way. They're trying to identify talent, which they sell out. I mean, Brighton. Can you look up their sales of players? I mean, Brighton. They have a profit of 130 million pounds, was it, this summer? I mean, historically, they weren't ever a Premier League team. No. It's only in the last, what, five, six years did they become Premier League? They're now established. But the volume of players they sell and the rates they sell their players for, have they got recent sales? Yeah. Let me pull it up. It was the same with Southampton. They kind of had that strategy as well. So there we go. Okay. Caicido, 160 million euros. McAllister, you went to Liverpool, 42 million. Sanchez, 23 million. But there's more in the previous. I mean, is that just this season? Yeah, that's this season. Did you have last season as well? I don't think it was on him. What was up at the top when you scrolled to the top? That was people who had come in. Right. Okay. But this is their whole strategy. I mean, they're now talking, this guy just got a hat -trick. The other Ferguson got the hat -trick against Newcastle the other day. People are starting to talk about him. And they've managed to have this rotation of players. Even though they're selling their best players, they've got these new ones coming through and they've got like an identity, which means it's a profitable business. Luton were the same. So Luton Town managed to get back in the Premier League from going into non -league, which itself is incredible. But they had a whole strategy of bringing players through and it's part of their revenue model. Does that perform part of your actual revenue model to develop players? For Perth Heat, it's a little bit different because if we have players that we continue to develop, they'll get drafted. And the draft system works a little bit differently to football where the club doesn't take the profit. The actual transfer fee goes direct to the player. Oh, wow. It's one of the first questions our board of management asked when they took the license over. How can we develop players and on -sell them? But it doesn't work like that in baseball, unfortunately. So, yeah, we've got a great farm system of producing young Aussie talent to go and pick up minor league contracts. But there's no return there to the club, unfortunately. Were you a baseball fan before you joined? I mean, I played when I was a kid. But not much of a fan. No. No, it was strictly because of the opportunity that came up that I joined. And when did you join? When? Same time. So about a year before, when the talks happened about, well, maybe this is something that we might be able to do. And then what the details look like for making it a possibility for a team to embrace Bitcoin as much as the team has. And then suddenly realizing that it's going to be significantly more work than what it first appeared to be. Because I didn't really have a role there to begin with. I didn't have a job. I wasn't working there at all. But then sort of trying to orange pill the board after Steve got it and to show them what we could do with it. It was very much, this is the idea. This is what we think we can do with it. And their attitude was, OK, go out and prove it and show them exactly what we could do to kick things off. And then from there, it was just small win after small win. And then realizing, well, if we're going to actually do it and announce things in November about just how far down the rabbit hole we were going to go, that we couldn't just, you know, Bitcoin is not at the point now where you can just launch and say, OK, everything worked perfectly. I mean, you know, it's so hit and miss with things that will work and things that won't work. And that's integration with systems that are already in place, especially when you're talking about a business of this size. You know, it's not your micro strategy. We don't have teams and teams of lawyers or people that can look after all of the various elements. And to go all in on Bitcoin means really restructuring how you do everything. And eventually that came back to me as my sort of ability to transition and see what will work, what's going to work now, what will work in 90 days from now and what it's going to look like in 180 days from now. All of that has changed and just somewhat to stay on top of that and to help integrate it into the systems that Steve is already looking after. Yeah. So I'm going to be interested to compare and contrast what you've done to what we've done, because like we're tiny. You know, our crowds are tiny. When we take, if you want to pay with Bitcoin on a match day, we're talking a handful of transactions. You got up to 7000 people there. So that's that's an entirely different beast. What were you, sorry Steve, what were you doing before you joined? My background is media marketing, so I used to be a sports reporter on one of the commercial networks here in Australia with Channel 7. I was there 14 years as a broadcaster, used to commentate to football games. But after being a reporter for the best part of 15 years and seeing how sports organisations run, that's where the real appetite for running a sports organisation came in and wanting to win championships. So I went and worked for a local football team, which is the Perth Glory, who play in the A -League. I was in a media marketing role there for a few years. Is that where Robbie Fowler played? He did the great man. God. Yeah. He used to come over to Mum's house every week for dinner. Shut up. Yeah. Are you serious? A gentleman. One of the most beautiful men. Yeah. We're always on the text to each other. He's a... You're friends with Robbie Fowler? Yeah. There we go. You're in. I want an interview with him. He's one of my childhood heroes. Oh wow. Yeah. And you know what? He's just a lad. He's just brilliant. He came and played for the organisation. And yeah, it was Monday night's dinner at Mum's house. He loved the Greek food, so we kept to a winning formula. That's unbelievable. Do you know the song the Liverpool fans sing about him? About we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Do you know about this? I don't know. So Robbie Fowler is one of the footballers who was very smart with his money. He just bought just properties all over Liverpool constantly. And see, he's got this huge property portfolio in Liverpool. And so the Liverpool fans sing, we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Yeah. He's a... He's God. He's God. He's just an awesome guy. Good fun to hang out with. And yeah, made so much time for the people of Perth. We had a great year together. And he's also very cheeky as well. There was a time where we weren't performing too well. We'd lost, I think, five games on the trot. And it was the time that Wayne Rooney was having a whole heap of issues with Manchester United. And we were about to do this live TV cross for Channel 7. And we knew the chairman wasn't too happy at the time. So I said, we've just got to try and deflect here. And Robbie had been in the UK for a week. And the presenter said, so Robbie, what was the trip to the UK all about? And he said, it was to chat to Wayne. And my phone had been, the media marketing guy just blew up, Fleet Street just went mad with this. It was just an off -the -cuff joke that we were trying to sign Wayne Rooney. And it was just everywhere within hours and we had to put out a press release and it was great because it deflected off the five losses that we'd had, but it was just a bit of a piss take. What was his scoring record like at Perth? Look, it wasn't as good as what it was at Liverpool. We would have been nice for him to score a few more goals, but the team struggled a little bit that year. And I think he ended up maybe with a dozen goals from memory somewhere around there. But it was a good year. And then again, I remember him taking out a little urn when England won the Ashes out before a game. And he put it up on his head and there was photos of it. He's just a great prankster in a lot of ways. He's an awesome person to have in your change room. And yeah, I'm really happy to call him a friend. So I went down the Robbie Fowler rabbit hole with my son the other week because, did you watch the Liverpool Newcastle game the other week? No, I missed it. Right. So I said to my son that there were two games when I was a kid when Liverpool played Newcastle. There were four, three consecutive years. The first one was a back and forth. I think Liverpool went 1 -0 up, then Newcastle went 2 -1 up, then Liverpool got it back to 2. Then they went 3 -2 up, then 3 -0. Liverpool went 4 -3. Stan Collimore in the 90th minute. It's an unreal game. And then a year later, Liverpool went 3 -0 up, Newcastle got it back to 3 -0. And then in the last minute, Robbie Fowler scores ahead of this flying header to go 4 -3. And so I then just had to explain Robbie Fowler to my son, why everyone said he was God. And we went down this kind of rabbit hole of Robbie Fowler goals. I was always really sad, though, because when he left Liverpool, I'm trying to remember, was it Leeds and Man City he went to? Did play both, yeah. Yeah, and I just couldn't accept him, not in a Liverpool shirt. Not in a Liverpool shirt, yeah. It didn't make sense to me. No, iconic to that club, and yeah. Absolute legend. Sorry, there's a bit of a tangent. OK, so going from commentator to chief exec, that's quite a jump. Did you have to kind of prove yourself you were capable? Did you have to pitch yourself for it? Look, I did the four years at Perth Glory in a media marketing role. I then stepped outside of sport for the first time in my career and just did some sales, what they called home and land packages here in Australia, selling some land in the house with it, and quickly went into a management role there with one of the companies. And then the opportunity came with the heat, and I was given the chance to run my first club, which was good because at the time I'd just started as president of a football club as well. So the management position was quite similar. I've run both roles now for the last five years, which has been brilliant. What is the mandate for the chief exec? How does it compare to, say, a chairman in a football team? Just look, every club's structure can be a little bit different, so yeah, a chairman for us is one of the shareholders, majority shareholder of our club, so he's who I report to. I've got the day -to -day running of the organisation, and I report to our chairman. What are the main things that you're responsible for the team in ensuring they've got the resources they need? Everything, yeah. Everything, yeah. I run the organisation. So it's basically probably almost identical to my role. Correct. Yeah, absolutely. Bigger numbers. Yeah, there's bigger numbers, but I don't think it really matters, and there's probably a good contrast with a football club. Whether you've got 10 members, 100 members, 1 ,000 members, a million members, the communication is still the same. You still treat your members the same way, regardless of how many zeros are involved. It's the same if you do a social media post, whether your club's only got 50 members or 50 ,000, you're still putting out information. So in some ways, don't get scared by the numbers. It's treat the position with respect and your members and partners, et cetera. Again, corporate partners, regardless of what the partnership value is, they're a corporate partner.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Is Chainalysis Prosecuting Innocent People with L0la L33tz
"This software is being used to imprison people right? It's being used for compliance reasons to censor transactions And so if this thing is inaccurate like we're just randomly pointing fingers at people, right? Like this is neither just nor democratic Hello from Australia. Hello from Down Under Finally made it here. I'm here with our boy Danny. It's great to be here. Very cool country Looking forward to getting out having some beers later, going for some food. Also looking forward to our event this Saturday Masonic Center in Sydney. There are still tickets available if you want to come it's gonna be me Danny We're gonna be joined by Nick Bartier Willy Woo Checkmate, Rusty Russell and Dan Roberts all on stage talking about Bitcoin So if you want to get a ticket head over to what Bitcoin did calm and click on WBD live Anyway, welcome to the what Bitcoin did podcast which is brought to you by the legends at Iris energy the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner Using 100 % renewable energy, I'm your host Peter McCormack and today on the show I have Lola Leets now this this interview came out of kind of nowhere really Lola posted a tweet thread up on X .com She'd written an article about chain analysis. Essentially. There is a ongoing lawsuit Whereby they had to admit there. There's no real Provable science behind their analysis and this has huge implications for certain Lawsuits where they've been using chain analysis software to track transactions on the blockchain now I won't be able to explain the details properly. That's what Lola will do in this interview But this has implications for cases like Roman Stirling off something we covered on the show So I want to thank a lot of coming on talking about this We will definitely get her back on the show in the future If you any questions about this or anything else, please do drop me an email as hello of what Bitcoin did dot -com Hi Lola, you've had quite the week I Definitely have yes I didn't have this show planned in obviously I was on Twitter the other day and I saw a tweet thread from you and I was like, huh? I've I've had Johnny from chain Alice's on my show I've got my suspicion about them. Yeah. Yeah, he was on the show a long time ago. I gave him a hard time I don't often give people a hard time. I gave him a hard time though That's interesting. I'll have to watch that. Yeah I'm not a fan of chain Alice's Not only do I not like what they do But I also think they're full of shit Yeah, that's that's a nice way to put it I think anyone that is a fan of chain Alice's may you know Have a little bit of a problem Well before we get into this Obviously anyone watching is going to see that you are green, but you're not really green in real life and You don't normally have like this toxic Background to you in more ways than one Well, what what can we tell people about you like how much can we tell them about you so they understand who I'm talking to I mean, my name is Lola. I've been in Bitcoin for quite a while. I Write about Bitcoin, that's that's what I do. And I mean, I don't think there's much more to know about me But you're a journalist I Mean, I wouldn't call myself a journalist I just like to I write opinion pieces mostly, right? So like it's debatable whether whether that is journalism or or it isn't right? Well, I would call it journalism Even if it's your opinion, you can be journalism. I think what you've done over this last Few weeks leading up to the last week is certainly journalistic It's the reason I want to talk to you today But you do also focus on privacy, right I do. Yeah, I focused on privacy mostly So I mean to give a little bit of background How I got into Bitcoin, maybe maybe that can give a little bit of context. So I got into Bitcoin Really opposite I would say of like how normal people got into Bitcoin maybe right? so there's this meme of you know, you come for the money and you stay for the revolution and For me, it was really the other way around So I had a friend who was telling me about you know This this new form of money this digital goal that has like all of these Perfect economic incentives and you know, I really couldn't care less like I'm completely disconnected from like this whole world of finance and investment But then he ended up saying something that really caught my attention and that was it's a money that can't be controlled by anyone but you and The reason that I found that interesting was because I've always been really interested in counterculture and so There's this saying in Bitcoin that like it's a tool to opt out which I think is a little bit of a sad way to put it maybe So I would rather like to say Bitcoin is a tool that allows us to build a parallel society That is potentially more fair and more just than the world that we're living in today and that's one of the reasons that that I write about the stuff that I write about because I felt like a lot of a Lot of like this viewpoint was was missing just from from the mainstream discourse and Bitcoin And so how how well do you think we've done in building this kind of parallel? Society that you want to opt into because we do have people now who live on a Bitcoin standard they travel the world When they get to a country or a city, they look to find people they can sell Bitcoin to so they have local currency We do have these nodes whether it's Berlin Bedford where I live in a small node El Salvador, Nashville There are these kind of nodes popping up whether it is like a density of Bitcoiners There are no places which will accept and take your Bitcoin Whenever you go to these places you tend to meet people who are You know, they don't have to be exactly like -minded, but you know, there's gonna be things you're gonna agree on So, how do you how far do you think we've come? I Do think that we've come pretty far with doing this I mean like just imagine that like 15 years ago is something like this would have been completely unimaginable, right? and so I do think like Despite all of the criticism there may be I do think that there's a lot of people doing these things and These parallel societies, you know already Existing in a way around the world.
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A highlight from Part 3: How Bitcoin Fixes Money with Lyn Alden
"And then China, Taiwan, and, you know, they're classified as developing still. But for many practical purposes, they've, at least, you know, they pretty much reach developed status in many ways. And so they've been able to kind of climb that ladder. Also, Singapore was able to do it. So there's been these handful of Asian countries that have been able to do it. But when you look at how many countries there are out there, it's shockingly small percentage of the number of countries that able to climb that ladder in the past 50 years, especially if you say, okay, let's take away oil, let's say you don't you don't find just this massive treasure trove of oil in your country, or something like that. The percentage that have climbed that ladder is strikingly small. And I think El Salvador is taking some of the initial steps that would make that possible. And we just have to, you know, this is a multi decade process. So you have to see how well they can stick with it. This show is brought to you by Wasabi, who I am using to keep my Bitcoin private. Now Wasabi is the easiest way to send and receive Bitcoin privately. And even for non technical people like me, it is effortless and provides privacy by default. Now with Wasabi, there is no minimum amount. So you can start coin joining straight away. And Wasabi makes coin join transactions together with BTC pay and Trezza users and BTC pay server users can make payments in coin join, which saves on fees and is a privacy improvement. Also, Wasabi just dropped a badass new feature. Now Trezza suite users can coin join directly on the hardware wallet, which obviously is very cool. Now if you want to find out more, please head over to Wasabi wallet .io, which is W -A -S -A -B -I -W -A -L -L -E -T .io. Next up we have BitCasino. Now BitCasino was established in 2013. And it's the world's first licensed Bitcoin casino. It is trusted by 10s of 1000s of players worldwide. And not only do they have cutting edge security, but they offer fast withdrawals and VIP experiences that money can't buy. BitCasino has over 2800 games and tournaments for you to try out. And with their 24 seven live chat support, you can always get help if you need. Now if you want to find out more about BitCasino, the first Bitcoin casino to win an EGR award, head over to BitCasino .io, which is B -I -T -C -A -S -I -N -O .io. And please remember to gamble responsibly. Next up we have Unchained. Now the events and exchanges and your private keys, but taking ownership of your Bitcoin keys, you know what, it can be daunting. That's why our good friends Unchained offer a personalized concierge onboarding service. Now I have personally been through this process and set up the vaults for my football team Real Bedford. And you know what, I know this is a personal recommendation here. But the multi SIG solution which Unchained have created is so easy to use. They ship the required devices to you, and they walk you through it step by step so you can understand exactly how the vaults work. Now after you set up Unchained continues to provide you with regular support to help you get comfortable with controlling your keys. So if you've been putting off taking control of your Bitcoin wealth, Unchained's concierge onboarding is a simple way for you to get started. Get it done sooner rather than later. You can book your onboarding today at unchained .com forward slash what Bitcoin did, and at the checkout you can get $50 off with the promo code what Bitcoin did. That is unchained .com unchained .com forward slash what Bitcoin did.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Emergence of Money with Lyn Alden
"Commodity money is like nature's ledger. Bank money is basically a ledger governed by nation states. And then open source money like Bitcoin is money governed by the users. Hello there. How are you all doing? Our boys, Rael Bedford, won last night. It's our third game in the league. We've had two wins in a draw, so a pretty good start to the season. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the Legends of Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I've got the first part in a three -part series with the amazing Lynn Alden. I know you're going to love this. Now, as you all well know, Lynn just recently dropped her book Broken Money, and we were lucky enough to get an advance copy and sit down and make a bunch of shows about it with her. So we originally planned to make one show, but we knew that it wouldn't work. So Danny pitched it to Lynn. He said, look, let's make this a three parter. Let's get into three parts, the past, the present, the future of money. And so in this one, the first one, we discussed the emergence of money and why gold won until the era of fiat currency. Okay. You know, Lynn, you know how incredible she is. And with this whole series in this book, she was as good as you had expected. Honestly, we probably could have made a 20 -part series covering everything in this book. So whilst you might enjoy this show we made with her, please also do support Lynn. Please do go out and buy a copy of the book. And quickly, before we get into the show, you Aussie Bitcoiners out there, it's just over a week to go. I'm going to be heading out to Sydney, to Australia for my first time. And on September the 9th, we have our live event. It's Nick Barty at Woolly Woo, Checkmate, Rusty Russell, and Dan Roberts, all on stage with me and Danny. And it's going to be a banger. So if you want to get yourself a ticket, head over to what Bitcoin did .com and click on WBD live. Outside of that, anything else? You got any feedback? Got any questions about the show? You can drop me an email. It's hello at what Bitcoin did .com.
On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 120 - Aug. 20th, 2023 - Selfish People
"All right, then Wow. Oh, oh, what was your phone at? Can you unlock it for me, please? Yeah, so sorry Breaking news fresh and fit loses YouTube partnership Super chats removed and the possible end of fresh and fit they're discussing on a stream right now They're gonna have to stick with rumble who is also taking a beating on the stock market Myron begged the audience to support them on rumble in order for them to continue doing this as a job Of course, they are spinning it by talking about saving men's lives and how they help men improve credit scores on a blob Completely acting that they weren't doing any misogynistic or scumbag ways like racist way in the same thing This is a win for YouTube Fresh and fit and their friends are a play to young men. Well, look at those clowns to the dark web. No more Multi -million view viral clips you two has to be consistent though They would need to wipe a full out of them all of them and all the other eaters such as Fuentes Nico Tate's It's Akira. We move all the clips we taste. I don't you two Some of this summer clips are still there leak on YouTube still. Well, well if he's there, it's usually through other people There's no chance to be banned as well remove all clips videos and mentions take talk as well needs to follow suit as well To the talk people who screen their stuff are out of Tennessee, you know what that means, right? Oh, yeah They'll bend the black stuff for any else. It's very game. I keep telling you guys what when I reposted that's why I don't This is why I don't this is why I don't subscribe to tik -tok because it's ran by races the the content create the content people that go over this stuff are ran by racist people in Tennessee or they probably have people Minor What of color As the content, you know narrators, but their upper management is probably people dude at the end of the day I don't mess with tik -tok because they are not balanced. No, it's a haven for whites dudes this crap I will be on tik -tok. I will literally see an Asian man eating a cat Wild like he killed eat like he Next, you know, the cat was all like You know, and then he started chopping up and cooking it. Are you sure? No, it's it was really one tik -tok He ate it, but I post up a speech about Martin Luther King about him empowering You know people of color the alternative lifestyle that in such and such a study Hey speech, we don't watch your card here I posted a video of a guy driving a car was rolling up weed and crashed his car They consider it as a violent strike. Yes, sir. We don't like this here Listen, I don't like eating cat a lady might be dancing a boost falls out. It stays there NPC ladies over tik -tok Ruined people's lives and that still stays sir. They're like, sir We don't need you encouraging these crabs to get out the barrel, but you don't need them. We don't need none of that I listen educated you better you better stop putting the light on the press. You better stop it fresh and fit Did Viacom Dios to yourself my boys where I see me no little man's there is even a world there being a bunch of Well, I can't holes. Yeah, plain simple. Listen, especially when you had that damn academics on the show nozzle and he would I never see a guy fight so much chicks in my Can I curse please no, go ahead. We're trying to be the opposite of these guys guy Oh That is the biggest life Biggest he only has one for women with nervous before a guy. He is a Not gonna use some push back. He does have smoke for dudes when I never seen it before easy. He's come at me No, for sure For sure, I'm for sure one guy Well, this is what that one guy how many women I'm sure the others too. I'm sure the others too I just I just know meek meek be one of the more he hates He bought a freaking brand -new G wagon for that video. What's the man? So you're gonna find someone's gonna run the bag a little bit so you can be a little With the car Gold diggers, it seems time possibly for a gold digger. Let's make that make sense Maybe at the time, you know, she didn't have the shovel behind me, you know, I'm just saying What do you say get out like what do you saw a little caught up man go get out Parties go You to certain parties. You see you see you see women that you know, because your tax bracket is changed You see now you have access to certain amount of women and stuff like that They know who you are and you know, you know, he knows how this is gonna go. So hey, you know, so That's what makes this this last can do so great He has the great declines that the girls are gonna sing great, you know But that's okay, you know, this isn't about no Drake. This is about fresh and fit, you know, I did to themselves Okay, you're out there causing ruckus all of us online and people called you in it. Goodbye. Bon voyage him sneaker they Still out here still outside Doing that thing and stuff like that. Listen, this only reinforces like It's only reinforces what with what we're doing with the pod like, you know What's we think once we cross over city you two and stuff like that and if zero start coming in I'd be like, okay You know, they're a whole Infrastructure is based on what they do and that right there is an issue because they have people that work for them Okay, and and these are the things you gotta be mindful of especially when you do it on that kind of level Man, I'm allowed to I don't sneak. Oh, I'd like to sneak over the beginning. I didn't like watching videos who's sneaking again That's do you mention sneaker? He's uh, he's very like he's very uh, he's very and you take influenced Okay, and fresh and fit. Yeah I did watch him. He would actually like all right pretty true, dude But now here like the one that recalls my line or hit my buttons when he started a whole rant against his special youtuber slash twitch streamer alcohol penguin He's like fucks on him talking about guns. My man. Hold on like a fake gun on him and charged our beef with oh, yes Our live econo put you all you know I remember that pum pum everything and everything else and then you know Whole homeboy penguin whooped out a whole one. So this is not clip. I got a clip for you He then it's not called clip called magazine whooped out. I think a whole 16 Penguin penguin yet. Hold you see video. He had a whole bunch of guns. I'm like, wow There's not a gun. This is a gun get to I don't know. He said I brought him back cover Don't worry. I hold it out. You made a total that yeah at it. I'm like, wow, cuz he started to be with him I'm like, come on. Why you might do that Sarah point. What's going on here? All that gun tuck is cute to some cause your bluff pretty much No, basically, he's like, you know, it was a while. Can we see I'll tell you man had an f -16 I saw rifle shot. You know, I really you how you have all this. I don't do it I was right if I don't what I don't we live at that yet have all this I gotta respect for the special number two second. Like damn. Yeah sneaky. Not with this battle. Listen, hold on a second I'm sure the bully got bullied basically basically, okay It's stuff like that Yeah It'd be worth considering to have some of that stuff to be a shout out to money man cuz my man cash this thing everywhere I Don't even know place. Listen, I have my rights and I have my firearms. Don't test me. Who else Tyson Bedford another one Yeah, I do really about that actually It's a visit within your right and you follow the guidelines you can do it. No, that's true. That's true. Right? All right, man said he said man. Give me your stir my boy. Oh You just said first and I'm gonna give you the good later So fortunately I gotta get with a sad and it starts in California. Oh, they go right now Yeah, it's bad up there going through right now But this story had an earthquake recently happened to along with Hurricane Hillary's I cannot did you see Dodger Stadium? Yes Yeah, it was like a lake. Yeah, but it looks like a lake right now in Dodge I prefer to live in Cali with Florida for second now But but seek the problem with Cali Cali doesn't really get hurricanes like that, you know, they're built for it Cuz if the aqueducts is yeah, he's right Yeah, that was that yeah, I know that is weird the earthquake thing is normal Yes, but but the hurricane thing you'd add that threw me off because he's being the Pacific is usually cold Yeah year -round but because of global warming that's starting to change and guess what happened. They ain't real boy Yeah, you talk to British Columbia when they have that big -ass fire right now Hit us soon, we don't know about it still coming around Hey real boy, you know focus the orange sky that happened a few months back was nothing. All right, that's coincidence, right? Just a photo fight See this way and say get your hands out Here Obama Barack Hussein Obama being praised in trying to give me health care Phone more you Let's go Brandon no history, but got a mag cap on standby, of course, it's still out Oh Oh If I'm get indicted or incarcerated I can't vote if I could be president yeah president yeah That's that's that's a hell of a But right now unfortunately a bad thing happened occurred a few days ago in California that it's only in America Will this happen? Not the cash retail value that spoke about no the California store owner who she was shot dead Who who the California store owner was shot dead? Oh, and I see you over just playing a pride flag.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Orange Pilling Your Kids with Samantha de Waal
"Bitcoin is, in my opinion, the future of money. Why trade it for euro or pound or dollars if you're going to hold on to the Bitcoin and be able to use it in the future? Hello from London. How are you all doing? Are you looking forward to your weekend? Right. I am here down in London. I've been recording a few interviews before I head off on holiday next week. I will need a short break for my kids. I've got a couple of great shows I've done this week, actually. So yesterday I interviewed Nigel Farage, which I know a lot of you are going to be interested in. And today I'm also going to be interviewing Constantine Kissen, which is something I've been following for some time. Very interesting guy. So looking forward to that. Then it's five days off, back for a few days, then I'm off to Australia for our live event, which by the way, if you're in Australia and you want to come, please do head over to whatbitcoindid .com, click on WBD Live and get yourself a ticket. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack. And today I have Samantha Duvall on the show. Now you might know that surname because her father Ben has also been on the podcast in the past. And now we have his daughter who is also, I think, better and smarter than her dad. Now I first heard about Sam and met her at BTC Prague. She got up on stage after Michael Saylor and absolutely crushed it. And I was so impressed with their presentation. I said to her dad, I said, look, she needs to come on the podcast. And for a couple of reasons, firstly, I don't want to be condescending. She's got this through merit. This isn't a novelty. But that said, I need a show to show my daughter. My daughter is a similar age. I've been trying to orange pill her. She just thinks I'm some weird boomer talking about stupid money. I want to put this show in front of her, see what she thinks, see if this inspires her. And hopefully this will be a great show to put in front of some of your kids as well, even if it's not your kids. Just listen, Samantha is super smart. She's a great Bitcoiner. I think she's got a great career ahead of us. Anyway, listen, you got any questions about this or anything else, drop me an email. It's hello what Bitcoin did dot com. Tomorrow, we're in the next round of the FA Cup. Keep your fingers crossed for Raoul Bedford playing MK Irish again. Hopefully we will win that one.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Breakdown of Trust with Doomberg
"One of the things that held up the US dollar hegemony was the state of our institutions and the quality of our financial markets and the rule of law and the level of corruption and criminality that is on blatant display in Washington DC is appalling. And once you lose your ethical framework as a society, what do you have? Good morning from a very happy Bedford and a very happy chairman of the football team that just won their first FA Cup game. We're through to the next preliminary round of the FA Cup against MK Irish on Saturday, which was amazing. Also very cool. We had two Australian Bitcoiners, What Bitcoin Did, listeners who'd come into the country. They made the pilgrimage to Bedford and came and watched the game, which was amazing. Speaking of which, we're making the pilgrimage the other way round. September the 9th, Danny and I are going to be in Australia. We've got a WBD Live in Sydney with Nick Bartier, Willy Woo, Checkmate, Rusty Russell, and Dan Roberts all on stage. It's going to be a banger. If you're in Australia and you want to come out, you want to hang out, you want to come and see a live What Bitcoin Did, go and get yourself a ticket. It's whatbitcoindid .com and click on WBD Live. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest Nasdaq listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack, and today I've got everyone's favorite giant green chicken back on the show, the amazing Doonberg. Now, Doonberg's becoming a regular on the show now. I can find his analysis of almost anything, any weird stuff that's going on in the world, anything related to, you know, recently we've got superconductors, we've got aliens, we've got economic crisis. I find he is a good person to go to and talk to about this. Now, originally when we did book this, we did plan to talk about superconductors, but before we actually started recording, it came out that LK99 wasn't in fact a superconductor. So we talked about this and we talked about how they analyze this and how they came to their thoughts. But then we moved on to a broad range of subjects from cancer cure medicine to the BRICS currencies and everything Elon Musk is doing with X and why Doonberg has gone lurker mode on X, formally Twitter. And I couldn't let him leave without asking him about Bitcoin as well. Of course, I had to after his $5 ,000 call last time. Anyway, listen, I know you're going to love this one. I absolutely love talking to Doonberg. But you got any questions about this or anything else, please hit me up. It's HelloWhatBitcoinDid .com. Big green chicken. Good to see you. It's good to see you, Peter. How have you been? Yeah, really good. Really good. Yeah, just busy traveling a lot. Been out to Argentina since I spoke to you last. And I'm not sure if you saw the results that came in last night from their primaries. Yes, indeed. Making the big news. I might even ask you about that later on. Loads of weird stuff's been happening since we last spoke. Yes, indeed. Well, the good news is that the news flow means that we'll never have a shortage of things for us to talk about. No, I thought we were going to talk about superconductors. I definitely recently read your piece on the cancer -curing pill. And we've also had the US congressional hearings on aliens, among some of the things. So just your standard news flow for COVID world. Indeed, indeed. Where would you like to begin? I know the information has changed. But let's talk a little bit about the superconductor thing. Because the internet was feverish with excitement about the potential of the discovery of a superconductor. It turns out that it wasn't. What happened here? Were we hoodwinked? Were we tricked? Specifically, what was claimed was the development of a room temperature superconductor. Of course, if you cool down certain materials to low enough temperature, they do superconductive already display behavior. The discovery of such a behavior that could operate at room temperature, or in this case, they claim that they were able to observe superconducting activity at temperatures above the boiling port of water. That would truly be a world -changing discovery on par with fission and perhaps the development of semiconductors. And it is a holy grail. And that phrase is overused, of course. But the advent of such material would truly qualify for one of those. When we first saw the piece that was published, we were very skeptical of it. We wrote our own analysis of it in the days afterwards at the peak of the excitement, really, called Conducting Diligence. And over the years, we have used a five -question framework analyzing for such discoveries. And we applied it, introduced it, and applied it here. As background, when I was an executive in the corporate world, I led very large technology groups. And many CEOs get most of their science advance information in the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times. And so it was very, very common for whoever my CEO was at the time to forward such things to me and demand my instant analysis of it. And oftentimes, I had to talk such people out of reorienting investment dollars to chase down the latest hype cycle. And so over those decades, really, we developed this framework that allowed us to systematically write five paragraphs to our executive overlords and to explain to them most of the times why such an advance was worth watching, but perhaps not worth acting on yet. Occasionally, one does pass that screen. And in this case, we use those five questions and concluded by saying that we're deeply, deeply skeptical. Happy to dive into the details as to why. But I do think that piece that we wrote has stood the test of time quite well. Yeah, before we dive in, can you explain why a superconductor would be such a game changer, though? There's the superficial reasons that the media likes to write about, which is, oh, you can imagine transmitting massive amounts of electricity with no loss and reorienting the entirety of our electricity grid. But in reality, in our view, it would be how a room temperature superconductor could facilitate advances in otherwise unrelated fields. And then the second and third order effects of those would be truly a game changer. In particular, collective computing, for example, would stand to benefit greatly from an advance in room temperature superconducting. And that field, of course, has had its own hype cycle. But quantum computing, a true advance in room temperature superconductors, for example, we believe could put the world of computing back on pace of exponential growth. If you squint at the log curves of the rate of computing advances, it seems to have slowed down a little bit in the past few years. Of course, we're still making massive advances. But it's the second and third order impacts from the other technologies that would be enabled by such an advance that we think would ultimately transform society. And look, all manner of sensitive electronic applications, a quantum computing advance would jeopardize encryption, for example. And there's just countless other ways that a step change like this would be very, very useful. And as we said in the piece, vast riches and a quick ticket to Stockholm to collect a Nobel Prize await those who succeed in demonstrating the phenomenon. And many serious physicists doubt that such an advance is even possible. So when you see such an enormous claim like this, it is irresistible that the hype wouldn't proceed in the way that it did. It's totally understandable. But at the same time, we had serious, serious doubts from the very beginning for the reasons that we wrote in that piece. Okay, so can you break down why you were skeptical in your piece? Yeah, so we asked five questions and I'll just list them carefully. They're simple questions. And the good thing about this approach is it doesn't require all that much in the way of specific expertise in the underlying area. And I should say up front, this is not something that I personally have a deep level of practical knowledge in the nuances of the science, but it's not needed in this case. So the five questions are, who's involved? Where was it published? Where are we in the scientific process? What is the scientific context? And then what should we expect next? And if you go through each of those questions, the first one, as with most human endeavors, the reputation and pedigree of the people involved matters. As we said in the piece, if Google and MIT announce a computing advance, you probably would be safe to bet that they have the goods. But if your neighbor tugs on your sleeve at a party and whispers quietly about an invention he's been working on in his garage for years that's sure to change the world, you'd probably be justified in having a healthy degree of skepticism here. The researchers involved have very good pedigree. The team is based in Korea, but they also collaborate with a relatively well -known physics professor at the College of William and Mary, and they seem to be trained in the field. And most importantly, one of the main inventors said they would be willing to support anyone trying to replicate the work, and we took that as a good sign. Things get a little sketchier when you consider where it was published, which is the second question. And here, these results were not published in a peer -reviewed journal of any pedigree. They were self -published as preprints on the internet, two of them, actually, one with three authors and the other with six. And the barrier to publishing a preprint is zero. You and I, Peter, could publish a preprint making claims to this very same website and generate a hype cycle of our own. That's not to say that the work was bad, but in our view, if this had passed peer review at a reputable journal, it would have lent more credibility to the claims. Unfortunately, this is not the world that we live in, and these preprints were hyped. And one of the reasons why this matters is because, as I believe, ultimately the story will dictate the misinterpretation of the data that this looks like is what happened. This would have been caught in that peer review process and would never have made the hype cycle, which is the third question. Where are we in the scientific process since it's unpublished? And basically, nobody would consider these results to be validated until independent researchers reproduce the work in their own laboratories. And one of the reasons why it's important to publish your paper in a journal and pass peer review is because a key job of editors at such journals is to ensure authors provide sufficient, specific details that allow others to confirm the work. And the good news with this is, as we pointed out in the piece, the compounds used were pretty simple and the synthetic procedures were rudimentary, which actually gave us even more pause because typically giant leaps of science don't usually arise from what we call kitchen chemistry, such as this. But on the other hand, the fact that it was so straightforward meant that others would very quickly be able to test whether the results were real. And then the fourth question is the scientific context. And here, we've had example after example of such claims falling flat, data being retracted. Sometimes it's fraud. Most often, it is misunderstanding of the phenomenon. And so, especially, you know, the equivalent would be claims of battery breakthroughs. You know, we've written another piece on this as well. There's certain fields where the prize is so high that the weaknesses of the scientific method as practice in the modern era are really on display. And the pursuit of a room temperature superconductor would be one of those. And then the last question is what should we expect next, which is exactly what has transpired. A bunch of people tried to reproduce it. Nobody has been able to do so. It appears as though experts have studied the preprints and their own experimental work and have come up with explanation an alternative for the phenomenon that was witnessed. And as we said in our verdict, nobody would be more thrilled to see these results validated than us. But we found ourselves deeply skeptical. The last point I would say is the leap was too far, the method is too simple, and the process too premature to get excited. And I think that was a good view at the time. So is their project dead or are they still working on it? Well, the problem with making such a hyperbolic claim is that it becomes difficult for people to continue to pursue the work. And there's really not that much to pursue here if the reinterpretation of the data is as the scientific community seems to be coalescing on. Because it's just not that interesting of a discovery. And so, you know, back to the drawing board. We were going to write a follow -up piece called What If. It's one of these pieces that was sort of written in my head that never saw the light of day because by the time we would have gotten it published it would have seemed a bit silly. But if this had been true, even if it was a small component or a minor byproduct, the state of industrial heterogeneous synthesis using high throughput techniques is such that the big companies would have obliterated this experimental map across all dimensions. Concentration, oxygen, temperature ramp, you name it. They would have done thousands and thousands and thousands of experiments. They would have found the exact molecule that worked. And that it can work itself is a gigantic discovery. And so if one can work, it would have taken weeks for the industry to isolate an entire family of these things, then the theory would have caught up to it very quickly. And there would have been something about these things that teaches theory something interesting, which then would very quickly inform the synthetic chemists as to how to optimize and create. It would have been, you know, like how the first person to break the four -minute mile and suddenly everybody does it. That this would have been one of those situations where raw the power of the high throughput synthesis discovery workflows in the big multi -deca billion -dollar chemical companies would have made short work of this, would have optimized it very quickly. There would have been no barriers to, no meaningful barriers to commercialization because materials involved were so simple and so widely available that cooking them in a certain unique way is of no challenge whatsoever to the industry. So if there was even a possibility that this had once worked, that would have been game -changing, but it doesn't look that way, unfortunately. What is the general state of scientific research and peer reviews? Because there was a period, certainly post -COVID, where this has been hotly debated and the trust the science mean was spreading quite regularly with people just having vast doubts about peer -review studies and the peer -review process. What have you looked at into that, or is that just... Oh, there's a huge ongoing retraction scandal in the scientific world, and as we said in the piece, you know, peer review on its own doesn't mean that this is fundamentally accurate science. It still needs to be reproduced in other labs for it to really go from an observation to, say, an accepted theory or accepted experimental set of results. But the state of modern science is poor right now, and it's because it is performed by humans who are susceptible to the hype cycle, the need for funding.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Trump pleads not guilty at arraignment for 2020 election indictment
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at hughforhillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning Glory America, I am Hugh Hugh, but I'm not there today. I am off for the next few days flying with grandkids. And so I just want you to know before they go away, and I'm not counting down the hours that they leave, and I'm really sad that they're going to be leaving. Really, I am sad. I love them to death, and they got to go to the other side of the world, and it would be a while till I see them. So I'm taking a couple of days with them. I did pre -record Dr. Larry Oren on the Trump indictment yesterday, so we do have him standing by coming up in hour three. But for the first two hours, General Isham, I thank you, Dwayne, for taking on over the load today. Take it away. Thank you. Thank you, Hugh Hewitt, Dwayne Patterson, in for Hugh today. And on Monday, we've got lots of news. It's just another summer day of politics in the Beltway. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a four -count indictment and arraignment of a former president, growing corruption involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and the fact that the Devin Archer testimony from this week was released showing that Joe Biden has been lying to you every day of his life about his involvement and culpability in the Hunter -Biden affair. There's all sorts of stuff breaking today. We will have that for you as the program progresses. As Hugh said, in hour three, Dr. Larry Oren will be joining Hugh for the Hillsdale Dialogue. And if you remember back to 2015 and 2016, Dr. Oren was one of the first people to say something is afoot here, and kind of put his finger on the pulse of a change of attitude when it came to the candidacy of Donald Trump and knew that the American people were ready for a change. And they kind of addressed that because at least half the country is just not happy with how things are going right now. They don't have trust in the federal agencies. They don't like the way the DOJ is selectively prosecuting. There is something afoot going on. And so a lot of that is discussed in hour three. I will be joined today by Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner to see how the Hill is reacting to both fronts, both the growing corruption scandals surrounding Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, plus congressional reaction to the arraignment of Donald Trump yesterday. Let's get right to it. Donald Trump was kind of bookend of the day, a little bit doing media. He was on the Simon Conway radio show yesterday morning before going to D .C. and had this to say, cut number one, Harley. I think it's a very dangerous thing to even talk about because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters. And I mean, maybe, you know, maybe 100, 150. I've never seen anything like it. Much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Is Tommy Tuberville the Dumbest Man in the U.S. Senate?
"Tuberville I think is the dumbest man in the United States Senate and I'm gonna say that until he stops holding the American military hostage I agree with him on the policy but not promoting anybody in the military from oh six to hire because he wants his chain is about the dumbest way it's like driving to Maine from Vermont via Canada it's the dumbest thing I've seen what do you think well I'll have to voice my my brother major dominance is opinion here and and just say that he doesn't give a line flip about it and in fact thinks that you know there's no actual operational problem with it he thinks that everybody's making a tempest out of it because these are the types of individuals who tend to have political connections and tend to be able to play this up one thing that I think is really interesting about about this though and I'm thinking of maybe profiling Tuberville I've written a profile I hope you've read of Mark Wayne Mullen some of these newer folks who aren't really known quantities yet I know a lot of people are surprised that he didn't sort of back off this earlier and it indicates to me that this is something where I think he's a little bit rogue in terms of the oh he's way possible but you got to go back to major dominance he's a no for and I got a 2003 in my family you know six in my family I got no one involved in this but they tell me all these general officers have got families they're all screwed up on their orders they're not getting their pay raises and their billets aren't being filled or they're being filled in a temporary basis and it really does have a snake -like effect and it's got no impact whatsoever on whether or not the NDA gets out of the house now it's in the abort the abortion ban or the travel abortion ban is in the NDA now I can't isn't this a good time to declare victory I have to say another another example of an area where you know people doubted that that was going to turn out to be that way but then the house held together I mean these Republicans the house it just it's the as much as the mainstream media frames them as being at each other's throats all the time about things they sure do seem to hold together with great frequency but you know I personally I think that you know this is something that's going to resolve itself but one thing that I did find of interest during the whole Tuberville thing was that when he was talking about you know was most recently you know I think this is two weeks ago so maybe that's changed but he he made the point that no one in the White House had talked to him no one in the White House had talked to him that they've not reached out that's an echo of Newt Gingrich having to get off the Air Force one from the back Airstat
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
John Kerry's Illegal Shadow Diplomacy Exposed
"Released yesterday the story that it had foiled more than 50 attacks Iran had intended to carry out against Israeli and other Jews across the world in recent years Defense Minister Gallant said in a visit to Azerbaijan yesterday so I'm thinking to myself why in the world do we do anything with them why would you want to be in the same room but they're all killers turns out John Kerry was on the hill yesterday the John Kerry I served in Vietnam John Kerry was on with Michael Walt's congressman who pressed him on the fact that John Kerry not only dealt with the Iranians while he was president Biden's secretary of state he dealt with the Iranians when he was out of office and he continues to deal with the Iranians and that's illegal by the way conducting diplomacy in the name of the United States and so Michael Walt's grid and give earth him here's the congressman and John Kerry yesterday this is cut number nine would you find it appropriate if a former Trump administration official traveled around and talked to the same officials you are and said you don't have to abide by these agreements hold fast till 2024 a new regime or a new administration may be coming in and therefore undermining current administration diplomacy would you find that appropriate I'm not going to speak to any hypotheticals but I can tell you I never engaged in shadow diplomacy undermines American goals shadow diplomacy depending on what involved shadow diplomacy has also saved us from a war if you look at 1963 with Jack with the Cuban missile crisis it was behind the scenes back to me I would say I would I would posture that your shadow diplomacy now has us on the bird I wasn't acting out of diplomacy I was at a security that is now exploding as they race towards full enrichment from twenty percent to sixty percent on the verge of having a nuclear weapon and a nuclear arms raid in the Middle East and the reason that has happened is that Donald Trump pulled out of the other administrations the reason that happened my friend is because Donald Trump pulled out of that agreement there was no way they could have had a nuclear weapon under the agreement that existed and even in Israel the security establishment of Israel believe that agreement had done the job at your you know President Trump just pulled out chair now recognizes mr. Schneider you know what's fascinating about that is John Kerry first says I didn't do it then he says we did it during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963 wrong year mr. Kerry
Encyclopedia Womannica
Influential Educators: Fanny Jackson Coppin
"Jackson coppin was born in eighteen. Thirty seven in washington. Dc she was born into an enslaved household fannies grandfather had managed to save up and by the freedom of four out of his six children. Fanny's mother was not among them as fanny recalls. in her autobiography. It was on account of her birth that her grandfather refused to buy her mother's freedom. So fanny remained enslaved until the age of twelve when her aunt bought her freedom for one hundred. Twenty five dollars after that fanny was sent off to new bedford. Massachusetts to live with the different ant by the age of fourteen fanny was fully supporting herself. As a paid servant in rhode island. She worked for author. George henry calvert household for six years during her time. They're fading used the money she earned to pay for tutoring and leader public schooling. It was at the rhode island state. Normal school where fanny. I realized her love for teaching and for making education accessible for all black people in eighteen. Sixty fanny enrolled in oberlin. College in ohio oberlin's courses were rigorous and it was the first college that accepted both black and women students while studying at oberlin. Fanny broke several glass ceilings. She was selected to join the highly coveted. Young ladies literary society. Fanny was the first black person chosen as a student teacher. She used this role to organize evening. Classes for newly freed people in her last year of college. Fanny was scouted by the institute for colored youth and philadelphia. The school was run by quakers who were in search of an african american woman who could teach greek latin and arithmetic officials at oberlin. Immediately new fanny would be perfect for the role. Fanny was an excellent teacher within a year. She was promoted to principal of the women's part of the school. Four years after that van became principal of the entire institute her position as such was extremely radical for the
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"new bedford" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"The roads. Let's bring in WBC's Laurie Grandi for an update what you're looking at, Lori. Well, Jeff, I gotta tell you, I got to give Boston drivers kudos. We are a hardy bunch out there. We've had a lot to deal with lately. Torrential downpours enlightening and the fog today and cats and dog In a couple of different spots route to East and one of them in the conquered stretch. Also, we had that crash on the Tobin Bridge just before the City Square tunnel That's now clear that's getting better for us. It's just looking up and up and up more coming up the traffic on the three. We'll talk to you soon, Laurie. Thank you. Beacon Hill is about to take a big leap. And efforts to treat K nine police officers with the same treatment on the job as their human counterparts. Now, the first hearing of what would become Nero's law gets underway today. It is named in honor of the arm of canine Nero, who was seriously wounded while on duty three years ago. Law currently forbids giving first aid and emergency treatment to police dogs. When hurt on the job. The push for Narrows law took off again after the recent killing of Braintree Canine officer Kit. The dog is going to be okay. But to people in New Bedford now face animal cruelty charges after a cocker spaniel is abandoned on the street, and it's all caught on video. This is one of those moments that may have gone unnoticed if cameras weren't in doorbells, But here we are. It happened in New Bedford. In the video. A woman opens the car door to let the dog out, then says, Take care buddy before eventually getting back in the car, which then drives away. Moments later, the dog is seen running down the sidewalk all alone in the direction of the car. Mat Shearer WBZ Boston's news radio New this morning, Pope Francis is back at the Vatican after being discharged from a hospital. In Rome. Reports are that he was seen exiting a vehicle at the Vatican earlier today and the move back towards his recovery at home comes 10. Days after undergoing intestinal surgery a summer vacation fun is turning into a summer of pain in the pocketbook. CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas says prices arising faster than the temperature hotel rooms are returning to pre pandemic pricing. Of 36% on average, in.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"new bedford" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"This is WBC news radio. Good morning to you on this beautiful Monday. I'm Tina Gauer. Here are the five things you need to know. At 11 45 1 person is dead. Three more are injured after four separate shooting incidents last night in Boston. No word yet of any arrests, the investigations and the manhunt ongoing. Former state representative Jeff Deal is now the first declared Republican candidate in the 2022 race for governor of Massachusetts. A man and women are both dead after a single car crash last night in New Bedford. At least 50 people are dead in the Philippines after a military transport plane crashed and burst into flames yesterday. Boston and the nation celebrating the Fourth of July last night. Tradition was broken last year because of the pandemic. Now, the fireworks that normally the Pops concert were fired off in Boston from a corner of the common and the Boston Pops, performing its fourth of July concert before a crowd in the thousands of Tanglewood. In Lenox That's in western Massachusetts, rather than at the hat shell along the Charles River this year and in our nation's capital fireworks, they're lighting the night sky over the nation's capital. Earlier, President Biden he hosted 1/4 of July party, quoting the Declaration of Independence. During his remarks, Mr Biden is also calling for everyone to get vaccinated as quickly as possible so that everyone in the country can be as safe as possible. He's calling for everyone to come together. And love and kindness Every single day we hold these truths to be self evidence. All people are created equal. Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights among them Life, liberty,.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"new bedford" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Lot of traditional Independence Day fireworks won't happen this year. But authorities are preparing for possible record crowd in a lot of areas, communities that are going to throw big parties. Case in point aims. Berry Here's WBC's candle. Buell, the largest turnout aims. Berry is seen in the history of its Fourth of July celebration today to 7500 people this weekend. Acting police chief Craig Bailey's expecting up to twice that. That presents a major public safety challenges that Bailey says first responders are ready for. We have never put this much planning into one single event in the history of Amesbury. We've never had this many. Law enforcement firefighters, EMS personnel emergency management personnel in one area at one time, So I'm feeling incredibly confident that it's gonna be a great event aims Birds getting a hand from the northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council incident management team, it will be providing a unified command for the small army of various first responders tasked with keeping an expected record breaking crowd. Safe and happy from James Berry, Kendall Bill WBZ Boston's NewsRadio voting remains a big business coming on the heels of last year's boost in sales during the pandemic, and officials Reminding everyone practice safety during this busy holiday weekend As America prepares to celebrate the July 4th weekend, many of us will do so on the water in many cases, an indirect result of the pandemic when the demand to buy recreational boats went way up. Even now, some boat dealers are reporting no inventory and finding a slip in the marina has become difficult. But with the boom in new or inexperienced voters have come some sobering statistics. The U. S. Coast Guard reports that boating fatalities have increased 25% over 2019. And the total number of recreational boating accidents rose 26%. The main contributing factor in the fatal accidents, alcohol and the second biggest cause failures of boat owners to get proper training. Drownings were the leading cause of death, and then 86% of those cases while the boats themselves may have had life jackets on board. The victims were not wearing them. Peter Greenberg, Travel editor. CBS News Another strong jobs report yesterday from the Labor Department employers adding 850,000 jobs in June, which was well above Expectations. Brian Deese of the National Economic Council says the new numbers Callus strong story about wages. Average hourly earnings were up 3.6% over the year. And if you take out the pandemic, some of the some of that movements in the pandemic that we've seen the largest three month increase in wages on record, the overall unemployment rate did rise slightly to 5.9%. A wake and funeral held yesterday for retired state Trooper David Greene, one of two black people who were fatally shot during a shooting rampage last week. In Winthrop, Dozens of state troopers joined family and friends of Green for awakened funeral service. Green served in the air force before his 36 year career in law enforcement, including as a state trooper. A funeral for Ramona Cooper, a retired Air Force veteran, will be held Tuesday. In East Boston. The family says her funeral will be private. Suffolk County D. A. Rachel Rollins has called the attack a hate crime. The gunman, Nathan Allen, killed by police. State and local police are investigating the discovery of a homemade explosive device at a home in New Bedford. It was found near the front door of a home on Mosher's street. Navy bomb squad had to be called in from Newport, Rhode Island to safely detonate the device, Bedford police asking anyone with information to contact them unsafe conditions, forcing the evacuation of residents at a condominium building in North Miami Beach. 156 unit Crest View Towers is a few miles from Surfside or a condo tower collapsed last week, City officials say an inspection Earlier this year found structural and electrical problems in the crest View towers. Silvio Martinez among the residents evacuated. My apartment is in very good condition. I seen the whole I.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Medina Spirit Treated With Ointment Containing Anti-Inflammatory Drug
"Like you're an update to the saga of a horse on steroids at the Kentucky Derby Bomb. Bedford is changing his story. The trainer of Medina Spirit now says the horse was treated with an anti fungal ointment, which does contain the steroid Bethune methadone. That's the drug that was detected in the post race drug test. Bamford earlier said he had no idea how the drug might have gotten into the horse's system. Connect be mean. Treat him or that we don't even use that. The ointment is commonly used on some horses, but is a violation in Kentucky if detected on race
WBZ Midday News
Biden Says He Will Bring U.S. Troops Home From Afghanistan
"Analyzed this year. 5000 police field incident Resident reports bonding is from pulling 2015 all U. to 2020. S troops out of They Afghanistan found that 46% by not of 11, them involved black saying it's citizens. time to end New America's Bedford Mayor John longest Mitchell says war. the city will closely The head review of the CIA this report weighed and in take at whatever a Capitol steps are Hill necessary hearing earlier, to I'm ensure Cam E that McCormick. policing in New I think Bedford we have to is be clear evenhanded. eyed about the reality. Looking at the potential It is 1 terrorism 50, challenge. the pushes CIA on again Director to William make Burns the Lone said Both Star Isis state and Al Qaeda would the like next to rebuild constitutional their presence, He said The carry threat was kept state in check 21. by the U. Other S states led forces already allowed when nearly the time unrestricted comes for gun the U. ownership S military and Texas to Republican withdraw Party chair Alan The U. West S government's wants this ability to be the next to one. collect Do you do not and need act a mother mayor on from threats the government of will Texas diminish that to have simply the fire effect. on? Did But you he have said a right the U. S to keep will retain and bear. capabilities But the idea faces that will help criticism detect from any
Doug Stephan
Justin Fairfax Accuses Terry McAuliffe of Treating Him Like Emmett Till
"The old governor who's planning on running for governor again, and Justin Fairfax, the rapists lieutenant governor whose star rose in the Democrat Party after being Repeatedly accused of rape very credibly by women. He became more popular in the Democrat Party and yesterday just in Fairfax is black. And he accused Terri make awful of treating him like George Floyd. And he brought Emmett till into it, too remarkable stuff. These people, the racism that these people spread is just and keeping in mind. They're the party of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest in the clan. They're the party of everything awful every racial stain in the history of the country. Bull Connor and Orval Faubus and George Wallace and Robert Byrd and the Oh
WBZ Afternoon News
Mass. Man Charged With Murder of Girlfriend on Maine Beach, Police Say
"From Bedford, Mass. Is facing murder charges accused of publicly beating his girlfriend to death in Maine. WBC. Sherry Small has more beach goers were shocked. They say they witnessed a man in broad daylight assaulting a woman on short Sands Beach in York, Maine. It happened on Friday. Maine State police say it about four p.m. 911 call started flooding in reporting The alleged assault 33 year old Jeffrey Buchanan of Bedford is accused of beating his girlfriend to death behind a large rock. On the beach. Police found 35 year old Rhonda pad Alina dead Behind that rock. Buchanan was arrested and charged with her murder. Police say that the two are domestic partners who live in Bedford and have a child together. The medical examiner determined that Catalina died from blunt force trauma to the head.
WBSM 1420
"new bedford" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"Mark Levin. It sounds like he's Mark Levin radio show. So glad to be back on 14, 20 WBS and New Bedford Donald Trump, the only one who faces endless scrutiny. Why is Donald Trump the only one who had to deal with a criminal investigation? Capitol Hill is filled with sleazeballs, self serving, self dealing sleazeballs. And it's timely root them all out, and we give him a little bit of their own medicine. That's my own view. You know? After I heard what McConnell said about the former president. Shocking Shocking. What? To myself. Now. Here's a guy. Who married into a family that has all kinds of deals going on with the communist Chinese regime. He's made a fortune. How is it that nothing touches him? That would be enough. Of unleashed a special counsel against the president, United States Donald Trump. So if McConnell really wants to pursue these battles, then that's engaged. That's fine by me. I have no problem with it whatsoever. He has been undermining conservatives. For over a decade, he and his mouthpiece of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. His friends had politico. His cherry pick, so called reporters at the Washington Post and elsewhere. You spend around a long time just like buy, You know, Here's the other thing I was thinking. McConnell's almost 80. It is almost 80. Pelosi's almost 80. Humor. Can you check that out? Mr Producer Now the whole world's Google. You want to see a whole how old he is. There's no No blood. New faces. It's He 70. Well, he looks like he's 112. All right. Whatever. 70. Are you kidding me? He's an old 70, that's for sure. Whatever happened to 50, year olds and 45 year olds and 60 and 65 year olds. In positions of leadership. So these fools these old nasty, angry evil power hungry before moons there in these positions. And nobody Nobody could replace them because they've been around so long. They know how to hold on to power, their like mobsters. Like Washington is run by by a fiefdom of of mobsters. If you go there is a conservative. You're the joined the mob family or they try to destroy you. Donald Trump would have none of this. None of it. So the mob The mobsters. Organized repeatedly against him. I don't understand if Mitch.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"new bedford" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"4 95 into Attleboro. Oh, on the expressway south running about 40 minutes from the tunnel down to the Braintree split my king WBC's traffic on the three we get the four day I could weather forecast now. Really? Just today. Worried about right this minute. Bob Larson is with us, and we've got the snow continuing to fall and still a few bands of some heavier precipitation buried in here. Yeah. Yeah, we do. It's a studies Don't fall throughout. In some cases, moderate to heavy stuff of visibility still down. Some cases come back up to bile. But in most cases still below a bio about a half mile, so stop to see in the snow continues to fall across the area, and since we are in the twenties Snow is not really belting certainly where roads have been treated, it's become a little slushy, but that's an exception rather than the rule. The store will be ending early this evening. If fairly fast moving storm and then skies clear during the night what has managed to turn slushy today? Well turned icy. Tonight we dropped a lower 20 only recovered a 31 tomorrow, though I do believe we'll see some sunshine tomorrow. Very cold weather Thursday and Friday is we go through the rest of the week. More clouds inside, but probably dry, happy concerned earlier about another Snow event for the end of the week. That appears to stay to ourselves, But we'll continue to watch that eyes. What Thursday and Friday only in the twenties. Novak you Weathers, five bars WBZ, Boston's news radio still snowing across the much of the region. There's a little hole that's opened up in parts of southern New Hampshire and also down back towards near the New Bedford area and also in southern Connecticut. But still stone across the region. 27 degrees in Boston. The impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump continues in Washington. We can't possibly be suggesting that We punish people for political speech in this country..
WBSM 1420
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"He discovered the damage He calls it in, Um My captain at the North End station put out an email to all the offices they need. This incident happened. But that was that. Like 3 33 45 in the afternoon, right before I got my shift. Now they, the police chief for the mayor said on WB sm that they put out a bolo A be on the lookout for is that is that true, Hank? They did. That's the thing out tomorrow and he's retracted. They didn't put out of pain. Yeah, what they did was they put out a. They put out an electronic device message and hand can address this better than I can. But rather than put out a bolo that goes to all cars in the city. On the police radio and goes through all of the different police departments throughout the community. They didn't do that. What they did was they sent out electronic device message that went to only a handful of choirs that happened have computers in them. So the people I can't urgent. Do you think about work all day long? They have no knowledge that there's a guy out there over the gun. Potentially could be targeting them, and they went all day without this knowledge and into the evening shift, and the police chief says, Well, we can't let this information out because it would it would hamper our investigation. So that's why we didn't make it public. The chief insisted a bolo went out and we found out we were able to prove today that you didn't so he retracted that statement. But after we can't we can't get anybody to take any kind of responsibility. For what happened here in terms of trying to cover this up or or even that explain why Wouldn't be standard procedure. Hey, wouldn't be standard procedure, too. If somebody fires a gun at any kind of home and you have the license plate number, wouldn't wouldn't it be standard operating procedure for any police department to put out a bolo on this? I would say yes, There are certain circumstances where you don't put it over the air, and like I said on Barry show today is everybody has a scanner on their smartphone. Now you can download APS and everybody gets to hear it. And so this pertinent information. That the department doesn't want to share with the public. They consented to the terminals the card terminals and they can put the announcement out, saying, um, contact the station, so we just sent they below to the terminals. Check your cruises for information that way that caught that's on the detail. The, uh, the contents at home. I get a phone call agent here that what's that below? They stopped questioning. They'll find out what's going on. We've made some recommendations to the chief and how he could make sure this doesn't happen again. And how we can get that information out off. Tops is quickly for office and safety and he hasn't even had the decency to respond to us. We have the better so You have the license number of the car that the person who fired the shots at the police officers home. Was in. I mean, that should be pretty easy to run that down, right? So they did, and the detectives working. This case is several agencies involved. They did a fantastic job. The college recovered soon after that license plate was Was discovered from the video that people work in the case of doing a phenomenal job is the information sharing that's like said that You would then our feelings. This rep. Personal look, it Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Uh, phone is breaking up. But we'll talk to bury here. Very it. What is the local newspaper? The standard times doing with this? I assume they're splashing all over the front page. You mean you mean the bird feeder liner that they've done? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No other media touch this. There are two major issues here really short and sweet. How we number one that the decision was made to keep this from the public, which is which is an ongoing problem here, and the second problem is because of below was not issued. Police officers in the rank and file in New Bedford went to work all day long without knowledge that a gunman had attacked two police officers home and maybe I looking for them, and none of the surrounding towns were notified either. So that you know, this guy apparently drove from New Bedford through Dartmouth, through West Board and into fall River where he abandoned the car. None of these police departments were notified that they had a gunman potentially, you know, so so these people were left. Really out there with no knowledge. They could have been victimized by this guy, And then they had no knowledge that he was even on the on the on the lam out there and this is I mean, somebody needs to be responsible for this. Yeah. You know what the state police Trooper, the sergeant who was arrested by the after allegedly beating his girlfriend and Exeter, New Hampshire last weekend. You know he didn't fire his gun. I mean, he can't commit. He throttled his girlfriend, Eddie, they say was he may have been drunk, but but they put out a bolo on him. What he did as bad as it was was less serious than shooting into us into a police officer's home. I mean, this is crazy. Everything guys still on the loose damn crack after this guy. This guy is potentially a threat to any police officer in Massachusetts or wherever he may have wandered. You know, 100 days very loosely understand something against the police? So is Hank back on the line. Yes, it is. Can you get me? Okay. Now How? Hank, What do you say? The mayor for rough? What would you say to the mayor? If he were listening right now, if he is listening Well. When the mayor called very show, he said they purposely didn't release it to the public because there was no longer a threat. And I told Barry that's absolutely wrong. We haven't The guy's not in custody. How is it? Not a threat? Still, how do you not go to that neighborhood and say we're gonna have extra resource is which we have uniformed patrols all over that neighborhood. How does the mayor the chief not going? Tell that neighborhood you know we're watching out for you? One of your neighbors. One of our brothers in blue was attacked. This is attack on all of us. This is a attack on the In blue line, need that born of society, and he happens to live in your neighborhood. We're gonna help all of all of you through this, and they haven't done that. Mm. Wow. Well, listen, keep us informed about what's going on Barry and Hank and we appreciate it. Thanks for Thanks for your service, Hank. And this is this is really bad. They, you know, people. Cops need to know what's going on. And so does the general public. I mean, the guys running around shooting and shooting at a cop's home. I would want to know that And I think most of the citizens well, maybe if we reported that he wasn't wearing a mask, Maybe Charlie Parker would have sent a posse out looking for him. And now they would've found it by now, you know? That's the important thing. That's the important thing. And if he was out after curfew toe, that's the That's the other thing. You know, You know what? What's the curfew? Now? I forget. All right. Hank Turgeon, the president of the New Bedford Police Union, and very Richard, the host of WB, smr our affiliate in New Bedford, A and 14 20. We appreciate you being with us, and this is an good job. If the If the local newspaper's gonna drop the ball somebody's got it would pick up the slack. I'm.
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"It's considered a pretty big deal. Important news when a Police officer. Law enforcement officer is shot at or his home is shot at It's a very big news. If it goes out to everybody, including the department. They're looking for people that putting out a bolo of be on the lookout for etcetera, etcetera. Well last week in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A cops door, uh, was shot at when he was on duty was shot eight times. And the Police Department apparently decided not to release the news. And they didn't even put out much of a much of an alarm to their own department. And the story was broken by our affiliate in New Bedford, WBS M and the host Very Richard and the he got the information from cops, and it was confirmed by city counselors and the and police officers, and it's just It's just amazing that they they wanted to keep this secret. So joining us now on the line, we'll talk to bury Richard First the host. At our affiliate W B s M a. M. 14 20. Then we'll talk to the head of the New Bedford Police Union. Uh, Hank Turgeon is his name it just about this. Why? Why didn't the chief and the mayor have any interest in letting the public know what was going on? Berry. Richard. Good job breaking the story. First of all. That's how we appreciate you having me on. Tell me give us give our audience the details on on what happened that night. It was a week ago tonight, correct. Actually was a week ago this morning, and I'll give you a real quick thumbnail. But maybe 2 30 in the morning a week ago today Police officers apartment was fired upon now this police officer lived in a public housing unit. Okay, part of the community policing program, I think started under the Clinton years, right? Police officers move into public housing, and I guess they're supposed to foster a greatest sense of And, you know, respect and trust in that community involved. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So he's so he's up on duty doing a shift and about 2 30 in the morning, This car pulls up the police. Have videotape from a surveillance camera in the neighborhood. So this this car pulls up circles the block a few times guy gets out. You can see him on the videotape, dressed in dark clothes, walks up to the to the apartment walks around a little bit. Then boom unleashes eight shots into the apartment takes up so the police were able to capture on the surveillance camera, the car and the license plate. On that car. So here's the rest of the story. Nobody called in and reported this. None of the neighbors called then the shot spotter in the neighborhood that's supposed to pick up the sounds of gunfire never recorded. The sounds of gunfire, so nobody called the police. It wasn't until the officer came home from his shift at about 7 38 o'clock. He noticed the damage any called the detectives on the telephone, so this never went out. On the police radio. There was never you know, all cars go to this this location of up above the bus, so there's no traffic there, so the detectives responded to the scene and A decision was made somewhere along the line by police Chief Joseph Cordero and and the mayor of the city, New Bedford, John Mitchell, not to tell the public about this Now. This is not unusual here. Crime stories generally swept under the carpet, the Mayor is more interested in the image of the city. And I think perhaps sometimes of themselves as well and doesn't like this kind of news to get out bad news. Not good for business, I guess right? Not good for tourism. So it's some point. How many tourists are going to the way it is wailing Museum even open, But if it is how many people to go into the whaling Museum where the the scenic You know what Downtown area or going to a public housing project. Well, this thing you've ever really undertaken a real strong and solid renaissance and revival in the past few years. Unfortunately, the pandemic Has impacted it has it has many other communities. Nice restaurants, shops downtown, and they stopped coming to get it. You know, over the years, the city backwards getting a lot of bad press. The only time the Boston media comes down here. What kind of where you look kind of like, long direct between Providence in Boston, So we get covered by the province Media. The Boston media when there were murders when there were crimes, whether bad things negative. Thanks. So there's really not A lot of good press coverage. Well, I tell you, the commissioner, the commissioner in Boston, William Grassi, just quit the last week. He wouldn't He wouldn't. Absolutely be out of the police shooting and he would be there conducting of the press conference himself. You'd be there for most shootings, period, but especially a police shooting. It's crazy Commissioner should be in the mayor should be as well. Let me let me let me bring in Hank. Let me bring in Hector Jin the he's the president of the New Bedford Police Union. Hank Turgid. Thanks for being with us here on the how weak our show. What? What's the problem here with the reaction of the City administration? How we Thanks Pat me on the show. And before I jump right into that I need to thank that we'd be assembly ery riches and Chris McCarthy for breaking this story without them. Obviously, we wouldn't be on your show and The mayor and the chief would be hiding crime stats in the city like they've been doing for the last couple of years. We've been trying to point it out and Just haven't gotten any traction. So why? Why? When did you find out about this, Hank? So I worked the four to midnight shift. It's called The Sea Shift in the evening of this incident happened there saying 2 33 o'clock in the morning. Theo officer had a detail. After his shift ended at eight o'clock, He went home to get a change of clothes..
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"The biggest stories on the South Coast from the WB, sm Standard Marine True value newsroom this'll he's W B. S. M News. A New Bedford man with a long criminal history is now accused of taking part in an unsuccessful bank robbery. Police say 51 year old David ready of 6 29 Purchase Street went up to a teller yesterday and passed a note demanding money before running off without any cash. It happened at the Santander Bank at 1 28. Union Street press release from the New Bedford Police Department did not make it clear when where or if the man was arrested. A fall River fentanyl dealer with ties to a bigger operation has been sentenced to up to five years in prison. 42 year old Charles Belisle of Koval Street appeared before a Superior Court judge on Thursday where he pleaded guilty to drug charges. Belisle was one of 16 alleged fentanyl dealers taken down in late 2019 in a law enforce Investigation known as Operation Most Trap. The initial target of that investigation was 41 year old Fall River native Michael Rabello Ah Massachusetts State cop accused of violently assaulting his girlfriend in Exeter, New Hampshire over the weekend, then fleeing from local police at a high rate of speed in his Ford F. 1 50 has been ordered held without bail. Trooper Brian Erickson was arraigned on assault charges in the Granite State state. Police say Erickson has been relieved of duty. He has a hearing coming up this week, Dartmouth will be getting another covert 19 vaccination site, South Coast health will be setting up a clinic at the old VF outlet on Fonts Corner Road. Clinic will start serving residents age 75 older on February 9th with other groups to follow as they become eligible. In addition, the town of Dartmouth is setting up a clinic at the High school and some CVS pharmacies in the region will also start administering the shot. Former New Bedford mayor Fred Kayla's has been laid to rest. It was a beautiful ceremony celebrated by Father Mike Racine. That's Mayor John Mitchell. Kayla's died last week at the age of 63. After coming down with covert 19. He was mayor of New Bedford from 1998 to 2006 and went on to serve the community in many other ways. This morning's funeral was small and private, but a public celebration of the man's life will be held when it is safe to do so. In sports. The Celtics tip off against the Sacramento Kings tonight. Here's ABC six meteorologist. Chelsea praised Mostly cloudy outside this afternoon. Some scattered flurries still possible, with temperatures topping out in the mid thirties, much less.
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"The way into dead him and the expressway is the real surprise this afternoon. It's really not bad, either way between the tunnels. And the brains re split my king WBC's traffic on the three how the four day AccuWeather forecast meteorologist Bob Larson is with us. The snow keeps coming down and where it's going to keep coming down. It's gonna pile up on Or that a foot and then we'd be talking a lot with good reason about the snow or the snow and rain. Of course, the wind. But one thing I wanted to mention and not neglect is the fact that these persistent and strong onshore winds Will likely lead the coast of flooding during each high tide cycle. Ah, coastal Flood Advisors in effect from 11 o'clock tonight and so four PM tomorrow but back to the snow. It is going to be falling heavily at times too much of the night and least across the interior in the city pretty much anywhere along the coast. Wanna see sleet and rain mix in. It's already going over to rained out over the Cape. Total accumulations 6 to 12 inches, the city more than a foot out beyond 4 95, but less than three inches out on the cave that includes whatever snowfalls that the back side of the storm when the rain changes back to snow. Late tomorrow afternoon and two more evening exceptionally windy tonight with gusts of 50 and not 60 MPH that can cause down trees as well as down power lines. I'm Banky Weathersby Barson WBZ Boston's news radio Right now it is 29 degrees with snow in Bedford in New Bedford. It is 34 but still hanging onto the snow. Fitchburg 27 with snow in 34 degrees. In Boston. Well, it's spent a snow day and it will be a snow night and some people can just stay home when it snows, But WBC's match you're caught up with some who don't get snow days on days like this. You're lucky if you can work from home. Kelly from Wester. Not so lucky. I'm a store manager at Lids and Natick Mall. Why would someone go hat shopping in this weather? It's the book in years. Buccaneers this look in his eye. I don't even know Buccaneers existed. So everyone wants a book in years. I felt well, I can think of one super big reason for that. Still, Kelly almost didn't make it to work at all. My car was buried in snow had toe take over to get my mom's car. It's bad, and I'm sorry to say that her traffic report is Justus bleak. There's no plows. No one's cleaning the street. Nothing. So it's a free for all. Basically, At least she's got the hookup on Red Sox hats, right? I'm a Yankees fan. That's it. Last year. WBZ Boston's News Radio Five best notice screech from saved by the bell. Dustin Diamond, died today after just a three week battle with lung cancer. He had got to the hospital in early January. And that's when he was diagnosed with stage four cell carcinoma Dustin Diamond 44 years old. He's a legendary singer. Now we're the Tony Bennett's battling Alzheimer's disease. 18 time Grammy winner Tony Bennett has been battling Alzheimer's disease for four years. His wife, Susan Benedetto, broke the news to CBS this morning anchor Gayle King. He never wanted the audience to know if he had a problem. But obviously you know, as long as things have progressed, it.
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"Confirmation hearing, a number of those questions had to do with the nation's fishing industry. Ra Mondo is President Joe Biden's picked to be the nation's next commerce secretary. In New Bedford, The City Council's property committee meets tonight they will vote yea or nay on the land transfer that's necessary to create an advanced manufacturing campus on Hathaway Road. The campus would take over part of what's now the whaling City golf course, and the golf course would be reconfigured. Mayor John Mitchell has been boosting the project, citing tax revenue and jobs. However, opposition to the project has arisen. We'll let you know what happens tonight. A former New Bedford police officer is headed to prison on a federal child pornography charge Paul Hodson of a cushion it was arrested back in 2019 following a federal investigation. At the time of his arrest. He was home with his wife and child. New Bedford police chief Joseph Cordero issued a statement saying he's pleased Justice was served with a six year sentence. Spokeswoman said there is no evidence that police Department computers were used. Governor Charlie Baker has announced changes to the state's covert 19 vaccination rollout plan beginning February 1st residents 75 older will become eligible and people 65 older will come next. Along with people who have to high risk medical conditions, Those groups will be bumped up in priority over teachers. Today. Unions representing educators said they were stunned with one representative saying it's just like the hunger games taunting man faces drug trafficking charges after a state trooper pulled him over on route 24 in Freetown on Sunday afternoon, a trooper stopped a red Nissan Murano saying 24 year old Tyler Stavro was going 80 in a 65 and talking on his cell phone. Trooper said Stavro had a big bag of fentanyl on his person and was driving without a license. He was due to be arraigned at Fall River District Court. Tonight at seven. Governor Charlie Baker delivers his annual state of the Commonwealth address. That speech will be televised and streamed on the Web in sports. The Celtics beat the Bulls. They're up against the San Antonio Spurs tomorrow night. The Bruins host the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight and again on Thursday..
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"A child or foster care child may be eligible for up to $1100 in additional recovery, rebate credit for more visit Jackson, you it Oh, the biggest stories on the South Coast from the W B S M newsroom Here's Mary Cirez. FIS. Hes W B S. M NEWS. Ah former New Bedford police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison for child porn. Paul Hudson was arrested at his a cushion at home. Back in 2019. Investigators found hundreds of child pornography files on his computer. The arrest followed an undercover investigation. WBS M has asked New Bedford police chief Joseph Cordero for comment. In New Bedford Parallel products has submitted its final environmental impact report that opens up a window for public comment. The material processor in the far North and plans, a recycled glass processing facility, a municipal solid waste handling and processing facility and a bio solids drying facility. People now have the right to submit comment to the state up until March, 26th The state says it will issue a decision on the controversial project on April 2nd governor Charlie Baker today announced a new list of places where people will soon be able to get their covert 19 vaccinations, including Dartmouth High School, The state is still stuck in phase one of its vaccine distribution priority list. Face, too, was supposed to start February 1st people over the age of 65 or being bumped up in line a bit. They will now get the shots after people who are 75 older. The state has been lagging in getting shots into people's arms, according to a report by The Boston Globe. Fair Haven could be on its way to getting its first town charter. Ah local civics group is pushing for the idea. Fairhaven forward needs to gather more than 1700 signatures to put the question on the ballot on April 5th. If approved, it would launch a lengthy process involving plenty of debate. The city of New Bedford will receive $825,000 to combat gang violence. The money will cover direct community outreach and youth mentoring, according to a press release from state. Rep. Tony to brawl, he said it was a community safety initiative Grant announced by Lieutenant Governor Karen Polito. In sports. The Boston Celtics will take their nine and six record into a matchup tonight with the Bulls in Chicago. The Bruins face the Penguins tomorrow night and Thursday at home and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is heading back to the Super Bowl for the 10th time in his career. Brady in the Bucks beat the Packers 31 to 26 Sundays and F C championship game at Lambeau Field to punch their ticket. Here's ABC six meteorologist Chelsea Priest. Many of sunshine outside this afternoon temperatures themselves or seasonable, but it's breezy, which makes this feel much cooler.
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"The biggest stories on the south Coast from the WB. GSM standard Marine True Value newsroom face. He's W B. S. M news. Yet another member of the New Bedford Latin Kings has copped a guilty plea in federal court yesterday, Michael Cotto, known as King Gordo admitted before a judge to a Rico conspiracy charge. Prosecutors say he was particularly violent and engaged in horrendous beatings of rival gang members and those who were suspected of being informants. He's number 30 of 62 people swept up in the massive operation thrown down indictment to plead guilty. Kado was a high ranking member as a former regional officer in Massachusetts. To New Bedford men have been busted for allegedly stealing up to $100,000 worth of goods from a low store in Wareham, where him detectives were contacted by lows after they suspected a man contract it to clean. The store had been stealing merchandise and transporting it to New Bedford yesterday, police raided a storefront on a cushion it as in New Bedford, where they allegedly found $20,000 worth of stolen goods. 46 year old Oscar Ortiz and 34 year old Eric Ramos face serious charges. A New Bedford couple have been indicted for federal unemployment fraud, Prosecutors say. Tiffany Pacheco was hired by the Massachusetts D'you a last year despite the fact that she had just been released from federal prison for aggravated identity theft. They say she used her job at the unemployment agency to create fraudulent claims for herself and her husband, Arthur, who was incarcerated at the time in Texas. A couple have remained in custody since their arrest back in December. It's the end of an era tartans, now vacant. Silver City Galleria will be torn down in February. Developer Billy Tebow has told taunting Mayor Shauna O'Connell about his plans. The mall first opened in 1992. But since then mall culture has taken a dive. The property was sold it foreclosure auction in 2019 for 7.5 million. O'Connell said she hopes the property will be put to good use for economic development and jobs. In sports. The Celtics have their rematch against the 70. Sixers tonight in Philadelphia. The Bruins are hoping for two in a row as they go up against the Flyers again tomorrow, and Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are headed for their NFL Conference championship game Sunday against the Green.
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"804 01 66 81 804 01 66 81 or take the free skin at reputation, defender Dhaka No. The biggest stories on the south Coast from the WB. GSM standard Marine True Value newsroom face. He's W B S M news. In a rare move, the mayor of New Bedford is publicly expressing a beef with the Baker administration this morning, Mayor John Mitchell took to Twitter to express dismay that residents of southeastern Mass will have no convenient access to the states. Covert 19 vaccination sites. The closest one is Gillette Stadium, and that's It's from my house in the West end. That's about a 15 minute drive. I'm zero, Mitchell told WBS Simsbury, Richard that once again, the cash strapped cities of New Bedford and Fall River are being regarded as an afterthought by Beacon Hill. The state has identified numerous sites in the Boston Wooster in Springfield areas, but none on the South Coast and none on the Cape. Mitchell said he's working with Lieutenant Governor Karen Polito to fix the situation. And courtroom news. The jury trial of former fall River Mayor Chase All Korea has been moved to March 16th. It was supposed to be held in February. Korea faces multiple fraud charges and, among other things, is accused of extorting money from marijuana vendors who wanted to do business with the city. Two people were arrested on firearms charges after fleeing from police and Brockton and crashing their Mercedes Benz into a telephone pole that happened around 2 A.m.. This morning, Police arrested two young men, one from New York, one from Brockton. They found two loaded nine millimeter handguns, one with no serial number, in addition to an armored vest and large capacity ammo A Massachusetts doctor has been sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over 3.5 kg of amphetamines. 58 year old Leslie Kerosene e of Uxbridge appeared in federal court this week. It's alleged that a few years back kerosene he conspired with two other women to distribute Adderall for no legitimate medical reason They were hosting office visits at 200 Bucks a pop and people could walk away with a prescription. Did more than 1500 times equaling over 100,000 pills, according to federal prosecutors. And fall River Covert 19 testing is moving to the parking lot of Bristol Community College. You will need to make an appointment to get those tests go to the states. Stop the spread website to make your appointment. In sports. The Boston Bruins.
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"On the South Coast from the WB SM Standard Marine true Value newsroom face. He's W B S M NEWS. NEW BEDFORD Mayor John Mitchell is lashing out at the Baker Administration for its failure to make mass covert 19 vaccination sites available to the residents of southeastern Mass. You know what I saw this today? I'm like, you gotta be kidding. The state unveiled a map showing the nearest site for people on the South Coast to get their shots is in Foxboro at Gillette Stadium. There are no vaccination sites at all. On Cape Cod. Mitchell said he is working with Lieutenant Governor Karen Polito in an effort to remedy the situation, he said the cash strapped cities of New Bedford and Fall River which are covert 19 hot spots should not be regarded as an afterthought by Beacon Hill. Westport man accused of choking a two month old baby that he and his husband were planning to adopt, has been ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation. 32 year old Stephen K. G's was arrested Tuesday afternoon after the baby boy landed at Boston Children's Hospital. Police say they procured home video that shows the assault kgs appeared in court in Fall River this morning. Big changes are afoot at the port of New Bedford Port Authority executive director Ed and Thas Washburn will be leaving for a job in the private sector. Washburn is joining Crowley Maritime, a major shipping and logistics company. You can read that story on WBS m dot com. Governor Baker has vetoed a wide ranging climate and energy bill. The bill was the product of months of debate, and it emerged one day before the end of the legislative session, Baker said As written, it would hurt the economic recovery leaders on Beacon Hill are expressing dismay and vowing to resubmit the bill in the new session. Freak over 19 testing in Fall River is starting up in the parking lot of Bristol Community College. The soft opening is Saturday. It's part of the state's stop The spread Initiative C I. C testing is running the program you do need to sign up beforehand. News comes as the state contracts for free community based testing run by seven hills and star come to an end on January 15th in sports. The Boston Bruins have started their new season with a victory on the road against the New Jersey Devils. Boston prevailed. 3 to 2. They play again Saturday, and the Celtics and the Magic will try again tonight. T d garden Mostly cloudy outside this afternoon with temperatures in the low to mid forties. It'll be tonight after midnight that we slowly start to see rain moving in from west to east through tomorrow.
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"S M news. New Bedford Mayor John Mitchell has tested positive for covert 19. Mitchell said he experienced mild symptoms over the weekend before his wife pressured him to get tested. The mayor told WBS Simsbury Richard, He is isolated in a room at home and getting lots of work done. Mayor said during the few indoor events he attended, he wore a mask and practice social distancing. I can't get away from me. I'll understand how I got it. Mitchell said. It serves as a reminder that it does not take much to catch the virus. The Fall River School Committee has voted to penalize Superintendent Matt Malone, and it's reported that his contract was amended in some way during executive session. It's not entirely clear what happened, but sources tell the Herald News that Malone was calling people inappropriate names back in August. Alone admitted to the newspaper that he quote behaved in a manner that disrupted the teamwork of our central office and hurt people's feelings. He said The school committee did the right thing by investigating complaints about his behavior, he said. He's embarrassed and sorry. And East Bridgewater Firefighter is charged with O UI and leaving the scene of a crash. Preston Clem of Rockland was behind the wheel of a Ford F 1 50 Tuesday afternoon when he allegedly hit a Honda pilot. Forcing a 35 year old driver off the road. Clem was arrested at his home in Rockland about a half hour later, he faces multiple charges. Ah, 32 year old Westport man is under arrest and accused of physically assaulting his two month old adopted infant. Stephen K. G's faces multiple charges and the baby is being treated at Boston Children's Hospital. K G's was ordered held and he's up for a dangerousness hearing on Friday. A resident of the Buttonwood Park Zoo has died. Ah Canada Lynx named Calgary passed away. Calgary was 20 years old. He was recognized as the oldest living Canada lynx in captivity. Cal was beloved by the zookeepers. In sports. The Celtics season remains on hold Their game last night against the Bulls in Chicago, was postponed due to covert 19 concerns. Boston's home game tonight against Orlando is also off the table. It's third postponement and good news. The NHL season begins today. Boston will skate against the Jersey Devils tomorrow night. Mainly sunny outside today, with temperatures topping out in the low forties, once again a few degrees above where we typically are for the middle part of January we had through tonight.
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"Good for you coming over the Tobin Bridge. We're still in good shape. In fact, on the lever connector down wrap. Laurie granted WBC's traffic of the three All right there. Laurie, A look now at the WBC four day AC You weather forecast temperatures in the twenties out there, but real fields in the teens. There's some bite. That cold air out there this morning. For this afternoon, we'll see sunshine and a high of 41 degrees out their lows back down into the twenties for tonight, heading towards the weekend highs into the upper thirties, so feeling cold out there below plenty of sunshine. A good breeze out there will make it feel even colder than it is, and then Monday, a high of 39 degrees will have plenty of sunshine as well. Right now. We're looking at 25 degrees in Newburyport. We're looking at 25 in New Bedford. Red 24 Holden in Boston right now, 28 of mostly clear it is 5 35 on WBZ news radio. Make this the best winter ever in a brand new all wheel drive 2021 Subaru Outback, starting at 26 7 95 with 0% financing for up to 63 months. Details at Subaru of New England dot com. Is it the end of an era? Well hold on a second settle down for just a moment. The iconic cow loon off Route one in Saugus, apparently in talks to get out of the food service business. But there is a whole lot to this WBC's James RoHaas is at the Calhoun this morning. Where apparently hell is freezing over? Good morning, James? Yes, say it ain't so, but owners of Calhoun are exploring the idea of turning the restaurant bar and party venue into commercial property. Ah Preliminary subdivision plan was presented to the Saugus Planning.
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"The lower decks. Take umbrage. Lever connectors OK in both directions, as are the river roads and airport tunnels. Kevin Brennan. WBC's traffic on the threes As Kevin mentioned, We do have that rain out there. Mostly South Shore South Coast. Seeing the rain right now, parts of the Cape and Islands. It's coming down in a pretty good clip, actually seeing some pretty heavy downpours making their way over the Cape Cod Canal. Little bit of a mix in some parts of the South Coast. Mattapoisett Fair haven New Bedford getting over into Lakeville in Middleborough, seeing some showers and awesome sleet. Maybe the occasional snowflake as well Now later on Throughout the rest of the day, we'll see these snow showers and rain showers Lingering throughout the afternoon, again, mostly south and east of the city. Could maybe see another round coming back into the city of Boston for the ride home later today, high today about 35. A little closer to 40 if you're right by the coast or tonight, mostly cloudy and cold, some more flurries and Sprinkles popping up in the city and points north and west. Maybe some steadier snow or rain showing up again tonight and tomorrow along the South Shore, the Cape, the South Coast. Low tonight about 32 twenties, well, inland and again watch out for those icy spots is everything freezes back over later on this week, but more sunny times, But it's really not going to warm up all that much. Ah, hi between 35 40. And we take a look ahead of course Friday into the weekend looking pretty dry. That's a plus. But again, not warming up too much. It is January and it's going to feel like that. We're 32 right now in Groton, 33 in Lawrence Singh 34 in Bridgewater. Right now, in Boston at 10 of five. It's 33 degrees. More than a million people made their way through the nation's airports yesterday, according to the T. S A. They say this was the highest checkpoint volume they've seen since the start of the pandemic back in March. People making their way home.