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A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW! (Part 2)
"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. Welcome back. Today is day two, how to get your real estate listing sold. So Julie, without any further delay. Yes, that's right. So this is the continuation. We did points one through five. We're starting on six today, about 11 unexpected ways in addition to a price reduction or instead of in some cases to get those listings to move. And remember this is point number six. So if you've not heard the first few points, make sure you go back and listen to those points because they're really critical that you are tuning your mind to the fact that there are a lot of ways to get properties correctly positioned on the market so they meet the buyer's expectation, i .e. priced correctly. And also if you happen to have a listing that is out of alignment with the market's expectation, how you can make it more competitive in addition to or maybe instead of, thank you, a price reduction. So make sure you read our notes. All of our notes from today's podcast, all of our notes from every podcast are down below in the show description. If you're on YouTube, it's very easy. Just click Show More or on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, all the billions of different places you guys listen to us. Scroll down, read the notes. They're all there. We obviously include about 1 ,000 % more in addition to the notes. When you were listening, you were noticing that Julie and I, because in the comments I'm reading what you guys are saying, we often do talk about things that are I think more drilled down than what our notes are. But the notes are there for you to use to remind you to essentially what to say, how to say it when you're speaking with your sellers or buyers or whatever's relevant. But also there's a link for you to join Premier Coaching. Thousands of you have joined Premier Coaching in the last year. From what we understand, it is the nation's number one coaching program. Why are so many agents joining Premier Coaching program? Well, a whole bunch of reasons, but the best reason is because it's a coaching program designed for this new market, for the agents that are willing to do what they don't want to do and they don't want to do it at the highest level. As a result of that mindset, on the other side of that mindset, when you have the skill set necessary, you're going to experience success at levels that you can only dream of because how do I know that's true? Because we have, guess what, thousands of coaching clients that are telling us that. So the link to join Premier Coaching is below. So scroll down and click the link or just go to premiercoaching .com. Take 17 seconds to join. Yes, we've timed it. If you type faster than me, you could probably do it in 10 seconds, but the link to join is right there and you have immediate access to the entire first level of Premier Coaching. All right, so again, this is part two, starting on point number six, 11 unexpected ways to get your listings to sell faster. Now, any of these ways can happen upfront as soon as you take the listing. They can also be added to the comments after you've had the listing for a while, as some of you are sitting on listings you're surprised that haven't sold yet. And we can also do more than one of these points at the same time on those listings. So you have some flexibility on this. All right, so other ways to add some perks and get these listings to go faster. Point number six, add a $1 ,000 commission bonus to a buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. Now, if it is more expensive, you could add a $5 ,000 bonus. You can add a $10 ,000 bonus if it's over a million dollars. If it's over $5 million, adjust accordingly, but add a commission bonus to the buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. The builders are doing this. You better do it as well, especially if you have a lot of builder competition. I know, I saw, I think it's from Lenar, it might've been KB homes in San Antonio. There are some agent bonuses as high as a 6 % to the buyer side. That's amazing. And it's not just on one house either. There's like lists and lists of this stuff. Do you remember, Julie, back in 2007, 2008, we had coaching clients who their sellers had like, I remember one in particular is a Lamborghini. It was like a year old Lamborghini and it was during a hard time for the seller and the car had depreciated. The house was, they still had equity, but they wanted to sell the house before the house was worth less than they owed on it. This was a totally different market, not work that we're experiencing now. So they actually included the Lamborghini in the sale of the property and the buyer's agent that ended up buying it, ended up representing the buyer to purchase it, took the Lamborghini in lieu of their commission because the buyer didn't give a rat's, you know, what about a car? I know. Well, I mean way to be creative, right? Right. I recently saw back and forth on one of the Facebook agent pages where an agent was talking about how their broker had invested in some kind of thing where it was like a vacation voucher that they could use on any listing. And you know, I was, what was crazy was the, the other agents on this social media thing like piled on, well, if you have to do that, you must have overpriced it and that seller must be crazy. And what is this, a timeshare? And it was like insane back and forth. And go you, whoever posted that, who said, no, actually we feel it's a smart thing to do to put on all of our listings, to have a little extra something to make sure that we're shown first. I mean, that was a very professional response. There were two vacation vouchers. One was for the buyer's agent. One was for the buyer and they didn't have to use it, but it was like X percent off of their travel. I thought it was pretty crafty. Okay. So along those lines, hopefully we're motivating you guys for what we're motivating you towards is wanting to sell more expensive listings because the tchotchkes obviously are better. Well, they get better. If our first two stories didn't do it, this one might. So Ben Salem, I know you're going to mention this. Yeah. Well, cause he sells a lot of beautiful luxury real estate and he works with a lot of, you know, high end, not in Los Angeles, exactly, uh, buyers and the bird streets and the rest of it. And he's not very, I, Ben's one of my favorite coaching clients of all time cause he's not high profile and yet he sells a lot of expensive homes and he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not peacocking around about his success. He just gets the job done. That's right. So, uh, one of the things he did on a particular really weird house that was owned by a, I won't mention who is, it was a celebrity, uh, well fallen celebrity, I should say a fallen star. In any event. So this property in particular was very difficult to sell, had a lot of condition issues, um, the whole thing. And so what Ben did is he put an incentive on it that he would pay for the buyer's agent. It was all disclosed. Everyone knew about it. Nothing under the table, nothing like that to take a private jet and fly to Las Vegas stay at the wind and he was going to pay like the whole thing. It was just some ridiculous, some sporting thing or something. I don't remember. You know, I think it was not related to some event. It was something. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, that's what he ended up doing and he took a bunch of pictures and it became a big, you know, hoopty do for the buyer's agent. And it was something that got Ben's name on the radar for other listings that may have been a little cantankerous to sell and he got more listings from it. Point being, if you're in a marketplace where something isn't selling, the answer isn't always lower the price or if it is, it's lower the price and do some things that are more creative to hype up the listing, especially true in upper end listings where the house needs a lot of repairs, updates, that type of thing. Yeah, that's right. One of the problems with big luxury homes is there's more to do when it gets outdated and it's more expensive. You know, I can just see, I can just, I feel in the collective unconscious of all of the, you know, worn out buyer's agents from the previous market. They're like right up, you know, about time we get a few perks out of this, right? We feel you guys, we understand. So we were talking about doing a commission bonus. Always do a new seller's net sheet when you're adding any of these sellers concessions to the transaction. Make sure the seller knows how their bottom line will be impacted. Many of these concessions will actually cost less than a price reduction would have or make the price reduction smaller when combined with the concession. But make sure you're translating it into actual dollars so your seller's not surprised. And you know, again, advanced coaching here, but sometimes you can get your title escrow company to actually make those for you. So they're actually seeing all the expenses. I'm not saying your net sheets aren't accurate, but it's a little bit more authoritative in some sellers eyes when it's coming from the title escrow attorney type thing. So another thing you can do to give yourself a more professional veneer in the marketplace where it's the agent has the skill set that's going to get the listing. So don't avoid doing a seller's net sheet just because you don't know how to do it. Get some help. And there are some MLS is that allow you to plug in those numbers and they know how to figure your taxes and all that. But I agree with you. The title or the closing attorney can certainly do that for you. And it's not weird to ask them to do that. That's normal. Okay. Number seven, seller does not require inspections waived. Again, a new concept that replaces the old markets as is requirements. We talked about that a lot yesterday, so make sure you go back and listen to that, especially at how we tied it in at the end of yesterday's podcast to buying a home warranty at the time you take the listing and including seller's coverage and then having the house pre -inspected and having the repairs on the property done. So that when the buyer walks in, they're seeing that the property was pre -inspected, the repairs are done and the house comes with a home warranty. We are trying to position you so that you can compete against not just other resales, but also new construction. Very well put. Point number eight, have your favorite lender create a rate sheet to give away at showings and open houses. The rate sheet should show three different ways of purchasing the home. You can also attach that to your home brochure in your home brochure box. You could do a 30 year fixed, a 321 buy down, a 723 adjustable or a 525 adjustable. All of these can get a lower interest rate and lower payment. My favorite one is to just buy down points like the builders do and to lock in a lower rate for a 30 year fixed. But there are other creative ways to combat higher interest rates. We didn't say this yesterday, we should say it today. When you're doing things like what we suggested yesterday and today and you're being more creative and the seller is contributing money to buy the points down, in the description you can say at list price seller agrees to buy the points down, making the interest rate in a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, this payment range and that type of thing. So at list price, you can buy a little bit of insurance for the seller so that if the buyer comes in low and the seller is even inclined to accept it, that they're not also then going to have to concede to all those other concessions that they used as incentives to get the offer in the first place. Great point because you don't want to sign the seller up to both have to take something lower and to contribute 10 ,000 in closing costs or what have you. But don't be surprised when you do have, especially in a market where listings are harder to sell, where the buyer's agents do come in and they do ask for a lot of different things, you're just going to have to work through it. And again, we teach you how to do that in Premier Coaching, except the old days of throwing a dart against the board to price it and then waiting for the offers to come in over list price or long over. You have to have the skill set now, not just to list properties correctly and get them sold, but also how to counsel your buyers to get the properties. This is a new market. This is a skills -based market. Those of you are willing to learn the skills and do what you don't want to do and you don't want to do at the highest level, you're going to have an unprecedented, massive, unbelievably exciting real estate future. Yes, you brought up a little minor but important point because we're working through the transition of a super hot seller's market on every single listing that hits the market, no matter where you live, to a more adjusted, more reasonable, more normalized market. Now, we've been talking about how to buy down interest rates and do some more creative financing, which freaks some of you guys out. It makes you think, oh, I heard about that during the housing crash and adjustable rates are evil and we can't do that. I've seen some of this manifest in things like a seller will have an offer brought to them by their listing agent where the buyer is asking for closing costs. And the seller and the listing agent, their reaction is, well, if they need closing costs, they must not be a very strong buyer. That's a weak, truthfully, that's a weak agent. But you understand where they're coming from. Totally, completely. You understand why that's happening. But that's a weak agent who did not properly position the seller when they put the house for sale. This goes back to skills, guys. Now, I even have an instance of that, Federico in L .A. had a builder react like that when somebody asked for closing costs, even though they came in at list price doing what the builder asked because they asked for some closing costs. Builder was like, well, they, you know, why would I take that? They must not be very strong of a buyer. Just because somebody asks to get help getting a better interest rate does not mean they are a weak borrower. It means they're actually pretty smart about what they're doing. So you'll have a choice, Mr. Seller. You either lower the price by $30 ,000 or we actually give concessions to the buyer so that they can buy the interest rate down or cover the buyer's closing costs. Because the buyer is using all of their money, they need all their cash basically as their down payment to qualify for the mortgage. Now interest rates went up, they're going to need concessions to basically buy the rate down so they can afford the payment, qualify for it. Or Mr. Seller, you can just lower the price by 30 grand and we can hope and pray that we get another offer six months from now. It's up to you. Right. And in fact, if the seller were to counter it, you know, up for 10 grand and I'm going to pay 10 grand in closing costs, their net, you guys get focused on the wrong thing sometimes. Do the net sheet. The net to the seller is list price minus coming down 10 grand minus 10 grand to closing costs. Isn't that the same as taking a price of 20 grand less? It is. But that's, by the way, one of the techniques we show you when you have someone that's trying to fight with you over your commission is you don't get them to focus on the commission. You get them to focus on what their net is and in a marketplace where what almost all the houses, well, most, most, all real estate in the United States, according to Julie's statistics two days ago on podcast has increased by at least 45, 49 % since 2019, 49 % okay. So here's the thing. If they have to come down 2%, they're probably going to be okay. And if you're having them battle you over price or I'm not paying the $360 for a home warranty, you need to move their eyes to the bottom of the net sheet and circle with a red pen, their net, and then you need to get, have them understand that they've won the real estate lottery. Congratulations. Exactly. Okay. Number nine, find out if your seller has an assumeable mortgage. What's the rate and what are the requirements? Advertise this in your MLS description as well as in your home brochures. all Just note FHA, VA, and USDA mortgages are assumeable and some other loans are as well. All you have to do to find out is call whoever's servicing the mortgage. There are ways to look it up online as well, especially if it's FHA and VA, you can go to hud .gov and look it up by loan number. My beautiful wife, what are you, what assumption are you making? That they even know what an assumeable mortgage is. Correct. You're assuming, you're assuming they knew what an assumeable was. You were making an assumption. Well, I'll explain it quickly. So basically, someone's taken out one of these FHA, VA, USDA mortgages and let's say they have a fixed interest rate of say 3%. And let's say the property is worth, they paid $400 for it and now it's worth $500. If the buyer comes up with $100 ,000 or whatever the spread is between the market value and what they own the loan and they qualify with release, in other words, the FHA, VA, USDA has to, the person has to have decent credit and obviously... They have to be able to qualify for the mortgage. They can assume, they can actually assume the mortgage of that seller. So they themselves can have that ridiculously low 30 -year fixed rate mortgage. Now I'll even make it more interesting for you. Let's say your buyer only has $50 ,000 down, the house is worth $500, the USDA mortgage is only $400, the interest rate is 3%, the payment's obviously a heck of a lot less than it would be if they went out into the marketplace now and got a loan. But the buyer only has $50 ,000, but other than that, they qualify. You can get the seller to give them a second mortgage for the $50 ,000. And I don't want to get into the weeds on that, but this is something we talked about in Premier Coaching and we talked about in previous podcasts, but you can make deals happen where other people don't even see opportunity. That's called skill. Yeah, and that's even better than doing a rate buy down or an adjustable. I mean, potentially it's pretty killer. Just to overview, if you want to, you know, hopefully some of you are having some sparks fly in your minds, what would happen is the seller would give the buyer a second mortgage, I'll stick with $50 ,000, that is an actual lien against the property. So that means every month the buyer is going to be making the payment, now the owner of the new house is going to be making a payment on the first mortgage and on the second mortgage. You can do, and you will use an attorney to do this obviously, but then what will happen is the second mortgage, let's say the first mortgage is 30 -year fixed, the second mortgage might have a three -year arm. In other words, they're going to make the payment on that $50 ,000 for three years and then they have to pay the seller back the $50 ,000 or refinance it or there could even be a covenant in there, a carve out where if the seller agrees, you know, they can continue the mortgage, right? It's not just a balloon payment. It could be essentially... You can write it however you want. Exactly. You can write it however you want and if the interest rate makes sense and the payment's been made on time, I bet you that a seller is going to be more than happy to continue to have that $50 ,000 paid over terms because maybe the interest rate is great and they're making more money on it than they would investing in other places. You have just put a buyer in a house that they normally wouldn't have necessarily been able to buy because they didn't have the down payment and now you put them in a house or they can get the mortgage assumed. The reason that this is very powerful because a lot of the properties that are FHA, I'm not going to say VA, but FHA, well, I'll just lean into USDA. They're going to be more rural type properties and some of them are going to be working farms and small farms and things like that where you're going to have to be more creative to get the property sold. This is the type of information that gives you an unfair advantage and every marketplace makes you more confident, makes it so that when you wake up every morning, you're bouncing off the walls wanting to share with the world your real estate knowledge. I have seen some of these assumables already happening because smart agents have figured this out. I have a question for you. Maybe you don't know. I need to research this. Let's say that you have a seller that has an FHA assumable, but they've owned the house for like five years, which means they only owe 25 years. If I assume that, you pick up a 25, that's another advantage, right? I mean, that's huge. Yeah. You've just shaved off five years that you don't even have a 30 year. You've got a 25. They don't recast the mortgage, Julie. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I had it right. But the same goes true. Like when you and I started selling real estate, there was a whole bunch, well, they were hard to find, but they were just sweetheart deals. And there were assumables out there where people had paid off half the loan. It was a 30 year and it was 15 years left. You'd pay them their equity and you'd basically have a 15 year loan. I know. It's amazing. And I was just reading, I think on housing wire, that a surprisingly large amount of this recent, you know, when we had all these low interest rates for several years, a lot of those, and some of them will be assumable, because rates were so low, people got 15 year loans when they refi'd or when they purchased in the first place because the payment was, you know, normally you wouldn't do a 15 year because the payment is higher, but with rates the way they were, it made sense to do 15 year. How are you going to use this information? First of all, ask your seller what type of mortgage that they have. Don't assume, here, I'll give you, assume they have an FHA mortgage or a Fannie or Freddie until proven otherwise, or a VA or, you just assume that they have a mortgage where there's a carve out for it to be assumable. And if you're in a marketplace where things are hard to sell, you can find out if they do because I promise you again, your sellers won't know. Find out if it's assumable. And then if it is, you have the ultimate unfair advantage when getting that property sold. A hundred percent. Because again, back to our example from yesterday, if it's that listing, which is an assumable at some outrageously, now outrageously low interest rate, and you're advertising that in your agent comments and there's four other homes that meet the buyers criteria, who do you think is going to get shown first? I'm going to even take this to the next level. If you are smart, which all of you are, otherwise you would be listening to our podcast, you're going to think, well, how can I pick up rental property this way? Because a lot of these mortgages, FHA, VA, USDA, the mortgage criteria to qualify in the first place is a little lower. You can actually use what would have been your commission as a, towards your down payment. And you can assume these low rate mortgages and you can actually start walking into rental properties. There you are. See? All right. So point number 10, use 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE on your for sale signs to generate leads and possibly sell your listing yourself. One of the best solutions to a listing sitting on the market too long is to sell it yourself. 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. So also refer to past podcasts about that system. We're not going to dive too deep into that today, but capture unlisted phone numbers, answer zero transfer calls, or immediately call the prospect back. Secret, many of your initial calls will actually be from neighbors of your listing. Those are also listing leads guys. And that website, by the way, and the product is getting totally revamped. So anyway, go to 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. Full disclosure, Julie and I own 50 % of that company. Yes. With a partner with one of our original listings, oddly enough. Actually, he was our first seller, wasn't he? Oh my gosh. We forget that sometimes. I know. Well, it's all related, right? Yep. Okay. Point number 11, use a home brochure box next to or attached to your for sale sign. There is an art to the home brochure. Of course, highlight all the attributes of your listing using 800 -HOME -HOTLINE and including your email address. But in addition to this, there's lots of different ways you can utilize the home brochure to make your phone ring. Now we have a podcast that we've done two or three times in the past called How to Hot Rod Your Real Estate Sign or Your Brochure Box. So there's all kinds of things that we did in a dedicated podcast on that. This is all about the fact that in many cases, you're going to have to sell your own listing because the buyers, agents, you know, a whole bunch of reasons. I'll give you guys a really good example. You'll remember this. It was our neighborhood in New Albany Country Club and there was a listing that was for sale when we moved there, expired, got listed with somebody else and expired again. I remember. And it was like caddy cornered to our backyard and they were moving back to Hungary. I think it was Hungary. Something like that. Yeah. And they're the nicest people ever. Super nice people. So we ended up listing the property and I was shocked the house hadn't sold. Me too. It's a good house. It was great. It was a typical expired where it basically gets a lot of activity when it's new. The local agents, you know, stopped showing it because there's other new listings, the whole thing, right? If you look at the curve on showing activity, it's really, you know, two weeks, three weeks and after that it starts to drop off pretty precipitously and after it's been for sale for 30 or 45 days in virtually all markets, the showing activity stops. Well that's what had happened to this property. But even worse, or I should say better for our advantage, even worse, the local agents were assuming that the house had some sort of problem, otherwise it would have sold. And how do I know that? I had, Julie and I had that listing. This listing I remember was five or 600 grand and this was back in. And so this house was, we had a for sale sign obviously and we had 800 home hotline. There was somebody parked in front of the listing.
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We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
Crypto Banter
Fresh update on "number one" discussed on Crypto Banter
"You've got serious questions to answer to the public and to Congress. And we intend to get your compliance. We can do it the easy way or the hard way. And with that, I yield back the ranking members now recognized for five minutes. You've got Patrick McHenry. He is an ultra Uber bullish ultra against Gary Gensler type of guy, vehemently against Gary Gensler type of guy. And he is now promoted to be the speaker of the house temporarily, but still, that's great. We've got a temporary speaker of the house who is so bullish towards crypto, has crypto on his agenda as one of the number one, one of his number one narratives. And on top of all of that, he is the one that has been taken, who has been taking Gary Gensler to task. And I'll show you again, just another, another time where he took Gary Gensler to task. This guy hates Gary Gensler probably more than I do. This should not be the hard work of a chairman to answer these questions. You have 30 major rule makings, but you won't even provide basic documents to us. Your unresponsiveness is noncompliance. And we'll have to take action if you're not willing to comply. You have a 10 week review process and you've not provided documents. Furthermore, you haven't even done the economic analysis of your interplay of these major rule makings that are going to affect anybody who owns a stock bond or any type of security. And so you've got serious questions to answer to the public. All right. So Patrick McHenry is in. He's in temporarily as the speaker of the house. But what does the speaker of the house mean? Is it even relevant to us? Well, let me tell you, I did some research and it's super, super, super relevant for us because the speaker of the house has a lot of political responsibilities and a lot of political powers. Now, when we get someone who is pro crypto vote to the speaker of the house, effectively what we're doing is we're taking the narrative of crypto to the front of the house. And I analyzed, as I said, what is the role of the speaker of the house? So number one is he has he presides over the house. He manages and maintains order during debates and voting sessions. He determines who may speak on the floor and directs members comments during a debate. He sets the legislative agenda, plays a significant role in determining which bills and resolutions are considered by the house. He plays and read that again, he plays a significant role in determining which bills and resolutions are considered by the house, including crypto ones. He may prioritize certain legislation, effectively influencing the legislative process influences the assignment of members to various committees and may appoint committee chairs. All this is now coming from someone who is passionately, passionately into crypto and passionately against Gary Gensler. Voting typically does not vote in legislation.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/03/23
"Not just any Fleetwood Mac record, little secondhand news, first track when you put the needle down, when that little Rumors album was released, you heard this, you heard the great Lindsey Buckingham, who is 74 today. Mike, you've caught, you've caught the Mac a few times, have you not? Oh, sure, sure. Love Fleetwood Mac. What a sad, what a sad story because he's so, he's a genius. He's a total genius. And they fired him like four or five years ago. The chemistry was just terrible. He does solo tours now and does some, some Fleetwood Mac stuff, but I just hope he's just not... These stories, these stories about these guys all breaking up and fights and all that. The Eagles, of course, had an epic, epic battle. You know, who they fired, they fired, I guess, the, I mean, they had a big, the two of them, the two founders, I guess, of the Eagles. They broke up and then they came back and, you know, it's like, hey, life is short, you know? That's it. You know what it makes you think about? It makes you think about Aerosmith. Same five guys, 50 years. There you go. You got to get Steven Tyler well again because he like blasted a vocal cord. But anyway, speaking of people who've been together for a long time, here's my buddy. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. I'm just trying to make sense out of the, the rage that the establishment Republicans and the Rhinos and the squishes are exhibiting towards Matt Gaetz. Now, I, I think there's a lot of merit towards the frustration over what Gaetz is trying to do in, in ousting Kevin McCarthy personally. I think Kevin McCarthy has done a great job. I think he's, he's fine. You know, it's a tough conference. It's a tough coalition. You got to hold it together. McCarthy did a great job in helping to identify strong candidates in California and New York, in New York. And without those victories, Marc, we don't have, we don't have a Republican majority in the House. Now, we have a slim majority in the House, slim, four, four people. That's it. All right. So I want to present, and I get it, you know, this is probably giving the Democrats a lifeline. It's ceasing our momentum. This is probably not the most productive thing to happen right now to try to have this crisis over the Speaker of the House. But what the establishment types are saying in their rage, and man, are they mad. I mean, Marc, they're not agitated. They're not, they're livid. I mean, I, I heard this morning, I, I never knew Switzerland could be so angry. Man, for Switzerland, Switzerland's got the knives out in the show before yours. Geneva is on fire. Oh, my gosh, Switzerland is burning. This is a reference, of course, to the always even -handed, neutral, and presidential matters, et cetera, our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who has decided to take a couple of sides, take one side on this. Not so neutral on this issue, is he? I mean, it's just like full -blown, Gates is a clown, he's a fraud, he's a traitor, he's a this, he's a that. I saw a tweet last night that got me thinking, and this is, I think, a reasonable thing to have as part of this conversation. Has Kevin McCarthy fulfilled the promises he made in order to get elected speaker in the first place, or hasn't he? It's a reasonable thing to talk about. It was, you know, Gates and Lauren Boebert and Eli Crane and all these real, you know, sharp -elbowed Republicans got concessions from McCarthy in his bid to become speaker. Remember, I'm old enough to remember that wasn't so easy. That was not long ago. Exactly. And it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that easy, right? Well, he promised they would pass 12 appropriations bills for a budget, in other words, fiscal responsibility in the budget. He'd give members at least 72 hours to read legislation. Now those are not, that's not onerous and that isn't crazy. So those two promises, well, both of those promises were broken this past weekend. And Gates is saying, you broke your promises and we're going to hold you accountable. Now, does he have a plan? It doesn't really sound like it to me. I don't know who you replace him with. Thank you. And it does hurt the Republican momentum we have. There are over 200 Republicans who are solidly in McCarthy's corner. But Mark, we expect some accountability. We do expect disruption. We do expect people who are warriors and fighting for what we believe in. So it just seems to me that to turn on Matt Gaetz all of a sudden and, P .S., insult the millions and millions of Americans who are rooting for him isn't very productive. Are they rooting for, first of all, your sound, sound logic throughout. Are they rooting for him in this particular tactic or they admiring the lofty standard that he has? And it may not even be all that lofty is like, hey, you made us promises to become speaker. How about keeping those promises? There's an old adage that it's possible for multiple things to be true at the same time. Here are the two things that are true at the same time. Kevin McCarthy has been a very successful, very impactful speaker and deserves a lot of conservative praise for the things he has been able to do. There's thing number one thing. Number two is he might have fudged on some of these things, seems to have fudged on some of these procedural things, and I don't say that to be dismissive of them. Some of these things that he promised the Gang of 10 or whatever they were that were that were holding him up. So in what form is this the only accountability? Is this the only way to call him out? Because all I would ask, and I'll give this back to you in the following way, is if Gaetz tactics are so great and if they are to be admired, what is the end game? What is the plan? Trump's have disruptions a plan, and it's a wonderful plan. Various other people who are disruptors, there's a place they're trying to get you to. Here's what I want to do that is specific. Here's the goal I'm trying to get to. What exactly is the Matt Gaetz end game? I don't know, and I don't know that he knows. I'm not sure he does. I would suggest, I would respectfully submit that the way to deal with these differences is behind closed doors, not to burn it all down. I mean, again, make no mistake. I don't agree with the Gaetz tactic right now. I don't want anybody to be lost on that, but I also strongly disagree with disparaging the spirit with which he's doing it. And again, savage millions and millions of Americans in the process. So listen, I guess Cal's out of the barn. He's called for the vote. The vote's going to come today or tomorrow if they oust McCarthy, which is possible because Democrats are quite capable of adding to this misery right now. Right now, Gaetz needs some Democrats. And if he gets Democrats to support him because they like to sit back and see this kind of dumpster fire, well, McCarthy's out, Mark. Is there an irony there in that Matt Gaetz needs Democrat help to oust a speaker whose worst sin is doing something with Democrat help? Yes. That's a great irony with a capital I. Great way to put it. It really is. And I heard a congressman, you know, a RINO New York congressman on Hewitt this morning and they are again, they are on fire. As you said, Geneva is burning. But this guy pointed out, well, I don't think any of the Democrats are going to want to be associated with this guy, Matt Gaetz. Don't be so sure. Strange bedfellows sometimes. Well, AOC of all people said this week, hey, we're not going to it's not up to us to bail the Republicans out of the mess they're in. Believe me, they're enjoying this. I do agree that this benefits the Democrats. I'm sorry for that. And I hate it. But I also don't like seeing, you know, somebody called a nihilist. I mean, nihilist. You know, it's like and he's anti -American and he's got his daddy's boy and daddy was the Florida. I mean, they're just attacking him personally. I mean, it's it's kind of wild. To see it. There are bigger fish to fry. I want to share with you. You mentioned earlier I was listening to you talk about the plight of the big cities. Horrible story out of Philadelphia. There was a young journalist, an LGBT journalist who was very prolific on X and social media mocking conservatives for being concerned about crime in big cities like his city of Philadelphia. And this guy was even mocking the idea of having a gun to defend yourself in your home. He was mocking and taunting Republicans for criticizing cities like Philadelphia. He loves this Jim Kenney, this sanctuary city mayor. Markie was shot and killed in his home this week. He was murdered seven times, seven bullets put in his body. And of course, the ghouls on social media are dancing on his grave and they're mocking him. Can't do that. But but you must understand that this is life or death, that things are happening in these cities. And I hate it. I hate it for his for obvious for him and for his family, his loved ones. And again, a well -known journalist in Philly, apparently in the LGBT community. But the bottom line is a day before he was murdered, he was literally, you know, poo pooing the idea that we got a crime problem in Philly, mocking the people who are trying to draw attention to the issue to make it better. And it's funny. So did you hear the two things when I was talking about the conversion of Dallas mayor Eric Johnson? He said, listen, we need Republican mayors in our big cities, so I'm going to become one. We also need to elect more of them. And that seems like a ridiculous long shot. How do you get a Republican elected in most of America's big cities? And I don't know the answer to that except to try. A lot of people don't even want to try. We have given up. We have ceded the cities to Democrats. Is that helpful? 70, 80 percent of Americans live in these big cities. Is that helpful to just give up or should we try to it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's an uphill steep climb to try to get some sensible Republican mayors who can save our cities. You spend so much time in New York. I grew up in the suburbs of D .C. I'm in Dallas and Fort Worth all the time. You're in Tampa all the time. Big cities are beautiful. There's no more beautiful city in America than San Francisco. It breaks my heart what happens out there. Should we try to save American cities or say, screw them, get buried under your own bad policies? I'm inclined to say you own it. You live with it. You've got to you inherited this. There's a great column by Douglas Murray of the New York Post called The Fall of Lululemon. How stores have surrendered to looters. He tells the story of how Lululemon fires employees who try to stop shoplifters from walking out with the high end material and merchandise from Lululemon. And a lot of stores are doing this. They're firing any of the employees. They're saying, let them go. Let them walk out. And guess what? When you when that happens, when you encourage it. I mean, it's not a sane society anymore. I mean, call us old fashioned. Law and order is an important thing. It's one thing that people want to steal, but for businesses not to mind being stolen from. Well, but I'm intrigued by the employees thing. And for those that don't know, Lululemon is high end athletic wear, mostly for for women, but not exclusively. And so there's some some an arm load is some serious cash if you're going out the front door. Thousands and thousands of dollars. What do we expect? I mean, if I'm an employee, I'd love to say, well, I'm not going to let this happen, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes these people might be armed. I mean, what these what these stores need is armed guards to prevent this, not employees trying to try and try to go vigilante. Two female Lululemon employees in Atlanta confronted three masked men who pillaged the store. All they did was call the police. Right. I mean, one of the systematically said, you know, what do we want them to do? What do we want? They did call them. They were fired. They were fired for for for OK. Pardon me. Confused host for for calling the police or for not doing more for calling the police. No, they did too much by calling the police. One of the fired employee told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we are not supposed to get in the way. You're supposed to clear the path for whatever they're going to do. And then it's over. You scan a QR code. We're not supposed to call the police. We're not supposed to talk about it. And Douglas Murray says Lululemon isn't the only company in America that has taken this completely lax approach to its own stock. Well, guess what? Lululemon's on the verge of bankruptcy. They're going out of business. And Douglas Murray writes, you know what? I'm sorry. Count me as one who's not real sympathetic. We're in post consequences America. And this is how Congressman Henry Cuellar gets carjacked. Or it's not the specific because of this, then that because crime is going to happen. But we're going to get more of it in cities where people know they'll get away with it and know that punishment does not await them. And there is a choice that Americans get to make. Republicans are law and order. The Democrats are certainly not, no matter how mad Switzerland gets. Look at that. Look at that call back. Happy Tuesday. And the Mike Gallagher Show lies ahead. Everyone knows that putting money aside and savings is really important. But then what? Should you keep your savings locked in a CD for a higher rate or keep them liquid in a money market? Can your checking account help you save, too? 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WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "number one" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Telecom Reseller
A highlight from AIQ goes the distance in knocking down costs, delivering actual savings to IT spend, Podcast
"This is Doug Greenspan, Telecom Reseller. We are at Mobile World Congress and I'm with Blake Wetzel, who's the Chief Executive Officer at AIQ. Blake, thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me. Well, I'm very pleased that we're able to do this here at this major event. And I think we're just going to get right into it. We're going to talk about AIQ. But you said something just now a few minutes ago where you saved a major company, many people know of, IP telephony company, 18 million dollars. And I want to hear about that story. Yeah. And it's 18 million dollars a year. 18 million dollars every year. Every year. So our process with a lot of companies involved in that particular company is on its third year of AIQ and helping them reduce unnecessary expenses. But what we do is go in and work with the finance organization, the criminal organization, and that particular company. We're looking across everything they're buying to deliver their services. That could be everything from the underlying technologies to equipment to actually things like how do they issue their goods. So we look constantly across these innovations. And because of our patented process, we can see they're buying things that the market maybe has shifted from an expense perspective. And we want to bring the best technologies to our clients. So in that particular case, we actually brought this was actually international. And we were able to reduce that client's expense by 18 million dollars on an annual basis. And we get rewarded out of that client success. And so it's pretty it's pretty phenomenal to see that with the client. And the great thing is, is because of that, the clients like that particular company come back to us year after year because there's always a cycle of being able to revisit certain expenses inside the IT infrastructure. So, Blake, let's let's start there because it's interesting how your business is structured. A lot of consultancies start with very big promises. Maybe that does happen. But I understand you actually don't get paid until results occur. Is that is that how this works? For the most part, we do a heavy evaluation prior to actually getting paid by anything. Which is very different. Yeah. Right. So you're already getting as a customer, potential customer, a good amount of insight even before we've done anything. Correct. And we do that for a couple of reasons. Number one, we want to make sure that we're going to bring value to it. There is no sense in us going to evaluate expenses that they might be buying in their key space if they're buying things at market. And there's many times we actually know a client say, you're three percent off of the market, so you're actually pretty good. You've done a good job procurement. That might be one category. There might be other areas where there's something wrong. We feel that we owe it to our clients to make sure they're honest with them. We don't want to go and just collect fees to do a bunch of analysis. That's that's where we're first differentiated as an organization is we don't want to get paid if there's no real savings. The other thing that I think differentiates us is two more things. One is actually we actually can touch their entire IT infrastructure over 100 categories. A lot of organizations have a very narrow perspective of what their expertise is. We've been doing this for over 20 years. So we have a very broad experience with the market, at least from the perspective of the market. We're constantly using options for clients, so we get to see what the market is like. The last thing that's really unique, which I don't know if I've heard of anybody, is we go all the way to helping the clients and negotiate their contracts for them. So they're going all the way to the end. This is not just advice. This is not your advice. We are actually committed. We actually will engage with their suppliers for them. We will actually help advise their internal employees and communicate with the suppliers. But we will also negotiate. We'll work with the legal departments, the finance departments to make sure all not just the typical terms you adhere to, but the business terms. And that's a very differentiating service because we know that today's enterprise doesn't have the resources to do a broad approach inside of their enterprise to create savings. So if we can be trusted advisor to them, then we can add value and they can get the highest. Who's your typical client? It's really enterprises. We've said a hundred million dollars in annual revenue and above.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW!
"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. This week we're talking about focusing on drilling down on it and doing our best to make all of you expert on pricing properties correctly and if you happen to have a listing that's not priced correctly, how to reposition it on the market so that it correctly reflects the market's expectations and becomes sold soon. That's right. And this information is also going to be very powerful when you're working with expired listings and all the rest of it. So yesterday we talked about facts, figures, statistics, as Julie's fond of saying, we factored all of you. So now you know again that the market is not crashing. Now you know again, and I say again because we tell you this all the time, that homes are still indeed inflating in value, aka appreciating. So you should be feeling very, I think, jubilant that you are smart enough to be in real estate at the right time. Now when you overlay that with a lot of scripts and a lot of techniques and a lot of skills, you will not believe the success that you'll experience. So we're going to dive deeper into proper pricing today and yeah, this is really critical that you guys really drill down on this and pay attention because this will be the difference between whether you're a successful listing agent or not. That's right. So here's a fact. Not all listings are selling immediately or immediately with multiple offers. If you are sitting on any listing that isn't getting consistent showings, isn't getting offers and seems way too quiet. You may need to implement these strategies to get them sold before they expire on you. Now price reductions are back. We talked a lot about that on yesterday's show. Price reductions are back and probably here to stay until interest rates come down. Meanwhile you have listings to sell, so don't wait to get into action. Be proactive and do the best job for the sellers who have trusted you for the job of not just getting the listing but selling their home. And we're going to be giving you techniques today because I know a lot of the reasons that you guys don't ask for price changes is because you're worried that the seller is going to fire you. And guess what? If you've not essentially followed a lot of the techniques we're going to be sharing with you for the rest of this week, you might very well be fired. For example, if you took the listing and you told the seller unrealistic pricing or unrealistic market time or any of the rest of it because you were not skilled at that time and now you're getting skilled because you're listening to our podcast and you're listening and you joined Premier Coaching and now you're realizing that you need to unring the bell and go back and fix some of the miscommunication out at the seller, we strongly urge you to do that immediately and again, make it so that you are reframing the nature of the market using some of our scripts and techniques and if you want to have the drill down notes from today's podcast, as always, we've included the notes below. So if you're an iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Prime, this podcast is downloaded, Julie Harris, on almost 40 different apps now, if you want to call it that. And yeah, so our notes are there and in most of the apps, the notes are in their full form. They're not edited. Some of them are edited because they don't give us enough room to put all the notes. And when you are reading the notes, please do also, you can use these notes for counseling your sellers as well, by the way. A lot of this information, especially Julie's facts are very, very powerful when presenting to a seller as we've presented it to all of you. We're keeping that in mind when Julie and I are talking, we're assuming that you're going to take a lot of the words that we're saying and you're going to immediately apply that to your real estate practice. So the notes are below and when you're reading the notes, make sure you join Premier Coaching. The link to join Premier Coaching is below and you can join Premier Coaching right now just by clicking on the link or you can just go to premiercoaching .com, premiercoaching .com and I'm going to foreshadow, we anticipate some major upgrades for those of you who are in eXp Realty specifically with regards to Premier Coaching and we're going to be talking more about that in the upcoming weeks, hopefully.
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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep386: 3 Ways To Make Money From Your Show
"I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. 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. Hey, Podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams, and we are talking about monetizing your podcast. We're talking about the three most common ways that podcasters will monetize. Now, if you look at other episodes that we've done on this podcast, and actually I'll have my team put a few of the monetization episodes in our show notes right now. So now you're listening and you're going to be able to scroll down and see what are the other ways to monetize because in this episode, we're talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. So if you want to know the other seven or eight ways, go and check out the links that are in the show notes. We will link to other episodes with other ways of monetizing. We're going to talk about the three most common ways, the three most common ways. The first is CPM. This means cost per meal, and it doesn't mean cost per million. It means cost per thousand. I think meal, M -I -L, must have Latin roots. It must be like Latin, cost per meal. Cost per thousand downloads is the most common way that most people try to monetize. As the three ways that I'm talking about today, this is the worst of the three ways. So I'm going to share what CPM is. I'm going to explain how it works, and then I'm going to share with you a better way. I'm going to explain how that works and how people get a hold of people because you make a lot more than your CPM model. And then I'm going to explain the third way, which is the way that you can make the absolute most amount of money. CPM cost per meal means that an advertiser who, and here's kind of like the caveat to it, and it's an advertiser, they don't necessarily have your same avatar. They're just more of like a general audience advertiser. And so you might have a real estate show. You might have the podcast on podcasting. You might have a show about your health and wellness. You might have something about piloting. You might have something about, you know, aviation, or we can just talk about millions of these things. Education, we can talk about movies, whatever your podcast is about. If you were going to go with a CPM model, that would mean that you would get an advertiser on that had a general ad. They're usually about 30 seconds or a minute long. So that advertiser, they wouldn't even really conversate with you. They would end up just putting up their ads in your place. And so one of the ways that we do this is there's some platforms out there that allow these ads to happen automatically. And when I say automatically, they can be dynamic ads, which means they can do it to episodes that you've already been published, that have already been published, you published a long time ago. And they just basically push a button and then one, two, three, or four different ads, one, podcast. And when it's a dynamic ad insertion, that's going to mean that there's going to be a 30 second ad followed by another 30 second ad followed by maybe a one minute ad followed by a 30 second ad. And that's before you ever give anybody value. Before anyone ever hears anything on the podcast, before you've said anything good, they get bombarded with these CPM model advertisements. One might be about diapers. One might be about home improvement. Another might be about a meal prep service. And the fourth one might be in Spanish or some other language that you don't even understand and neither does your listener. And this is a real story. This is actual true story. And so do you want the CPM model? Maybe. So far, it doesn't sound very enticing, does it? They don't even share my same avatar, you're thinking. If they're not going to help my perfect person, why do I want them? Well, you might not want them at all. You probably don't. And how do I get paid? That's your next question. How do I get paid with CPM? Well, most of these places, they will say, hey, I'm going to give $5 CPM. Or if they really have a lot of money to throw around, they're going to say $20 CPM. And if you found a way to just get the cream of the crop, the best of the best, you might get $30 CPM. What does that mean? That means that per thousand listeners that you have, so think about it, how many listeners do you have? The average podcast has about a hundred listeners. A top 10 % podcast has about 300 listeners. The average one has about a hundred. A top 10 % has 300. A top 1 % podcast has about 3 ,500 downloads per episode. Now you know how you get paid. If I'm getting $5 CPM and I have a thousand people listening, I'm going to make $5. Awesome. Now, if I had three advertisers, I would make 15 bucks per episode. So all the time, the effort, the work, the value that you're trying to give, and then you go ahead and you make 20 bucks, you sell out, you make 20 bucks, and you turn off your listener. You're a very awesome listener that has been coming every single day that you publish an episode. They get excited about it. Well, now they have to sit through three or four ads. And by the way, one of them's in a language they don't even understand because you went with a CPM model. That type of sellout, no offense if you're doing this already, but yes, offense if you're doing this already, that type of sellout isn't going to have a prolonged active podcast. Let's just say you had a thousand people downloading and you had four ads. So you're about to make 20 bucks. Now you're probably going to have like 500 people listening because they don't like the freaking ads. So now your income goes down to 10 bucks. If on the highest end, think about the CPM being on the highest end. Like I'm really crushing it. In the top 1 % of all podcasts in the entire world, I've got about 3 ,500 say I'm even above that. I've got 4 ,000 downloads per episode. And you're looking at a CPM model where you're able to somehow negotiate 20 bucks per each episode, per each CPM, per meal, per thousand downloads. And you got 4 ,000, you just made 80 bucks per episode. I do the math on this. Let's just say you're doing one episode a week. So 52 times 80 bucks. This is the best you could do. At the end of the year, you've only made four grand. It won't even pay for your editor. That's why I don't like the CPM model. That's also why did I bring it up first? I brought it up first because it's the absolute most common way and it sucks. And people get excited because they think they're making all this money, but really they're making like $2 because listen here, I'm going back to the CPM And negotiate you $20 per meal, cost per thousand. You're going to make two bucks, two bucks. You're going to make a 10th of it because you only have a hundred listeners when you need a thousand. So you made two bucks on that episode. What can you get with two bucks today? A candy bar? So if you do this the whole year, you can buy a candy bar every single week. It sucks. Option number two is partnership. This is a sponsor that is partnered with the show. And why is this different than CPM? It's way different because in CPM, they are chasing you. They are putting it at that $5, $10, $20 per meal. And then they're reaching out to people and saying that they'll give you like $20 per thousand. And you think to yourself, Ooh, I get almost a thousand downloads per month. And so I'm going to make like 20 bucks a month. And that's one way. Okay. What is the partnership? This is when you reach out to them. When I give you an example, I coach a ton of people to do number two. And it's because I think the CPM model sucks. And so I tell them, why don't you find a partner of the show or a sponsor of the show? Now, this does not mean an advertiser. The CPM is more of an advertiser who reaches out to you and says, I'm only going to do $5 CPM. And I'm going to do it with anybody who wants to do it. When you're getting a hold of a partner to your show or a sponsor of the show, you reach out to them and then you dictate how much money you're going to be making. So let's just say you've got a hundred downloads per episode. In this case, you'd be able to command much closer to let's just say 1500 bucks a month. If you are an average podcast, you would probably be able to command about 1500 bucks a month. Let's say that your 1500 bucks means that you've got 4 .333 episodes per week, because that's how the math really works. You don't have four episodes a month. I mean, you don't have four episodes a month. You have 4 .333 episodes a month because 52 weeks divided by 12 months is 4 .333 weeks per month. And so in this case, you would be making $348 per episode. Now that's a lot better worth your time, isn't it? Think about how long does it take you to do an episode? If you have a team that edits your podcast for you, then your podcast is only going to take you about 30 to 60 minutes, maybe 90 if you're doing a little bit of research. So for example, you spend 90 minutes to do this. So I'm going to divide $348 by the 90 minutes that it takes you. 348 divided by 90 equals, I don't know why I was even thinking about 90. 90 minutes is an hour and a half. Okay. So I needed divided by 1 .5. So I did that. I was like, what the heck? Why isn't this adding up when I divide it by 90? Okay. You were making about two bucks a minute, but when you look at how much are you making per hour with that podcast, if it takes you 90 minutes to come up with the content or invite your guests, do a little bit of research and then press record, then in the partnership slash sponsorship version number two, you're making $232 per hour. That's if it takes you 90 minutes. Now, if it only takes you five minutes to do an episode, 10 minutes to do an episode, you make a lot more. On the other hand, you are editing your own podcast and it takes you 12 to 15 hours to do all the editing of post -production, create all of your marketing pieces and all of that. Then let's just divide this by 15 instead. So I'm going to do 300 divided by 15 hours. You're making about 20 bucks an hour. And that's not terrible. It's slightly higher than the average minimum wage right now. So it's close to minimum wage. It's not amazing, but it's not terrible. It's not $5 an hour, $10 an hour stuff. So that's okay. You want to spend 15 hours editing and all of this for your podcast, you make about 20 bucks an hour. If you use the partnership slash sponsorship version, that's version number two. There was CPM was number one. Partnership is number two. Number three is going to be selling your own stuff. And that's the cream of the crop. We'll be there in just a moment. So I tell a quick story. I had a podcast client. Well, still have a podcast client. But this is in the past. So Alex came to me, he wanted to make money. He had a top 1 % podcast. So he had about 3000 downloads per each episode. And I told him, Hey, if you do CPM, you're going to be able to make something like $20 CPM. You've got 3000. So that three X of what the cost per meal is. And so you make $60 per podcast. And is that how much you want to make Alex? And he would say, no, it's not worth my time. Why would want to offend my listener to listen to an ad? That's not even going to serve them that comes in in the beginning of my episode before I've even added any value. And I do all of that for 60 bucks just to lose listeners. So that later I'm only making 30 bucks because it goes from 3000 people to 1500 people now. And so of course he's going to say no. So then it goes, Alex, here's a way to partner with somebody. And in the real estate space, I said, one of the main people that you reach out to is a lender. Alex has a real estate podcast. And so he teaches fix and flip and he teaches mindset and he teaches how to scale a business. And when it comes to him getting his sponsor and reaching out to them as a partner of the show, I told him one of the best, easiest places that you can go is a lender. So think about this, Alex, think about a private money lender, a hard money lender, somebody who lands on these fix and flips. Now you can still do coaching for listener and they still need somebody to fund the deals. So you having a fix and flip partner, it definitely both of you serve the same person, but neither of you take away business from the other person. Now, in fact, Alex probably makes more money if he has somebody who can really support his people with money. And the person who lends the money, the hard money lender, probably makes more money when Alex has more clients as well. So it's a win -win. Instead of detracting from the business that Alex can get, it actually supports his business and he's more profitable and effective and his sponsor or his partner of the show is more effective. And Alex says, well, with my 3000 plus downloads a month, because I'm in a top 1%, I could either make 60 bucks if I do CPM or if I do this partnership, how much do you think I can make? So five to 10 grand. And he's like, five to 10 grand? Are you sure? And I'm like dead serious. I am sure you could easily make five to 10 grand if you are the one who reaches out to them. So I taught him how to reach out to them. He and I even role played. So he practiced it. Step one was we decided who are the people that can help him. He writes down the hard money lender. Step two is we decide how do we play to the player? How do we give a pitch to that hard money lender? How do we give them that what's in it for me so that they even give a darn? And step three is to do that first call and to go out of your comfort zone and to call the hard money lender and let them know about the opportunity. So he did this behind my back. Well, we at the end of a coaching call, I said, okay, go and do this. And so he did, but he did it with two people instead of one. So he asked the first person for about five grand. And then he called the second person and asked them for about five grand. And so guess what? Alex could have made 60 bucks an episode, but instead he made 10 ,000 a month. He was doing eight or nine episodes a month. So I need to put in this math, $10 ,000 divided by approximately nine episodes a month because he's doing two a week. So this is an approximation. He's making $1 ,111 every single episode. He's making $1 ,111 per episode. And I know for a fact that Alex has my team doing all of the back office. So it takes him about 45 minutes to make $1 ,111. So I'm going to multiply this by 0 .75 because it's three quarters of an hour that it takes him to do that. Oh, I need to divide it by 0 .75. And he's making $1 ,481 an hour with his podcast. So partnership slash sponsorship, way better than CPM. Do you still want to do that CPM model? No. So the partnership is a much better way to go because Alex was able to make $1 ,400 in per hour instead of 60 bucks or 70 bucks an hour. Much, much better. Now let's go to the third option. The third option is selling your own stuff and this can yield you so much more fruit than the partnership slash sponsorship. So if you want to make more than $1 ,481 .33 every F an hour that you do your podcast, stay tuned. We'll be right back after this episode. Hey my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We are back. We are talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. The first was the CPM model. We decided together that that one effing sucks. The second one was partnership. That one's really pretty cool. Like that one's pretty cool. Remember Alex making $1 ,481 .33 every single hour that he works on his podcast. When you like that too, or would you like something even a step better? A step better would be you selling your own services. You would sell your own coaching, your own consulting, whatever you can do, coaching masterminds for your listener. And let's imagine that you've got a products. One of my products is above $40 ,000. So the client would come to us and they would pay about $3 ,000. They would pay a little upfront fee and then they would pay about three grand a month and we would serve them for the 12 months. Okay. We would serve them for the next 12 months. So that ends up being more than 40 grand. When you add the three grand a month, but times 12 plus the down payment as well, it's over 40 grand. So for that package, if I get one person, just one per month, then we gross just like you would be grossing the CPM. You would be grossing the partnership money or sponsorship money. You are also grossing. You're selling your own services. So in this case, if all I do is just sell one person, that one package, and I have other packages available that are more and less, all I do is just sell one of those packages once a month and I'm doing four or five or six episodes each week. If I just sell one a month, then I make 40 grand every month, more than 40 grand every month. I'm doing the math right now on my phone, on my calculator, my trusty phone calculator. And I'm assuming that I do four episodes per week, four episodes a week. Now, two of those episodes are 10 minutes on average. We'll just say 12 minutes on average. Let's just say 15 minutes on average because that'll be actually easier with math. And the others are 45 minutes on average. And so I've got basically two hours of work, two hours of work each week because I've got a 45, a 15, a 45 and a 15. I hope that's making sense. So two hours a week. And so I've got 17 episodes happening and almost exactly 17 hours of work. Now, if I divide $40 ,000 by 17 hours of work, it's $2 ,352 .94. It's $2 ,352 .94. So let's recap. Option number one, CPM. You can make 60 bucks -ish max, maybe $5 per episode. Let's imagine that you are doing four episodes a week. And so you're making, let's just say 40 bucks a week. That's a hundred. And anyway, I don't want to give you too much numbers. I'm now realizing that I keep throwing out numbers and that's going to get confusing. So I'm not going to waste my time doing all of that since this is an audio and I don't have something to show you. I'm just going to explain it to you. On one way, you are most likely making about 20 bucks an hour. The next one, you're making closer to a thousand bucks an hour. And on the next one, you're making about $2 ,000 per hour. Now for me, I'm doing four episodes a week. If I was only doing one episode a week, of course I could quadruple that, but I want to make sure that I'm always making that. I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. If I do 17 episodes in a month, I'm still making $2 ,352 and 94 cents per hour. And in additionally, about $2 ,352 per episode. Now, if with that type of motivation, think about it for a second. If you were doing four episodes a week and you were selling one $40 ,000 thing per month, would you have some motivation to get behind the mic? If you knew that you were going to record for about an hour and you're going to make over two grand, it would become your favorite thing to do. You would choose to record an episode before you would go do something else that was fun. Because it's like, I can get behind the mic for just an hour and I can make two grand. So let's recap. CPM, shitty. Partnership, pretty freaking good. Selling your own crap, your own good stuff. Hopefully nobody sells crap. Hopefully you're only selling really quality things that you've got. Well, that's the way to make the most amount of money. So those were the three most common ways that podcasters make money through their podcast. We talked about how they work and we talked about why the last one is the one that I suggest that you get started on right now. And if you need help, my name is Adam Adams. I coach people for a living. I support people. I help you to be able to make your 40 grand a month, even just 10 or 20 grand a month through your podcast because you're doing fewer episodes. That's great too. That's really, really good too. And I coach people to do that. So feel free to go into the show notes and schedule a call with me so that you and I can start working together. That's going to be a discovery call. And in the show notes is a link to our website. It's growyourshow .com. You'll see the link. And at the top right, you see a button. The button says schedule a discovery call. It's green. It's bright. It tells you exactly what I'm telling you right now. So you just go to that button, push it and schedule a call with me and we will help you start making your 10, 20, 30 or $40 ,000 a month through your podcast by selling your own stuff. See you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1274. Shutdown Delayed, Uptober Begins | Crypto Market Outlook
"All right, so here we are. It is October, October. You get the message here. We're going to dive into that today and find out if Bitcoin and some of these great crypto assets are actually on the move or we're going to get a correction here. We'll break it all down for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer and welcome back in to Tech Path. All right, let's jump into it. Before we get started, let's go over to iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at doing some long -term holding on your crypto assets, one of the ways you can do it is through a crypto IRA. So check it out right here, itrustcapital .com. It's the number one crypto IRA platform in America right now, $7 billion in transactions, 200 ,000 accounts created. Definitely, they are killing it over there. Use our link down below. It's going to give you a $100 funding reward. And of course, we get a little help from iTrust to help you guys continue to see this content for free. So that's one of the ways you can help us out. All right, let's get into a couple of the notes today and really kind of talk about where and what has been happening over the weekend. Obviously, Bitcoin's been up. Most of the top 20 have been up. And for the most part, we've even seen some of the Web3 projects also get some good positive action. So what's causing that? Obviously, the biggest issue was the, I guess, the scenario that played out right now over the weekend where we actually came to an agreement, somewhat of an agreement, to not shut the government down, which is always helpful. Kobe Easey comes in and says, breaking Senate vote approved the short -term funding bill to keep the U .S. government open till November 17th. Not bad, 45 days away. This bill includes $16 billion in disaster funding and keeps the U .S. government open for 45 more days. The U .S. government is seeing a new crisis every month now. What's going to happen in 45? I think that's the big question right now everybody's asking is, do we see maybe the month of October as our correction month? And then we have to kind of go into a realization that we're back to where we started. Love to get you guys' feedback on that. What do you think is going to happen here in the month of October? Drop some comments down below. Make sure and smash the like button because it does help us get into the algorithms and help other people kind of explore what's happening in the market. Let's listen to what Mr. Chuck Schumer had to say about this. Let's play this clip for you guys. It's been a day full of twists and turns, but the American people can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no government shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship. And we're glad that Speaker McCarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more Democrats supported this bill in the House than Republicans, proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the Senate, especially our appropriators, yourself, Madam President Susan Collins and Leader McConnell. Our bipartisan work in the Senate set the tone for the bill we're about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible and showed the House that they had to act. All right. So you saw a couple of things here with Schumer, and that is the whole scenario around the bipartisan approach. A lot of Dems had to come into play on this. Obviously, the Republicans were the ones that were seemingly holding a lot of this back. Now you even have Gaetz really pushing hard against McCarthy, trying to dispose him as the speaker. There's a lot happening there, and it's going to continue to push forward into next month when all of this has to go right back to the drawing board and redo this. So this could get a little up and down. And especially I'm concerned with November because of the scenarios that we will see in both the jobs numbers, the Q4 will start to play out in the sense that we'll start to see what's happening in the markets itself. And it could be a very bad timing for this to occur again. So hopefully this all gets corrected and playing into it. Let's listen to what Squawk Box had to say about this and the impact it might have on the markets. Listen in. Joining us now is Jared Bernstein. He is the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. And Jared, let's talk about this. We have a deal that nobody really expected we'd see. So we made it through this weekend. But what happens in the next 45 days? Well, first of all, good to see you, Becky. This is good news for the American people in the sense that an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted pretty deep and wholly unnecessary pain on millions of Americans has been averted. That's good news for over 1 million active duty troops, for over 7 million women and kids who risked lacking nutritional support for travelers because of the reauthorization in this bill of the FAA and disaster relief that was also in this continuing resolution. But it did not have to happen. I think what you just played from the president is, of course, exactly right. He shook hands. He had a deal. In fact, there was a law passed with McCarthy back in in June, in early June at the end of the debt ceiling debate that was designed specifically to avoid this Senate. All right. So, you know, they kind of take doing their victory lap, even though I think it's a little bit premature. But the point is, is that there was a huge economic disaster that was averted. So I think that's the positive news. Obviously, the markets responded in such ways that have helped adjust for that as well. But that's not necessarily all of it. We've also seen some other implications coming across from external resources out there in the markets that have caused a little bit of this movement. I think the question everybody's asking now is, is Bitcoin going to continue higher or are we going to start to see Ethereum start to adjust now? Do we see some of the projects like Solana, Avalanche, etc. start to really fly? We'll break into all of those. So don't miss those. We'll look at some charts for you guys as well. I want to go over to a couple of stories here. Why Bitcoin prices up today? A couple of points that were hit on here. US shut down a version, obviously, and also the ETF launches. Now, that is the opportunity. Because remember, Ethereum ETF launches today. And the other idea around this is that when you look at not only the Bitcoin opportunity for ETFs, by the way, if you're not following our market sentiment indicator, you guys should because we are tracking both the Bitcoin and the ETF, the spot ETF sentiment as a whole. It's interesting to see that sentiment kind of go up and down. But the point that they're hitting on in this article is that October is historically one of Bitcoin's best months and is often called October, named in today's video. Bitcoin's October overall. You can kind of see the rundown right there. That green line right there, as you can kind of see where I'm waving my cursor, almost all green over the years going all the way back to 2013. So not bad. Nearly 43 million worth of shorts were liquidated. That's another scenario that plays into that. And of course, I think when you look at the general move with what Bitcoin had to do, I think this is going to be an interesting week ahead of us. Now, there's a lot more that could be happening this week that could still maintain Bitcoin around the $27K to $28K range. That will be a very, very interesting thing to watch because if Bitcoin starts to edge toward around $28K, this is where it's going to get interesting for the future. All right. A couple of things I want to hit on. Right here is Ben Cowen talking about lucky number seven. First green September for Bitcoin in seven years. That's a good sign. But is it a short -lived sign? That's, I think, is really the scenario that plays into this. Sellers have lost momentum. Buyers are now in charge. Target is near the top of the range right now. If it breaks this range that we've been talking about, which I'll show you the chart here in a second, that Bitcoin has been moving to. If you look at just here on the daily, right there is that little high right there around $25 .73 and a little bit. And then, of course, the red candle started to point its way down on the hourly on Bitcoin's move over the last $24. So interesting moves for sure. How are you guys playing this? Is this a zone? Because this has been up and down on the sentiment charts for us. We still see sentiment somewhat waffling with Bitcoin. Not necessarily as much with Ethereum, but definitely with Bitcoin. But the real question is can we hold around this $28K mark, which is where we're hovering right about now. All right. Other things. China's central bank continues to stimulate. So reverse repo injections now at levels not seen since 2020. This is another factor that plays into it. China is starting to inject liquidity. This, of course, causes movements in the markets. It also causes some ripples in the markets as well, because I think China is going to be one that we have to continue to be cautious about in the sense of awareness of what's happening in China, both from a real estate standpoint, but also just from their GDP and their economic growth. Those are the other things that play into this. A couple of reports from Chain Analysis that are kind of interesting here. I thought this would be larger, and it's not. But right now, eastern Asia, fifth most active crypto market accounting for 8 .8 % of global crypto activity. And this is July 22 through June 23. So it kind of gives you a little bit of insight to that. Point is that you do have a significant amount of the market that is in control. Remember, the United States still has a large percentage of what is happening around the world in crypto markets, ironically, without legislation. Can you imagine what is going to happen with legislation and institutional adoption really kind of playing forward? That's where it's going to get super. I think that's when we're going to start to see some big market moves overall.
The Teachers Impact
A highlight from #72- How to have Difficult Conversations with Parents
"Welcome to the Teacher's Impact Podcast, or better yet known as The Tip, where teachers can come to master their craft, use their voice, and enhance student learning. Welcome to the Teacher's Impact Podcast, better yet known as The Tip. On this episode, we'll be talking about how to have difficult conversations with parents. Difficult conversations are just difficult, and there is no way getting around them. But on this episode, I will give you some tips to make those difficult conversations just a little bit easier. Alright, here we go. So the first tip is to seek to understand where that parent is coming from. I know that you may want to just bite the bullet and give solutions to the problem, but this may actually work against you and lead the parent to think that you're trying to somehow tell them what to do or how to raise their children. For some further explanation, give the parent room and space to express what they think the problem might be, and they may talk about how frustrated they feel about you, but try to remain neutral as best as you can and give them that space to express their feeling. And the second tip is, while they're expressing how they feel, what they think the problem is, or how everything is going for them, the second tip is to actively listen, and I know we've heard this many times, but active listening is actually a really hard thing to do, so we have to be purposeful and intentional when we're doing it. And when you're actively listening to the parent, you will realize that they actually have their child's best interest at heart. They may demonstrate it in a different way than you expect or believe is right, but they actually do have that child's best interest at heart. The third tip is to validate the parent's feelings and emotions by saying, what I hear you saying is that, and then rephrase what they said. The parent will correct you if you've gotten it wrong. Once the parent has expressed how they feel about the situation, they will feel better knowing that you just validated how they actually feel about that situation, which will help them to come to a place where they're more understanding of where you're coming from and your point of view. The fourth tip is to state your concern by saying that your goal is to work with the child, and you also have that child's best interest at heart. The parent may not believe they're the problem, but at least they're aware and can start to see if they experience those behaviors with the child because you've had the conversation with them. The fifth tip is if the parent believes that your concern is valid, then working with the parent, you can co -create a plan of action to address the concern that you have with that child and revisit after the plan of action has been implemented for some time. So this is crucial in working with the parent to come up with a plan similar to how we work with our students to come up with our classroom rules. We work with our parents to co -create an action plan or behavior plan with a child that we're having issues with so the parent can feel that they have some stake in what we're trying to do or what you as a teacher are trying to do. So those are just a few tips that have worked very well for me. This has come after many years of experiences where I've learned to really come from a neutral point of view and make sure to really understand where that parent is coming from. Again, these are not foolproofs. These are just some tips that have worked for me. Alright, so let's get to key takeaways. Number one, seek to understand the parent's point of view. Number two, actively listen to their point of view. Number three, validate their point of view. State your concern. Number five, co -create a plan of action to address the concerns and then come back and look at your plan at a later time to see if some of those things are actually working. So there you go. Those are just some tips and ways on how to have difficult conversations with parents. Hopefully you find these tips helpful and try to implement them when you're having a difficult conversation with a parent. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to check out the website TeachersImpact .net. If you found this content helpful, please share, favorite, and rate on your favorite podcast app. You can email me at TeachersImpactEducationAtGmail .com or follow me on Instagram at TeachersImpactPodcast. Happy learning and growing. .
Art Beauty
A highlight from Viktor Michael: Luxury Skincare Designed for Post-Injection Recovery
"This is the Art Beauty podcast where we are always reaching for truth in beauty. Remember, the brands on here are not paying to be here, so we get to ask the questions that you want answered because you deserve to be informed so you can make the best decisions for yourself. With that, I'm Amber. I will be your host today. And my fabulous co -hosts are Chase Sim and Nadia Kozlova. They are the founders of Victor Michael, a line that is created just for post -injection care. We're going to be talking all about that. But before we do, welcome to the show, ladies. Thanks for being here. Thank you, Amber, for having us. Where are you? Where are you guys located in the country? We're in Seattle, Washington. Okay, great. And now, you know, before we get into these products, because I do want to talk a little bit about post -injection care, why it matters, what's going to sort of set this apart. But you both have a very interesting and sort of long history in the beauty market. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Absolutely. I was wondering, I was looking at that, I was like, okay, usually that's cute. So Nadia and I have been in the medical spa industry for over 23 years. We opened up our own three clinics back in 2010. So we've had the pleasure of seeing the bad, the good, the ugly from all aspects of the med spa business. So we're just really lucky to have entered this industry and this space back when we did. And Nadia, where were you guys? Just the owners, like it's Cucumber, right? Was the name of your med spa? Cucumber and Lounge. Yes, Cucumber and Lounge. And were you both aesthetic? Like, were you nurses? Were you doing injections? Or were you sort of the brains behind the spas? Believe it or not, we just came up with this amazing brand. We've been in medical aesthetics for 23 years. A side note, a fun note is that we actually were one of the first people introducing Botox and injectables into the market back in the days when nobody knew what these injectables are all about. In the beginning, I didn't even know how to pronounce it the proper way. So it's been a long, long journey, but we're not injectors. We're not estheticians, although we probably were in the past life at some point. But we know how to do it. We just don't practice. Gotcha. And you've probably, Shay, seen thousands, if not tens of thousands of injections being done. Oh, absolutely. And having them done, yes. So let's talk a little bit about injections. When we get things like Botox, I've had Botox myself before. I know bruising is common. What are some of the other symptoms that you were really seeing people have in your med spas? I think, I mean, it can get as bad as it can potentially get. We are talking bruising, swelling, inflammation. And that's all without the potential of contraindication, right? Because that can happen too. But just the basics. If you get your lips done, it looks like a murder scene at some point the next day. And we have some photos to show that. You will swell up. We don't care how amazing your injector is. This is what we always say is that injector could be the most amazing person and having the most amazing technique. But that's just how the body is wired. This is just how we respond. So even in our clinics, we say, hey, we're awesome. You will swell up. You will bruise up. But now you got a tool to work with. You know, I've got to be honest. So I work with New Beauty magazine as well. And one of the doctors had pitched us and said, hey, Amber's never had lip injections. What if we did a first time lip injection video with her? And when I saw what the recovery is like for that, I said, no way. I'll just deal with my thin lips. Because really, no matter what, I haven't seen anybody who doesn't swell. And the swelling can be very vast. And that kind of lasts, what, three to five days, Shay, would you say? It could be three to five days up to two weeks. So like who doesn't want to go out? And it looks like you've got punched in the mouth or like you went to a really bad injector at first, correct? I mean, they swell. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It could be terrifying. It could be very minimal. And it could be pretty terrifying. You know, and Nadia, I know too, whenever I go get Botox, for me personally, I make sure I do not drink anything. I know they say for 24 hours before. But for me, I found that if I don't do it three to five days before, that's when the bruising really has a big difference for my personal skin. Have you found that kind of across the board? Oh, absolutely. Before coming up with Victor Michael, and that's kind of what led us to it, is that we know all the tips and tricks on how to make you go with less swelling, less bruising, so no drinking. And I understand what you're saying. Because I would have to literally do it for like a week prior to just to get my body prepared to it, right? And still, if they get a little blood vessel somewhere, I still bruise up right on the spot. So you kind of know walking out of there what's going to happen. Yeah. And you know what? The more I'm thinking about it, it is more like a week if you want no bruising. But for injectables like fillers, I'm sure that's a little bit different, correct? You probably have to have a little bit different. Shade, for people who are listening and who might be considering injections, without getting into specific products, do you have any tips for people at home for things that they can do to help minimize the swelling? Absolutely. So you want to definitely stop all supplements, just not knowing exactly what supplements can trigger the bruising and the swelling. So we always advise just stay off of everything for at least 24 hours, right? Next thing is don't be afraid to start taking some Arnica or Arnacare before. And of course, obviously, we can get into other products and everything. But prepping the body when you know that the needle is going to be hitting the skin. It's inserting the skin. And this is kind of what we go back to. It doesn't matter who your injector is. A needle is puncturing the skin. We are causing a wound. And anything to prevent that wound, such as taking an oral Arnacare, that's typically what we would have recommend or some bromelain. And then after, just don't touch. Don't touch the skin. And everybody wants to touch. Everybody wants to remold. And they're like, oh, I can help with swelling or something. It really comes down to just take the injector's direction and try to prevent by not taking anything as far as supplements. Maybe no alcohol prior. But that's all you can really do. And listen to your injector. Yes, absolutely. And of course, it goes without saying, no smoking. Don't go out in the sun. All these things that you should probably know better. But sometimes we need a gentle reminder, right? That's okay. So prior to having skincare or Victor Michael, which is a skincare line designed specifically to help minimize this sort of post -injection, bruising, swelling, what was our only options? Ice? That's pretty much it. So and that's why that was sort of a hard question to answer. Because your really only option was stop taking supplements. And here's your ice pack. And here's some Arnacare. Those were your options. So Shay, what was it that made you the sort of the lights which go off and say, well, we need something? And then how did you figure out what you needed to do? So being on the backside and the front side of medical spas and injections in general, right, we work with the patients first and foremost. And the number one deterrent when it comes to injections is the fear of downtime. And anybody will walk in, I want fillers, I want Botox. But the second question that always follows up is, what is my downtime? I have an event schedule. We have holidays coming up. My husband's going to be gone on a work trip. How do I schedule this in? I got three days to recover. So in our world, if you have post care for lasers, you have post care for peels, you don't have post care for injections. Why is that, right? After 23 years of Botox being introduced to the market, Cosmoderm, Cosmoplast being introduced back in 1999, 2000, why don't we have a pre and post injection care recovery system, right? So what we've done is we've taken what all of our amazing injectors have given our customers. That is the directions of go to Rite Aid, get your RNA care, go to the next Rite Aid or Target, go get your bromelain, go pick up whatever you can do to help prevent bruising, swelling, inflammation. So we took this recipe list that we were sending all of our customers to, and we said, let's put this in a bottle. Let's make this magic happen. Let's figure this out. What can we do? That's where the experiment started. And it worked. And we're like, holy cow, this is amazing. We need to now take it to the next level. So then that's how Victor Michael was created. Amazing. And Nadia, Shay mentioned some of the ingredients, but can you tell us a little bit more about what decided you to put into these formulas? So we've got two products here. What goes in them? What is sort of the magic, the secret, and the sauce? So the secret of the sauce is our patent pending injection care complex. We're obsessed with it. If I could, I want to bathe in it. It is a combination of Arnica, Dragon's Blood, Babassu oil, and bromelain. And in the serum, you have it at the highest levels where Arnica is at 15%. And this is probably the purest, the most amazing thing you could do for your skin. It's a phenomenal serum. I call it my little liquid gold, and I use it every single day, although you don't have to, but it's just the purest forms of all these amazing ingredients combined. Yeah, it's so good. It's beautiful. Yeah. What's funny is that it's now trending for a makeup primer. So who would have known that we're going to do that, right? Because it goes so well in your skin. We have formulated with everything with EWG in mind. So everything is great. It doesn't leave any of the residue on the skin. It goes on like it's a matted finish. So it's just really good for you. It's so funny that you said that because when I tried it the first time, first of all, I love the way it smells too. When I tried it the first time, to me, I really got this feeling. I was like, oh, this feels like a primer. It's hard to sort of tell here, but it almost has that smooth, sort of like a siliconey base, which I love that's perfect for makeup. Good to know. So is this something that people should be using only for injections or is it skincare that you can use all the time? Shae, do you want to add? Absolutely. What we consider, Victor Michael's sort of the beauty blender of the makeup industry. We blend in with every single skincare, first and foremost. So it doesn't matter what skin regimen that you're already using. We could just sneak that little serum right in there. Two is you absolutely can use this without injections. So when we're talking about the injection care complex and those main ingredients, not only are those main ingredients in the formula, but we've also added a ton of other resources in there as far as antioxidants go to help protect the skin, hydrators to keep that skin super moisturized. So what we're noticing is that your skin just feels amazing before and after, and people are continuing to use the product way after. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people sending us a lot of UGCs about, oh my God, we're using this for a sunburn. We're using this for some dry skin. And we're like, can we focus on injections? Right. Well, listen, it's good though, if people kind of understand and like they're falling in love with it for reasons beyond injections, because for most of us, injections are like every three to six months. So you want something that maybe people could use a little bit more. By the way, I love the packaging and I love the names of this. So taking this back, there's only two products in the line right now, right? The serum and the mask. So this is the Chow for Now mask. Tell us a little bit about what's in this. So the mask is a callan clay based mask. It has ginger root extract, apple fruit extract. It has some watermelon extract. It also has some red illness in there. This mask is a recovery mask. You can pre -treat with the mask too, but it soothes on contact. It cools and calms the skin. Oh my gosh. If you just put it on, you feel how it just chills and really just soothes. So imagine getting your fillers done and you are just, you're inflamed, you're sore, you're tender, and you put that mask on and it's like, oh, this feels so amazing. We have people who sleep in this mask and we're like, okay, yeah, I need my mask. It's okay. They sleep in it. I feel like it would get all over my pillowcases. It would be everywhere. I'm a tosser turner. Right? Is it even on when you wake up? I don't know. But we use it also called the Zoom Ready mask now. That's sort of what everyone's using because when you wake up and you're puffy, so regardless of injections, you fill that mask on and it just really helps soothe the skin. So it's pretty amazing. And Nadia, is there a right way to use this? So I was looking because it's not just, it is post -injection care, but you actually should start using this before the injections, correct? Can you tell us a little bit about the right way to use the system? Absolutely. You can. Well, if you're not me and using it every single day, then what you should really be doing is getting ready for your injections, right? So you can start it as soon as three times prior to the injections. And then you can technically pre -treat with both the mask and the serum. But we kept it super simple because we didn't want to have these crazy instructions for people to get confused with, right? So start with the serum three days prior to get your injections. And then a few hours later, start using your serum again and then add the mask as a booster. For comfort, you can actually stick the mask in the refrigerator, get it a little more cold so it's a little better for you, but it also has some built -in cooling in there. So it would go as well just as is for you. So just follow up with the serum and the mask and then use it as needed. Typically within three days, you're good to go. But if you needed to use it for a little longer, then just continue using as needed. And is the mask a daily use or is that kind of used like once after the post -injection and then maybe just keep it up with the serum? We would recommend using it morning and night. Yeah, for myself, when I get injected, I blow up, guys. I swell up, I blow up. We're chasing inflammation the second that needle gets into my skin. So I'm one of those really crazy patients with a lot of anxiety that goes into that chair. So I start using the mask maybe every two, three hours on the first day, yeah. And then afterwards, just maybe at night, morning and night, that's what the instructions say, but as needed, I would say. So definitely more than just twice a day. Amazing. And now, Shay, is there any thoughts? I imagine that you can probably use this around the lips. It might not be super comfortable to be putting serum and mask on the lips. We started talking about lips. Is there anything that you're thinking of specifically for lip care? Absolutely. So actually, our lip product will be out in the fall. And it's actually one of our very first SKUs we started working on. And it has probably been the most challenging because to try to get all of our amazing active ingredients in a beautiful lip product and not compromise the efficacy has been the biggest challenge. And we've nailed it. So we're finally in the stage to get this ready for launch. So we're really excited for lip. I have it on right now. I wear it every single day. It's a beautiful neutral color. And the lip name is called Nipple Nude. Oh, so it's actually going to be in a color as well. It's a very, very mauve -y, nipple nude tint. Nipple nude. I love that. So ladies, I have to ask, if people are interested in finding your products, where should they go? Well, there's a few places they can find us at right now. Obviously, our website, victormichael .com. Victor was a K. And then we're also launched with Moda Burandi. We're incredibly excited about it, as well as Shen Beauty out of New York. So you can find us on Moda Burandi on our website. And then we have a ton of retailers that we are aligning with as well for later launch. You know what? Before I let you go, I forgot the most important thing. What have been the results of this? What have people said after using this? Has it reduced the time? Do you have any sort of concrete facts on that or figures? We have actually done a perception study, blind study testing. And we had scored up in the 97, 100 % consumer test panel saying that has been the number one best pre and post injection care they've ever used. 97 % of the panelists said that by day two, their redness, swelling, inflammation has been reduced by over 50%. So yeah, our studies have been just absolutely mind blowing. But let me just share. Amber, the number one feedback that we get and that we are absolutely in love with is the testimonials that we received from the consumer panelists that we got after the study. And they said it was life changing. That having a product like this going on their injection journey for them to know that they have something, because sometimes it's just more than just the vanity, right? It's all about just how they feel. And for them to now get injections and to know that they have something to help comfort, to reduce the swelling, not because somebody is looking at them, but because the way it makes them feel, it has been life changing. So that has been the best feedback we've received. Well, I love to hear that. Always exciting to see new products coming into the market. And thank you for being sort of having the foresight to think, hey, this is a need that we need to fill, pun intended, and that we've done that. If people want to know more about you, where can they go? Right now, they can go to our website, www .victormichael .com, modaoperande .com, shenbeauty .com, and cucumberskinlounge .com. Amazing. And Nadia, if people are in the Seattle area, can you give a little bit of a shout out for your spas? Where can they find them? Hi, team. So we have three locations. You can find us in Bellingham, in Bellevue, and in Seattle. And just come to our medical spas. And Cucumberskin Lounge has a ton of it to Michael. So amazing. Wonderful. Well, I want to thank you both for being on with me today. Really appreciate you coming here. If you're listening at home and you have questions that you want me to pass on to the team at Victor Michael, I'm always happy to do so. You can email me at hello at artbeautypodcast .com. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at Art Beauty Podcast. And as always, we'll see you next Tuesday, hopefully with a little less swelling and bruising. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Internet built for tomorrow today. Cox, bringing us closer. In Cox serviceable areas, speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Cox terms apply. Other restrictions may apply.
Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from The Manual Flores' God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends, post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, to rate it, to review it, spread the word on social media and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. The youth today represent the future of our country. Many of them are putting their hope in everything other than God. They are being deceived. Grandparents aren't taking their grandkids to church like they did in the past. The church has been dwindling which means the younger generation is not hearing about God and his word nearly as much as they used to. That's why it is so important for us to get in front of them and make sure that worldly desire is not leading them astray. We want to let them know that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. In order to do this and to make an impact, we need your help. We need you to join us on this mission of being an inspiration for the younger generation. To do this, become a partner at Evangelism on Fire Ministry. Being a partner means making a commitment to give whatever you can to help us on our mission. We can't do this without you. We can't do this without the support of God's kingdom. Let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire Ministry partner by going to today's show notes and clicking on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com, click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's special God story episode. I have a great friend of mine with us today. He's here to share his amazing God story. His name is Emmanuel Flores and I just want to thank you, my brother, my good friend for being here today with us here at Evangelism on Fire studios. How are you doing, man? Hey, thanks for having me back. It feels great to be here and opportunities to talk about God again. Yeah, I know one thing about you, man, any opportunity that you have to talk about God, you're all about that. Absolutely, gotta put them first and put them in the front of the conversation, yes. That's what I'm talking about. Now, you originally came on our podcast episode 11th, on November 2021, and this is round two for you. Yeah, feels good to be back. Man, it's so great to have you here. Now, you and I, we were talking the other day and you recently, now, one thing I love about you, man, is you're always living your life on mission. Trying my hardest. Everywhere you go, you are living on mission. You're taking the gospel to whatever people put in your path. Here in our city, we live in the Richmond Metro area, RVA, and you're just living on mission, taking God's love throughout our city, man. And that's one of the things, many things I love about you, but that's one of the things that I love. Yeah. This time, you went out of the country on a mission trip to take God's love. Where did you go, man? Tell our audience where you went. Yeah, so this is my third trip. We went down to Nicaragua. We flew into Messiah, then drove over to, I'm sorry, we flew into Managua and then drove over to Messiah. We went down there with Chosen Children's Ministry. We flew in on Saturday, flew out on Saturday. We worked in the barrio called Mount Zion for the week. We worked there Monday through basically Friday. We visited the community we went to last time and did Sunday church with them on that Sunday. So we visited them. And then on that last Friday, we went to the third neighborhood called Paradise and I visited with them. Paradise. That's where my little girl was. Your little girl. Yeah, I adopted a little girl many years ago and this is the first time meeting her this time down in Paradise. She was six years old. I met her mom. I was able to bless her with a bunch of stuff. It was great. Yeah, that's awesome. What's your little girl's name? Oh Lord, Yaris, but it sounds real different than that. I can't say it right. Right. Yeah, but you know, it was great meeting her, absolutely. That's awesome. Now, you know, one of the amazing things is when you go there and you see a child that God puts in front of you and you become their sponsor. What has been one of the greatest things about sponsoring Yaris? What kind of joy does that bring you? Well, you know, what we get to do is through Chosen Children's, we are able to share pictures of me, my wife and Isabel with her. We're able to write letters to her. We wish her happy birthday. Merry Christmas. So it's a relationship that builds. And then when you get down there and you actually are able to see them and hug them, it just adds to it. It's like, that's my child now, you know? So I care for her, you know, like you would, another child. And we send her gifts and, you know, just love spending time with her. And the number one thing she wants from us is pictures and letters. Can't go wrong with that. You got that right, brother. And then when we met her, obviously we've already shared the word of Christ with her and showed her God's love. So it's just building on top of that. That's beautiful, man. And one of the great things that you did on this mission trip, I didn't go on this mission trip with you guys. Manuel and I were on a mission trip a few years back. And listen, if you haven't heard his amazing story of The Nine, go back to Evangelism on Fire podcast on November 11th, 2021, okay? Episode 64, man, you've got to go back after listening to this episode and the hear miracle of The Nine, okay? So go back and listen to that. If you've listened to it, you're going to want to listen to it again. If you've never listened to it, you're going to need to go back there. After you listened to this episode, you got to hear this miraculous story. I'm getting pumped up just talking about it, man. The Nine. This time around, when you went to Nicaragua, walk us through that trip. Like when you first got there, man, all right, you landed in the airport. How'd you feel, man? It felt, it was almost like being home. I missed a year, so I was really anticipating going back. Before I got down there, I was very anxious, to be honest with you, because I missed that trip. So I was very focused on what God was trying to tell me. I felt like on this trip, he wanted me to focus on, obviously him, but patience and trusting him. We just finished up a Bible study in Job, and I felt like that was a couple of the big principles is patience and then just trust him. So that's what we did this trip. I made sure I focused on patience and trusting him. When you say patience and trust in him in regards to the mission trip, what specifically do you mean? Like, what are you talking about? Well, a lot of times opportunities arise, and I tend not to give God the opportunity or the option for him to move, and instead I move. I make decisions on things that I think are a good idea, but in time, I haven't prayed about it to see what his will is. So this time, I really took the opportunity when something was asked of me to pray about it, even if it's eyes wide open, to give God the opportunity to move. It was amazing. It was amazing when that happened. Yeah, so what did you experience when you're focusing on those things? So it's opportunities of when people are standing in front of you and when you're talking to them about Christ, it's not mentioning the first word that comes to mind. It's when they say something, you have to absorb those words that they had and then give God an opportunity to fill your mind with the words that need to be repeated back. It's not me first conversations. It's God first conversations. That's so good, man. That is so good. What's that expression? People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care? Right. That type of thing. Is that what you're talking about? Exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah, so when you were telling me some of the things that you experienced over there, some of the encounters you had, you were over there building in homes for people. What was the highlight for you, man, when you were over there? So there was a bunch of highlights over there. Wait a minute, wait a minute. He said there were a bunch of highlights. Come on, talk to us, share that with us. Yeah, so a lot of times what I did was door -to -door. I didn't necessarily work on the construction team, so I did door -to -door. So for our listeners and they're hearing door -to -door, what exactly is door -to -door? Yeah, so it literally means door -to -door. It's a team, three to six of us, usually two interpreters, and then we walk out the front door of the church and take a left or take a right, and then we try to meet everybody we can on every street and go door -to -door meeting everybody. This time it was a lot different. Last time we went, it was basically barbed wire and sticks, so you were able to see inside a lot of their houses. What they'd done this time is they put up a lot of metal, and so it was really hard to see. But what we learned is if you're a little bit louder walking down the street, the dogs will start barking, and then they come to see what the dogs are barking at. So generally, it took us about an hour to figure this out, but once we figured it out, we were in the middle of the street just being loud, basically, and dogs would start barking, and when we heard the dogs starting to bark, we would kind of walk that direction, and then there they were. Their number one question is, what are y 'all doing? What's going on? And so what we would do is we were down there with the church called Mount Zion. That's where the church was daily. What we were doing is we were doing vacation Bible school. We were having a time for adults to have a special time for them, and then we had a time after that for the feeding. So we were planning on feeding 150 to 250 kids daily. 150 to 200 kids daily? Yeah. Man. And it was more like 250 daily. It was never a 150 day. Right. We were usually running out of plates and cups and stuff like that, and they would run up to the store and get more. Now, when you're feeding all these people, you're talking about 150 to 250 some people. Now, I remember when I went there as part of your team, when we went together, right? I remember that that's the meals that we were giving out. It could be their only meal of the day. Absolutely. So you're feeding 250 people, and that could potentially be the only food that they get for that day. Yeah. I know for sure that happened multiple times. Yeah. That that was the only meal they were eating. Yeah. Yeah. And then a couple of conversations of just meeting people in door to door, I haven't eaten in two days was a pretty common statement. Wow. Yeah. Like they're drinking water, but they haven't eaten food of substance. Yeah. Yeah. That's normal there. Right. Yeah. So when you're going to door to door, what is the main goal of meeting people when you go door to door? So there's a couple of goals. Obviously the first one is to make sure they're connected with God somehow. In some way, shape or form, have they heard of them? You know, did they deny them? But at least start that conversation. The second thing is we point everybody back to the church so that one, they can be fed physically, but they can also be fed spiritually. So we're trying to connect on that too. And then, you know, if they choose not to go, we're still there to pray with them. So we ask what they want prayer for. You know, 99 % of everybody says house and health and you know, their job situation. And that's when this trip was very different because we started asking, well, specifically, what do you need God to do for you? You know? And then that way, when it happened, you would know that God did that for them. Cause let's be honest, we can all get a new job and you know, somebody can all help us with some food, but to have a God encountered movement, that's, you would have to know what it was that you were specifically asking for. And then when it happened, you knew it was God moving on your part. Yeah. That's so powerful. So you're asking people, what specifically do you want prayer for? What specifically do you, you know, want God to help you out with? So when you're asking those questions, what were some of the things that people told you? Yeah. So I think it was the second day we were behind the church. It was in the afternoons and it was, you know, right after vacation Bible school. So you can hear the kids just yelling and going crazy and we're a street or two away and you can still hear it. So we walked up on this one lady, I can't remember her name, but she was sitting there. She had her feet up. She, we just started talking to her and she was a Christian. She believed in God. She had all those bases covered, but I asked her, do you hear the kids yelling? And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. But I don't know what that is. And the church was literally in her backyard. Yeah. So we told her what was going on at the church. We invited her to come eat some food. And that's what she told us. She was like, I can't, I can't walk. And I, you know, her knees are right there. I looked down and she doesn't have any scars. She's not wearing any braces, nothing out of the ordinary. I was like, well, why can't you walk? And she says she has like, I can't think of the word, arthritis in both of her knees so bad that it hurts. So the only time she walks is when she has to go use the bathroom or get something to eat. I was like, when was the last time you ate? And just like we were talking earlier, I haven't eaten in two days. I was like, oh, that's why you're a believer. Why don't we, why don't we pray for God to fix these knees? Yeah. And she gets, you know, it's something to the fact of, you know, God's got better things to do, or I don't know if God would pay and fix my knees or, you know, it was a disbelief and that God would help her. Yeah. You know, so I asked her, I said, well, you know, I believe God can move mountains and I think he can heal these two little knees of yours too. You know what I mean? I heard that bro. So, yeah. So, you know, I was with, I think it was three others of us right there. And you know, before this encounter, I'd, you know, I'd put my hand on someone's shoulder to pray with them in belief, but you know, I felt like God was telling me that day, put your hands on her knees and pray because her knees are going to, her knees are going to get healed. And I'd never done that before. So I was extremely nervous, but you know what? I prayed about it and he said, put your hands on them little knees. So that's what I did. We put our hands on our knees, prayed for our knees and said, amen. And I said, so how do the knees feel? And she said, I don't want to test it yet. And they said, I don't want to test it yet. Yeah. I don't want to test it yet. They usually always hurt. Let's just leave them where they are. Right. I said, all right, cool. We're going to bring you two plates of food today. So you don't have to walk anywhere, but be ready for them knees to work. You told, you told her that you declared that be ready for those knees to work. Right. Right. So what we did is, you know, we said, amen. And we moved on down the street, looking for someone else to talk to. We brought her a couple of plates at the end of the day, you know, fast forward to the next day. And we're out doing door to door again. We, you know, we've found a knee brace for her actually in the convenience store. So we're going to take the knee brace back to her, you know, bring her another plate or two to make sure she was taken care of. So we turned the corner of the street that she was on, you know, she's maybe a block away and we could see someone hobbling across the street. And so we take a couple more steps and it's her. So, you know, we quickly move up to her. We give her our arms so she can support herself. And as soon as she seen us, she was just crying. I mean, Niagara folks crying. Yeah. And so she grabbed her arms and we went back across the street and she, the first thing she says, my knees have never felt so good in my life. Come on. I said, what do you mean? She goes, I can't remember the last time my knees felt like this. Yeah. They're still sore, but they feel wonderful. Yeah. I said, this is one day one. God's going to keep moving. Yeah. I said, come on. Let's pray with his knees some more. And we sat down. We put her knee brace on. We kept on praying for these knees. Yeah.
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"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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A highlight from 1419: Bitcoin ETF Will Push BTC Price to $400,000 - Scaramucci
"Say goodbye to your credit card rewards. Big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. Senate Bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. If you love your credit card rewards, visit HandsOffMyRewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. Welcome everyone to the number one daily Bitcoin pod. Let's get it. In today's show we'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as Bitcoin recaptures $28 ,000. In this just in, Japanese 10 -year bond yields are surging, hitting the highest levels not seen in a decade. Max Kaiser's response, the yen -carry trade borrowing yen at virtually zero and investing in higher yielding currencies is broken. This has been the mother of all Ponzi schemes funding global financialization for 30 years and now it's moving in reverse. He also says the Bitcoin is a state of heaven that exists entirely beyond anyone's reach except the owner preach. Also in today's show VanEck, Ethereum strategy ETF set for the CBOE listing. We'll also be discussing FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried. Mold giving Donald Trump five billion dollars to not run for president. That's right. We'll also be discussing Grayscale submits and SEC filing to convert the Ethereum trust to a spot ETF. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Bitcoin price prediction model which suggests $170 ,000 per BTC in 2025 as well as skybridge capital's Anthony Scaramucci says Bitcoin ETF can push the Bitcoin price much higher in early 2024. In fact they'll be sharing with you Scaramucci's $400 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction alongside 1 billion Bitcoin users. We'll market all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at Cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's Cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1419. I'm your host JV. Today is October 2023 2nd as the October pump continues. Let's freaking go. Shout out to everyone today in the live chat. Make sure to let me know where you're tuning in from. Of course at the end of the show I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud as this is a live and interactive show. Seven days a week and the after party FYI will be on rumble. So let's get it. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day shall we. As you can see here on coin 360 we got Bitcoin up roughly 3 % for the day trading at roughly that 28 ,000 mark just under it. We have Ether consolidating trading under $1 ,700 while BNB, Cardano and Solana are all in the green and checking out coinmarketcap .com. We're finally climbing again at a market cap of 1 .09 trillion. We've been stuck around this 1 trillion level for quite some time. We got roughly 46 billion in volume in the past 24 hours meaning volume is up roughly 60 % and Bitcoin dominance is massively on the climb. I think the bull market is in full gear 49 .6 % for BTC with the ETH dominance at 18 .3 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours Satoshi vision leading the pack up 23 % trading at $39 .37 followed by e cash up roughly 9 % followed by Bitcoin cash. Now it's interesting that the Bitcoin forks are the top gainers for the day. I think anything associated with the name Bitcoin is pumping. It is what it is and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week Satoshi vision lead in the pack here up 23 and a half percent alongside our LB up roughly 12 % and XCC up roughly 9 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index we're dead in the middle 50 which is neutral yesterday was a 48 last week a 47 and last month a 39 in fear. So there you have it fam how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto now that we in October let me know and make some noise and put God candle and maybe the Satoshi and God's watching above will send it let's freaking go and with that being shared fam now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis and check out some of the charts and what's popping with the king crypto where Bitcoin is likely to go next Bitcoin aim for 25 at the October 2nd Wall Street open at a bullish start as the month continued which you can see here in the Bitcoin one -day candle chart data from Cointelegraph and trading view showed Bitcoin price action staying strong into October's first US trading session Bitcoin made swift gains into the weekly close following a contrastingly cool monthly candle completion that saw Bitcoin finish at 26 ,000 970 now popular analyst right capital says this monthly close despite now being more than 5 % below the spot price called for caution quoting him here Bitcoin performed a September monthly candle close below twenty seven thousand one hundred and he also said technically that black line was solidified as resistance for September so he acknowledged the October breakout but said this would invalidate the bearish predicament should it endure now he also says because the Bitcoin monthly closed below the black line there's always going to be a chance that this price action could end up as an upside wick as he shares here alongside this chart Bitcoin offered upside wicks of up to 8 % long before but right now Bitcoin is up four and a half percent this month so technically anything up to twenty nine thousand four hundred could theoretically end as an upside wick so there you have it let me know if you agree disagree with the analysts say goodbye to your credit card rewards big box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit handsoffmyrewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now closer to home market observers noted the ongoing encouraging signals on the exchange order books quoting jelly here spot bid continues while funding is negative this reeks of disbelief and as he shared here Bitcoin still spot -driven perhaps haven't done much yet to be honest yeah so Bitcoin shrugs off fresh US dollar surge just as eager to hit new local highs in the day was the US dollar after Congress avoided a government shutdown the US dollar stays the sharp rebound from losses seen late last week and at this time the DXY circled 106 .7 barely point two points off its recent 2023 highs and for crypto analyst Nebraskan Gooner a breakout from here would put 108 in play mark in new 11 -month highs as outlined right here now it's interesting the Bitcoin is pumping alongside with the dollar is usually it's inversely correlated maybe it's a sign of the times now together with the hype on yields and the oil prices economist Mohammed el -irian described the DXY strength as neither the US economy nor the markets enjoy Bitcoin nonetheless remain unfazed let's freaking go and as Kaiser points out here well he responded to this news the Japanese 10 -year bond yields are surging hitting the highest levels not seen in over a decade max responded the yen carry trade borrowing and at virtually zero and investing in higher yield currencies is broken this has been the mother of all the Ponzi schemes funding the global financial ization for 30 years and now it's moving in reverse and quitting max again Bitcoin is a state of heaven that exists entirely beyond anyone's reach except the owner preach that's why everyone needs to be stacking them sass and with that being shared fam now let's break down our next breaking story of the day a theorem ETF futures launch today October 2nd that's right check it out investment management firm Vanek is set to launch as a theorem strategy ETF today October 2nd with the product now listed on the website under the ticker EF UT and set for trading on the CBOE the Vanek a theorem strategy ETF will look to accrue capital by investing into a theorem futures contracts and has no direct exposure to eat the fund will expose cash settled eat futures contracts on CFTC regulated commodity exchanges Vanek also touts the benefits of the product being a C Corp structure which includes tax benefits the long investors compared with registered investment company structures here's the announcement here on X from Vanek when you are ready enter the ether how many of you have seen this commercial let me know in fact they launched two of them they're quite fascinating the investment manner has been advertising the launch of the East spot ETF on its social media accounts over the past few days with to enter the ETH themed TV commercials promising the upcoming launch now Vanek also announced that intends to donate 10 % of all their profits from its upcoming ether futures ETF to a theorem core developers over the next decade and as reported 15 different ether futures ETFs from nine issuers are currently awaiting approval from the US SEC and I guess they have until the end of September of 2023 analysts cited sources with the SEC of saying the regulator wanted to approve either future ETFs before potential US government shutdown but meanwhile bitwise asset management confirmed that trading for its to ether if futures ETFs would commence October 2nd as well with investors getting access to eat futures trading on the CB OE so there you have it we all know that futures are not in investors best interest in fact investors are most likely going to get wrecked we want the real deal baby which is the spot ETF and a little later in the show we're gonna be discussing grayscale converting their product to not only a Bitcoin spot ETF but also a spot a theorem ETF here in just a little bit but first we have some breaking news coming in surrounding FTX founder Sam Bankman freed I mean you can't make this stuff up he allegedly was trying to bribe Donald Trump with five billion dollars to not run for president good freaking Lord check this out how many of you seen this story let me know former FTX CEO SPF once looked into paying Donald Trump not to run for president of the United States according to Michael Lewis the author of the new book documented the rise and fall of SPF Michael Lewis author of going infinite the rise and the fall of a new tycoon spoke about the former crypto billionaire and the FTX founder in a 60 minutes interview yesterday October 1st one of the revelations in the book is that SPF looked into paying Donald Trump to not run for president that only shocks you if you don't know Sam as Lewis added the following Sam's thinking that we could pay Donald Trump not to run for president like how much would it take the number that he was kicking around was five billion dollars and he added before saying that SPF was unsure if that number came directly from Donald Trump and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma SPF was also looking into the legality of it according to Lewis who added that they were still having these conversations when FTX blew up it just didn't happen because SPF didn't have the five billion any longer very interesting if you haven't watched the video check the show notes below the video in the description and after the show you can catch it out this clip taken from 60 minutes now according to Lewis SPF saw Trump as trying to undermine the democracy of the United States thinking he belongs on a list of existential risk crazy Lewis spent more than 70 days in the Bahamas on a dozen different trips to visit SPF in 2022 and the pair became close I would say in spare bedrooms I had codes to every room including the penthouse he told the Wall Street Journal and speaking on the fallout between the collapse of FTX in November he shared it was like the aftermath of Pompeii clothes and belongings left behind frozen in time many headed to the airport leaving company cars with the keys inside at the curb now Cointelegraph contacted legal representatives for SPF and Trump mark botnik who handles communications for SPF case said there was no comment from his legal team and according to the trial schedule calendar released last week the high -profile SPF trial begins October 3rd which is tomorrow less than 24 hours out with their jury selection the trial then begins on October 4th so it's going to be an interesting week the trial will involve seven fraud cases against SPF two substantive charges where the prosecution most convinced the jury that Bankman freed committed the crime and five other conspiracy charges so there you have it I wouldn't put it past Bankman freed whatsoever he was supporting the Democratic Party making mass donations to the Dems in support of Biden and heavily against Trump so I mean good lord could you say fraud I mean I could see Trump saying hey give me you want to give me five billion and not run for president sure let's make it happen but fortunately enough Sam Bankman freed didn't get away with that particular crime that we are aware of as he lost the company and the company went kaboom thanks to CZ calling him out firsthand on his FTT scam tokens but anyways fam let me know if that's surprising or shocking to you or you're not surprised at all now let's discuss the etherium spot ETF which is way more significant than any futures ETFs will ever be let's break this one down following the approval of the first ether futures exchange traded fund grayscale investments is looking to convert its grayscale aetherium trust to a spot aetherium ETF kudos to them because they're doing the same thing with their Bitcoin product as well they want to spot Bitcoin ETF the new New York Stock Exchange arca filed the conversion with the United States SEC October 2nd today grayscale's existing trust invested in ether futures contracts as an indirect means of exposure to aetherium but a spot ETF will invest in the underlying asset itself that's what makes it that much greater it's not derivatives or paper it's the real deal they have to hold the underlying asset as Michael Sun and shine shared here grayscale has filed to convert their grayscale aetherium trust to a spot ETF thank you for your continued support we can't wait to get started yeah so he also says as we file to convert the ethe to an ETF the natural next step in the products evolution we recognize this as an important moment to bring aetherium even further into the u .s.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Prioritizing American Families: A Disconnect with Career Politicians with Stefan Mychajliw
"American families are struggling to put gas in their car to pay six dollars a gallon. They're struggling to buy milk and eggs and groceries. People are really hurting in Joe Biden's America. The difference was crystal clear on that debate stage. The vague ramasami talked about his positive America First vision of how he's going to improve the American economy, put money in the pockets of people. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, America's comeback starts right now. We are live with Vivek Ramaswamy, deputy communications director and friend of the financial guys, Stefan Mihailu. Stefan, how are you? That's right. I'm a financial guys client and deputy comms director for Vivek Ramaswamy. I say that's a great one -two punch. That is. It's a great thing. So tell us a little bit about the overall feeling from Team Vivek or the Vivek camp, I should say, about the debate this past week. Well, I actually drove over with Vivek Ramaswamy here to the Reagan Library and there was a mission to do two things. One, let Vivek be Vivek, be presidential, be above the fray. We knew the attacks were coming. We knew the career politicians on that stage were going to attack Vivek Ramaswamy. And why? Because if you're, you know, getting kicked in the rear, that means you're out in front. So we're wholeheartedly expecting attacks from career politicians is exactly what happened. And so I'd be very concerned if a lot of the career politicians on the stage did not attack Vivek Ramaswamy. They did, and we are more than pleased with his sharing of the American people, what his America First vision is to build on the success of Donald Trump, to build on what Donald Trump laid down that foundation with Vivek Ramaswamy as a candidate for president now in 2024. So you mentioned being the hunted, and I talked to you at a different interview about this, but in debate number one, Stefan, people were trying to just learn who Vivek was at that point, right? He had a couple of zingers. He had a pretty good performance in debate one, but as debate one ended, he was getting attacked and mauled by everybody on the debate stage that night. And then debate two, they started right after him right from the get go. And I do agree with you. I think that was a very interesting thing to see. Hey, you know, and I'll tell you, Ron DeSantis didn't take that right. That beating that, or that, that try to take a beating like that. Nikki Haley didn't, Tim Scott didn't, they were going after one, well, two people, Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy on that debate stage. I was really shocked at the fact that now Chris Christie has a potential running mate in his campaign of vengeance and anger and grievance against Donald Trump. And it's Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis attacked not only Vivek Ramaswamy, but Ron DeSantis attacked Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy appeared presidential. He's staying above the fray and he's letting the American people know he's not running against Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or any politician on that stage. Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the American people. So while we were in the green room, basically watching the debate unfold, we were very thrilled that all the queer politicians went after Vivek Ramaswamy and look, it's no different than what the queer politicians did in 2016 against Donald Trump. History repeated itself. The fact that they were going after Donald Trump in 2016 and they're doing the same thing with Vivek Ramaswamy. So let's look at a couple of those attacks that he received, Stefan. Number one was the TikTok, the TikTok attack with him doing a video. Was it Jake Paul or one of the Paul brothers? Many of the candidates on the debate stage had an issue with him doing any type of TikTok due to the China influence with TikTok. Your thoughts on that or Vivek's thoughts on that? Well, look, Vivek Ramaswamy did business in China. He saw how basically dirty and crooked the process was. So what did he do? As he said on the debate stage, he got the hell out. Now compare that with Apple and Nike and LeBron James who stayed in China, who's profiting from China. So Vivek Ramaswamy says all the time he is going to declare independence from America's greatest enemy and that is communist China. And who better to take out an enemy than someone who knows the enemy. And so as far as TikTok is concerned as well, look, Republicans, shockingly, are in the business of basically not playing within the rules and parameters of a campaign and letting Democrats run all over us for the past few decades. The Democrats are on TikTok. That's how you reach young voters. And that's exactly what Vivek Ramaswamy is going to do. Play by the rules and reach young voters. So I want to ask that question because Jake Paul actually tweeted about Vivek this week about this exact issue and I agreed with what Jake Paul said. The majority of young people between the ages of let's call it 12 and 30, their primary platform is TikTok, right? I mean, that's where they are. And was this totally calculated by Vivek Ramaswamy to get into that voting base because everybody's on Twitter, everybody's on Instagram, but TikTok and everyone can have their feelings on TikTok, Stefan. I don't personally love it either, but was this a calculated move? Vivek has feelings on TikTok. He is crystal clear about empowering parents to make sure that kids 16 and under are not on any social media platform, because as he says all the time, we don't like kids engage in highly addictive drugs like alcohol or tobacco at a very young age. And so Vivek Ramaswamy, his president, says he'll do the same with social media, empower parents and make sure they know that their kids are not on any of these platforms when it comes to running for president of the United States, you have to talk to voters in every means necessary. The Democrats are taking advantage of this medium and so too is Vivek Ramaswamy. We're here to win an election and talk to young voters. That's the way he's doing it. Before we get into the specific issues of the debate last night, I do want to talk about two quick things. Number one, what was Team Vivek's thought about the way that that was moderated, the way that the debate went? It looked very sloppy from afar. I was not in the room. I was not there like you were, but it looked very sloppy. It looked very messy with people talking over each other, people going over on their time, the moderators not asking pointed questions, getting lost in the shuffle. What were the thoughts from Team Vivek? Well, look, as a former news anchor, I know how hard it is to basically try and round up feral cats and get them to play by the rules. For the most part, Vivek Ramaswamy did. The most important rule that he honored was Reagan's 11th commandment, speak no ill will of a fellow Republican. That was the most important rule when it comes to either the moderators or the debate platform or being here in Reagan's presidential library. Don't speak ill will of a fellow Republican. Vivek honored that commandment. He talked about his positive America First vision, how he's basically going to increase and strengthen GDP growth, strengthen and protect the border using the US military to bomb cartels, keep us out of World War III, all the other career politicians on that stage just in the same way they treated Donald Trump in 2016. They wanted to attack and attack and attack not only a fellow Republican, but a business owner and political outsider. It happened eight years ago in 2016. It happened again in the second GOP debate here at the Reagan Library.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Elon Musk: Fiat Money is a Scam - When Bitcoin!? | EP 836
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, code breaking news, culture, and medic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Interesting, Elon Musk, very interesting character, because it kind of reminds me of the gold bugs. Correctly identifies a lot of the issues, last, you know, one of the things that we're going to cover today, just someone asked, basically like, what is the scam that, you know, is so well propagated that people are just considering it a matter of fact? And Elon Musk just answered fiat money, fiat currency, right? But this reminds me of something that beauty on always says. If you don't, if you identify the problem, but you don't present a solution, it's like you're kind of running in the same place, right? And this, this also applies to politics as well, right? So, because politics don't like, you know, you can vote for the, you know, the liberal or the conservative or the independent or the libertarian or whatever. But if you don't fix the root problem, which is a bureaucratic elite have the ability to create money for free that everyone else has to work for, the whole system is rotten. If you don't fix that, it doesn't matter who you vote for, because the incentive structure is just not aligned, right? and So, Elon also talked about freedom of speech as well. And you know, he's, he's seen the writing on the wall, right? You know, there's some comments made by President Biden, basically saying that, you know, he's kind of bummed out that the US government can no longer ask Twitter to, you know, deplatform or censor certain things, even though that is explicitly against the First Amendment. But that goes hand in hand, right? That goes hand in hand with what I believe we're living through. As a human species, we're living through the disintermediation of information and the disintermediation of money. And all these old models, whether it's, you know, governments, you know, and their ability to control the narratives using media sources, you know, the internet has greatly diminished their ability to control the narrative, their ability to control speech, their ability to control money. And that, in turn, empowers individuals. And I think slowly but surely, with tweets from Elon, we're also going to cover a video from Eric Weinstein talking about, you know, how Bitcoiners are just saying Bitcoin fixes this. And he's like, that's not true. What you're seeing is the slow shift of the Overton window, the slow shift of the Overton window, slowly Bitcoin, the idea of Bitcoin is seeping into the mainstream. And I think that's why you have the hostility from governments, from the IMF, from the World Economic Forum, all these very powerful institutions that are just not fans of Bitcoin, precisely because, you know, it takes away their monopoly, their monopoly on information, their monopoly on money. So, yeah, we're going to cover that on today's episode. I think all roads lead to Bitcoin. We've made episodes on this before with Elon, you know, talking about potentially including a playman platform into X .com, formerly known as Twitter.
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.
Bankless
A highlight from 190 - Sergey Nazarov on Chainlinks CCIP
"We want the whole world to run on blockchains, which means the whole world's value has to go into blockchains, which means banks, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, everybody has to be connected to and utilizing blockchains for their favorite flavor of financial products. So this is about as big an opportunity as I can imagine for banks because they're going to be able to generate huge amounts of assets, put them on chain, and give them to a global market as long as that global market can connect to their chain, which is, by the way, what CCIP does. Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, how to front -run the opportunity. This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless. Bringing banks to blockchains. How do banks and crypto networks communicate, and why should they? What's the prize available for both of them? We brought on Sergei Nazarov from Chainlink to help answer that question. A few takeaways for you in today's episode. Number one, why banks and crypto live in separate worlds and how to bridge them. Number two, we talk about BankerTech. What is SWIFT? What's the DTCC? Have you even heard of that acronym? Number three, what do decentralized oracle networks like Chainlink have to do with any of this? Number four, why uniting banks and blockchains can produce a $100 trillion market, maybe higher, what Sergei calls Securitization 2 .0. Number five, what makes a decentralized network? Sergei has five levels of security that you need to hear. And number six, will crypto happen fast, or will it happen slow? Of course, you're listening to Bankless because you think crypto is inevitable, but how many years do we have to watch it all play out? David, why was this episode significant to you? During this episode, listening to Sergei, I had the old Bankless thesis, the Protocol Sync thesis, in the back of my mind, Ryan. And I think he was articulating a version of that when we asked about why there is this incentive for banks to bridge their assets into the world of crypto, into the world of blockchains. Sergei has this vision that as soon as these two systems can talk to each other, and of course he thinks that CCIP, the new protocol from Chainlink, is the way that these two systems talk, once that happens, all of a sudden there is just this gravitational flow of value on -chain, where banks go from being off -chain to on -chain. To me, that's the Protocol Sync thesis playing out. Blockchains are these new, lower ledgers than banks, a ledger deeper than the banks, deeper than the central bank even. And all of a sudden, the value of whatever banks hold on their ledgers can be expressed on -chain. And that is the Protocol Sync thesis. Eventually, incredibly neutral, decentralized, larger networks will eat up all the smaller ones. And banks are the smaller ledgers, and Ethereum and all of its layer 2s are the larger ledgers. And we just need some sort of path, pipe, to bridge these two forms of communication, of communicating states around ledgers. That's the entire thing I was thinking about while Sergey was going on, but I didn't dare bring up the Protocol Sync thesis because I'm not sure he's familiar with it. But we'll have to talk about that in the debrief. Yeah, I agree. There's very much a Trojan horse going on. We're getting them hooked on a blockchain, I think. There's a ton of wins for traditional finance once they realize this, and I think Sergey's thesis is, all we're missing is the glue. How do you connect to BankerTech and blockchain? So that is the source for today's discussion. Yeah, and David, we have so much more to unpack during the debrief. This is our first Chainlink episode ever, which is somewhat interesting, and there's maybe a backstory there. We'll save that for the debrief, though. And if you are a Bankless citizen, that is available for you now on the Bankless Premium feed. Some disclosures before we get into this episode. Nothing to disclose. Neither David nor myself hold any assets that are relevant to the show. Of course, we are long -term investors. We're not journalists. We don't do paid content. There's always a link to all Bankless disclosures in the show notes at bankless .com slash disclosures. We're getting it right to the conversation with Sergey. But before we do, we want to thank the sponsors that made this episode possible, including Kraken, our number one recommended crypto exchange, and the best way to go from bank to blockchain. Go check them out. 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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Biblical Motivation for Evangelism
"Well, as Albert already announced, as we give our attention to the study of God's Word this morning, I have been asked to do two special messages on the subject of evangelism this week and next. Today we want to talk about biblical motivations for evangelism, and next week we want to talk about how to pray evangelistically. I know that these are subjects that we have covered many times in the past, but I think it's still very relevant for us to revisit it. If you've been here for very much time at all, you know that we do an evangelism campaign in the fall and in the spring, and we try to shake it up a little bit as far as differences and details specific as to what we encourage you to do and ways we give you to participate in the event, et cetera, but it might interest you to know, am I not able to be heard? No, we're good, okay. So it might interest you to know that we don't really do this just for the sake of the campaign. In fact, our main focus in doing an evangelism campaign every spring and every fall is not because those are the two times a year that we are trying to do evangelism, we do two corporate exercises a year in order to help to both equip all of us and to remind each of us, as Albert pointed out at the beginning, that this is something we should be doing all the time. And that's why sometimes we go knocking on doors, sometimes we go to a park, sometimes we go to the laundromat, sometimes we have you invite friends and neighbors, coworkers, et cetera, and I would just say two things. Number one, with regard to Dan, wherever he went, so just so we're clear, no, Albert did not use my time. He used your time with his long announcement today, but no, I'm just kidding, well, not totally, but anyways. And then secondly, I would just add to what Albert said, which is I'd encourage you to start looking around and the people that maybe not are next door to you, nor down the street from you, but your family, your extended family, your coworkers, your friends, the people you meet at, I don't know, the gym, the bridge club or in your underwater BV stacking hobby group or whatever it is, there's got to be somebody that does not know Christ that you encounter and that you know and that you haven't shared the gospel with or haven't broached the subject of their eternal standing before God in a long time. And that's the person that you just thought of right now that I want you to have in your heart and your mind as we go through a study of a string of texts this morning and talk about reasons why we ought to be motivated to evangelism. You know, we've covered these topics in the past, but the one that we're addressing today is still very, very relevant because the first of all, evangelism is scary and it could cost you something. I mean, it really is. Sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ from the time that I first came to saving faith in Jesus Christ did not cost me a promotion at work, but it did change the way that people looked at me and related with me at work. Now I'm paid to be good. In those days, I was good for nothing. And most of you today are in the good for nothing category, right? That makes you number one, a better witness for Christ in many ways, because you're not the people that get discounted by most of the world as being Christians and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ because you're paid to do it. You're doing it because not that I'm not doing it because I really want to. So if you didn't pay me, I'd still be here. But if if you if you want from a world's perspective, OK, at the end of the day, your testimony, you may think that if I could just get them to sit down and talk to Pastor Brian, then then maybe they get saved. You know something? Your testimony to them, to the people that you know, to the people that you interact with and relate to every day, every week, every month, every year, you have a more credible testimony with them than I do. I'm somebody they don't know. You're somebody they do know. However, if you start to share the gospel with somebody at work, somebody that works across the hall from you, somebody that you encounter that in a regular basis that cleans your teeth, that does your eye exams, that comes over and does your lawn or whatever, you start to share the gospel with them. And guess what? Yeah, they're going to look at your life different. And yes, it is scary to be more accountable. It is. In a sense, I could just say welcome to my life. And frankly, whether you realize it or not, as a Christian, that is your life. That absolutely is your life. And and so one of the reasons we need to be motivated for this is because it is scary and it could cost you something to stand and point people to Christ and stand up and be publicly identified with Jesus Christ. Not just on the day of your baptism, not just on Sunday when you're together with a bunch of us that are all in that same boat together. But as you live your life through your daily encounters, living for Christ and being recognized as one of his. OK, yeah, that can be scary, but that's the call of Christ, is it not? Is that not what Jesus called the disciples to from the very beginning? I don't just mean Peter, James, John and rest, I mean everybody. Secondly, it's good to be purposely motivated to evangelism and be reminded of this because it does require some degree of preparation. One of the reasons why I think some people are afraid to start to broach the subject is because they know they don't know their Bible well enough to answer all the questions and objections, can I just share with you a little secret? You know why it seems like I know most of the answers to the questions and even can? I mean, Michael, tell you this in class I go, that's a good question. You know what a better question would be and the question you ought to be asking is you want to know why I know that because for the last 30 plus years, that's what I've been doing. That's what I've been doing, and it didn't start when I went to seminary and it didn't start when I became a pastor. It didn't start when I started as a professor. It didn't start in the last week, last month, last year. It started when I first came to saving faith in Jesus Christ. I just started reading my Bible. I started purposely trying to learn my Bible and trying to obey it principle by principle, precept upon precept, book by book, chapter by chapter. And you know something? I mean, you start sharing the gospel with somebody if you can just be a humble servant of Christ and I sit down. Maybe I choose Dave. I sit down and I share the gospel with Dave and Dave goes, what about this? Instead of going, Oh no, Oh no, I don't know Dave's answer to Dave's question. I just go, Dave, that's a really good question. I know the Bible has an answer to it. I'm going to find that answer out and how about I get back to you? Or Ruben asks another question and it seems like a silly question, but all of a sudden I start thinking about it. Go, Oh, I don't know about that and it starts to shake my faith. Ever felt uncomfortable when an unbeliever asks a question that seems to undermine a fundamental faith and you're like, why did I even get into this conversation? I'm no good at this evangelism thing. I'm not going to do it. Can I make you? I'll make you a promise. When your faith gets shaken like that, when you actually study the scripture, you know you'll find. You'll find that God does have an answer. There is an answer. It's right there in the scriptures. You can work through it and find it and all of a sudden, after you had your faith challenged in a way, your faith will be stronger as a result of having been challenged there and found the answer. I know I've done it many, many, many, many, many times. Now, at this point, when you ask me something out in left field and I go, I had a student ask me this week. He's also pastoring. He says, hey, Dr Murphy, can I have a minute? Sure, and so we sit down. He says, this is what this is. Somebody in the church. They're asking about this, and it's some really far off thing in eschatology. He says, how would you answer that? I said, well, first of all, how? How are you going to answer it? He says, well, this is what I'm thinking so far, but I said, well, that's pretty good. I'll tell you this. No, I've never heard that question before, but I do know fundamentally the answer is always going to be going through this way, and this is what the scripture does say. And then as far as yours goes, go do your homework and come back and tell me what you learned and I'll. And I'll go chase it afterwards. You know something? You can't be shaken. Does the do you believe the Bible is true? Do you believe that it has everything pertaining to life and godliness in it like it claims? OK, then then they live and act like it. And don't be afraid to share the gospel with people who might ask questions that you don't know the answer to and don't use your your unfaithfulness to really spend time in scripture and pursue understanding of scripture. You want to know one of the things that have been a free motivation for me for years and years and years to keep studying the scripture is the fact that I committed myself to show up every Sunday and preach and teach to you. That's a free motivation. I mean, it is Sunday comes about the same time every week. Have you noticed now I get a break in the fall of an hour once. OK, and then I lose that hour I gained in the spring. OK, other than that, Sunday comes about the same. You want to know what my Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are full of? The sense of the impending coming of Sunday. So I just work to be ready for it. And when I study the scripture, I know there's an answer. I know there's a point. I believe it's true, and I have never found God lacking answers to any question or objection anybody has ever raised. Never. And if you have trouble finding an answer because you've sat down with somebody and tried to share the gospel with them, well, listen, that's what the elders are for. That's what we're here for. Now I can promise you, Chuck's going to be snarky with you. Dan will probably graciously give you the answer. OK, I'll give you homework and then I'll grade it after you bring it back in and say you got it right or wrong. And Albert is probably a coin toss, but you just ask and we'll help you and then you go back to your friend and you share the gospel. You go back and give the answer. OK, that's that's that's what we're that's what we're talking about. You don't have to have the gift of evangelism. You're not in the 1st century. OK, there is no functional gift of evangelism after the 1st century that was unique to the time frame of the apostles. You want to know why there were miraculous gifts given like and prophecy languages or speaking in tongues and even the sign gifts like healing and administration and teaching. You want to know why those were miraculously bestowed in the 1st century? Because they started a church from nothing. And in order to have elders in the first month of a church's existence, God had to dispense some spiritual gifts that wisdom included and insight and direct revelation from God, etc. Plus, you didn't have the New Testament written yet. So that's unique to that occasion. And you had some people were gifted with the gift of evangelism. But you know what Paul says to Timothy? He doesn't tell him to exercise the gift. He says, do the work of an evangelist. And that's what we're all called to do.
The Speaker Station Podcast
"number one" Discussed on The Speaker Station Podcast
"To be more captivating. Do you want your listeners. To being grossed waiting and wondering how you story is going to end if so you want to include in your stories. One vital element conflict conflict isn't the only element necessarily compelling stories but it is the one that many people leave out. And that's a bad thing you see. Conflict creates interest it interrupts and otherwise smooth progression. And that's a good thing without conflict. Your story so boring. For more than one hundred years hollywood is drawn people into cinemas with tried and true love stories where boy-meets-girl boy loses girl. Boy gets girl or variation on the theme. Would movie goers be happy sitting through one hundred fifteen minutes of boy-meets-girl boy gets girl usually not the has to be some tension to heighten interest. So what does conflict look like. Well there are two kinds of conflict internal index term. sticking with the boy meets girl theme. The internal conflict could be that the girl just got out of a long term relationship and is cautious about quickly getting into another one. Even though she's attracted to the boy the external conflict could be that the girl has the opportunity to accept a promotion but it requires moving across the country which will end her fledgling relationship. You might be thinking that's hollywood. What about business while storytelling can be used in business presentations and more often than not. It should be his. An example of how conflict can be used in a business story. A salesperson made a large sale but he was going to lose it because his company couldn't deliver the raw materials on time so even though he was frustrated because his commission would take a hit. He offered the buyer discount if they would wait for delivery which they did. Another example is telling the story of why you invented a product this would be useful when being interviewed a pitching to investors. The bones of the story might be. I needed to solve a problem but with no easily accessible reasonably priced options. I decided to develop a solution. However i lost my confidence. After failing several times then with encouragement from family and friends i created a solution that will revolutionize the industry crucial words to remember when crafting stories include but however then and so they help highlight the conflict and ensuing resolution..
Celtics Beat
"number one" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"You know, you're concerned because of like all the injuries and stuff but like I I imagine robbing his agent, probably are too, right? Like that, they are also looking at this landscape and thinking like okay like home, you can roll the dice and if Rob has another like, if Rob stays healthy and has a season, similar to the one that he you know, to the flashes that we saw this last year, he's probably a 20 million a year guy like, you know, something close to that. Like he's making a table. On a money and if he isn't, and if he isn't healthy, I mean he's making a lot less than he would this offseason. So I think, I think you can you have a chance now to, to kind of bowel you ate, what you want to do with Rob evaluate, maybe you get, like, really good value on a starting quality, big man, who, you know, has a really high ceiling. I think that's a really important question, too. I think I think the primary one is 48 because, you know, like, like 48 just adds more like scoring punch more. It's not quite star power, but it's like sub Starpower. If that makes sense like, he's like a girl right there but not quite like he adds that little bit of punch that you really need. So I think he's the most important but I think I think a close second is is what to do with Rob because the potential is there to have a super high value player on a Super Value contract, you know, or, you know, spend a bunch of money on a guy who can't stay on the floor. Like it's it's a really tough question and I think that's a really important one for the Celtics. I don't know if you feel this way but definitely some people that we've talked to on this show off. Inside the show seem to do. You think it's a foregone conclusion that for engage back in Boston? A lot of people seem to feel that is the case and I do wonder, I guess maybe it's just me being influenced by the fact that that again, we've heard from but I I'm starting to wonder exactly how sought-after this guy's going to be or faustin is just willing to not overpay, but you know, pay him high market value to bring him back versus, you know, kind of giving him something right there in the middle and, and challenging him to get more elsewhere. Yeah. I mean, it's still up like cuz because he's not, you know, he's not restricted. So like, if you give him something in the middle and challenged him to get something else, elsewhere, if he gets it, then he might just bounce. Like, he might just be kind of, like, annoyed that the Celtics were, you know, trying to lowball him. So, yeah, I mean, I think I would, if I were the Celtics, I would probably try to offer him something like mid to high market value and just like let him know like, hey, like, you know, we really value you like this kind of where we have you, you know, we would love to bring you back home. But I mean, he is he is kind of tricky in that way like you don't want to you know, you don't want to commit too much money for too long to him cuz you know, know how much sub star value he has. So yeah, I mean, I think I would be very surprised if he was elsewhere..
Celtics Beat
"number one" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"You know, like teams might not be chasing a specific team right now, you back in like whereas previously. Yeah. Like everybody's chasing the Warriors. Everybody's trying to like, you know, almost felt like a hopeless cause because they had Katie clay and stuff like it was like, yeah, how are you going to catch them? That just isn't the case with I think any NBA team like even the Nets like they have the talent to be that way but you don't know if they're going to be healthy you know you just like there's so many question marks about them. Still I think obviously they'll you know be better jail than everything next year. But I mean, they played games together this year. Like I don't know that we're going to see a team that has a ton of continuity just based on injuries. So maybe you're chasing the Nets. But I think realistically, what you can do now is your kind of free to just build the best basketball team, you can and, you know, whatever, whatever direction that takes. It's less about, I think chasing a team and more about just, you know, generic as it sounds just chasing the title. Like you're just, you're just wrong. Like that. That's that's what worked out for, for the bucks and the sons, like, they just built good basketball teams. I don't think either of them was focused on trying to beat somebody else. They were just trying to, you know, compliment their best pieces. Both teams really did that and, you know, both teams caught a couple of breaks. But so, does every team on his way to a title? So I think it's just kind of about putting yourself in the best position, you know. Not to sound too much like Brad Stevens, but put yourself in a position to be the best team that you can. And, you know, hope that that works out from there. It's singles, hit singles, man. Who do you think? Just I know will pivot off at the finals. Obviously, we've already started. But how long do you think wins this best-of-three at this point? So tough. I think the sons are a better team. It's just hard to like, pick the sun's coming off a loss like that, where they could have, they could have put it away. Like if they win that game. I know that, you know, everybody will want to make three one jokes, especially cuz, you know, Chris Paul's has a history of not being the best playoff performer necessarily, but like, I mean, I'll stick with the sons but like that's that's kind of about more about sticking with my guns than feeling like confident just cuz like yeah, they they had some real chances yesterday and they just blew them and that's, you know, that's tough on the psyche. I feel like so yeah, I'll I'll go Sons, but I don't feel good about it. I'm right there with you. I, I probably feel disturbingly good about it, actually, but maybe that's just because I'd Phoenix and not coming in, I'm hell-bent on sticking to that. Not that I think it'll go the distance. Now, I don't think either teams going to take the next to but on Chris Paul because you brought him up and have and I we were talking about before we came on, just the, you know, what's just for years. People have been, you know, tooling on Paul making fun of his contract. You know, one of the worst in the NBA, look how overpaid he is..
Celtics Beat
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"You know, like teams might not be chasing a specific team right now, you back in like whereas previously. Yeah. Like everybody's chasing the Warriors. Everybody's trying to like, you know, almost felt like a hopeless cause because they had Katie clay and stuff like it was like, yeah, how are you going to catch them? That just isn't the case with I think any NBA team like even the Nets like they have the talent to be that way but you don't know if they're going to be healthy you know you just like there's so many question marks about them. Still I think obviously they'll you know be better jail than everything next year. But I mean, they played games together this year. Like I don't know that we're going to see a team that has a ton of continuity just based on injuries. So maybe you're chasing the Nets. But I think realistically, what you can do now is your kind of free to just build the best basketball team, you can and, you know, whatever, whatever direction that takes. It's less about, I think chasing a team and more about just, you know, generic as it sounds just chasing the title. Like you're just, you're just wrong. Like that. That's that's what worked out for, for the bucks and the sons, like, they just built good basketball teams. I don't think either of them was focused on trying to beat somebody else. They were just trying to, you know, compliment their best pieces. Both teams really did that and, you know, both teams caught a couple of breaks. But so, does every team on his way to a title? So I think it's just kind of about putting yourself in the best position, you know. Not to sound too much like Brad Stevens, but put yourself in a position to be the best team that you can. And, you know, hope that that works out from there. It's singles, hit singles, man. Who do you think? Just I know will pivot off at the finals. Obviously, we've already started. But how long do you think wins this best-of-three at this point? So tough. I think the sons are a better team. It's just hard to like, pick the sun's coming off a loss like that, where they could have, they could have put it away. Like if they win that game. I know that, you know, everybody will want to make three one jokes, especially cuz, you know, Chris Paul's has a history of not being the best playoff performer necessarily, but like, I mean, I'll stick with the sons but like that's that's kind of about more about sticking with my guns than feeling like confident just cuz like yeah, they they had some real chances yesterday and they just blew them and that's, you know, that's tough on the psyche. I feel like so yeah, I'll I'll go Sons, but I don't feel good about it. I'm right there with you. I, I probably feel disturbingly good about it, actually, but maybe that's just because I'd Phoenix and not coming in, I'm hell-bent on sticking to that. Not that I think it'll go the distance. Now, I don't think either teams going to take the next to but on Chris Paul because you brought him up and have and I we were talking about before we came on, just the, you know, what's just for years. People have been, you know, tooling on Paul making fun of his contract. You know, one of the worst in the NBA, look how overpaid he is..
Celtics Beat
"number one" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"Of Celtics, beat wind Tom Western Home. Course covers the team and other teams for that matter has, kind of a general assignment guy for boston.com. And of course, Evan Valenti, producer, sometimes host of this program, welcoming good to have you with us, not a ton of her life changed in the wide world of Celtics basketball since our last show with keysmith, where we really went deep on. All things, Olympics and Jayson, Tatum and email dhoka, and many other things as well, but that's kind of good job. Kind of exciting guys because it allows us to bounce around here tackle, a whole bunch of different things. Beyond our off. Air show, just prior to coming on where we really ran the gamut. I think, how are you both doing? Great, man. Thanks for having me on early, don't have any bees in my yard, which was a topic of discussion free show. So I'm happy about. That's right, the excitement of homeownership, you know, we, we can't imagine team ownership we touched on that as well. That's, you know, that's what Groesbeck and Steve tell you cuz problem and and you know, other minority owners and everybody involved, we can get to some of obviously the the decisions that that group is facing your this offseason. But I think what is what's really appropriate for right now? Is this is, It's, you know, I'm seeing it on social media, guys. Do you have another opportunity for us to go in the way back machine? Look back at that? 2013. Draft of meds, man. Selfish could have had that. That g honest guy. He, he seemed pretty good back then Giannis, antetokounmpo in the Box to 2 with the sun's right now in the NBA finals and that dog. Is otherworldly Tom. I mean the black obviously is, is incredible. I mean, and the thing to remember, too is like this guy was injured. What like, like, you know, a couple of weeks ago? Like like, he's in a still just doing everything. I mean, he's amazing. He's so much fun to watch. And, like, somebody pointed out on Twitter yesterday, I don't remember who it was. So I apologize, but that it was, it's pretty cool that, like, the best player of the game last decade like his signature moment, is a blocked shot and now, you know, you don't know where yada ceiling is, but if he's the best player of the next, you know, five to ten years or whatever it is, you know, maybe his signature moment will be a block as well with with that last night. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, Celtics missed, maybe they should have drafted that guy. All due respect to Kelly Olynyk, of course, you know, it's really like rating your children but which block I mean, whether it was the honest chase down, or obviously. What we saw from yanis as we talk here last night, which one was more impressive to you? You mean the LeBron James? Now, LeBron chase down. What did I say? Oh, you said yamas birth. Yeah, well, I just assume he's going to do that at some point in time. Yeah. LeBron James down. Yeah. I mean, I think it's definitely the LeBron James down, right? I mean, it's like a, a game seven like, you know, real game-saving play..
Celtics Beat
"number one" Discussed on Celtics Beat
"Of Celtics, beat wind Tom Western Home. Course covers the team and other teams for that matter has, kind of a general assignment guy for boston.com. And of course, Evan Valenti, producer, sometimes host of this program, welcoming good to have you with us, not a ton of her life changed in the wide world of Celtics basketball since our last show with keysmith, where we really went deep on. All things, Olympics and Jayson, Tatum and email dhoka, and many other things as well, but that's kind of good job. Kind of exciting guys because it allows us to bounce around here tackle, a whole bunch of different things. Beyond our off. Air show, just prior to coming on where we really ran the gamut. I think, how are you both doing? Great, man. Thanks for having me on early, don't have any bees in my yard, which was a topic of discussion free show. So I'm happy about. That's right, the excitement of homeownership, you know, we, we can't imagine team ownership we touched on that as well. That's, you know, that's what Groesbeck and Steve tell you cuz problem and and you know, other minority owners and everybody involved, we can get to some of obviously the the decisions that that group is facing your this offseason. But I think what is what's really appropriate for right now? Is this is, It's, you know, I'm seeing it on social media, guys. Do you have another opportunity for us to go in the way back machine? Look back at that? 2013. Draft of meds, man. Selfish could have had that. That g honest guy. He, he seemed pretty good back then Giannis, antetokounmpo in the Box to 2 with the sun's right now in the NBA finals and that dog. Is otherworldly Tom. I mean the black obviously is, is incredible. I mean, and the thing to remember, too is like this guy was injured. What like, like, you know, a couple of weeks ago? Like like, he's in a still just doing everything. I mean, he's amazing. He's so much fun to watch. And, like, somebody pointed out on Twitter yesterday, I don't remember who it was. So I apologize, but that it was, it's pretty cool that, like, the best player of the game last decade like his signature moment, is a blocked shot and now, you know, you don't know where yada ceiling is, but if he's the best player of the next, you know, five to ten years or whatever it is, you know, maybe his signature moment will be a block as well with with that last night. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, Celtics missed, maybe they should have drafted that guy. All due respect to Kelly Olynyk, of course, you know, it's really like rating your children but which block I mean, whether it was the honest chase down, or obviously. What we saw from yanis as we talk here last night, which one was more impressive to you? You mean the LeBron James? Now, LeBron chase down. What did I say? Oh, you said yamas birth. Yeah, well, I just assume he's going to do that at some point in time. Yeah. LeBron James down. Yeah. I mean, I think it's definitely the LeBron James down, right? I mean, it's like a, a game seven like, you know, real game-saving play..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"You're not quite ready yet like it. You can still have a lot. Maybe what you do is you. Don't spend a lot of the marketing side and you just focus on the content creation till you're ready to put the systems in so in other words you just do a podcast with us or somebody else and don't worry about all the social that goes with it yet but by all means it's huge to start being the thought leader Hiking better better at hold on. You said something that i i need to. We need to transition here. Because we're running a little long in the tooth homey. So here's the first thing you said something. I've never heard you say before. Do we talk all the time. And here's what you said. You can't sell and be a thought leader that came out of your mouth. There was such a powerful statement because it's the antithesis of being thought leader. I'm not saying thought leaders don't sell but you can't sal as a thought leader. Does that make sense. Yes and what's funny. Is i have fat. Where did i have that. Not on this thing. Though dude i totally disliked for it. It's so funny i love. This is one of the other things that is the other value of podcasting. Is you have the opportunity. Generally as a conversation base podcast which is what we recommend that you do to have people reflect things back to you. And also what i do with. You often give you the space to continue to flesh out ideas and what ends up happening. Is you come up with berlin crap like that. Now here's the thing to hold on before you go hold on on the summary that you have written on the mind map is going to clarify that point and allow us to go ahead and have a nice book. End of this podcast. So why don't you go ahead and in. Let's let's take what we said here. The the major key points right. Which is you have to be. You have to have the right attitude. The right mindset when you're going to truly be. The driver of marketing success number two is being all in three the resourcefulness for building a complete system. and five. Asking your self the big question which is are you even a thought leader which led me to or. Are you a committed to being a thought leader committed to be. They could probably is the better question. But i sure i'm realizing that. Now in in the number one driver to all of this success in marketing is knowing where you have to be all in. You don't have to be all in in the content creation you don't have to be all in syndication in the show notes and the blogs and the and the videos that you do that the component that you can outsource outsource that stuff to the professional but we call it the rock star approach. You're right so when you come in with us. We had you the microphone. You do get you drop the mic and we do the rest up until the point where have to be all in. And that's what kirk is talking about bringing it up in your client meetings being interactive on social media talking about your podcast when you're out and about and making sure that you are highlighting different opportunities to have people listen because you're so proud of the content you've created the he wanna tell the world i'm going to use your analogy rate there to tell the summary if i can so a rockstar focuses on their craft..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"I'm really sure. I can sustain this podcast thing. We're like what do you mean as well. I'm putting about four hours into four or five hours into each episode. Prep in fort and we realized that they were writing against our advice. They were writing scripts out. I thought it was wonderful. Preparation having said that sometimes the the beauty of a podcast is having bullet points and have an outline to keep you focused by letting this stuff just roll off the time anyway. That's not always good. Because i get on rance but but hopefully there's some beauty in the rants more often than not this last one i think is a really big one. We're seeing this as a challenge. And i've talked about it a little bit earlier and you talked about. It is being on when you social media. If you're doing fly by social media so fly by social media needs somebody that you know post something that you like could be somebody else in your company could be somebody you're connected with a partner and if you say great post that's what i call fly by if you're not add value the conversation. I mean if somebody has an award they wanted you want to say. Congratulations i you could get away with that. But you could also say congratulations. You deserve for this reason. Or here's why. I know this is important to you anytime you go. You really buy in. And you're really on when your social media in you're trying to add value your social media's gonna hit a whole other level and until you embrace that it's really difficult to be good at social media your listeners. And as i was is matinee were sharing earlier the more engaged. We are in our social media commenting that correct fuels more content if fuels me developing as a thought leader because i understand paying attention. I'm trying to go deeper more detail and understand how to respond to people. I'm getting them thinking more and people recognize that the engagement we've had since one we did. We're doing longer form posts on lincoln as an example with really thoughtful things for our audience. Trying understand where they're at in the second. One is me being way more engaged in commenting and being thoughtful. Our views with like five ten next our views engagement. Here's another trick that i said is not. It's one thing to tell everybody what they're doing wrong but it's also important to solve assault. I'm not going to break this down state. But i'm gonna lay a bomb or an egg you will. There's a big difference between bombs and eggs. There my friend. I keep going keep going. I'm a part of linked in engagement pod. So that is a group of like minded professionals. And there's about twenty five to thirty of us and we commit to each other to try to be involved in each other's content because for the part were philosophically in line but not necessarily on all things which actually is really good for a group by the way. It's good to have people who think differently. I started off a conversation with one of the largest most respected lead generation companies. I started off the conversation. And i wish i was recording it because it was just a golden conversation. I'm sure people to love to listen to was..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"There's a couple of midtown but their business models are terrible. And he's realized that he's like i don't even understand these people make money he said. How did you not make as many business mistakes. This time around is humanity had in the past. I said the big difference is is our resourcefulness. So kurkin i have. Since we were both consultants hire a lot of consultants to make sure that we find people who are better smarter faster than we are that. Help us make those decisions in their specific area of expertise and kirk data. What those people hired you for. So here's the full circle you might have thought he was easy to identify. What about their process was so fundamental unique and different but the fact that they hired you because they knew that you would find that thing is the reason why we believe have made such an exponential growth. Because we've surrounded ourselves with wicked smart people because we are continuously educating yourself and you and i both know that the grand scheme of stuff. We don't know that much. We know what we know that we want to be able to bring other people to help us educate ourselves so that we can be better. Business owners is that a fair statement. Yes and they. And i'll also tell you that those both those companies the examples i showed they were all in those meetings it was. I was worried that was a little inefficient. When i think there were eight executives and that one in california at the table it wasn't the top three or four people that came up with the idea that really said well. It was somebody else and i know. They are or an important part of the team. Were that in there. But you never know necessarily sometimes where the best ideas are. The right ideas are gonna come from. They were engaged and they had their whole team there. It was the same with the with the other. Two father and son there were other people in the room but they had so many so much..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"How to be different and how to be resourceful and find opportunities. I was incredible opportunity for them because they were so immersed in the day they couldn't figure it out. But you gotta you gotta be in the game enough that you can figure out how to be resourceful long story story. Yeah that's huge. That's huge unbelievable. Growth really brought us into the next category here because what you ended up helping them with was building system so what they did was. They shot the video. And then they use the videos and then they plug that into their system so that they were able to scale the advisers time in the advisers impact. And all of that stuff. Let's talk about the the the systems that are also vitally important for you to make sure that when you're in the grind that you're being as productive as you can be there's little things in the system and there's bigger things. The bigger thing is having an automated approach to this so you can leverage to say. You don't always have to be involved in automated doesn't have to be a good or bad thing right when i mean by that is automated doesn't mean it can't be personalized and valuable but you can't be obviously saying that individual emails doing individual videos. You have to figure out who your audience is our personas. why they re Contacted you make that kind of stuff work. But the little things are really. How involved are you do you. Can you automate and create triggers for the stuff that you shouldn't or don't need to be involved in that. Don't detract any value. Making sure that you've got a good capture form that sends a trigger to an automated system that sends a great information. Like that. kinda simple stuff and enter you. Are you making sure that in your podcast that you have a really strong called action and that that call action isn't going to get lost on people so people are actually engaging it so the little things like that but the big things are are heaven the system in place in having the right marketing people..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"Love the fact that i've gotten so much better. I'm not afraid to show anybody. And i think that shows a lot of growth commitment. I haven't done nearly as many as you. Because i'm not on our episodes but it's a great place as an incredible journey. The people who talk about their marketing. Who are excited about it. Who have a lot of pride in who make sure you said. Practice practices also having a game plan going into every situation. So if you're gonna have a meeting with the client and you don't talk about your podcast. That's a massive missed opportunity massive. Because what could you do. You could ask them heavy. Listen to it no. Why haven't you while. I thought it was for your prospects okay. Why did you feel that way. Well you don't really the stuff you talkable. You've already done the work for me. So what could i do in the podcast. So that would make you excited when i come in here. We we talked about golf gardening travel. Why don't you talk about those because you always have. You always seemed to know somebody who was a great vacation spot. 'cause you so you've got all this wisdom life experience that i find so endearing when we meet but you never talked about it. So what if that actually conversation drove you to make an adjustment to your podcast. That went major. Podcast go through the roof and you never got to experience that because you never talked to anybody but yet and that's a lot closer to a real example. Then just me. You know waxing philosophically. Yeah okay so that was that was number two number one is make sure that you have the right mindset number twos being all in what's number three number three is being resourceful and share a story with you but the truth is there opportunities all around us enough. We're in the game. Those opportunities will be present because we're always thinking about them. But if you're not in the game and you want to don't want anything to do what don't want to have anything to do with marketing. Your marketing and you want to completely outsource it or disregard it..
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"Some examples as we go through there so that you'll understand instances of where you need to be engaged but ultimately if you take a mindset who's accountable for my success is as somebody else i'm pushing this out to or is it me and the more you you are accountable the more likely you'll get more of the people you hire. If that makes sense you still need to hire really good marketing people to do the work that they're going to take away from you but very strategic about it. The greatest rockstars of all times right. We've talked about rockstars. We can talk about sports professionals. We can talk about all of those different sorts of people. What happens is courteous at all. In and i'm going to take a moment to to just expand on that when you're about to meet with a client you should have a pre-game mental exercise so that you have removed every other distraction in order to pay one hundred percent attention on what you're doing that period of time. You can't be thinking about what you're having for launch you can't because then you're not truly listening and paying attention to the person that you're interacting with marketing is exactly the same way when you're about to monitor what one of the greatest quotes that i heard recently on a podcast was it doesn't matter if you have ten followers or a million followers. All that matters is that your fans feel like you care in kirk when you're talking about some of the stuff that you have to do so you hire a company like us or many other companies. We do all of this marketing work for you in. If your fans say something you have to be around some time to respond to the fans to make sure that they feel well taken care of in those people who do that are really taking it also to the next level but i wanna get back to the all in somebody said to be. We'll not you know what. I'm a professional financial advisor. I've been through these meetings hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of times. What do i need to practice for. And i just go back to michael jordan. Michael jordan could be the greatest basketball player of all time. That's up for discussion. But it doesn't matter because he still practiced. When is the last time that you practice in part of practicing is getting that mindset. That kirk was talking about in order to make you be all in when you need to be in marketing. Yeah if you were paying attention to what's going on in your marketing and you you're engaged you get better and better at it how you engage and if you've followed me i'm a pretty good example that we're or really good example of that because i wasn't always good at social media in fact i'm so much better now than i ever was and it's crazy to think of how maya engagement in.
Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"number one" Discussed on Top Advisor Marketing Podcast
"And welcome to another top advisor marketing podcasts. A lot of things have happened. Justice last week for kirk. And we've had a lot of major tiffany's anies and a lot of really great conversations and so what we decided to do. Today was we'd started to distill all of this into the podcast that we are calling the number one driver of marketing success. Will you talked to many people's kurkin. I do unbelievable things end up happening. So we're going to dive into each of these things but really what we want to take away. Is you have to do the work now. Spoiling it a little bit kirk. But i wanna make sure that everybody understands that. We're going to talk about the fact that you actually have to do some work here. Where do we begin. Kirk eddie this started with a conversation you had very recently honestly you and i have been a piff nizing since we met but this one is not necessarily new is just coming more and more into focus as and i think it's partially because as our company grows and gets more respect from other companies. We have access to top people at those companies in for some reason because of our honesty. I think how we do this. Podcast we get a lot of people. Speaking quite openly and candidly. And we're not gonna name names today. But i can tell you that we've had some conversations with some of the top marketing people Working helping experts and particular financial advisors an ra as in. There's a common theme here not just within our company but within these leading these other leading companies and we're going to talk about the number one driver success today for no matter. What you're doing marquis. It comes down to the same thing and that's really embracing the grind marketing just like others. Business is a grind. Any gotta be prepared to win. We're going to break down what that meets. Where do you work. where do you focus. Where can you outsource..
DV Radio
"number one" Discussed on DV Radio
"But has drawn the line on cancer. Eager stiffening out just lift. Attendance limits however with weddings allowed twenty five percent capacity or up to two hundred fifty. People whichever is but yes. Dancing dancing at weddings is not allowed. That's that's like the whole. Don't sing happy birthday during fucking twenty twenty because that's alcove in spreads. Don't blow on your candles because you might give yourself fucking cova footing world. Are we fucking living in. I mean i'm not no fucking scientists. And i'm not no fucking docker and i'm not bucking expert by any fucking means but argue seriously that invalid in the fucking mainstream media and these people that are getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so fucking lie mines you. You won't trust anything. They fucking spew out if they told you to jump off the empire state building because it will save millions from kobe. Probably fucking do it at this point in time. That's fucking steps do it. I mean cheeses. Like he's already this fired up only sweating right now. all right. Moving on disneyland is reopening and their new snow white. Reid is being attacked for for consent. Issues wait wait wait wait. You said snow white bride. It can sit in issues. Is this like some fucking new adult ride where it's like porn on the inside or something. That no disneyland. Revamped snow white ride has become the latest targets of cancel culture because it features the iconic kiss by prince charming that happens as she sleeps and without her consent. a god. i'm. I'm i'm done with fucking cancel culture and flak in we're very sales and fucking fantasy. And hey let's change batman and superman because we're living in a new world and we don't spike in lump to do traditions because consensual fucking agreements and motherfuckers. It's fucking story. It's very tale. You'd want to hear the real snow white period. It's not as fucking disney white as you fucking thank it. Is they fucking fucking murder. People in the fucking ruin like like. I mean when i say murder. I'm talking like sixteenth century. Fucking heads chopped off under a fucking guillotine like this shit whatnot gory. You wanna talk about canceling some shit. Don't kiss the kids. that's a cute little. Oh my god. They're fucking meant to be a little thing like that's cute. That's cute whatever. I'm fucking traditional whatever. But you know. I'm going to ask a girl if i can fucking kiss her. I'm not just gonna fucking go up to her. It'd be like oh you're sleeping on the kiss you. It's meant to be like no if you stay that based off of a fucking fairytale your needs to be under the fucking jail because you are a sexual fucking predator. It's that simple now now for those. That are saying that this needs to be canceled. You are the person that needs to be jail. You're the person that is fucking predator. So the theme park in anaheim california opened a recently for the first time in more than four hundred days since the pandemic started showing off its newly revamped. Snow white's enchanted wish ride but it was immediately ripped in a review. That's at the park. Should have reimagined the nineteen thirty eight cartoon classics avoid ending with with the iconic true. Love's kiss that we can snow white Sf gate reviewers katie. Doubt and julie tremaine attack the right for including the kiss. He gives to her without consent while she's asleep which cannot possibly be true love if only one person is happening. Haven't we already agreed. That consented early. Disney movies is a major issue. The pair wrote on the safe. The digital home of the san francisco chronicle. This is literally fuck involved with goddamn princess kissing the frog to do. This is literally like people fucking saying that baby. It's cold outside is sexual abuse and shit. Not recognizing the time that it was set in because the same means yesterday. Don't mean the same shit to fucking day like faggot. Back then bucket and cigarettes or a bundle of twigs where today it's a derogatory term against homosexuals. Like that's the fucking difference. You have to look at that time. It was fucking written and performed in. You can't just say oh today. it's fucking so. I gotta give off the air bit. Please get that cock fucking as now and fucking creighton the fuck up and just deal with it if you don't like it don't listen to it. Don't ride it. don't read it. don't fuck it. Who cares okay. It's not harming anybody. It's not killing anybody and it certainly is looking sexually abusing anybody. If it's a fucking song or ride like stop a. They can teach with a that teaching kids that kissing when it hasn't been established for both parties are willing to engage is knocked okay. It's hard to understand. Why the disneyland of twenty twenty. One which is to scene with such old-fashioned ideas of what a man is allowed to do to a woman. I know we imagine an ending in keeping with the spirit of the movie and snow white's place in the disney canon that avoids this problem well. The harsh reviews sparked outrage online with many accusing woke woke liberals taking culture. Too far one person wrote did digital think they would rewrite the frequent story. I think it's kind of funny so late would still be asleep if it were up to the crazies on the left i woke culture. Someone else will give me a break. Take in the classics. That made is all wish for the happy ending. Dreams impossibilities of better. See these these are. The people were kids. Get in trouble for hugging their friends in kindergarten. Glass or cops and robbers with their hand in the shape of the fucking gun like you are the problem with the bucket world. Parents should be able to teach. Her parents should be able to teach their children about consent as well as the difference between real life and fairytale. Someone else put i grew. I grew up with fairytales and very much understood. The importance of consent allow children to enjoy the magic fairy tales. Thank you to the the fleck said that. Yeah you tell them the story and you tell them hey no matter what you don't kiss a boy or a girl while they're sleeping without them. Say hey baby. Kiss me. While i sleep please Like you don't do that. That's just creepy. Exactly moving on so elon. Musk is appearing on. Snl tonight currently apparently there are cast members who were mad and upset in disappointed and these snl cast members who object to elon. Musk won't.
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"Again similar forrest gump art music and how one feels blind your walls and you know that's the way i own a four. Is this guys. I'm glad we have often move right. And i i just. I can't commend you guys enough on the short amount of time what you got sound like. I know a few people here you like. Who are they behind. And i'm like the nobody there literally independent and that makes me so happy to say it really. Does you guys have no clue like. I don't think it's today's market of music isn't what it was twenty thirty years ago by any means. I mean it's if you don't have the look or you don't have the field or you don't conform to this or you don't conform to that more than likely you're not gonna get anywhere in the music industry or movie industry or any industry these days And that's sad. It really is sad. Because we've got people like you and for and marine rapper. And i could just go down the fucking list of how many talented musicians and artists. There are that whether they've got you know a million fan base or they've got one hundred fan base. They are the most talented motherfuckers getting no quote unquote clout whatsoever. But yet you've got justin bieber and walk out here fucking the next goddamn queens and kings of the fucking music industry and i'm not knocking them on their talent. But you know twenty thirty years ago you had fifteen hundred artists that you had to choose from or you could choose from and they were all getting the same amount of exposure whereas today brother. If you ain't got it you ain't gonna get nowhere. And i don't know what it is in today's industry that's always changing on a daily basis seems But i know me personally if you guys just keep doing what you're doing and go along with what makes you guys happy instead of what you think is gonna make everybody else happy. You're gonna go far because there aren't many independent artists that i know that have started. That started doing what they're listening. Base said would be good for them to do and got much further after that they just stuck to. What made them happy whether you guys move over and pop or you stay with your heavy metal and stuff like that. Do what makes you guys happy. Fuck what people say. Fuck that shit. I'm gonna say that right now because the ones that want to see succeed will stay with you and the ones that wanna see you fail or going to be like yeah. They suck now even though they were the ones that told you like play a pop rock music or some shit like no we stage what we do we where we'd lightning also what.
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"I know when we were talking email. We were talking about the farm. And you guys playing at a fundraiser. hopefully we can make something happen I know that dv six would be grateful to have an actual lab band Especially having a band that has been on duty radio that you know. We all approve of and things of that nature. Because he's he's he's like he's really hesitant about anything anymore about anybody. 'cause we've been burned so many times in the past But that would be fucking great to have you guys at a fundraiser. Like i said playing loud music and if you guys do you get a record label knowing what i know about the entertainment business because i have friends that or musicians just tread carefully. Watch everything watcher for guys backs like in. Get as many legals on your side as you possibly can and just fucking watcher it. 'cause i don't wanna see you guys get fucked over and a damn sure. Don't wanna see you guys to change your fucking ways because what you're doing now is fucking you got a couple of new ones in life right now so nice maybe really good shit l. Well as good as what. I've been hearing only fuck wondering you guys do while. Yeah and you know. We've we've been trying to get together. A music therapy show where we bring on bands like yourselves all independence and you guys play. Live and one. We don't have a studio so we can't do it in the studio and i've had a few people that i've tried to get as co host. And they don't want to answer me bag and this that and the other and i'm like fuck so hopefully we can actually get Accrue together to do music therapy once once a month. And you guys hopefully can come on and play a few tunes and talk to the people again A little more in depth about. How music helps you guys and things of nature Now before pre now before show in pre show. I should say We were talking about what you guys have upcoming. That's is still up in the air but hopefully actually happens. You guys have something happening in august in auburn new hampshire. Is that correct. Yes you're six point eight. We don't have you don't have. The skills is still kind of else. is still get renamed certain They soon as feet. Couple of beijing blasted. I'll get it out here as much as we'd and Was in move was supposed to actually play next me in now got moved up august a. Yeah if you guys have you know followed adherents own Facebook or any social media. Go follow him Facebook adherents metal and the link is in the chat You can listen to him on spotify youtube and i think major platforms correct. Yes can you take over just for a second for me surena. now one of the things that My son he's older. He's twenty seven now and He started playing drums. I'd say when he was sixteen because he needed guy said he kinda needed an outlet for his energy. You know what. I mean you get in trouble at school. Whatever the case may be and you know the kid could get keep a beat so Buddy of mine. That i went to high school with he He taught drums replay drums as well and start teaching them but One are the things. I can never do as a kid. I can keep a beep. But i cannot read sheet music to save my life. How important is that. You guys usually kind of just play by ear. So it's made me by air. I i look bringing the right up is set a very important actually get you find your music and get you really memorize arts or want more. We severe able to actually off. The is an waiting represent memory and batsman second nature. Well we mainly by ear will will actually report some of stephen's or listen back wooden and then there will be that way but we had to write in you. That's like. I said that was probably the i couldn't write down. Maybe howitzer talk. When he's new. Like i just over ear. And when he got it doesn't she right it. You know it's funny that you guys say that. When i was in band when i was first starting out in school i played the trombone. I was a boehner. What i couldn't i couldn't read music to save my fucking life for like two and a half three years like adult and i would just play what everybody else playing like. I knew how to play. I couldn't read a fucking note the same goddamn life. I knew the basics the f. a. c. and all that good shit all that but i didn't know what the fuck was difference between base class in trouble cleft. An eighth notes and sixteen like. What does that look like. Fucking chinese algebra to me. What does what was that. I have trouble playing the radio so that and before you know i got really bad off. I was actually learning how to play five string banjo. And i got down to the point of. Actually i was doing the one one side of jillian bands played in like fucking eight years now But to relearn how to read fucking these for me was like trying to re route a bike. Like i was really lost and i mean. I don't brag about myself at all. But i can do a lot of shit lincoln frosty. Can it says that and for me to have trouble reading music. I was like dude. I feel so fucking retarded. Like i feel like rainman. Didn't know the difference between love and hate. How long does it like you guys. Obviously you know you write your own there and you make your own music. How long did you would you say it's you.
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