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A highlight from The Cause of Conversion
"Thank you gang, good morning everyone. Typically when I'm preparing a sermon I do my very best to make sure that it's balanced and here's what I'm looking for when I say balanced. There are lots of ways you can deliver a passage of the Bible and I'm trying my best to keep some parts of the sermon theological and some parts practical. If you aren't familiar with that first word, as I wasn't until I was like in my late teens, theological meaning I want us to think, I want us to think right thoughts about God. That's theology. And then practical, based on what we know about God, I want us to act. So a sermon, I try my best to balance them, theological thinking about God and practical acting on what we know about God. And yet when you go through the Bible, some parts of it are more one than the other. And that's okay, that's the way the Bible works. Today is going to be one of those messages that are a little bit more heavy on the theological side than the practical side. So on days like that you have to pray and you have to ask God, remember what Jesus said? We're supposed to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind. So I'm going to ask that God would grant a very attentive mind. Because I'm going to ask you to worship the Lord your God through the word with a mind that thinks right thoughts about God. So Lord, that's our goal. We want to think. You've given us a mind, a working mind to be able to think. It's unlike the animals who can't think didactically like we can, but we can rationalize. We can think in ways that honor you and we can think in ways that don't honor you. So I'm asking that you would grant first, that you would grant in this room a very attentive mind, that we would all aim our minds toward God to tune out other thoughts and to just spend a little time on a Sunday thinking about nothing else but the greatness of the glory and the beauty and the majesty of our great God. So help us now as we worship through the word to love you by thinking about you. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. We're in John chapter four. So if you have a Bible, grab it, open it, go to John. That's in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, fourth book of the New Testament and open to the fourth chapter. We're almost done with it, sort of almost done with it. We're about three quarters of the way through with it. Let me catch you up as you're tuning there. Jesus has been having a conversation with an immoral Samaritan woman, and no one wants to be around this woman, but Jesus did. And so he intentionally met her at the well. And boy, what a meeting they've had. John, the writer of this book, records the true historical account of what happened between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, and we've gone through most of it. Let me tell you what we've seen so far. Right now, Jesus has revealed certain things to this woman that she's gone away from this conversation knowing only one thing. She doesn't know about the cross, she doesn't know about the grave, she doesn't know about anything except she knows one thing. I met a man who told me everything there was to know about me. And she runs off and tells the townspeople, who she's going to in our passage today. She doesn't know about him being a savior yet. She just knows, I met a man who has the ability to tell me things that a mere man doesn't have. So she thinks, I just met a prophet. That's it. That's all she knows. Last Sunday, if you were here, as you're reading through John 4, John takes a pause, and he tells us this other lesson that's related that Jesus wanted to teach his disciples about this. And here's, in a nutshell, what that lesson was. Jesus says, look around you guys, God's field is full and it's ready for the picking with women and people just like this woman. The time has come when God's mission field is full of women like this one I'm talking to, women and men and children whom God wants to save. They're unconverted and God wants to bring them to the truth. And so now John is going to bring us back to what happened with the woman. So there's a story about the woman, I'm going somewhere with this, follow me, story about the woman, an intentional pause, and then it returns to the narrative about the woman. If you were paying close attention last week, if anybody comes up to me afterwards and says they knew this, I'm going to be shocked. If you were paying close attention last week, I skipped three verses. Usually I go one verse, then the next verse, then the next verse. We don't skip anything. And that's a big no -no. We don't skip verses. And so I skipped three verses because as I was studying, I realized these really belong with the text I'm going to show you today. So I purposely skipped them to save them for today. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to look at those three verses I skipped, which is found in verse 28, 29, and 30. Then we're going to skip the passage I preached on last Sunday, which is verse 31 through 38. And we're going to take the part I skipped and join it to the part where you'll see why. Can I show you why? This reads, this portion, you're going to go, wow, that reads so smoothly. It's almost like there was no interruption. Watch how smooth the narrative goes now, okay? So starting in verse 28, where I skipped, 29 and 30, then jumping down to 39, the narrative reads smooth. Check this out. So the woman, she's just finished talking with Jesus, and now this is what happens after. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people, come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, he told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Now, there is a primary lesson that most preachers, when they preach this passage or if you've ever been in a Bible study or a Sunday school class, there's one primary lesson that's being taught here. In the job of an interpreter, you when you're home and you open your Bible in the morning with your cup of coffee or your spot of tea or whatever you drink and you're reading the Bible, you're all interpreters at that moment, there's only one lesson. And the job is to get at that one lesson. What did the author mean? If we get somewhere else, we've missed the interpretation. So our job is to find out what John meant by what he wrote and then get at that meaning. The meaning of this is not real difficult. It's very simple. Here's what happened. A woman had an encounter with Jesus and she went home and told everybody about it. That's it. That's the story. That's what happened. So if this passage is preached a hundred times this year in a hundred different churches all over the world, 99 out of a hundred times, here's what the sermon's going to be about. She's a witness. She's really the first witness in the Gospel of John. And so the message is going to be about witnessing. And they'll tell you, go home and do likewise. And they'll take you through it piece by piece, showing you how she witnessed, because she did a good job, and they'll say, this is how you witnessed. And I'm telling you, that is the faithful way to handle this text. A hundred percent of the time, that's the way to do it. I'm not going to do that today. Here's why. Knowing the majority of the people at our church and knowing that the majority of you have been in church your whole life, you've probably heard this preached 20 times. And I'm knowing that I could give you the main lesson in about 30 seconds, which I just did. I want to show you how the Bible can be like an onion, like an onion, and how you could read this. My grandmother's 105. You're probably getting tired of me telling you that. She woke up this morning and read her Bible for close to an hour. I'm telling you. You know how I know? She's done it her whole life. She's probably read this passage 105 times, I'm exaggerating. Every time, there's some new layer of the onion that gives her food for her soul. I want to peel back a layer. Again, there's only one meaning, but there's lots of ways, vantage points, to look at that one meaning and glean new food from this never -ending nourishment that is God's word. In narratives like the one we're reading, especially the gospel narratives where you're reading about a true historical account, this really happened in history, and where there's lots of different people in the story, you can look at it from her perspective or the perspective of Jesus or the perspective of the Samaritans. If there were other people, we could read it from different perspectives, and every time you do, you peel back a new layer of the onion. Isn't the Bible awesome? It'll keep you nourished for the rest of your life. Well, this week, I looked at the woman and I said, Lord, I'll preach this. If that's what you want, I'll just go and I'll preach a message on witnessing. I just couldn't do it. I wanted to peel back a little bit and look at this from the lens of the Samaritans. I wanted to see how it was that God converted them through first this woman and then through an encounter with Jesus. And so this morning, what we're going to do is we're going to do a case study in conversion. The Samaritans were my focus this week, which is why I've entitled this sermon, the 20th sermon, by the way, in our series through John, The Cause of Conversion. Would you give me two minutes before we start picking apart this text? Would you give me two minutes to define conversion? Because I imagine that there might be a lot of different definitions that people would come up with as to what that word means. What is that? Most people may have grown up believing, as I did, that conversion was the same exact thing as being born again. It isn't. Oh, it's related. As a matter of fact, you might think of conversion as the other side of the coin of being born again. Let me explain. Get your thinking cap on. Here we go. Being born again, theologians have a term for it just like they do conversion, and the term is regeneration. How many of you have heard the term regeneration before? How many of you have read the book of Genesis? Genesis is the beginning. When you were born, you had a Genesis. When you were born again, you had a re -Genesis. God made your birth happen again on the inside. Conversion is not the same thing, and here's how. What happens on the inside when you're born again, when God takes your dead soul, which is the way you were born, you're dead in your sins, so was I, when God makes you alive to Christ, that happens at the soul or the heart level, and at that very same instant, you mind falls, but at that very same instant, after God makes you alive, something happens in the mind. What happens in the mind is conversion, and it's really important. Here's why it's important. Look what Jesus said. This is going to get juicy. Jesus said, truly I say to you, unless you are, say the word, and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. So you tell me, is conversion important? You better believe it. Here's the word Jesus used. He used the Greek word, strepho, which simply means, look on the screen, to be changed, or a better definition, to turn and go another direction. Someone is born again. At that moment, their eyes are open to see the truth. Once that happens at the soul level, something happens instantaneously in the mind. In the mind, you are able to believe the truth about Jesus. You see him as he truly is. You no longer see your old life the way that it was. You turn away from it, and you turn to something new. That is the moment when conversion begins. It continues throughout your life. God continues to make you into something new. We call that process sanctification. It starts the moment you're converted, and it continues throughout your life. He's continually renewing your mind, changing how you see first God, then you, then the world, then every little thing continues this process of being converted into the image of Jesus Christ. So conversion is the flip side of the coin of regeneration, but it's not exactly the same thing. caused Conversion is by having the eyes of your heart opened, listen to these words, to a knowledge of God that you were prior blind to, and it's this spiritual knowing and believing that I see in this text. Martyn Lloyd -Jones said something about conversion that I think sums it up better than anybody else. Look what Martyn Lloyd -Jones said. He said conversion is the first exercise of the new nature. So once you're born again, the first thing you do, the first act is conversion in ceasing from old forms of life, my old sinful life, and starting a new life. It's the first action of the regenerate soul in moving from something, something I used to be, to this new life. That's the best definition of conversion that I could find, a way that I think will be helpful to you in your life in understanding salvation. In this text, I see a great case study of how conversion works. These people went from believing something to suddenly having their eyes opened to see something new. If you did what I did, some people, it's funny, they think that preachers somehow have some supernatural funnel from God where he pours information in your head. That is not at all what happens to a preacher. It's just discipline. That's all it is. Discipline to study the Scriptures and sit in it and sit in it, and then when you're done, sit in it some more. And God does for a preacher what he would do for you if you spent as much time in a text as I do. I spend on average about 20 hours a week preparing for a sermon, roughly 20 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. If you spent as much time as I did in this little text, I promise you, you'd start to see little observations popping out, little things you're like, oh, I never saw that before. And if you spent as much time with me this week looking at this text and looking at it, looking at it, looking at it, can I show you a few things that might start popping out to you? There are three because statements in this text. If you're reading in the morning in 20 minutes and you're reading the story about the woman at the well, you're not going to stop on the word because, would you? Because it's just the because. No one stops at the word because. But if you did stop, you would see the cause of things. Can I show you these three because statements in the text? Take a look. I put them on the screen for you. Well here's the whole text. You'd see these three because statements. Here are the three because statements popping out. Put those up for me, Logan. You have the first one? Poor Logan. The first because statement, we'll get to the second one in a second, many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. So they believed in him because of the woman's testimony. Look at the second because statement. Now Logan. And many more believed in him because of his word. But now here's the cause that changed my whole trajectory of this sermon, verse 42. They said to the woman, look at this, look church, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves. And we know, it's the first time this word is used in the chapter, we know that this is indeed the savior of the world. Church, look at me. Something caused the water bottle. What was it? Me. I pushed it. All I want to do is look at this text as a case study of what caused you to be born again, to be converted. I want to look at this as a case study to see what caused them to be converted so that you will know first how to pray for your unbelieving family, but second even more importantly, to know whether or not you're converted. There are lots of people who've been going to church for years who may not be converted. There is a major difference between being convinced and being converted. There is a major difference between being convinced about Jesus and being converted by Jesus. Not all belief is the same kind of belief. I'm telling you, I want to show you this morning, based on verse 42, there's a journey, a progression of conversion that I want to show you in this text. They were convinced and called by this woman's testimony, but they were not yet converted because they did not yet know him. There is a kind of belief in Jesus that does not cause conversion. It's the kind that maybe the brother of Jesus was talking about when he wrote this. Look on the screen. You say that you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Well, good for you. Even the demons say the word. Wait a second. And they tremble in terror. So according to James, there's a category of belief that does not cause a creature, a human creature or a demonic creature, to be converted. So just because you see belief in the Bible doesn't mean it's the same kind of belief that leads to conversion. My prayer all week this week is that God would bring us somebody who needed to be converted today. What I aim to show you in this case study is the call to salvation used by God. This woman was used by God to invite them. Being convinced about Jesus. And then finally being converted to Jesus. Here's the big idea. I'm going to spell it out for you. If you want to snap a photo of this with your phone so that you can't forget it, it's fine with me. Some people are convinced because of a personal testimony. And God uses personal testimonies to convince people. Others are convinced because of a personal experience. Lots of people have had spiritual experiences and God uses those to convince people. But there's only one cause of conversion. The cause of conversion is knowing Christ as personal Savior. Let me show you this in the text. I'm going to split the big idea into three parts. Everybody still with me? Part number one. Some people, they're called during someone's testimony. They feel God calling to them. And they're convinced when they hear someone give a personal testimony. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Here's what I'm going to show you in this text. God has been pleased down through church history to use people's personal testimonies. To draw people to himself. Theologians call this an effectual call. He calls out to people, come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. By the testimony of someone that you love or a friend. And people feel and hear God's call. But it's not the same thing as being converted. Let me show you that right here in the text. Verse 28, 29 and 30 and then verse 39. Look what it says here. So the woman left her water jar. There's lots we could say about that. She left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people. So now she's suddenly an evangelist. Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ? God in this moment is using a vessel, a woman's mouth who just had an encounter with Jesus to call people to come. Come meet Jesus. That's what's happening here. They went out of the town and were coming to him. Many Samaritans from that town believed. And now based on what you just read about James, you should go, wait a minute, what kind of belief? So glad you asked. We're going to get into that, okay? Many from Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony he told me all that I ever did. So remember something. Follow me, church. All she knows at this point is that she met a prophet.
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"Ultimately didn't get included in the measure that was passed so here we are with essentially a bridge to November 17 and no idea what happens after that so we'll just have Mike Dorning figure it all out for us Bloomberg Politics reporter Mike Dorning is with us here at the table it's good to see you survive the weekend that was I know you were working as well remarkable turn of events here and the speed with which this all went through sort of is all of us in Washington but we're about to go through this all over again aren't we the chances of a shutdown are still pretty high for November yeah and we've heard that they're even on the Republican side they are warning lobbyists that there's a very strong chance of a shutdown November 17th so we should all expect that once again as a probability but my gosh if you'd asked me a few days ago if we were going to shut down this weekend I would have bet on that for sure well and obviously what has to happen to avoid a shutdown between now and November 17th is to get 12 appropriation bills through both chambers and there's no or another continuing resolution I see Mike's given me okay theoretically though well they want to pass these single approach bills in theory that's what they would like to do particularly in the house on the Senate side maybe less so because it's more cumbersome to get each one through the Senate that they have these minibuses that take more than one appropriations bill but in at a minimum over the next few weeks there'll be more airing and debating and to ratchet out what exactly people want at least remember in this shutdown they could never even come up with a coherent set of demands on the Republican House side as to why they meant to shut the government down so if nothing else the Republicans in the on the house side and the bipartisan coalition on the Senate side hopefully will come up with what they want as a starting position and then you know we'll figure it out it could be anything it could be the individual appropriations bills it could be another stopgap temporary funding measure it could be some global resolution where you just pass everything at once Republicans like to ride the so -called omnibus you feel like we're in public transportation well we know Matt Gaetz is not a fan of any of these buses absolutely and or a continuing resolution he says he's gonna file this motion to vacate you know it's really interesting Kayleigh to hear from Mick Mulvaney earlier you can file the motion but if don't you call for a vote nothing happens so he could do that as a symbolic gesture but it seems pretty clear Matt Gaetz does not have the votes to fire Kevin McCarthy isn't that right well not if the Democrats in some way shape would it for the Democrats to save them I think if there's a strong possibility right now that that Gaetz could get four other Republicans to go along with them for the so -called hardliners that's all he needs for hardliners to go along with and them that in theory under normal practices would be enough to vote out the speaker that said we're not dealing with normal we haven't been dealing normal with for a long time we're well past that but all it would take is some Democrats hey you know missing the vote or voting present or even voting present or missing a vote on some parliamentary maneuver to block that by sending it to the table or a committee or whatnot but with it if he can get or more hardliners which is quite probable it would just take at least some Democrats tacitly helping to stop that but once that happens that's a really tough position for McCarthy to be in because if he has to rely on even a little bit of tasks that Democrats support to survive then every time he does anything he has to worry about either antagonizing more hardliners or antagonizing the few Democrats that he needs yeah I've read and heard the phrase coalition government it's thrown around a lot and the idea though Mike is that the Democrats would ask for something in exchange right some kind of concession concession maybe on Ukraine funding for example I mean what would that even look like I would assume they'd ask or maybe they'd be like Marlon Brando and the Godfather you know the day will come when I need the favor but I expect that they want some some down payment right away but you know it could be asking for at least a on -the -record vote on a Biden an impeachment inquiry so they could either stop it or beat the you -know -what out of the Republican marginal swing district members who vote for it or it could be some sort of understanding that you know maybe you'll at least not shut down the government we don't start small I guess yeah on the asks here this take could on a lot of different forms then obviously but the sticking points will remain the same the it's really same debate today that it was on Friday and we have no reason to believe that'll be different come November here it's the same debate but the thing about Washington is there's like an infinite number of combinations and that could happen you know you can tack just a little way in one direction or the other either in how you approach the motion to vacate or how you you know split the difference on some bills can we just return to the issue quickly of Ukraine funding which course of as we were discussing was left out of this package could be something that the carrot that Democrats need in order to save McCarthy this is something Biden pushed McCarthy on over the weekend yes we gotta do this we know that McCarthy was pushed on it we know that Democrats were some people like Michael Bennet yeah in in the Senate even held it up a little bit to try to get some formal commitment from the Senate and House leaders that they would do something now we don't know what exactly he's committed to and how McCarthy might interpret that commitment now like maybe he's committed to bring it up but he's gonna put all these border provisions on that are hard we just don't know the answer to that but what we do know is this is very important to the US our colleagues at Bloomberg broke the story that President Biden is going to have a call with world leaders to reassure them that the U US maintain will aid for Ukraine so he's gonna go and tell other world leaders that we're gonna get that done how that happens I don't know boy that's one thing to say we'll yeah but see I mean he knows more than we do but you've got got to think this is probably the last the last opportunity to get a supplemental request of that size though correct which brings us back to the conversation about the counter -offensive how much can you do with this money because coming back again and in the in middle of a presidential election cycle could be dicey oh yeah absolutely um and the republicans even the ukraine supporters among the republicans want biden to ask for enough money so that he doesn't have to come back to this well so they can just get it done and not have to revisit it before the presidential election yeah it just becomes a question of what it costs to get it done i guess who you're going to be able to wrangle because there will at least be a certain number of those hardline conservatives which is not a very small number a lot of them are already on the record voting down that's right more funding for ukraine and that just could create more headaches for speaker and the thing is the number of republicans who really don't want the aid to ukraine is much larger than the number of republicans who right now are willing to try to unseat mccarthy and he doesn't want to like build up that number um to be more republicans are that unhappy with him so he also has to you know not antagonize the republicans who are against ukraine aid too much so don't antagonize the opposition party because you might need them but also you can't antagonize your own party right tough spot better him than me yeah no doubt you've covered washington for a minute have you ever seen dysfunction like this uh... i can't say i've ever seen dysfunction like this some although you know there were certainly a lot of sudden changes back and forth in the prior administration in the white house back there in terms of uh... you know just the whole dysfunctional uh... but then you know in american history there have been tough times before i mean this is nothing like you you know congress before the civil war the vietnam era before our times our our modern era though this is a little i didn't see those i wasn't alive that's just like was not there he was he he was post post civil war threats uh... great to see you as always mike dorney bloomberg politics reporter to be a he's the best let's get a check world on national news now with nancy lions in the bloomberg newsroom in been talking about a florida congressman at gate says house speaker kevin mccarthy is violated to deal with house republicans by working with democrats to avoid a government shutdown gates urge transparency during a today so mister speaker just tell us just tell us what was in the secret ukraine side deal what commitments were made separate to president i didn't to continue the spending of president biden in exchange for doing things for for president by gates who has threatened to force a vote on asking speaker mccarthy today said stay donald trump is in a new york or truman today for his civil fraud trial the judges already found trump liable for misleading banks about his assets so today's proceedings involve six remaining claims in the amount of
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A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. 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A highlight from IP#502 Adam Blai The History of Exorcism, Part 2 on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com presents inside the pages insights from today's most compelling authors I'm your host Chris McGregor and I am delighted to be joined by Adam Bly who is a church to create expert on religious demonology and exorcism for the Pittsburgh Diocese he's helped train exorcists for over 15 years and has attended hundreds of solemn exorcisms his journey started in brainwave research and psychology and is now focused on the spiritual realities of miracles angels demons and possessions he's also the author of several books including the exorcism files with Adam Bly we go inside the pages of the history of exorcism published by Sophia Institute press we now continue with part two of our conversation a lot of times we look at those things that the action of the enemy that is what 90 % is temptation the our father lead us not into temptation but also as we just said the oppression and obsession those are things that can be dealt with especially in the sacramental life that we have within the mass within confession isn't it been said Adam that one good confession could be worth of a hundred exorcisms these are all just kind of turns a phrase but essentially yes for the average person the average Catholic who has access to the sacraments deliverance comes primarily through the sacramental graces and that means baptism confirmation confession and the mass those are the the mechanisms that sanctifying grace comes into your life for the average person and then of course matrimony for some people people underestimate the importance and power of the sacramental graces and they want the drama of the exciting prayer thinking you know you'll do this kind of magical incantation and make these problems go away versus the person doing the the work of conversion in themselves of making it to mass of having a good confession of doing the work of building a daily prayer life all of those things are actually what lead to deliverance primarily it's not just the exciting prayers if a person is unwilling to make any changes in their life is an unwilling to walk away from sin is essentially unwilling to have conversion in their life usually the prayers don't work because Jesus is looking for conversion and change so if somebody has done something to get into trouble spiritually they can't just come to the church and say well wave the magic wand and make the suffering go away I don't like it but I'm not gonna change my life because Jesus knows our hearts and so I've seen this over the years that even in the case is a full -blown possession he wants to see spiritual growth in the person he wants to see a movement towards him and trust and love and a turning away from sin in addition to coming to the church for prayers and so the sacramental grace is for the person that isn't possessed actually that is the engine that drives deliverance it's so important that in your book you have a section called Jesus as exorcist and that ultimately that's the lesson is the turning towards him right summately and that's what the team in their particular response to the individual is helping that individual to turn towards them it's not so much it is the actions of what they're doing during the liturgy that's what it is exorcism is a liturgy but it's that reception of that person to a life of faith is that a fair way of saying it yes that's that's a big part of it they also are repenting of their sins through sacramental confession if they're Catholic and then another important piece that most people don't think about is they're forgiving the sins of others and so a demon can hold on to or it gets traction from our sins that we're unwilling to let go of or keep trying to let go of and get away from but they can also hold on to when we are unforgiving of the sins of others that have hurt us and so as we know from the our father forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us we know that God wants us to forgive as he forgives us you know the parable of the king who forgives the debt of the one slave and then that slave goes and beats up another slave and says give me you know the little bit you owe me and then when the the king finds out about this he throws the first guy who he had forgiven who's now being mean in turn in jail so we see this played out time and time again God expects us to be merciful and that that is part of it and then you know in an interesting twist sometimes the unforgiveness towards yourself becomes a stumbling block to total freedom because if a person feels they deserve to be punished and suffer and they're not forgiving themselves even though they know they've been sacramentally forgiven they even understand and believe Jesus has forgiven them but if they feel that they can't forgive themselves and that they deserve this that also gives the demon traction to hold on so there's kind of a pastoral process that is woven through exorcism over time working with the person outside of the sessions before and after and chatting with them and you know basically spiritual direction and that's the part that's missing in the movies oh yeah that's an incredible part of it because as I alluded to earlier you know it's the opening of doors I mean we can for example I have priests come through our house and bless our homes place Benedictine metals at windows go through the whole ritual as family but then we go downstairs and put on a television screen or open up online and allow something that's evil in character into our house or to do actions what was the point of the of the prior blessing I don't think we appreciate the fact that there is a need for repentance and a conversion of action not just of words and correct yeah and again Jesus knows our hearts so we can't just give lip service to these ideas because he knows what's going on with us for real and he's looking for real conversion and so you know it's just so important because ultimately he doesn't allow this stuff just because he wants to allow it you know he doesn't enjoy the fact that we're suffering but he allows it as a corrective experience so we realize the thing that we're embracing and we turn and run back to it so ultimately he's looking for closeness with us and possession is something that happens to people that generally are running away from Jesus and are far from him and specifically are embracing demonic spirits in some way and so he's not allowing this to be mean he's saying I'm gonna let you see the monster that you've chosen hoping that the person will then turn away and come back to him no I thought it was really important in that particular section in closing from the exorcisms by Jesus that you point out that he does Commission the 12 but in the 72 as well to go out but it's important that it's not only the priests and the bishops who have the authority to cast out demons and that would be revealed over time but it took centuries in a way for the church to find the need to limit the exercise of the use of exorcism and you really broke that open I thought that was so fascinating the research you did on that well it was a journey the church went through and you know one thing we have to remember in the very early church it was just apostles and followers you would have the equivalent of a bishop in your city or your region who would be you know the current apostle but there wasn't this whole hierarchy of you know deacons and priests and formal offices within the church because we're you know for the first 300 years the church was under terrible persecution it wasn't this big wealthy institution with buildings and schools and everything else it was it was a struggling little movement and so we have to remember in those very early centuries there weren't priest exorcists because there weren't priests in the very beginning it quickly came about but again with the persecution in the early church things just weren't that organized and then as the church spread around the world communication wasn't there we didn't have an internet letters could take weeks months or never arrive you know sending information around the world at that time and so it was a very different world it took centuries for the church to figure out this ministry and then through hard experience and seeing how difficult the ministry is and how it can chew people up and how it can lead to pride which leads to destroying people and causing heresies to develop and all kinds of other problems the church wisely said we need to regulate this so that qualified people are doing it it's not just you know somebody deciding they're gonna pick it up because they'd like to the church wanted to make sure people were qualified and then had kind of a proper context to keep them safe and effective essentially yeah it isn't a game and there isn't something that you oh I'm fascinated I'm curious about this I want to explore more yes reading your book is the great way to do that if you have that inkling but the actual ministry of it there is so much involved and you go into the different types of exorcism and how they developed for anybody who wants to understand more about the free masonry dynamics that are addressed by exorcism that's fascinating but also it's a very real issue isn't it yeah so the minor exorcism what's sometimes called the Leonine exorcism because Pope Leo the 13th wrote it in 1890 was originally explicitly directed against Freemasonry it wasn't a general exorcism against the devil it was it was against Freemasonry and Freemasonry since it's you know within 20 years of it coming into existence in the world in the early 1700s the church was identifying it as the church's greatest enemy in the world and there's been you know papal statements I think there's at least seven different popes have made formal bulls and statements about Freemasonry condemning it reminding Catholics that their ex communicated if they become Freemasons which is still the case by the way and so yeah the the minor exorcism actually was all about Freemasonry and that's why I took that kind of a side in the book to explain the history of Freemasonry and where it came from so that we could see it kind of from the church's perspective and imagine you know how they were seeing Freemasonry and why that may have led to this prayer being written we'll return to inside the pages in just a moment did you know that discerning hearts has a free app where you can find all your favorite discerning hearts programming father Timothy Gallagher dr. 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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Ether ETFs, Validator Growth, and Uptober's Strong Start
"It's Monday, October 2nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ether ETFs, Ethereum staking, macro moves, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. October, as this month is known in some circles, is off to a strong start in crypto markets. After a few days of gently drifting upwards, prices for Bitcoin and Ether jumped sharply yesterday afternoon, with Bitcoin moving up almost 3 % within just a few minutes. There doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst for yesterday's sharp jump, which suggests that it could have been triggered by a short squeeze. The crypto market has often seen these before. They are usually unwound relatively swiftly, however. This one, not yet anyway. Since yesterday's jump, the Bitcoin price has continued to climb, and at 10 a .m. Eastern time this morning, it was trading at $28 ,500, according to CoinDesk indices, up 4 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was 2 .3 % higher, trading at $1 ,725. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 25%. Bitcoin has delivered a positive performance in October in each of the last four years. Yes, including 2022. But patterns can be broken. We saw this last month, as Bitcoin rose almost 4%, breaking a six -year trend of negative September returns. Other tokens are also rallying. Earlier today, the tokens of Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Cosmos and others were up between 3 and 4 % over the past 24 hours. As I mentioned earlier, there doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst here. In part, it could be October psychology. There could also be some excitement around the first Ether futures ETS starting to trade today. And there is probably also some momentum chasing involved. Bitcoin has broken above the 50, 100 and 200 daily moving averages, which is a big deal for chart watchers. Whatever the reason, the uptick in interest could be enough to perhaps entice some liquidity providers back into the market. If liquidity improves along with the Bitcoin price, then we are likely to see a further pickup in new investor interest. I'll be keeping an eye on volumes and other liquidity metrics. Over in macro, the headwinds are still there, which could keep any crypto rally muted for now. There was some good news on Saturday, though. After a day of hectic negotiations and a barrage of breakthroughs, a US government shutdown was avoided. Both chambers passed a stop -the -gap spending bill that President Biden signed with less than an hour to spare. This means that government employees and all of the related businesses that serve as government departments can keep on working. This is very good. It's a temporary measure, however, and we could be going through the same type of tension in mid -November. Earlier today, the ISM Manufacturing Index came in better than expected. This data point is based on a survey of purchasing managers at 300 manufacturing businesses and gives some insight into the general direction of manufacturing activity in the US. ISM stands for the Institute of Supply Management, the organization that conducts the survey. The main index for September still showed a contraction in activity, but the slowest contraction in 10 months. It's too soon to conclude that the contraction in US manufacturing is bottoming, however. Over in stocks, the strong manufacturing data and the avoidance of the shutdown has failed to boost the mood of the US market. This comes after a fairly grim end to September. On Friday, the S &P 500 closed down 0 .03%, and over September, the index lost almost 5%. Its second monthly decline in a row. The index is down 3 .7 % on the quarter, its first negative quarter in 12 months. This is less than the Nasdaq's decline, which was 4 .1 % for the quarter, highlighting that the market is moving into risk -off territory. The Nasdaq is even more focused on tech stocks than the S &P 500, which tend to be more sensitive to increases in interest rates. In Europe, markets were feeling good on Friday, with both the German DAX and the Eurostock 600 rising by roughly 0 .5%. That was not enough to save the month, however. Over September, the DAX dropped 3 .5%, and the broader European index dropped by 1 .6%, the worst monthly performances for both in a year. So far today, weak market sentiment has returned, with all leading European indices down from Friday's close. The outlook for economic growth in Europe is flagging, with the German economy forecast to contract this year. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index started the fourth quarter on a down note, closing just over three -tenths of a percent lower. So far, this seems like an extension of the negative performance seen last month. The index dropped almost 1 .5 % in September, losing more than 4 % in the quarter. This makes Q3 the first negative quarter for the index in a year. Chinese markets were closed on Friday for the mid -autumn festival and will be closed until next Monday as the country celebrates National Day. Chinese stocks had an ugly third quarter, with the Shanghai Composite registering an almost 3 % drop, its second quarterly decline in a row. Chatter is intensifying about more monetary and policy easing to support the market and the economy. This would be good news for Asian markets and for crypto markets since, despite recent bans, China is still a significant source of demand for crypto assets. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was hit much harder, down almost 6 % for the quarter, as its market is more exposed to US interest rates and has also been hit by China's property sector woes. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was rising in early trading today after pulling back from the local high of over $96 reached late last week. Earlier today, Brent was trading at $93 .62 per barrel. Gold continues to weaken, trading at around $1 ,830 per ounce, down just over 0 .7 % from the market open. Investor appetite for the metal is being hit by the stronger US dollar. The DXY dollar index was climbing today, up 0 .4 % from Friday and up almost 3 % from a month ago.
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A highlight from Crypto Update | Ether ETFs, Validator Growth, and Uptober's Strong Start
"It's Monday, October 2nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ether ETFs, Ethereum staking, macro moves, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. October, as this month is known in some circles, is off to a strong start in crypto markets. After a few days of gently drifting upwards, prices for Bitcoin and Ether jumped sharply yesterday afternoon, with Bitcoin moving up almost 3 % within just a few minutes. There doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst for yesterday's sharp jump, which suggests that it could have been triggered by a short squeeze. The crypto market has often seen these before. They are usually unwound relatively swiftly, however. This one, not yet anyway. Since yesterday's jump, the Bitcoin price has continued to climb, and at 10 a .m. Eastern time this morning, it was trading at $28 ,500, according to CoinDesk indices, up 4 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was 2 .3 % higher, trading at $1 ,725. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 25%. Bitcoin has delivered a positive performance in October in each of the last four years. Yes, including 2022. But patterns can be broken. We saw this last month, as Bitcoin rose almost 4%, breaking a six -year trend of negative September returns. Other tokens are also rallying. Earlier today, the tokens of Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Cosmos and others were up between 3 and 4 % over the past 24 hours. As I mentioned earlier, there doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst here. In part, it could be October psychology. There could also be some excitement around the first Ether futures ETS starting to trade today. And there is probably also some momentum chasing involved. Bitcoin has broken above the 50, 100 and 200 daily moving averages, which is a big deal for chart watchers. Whatever the reason, the uptick in interest could be enough to perhaps entice some liquidity providers back into the market. If liquidity improves along with the Bitcoin price, then we are likely to see a further pickup in new investor interest. I'll be keeping an eye on volumes and other liquidity metrics. Over in macro, the headwinds are still there, which could keep any crypto rally muted for now. There was some good news on Saturday, though. After a day of hectic negotiations and a barrage of breakthroughs, a US government shutdown was avoided. Both chambers passed a stop -the -gap spending bill that President Biden signed with less than an hour to spare. This means that government employees and all of the related businesses that serve as government departments can keep on working. This is very good. It's a temporary measure, however, and we could be going through the same type of tension in mid -November. Earlier today, the ISM Manufacturing Index came in better than expected. This data point is based on a survey of purchasing managers at 300 manufacturing businesses and gives some insight into the general direction of manufacturing activity in the US. ISM stands for the Institute of Supply Management, the organization that conducts the survey. The main index for September still showed a contraction in activity, but the slowest contraction in 10 months. It's too soon to conclude that the contraction in US manufacturing is bottoming, however. Over in stocks, the strong manufacturing data and the avoidance of the shutdown has failed to boost the mood of the US market. This comes after a fairly grim end to September. On Friday, the S &P 500 closed down 0 .03%, and over September, the index lost almost 5%. Its second monthly decline in a row. The index is down 3 .7 % on the quarter, its first negative quarter in 12 months. This is less than the Nasdaq's decline, which was 4 .1 % for the quarter, highlighting that the market is moving into risk -off territory. The Nasdaq is even more focused on tech stocks than the S &P 500, which tend to be more sensitive to increases in interest rates. In Europe, markets were feeling good on Friday, with both the German DAX and the Eurostock 600 rising by roughly 0 .5%. That was not enough to save the month, however. Over September, the DAX dropped 3 .5%, and the broader European index dropped by 1 .6%, the worst monthly performances for both in a year. So far today, weak market sentiment has returned, with all leading European indices down from Friday's close. The outlook for economic growth in Europe is flagging, with the German economy forecast to contract this year. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index started the fourth quarter on a down note, closing just over three -tenths of a percent lower. So far, this seems like an extension of the negative performance seen last month. The index dropped almost 1 .5 % in September, losing more than 4 % in the quarter. This makes Q3 the first negative quarter for the index in a year. Chinese markets were closed on Friday for the mid -autumn festival and will be closed until next Monday as the country celebrates National Day. Chinese stocks had an ugly third quarter, with the Shanghai Composite registering an almost 3 % drop, its second quarterly decline in a row. Chatter is intensifying about more monetary and policy easing to support the market and the economy. This would be good news for Asian markets and for crypto markets since, despite recent bans, China is still a significant source of demand for crypto assets. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was hit much harder, down almost 6 % for the quarter, as its market is more exposed to US interest rates and has also been hit by China's property sector woes. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was rising in early trading today after pulling back from the local high of over $96 reached late last week. Earlier today, Brent was trading at $93 .62 per barrel. Gold continues to weaken, trading at around $1 ,830 per ounce, down just over 0 .7 % from the market open. Investor appetite for the metal is being hit by the stronger US dollar. The DXY dollar index was climbing today, up 0 .4 % from Friday and up almost 3 % from a month ago.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/02/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. I went and read a book on Marx, a quartet practiced in the park, and we sang dirigence. The great Don McLean, Don McLean, McLean, the music died, is 78. We were singing bye bye. So Mike Gallagher is 11 years old for American Pie and I do too. Is this eight and a half minutes of masterpiece or just a butt whipping? I run across people who go, American Pie, ugh, what's the matter with you? I think it's a masterpiece. You know, disc jockeys always loved it because it was the song they put on when they had to go to the bathroom. Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Mike Crosby, Stump Fashion Young, yeah buddy. I need a potty break. It is time. Well listen, here we go, first Monday in October, a Supreme Court in session and some fascinating decisions they're going to have. We got all kinds of shenanigans and hijinks happening with the Republicans and Matt Gaetz and I want to start something, I want to start a conversation with you about this rift between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and the punditry that has decided to go after Matt Gaetz. This is very interesting to me. I get it. I appreciate, I'm going to speak for me and then I want to find out, pick your brain on where you think this is all going with the aversion of averting the government shutdown, no funding for Ukraine in this particular resolution. That's right. So we've taken out the funding for Ukraine, the government doesn't get shut down and the Democrats continue to implode as Gavin Newsom appoints a woman from Maryland to replace the Dianne Feinstein. Now they're scrubbing all references to the fact that she lives in Maryland because her dedication to abortion trumps everything else. Yes it does. You don't have to be a Californian to be a California senator. You've got to be all about abortion, which is we have got to, boy, I've got my final week of my preborn campaign and I hope people will make a contribution just to counter the nonsense going on in California right now with Gavin Newsom and this Emily's List lady. But let me go back to Matt Gaetz for just a moment.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Upstream Works transforms United Airlines passenger, agent CX and EX, Podcast
"This is Doug Green and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller and I'm very pleased to have with us today Rob McDougall who is the CEO of Upstream Works. Rob, thank you for joining us today. Hey, great to be here, Doug. Good to talk with you again. Well, this is really exciting. I've been enjoying talking with you just before we started our podcast about what's going on in the AR market. And you know, what's exciting to me is we've been doing a series of podcasts the last few weeks where folks have been coming forward and talking about how they've made AI a practical tool for a company or for an organization or for maybe an entire industry. So we're going to be talking about an exciting story today about how Upstream Works has changed United Airlines and also about the idea of operationalizing AI. So we're going to be talking about those topics in a second, but for people that don't know Rob Upstream Works well or maybe know a little bit about you guys, what is Upstream Works? Upstream Works is a software application company. We focus on the agent experience and we provide an agent desktop application that's designed to run either on premise or in cloud so that your infrastructure doesn't matter. Our goal is to make sure that your agents have a consistent interface that they can work with across platforms, across applications, across channels. And these days we've been using the term EX. So what you're doing, it feeds right into that employee experience. Absolutely. We call it AX because we're focused on agents, but that's what it's all about. A happy agent is going to give a better service. We believe that that smile on the agent's face comes across the phone. It's a tough job. It's a tough market. You know, you can't find enough people to do that job today, so you want to keep those employees happy and they're the face of your company to the world. So with that in mind, you have actually taken AI and you're doing something called operationalizing AI. Sorry, that didn't come out so smoothly. So what is operationalizing AI? First, it's a tough word to say. I will give you that. Look at it this way. If I was to ask you, Doug, to go to my office, go to my computer, log in and add yourself into my CRM system or billing system, you wouldn't know what you had to do. You understand my ask, but you don't know where my office is. You don't know how to get into my computer. You don't know what my CRM or HR systems are. You don't know how they work. AI is the same thing. Even with the new generative AI model, is it really good at understanding? I know what the guy's asking, but I don't know how to do it. Operationalizing AI means doing that connectivity between what the AI can do and making it do something actually for your business. So integrating it into your backend systems, providing an interface that an agent can use to view things easily, using it to provide other business value like routing or translations, but making it actually work properly in your complex in silo the contact center. So this is really interesting because what you're telling me is it simplifies things. Well, tremendously. What we saw back in the early days of chat and email is a lot of people would put in chat and email, but they were discreet channels. They didn't integrate with the contact center. It was a bad experience for customers. You had to have specialized agents who got different training because the desktop interfaces were different. The tools were different. Omnichannel has now taken us into a realm where an agent can deal with sort of one set of tools across the different channels, but then you start throwing AI into the mix and it comes up in a different place. So you put in AI and it's got its own interface. So I need special agents to do something over here, or it doesn't actually integrate with the other tools that I have in the contact center. So I've got to make all that stuff work together. And this is what Upstreamworks has been doing for 23 years is being the spider in the middle of the web and taking the applications that are important for your business and help you make those work for the business and for the agents to make their life easier. So it's interesting that you're using a new thing to basically follow your brand story, which has what you're describing sounds like what Upstream is all about. Absolutely. We focus on enterprise contact centers. We don't go for the small contact center. And the reason we focus there is because large enterprises, when they deal with products, what they want is something that's shrink wrapped in out of the box, like Word, and they just put in the disk and it all works, but it's got to work exactly the way they work. And that doesn't exist. So what we have always done is we built a product that is designed to provide all the features out of the box, but have all the configurability and integratability such that I can integrate it into the workflows that the company has and make those work properly in an enterprise environment. And AI is no different. You could look at a manufacturer who's going to say, oh, we'll put in our product and here's our AI. And the company says, well, that's nice, but we use this other AI. That's where Upstream works comes in. And they may use Amazon AI for translations, and they may use Google AI to search their knowledge base, and they use Watson to look up their medical information. They may have different AI applications. Our goal is to make them all work and make it seamless to the agent. So the agent doesn't know there's different AIs happening. It's just there's stuff that shows up and stuff happens. And I'd love to hear a little bit about your product line and offerings right now, but maybe you could tell me that in the context of where you're offering this operationalizing AI service. Well, it comes as an actual part of our product, right? It's right there. It's right there. So one of the components is a desktop component called Virtual Agent Portal. And we spent a lot of time kind of working through what to name this, because we didn't want people to start thinking we're providing AI to them, because we're not an AI provider. But what Virtual Agent Portal allows you to do, it's a kind of an open placeholder, so that if I need to interact between an agent and an AI on the desktop, it can go into Virtual Agent Portal. And I can do things like I can try Amazon, or I could switch it out for Google, because maybe I get a better price. The agent doesn't see the difference. I don't need to retrain them. I'm using a certain AI, and I put in a different training model, and I want to do some A -B testing to see which one's giving me better results. The agent won't see the difference. Virtual Agent Portal handles all that in the background and feeds the information back to management to say, okay, yeah, the new changes are working, so we're going to now use that AI. But it's all about making it transparent to the agent, so they're focused on the customer and my understanding is that with all this, you guys have now developed and are operating with a very big customer. Yeah, somebody we've been having a lot of fun with over the summer is United Airlines. So they're a big Cisco shop. They've got Cisco UCCE. They've got Cisco Webex. And they had this concept that they called Agent on Demand. And what they wanted to be able to do was to provide airline -side services to customers remotely. And with Webex and the Cisco Contact Center product, those things didn't work together. So Cisco brought in Upstream Works, and so we're kind of the glue between all this. So now what happens at United Airlines is, and if you're traveling and you're at United, look around because you're going to see QR codes all over the place. You can shoot the QR code with your phone, and you will get hooked up with a live video call with the United Gate agent. So it's for doing airline -side things. So can't buy my baggage. I got to go change my flight. I want to change my seat. You know, all the stuff that you could go up to the gate to do, there's a big lineup, or you're in the United Club having a drink and you want to do this, you can now do this on your phone remotely. From a customer experience point of view, it's an awesome thing. But what's even better about it is think about gate agents. These are the people who are standing at the gate and they're doing stuff and then you board your flight and then they go back in the back room and they sit around until their next flight. Well, now what they do is they go back in the back room and United has little, I'll call them informal contact centers in every airport. Gate agents leave their post, they go back and they get on the phone and they start dealing with other customers from all over the world. So from United's point of view, they're now getting much better utilization of their staff and they're assisting people at any airport where there's United Airlines. And from the customer's point of view, they just know that, hey, I want to change my seat and I can do it on my phone and talk to a person to do it. So it's a win for the customers and it's an absolute win for United as well because now, you know, I don't have to line up to do this stuff and I can better utilize my agents. It just occurred to me that it's liberating for both sides of that equation. In other words, as you were mentioning from the customer point of view, now I don't have to stand even, you know, it was used to be a problem. I have to find the right line to stand in. That is, you know, we've all had that experience. I can just click on one of these wherever I am in the airport and get help. Yeah, absolutely. You hit the QR code and it's going to ask for your flight number. So you put your flight number in and your passenger name, and then you're going to get to the right person to talk about the right stuff. It doesn't matter what line you're going to get in because it's skills routed to the right person. Wow. And that also means that remote, to your point, remote agents, whether they're at an informal contact center, a little mini one in the back office there behind the gate, or maybe just as in a more, it may be out of a home even, right there, there is help now, you know, late at night, maybe there's no one at the little airport in a smaller center, which United does fly in and out of, maybe you're just talking to someone somewhere else. That smaller center, you could talk to an agent at home, but you could also be talking to an agent who's on shift at O 'Hare in between flights. Right. So that's really, that really is an amazing step forward. And it really, it leverages all the technologies already in place. Yeah. And then, and then they went further because they said, you know what we, cause you can, you can escalate between voice video and chat on the application. You don't have to do video call. You can also just chat with the agent as well. But they've also got translations. So they're using, I believe it's Amazon for doing, there's Google, sorry, they're using Google to do translations, but now I can go on, I can click that QR code, say I'm Spanish. I can type in in Spanish, what the agent sees is coming up in English and they answer in English and the person gets it back in Spanish. And this is a great use of generative AI because that's, I will say a year ago, when you showed translations in a demo, it was anyone spoke the language went, yeah, that doesn't really work. The language was stilted generative AI has, has changed the game on translations because generative AI can translate really well. So that's a very excellent use case for it. This is very exciting because it sort of opens up so many doors that, you know, the, the agent might be in Berlin, the, the, the other, the passenger might be in Mexico city and they're able to talk to each other in their own languages. Yep. And you can do it across industry as well. Think about, you know, you as a person, you go to a drug store and you need to consult with a doctor and they've got a nurse practitioner there who can triage. And then click a QR code and get a video conference going with a doctor who may be at a central site. Now I'm sitting, having a conversation with a medical professional via video that's been queued up. And, you know, on the doctor's side, he's between patients, he logs onto the system and he just starts taking some calls and he can deal with patients. And now I don't have to have doctors everywhere. I can centralize them and I put nurse practitioners around. So there's a lot of healthcare uses for the same type of application. Hey Rob, let's stay with that a second, but in both cases, because, um, do you, do you, I'm going to use maybe the wrong term, but is there a continuity on each case? In other words, let's say, um, I opened up a conversation as a United customer or as a, as a patient and it's concluded, but now I have the same problem maybe four hours later. Will the next person who helps me know about my last conversation? Well, we captured the interaction history of every interaction that happens. So the answer, the quick answer is yes. Um, as a, as an agent or a doctor or a gate agent, uh, you can go back and review the previous recording, um, or the transcript of what's going on, or again, another great use of generative AI. You could also get a summary delivered back to you of what had gone on on that previous call, but that whole contact history is tracked. So every single time Doug Green contacts, they're going to be able to say Doug Green always contacts us and says, we screwed his seat up. He does this every single flight. So maybe he's just pulling our leg. So, you know, it works both ways. And that's really amazing because that's the type of information, you know, old school that, you know, there would be someone around who knew some other people and would say, yeah, look at Doug. And this is, he does that all the time. Here's how to handle it. Now we're able to do this on a, on a, and that must make agent life or the doctor life, whoever's receiving the contact a little bit easier, right? They've, they've got that contextual and historical information. Yeah. We've always believed, I was talking about the elephant never forgets. And I've always believed that as a person contacting a business, there are certain things that I know the business should know those things as well. Most importantly, I know that I called last Thursday about the same thing. The business should know that the agent who picks up my call, this is, you know, this is video or just a voice call, but the agent should know that as well. And that's the important part of interaction history. So regardless of the channel you come in on, the agent has access to that information and they can see what that context is. Cause that's all important to them providing you good service. Rob, you know, I know it's early days and, and, but you know, this was an historic summer for travel. So United you've already flown, if you will, through a challenging time. What's the reaction, what's United telling you and what are customers saying what's happening? Uh, United loves it. Um, all of the airlines are aware of it and are looking and, and want to understand how they've done it. Um, we're getting a lot of inbound, uh, requests coming in from basically all the major airline carriers from very senior people. Um, I think over the Labor Day weekend, it was something like, I don't know, 2 .3 or 2 .8 million passengers went through Chicago O 'Hare airport, uh, and NBC news and Chicago did a section on United and all the travelers and right in the middle of it is, and they have this agent on demand application and they show here's a phone talking to an agent. That's the upstream application right there, which was very cool. So Rob, you know, uh, with this, this, uh, work you're doing with United, I understand they turned to you because they were able to find you as a reliable source for this. So original the agent on demand idea, uh, came from United. Um, and they, they did a proof of concept to say, okay, it kind of works, but it wasn't robust enough for sort of the enterprise you will. Um, and they turned to Cisco who was sort of their trusted communications provider and said, can you do this? And Cisco looked into it and they came back and said, no, we can't get all the bits and pieces, but we can't make them work together. And then somebody inside Cisco who knew upstream, wasn't talk to upstream. And so Cisco came to us and we said, yeah, of course we can do that. So it went back to United said, okay, we have a solution. Um, and we put that into United and they'd been extremely happy with the stability and how well it works. So everything's great. And since then it's, I don't, I mean, maybe it's early to say this, it sounds like it's on its way to becoming an industry standard. Uh, we're getting a ton of inbound interest. People are coming up and saying, you know, we, we, we've heard about the agent on demand. We want to know how it works and how you do it. And, and now we find out that upstream works is kind of the key enabler here. So, yeah, we're getting a lot of inbound demand on it, which is great. Well, uh, I wanted to, uh, conclude our podcast with just about how we can get a hold of products from upstream works. I understand that you're a channel oriented company. So do you have a channel pro program? We have a channel program. Uh, we do not sell directly at all. Uh, we have distribution channels, uh, throughout, uh, Canada, the U S and Europe. Um, we're available, um, on the Amazon platform, we're available on the Cisco platforms. Um, and we are expanding our market. So if there's, you know, if you're one of our resellers, uh, you know, you, you can, you can get at this. Um, if you're new to us and you want to talk with us, you've got some opportunities you want to discuss. Uh, we do have a channel program. We're really easy to deal with. Um, basically we can sign you up and then we'll do all the heavy lifting and until such time as you want to take on as much of the sales training and implementation training as you want to based on your business needs. Sounds like a great way for a channel partner right now or an MSP to win with AI. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, this is an exciting, ongoing story, Rob. I really hope that we get to do an additional podcast, maybe just about the United application, if you will, or, or that the, what you're doing there and in healthcare and maybe some other industries, learn some more news and do some stuff in the future. But for now, I want to thank you for joining us. Where can we learn more about upstream works? www .upstreamworks .com. Well, I hope everyone takes a visit and takes a second look, but for now, thanks very much for joining me today. Thank you, Doug. It's been really fun.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
SBF TRIAL: 10/02 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. It is officially trial week and as Bloomberg's Joe Wiesenthal would likely put it, this is why we get up in the morning. It's been exactly nine months and 20 days since Sam Bankman -Fried got arrested at his then home in the Bahamas. Today marks the last day before he is set to start the trial in which he will win back his freedom or be locked up for what a federal judge says could be a very long time. Thousands of pages of evidence ranging from internal documents to audio recordings will be presented and fought over in the next six weeks as US prosecutors try to prove that the former FTX founder knowingly defrauded customers and business partners. Arguably the most damning evidence or lack thereof could come from the recollections and personal opinions of Bankman -Fried's former colleagues, friends and housemates. Caroline Ellison, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang were close friends and roommates of Bankman -Fried as much as they were colleagues. Ellison was emotionally invested with the FTX founder and troubled by the former couple's on and off relationship which according to a diary entry from her slowly fizzled out in February 2022. Prosecutors also say they intend to call up FTX customers and investors including non -US customers over the course of the trial. On another note, do you remember when FTX suddenly announced it was hacked and lost some $600 million worth of crypto? This was the same day it filed for bankruptcy last November. A decent portion of those funds sat in a wallet for a few months and then started moving this weekend. Around 15 ,000 Ether worth around $26 million at Sunday night's prices moved out of a wallet through various routers and privacy tools between Friday night and Sunday morning. We never got an explanation for what exactly happened and how the exploit was carried out. I imagine federal investigators are probably closely tracking this episode. On a logistics note, Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in favor of the DOJ's motion to prevent Bankman -Fried from getting into the weeds on what his lawyers may or may not have said about FTX's operations in his opening statement. However, Bankman -Fried's defense team can still raise the advice of counsel defense later on with notice to the court and DOJ. In court filings, the defense said the argument would be that FTX's in -house and external lawyers were part of decisions to use auto -deleting messaging platforms, set up legal entities in the US, loan funds to FTX and Alameda executives, and other aspects of the FTX -Alameda relationship. Want to follow along? Sign up for CoinDesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the CoinDesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Real Estate Market (Crashing)? Price Reduction Scripts & Systems
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. And we are back. Now we're going to be really drilling down over the next five podcasts on pricing listings to sell, but also getting price reductions. There's a lot of technique to the things we're going to be sharing with you guys. A lot of scripts, a lot of systems. It's very important that you use the notes that are below. Obviously we try to, I think almost always put all of our notes, right Julie? In the show description below. So scroll down, all the notes are there and we're going to be really getting into the weeds with all of you so that frankly you can start pricing your listings to sell. If you have listings now that are overpriced, then you can get them repositioned on the market so they correctly reflect the market's expectations. That was a script. Did you write it down? Snuck that in on them, didn't you? I did. And when your hunting expires, as all of you will be doing, you're also going to be knowing how to get the prices adjusted accordingly so the properties will sell. So this week is very intense, really focused on pricing properties to sell because it is going to become very, very tricky in many markets. Now I'm going to start out with a little bit of, we need to I think have a common understanding of the difference between value and price. And I'm reading your notes and I see what you're about to talk about so I think this will fit in perfectly. It's a good intro. Right. Well, we'll see. Back to you. Yeah, exactly. So I was thinking about this last night, how to explain. So Julie and I, when we socialize with people and go to parties and just talk with all of you guys, just run across everyone. People make the mistake constantly of saying there's some sort of or alluding to or believing that there's some sort of big price or value erosion that's going on. Value erosion, not price erosion. Value versus price. That's where I'm going with all this. Because back in 2007, 8, and 9, there was value erosion. The values of the properties actually dropped below what people paid for them. So there's a difference between pricing and value. So get this clear in your head and then I think it'll give your mind room to be open to the thoughts that we're going to be sharing with you in a second. So if you have, like I'll give you an example, Julie and I had, let's say if we had a car for sale and let's say we put the car for sale for 50 grand and even though the market tells us that the car is worth 30 grand, like every single comp, every single thing that's out there is telling us that car is not worth 50, it's worth 30, right? You guys with me so far? And then we eventually, in order to get the car sold, we have to adjust the price down to 30. Did we lose 20 grand or did we just finally price the house correctly? Do you guys get the difference? And so what a lot of people are believing is because they have to price their properties correctly that the properties have lost value. No, they didn't. They lost value maybe in your head, right? They didn't actually lose value. The difference between, so for example, if we'd bought that car for 30 grand, let's say, and we were selling it for 15 grand, then yeah, we lost 15 grand. That's like what was happening in 2007, 2008, 2009, well, mostly seven and eight. The definition of a short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe. Well short sale, you're selling it for less than you owe, or exactly, assuming you owe like you just said. So yeah, so that's the whole moral of the story here. So please don't think this is anything like the previous market, which I'm teeing you up perfectly. Exactly. As we have said, pricing is the hot topic all week because it's a big hairy topic. We'll take a look at the factors causing price reductions, what to do from a listing agent's perspective, as well as what to do when you're representing a buyer. And we're going to dive into some price reduction scripts and give you the confidence you need to navigate the changing market. So let's first take a look at what's happening to prices right now. And no, by saying that, we are not talking about the market crashing. Just as Tim said, the market is not crashing, it is simply normalizing. So here are the facts, hot off the presses. Nationwide, one in every 15 listings had a price reduction in the past 30 days. That's about six and a half of active list, six and a half percent of active listings in the country. However, some markets have seen 50 % of active listings get a price reduction in the past 30 days. So let's compare those two. Nationwide, it averages out to six and a half percent of actives got a price reduction last month. But there are many markets that it's quite a bit more severe. But so what this is, when you see this kind of statistic, we've seen this before. Julie and I have been doing this for decades. And what this is kind of a, I don't even want to, I don't want to be overly critical, but this is essentially sellers who have unrealistic expectations as far as what their homes are worth. We call it aspirational pricing. And frankly, this is evidence of agents that don't know how to actually properly price properties. In other words, they're just taking the listing at an elevated price. Maybe they don't know how to go about setting the price correctly in the first place, or maybe they don't want to, they don't have the skill set being blunt to get the property priced correctly in the first place. So when you see these kinds of widespread statistics and especially something like 6%, which is a pretty meaningful number, honestly, when you see numbers like that, that is essentially the market still adjusting to the new reality. That's the sellers adjusting to the new reality. And that's also the agents having to learn how to adjust to the new reality. And then, you know, doctor filling their sellers, you know, learning how to write exactly this, this type of information. When you see these types of statistics, this is 100 % proof that the market is still very much adjusting. Now, also taking the time, you know, take when you're considering all this, what time of year it is, what's the, you know, what's interest rates are doing. And so these types of things in a cyclically adjusting market, the numbers will go up and down pretty radically pretty fast. So just adjust accordingly. This information is as of two days ago. That's right. Now, the five metro areas with the highest percentage of listings that got price cuts, this is the percentage of listings that had a price reduction. When I give you these stats, these percentages, that doesn't mean they're coming down by that percent. That's just the percent of overall actives that had to have a price reduction. So that's Wenatchee, Washington State, Idaho Falls, Idaho, Carson City, Nevada, and Austin, Round Rock area, and Waco, Texas. Those were all in the 50 to 54 percent of active listings came down. Again, that doesn't mean they came down by 50 percent. It just means half of the actives had a price reduction. Now she took that sort of sampling because obviously price reductions were happening all over the country, but she was using that to show the fact that it's happening in these completely different unrelated markets. That's right. So unlike before, you know, when the market was super hot for several years, kind of the whole country moved about the same way. We were all going rapidly up in price. We all had multiple offers basically on anything. All it had to do was be available. Well, now we're seeing markets kind of stretch apart, and what's happening in the ones I just rattled off is different than, say, Florida, which still is pretty strong. So you have to know your actual market. Now, this is all happening, all these price reductions are all happening at the same time that prices are still up by at least 3 percent this year and are expected to end up averaging about 5 percent higher by year's end. This figure shows you that we are normalizing, not crashing. A crash would not have price increases. Okay, so that's worth, we really need to drill down on that. So listen to what Julie just said, be very, very clear in your head. There were no price increases, there were no value increases that were happening, it was value basically, that were happening during 2007, 2008, quite the opposite, right? Properties in some markets dropped by, you know, 40 plus percent. That is not what we're experiencing. Year over year, what Julie just explained to all of you guys, is that in many markets prices went up, values of properties went up by at least 5 percent. So despite what the headlines and all the click -baity things on all the news channels and all the rest of it are leading you to believe about real estate, guess what? If you own a home, it went up by probably at least 5 percent this year. Exactly. Okay, now, remember, again, we're proving the point that we are adjusting and normalizing, not crashing. Remember this, at $52 trillion, the total value of homes in the U .S. is up, get this, 49 percent since before the pandemic. That truly is insane. Yes, 49 percent. So these price adjustments won't be catastrophic to most sellers. We're a very long way away from short sales, so don't go thinking the sky is falling. Okay, so again, worth drilling down. Prices are up by almost 50 percent in the last... It's since 2019. Now what you're seeing now with the price adjustments or the price reductions essentially that many markets are now experiencing, remember that you still had 5 percent increase in value in the last 12 months. So you're looking at properties in many markets that have increased by at least 50 percent since 2019? Yeah, since pre -pandemic. Okay, so that is a substantial massive increase. Now, the value of those properties, there's no reason to believe, and it's incredibly important you're really clear in your head about this, that the values of the homes are going to somehow regress back into say 2019 values. And I read that sometimes from people that are, I don't want to come off overly negative, but they really piss me off because they don't use any real factual information. No, they're only using their thought that, well, you know, prices were going really high in and 2006 5, and so then there was a crash, and since prices have gone up, there must be a crash. That's not based on any underlying factors. It's just basically, well, that's what it did before, that's what it's going to do now. It's basically yo -yo thinking about, you know, there's going to be another bubble that's going to burst. There's no reason to believe that's true. The same people who've been predicting that since, again, 2019, they've been wrong year after year after year after year, and they're going to continue to be wrong because nothing is the same as it was back in 2007. Well, that's why we're facting them, right? Okay, so look at the runway, though. Okay, so a 49 % increase since pre -pandemic, and you know, the average, and not every single listing is having a price reduction, but when they do, they're still only coming down by less than 5 % on average, so you've got that remaining, you know, 44 % left to go before you're even Steven with 2019. There's just so much runway there. Now, are there isolated instances where people refinanced, took a bunch of equity out, didn't have a very big down payment in the first place, and maybe are behind on payment, and that makes them even very, very, very randomly, literally less than, I think it's like 3 .5 % of the market of closings were even short sales. So along those lines, again, you'll have this memorized because that is what you do. Possibly. We'll see. No, she will. You watch, listeners. So what percent of all home inventory is distressed? almost It's like 4%, but it's less than 4 % overall. Which is a record low for what period of time? Forever. Yeah. Literally forever. It is a record low since they started recording it, I think back in the 80s. You remember when all the - And actually, it's gone down. It was a previous low, and it's actually gotten lower in the past quarter. Remember when all the naysayers were saying, well, when the COVID - Forbearances. Forbearances. There was going to be a foreclosure wave. There's one thing after another, after another, after another. Okay. So the forbearance naysayers, there's going to be this awful backup of foreclosures due to forbearances. Well, they also said there would be a silver tsunami when all the baby boomers just had to sell their houses all of a sudden. And they also thought there would be an Airbnb bust. And now the new thing is, as soon as somebody has to make their student loan payments, well, that means they're going to miss their mortgage payments from one drama to the next, but not based on facts, which we like to sprinkle upon you. Again, the reason that we're so adamant about you guys getting these facts and the reason that we spend so much time on this podcast and our coaching program to make sure you have the actual information is because if you operate with bad information, you're going to then pass that bad information along to your customers. You're then going to, you know, it always comes down to the same thing. If you don't believe that tomorrow is going to be better than today, you're not going to take the actions today that would have made tomorrow better than today. In other words, if you believe the sky is falling, you're sure as hell not going to do what you don't want to do when you don't want to do at the highest level, you're not going to learn to price properties correctly. You're not going to learn how to get prices, you know, lower prices on homes. Why would you bother after all tomorrow? It's going to be, you know, some sort of, you know, locust apocalypse, so you're never actually going to make tomorrow better than today. So that's really the reason that you want to purge from your mind all of these naysayers, all of these snake oil salesmen that are trying to sell you into the belief that there's any sort of anything other than frankly, amazing things that are going to happen in the real estate markets. And here's a little foreshadowing, and we're working on a podcast about this. If you look purely at the demographics of what the United States is experiencing over the next 20, 30 years, it's extraordinary and it's going to do nothing but maybe even increase the demand for housing by something like five to seven X. So that's how many home sales and how much new construction is going to have to be built just to meet demand and it's going to be built and that demand will be met and you are going to be a beneficiary of that provided that you are taking the right steps now to, you know, stay relevant in the real estate. That's right. And provided that you make it through this next three to six months because it is going to be more challenging than you're used to. That's why we're talking about price reductions because we've seen, you know, we've gotten texts, we've seen videos online, we've seen stuff on social media where agents were losing their minds over having to do price reductions, hearing about price reductions, having to ask a seller to come down.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from How to Turn $3.2K to $313k with Crypto (Altcoin Degen Tales)
"A trader flipped $3 .3K up to $313 ,000 in just 19 days. This is crazy money, and ex -user dealer .eth shows us how they made it happen. Watch until the end for how I plan to integrate this strategy into my trades. Let's discover crypto. These trades were insane, and they were all in meme coins. It's the Vegas casino of crypto where you either get rich or get wrecked, and there are only a few people who really know how to do it. This trader got in early, and I think the reason they were able to do this is they were watching live pairs for new coins, doing some easy research and just simply buying early. Now, no one is sure, but this seems to be the most likely way this person was able to make a 1000 % gain in just over two weeks. So what happened? It started with a big buy. Six billion fined tokens on the second day of listing, making five purchases totaling about $30 ,000 that ended up netting him just under $149 ,000. This mega swing trade took about seven days to make a huge profit. They sold and then bought another fine specimen of blockchain tech called Real Smurfcat. This one they bought within its first hour of listing. It 3Xed $18K into well over $50 ,000. Real Smurfcat went on to do another 150 % move to the upside from there, but this trader had already moved on to greener pastures by then. This shows you you don't have to time the exact top or even close. They then bought $8 ,000 worth of Super and $15 ,000 worth of Curve NU plus a few extra random meme coin tokens. A few of them popped while some of them went back down to the gutter they crawled out from. These are meme coins, so as always, the wins can occasionally be huge, but the mini losses are generally bigger. The token Curve NU generated 150 % gain while Super or Supermarket price, it fell flat. The action in meme coins is light right now, but there are gains to be made and, of course, heavy losses, too. Now, this trader is an outlier because it's almost all losses in S -coins. The huge wins are the glory stories, but the losses can leave you reeling. So back to it. The rise of Pepe was the last mega meme coin pump, but sh** coin groups are still out there pounding the pavement trying to find the next big win. Now, this is not financial advice. You should know that already. I personally don't really trade meme coins unless the meme's power is just undeniable. Like I said, most people that buy meme coins at the very least get wrecked and the price goes down. Sometimes they even get honey potted and can't sell once they buy or even click the wrong approval and get their wallet drained of crypto and NFTs. It can happen, trust me. If you want to go to the crypto casino, many traders just go to dextools .io, live new pairs tab, but rest assured 99 .9 % of them are going to zero, so be careful. Trading new live pairs is like touching a live wire. It's basically paying the ETH gas fees to try your luck on a new token that just hit the Ethereum blockchain. Almost all of them are scams, but it is possible to find a good one that has an active community, committed devs, a website, and social channels in place to drive up the price. Looking at this wallet, I'm guessing that's how they turn $3 ,000 into $300 ,000. But the size of the bets is telling me they knew they picked coins that had a chance of winning. Whether that's from doing research or being part of a meme coin community is speculation, but live pairs is definitely the way to get in early. And again, in case I haven't driven this point home enough, it's also the way to get wrecked. So, yeah, it's a mean world out there, but occasionally there is serious money to be made. Crypto is full of possibilities. Look, that's all I got for now. I'll see you at the top.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep385: Stop Having Boring Shows By Using These Storytelling Tips - Reena Friedman Watts
"Try to find other ways to collaborate and continue the relationship versus being just one and done after the episode. A lot of people like they do an interview and then they never talk to that person again. Don't be that person, then your show will continue to grow. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, Podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And today I'm with Rina Watts from Better Call Daddy podcast. Better Call Daddy is where she'll interview just about anyone, about anything, interesting things. It's totally uncensored. And at the end, she has the guest ask her father a question because she says her dad knows everything and anything. And so they will ask. And I was recently featured on the podcast. I didn't know what to ask. I was like, geez, like where do I start? And unfortunately I wasn't prepared. I didn't have my question in front of me. So I came up with a question and it was like, what did your dad think when he had a girl? Because I've got a couple of boys. I have two sons and for the most part, boys are pretty easy. And you do want to raise them as gentlemen, but I think I would freak out if I had a girl. I would lock her in a whatever, like some type of up high thing. I would lock them up and I wouldn't let anyone see them or talk to them. I would be that weird controlling, scared to death dad, like we hear about in history. So I think God or the universe knew that and just gave me boys. That was perfect. So yeah, that's why I asked on her podcast, Better Call Daddy. So when that episode comes out, the link to it will also be in the show notes here. So you could probably just scroll down, check out that link to Better Call Daddy and also specifically that episode. And you can also connect with Rina on any social that she wanted you to connect with. Everything's down there. Her whole bio is also in the show notes as well. So anything you want to do, like finding her, connecting with her, getting to know more about her, just scroll down. Let's get into today's podcast interview about podcasting ultimately. And it's interesting because Rina has had her episodes. She's been going for well over 300 episodes and soon she'll be crossing 400 episodes. She's been really doing it for a little while. I want to find out like what has kept her there because for one, there's something that's true and it's called podfade. And depending on who you ask and which study it was, studies show that most people don't get past six or 10 episodes. Most podcast hosts never get past that. So she's in the 300s right now and she has 173 ratings and or written reviews on her podcast. And so it's like, what did you do to get all of that? Obviously, there's something good that she's doing. I will mention something that's part of her bio real quick. And it's that she worked with another person and she actually helped get ultimately top guests for them. And so I want to talk a little bit about today on this podcast, like how do you get top guests? How do you reach out to them? Because most of them have gatekeepers. So we'll talk about a few of these things. First and foremost, Rina, I've talked a lot, so I want you to say something. So I'm going to ask you a question. When was it that you launched your podcast? I want to hear the when and the why and the how did you launch your podcast? When, why and how? Great question. I launched in July of 2020. But even before that, I was thinking about it for a long time. So I had co -hosted someone else's podcast years prior. It started off where I was just booking guests, but then it was like two guys, they were both recruiters and they were like, Oh, wow, you've brought us some really interesting people. How would you like to fill in? And so that brought me back to my radio days. I worked for an NPR station in college and I really like the radio medium. And so they let me co -host a few times. And I got excited because I saw the numbers growing and I liked booking guests on that show. So I had gotten my feet wet, which I think is actually a good idea for podcasters. Either guest on other people's shows, co -host a show, starting a podcast, like you're talking about this pod fade thing. It's a lot of work that I feel like people don't think about. Marketing is just as big a piece as recording the episode. It's probably a bigger piece. Marketing is where I feel like people get burned out. So here's how I keep that easy. In the beginning, I literally was just sending an audiogram and a graphic and links to the episode. But then I built upon that. Then it was, Oh, hey, here's some copy you might want to use. The easier you make it for people to share, the more they'll do it. So send them different clips, send them audiograms, send them copies, send them links to the episode. And like you just did a pro tip, see how you can link in the show notes to help them. Do you have a website? I have a website. I have a blog. You have a blog. You have an email list. I have an email list. Try to find other ways to collaborate and continue the relationship versus being just one and done after the episode. I think a lot of people do an interview and they never talk to that person again. Don't be that person. Then your show will continue to grow. Can you guys do an Instagram live together? Are you talking to a streamer? Can you do a Twitch? Can you do a social media collab? Are you talking to somebody who's good at graphics? Can they make you a meme? Think of different things or different strengths that the other person that you're talking to has. Are they really good at rev share opportunities? Talk about affiliates. What is the other person that you're talking to doing that's working that you can get in on or learn from or also do? Interesting. Thank you for sharing all that. I keep going. I'm hung up on something though because I did the math. I looked. You had something that went out like on September 4th. You had something went out on August 28th and then August 21st and I'm noticing that it's about once a week. Yep. I've gone down to one a week. In the beginning, I was insane and did three a week. Ah, that's where it is. Okay, because I pulled up my calculator. You basically have been going a little over three years and so I calculated basically there's 52 weeks a year and you should only be on like 150, 160 episodes right now. You're like 330 -ish, so like more than double. I was going to ask what happened there. So let's talk about this because I know some podcasters who launch and maybe they're doing it or triple it. So they switch it to three a week or they switch it to one a week from one a month or I know maybe there's three somebodies actually who have gone to daily who started with like every other week or once a week and now they're at like five or seven a week. But for you, you mentioned that you had at three and that lately has been at one and I want to find the pros and cons. I want to find out why. I want to find out if it's working better. Were you getting burnt out? Why change from three to one? That is a great question. Well, there were multiple reasons. I would say a bit of burnout. Yes, like I wanted to stay fresh and now I batch record too. So I'm like six, seven weeks ahead of like releasing one a week. I think that if you only do one a week, then you're able to market it better. You're able to be fresher. You're able to do better research for the people that you're actually interviewing. You can be more selective in who you're picking. And here's another thing. There are some podcast hosts like yourself that do solo episodes as well. I haven't really done solo episodes. But what I have done is I've had other people interview me. I mean, I've been on other people's shows. So if somebody interviews me well, I will take that interview. I'll create a custom intro. I'll have my dad listen to somebody else interviewing me and then I'll have him respond to a good interview. So I've taken some of my best interviews of other people interviewing me. And I've re aired those on my RSS feed. It just gives you more content gives that other person another boost. It reintroduces an episode a collaboration. So I've done a few of those. But I have talked to other podcasters that, you know, are getting thousands of listens on each episode. And I am finding that they're either doing best of they're doing shorter, solo episodes, or they're doing tips. And those episodes can get just as many downloads as an interview. So I'm thinking about potentially maybe doing some extra daddy segments like me and my dad like reflecting on certain episodes that have stayed with us or daddy tips or I'm playing with that idea as an evolution. So there's a couple things that you said, one of them is that you can be more selective with the guest. And that makes complete sense. If you feel like you have to do seven episodes a week, three episodes a week, then it can get challenging to batch all those it can get challenging to stay ahead of the game. And so there is technically a likeliness going up of you being okay with somebody who is less quality. And so you avoid that by doing fewer. You also mentioned the truth is I'm like thinking on the tip of my head, like there was another reason that you said you slowed down. What was the other reason that you said you slowed down besides being able to monitor them? I was a bit getting burned out. I mean, I was cranking out so many that I wanted to make people want to listen more too. Like if you just give them out so easily, right? Oh, marketing. Marketing was the other one. I did mention the burnout. Somehow I just accidentally mentioned the burnout and forgot that I said it, but I mentioned the burnout and I mentioned the being able to focus on the guest and having good quality. But the other one that I missed that you did say is because you felt like you could market it a sec. Definitely. You can market it better because then you don't have to like, get out your clip, get out the graphic, get out everything. One day you can space it out. And the more you space it out, you're going to hit different people seeing it. I mean, you've got to really promote something like seven times for like your audience to see it. And here's another thing too. I've started working at cool .fm one day a week and I'm re airing best of episodes there. So I'm airing them sometimes a year after they've already aired. And a lot of podcasters, once they air it the first time, they never talk about the episode again. I try to find ways to get my back episodes re listened to. So I just interviewed the Jewish matchmaker, the host of Netflix's Jewish matchmaking. I had interviewed four people from Indian matchmaking a year ago. So I'm like, hey, if you liked Indian matchmaking in her episode, here's the links to those four. And now here's the Jewish version. Okay, cool. So your podcast Better Call Daddy, is it something that you make money from or no? Everybody wants to know that, right? It has led to me making money. Yes. Is it like, does it feed into a business or is it more advertising dollars? How have you made money through your podcast? In lots of different ways like entrepreneurs do, right? So I have made money by advertisers. That is not the route I'm currently going. I have made money through affiliate sales. I've made money by coaching other podcasters who are just starting out in how to do it better. So I do like coaching calls one on one, or I've also helped people produce their own shows. Okay, cool. In that last one, where you're supporting podcasters, is that something that you thought you would do in the beginning? That's a great question. So in the beginning, I did kind of want to demonstrate my love of marketing. Like, hey, if I put together something and package it cool, other people will want me to try and help them do that too. That was a thought, right? But it was kind of a pipe dream. I hadn't done it. I had worked in production before behind the scenes. I got my start in reality TV. I've worked in radio. I love production. I love storytelling. But had I helped somebody from start to finish do it? No, but it led to me doing that multiple times. Yes. You mentioned storytelling and loving storytelling. And I think that podcasts are a lot of storytelling. I'll even tell random stories that are more parables. It's not even a real thing. Obviously, I've made up the characters. They might be ducks or cave persons or something else. So I'll frequently tell stories. I'll tell stories about clients. I'll tell stories about people that have worked with our company and what they're going through. And frequently, if something comes up, I will liken it to an actual story. Because I think that that is really helpful and supportive. And on your podcast, you get interesting stories. Like you're just talking about interviewing people from Netflix on Jewish matchmaking and Indian matchmaking. I know that you've had phone sex workers. I should say the whole thing. Yeah, it sounds totally different if you don't use the whole thing. But on the podcast, and it sounds like the stories are kind of a big emphasis. Would you share why you think that they are and then after the why are they a big deal? Why does it help? Kind of the how the listener can be better with their stories on their podcast? Yes, that's a great question. So why? I just have a fascination and curiosity. And I have crossed paths with lots of interesting people. That's why I also thought I should have a podcast like I've kept in touch with people that I worked with in 9911 and VH1 and E and special effects animation companies and producers and directors. And I feel like a lot of people are and I wanted to bring some of those conversations into the forefront. How the phone sex worker is an interesting one, but I was a coach for Kathy Heller's launching a mastermind. And one of the girls that was in my group was a mental health worker by day and a phone sex operator by night. And I'm like, hell yeah, that's mompreneurship at its finest. I want to hear that story and talk to me like you talk to them. You know, like, wait, so you had her do the voice and everything? Hell yeah. But that was what did she ask your dad? What did she ask your dad at the end? I don't remember, but my dad has got a sons of humor. So I've had women on that have been sex trafficked. I've had a lady on who was a dominatrix. And there's been some funny moments in my dad has a sense of humor. I even had on the host of Netflix's show, how to build a sex room. And my dad was like, he's open to listening to it, but he's like, that's a little out there for me. He was like, I think I'd rather have like a romantic dinner and a walk on the beach. Like my dad. So like old fashioned, he listened to the whips and chains, but for him, that wasn't like so much a turn on. Okay. All right. So it would have been weird if he shared that it was with me. It was how would the listener? No, I'm hearing what you're saying and ignoring it on purpose. Okay. How would the listener think to themselves like the best way to adding in people's stories or their own stories to help with engagement, entertainment, and probably even sales persuasion? Okay. So one thing about storytelling that I've learned is it's really a dance between the and interviewer the interviewee, right? Like you're sharing a bit and I'm sharing a bit and you're really listening for how you can keep the conversation going. You're not just going to your next question. How do you know that? How do you know? I don't just have seven questions that I need to get through in the time of 20, 30 minutes. You can feel it. I can feel it. I like that. All right. Well, keep going. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Hear it and you can feel it. Yeah. So it's okay to have bullet points, but I shouldn't be able to tell it's okay to do your research, but don't be so married to your questions. You have to leave room for magic to happen in the conversation. You have to genuinely be interested in what the person's saying. And I think also new interviewers don't do little things like, tell me more. How do you feel about that? Just little followups like that can make the person who's telling their story open up even deeper. And they love that. So those little tricks of getting a deeper answer from the person who's telling their story will make your story better versus just having a big question and answer, but try to get deeper by just giving them a little yes and. Okay. So to be clear, one of the things that I think I'm hearing you say is if we're interviewing, a thing that we can do that can be beneficial is ask more questions about what they're already talking about. Yes. How did you feel about that? What got you into that? Tell me more about that. These are good things. Is that right? Yes. I love how you just re -paraphrased that and said it better. That's another really awesome technique. Some people are really good at paraphrasing. And actually, the reason I decided to have my dad at the end of my show is because my dad is really good at summarizing what I say and saying it in his own way, but he knows me so well that he's able to connect my crazy thoughts. And I think not everyone when they're starting out podcasting is able to give people the key takeaways at the end. So have a notebook next to you and write down maybe your key thoughts that you want people to remember. That's another really, I feel like, advanced technique in storytelling is what do you want to leave the audience with? Give people those main points at the end. And I love that my dad does that for me and he puts his own spin on it. Yeah. I like it. I'm writing that down. So that's why you don't hear me asking a question. Main points down at the end. I've got some good notes from you so far. We're talking about how you launched a podcast July of 2020. You started out with doing multiple episodes. You slowed it down. And there's a lot of reasons. You were feeling overwhelmed. It was too high of a cadence, but you also justify that with some other things that can be beneficial. For example, it's like, now I can really hone in on who I'm having on. Additionally, not only am I honing in on it, but I can market a little bit better. And I can pull out new things and share them for a while. And you also mentioned how you do what's called callbacks. I was watching a comedian and he was talking about his own callbacks. And he was talking about, he's like, my jokes are so funny because I can do all these callbacks. So he had this whole skit and he kept doing the callbacks. And I think any good comedian will, where they jump into a point that they had mentioned earlier on in the joke. And they wrap it all together. For example, if we found a way to talk about phone sex workers again later on in this, or like where all of a sudden it's just like that phone sex worker or something like that. This is a good way to call back. And you do it with previous episodes. You mentioned that when you're doing the Jewish matchmaking, I think you said, but you had already done with the Indian matchmaking, I think. Is that correct? And so you put the four episodes in the show so now people can get to it easier. And also you mentioned it. And not everybody who comes on this show talks about callbacks like the comedians would, even in the same episode and referring to things that we've talked about before. And not everybody talks about callbacks in the way that you mentioned where you basically share a different episode that you had in a previous time. Like if you like this, then you might like that. Or we're talking about this today, this other episode also talks about it. I like the feedback about using stories, storytelling. And in a way, I just used storytelling of me just watching a comedian talking about callbacks to emphasize a point. And I didn't notice it until I'm looking at the stories right now. But these things where we bring in outside stories or other people's stories can really help to be able to be, as you were illustrating, helps us to be able to be more entertained, to learn more, et cetera. And then you mentioned something that I'm kind of doing right now in a way. It's like it's hitting the main points. And your dad does that at the end of your episodes. I try to do that at the end of episodes as well. I call it tell them what you're going to tell them is the first part. The middle part is tell them. And the last part is tell them what you told them. And so it's like, we're going to learn about this. And then you teach them the thing. And then you say, today you learned, and you share it. And these are like giving those main points, making sure that they're down. And so we've had fun already so far. But we've also learned a few really cool things from you about promotion, callbacks, stories, and repeating the main points. I want to take a quick break. When we get back, I'm going to talk more about how you make money. I'm going to talk about your best advice to a podcaster find and out if there's anything you're struggling with. So how you make money, main thing that you want to share with a podcaster. And we'll be right back.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Who Is Deezy?
"What's up everybody, and welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. I'm excited to sit down with Deezy, Mr. Nick Valdez, and talk about who he is, where he comes from, what he's all about, because I have no idea, and I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, why the hell is he hosting Discover Crypto? What's he all about? Does he even know anything about crypto? Well, let's dig into it. Deezy, how are you feeling? Thank you for being here. And what's your story, man? How are you in this position? Well, how are you talking on my shoulder? Who the hell are you talking to over there? What is going on? Is there hidden cameras in the wall? I don't know what's up. Talking to all of you out there. My name is Deezy, also known Nick Valdez. I'm a former professional Magic the Gathering streamer, whatever that means, not much in my opinion. And I've been in crypto. I've been making crypto content since 2020 briefly, and then I started working for the channel here back early 2021. And so I've been working in crypto full -time a little over two years at this point. I've been in content creation full -time a little over four years at this point. So you got into content creation for crypto in 2020, you said? Well, I started out with Magic the Gathering, but then I made my first piece of crypto content, which is Gods Unchained back in 2020. So does that mean you just got into crypto the day before that, or did you have a little bit of a pathway that got you there? I had a little bit of a pathway. I first discovered crypto from 4chan, actually, from the B board. So this was Bitcoin maybe a year or two old at this point. So fairly soon, I remember seeing some pretty low prices for Bitcoin. I remember my buddy trying to convince me. We worked together at ADT, the home security thing. So you ride around in a van, you leave headquarters, you might have to go to town an hour away. This is early days of smartphone. The web traffic was pretty low back then. The web pages were pretty low. There wasn't really social media networks like there is today. So I remember the text board on B, that's where I started discovering Bitcoin. And my buddy was like, man, we got to start buying some of this. But 4chan was nothing but scammers. And I thought, for sure, if I try to make Bitcoin, I'm going to get scammed. They're going to hack me. They're going to see my driver's license number somehow, my social security number. And it freaked me out being that it was related to that, and so I stayed away. Fast forward about two years, a buddy from high school was telling me about Silk Road and how he bought some ecstasy on it, full disclosure. And he was like, yeah, man, you got to get Bitcoin. I love this website. You can buy anything. And I was like, man, you're crazy. I don't know. This seems nuts. And then shortly thereafter, he lost, or maybe even during that time, he's like, yeah, I had to buy more Bitcoin because I lost Bitcoin on that computer. I remember him just pointing at his computer, and I was like, what do you mean you lost Bitcoin? I kind of had an idea of what it was. He's like, yeah, like I lost the password to my wallet or something. I just remember thinking like, wow, so you can have money in it, and you just lose it super easy, and it's associated with hackers? And so it kept me away from Bitcoin, even though I knew about it early, knew the proposition value of it early, it freaked me out. So that's a great spot to pivot there. That whole time, I'm investing in traditional stocks. And so I'm like, well, my Amazon's doing pretty good, guy. Right. No, but you bring up a great point because it's not just you as an individual. We see right now with all these Bitcoin spot ETFs, we see institutions on the horizon. And that's only because there's some proof of concept that's actually endured over a good period of time now, over a decade, in fact, for Bitcoin. But the question here, it kind of lies in, or the hesitation, I should say, lies in the lack of awareness broadly in both retail and institution. Because let's be honest, the people that are running institutions are people, too. And they are a part of retail. So the awareness factor of Bitcoin over the last 10 years has grown so exponentially. The question is, really, how do we get people from A to B, the genesis of first having the seed planted of hearing about Bitcoin, maybe seeing it on The Simpsons or in all the different media we watch, and then taking the leap to investigate it a little bit, and then taking that third step to actually get involved. So to get there, we need awareness. So I'm curious with you, where you came from, how old were you? What was your process like? At what point in life did you understand that there was a different value to money or currency than you were brought up, that change? When did that change happen? I learned that I was poor in second grade. I remember learning that. I grew up real poor. I grew up with a single mother. I could get into how, I don't want to say bad, it truly was, but things weren't easy. There's a period my mother was locked up. My father was put in jail, put under the concrete months after I was born. I never saw him. I saw him two, three times when I was 13. I haven't seen him since, and I never saw him before that. I haven't talked to him since, really. And so I grew up just very, very poor. But when you're five, you don't know you're poor. When you're six, you don't know you're poor. It takes a certain level. And I remember my mother dating Robbie Cumberland. He was a big jerk, man, really, really big jerk, abusive, not a fun time. But his daughter, I remember saying, oh, well, there's other people, they're more poor than us. And I learned the term middle -class. I didn't know what middle -class was. That's when I started seeing, as a seven -year -old, oh, there's hierarchies. There's social strata. There's social strata, and I'm down here. And then I don't know when it was, but at a certain point, you realize, I don't want to be down here. I want to be up here. So I remember pretty early, single digits age, you know, you're blowing the birthday cake. You're not supposed to say your wish is not going to come true. I remember just wishing, I want to be a millionaire. I want to be a millionaire. I was tired of being poor. And so I pretty quickly learned the value of money scrounging for lunch money in middle school. You know, like, maybe I would have an issue trying to get lunch money from my mother. I'm scrounging the quarters and the dimes and the couch cushions. While in high school, you know, I was pushed to work pretty early to help, to help. You know, a lot of people, they don't have that experience. You know, it's the opposite. Their parents encourage them to work at the same time, giving them money, paying for their car, paying for their cell phone, and then having them, oh, yeah, you need to learn the value of a dollar and make extra money on top of that. I was working and paying for my own school clothes. I was working, paying for my own school lunch. And so I learned the value of hard work and I learned the value of a dollar while being a high school student. And so that definitely gave me an advantage. Being poor, you know, statistically speaking, probably not an advantage. Your education is probably not going to be as good. Your influences are probably not going to be as good. Your home life is probably not going to be as good. But you do get an advantage with some aspects of mentality. And, you know, I just try to focus, you know, let's hone the positives from that and let's sharpen it and let's use it as a weapon to create financial independence. Yeah, I mean, what an interesting story there. And that's one of those things that all of us need to remember when we're talking to anybody, whether you're sitting in line at the bank or maybe not the bank because maybe you're walking down the street talking to a homeless person or a friend that you've never went deep with. Everybody has a story. Everybody comes from somewhere and there's depth there that we can truly connect on if we understand, even if somebody is being difficult to deal with or there's compassion and love there that we can engage with, right? And we can understand people better if we know that we all have a story. So you mentioned all this about your understanding of the lack of value proposition of the dollar and what it means to have money and the true value of money, I should say. But where did that value proposition that you mentioned of Bitcoin, when did that flip the switch in you that rather than you were just aware of it, that you actively said you pulled the trigger to do the first action transaction or purchase or something engaging with it? So it was almost going to be 2017. You know, that's when Bitcoin really started to go on its first major mainstream tear where, you know, started really getting people's attention. And I remember pretty early in the year. So, you know, well before December, well before October. So I don't know what level we're at, well below 10K. I remember it hitting headlines. And then that's when I decided to, you know what, it's time to do some education here. I, you know, probably like a lot of people in crypto, once you become fascinated about something, you want a deep dive on it. You want to go full blown, artisanal on it. And so that's a little bit of an aspect of what I did for Bitcoin there. And I remember looking into it and it was Reddit. It was Reddit of all places that I learned about the four -year cycle. So I saw about the four -year cycle pretty early because at that point, we did have a little bit of a spike in 2011 and then a spike in 2013. And then we're starting to spike in 2017. And then once we hit a new all -time high, then that four -year cycle really starts to look pretty clear. And you're like, oh, wow, we're setting up for a repeat of history here. And a lot of smart people were saying, oh, the having Bitcoin will go down. And I remember they're saying, guys, you idiots, 2K is the top. Guys, I know we hit 3K, but surely 4K is the top. And so pretty early in 2017, I just remember thinking, oh, this thing is going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse, it's going to reverse, reverse, reverse, because, you know, you see you're like, oh, I could buy this at 3K, should I? No, man, it's going to reverse. And then you go forward a few weeks and it's 5K and you feel like an idiot. You're like, well, I'm definitely not going to buy it now. So during this period, I'm watching it climb and I start doing some research. And pretty early, I got the mentality where I have to wait for it to retrace. It will have what they call a crypto winter. I start learning more about the four -year cycle, and that's exactly what I did. I didn't buy any Bitcoin or any crypto in 2017, I waited till 2018, and then I started buying. I looked, I think the first Bitcoin I bought was from the retracement down to 10, and I think I bought as soon as it got near 10. I remember thinking, oh, it's near 10. Now is when I start buying, and then it went to five, then it went to three, you know, so it kept going lower and lower and lower. But at the time, I didn't really care. I was like, OK, I finally have exposure. Of course, the first coin I bought when I downloaded Coinbase, oh, I'm going to buy that 10K Bitcoin. Whoa, XRP is how much? I could buy so much for $100 versus Bitcoin and I bought XRP. So that was the journey. That was the journey right there. I mean, I can honestly say that that journey is probably echoed by so many different people. You know, a lot of people and I say this, you know, on BitLab Academy, we're talking about these cycles. Everybody, everybody that's ever traded or invested ever has bought a top of an asset and gotten scared and sold at some point. Also, we've all bought a top and sold a bottom. And at the end of the day, it's all about how do you dive in, be ambitiously curious, dive into, OK, how can I fix my broken strategy? Because clearly that's not how people that made money made money. They figured out, OK, there's other data points I can look at rather than just looking at price. And then similarly, the XRP story, whether it's XRP, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Cardano, it doesn't matter. So many people come in and it's going to happen even more this next cycle. We're going to have the most onboarding of new adopters coming into the markets than we've ever had in this next cycle because institutions are coming in, because that aware the price breaking past 70, whatever that happens, that's when the hype cycle, the free press for crypto goes out and people are going to say, I can't afford a $70 ,000 Bitcoin. I'm going to go buy a dollar Cardano. And I'm not saying at all Cardano is a bad project, but people need to be curious about the assets they're investing. And so what would you say, knowing the journey you've had and the different sticking points or hurdles or failures, we've all had failures in this space, what we've learned from it. What would you say to somebody that's just coming in there on the fence about coming in or somebody that's watching as a family member that's asking about it? What's the advice for somebody that's stepping in this space? Very basic. Well, first, let me say coin price does matter per coin, separate from market cap. And this sounds dumb. No, the only thing that counts is market cap. No, there is a thing called like retail adoption rate. And if you download an app and all things being equal, same social, same token, same everything, except one has a million supply, one has a billion supply. People are more likely to buy the coin for a dollar than buy one or a hundred of that coin at a dollar rather than buy 10 % of the thousand dollar coin. Even all things being equal, it's just visually, I don't know if it's a visual thing, I don't know if it's just an ego thing like, yeah, I have a thousand of that thing versus I have 10 % of that thing. It just sounds better. So one, coin price does actually matter when it comes to whether or not retail is going to buy it. Might not matter so much for institutional investors, but yeah, that definitely does matter. As far as advice, new people coming in, I don't really like to give people advice of coins outside of top 20, maybe top 30. I'm not not not advice for coins, but more like you're stepping in. Oh, you're stepping in. The first thing you can do is go ahead and sub to Discover Crypto. The second thing you can do is maybe ask yourself, well, why, why am I just trying to get rich? All right, we'll have that be your investment thesis. Do I hate the government printing money? Oh, well, buckle up. You're stuck. You're going to be with us for the rest of your life. I'm sorry. You're a weirdo now. You know, there's going to be different angles. Are you just super into tech? All right, we'll start learning about smart contracts and solidity. So maybe, you know, find out why you would be interested and then that will describe the how or the what.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 10-02-2023 07:00
"Now through October 13th, you can join Planet Fitness for just $1 down, $10 a month. With free fitness training and most clubs open 24 hours, it's the most convenient place to get that big fitness energy. Join for just $1 down, $10 a month, no commitment, cancel anytime. Deal ends October 13th. See you. Vote for details. This is Bloomberg Radio. In the U .S., we see inflation cooling, we see the economy slowing. Disinflation, it has been very consistent. The transmission of higher rates really didn't flow through with the normal four to six quarter lag that we were expecting. I think we've seen the beginnings of an unraveling. We continue to think that the Fed is at a peak. We also continue to think that the Fed is going to be cutting interest rates next year. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. Let's get your week started. Live from New York City this morning. Good morning, good morning. From our audience worldwide, this is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio alongside Tom Kean and Lisa Abramowitz. I'm Jonathan Farrow. Your equity market pop didn't last that long. We are totally unchanged on the S &P 500. Crisis averted avoided TK, at least for now. Yeah, widely predicted. I think our Washington coverage has been great on this. Some real humility about, you know, don't do this theory, that theory, the other. But what a shock three hours before whatever it was, he did a John Boehner and got the Democrat vote. It's something we've talked about here a lot. We can do it all over again over the next month into November 17. It's just, you know. Anne -Marie coming up in about 15 minutes. She'll bore you with that. Then Congressman French Hill, lots to talk about leadership in the House a little bit later. French Hill, 7 .45 Eastern Time. I looked at the votes in the Washington Post all laid out and the first one I went to to see what the gentleman from Arkansas did. I knew what he would do, but I actually went to see what French Hill's vote was. We'll catch up with French a little bit later. 165 the estimate for Friday.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
The Mason Minute
Monk Mode (MM #4576)
"Since social media is what I do for a living, I pay attention to a lot of social media news and just kind of try to keep up with the trends. And a recent trend I've learned about is called Monk Mode. It's basically a social media detox. And it's not a long term, it's not a week, it's not a month. It's when people have projects they need to get done and basically make it so they don't go on their social media apps. For many, social media has become almost an addiction. Now, it's funny. I work in social media. I've been working in social media now for over 15 years. But I can go a day if I have to without checking my Facebook feed, without going through my Instagram. I don't like to because I enjoy it. It's something I enjoy in my spare time. But when I'm in work mode, when I've got things to do, when I'm on deadline, I don't feel that need to see if anybody's liked something I've posted. Everything else gets dropped, no big deal. But for some people, going Monk Mode, blocking their social media apps, blocking the internet for whether it's a day, whether it's 12 hours, whether it's six hours, is something more important. I never thought social media would get to be that way. I knew it was a powerful tool, but for some, it may be too powerful.
WCPT 820
"next few weeks" Discussed on WCPT 820
"That's what we're getting right. I know. I mean, everything he tried. John, I think what I'm enjoying is just the swap sweat and desperation, the whole like that's not in the law anywhere. You don't get to go like, oh, I would like move to this to somewhere that voted for me by 40 points today. This morning, he said the Supreme Court must intervene. It's like, what? No. I mean, he's just out of time and out of options. It's know, you what is this? August 28th. They're going to buy the Supreme Court ever would intervene in this particular case. It would probably be not until 2026. I mean, we're not going to see this trial. I mean, maybe this trial will happen before the 2024 election. I would love to have, you know, a trial start with this because after May, we're out of trials. We need more. It's like Star Wars shows on Disney Plus. They got to keep the people satisfied. Exactly. So as I mentioned, Sexy Liberal, only one show in 2023. October 21st. I'm working on things. I can't even tell you where I'd have to kill you. But Glenn Kirshner for sure. And some other big surprises at the big one show in 2023. And then Sexyliberal .com, John Fuchel saying San Francisco's on sale. The first 2024 show. Chicago is already selling August. Get those tickets while you can. And more announcements to come because John Fuchel's saying black bailed me. OK. Yes I did. And the fans love me for it. Yes they do. And I think those photos of Stephanie that one time because she has to do shows forever. We'll see you in studio next week, be there. It's great to see you guys. Yeah, just remember. Oh, I hear you have a big booking tonight on Sirius XM. Yes, tonight we're going to be welcoming Jodie Hamilton back to the love fest at Sirius XM studios in Hollywood. She's going to be happy. I know. I know. I like him that way. The last time we there were and we're having lots of great guests while we're in. Ron Perlman is going to join me in studio next week and a lot of other surprises. Lots actors of talking about the strike because they have free time. So we'll have some very special guests coming up in the next few weeks on show our on Sirius XM. You tell Mr. Beauty that Mrs. Beast says hello. I love him. Okay. Bye, John. Love you. Bye guys. Remember, no one's above the law except Supreme Court justices. This is by the wives and their insurrectionist wives. Okay. Forty six minutes after the For this portion of the show. Bonnie just came right out right and now stared at me because she knew I was going to say this time. They're going to go crazy. Crazy. Yeah. Like W .A .L .K. Right. Oh yeah. Okay. Marty's Dr. dogs go crazy, even picky eaters. You know why? It is freeze dried raw that amps up flavor. that It's not like that kibble that's baked with high heat, which destroys all the nutrients in there. This is the first four are ingredients meat, turkey, beef, salmon, duck. They are carnivores. Your dogs. This is what they would eat in wild. the It is the healthiest, best diet for them. It has zero artificial preservatives, additives or sugars, naturally full of protein, fiber, omega threes, no junk food ingredients. And dogs absolutely love it. Claim 54 % off nature's blend right now and get a free pack of premium dog treats. Go to drmartypets .com slash Miller or text Miller to 511 511. Message and data rates may apply. He has kiddies. There's no kitty. Do for something you too. Give me kitty food. DrMartypets .com slash Miller. The following program is closed captioned for the thinking impaired. It's The Stephanie Miller Show. Music.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"next few weeks" Discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"So how much is a gallon of milk if Ripple is 500? Let's put it this way if I think realistically like we're talking about let's say 500 anytime soon I think next bull market XRP is getting between 10 to 12 dollars maybe a little higher so we're talking about a gallon of milk if XRP is 500 gallon of milk at least 200 yeah. We can see that there is essentially this massive parallel channel that has been established from this point and this high here this is exactly where price rejected from right here and interesting if we look option F from this top to the bottom that's right in line with where the pocket is as well and I did this post on my Twitter that price would likely come back to a golden pocket and this is nearly where the price on XRP came back to which basically front ran it right here we are in a massive bull flag if the price chooses to go back above you basically break this I do think we're going to get out there and test a dollar and likely break it if we do lose this level I'm looking for if we're if we stay bullish price holding above above 55 but the the golden pocket right here around 64 so those are the levels I'm seeing that's that's what I'm feeling all right you hear that folks people who say this is that's the question you must ask yourself all right one of those tokens costs 500 what is a gallon of milk costs all right let's get into the CT minute all right Ripple says US banks will want to use XRP after partial victory in the SEC fight they're going to use it for cross -border transactions after their partial victory said it was not in itself a security which was a you know major victory for them but it wasn't a total victory because it said the the sell to institutional buyers does count as an unregistered sale of security there but they believe that and a firm expects to start talks with American financial firms about using their ODL product Jesus XRP for money transfers in the third quarter Ripple's general counsel Stu outer outer roadie I think told CNBC in an interview last week New York judge delivered the watershed ruling for Ripple determining that Ripple or XRP the cryptocurrency Ripple is closely associated with was not necessarily a security on its face claims from the SEC against the company there as whether the ruling meant American banks would return to Ripple to use this ODL product the lawyer said I think the answer to that is yes these blockchain is businesses to send messages to banks kind of like a blockchain alternative to swift I think we're hopeful that this this decision would give financial institution customers or potential customers comfort to at least come in and start having the conversation about what problems they're experiencing in their business in terms of moving value across borders without incurring obscene fees hopefully this quarter will generate a lot of conversations in the US with customers and hopefully some of these conversations will actually turn into real business company uses token as a bridge currency between transfers from one fiat to another for example us dollars to pesos to solve the issue of needing pre -funded accounts on the other end of a transfer to wait for the money to be processed the lawyer conceded it's not a total win and that the company would study the decision in due course to see how it affects its business
Bloomberg Radio New York
"next few weeks" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This $100 ,000 in the next few weeks, the next few months, few the next years, not until you retire? And that will determine your investment decision. So what do think you is the most common mistake investors make when they have $100 ,000, $1 million or whatever they might have? What is the most common mistake you have observed that investors make? I would say hubris and thinking you know more than you do because every decision that you make has many, many layers. So as you're creating a portfolio, look at risk the as well, not just excited about the return. And what's the best investment advice anybody's ever given to you? Continue to learn about innovation in whatever you do because that is where it's not exciting if that's where returns will go. Well, it's a very interesting career you've had and I know you're not at the end of it. You might wind up as Secretary of Treasury, head of the World Bank, something like that someday. So if you look back in your life, considering all the things you've done, what are you most proud of having achieved? My two boys, no question that that comes first. And then I'm really excited about what I've done and it may not have seemed at the time there was a continuous line through it. It seemed kind of disjointed at the time. But going back, I think the sort of threat of looking at impact and looking at innovation has something that I have really been doing since I left Iran and came here as an exchange student. And that was Afzaneh Beschloss, founder and CEO of Rock Creek on Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubinstein. All right. Let's switch gears now to banking in the global banking industry because we had a chance to hear from Christian Zewing. He's CEO of Deutsche Bank. And Bloomberg's Guy Johnson sat down with Zewing in our London office to ask him about a surprise acquisition the German lender recently made. Also, about all the economic uncertainty around us right now. Check this out. First of all, I think we all have to admit that if you look what has happened over the last 12 to 15 months in the macro, on the geopolitical side, I think economies have really shown how resilient they are. Because a year ago a lot of people would have said there is a quite material recession in Europe, in Germany, potentially also in the US. And if we now look back, I think we see that the answer we have given is actually showing that we fared quite well over the last 12 to 15 months. Now, I think the situation remains complex. I do believe that with a very persistent inflation, interest will further go up on both sides of the ocean. And I also do believe, Guy, that the interest will then stay a little bit longer elevated than potentially a lot of think. people And that means that I still believe that there is a chance of a mild recession in the US at the end of 23, early 24, as as well in Europe. You see that Germany has been in a technical recession. So I don't believe that we will see a material recession, but I do think that uncertainty still prevails and hence we need to watch out. And the second half of 2023 is for sure a half which is still complex and still challenging. So does that mean that the Q2 guidance that your CFO gave a few days back was just a blip? He was talking about fixed income being down 15 % to 20%. You talk about the fact that the second half is going to see significant uncertainty. That's a good environment for fixed income. So therefore was the Q2 guidance just a and blip do you still believe that the fullier numbers are going to be better Well, let's start with the overall bank and there we see a good momentum. That is the strategy of Deutsche Bank that says we need a more balanced bank. That was exactly what we wanted to achieve in 2019 when we called out the transformation Deutsche of Bank and we see the results. We have a very strong corporate bank, a very nice developing private bank and therefore we can confirm our 28 to 29 billion of revenues for this year. We see the momentum. We see a Q2, to be honest, Q2 2023 from a revenue point of view which is higher than Q2 2022. So overall I would say this bank is faring well. The strategy is paying off. With regard to the investment bank, we always said that we had a record year. We had an extraordinary strong year in the fake business in 2022. I still think that actually in Q1 and Q2 we have done well, the but overall market is a bit weaker than the record year of 2022. But I do believe with some uncertainties, for instance the debt ceiling issue going away in the US, then with the still complex situation which is in front of us, I do believe that in Q3 and Q4 there is momentum in the business on the fixed side, but for us as a strategy of Deutsche Bank it is important that we further balance out the investment bank overall. We have a very strong fake business, we have a very strong DCM business. What we really wanted to achieve is that also Also the O &A business is further strengthened and hence we have put a lot of investments into that. So to just wrap this part of the conversation up, it's going to be an operating environment for the fake business that is likely to be less good than last year. You may too or may not be a blip, you still see uncertainty in the second half of the year which could provide opportunity. So the on balance numbers are likely to be slightly better than the 15 -20 % that James guided to you. That's what I would say for the coming months and weeks. Again Q2 also was a particular quarter given the situation also which we had in the US. We can already see also now in June on the most recent days that there is momentum in the business. So I'm overall actually quite comfortable also with the fake business and again Q2 was a particular quarter. I would say that the fake business in Q3 and Q4 I think there was a slight recovery. You are very good at keeping secrets. Let's talk about the new misacquisition. For those of us that follow the bank it caught us all by surprise. I understand you've been working on it for quite some time but it definitely caught us by surprise. Was the offer just too good to refuse? Was the price just too good to refuse? Where did it come from? Where did your decision to go in this direction, the advisory business, come from? Well, I just said it in my previous answer. I'm a big believer and the whole management team of Deutsche Deutsche Bank is a big believer that we need balanced business, not only for the overall bank. That was the reason why we did the four years ago.
Northwest Newsradio
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"Leader Alexei Navalny has gone on trial on new charges of extremism that could keep him behind bars for decades Charles de la Zezma has more The session took place at a maximum security penal colony in Melekhovo east of Moscow where Navalny is serving a nine -year sentence for fraud and contempt of court charges he says are politically motivated. Navalny who exposed official corruption and organized major anti -kremlin protests was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Navalny wearing his prison garb looked gaunt out of the session but spoke emphatically about the weakness of the state's case and gestured energetically I'm Charles de la Zezma. A war of words regarding Patriot missile defense systems in Ukraine more from ABC's Tom Rivers of the Foreign Desk. As they say the first casualty of war the is truth. President Putin claims five Patriot batteries have been destroyed near Kiev. Meanwhile in the Ukrainian capital, President Zelensky counters who in Russia says that the Patriots are still working. Not a single one he says has been destroyed. We'll learn where the definitive truth lies in the next few weeks. Tom Rivers, ABC News at the Foreign Desk. IT specialists in yet another state dealing with a massive data breach. Everyone who holds a Louisiana driver's license, state ID or car registration could be impacted. It's really scary that this can happen so easily and that people take the time to do something like this. Allison Deck drives for Uber and Lyft. Sure, you think the government probably would have some extra oomph in that. How can they help to protect us? As Louisiana officials gauge the extent of the breach, Deck has purchased credit and password to protect herself. Jim Ryan, ABC News. Michelle Obama wants you to register to vote in honor of the Juneteenth holiday. The former first lady said in a tweet there's more meaningful ways mark to the day of celebrating freedom. Former President Obama also marked the holiday that celebrates enslaved people being freed in Galveston, Texas in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. He said day the is a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope. Did you see the Fed recently increased interest rates again? John Camupiano, Chief Financial Nerd, here from RoofSmart. To fight back against government risks, RoofSmart is offering special zero interest financing for 18 full months. With approved credit, can get you an awesome new roof on your home with no interest payments for a full year and a half. I mean, you pay all at once when you don't have to, especially in this economy. Need to finance your roofing project for longer than 18 months? No problem. We've got plans that go up to 180 months and cost less than $10 a day. Yep, a new roof for less than $10 a day. Don't let Uncle Sam stop from you replacing your roof. Take advantage of our easy financing by calling RoofSmart at 206 487 -4877 or visiting GetRoofSmart .com. That's dot com.
WTOP
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"Stories we're following this hour. Leaders in Arlington county schools continue to work on opioid prevention. This is coming weeks after a student died of an overdose at Wakefield high school. During a school board meeting, superintendent Francisco Duran talked about what the county can do to have teachers and staff, more equipped to handle suspected overdoses. And one of the resolutions is increasing the supply of Narcan in schools. We will be in the process of installing emergency boxes on multiple floors in our middle and high schools that will contain Narcan in the case of an emergency. And as a reminder, all of our school nurses and school safety coordinators do carry that and now we have many staff who were trained to be able to carry that as well. The county will continue to have conversations with students and parents on substance use at several schools throughout the next few weeks. In the district, a group of Michigan state university alumni gathered at DuPont circle last night to grieve and support each other. The gathering comes after the mass shooting earlier this week at Michigan state university that killed three students and critically injured 5 others. I felt guilty and not being able to be on campus. Casey ring graduated from Michigan state university just last year. He says a heavy cloud is going to be hanging over the school for some time now. You know, I think about going back for football game next year and the thought of enjoying myself and having fun tailgating with those I grew up with and those I went to college with seems nearly impossible. There was a lot of emotion here, some had tears streaming down their face, but the crowd also pulled together some school spirit. And sang their fight song together. At
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Not say we're out of the Woods yet, but I am cautiously optimistic about this week being off to a good start. And we're going to be watching this very closely as we go into the other peak holiday travel times that are coming in the next few weeks. Secretary Buttigieg at O'Hare airport in Chicago where a large terminal expansion was announced. In Indonesia, at least 270 people have been killed and over a thousand are injured following a massive earthquake on the main island of Java yesterday. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts to more than a 120 countries. I'm Michael Barr and this is Bloomberg. This is a Bloomberg real estate report brought to you by the national association of realtors. The recent rise in mortgage rates is resulting in some softening in home prices. That's for sure. And those purchase deals are falling through as well. Red pins has a record 18% of contracts actually fell through last month as higher mortgage rates ripple through the home buying business. Nationwide about 23% of homes for sale had price cuts, but even so prices are still slightly higher than they were a year ago, and that according to Skylar Olsen, chief economist at Zillow, is because the healthy market is in hibernation. Some people with lower mortgage rates just aren't putting their homes on the market at all. Resulting in tighter supply. That's certainly what happened in 1979, 1980 last time this happened, right? It seems like a counterintuitive event except for when you think about, you know, it's the supply and the demand side here, absolutely. And Olsen says as soon as market rates dip substantially again, sellers and buyers will jump right back into the market, and that's the Bloomberg real estate report. I'm Denise Pellegrini. I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when it happened. There was a sudden jolt and our submarine crashed on the sea floor. We were in total darkness. That's doctor Dijon figueroa, a marine
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"New signings as well as their own resigned players as cam no has been told by the league that they have to still raise more money above the €600 million raised so far to be able to register the 7 players. If bars isn't able to do so by Saturday, both free transfers Andreas Christensen and Frank Hesse could leave the Catalan capital for free, although that seems unlikely. Cam knows looking to sell another 24.5% of bars the studios while asking highway earners to take a pay cut. Champions League winner Real Madrid has beaten Europa League winner Einstein Frankfurt two nil in the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki Finland as David Alaba and cream beds in the score from Madrid, with the gold Benzema moves into second place on the trips all time scoring list behind just Christiana Ronaldo. 2021 masters winner Hideki matsuyama has withdrawn from this week's FedEx saint Jude championship, the first of the three FedExCup playoff tournaments due to a neck injury. Matsuyama who is 11th in FedExCup points still should be able to advance the BMW championship and the season ending tour championship over the next few weeks. The Cleveland Browns have gone confirmation that Pro Bowl kick returner jakeem grant senior as 20 Achilles and will miss significant time. The 29 year old who signed a three year contract with the browns after playing last season with the Chicago Bears went down during a drill in training camp on Tuesday. I'm Dan schwarzman that your Bloomberg world sports op day. Markets, headlines, and breaking news 24 hours a day. As Bloomberg dot com, the Bloomberg business app. And at Bloomberg quick tape. This is a Bloomberg business flash. Center stage
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"To whether the vaccine will be authorized for that age range in the next few weeks If authorized we are ready We have purchased enough vaccines for all children between the ages of 5 and 11 in the United States So within a couple of weeks we could have news on vaccines for kids Which brings in the whole element of schools and news on the boosters Nick diamond is back with us Somebody must have been snooping on us here Nick They didn't like what we were talking about But tell me how are companies doing with this I had such a well crafted question for you too What did they telling employees As I said a minute ago that this is about COVID not about government control Right And the message that we've been consistently hearing from employers of all sizes really since early on in the pandemic was making sure to stress the importance of both vaccination as well as the other public health measures like masking and physical distancing And I think we're seeing a much stronger voice from the administration on that front in the past couple of weeks Whether it's a requirement specific to military or governmental personnel or the requirement for larger Somebody's got it out for us today Nick appreciates you maybe I'll talk to you again someday The numbers that we saw by the way yesterday with regard to the mandates and this was the point that the president was making 440,001st and second shots yesterday That's in one day for now that sounds pretty good Hundreds of thousands Look back to last spring however when it was millions per day So we certainly haven't gotten back up to that point when you have the booster shots 800,000 Got the jab yesterday And President Biden talking about this as the FDA figures out the way forward We're going to get into this coming up with the panel Let's see how Rick and Jeannie feel about it but booster shots of Moderna's vaccine just to fulfill that story should be given to people as they read on the terminal and those at high risk of the disease and we'll wait to see what the overall agency says Additional doses of the two shot vaccine should be offered to people 65 and older along.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"A click of the pen here There's a little more involved right So the Biden administration directed osha to draft an emergency temporary standard and we expect that to come out over the next few weeks or a.
NewsRadio WIOD
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"And say, Yeah, you just forget what happened that day because you were in shock. Yeah, absolutely are welcome back with the traffic news and weather just three minutes away. Here on news radio. 6 10. W I o D. There is something wrong with the president facing the facts flipping and flopping, mumbling and bumbling Sean Hannity. This is something America is going to have have to deal with today at three news radio, 6 10 w y o D. Well, a lot more people are going to get vaccinated over the next few weeks. I just have a feeling Don't know. Many people are willing to quit their jobs over the vaccine. Give up the health insurance and everything. Look, it makes sense. The facts don't lie. We do know that the easiest way to truly get back to normal beat this thing. Is to get vaccinated. Some of you haven't gotten there. Look, Covid didn't discriminate all the experts Warren right now, If you're not vaccinated, you're likely going to end up getting it. South Florida still a hotspot, even though our numbers are improving, But look, the vaccine is free. It's easy to get you don't even need insurance. And if you've been hesitant because of the wild stories that the vaccine is going to give you covid. It doesn't causes severe side effects. It doesn't or some other bizarre, crazy thing you've seen on the Internet. Get the facts and then get your shot. Even if you've already had covid. We know that getting the vaccine gives you extra protection from serious illness. Look, when I got back, I was fully vaccinated back in April. And I just felt a weight lifted off my shoulders. How do you explain? Because I still wear my mask. Still try and be careful and all of that stuff, But I can do the same for you Go to get vaccinated dot brauer dot org and at least find out where you can get your shot right now. Okay. The website get vaccinated dot Broward..
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
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"Albert Breer, the senior NFL reporter lead content strategies for the Monday morning quarterback, and, uh Explain to me if this is big news that Aaron Rodgers is not at the mandatory camp starting today, Albert No. I mean, I think the real inflection point for all of this is really always going to be the start of training camp, and that Relates back to the fact that he hasn't been at the off season program in general, you know, and so his willingness to walk away from a half million dollar workout bonus, I think tells you if the Packers were going to find him, $93,000, which they can permission, the three day minicamp. This week, and he'd be willing to do that to, um really, I think you know all along where the rubber's met the road here has been the beginning of training camp. And I think the Packers no it the Packers were aware that he wasn't going to show up today and, you know, now going forward. They have 56 weeks to come to some sort of resolution upside here, I guess is that you get to see Jordan love for another couple days. Um, you know, next week, Matt LaFleur is actually made the that the last part of the offseason program for guys who have workout bonuses. You know, optional where they can, you know, attend things Virtually so really the next big thing coming down the right coming down the road for Rogers is the start of training camp. I'm still trying to understand the timing of all of this. Let's say Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to stay in Green Bay. Uh, then, at some point, he has to be concerned about where am I going? And when am I getting there? And what is that team going to have to get give up to get me there, And if I really improved my, you know, position here or if he's staying in Green Bay. What has to happen other than firing the GM that he's willing to go back? I I just keep waiting for some kind of information here that moves in one direction or another. Yeah, And I honestly like like, I think we talked about last week. Um, you know, like Julio would have been an olive branch to me. Um, you know, I don't know how you fix the fact that you haven't been as aggressive as he'd like, with free agency and the draft gone and now With the trade opportunity like Julio presented off the table as well. So you know, I I think you almost have to make some sort of promise that you know, Erin, we're going to pay you now, and we are going to either a change the way we do business or be trade you to wherever you want to be traded to after this season. I mean, that's really it. And, you know, I think what you're talking about the way you laid that out. Dan is sort of like where Russell Wilson was and where, um, you know, I think he kind of came to the realization that the best situation the only situation really for him in 2021 was going to be Seattle. And that doesn't mean that Russell Wilson is not going to be back in the same spot in January 22 that he was in January. 21. I think there's a good likelihood he is. But he just sort of came to the realization. They're not trading me. So I might as well go in and try to put myself in position of the best season. I can right now. Aaron Rodgers isn't that point yet. We'll see if he gets there over the next few weeks. I mean, I I guess you can't totally rule out retirement. But that'd be a pretty crazy option for a guy who's still at the top of his game. And obviously, the reigning M V P of the league is we haven't even heard trade rumors. I know. Well, I can tell you. The other teams are monitoring like the Broncos are monitoring what's going on here, you know, and they've kept an eye on it. Um, you know, I know other teams have kind of, you know, Asked around like, what's going on with Aaron Rodgers. The interesting thing about it. You know, Dan is a lot of times like these sorts of situations Like Julio, for example, I feel like other teams had a lot of information over the last five or six weeks. And where the Julio thing was right. Like so, yeah. The Titans got him, but You know the Niners and the Rams and the Cardinals and the Patriots and the Raiders? They all knew what was going on right? Like so they were at least informed to a certain level of where things were at. I think what the Roger situation is completely different, like where other teams are keeping an eye on it, But they're really just as in the dark as the Packers are on on where this is going to go over the next five or six weeks, and, um, so that makes it a little bit of a unique situation, you know, and you know, at some point, obviously, everybody is going to have to decide how they how they move forward. And that's why I think training camps an important day because They can that the Packers can excuse his absence this week and not find them, And I would think they would do that if they want to have any shot of repairing the relationship. You know, I just feel like that would be like almost a declaration of war to to not excuse him and to find him this week. They can't do that. When they get to trading camp under the new C B A. They are required to find him $50,000 a day and they can't forgive those fines after their assess, so That to me is really kind of the point where some sort of decision is going to have to come. I need Shannon Sharpe to call Aaron Rodgers and not let him know he's on the air. And then just say, Hey, what's up, dude? Hell you want out of their hanging out, man, what's going on? How did they confirm that story? That you? You said that Julio Jones did not know he was on the air with Shannon Sharpe. I've talked to some people..
More to Life with Faith and Lois
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"Hi how are you. I am good in You know this life is good so things are changing. And i love the change about life and about people about getting back into the reality of what's going on out in the world. Yes and that's what more. Lie with. Faith and lois is all about. It's exploring those elements that go beyond sometimes comfort zones and we are so excited to begin a new round of episodes for you today in our podcasts and after our theme on wisdom we're turning to renovation faith and i just love this word and renovation as a whole how exciting renovation is so important we we take it for granted. We just kind of assume that whatever we're end is gonna sustain us and and we don't need to change anything if it works and it's not broke don't fix it right The reality is we need to renovate many areas of our life to have a more fulfilled life into continue to grow so in the next few weeks. We're gonna talk about renovation in your relationships. Your body your spirituality and your craft and you know to renovate is to improve. Sometimes it's a broken damaged or outdated structure so but instead of looking at a building we're gonna look inside us and all the things we can do to renovate to improve on what we've got and make things better. So if you did miss any of our podcast on wisdom you can go to your favorite podcast platform or to our website. More life with faith and lowest dot com and we've got a weekly newsletter that we send.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"And health sisters for at least the next few weeks in order to consolidate vaccine doses for the state run vaccine clinics. Yeah, You're not the first caller who is mentioned that three to know that I mentioned. I know I heard others, but I just happened to look at my thing and said patients who've already been scheduled can go ahead but patients who haven't been scheduled yet. Um, don't because, well, that's that's discouraging because it sounds to me from what I've heard tonight. And this is an informal interview with people or informal poll if you want. It sounds to me like people who have gone through. The hospitals have all the Via have fared much better than people who have tried to go through the vaccination sites, the state sites in either Foxboro Stadium or Fenway Park. Right, And but I was listening Toe Almond, who called before and he was talking about Lowell General, and I know someone who's been waiting for a call from Lowell General hasn't gotten it. But now that I'm seeing this about That is real in Deaconess. I wonder if load and that's what he said was. The local general was not going to have the vaccine just like Beth Israel. Indeed, I don't know if they have somehow made the decision administratively to choke off the supply to hospitals. Right. That takes me back to the first caller on this topic than I. One of the first collars was Jack and Newton, who was trying to get his shot at ST Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton without success. Or how chilly is it in Maine tonight? No one's out there swimming in the in the Atlantic tonight, I guess, right? No, not tonight. Maybe tomorrow night tonight. It is chilly, But at least at least the sharks have gone away for a few months. Right? Well, I hope so. Hey, Thanks. Laura. You please continue to listen and call any night, okay? Can I just throw one more thing in there? Why not go ahead? I we have in the same kind of issues up in Maine getting scheduled as you're having down there. I will say it Z. I've been working on its a three weeks and I was watching the news and Wal Mart. Is gonna have vaccine so I went online. I got an appointment immediately, and I'm going tomorrow to get my vaccine at Wal Mart. You know, um when when the private industry gets involved Things generally work a little better than when the state government whether it's Maine, Massachusetts, or wherever. Isn't that amazing? Good for you, and I was so frustrated. I kept thinking number. Why can't I get anything good? I am up on the brakes. So you got that in and I appreciate it. Have you called before? A long time ago. Just we'll come back more often way I miss you. I miss your voice every night. Just don't call call anytime. Thanks. Pharrell talks to and have a great alright. Thank you. Good luck tonight Back on night side right after this break. Nightside with Dan Way until you BZ Boston's news radio with patriots software dot com accounting in payroll, Keep your Time and Mike Kapil Here's serial entrepreneur way Entrepreneurs are always improving hard listening skills. My dad told me at age 29. Michael, You're a man. Now you're about to be married. You have responsibilities. You'd be a fool to start your own business. I did what any loving son would do. I started five of them. I didn't listen.
WSB-AM
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"With. Scott Slade will never won after debate of the Rules committee. Nobody best means Bill Chi actual reports the full House of Representatives votes today and whether it removed Georgia Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments Because Democrats are in the majority. They don't need any Republican support to approve it. Green sits on the education and labor and budget committees. Green is not apologizing publicly for past controversial comments. He calls Democrats dump and says the attention is only helping the Democrats call Greens past comments indefensible Number two, The latest of the pandemic governor kept says more than a million doses of the Corona virus vaccine event administered so far in Georgia, but urges patients will only be getting about 100. 54,000 doses per week for the next few weeks. And number three this morning police search for dirt bikers in a TV writers after officers are surrounded by an armed the crowd in northwest Atlanta. They've got 15 good picture pictures of the riders. WSB news time is 7 47 House joins the Senate and taking the first step toward passing President Biden's $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus. Lee package without Republican supports that first step involved House passage of the federal budget resolution, which sets the stage for procedural maneuver called Reconciliation. Democrats or Republicans have used reconciliation in years past. Get big bills passed without support from the other party reporter team. Ugo says the president insists he is willing to negotiate with Republicans who propose a plan with a third of the price tag. York City's health commissioner has tested positive for coronavirus. Dave shot Ski says he has mild symptoms and is working with the city to perform contact. Tracing on Twitter, he says, This is a reminder if we ever needed one that Cove it is still with us. CBS correspondent Matt Piper says he also emphasizes social distancing and wearing masks Cove. It's killed more than 25,000, New York City residents since the pandemic began. San Francisco sues its own school board, demanding kids return to the classroom for face to face learning. City attorney Dennis Herrera says enough is enough. 54,000 San Francisco school Children are suffering they're being turned into zombies by online schooling. He calls it shameful and unlawful that kids have not been back in the classroom and almost a full year. The city's mayor supports the lawsuit. Local pediatricians worry fewer parents are bringing their kids in for regular vaccinations like measles and mumps because of coronavirus cause a pandemic on top of a pandemic. We don't want a nap brick of measles, Dr Hugo Skornick with the American Academy of Pediatrics tells Channel two action news vaccinations are down about 15%, which could be dangerous for parents who are worried about infection, he says. Likely safer at the doctor's office than it is at the grocery store. WSB NEWS Times 7 48 Next Traffic UPDATE takes a look at I 85 coming out of Gwinnett County unless the two minutes WSB meteorologist Kurt Mellish and his defendable five day forecast sponsored by Breda Pest management, they.
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"The office shows yesterday. They were trying to do it as soon as possible. And they were suspecting it will be 23 M underwater so face so we're still waiting whether they can retrieve it today, Or maybe In the next day. Democrats in the U. S. House of Representatives have stepped up pressure to strip Donald Trump of power over his role in the violence storming of Congress. They want him forcibly removed from office this week or to start the process of impeachment. Senior Democrats say that if there were to be an impeachment trial, it would be delayed for up to 100 days to allow Joe Biden time to focus on tackling the coronavirus on boosting the economy. James Clyburn is a Democratic congressman. President elect bad the 100 days in needs to get us a general off running. Maybe we'll send the articles sometimes after that. Professional Golfers Association of America has cut its ties with President Trump voting to take the PGA Championship event away from his New Jersey course next year. Alex Miss Celia, Gulf journalist in the U. S. Says it's a huge blow to Mr Trump, who's an avid golfer? Everything revolves around him. So if they would have had the event in 2022 at Bedminster discourse, he would been a big part of that, and now they knew that going in when they when they signed the deal back, like five or six years ago, But they could never have anticipated what they see now. And so Donald Trump is looking at losing his biggest plum, which is a major championship. World News from the BBC. Holler. The social media. Rab, popular with right wing conservatives in the United States has gone offline after Amazon withdrew its Web hosting service is Amazon expressed concern that post encouraging violence weren't being removed in the aftermath of the storming of the U. S Capitol last week. You go on. Apple had also taken action against parlor. And Israeli businessman is on trial in Geneva today on charges of corruption and forgery related to mining contracts in West Africa finished on that's a billionaire and former diamond magnet is accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to public officials in Guinea over a five year period. Again the rights to the country's lucrative iron ore deposits. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will meet chief ministers from across the country today to prepare for the nationwide rollout of covert 19 vaccines. The drive due to start on Saturday, will be one of the world's biggest to most ambitious Healthcare and frontline workers will be the first of India's 1.3 billion citizens to receive a jammed England's chief medical officer has warned that the next few weeks of the Corona virus pandemic will be the worst. Sweetie said the health situation Britain was facing was in a different league to the one it normally has to deal with in winter. Those people to double down on following lockdown rules. The key to this really lies with all of us, and this is a problem for all of us tackle together because every single unnecessary contact any of us have Is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead eventually to have wonderful person. So the absolute key is for all of us to think. Do we really need to have this contact? The health authorities in China say a team from the World Health Organization will finally be able to visit the country from Thursday to investigate the origins.
WSB-AM
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"I remember your story. Remember what you said you had done before, and it is a pleasure to speak with you again to hear you tell that story. Yes, Rhonda. Thank you. So much for calling in, sweetheart. Thank you guys for allowing me to Theo reiterate that it is extremely important and the scan is worth every minute that it takes and it doesn't take that long. You're in, you're out. It's over. It's done with, but you've got peace of mind whenever you get your results and peace and invaluable. Absolutely. You can put no cost on it. And if it does come back that you got a high school you've got a place to start with You Go and see your cardiologists. You go and have the further tests necessary. But this way, you know, and you know quickly. Thank you so much. I couldn't have said it better. You know what? You're on the air. May Everybody be safe during this stuff that's going on and Frankie was to you in the next few weeks. You got it, My dear God bless you. Thank you, Rhonda. Bye bye, guys. Bye bye. Unless remind people how they can get the free heart and lung scan. All they need to do is call 7707300119. I want to get his many people in there. I want you working your little fingers to the bone, Frankie. Uh on and I hope people are the ladies back at the at the clinic are answering the phones.
WGN Radio
"next few weeks" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Will begin in the next few weeks that includes first responders like firefighters and police officers. Educators like teachers, support staff and child care workers. People in essential industries like the postal Service, manufacturing and distribution, public transit, food and agriculture, grocery stores and congregate facilities. Yesterday, Illinois reported more than 7000 new coronavirus cases, bringing the overall total to about 999,000 cases. In addition to that 139 more people have died from covert 19 and now it WGN sports. Here's David it Good morning, one night after getting down 20 and coming back to win. The Bulls were never down by that much, but they also fell short against Sacramento tight game in the fourth quarter. Kings. What at 1 28 1 24, dropping the bulls to foreign five despite a career high 36 for Kobe White. The message similar for the Bears again this week touchdowns not field goals against Drew Brees in the Saints and their wild card playoff game. Mitch Travis Keys. All in on. That definitely opened up a little bit ast far. Stay aggressive. I like going forward on fourth down. I think that's just a mindset. Um, but I think more importantly, we gotta score touchdowns in the Red Zone. Um, So once we get those, whether you're converting on third down or four down, it's important to stay on the field. But after we saw from last game, it's even more important to finish with touchdowns instead of field goals. There's kicker Carlos Santos was named today is the NFC special teams Player of the month. College basketball. 10th, ranked Michigan remains the Big ten's homely unbeaten team after blowing out number 16, Minnesota, 80 to 57 after back to back road losses to Iowa and those Wolverines Northwestern's back home Tonight. 12th ranked Illinois in town. I have the pregame at 7 45. Gave at.