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A highlight from Hope for the Cursed (2)
"Well, let me ask you to turn in your Bibles to 2 Kings 7, and we're going to read verses 1 -20. 2 Kings 7, beginning in verse 1, this is the infallible, inerrant word of our God. Then Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time, a saith of fine flour should be sold for a shackle, and two saith of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. So an officer, on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, look, if this thing be, and he said, this is Elisha now talking, and he said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes, or you shall not eat of it. Now there were four lepers, men at the entrance of the gate, and they said to one another, why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, we'll enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we'll die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall only die. And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. And when they'd come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army. So they said to one another, look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us. Therefore they arose and fled at twilight and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives. And when the lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank and carried from it silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried some from there also and went and hid it. Then they said to one another, we're not doing right. is This day a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them saying, we went to the Syrian camp and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound, only horses and donkeys tied in the tents intact. The gatekeeper called out and they told it to the king's household inside. So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we're hungry, therefore they've gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the camp and they'll catch them alive and get into the city. And one of his servants answered and said, please let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it or indeed I say they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed. So let us send them and see. Therefore, they took two chariots with horses and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army saying, go and see. And they went after them to the Jordan and indeed all the roads was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king and the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shackle and two seahs of barley for a shackle according to the word of the Lord. Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate but the people trampled him in the gate and he died just as the man of God had said who spoke when the king came down to him. So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king saying, two seahs of barley for a shackle and a seah of fine flour for a shackle shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria. And that officer had answered the man of God and said, now look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be? And he had said, in fact, you shall see it with your eyes but you shall not eat it. And so it happened to him for the people trampled him in the gate and he died. The grass withers and the flowers fade but the word of our God endures forever. Let's pray. Our Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that it is true truth and we pray that that truth would reach into the minds and hearts of your people this evening and we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. Well, there's congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ. You may recall from last week that I said from chapter 6 verse 24 all the way down through the end of chapter 7 where we're dealing with a text that hangs together. It's a single narrative. I chose to divide it up for practical reasons but I do want you to know this, the chapter break, chapter 7 is a bit arbitrary. Now on the previous Lord's Day, we focused on chapter 6 that highlights some of the implications of Israel's desperate predicament. The Syrian army had besieged Samaria which meant there was a blockade around the entire city, nothing going in and nothing going out. And just as the siege intended, it created in Samaria a catastrophic famine where something as unsavory and unappetizing as a donkey's head or dove dung cost an absolute fortune. So the people simply had nothing to eat. Now you'll remember from last week the implication of their predicament was much worse than donkey heads and dove dung. King Jehoram went out and he was inspecting the city walls and he encountered an evil. That's truly breathtaking. There were mothers who were killing and eating their children and it's important to pause here and remember what we learned last week, that Syria besieging Samaria, the famine and even that grotesque cannibalism were actually implications of Israel's predicament. Their predicament, their actual problem is that on account of their idolatry and disobedience, they had fallen under God's covenant curses. Now if you want to explore God's covenant curses as they relate to this passage, you can check them out at Deuteronomy 28 verses 52 through 57, Leviticus 26 verses 27 through 29. We looked at that passage last week. The point is God had given them over and he's pulled back his hand of restraint and we're Well even Jehoram seemed to be shocked by the events and he made a show of tearing his clothes so that people could see he seemed to be mourning and then underneath the clothes on the outside he was wearing sackcloth on the inside and that of course is a garment typically associated with repentance and his repentance was a sham. We know that because instead of seeking out God's prophet for a word of direction or a word of comfort or a word of deliverance, the king's impulse was to have Elisha murdered. He actually sent an assassin to take Elisha's head but of course the prophet of God to whom God reveals himself knew what was happening and barred the door from the messenger and assassin. And as the men held the door, the king showed up right on the heels of the assassin likely wanting to make sure that the job got done and we began to learn there near the end of chapter 6 that the reason Jehoram was filled with bitter anger toward Elisha is because he's the one who told the king that those events that Samaria was experiencing were the Lord's judgment and that he must repent and wait on the Lord. And now having learned what those women were doing Jehoram's done waiting and chapter 6 ends with Jehoram making it clear that from his perspective the one to blame for this whole sordid mass is Yahweh. It's his fault. Look there at the end of verse 33 in chapter 6. Surely this calamity is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? Most of Israel is living in spiritual darkness choosing to worship false gods. Samaria is enduring God's just covenant curses and they aren't at all bashful in telling their king that they're engaged in the worst imaginable kind of evil, cannibalism. And King Jehoram no longer has patience to wait for Yahweh and the reason he wants to take Elisha's head is because he can't get to Yahweh's head. And one of the most surprising truths that unfolds when we make the transition to chapter 7 as great and shocking as Samaria's sin is, as great and shocking as Jehoram's sin and impatience is, we come to something more shocking, something that's gloriously shocking. We learn that God's grace and patience eclipses their sin and impatience. We're getting a picture that God's grace is greater than all our sin. I mean the king is at Elisha's house to kill God's prophet and God's going to announce through his prophet a message of good news. That's why I entitled the message this week and last week Hope for the Cursed and that's what we pick up this evening. Look there at verse 1, it sets the stage. Then Elisha said hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord, tomorrow about this time a saya of fine flour shall be sold for a shackle and two sayas of barley for a shackle at the gate of Samaria. He said don't miss this. Elisha provides a kind of double affirmation to make it clear what he's about to speak is a divine message. Hear the word of the Lord and then thus says the Lord. It was a way of saying this is God's word you're hearing, don't miss this. This isn't just my voice you're hearing, you're hearing God's voice. And the message from Yahweh is that in just 24 hours there will be relief. Prices will return to normal, commerce will resume at the marketplace, at the gate, at the entrance of the city. It's amazing news and it's nothing less than God's good news of deliverance to people who utterly don't deserve it. Of course the news is so amazing and so good that Jehoram's captain is convinced it's simply too good to be true. And listen to the poetic way he describes his skepticism. Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven could this thing be? The captain sure knew how to turn a phrase didn't he? But his eloquence simply masks his rank on belief. God's made a glorious promise. He's offered good news in a context of utter despair and hopelessness but that's not for him. He can't make sense of it so he just settles in his doubt. God can't possibly do this thing. And by the way we can rightly criticize this captain but isn't that a thought that plagues our minds often? We hear the promises of God and in the back of our mind. We think God can't really do this thing can he? I think we can struggle with that as well. Well as hope begins to emerge here in chapter seven we also do get this word of judgment. Because where there's salvation there's going to be judgment. And so Elisha tells the captain you're going to see God pour out this promised abundance on his people. You'll see the promise fulfilled but you won't participate in the cursed estate. And we'll see when we get to the end of the chapter that not only is God's word of promise and salvation fulfilled but there's always his word of judgment so sort of hold that thought for a couple minutes. Now Elisha didn't tell Jehoram or his officer how God would fulfill his promise but we're sort of privy to what's going on. You know it's something they used to do in the older movies. Meanwhile over here and that's sort of what we get. Meanwhile over here we find God's rescue and deliverance is going to begin in an unlikely place and with some unlikely man. We're told in verse three that there are four lepers who are at the gate of the city. That's an interesting place to be because lepers were driven out of the city and they wouldn't have been normally hanging out at the gate. They would have been pressed beyond it. So you have to think it's because there's a blockade and because the gate's closed they've gotten over there. Because lepers ordinarily can't enter the city where God's people dwell because they're unclean. So the gates shut up tight. But here's the thing, they're in this weird predicament where they can't get into the city to get away from the Syrians. They're sort of pushed between the Syrian and Samaria and they're in a desperate place. And they start to take stock of their situation and they apply some leper logic. If they stay at the gate they'll die. They think if we manage to find a way to get into the city and this famine continues we'll die. On the other hand if we go to the Syrian camp we could very well die. I mean they may very well kill us but at least there, there's this slim possibility, just a slim possibility that they might let us live. So having weighed their options leper logic said we're going to the Syrian camp. And we're told there in verse five, and they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp to their surprise no one was there. And what a surprise it must have been. They certainly thought when we get to the camp we're going to be in grave danger. But they're not. And they must have wondered what in the world has happened. And again we're privy to what God was doing. Yahweh had made the Syrians here what sounded like a great army, an army with a mighty cavalry and they heard these incredible sounds. It's hard to contemplate the volume, the decibels that must have been thundering outside of Samaria. And the Syrian soldiers they're sure that Jehoram has hired mercenaries to come from the Hittites and the Egyptians and the Syrians were so terrified at these loud sounds of soldiers and armies that they don't even bother breaking camp. They simply beat feet out of there leaving behind their tents, their livestock, even their gold and silver. What they heard struck terror in their hearts and then they fled for their lives. It's really something isn't it? And you'll remember we learned this just a couple weeks back. It shows us the story of the sovereignty of God over his enemies and ours. God had blinded the Syrians to protect Israel and especially to protect his prophets. God was feeding intelligent reports to Elisha again to protect his people and protect his prophets. Now he overcomes their enemies with the sounds of a great military. Again, behind this is God's willingness to fight for his people, to ensure this victory for his people. Whether it's blinding, deafening sounds, secret intelligence reports, God is fighting the battles of his people. And when the lepers, again they don't really know this. We know this, but the lepers don't know this. They enter the abandoned camp and they experience what will be for them. A life changing, transforming reversal of fortunes. In that moment they went from poverty to plenty. And basically they're granted all the benefits of the spoils of war without ever having to lift a finger to fight it. And as soon as they get their bellies full of food and drink they actually start stockpiling gold and silver. One moment these poor four lepers were destitute and the next moment they've got a fully funded retirement account. And this really is one of those passages that you read and you can't help but see all kinds of gospel reflections, right? I'm sure some of those have come to your mind. Let me just mention a couple. First, the lepers were transformed from a state of desperation to a state of salvation. They were little more than the walking dead, right? Now they have life and they have it abundantly and it was all God's doing. It was the sheer undeserved grace of God. These lepers didn't deserve kindness any from God and yet they're the objects of the exceeding kindness of God. And this certainly describes how God saves sinners, doesn't it? It's a little picture of that. How God saves sinners and grants us new life in Christ. Even when we were the walking dead, dead in trespasses and sin, God made us alive together with Christ by grace. You've been saved, Ephesians 2 .5. And we've been raised up and seated with Christ in the heavenly places so that in the coming age we will see the exceeding riches of God's grace for us in Christ, Ephesians 2 .7. Grace and riches are what deliver us from the dead lepers experienced. It's only a faint blip on the radar screen compared to the grace and riches God provides us in Christ. And again, we don't lift a finger and the victory is won for us and we enjoy that inheritance forever. A second way we see a gospel reflection is that the lepers experienced sovereign grace. Now it's obvious as day just reading through this passage that the lepers good fortune is clearly God's doing and all of God's doing. But there's a little detail in the text that seems to be inserted here to show us just how precisely God's orchestrating these events. It says in verse 5, the lepers left for the Syrian camp at twilight. And then we see in verse 7, it was right at twilight that the Syrians fled. By the way, this word twilight in the whole Samuel, Kings, Chronicle narrative is used three times. Once back in 1 Samuel 30 and then twice here. So this word is meant to catch our attention. The lepers left at twilight. The Syrians left at twilight. And perfect timing. It's not arbitrary, not accidental, and not coincidental. It's to highlight that God's working out the purposes of his will to bring a salvation to these lepers right down to the precise time that one leaves and the other shows up. God's superintending over the details to provide salvation and an undeserved inheritance to the lepers. And then we see and isn't that what we have? In Christ we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to him who works out all things according to the counsel of his will. Ephesians 1. There are a number of little gospel gems here, but I'll leave it there. The lepers, they're enjoying their new fortune. And some are very critical of the lepers because it took them a while to realize this, but they do realize something. They realize while they're enjoying God's blessing, there are still people inside Samaria who are starving. And so in verse 9 they said to one another, we're not doing right. This day is a day of good news and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household. Indeed it is a day of good news and they want to proclaim it. You know it's interesting, we heard something of that in Psalm 96 this morning, didn't we? Psalm 96 verse 2. Sing to the Lord, bless his name, proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day. These lepers, they've experienced that good news and they want to proclaim it to the folks in Samaria. The word good news in Psalm 96 and in 2 Kings 7 is from the root word that means that's besor or besorah. And it's the Greek translation of that word is probably one you've at least heard echoes of. It's euangelizumai, it's the evangel, it's glad tithings, it's good news, it's gospel. And for these lepers having personally experienced this good news, it's their impulse to go and tell others and they know if we don't do that we'll be guilty of being stingy with the good gift God's given them. Now you could probably arrange a whole sermon around what this teaches about evangelism and frankly some very wonderful expositors have done that but we don't have time but you could ground a whole sermon on evangelism from this text and you wouldn't be stretching the text. You could describe how these lepers were beggars who had nothing to eat and all they were looking for was scraps and once they had been given bread they wanted to go and tell other beggars where they could find bread. You could work that kind of thing out or you could point out that the lepers were outsiders who are now saved and go to tell insiders, right? Because these are the people who weren't allowed into communion and fellowship with the covenant community and now they're the ones with the gospel. I was talking to someone very recently within the last couple of weeks and I mentioned to them that America receives the second highest number of missionaries of any country in the world, right? So again the harvest is plentiful and those of you who like and have been blessed by the ministry of Alistair Begg, he came to this country some 30 plus years ago to be a missionary and you know what he identified as his mission field? The evangelical church.
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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.
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A highlight from Part 2: Zach Wilsons Alive, Belichicks in Trouble, Buffalos Cruising, and Week 5 Lines With Cousin Sal
"All right. So we're taping part one here. It is a little past 4 o 'clock Pacific time. Just watch the Pats completely shit the bed. We're not going to talk about that. That'll be part two. Part one. Ryan Russilla was here. We're talking Drew Holiday. The big trade. How is the NBA different for you right now, and are we done? Do we finally have the 30 rosters? Is this what we're looking at? Do we know who's going to be on everybody's team, or are we somehow not done? I never think we're done anymore in the NBA, and I know you're being a gracious host here, but you and I talked for five minutes today. I think you have the headline take on this, okay? I think you have the headline take on what the top of the league looks like. Are you ready to share it this early? I think Boston has the best top six. I did not feel that way 24 hours ago. I did not feel like there was a clear best. I trust this team in crunch time, and if Porzingis stays healthy, which is a huge if, I think they have the best six, and they can fill around, and they have the most ways that they can play whoever in the series. So from that vantage point, you had to do the trade. And they gave up a center who has been hurt every single year, and I don't fully trust that he's ever going to be out there when it matters. Brogdon, who was hurt, who was mad at the team, and two picks. And you get Drew Holliday, who was a 2021 Finals hero, who's one of the best defensive guards in the league, who's still really good, and just raises their ceiling. Now you can go white Holliday, Tatum Brown, and a center at crunch time, and you're good. You can switch on almost everything, especially if you get anything from Horford. So were you similarly enthused? Yeah, I love Drew. There's some stuff with his shooting in the playoffs where it's been pretty bad, or you're like, is that just because you can't make shots at the playoffs, or is it just what happened statistically? I mean, it does happen. I mean, if I'm getting the negative parts out of the way, like, yeah, sure, he's a little bit older. The big situation is a huge question mark. I can't believe what they got from Horford last year. So I don't know if you can just pencil that in, because he was way beyond expectations, at least for me, or for what I had for him. But when you can add Drew for those pieces, and I'm with you, when Rob Williams is right, it's really, really nice. But you can even tell when he's out there, you're like, is something wrong with him again? The number of times that I've watched Rob Williams in Celtics games, I'm like, I know he's out there, but wait, something. And every time, I thought Marcus Smart was trying to end his career with some of those Valley U passes, depending on how he lands, like, wait, is this going to be the last one we ever see from him? So to me, it makes a lot of sense. By the way, on that Rob point, my dad texted me after the trade, he's like, oh, I hate giving up Rob. I'm like, you complained about Rob more than anybody I know in my life. You would text me from the games going, oh, Rob's just off in the, Rob just walked in the tunnel again. I don't know what happened. I like just Brian Barrett had a tweet, 32 games, 29 games, 52 games, 61 games, 35 games. Those are Rob Williams' last five years. It just wasn't reliable enough for a team that's trying to win a title. I interrupted you. No, you didn't, because it's a it's a really good point, because what's going to happen? I mean, you know, it's just there's there's definitely like if Prozingis is hurt, it feels like the whole thing is screwed up and there's a really good chance that that could happen. But if you're talking about like the allocation of minutes and the talent that's getting those minutes, well, the talent that's getting those minutes just went up with Drew Holiday. And that's, I think, the simplest way to look at it. So they they turn Marcus Smart and Grant Williams and Brogdon and Rob Williams into Drew Holiday and Prozingis, more Derek White minutes, more Peyton Pritchard minutes. And then there's a little bit of an X factor with who's going to be like that ninth man, tenth man, kind of big four slash five person, maybe, or somebody you trade like that. I feel like that's the easiest position to pick up in January and February. The big thing for me is I think White was ready for a bigger role. I think White and Holiday together is magnificent as a as a backcourt. And I read some stuff today. They think White's going to come off the bench. I don't know if I see that. I think I would come out of the gates with White and Holiday and Tatum and Brown in the center and maybe bring to your Horford point, like maybe bring Horford off the bench and try to really try to rest his minutes during the season and be careful with him and make him a bench player. And then the playoffs reassess. But I think that having those four guys all together, they complement each other so well. You can play basically any kind of defense against any perimeter guy in the league. Those four guys and they're just better. I mean, there's there's just no way around it. They're better. He's a much better player than Marcus Smart was last year. And you know, you made that point about the shooting. He'd have those games. He'd go 5 for 22 in a playoff game. You know, he'd eat. But I do feel like he was asked to do a little bit more than maybe what he's supposed to be doing. I don't feel like he's a pure point guard. Right. Now you have White who can handle most of the ball handling. He could play off the ball and they're going to get the best version of him. Awesome locker room guy, too, by all accounts. I mean, really like a beloved teammate wherever he went. And I think they wanted to change the chemistry a little bit. I think this was an unhappier team than maybe they led on to the outside world last year. Yeah. Look, I definitely like him more than Smart. And you know, to be totally fair, when I'm looking at like the Lillard side of this trade last week before we knew the second piece of Drew and upgrading from Drew to Lillard, I'm going, OK, well, now you're top two in Milwaukee's like in the argument for the best two in the NBA. OK, that's that's really what this league has been about now post the teens decade where it was the arms race for your top three. It's you look around the league, you go, OK, who's got the two best? Like, let's come up with the five teams who have the two best. And with Lillard and Giannis, that's like a whole nother level. So when I was looking at it, it's like Lillard compared to Drew, you know, Drew is not somebody you're expecting to break down a defense off the dribble. Right. Oh, we're stuck into the shot clock, like make something happen where Lillard can literally do anything right in the final second of the shot clock and still you feel like it's still a decent look. So that part of it's a huge upgrade. But he's number three to four as far as an offensive option. He also and I don't know, this is just me talking out loud as I thought about the trade. It's pretty clear that when Boston's offense gets into trouble in the playoffs, like Tatum and Brown haven't figured out a way to kind of unlock it other than just like I can already picture my head like I know what the Tatum move is going to be. I already know what the Jaylen Brown move is going to be. And I don't know if Smart was able to make their life easier with the playmaking. And then sometimes I even think Smart would go like, well, if you guys are going to screw around, like I might just I might just be green light on this possession. I don't think Drew necessarily plays that way. So, you know, it's probably silly for me to think that like Drew is going to be the Steve Nash type who comes in and sets up all these great late playoff possessions. But there may be something in lessening the burden of those guys feeling that they have to do or defaulting to just forcing the issue as much as they do in the playoffs. I like how much ball handling they have, to your point, because they were talking about experimenting a little bit more with Tatum as a point forward this year, which makes me nervous a little bit just because, you know, he's six foot nine. I'm not sure that's the best use of him, but they seem pretty adamant. Like we feel like he could be a little bit more of a creator. And then you think White can do that. To me, White is the key to this season now, because if, you know, other than the Porzingis health thing, which I almost I'm going to knock on wood, but part of the reason they made all this movement and they got rid of Brogdon and Smart was I think they really wanted to push White to be the lead ball handler for them and a creator. And there's some unbelievable pick and roll stats with him. And just if certain people set him a pick in the way, even in the Miami series, he was one of the only guys who could create offense. So I think they have that plus they have Drew. And the reality is for Drew, this is this might be the deepest offensive team he's been on. Right. When you think back to like it was on some pretty weird Philly teams and some pretty weird New Orleans teams, and even when Milwaukee was at its best, it was really just Giannis, Middleton and Drew. And that was it. This is there's more shooting and playmaking around him than I think we've seen. Maybe it'll be a slight upgrade on the flip side. He doesn't have Giannis, who was the second best player of the century, probably, but I like the spot for him. It seemed like he really wanted to go to a contending team and I don't really know who they were competing against because for reading through some of the reports, it just seemed like Philly. I don't even know what the trade was for them. Portland wanted at least one piece back, probably two that they could do their keeper package. They wanted picks back. Golden State wasn't even in it. And it didn't seem like OKC ever threw their hat in the ring, which I was shocked by because I felt like OKC was the sleeping giant of this whole thing with Dort and some picks and just say, fuck it, let's let's see if we can be really good this year. So it seemed like it was down to Boston. The Clippers, they just had more assets. I don't know if Portland keeps Rob. He's on a good contract. They already have Ayton. My guess is that they're probably spinning him. Does it make sense that both of those guys? My sense is they're going to try it out, you know, but, you know, the thing with Rob is like, if you think he's an awesome defensive player that's just out there, like he's awesome when he's used a certain way. And once Boston unlocked that two years ago, where they stuck him on a non shooting big and then you could see other teams adapt to it, it's like, well, let's stop giving them an out where Rob can just roam off of this dude that's not a shooting threat, because I think that, you know, this is just going to turn into like now that he's not here. But I mean, have you listened to us talk about Rob Williams at all last couple of years? He you know, I don't I don't think he's I know what the defensive metrics are. I know the on off stuff. It's a big reason why I think the analytics models always love Boston. Like sometimes you look at him and be like, hey, I think this team's good, but like these numbers are overwhelming. This is like, yeah, it's it's so far like as if there's this huge gap between Boston and everybody else, which I never really felt going back these last two years. But you're if Chauncey Billups and you think like, OK, Rob Williams is going to go out there and like wreak havoc, it's like, well, he has to be used a certain way. So maybe they feel like that's in defensive support to Aiten. And with Aiten, you know, I have I'm not quite sure what to expect. Well, this is the one thing he's probably going to put up huge numbers because he's not going to have older dudes that have a higher status in the league that go, I'm sick of passing it to you. So he's probably going to get more touches. We'll probably see like early Aiten numbers and like twenty to ten for the first six weeks of the season. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Like he'll he'll he'll put up some big numbers there. But, you know, defensively, it's really about his competitiveness because there were times I think going back two years ago when we were thinking about him with that run of the Suns, the finals, you're like, look at this guy. Like he can switch out on the smaller players. You can rotate. But it's all about the way he's wired. And I think long term, unfortunately, like we already kind of know the answer there. Like I don't think all of a sudden now you start playing with some fierceness after being in the league this long. So he was the fifth option on that team and there seemed to be real resentment toward him in that whole Phoenix culture of like, why doesn't he just realize we don't need his offense? We need him to basically rebound and block shots and crash the offensive boards. I think his attitude was probably twenty five years old. I want to be the best player I can be. I already went to a finals. I don't that's not I think I could do more than that. So I don't I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong. As I said, on my Thursday pot, I just hated the trade for Phoenix. I just thought they got the poopoo platter back. You know, they got some some some spare ribs back and a couple of egg rolls and and that's it. But they did not get an entree back. And I think he's an entree on the right team, whether he's a guy that made sense for them. I don't know. But I know that they didn't get a good haul for him. I think Rob, for his contract, for what his talents are, is a really intriguing piece for them or for another team, because you could trade for him. And it's not like a daunting salary. Right. I think he's in what is what is it, like 15 a year or something like that? No, it's a really good. Yeah. I mean, it was a really low cost extension and he's still a pretty young guy. Yes, so.
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from An Example in Good Works and Doctrine
"Titus 2, verses 7 and 8. Titus 2, verses 7 and 8. In all things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works. In doctrine, showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned. The one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. You may be seated. Let's pray as we come to this text of Holy Scripture. Our Father, we pray that you would help us to understand your word. Help me to minister to this dear flock in a way that would be edifying, applicable, and helpful for them. Help me to minister in a way that would be pleasing to you and truly beneficial to those who are in front of me. Help me to have the privilege of seeking to serve this flock well this morning, that you might receive the glory and these people might receive good from your word. Help them to be attentive, to be desirous to hear, to be longing for your word, and that all of us will be doers of your word and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves. And so give us all grace. Help me especially in delivering your word that it would be faithfully applied to this dear flock of Jesus Christ. We pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. We are now on Titus 2 verses 7 and 8, thinking about now the transition from still probably under the category of younger men. It seems like Titus was probably a younger man, so it seems to be somewhat connected. But now Paul is particularly addressing Titus. Before it was Titus who he was to address older men, older women, how they're to address younger women, and then how he was to exhort younger men. But then now we see Paul by the Holy Spirit particularly addressing Titus. Titus was to minister on the island of Crete and help these churches. And so he was to be an example to them. But before you tune out and say, I'm not a minister, I'm never going to be a pastor, all of us are influencing someone. If you're a father, you're influencing your children. If you're a mother, you're influencing your children. If you're a husband, you're influencing your wife. If you're a wife, you're influencing your husband. If you're a church member, you're influencing other church members. If you're a friend, you're influencing other friends. If you're a son, a daughter, a person that lives in this world, you're influencing someone. And so all of us should be able to take from this text things that we can apply because all of us have influence on other people. And I don't know about you but I want to be a good influence and hopefully all of us want to be a good influence upon other people. Where when they see us they don't see someone to say I don't want to be like that person. I don't want to live like them. I don't want to make decisions like them. I don't want to have their priorities.
Jim Bohannon
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"Those alarm clocks and start your day off right with your favorite day between getting the kids up and ready for the day picking them up from school helping with homework life feels like it won't stop sometimes all you want is to stop and enjoy a peaceful moment with your fire family without or all even just the smoke by yourself other fire solo pits make stove fire with pits solo stove are the it's simplest never way been to easier relax around to gather crackling eric's around fire or the in fire the publisher solostove shop of the picayune .com sentinel for big that discounts weekly during newsletter the fall the event longtime eric tribune list and mincing rascal is on a phone line morning eric how are you i'm good john how are the you mincing pretty rascals good we've podcast still got about 70 which is or right so around the availabilities corner now that's i guess those would be going to seats be for and that's going to recorded be tuesday at live second city september uh twenty you can get six some food and so beverage sit a down and week from uh today yuck six it up to with eight us p or m or be outraged by the things will all be saying yes a week from tonight it should be really fun i'm really i'm looking forward going to to use it one how's of those your orange hair broadcaster have you pressed blazers your blazer you are know you that uh are that you stage radio ready stations used to use and well i think i'll go i with think a mohawk that for would my haircut okay people incidentally haven't seen me in a while so just you speaking know just something of to our get people appearance talking you um mentioned in the latest picayune sentinel um the 50 but you things also i learned years in later my first wrote 50 my years 14 as a -point column plan you wrote in the to tribune being in a 2008 good old man and maybe we'll get to that in just a couple of minutes but i i really like what you did there that you and can't among now them anyway you uh say don't keep moving eat like cultivate you're still 25 hobbies god brenda i gotta remember and i talk about this all the and time we've don't hide got or to hide keep behind our interests your age going well i guess and i've talked growing about your get list now good hearing aids a thoughtful a thoughtful 14 -point plan to being a good old man or person i'll add yeah follow thanks -up i i i did did 10 the 50 years things later i learned when in my i first was turned 50 60 years and in i was thinking well 2008 you know how am i going to be when a good i old turned man 50 and and then i this thought rather than to rehashing myself and others about all you the know things being that a i've good learned old over person the years you i know just someone thought who i'll and just add you know these one of the one these of the tips things i have in there is to to get good hearing aids and i think a lot of people of our well of this particular they're vintage not and feel like they're hearing really useful aids for people are really and a you terrible know you thing and i both terrible know people sign of who age are who but are in even younger fact than we are who have who have hearing aids and and there's no shame it's it's like wearing glasses right it's just it's a it's a sensory enhancing device if you're comfortable and wearing they're glasses also really you inconspicuous ought to be able to these it's days a not sensory the old days hearing that's a good way it's to put it i mean a sensory if improvement hearing aids device the same that's way the maybe perfect way if to they put make it them in you designer wouldn't styles think i don't rather like glasses than i'm hiding not going to them get glasses maybe make we them big should regard hearing something that would go over my ear and i would actually accentuate rather than try and minimize how about that Eric? people that's go a great those idea no are i Calvin you know Klein i think hearing they're aids they're yeah very inconspicuous that's these days you don't even know people have them on for the most part and really great work do that really you need well them as far because as i know that's i how don't most have of them us yet know we but need them i'm well really open to the idea i think do now you she need just them realizes has your that wife sometimes told i you ignore her requests but uh she knows that i can hear them so no i'm good right now but but i again i'm the things not that i can don't happen have any to real people as problem they get older with is the they idea get more of isolated of uh that that kind sonically of assistance you isolated know and and i know my that mother that's -in -law at one one of the weren't point there because it became she got wasn't to getting the enough point where you she wasn't know hearing oral very stimulation well she was having and auditory hallucinations uh so she that can happen too was hearing if things you're that hearing aids aren't working very well so so uh it's really an important thing and that was just one of my 14 points but i he wanted to called stress it an it amazing mayor celebration brandon he johnson praised always the says Mexican the independence wrong thing day about weekend the right things or the right thing about the wrong things he's i'm i'm i wouldn't have said that i but mean that's or not in the story i have if in maybe front of i've me misquoted uh him maybe what is i've your insufficiently thought about quoted what him happens maybe downtown he chicago said however on the first weekend of all of clearly the mexican you independence can't get day first celebrations responders can't get well through the traffic it's it's disrespectful dangerous of people who live downtown who have to work downtown on the weekends uh... and i
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 1: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Well, again, here we are. Episode 118. Murph, we have 118. This is like surviving 118 attempts on our life. We have dodged all the bullets. Our listeners are loyal and they protect us. You guys protect us. So welcome back again. Episode 118, Game of Crimes. Thank you, thank you, thank you guys for joining. I am your host with the most hair. Just got it cut, Morgan Wright, here literally with my partner in crime. Murph, who's almost bald and your hair looks like crap. My hair doesn't look like crap. It looks like crap. No, it doesn't. It looks marvelous. I've got so much. She says, the person who cut my hair said, when you come in after six weeks, it's like most people's eight weeks or 10 weeks. So I get a lot of hair. Hey, when I go in and get a haircut, it takes like three minutes. I'm in and out. There you go. You sure that's a haircut? Be nice now. I'm just starting this. Please, please don't pay attention to him, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry, okay. We're trying to gain some professional help. Yeah, whatever. All right, how's that working out for you? Okay, let's just do some quick housekeeping before we get started. Hey guys, head on over to that Apple Spotify. Hit those five stars. It helps us out a lot. Remember, the other thing we learned that too, guess what guys? Not only did Stitcher go away, Google Podcasts is going away. So you're gonna have to, if you're on Google, make sure you pick a new service to keep listening to us. Make sure you hit that subscribe button too so that you do not miss. Deliver to your digital inbox every week on a Monday and Tuesday, these episodes like this one's coming out. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. In fact, when we talk about our guest today, Mark Cameron, we'll talk about his book. That'll be listed on there. And we've got a lot of great stuff on there. So make sure you head on over there. Gameofcrimespodcast .com. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But Murph, I'm telling you, we're gonna have some fun on Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. I have a 911 call coming up for you. Of all the 911 calls, I guarantee you nobody, nobody has taken a call like this before that I'm aware of ever, anywhere. Looking forward to hearing this one. Holy cow. There's gonna be a couple. This one, I don't know if I can make an entire case out of it, but I've listened to it. And just the sheer confusion on the call taker, they've never been presented with this before. So we'll have to talk about that. But guys, we just did our warden of the throne. It's a unique little thing we're doing now. Rather than just taking one topic, Murph brings two topics. I bring two topics. We're allowed to get into things that are catching our interest for the previous month or some stories. So we just did one talking about Philadelphia and the looting, Iran, and what they call the Iranian experts initiative. People have had their security clearance suspended. You talk about some tragic cases up in New York, the Bronx, baby dying at daycare center, and the recent death of that CEO by a sexual predator who should have still been in prison, but wasn't. Right, in Baltimore. So those are a lot of good things. We've got Q &A coming up, 911, what's your emergency case of the month? So guys, all good stuff. You don't hear this anywhere else, but on patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. But the other place you gotta be though too, Murph, our favorite mafia queen with the iron fist with the velvet glove. You gotta head on over there, watch what Sandy Salvato is doing with our Game of Crimes fans page. Just go to Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, answer a couple easy questions, get admitted to the Inner Sanctum in YouTube. You will see what goes on behind the scenes, behind the curtains. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain because that's one of our favorite people happening over on Game of Crimes fans. It's a lot of fun. There's a lot of humor there. A lot of dark humor too. If you saw some of the stuff people have posted, I hope you guys, I hope your healthcare plan supports you with an employee assistance program. I'm telling you. I don't know what you're talking about. Here's what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about now because you know what time it is. Guess what? I'm gonna ask you, do you know what time it is? Guess what time it is? Come on, give me a clue. It's time for Small Town Police Blotter. Hey, this because in honor of our guest that's coming up, Mark Cameron, the author, we'll talk about him in a second, but he went from Texas, lives in Alaska. So I thought we should have an Alaska theme. There you go. For our Small Town Police Blotter. So Murph, gotta ask you. Yes. This comes out of the Alaska Dispatch News. You know, a lot of fishery stuff, a lot of crabbing, a lot of lobster stuff, a lot of that goes on in Alaska, doesn't it? Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. So you have an idea. You go, hey, we're gonna take a crabbing boat and we're gonna convert it into a floating bar and strip club. What could go wrong, right? Oh my gosh. So 54 -year -old Darren Byler of Kodiak and his 46 -year -old wife, Kimberly, own the Wild Alaskan, a former crabbing boat that's been converted into a floating bar and strip club. Apparently it's doing pretty well. They've been running the business since June, but now they're in serious legal trouble and Murph, it's not for stripping. Uh -oh, what is it? This gives new meaning to, you know, why this is on a crabbing boat. So if you're out there floating, you have to provide facilities for people to use, right? So if they use the facilities, number one and number two, you should probably find a way to take care of that other than dumping it into the ocean. Oh, come on, come on. So they were just indicted by a federal grand jury for improper disposal of human waste after they were caught dumping feces from their bathroom into the harbor, as they say in Maine, into the harbor. Instead of taking the waste tanks to the proper places on shore, they both could be facing up to one year in jail and $25 ,000 in fine, but that's not the worst part. The worst part is the Coast Guard said they lied about dumping the tanks, and if they're convicted of that, making false statements to the Coast Guard investigators, that could get them five years in prison and $250 ,000 in fines. Cha -ching. I tell you what, you gotta do a lot of stripping to make that kind of money. It's a shitty situation they got themselves in. It's terrible. This whole thing just stinks. It stinks, man, stinks to high heaven. Tell you what, you know, you had a turd in one hand and wishes in the other. Anyway, we could go lots of places with that, so. These people didn't move to Alaska from Florida, did they? I don't believe so. Thank goodness. Hey, but I went back into the archives too, so I pulled some articles out of the Alaska News Archives, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This comes to us January 21st, 1955, and I'm telling you, the stories are hilarious. These are quick hits. And not always, but this is what's in Alaska. This is what's important in Alaska, January of 1955. The Tokyo police hire pretty hostesses. Tokyo police, grieved by complaints that their headquarters is unattractive, have assigned four pretty girls to meet people at the building's two entrances. Officials have also ordered the women to take charm courses. That is what's important in the Alaska, you know, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. The other thing you gotta do here, be prepared. And this comes to us, it's out of Tucson, Arizona, but in the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This is 1955, a 15 -year -old boy with a loaded .38 caliber pistol in his waistband was removed from high school class here by police. His explanation for carrying a gun, a couple of those teachers were giving me a hard time. Well, geez, okay. Okay, but this one though, this one has gotta be, this is it. This is St. Monaface. I believe this is Alaska, no, Manitoba. This is St. Monaface, Manitoba. All right. Police were certain the worst of the winter is upon them. Pete Nikoluk has started his annual jail term for vagrancy. Nikoluk has spent the past 21 winters in jail on vagrancy charges. Police says he always manages to get arrested just before the coldest part of the winter sets in. Who says this guy's not smart? Three hots and a cot, and I get through the toughest part of winter. Oh my goodness. That's, well, you know, that's prior planning, I guess. Prior planning prevents piss -poor performance, the 6Ps. There you go. Yep. You ask my children, they'll tell you what the 6Ps are. That's right. Murph, now, we'll finish up with this. I went and looked at what are some of the strangest laws in Alaska, and these are definitely Alaskan. It is illegal to whisper in someone's ear why they are moose hunting. Okay. It's legal to shoot bears. However, it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph. Why would you wake a sleeping bear? Isn't that the truth? Here's another thing, and I don't get it. It is considered an offense. It's illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. What? Why? Huh. Apparently, it's also illegal to sell stun guns to children. That one, I kind of get that makes sense. Well, if you're in Fairbanks, Alaska, if you love a vuvuzula, remember what they did during the World Cup. You know, you blow those things that make a lot of noise. Those annoying things? Yeah, it's illegal to blow a horn in a manner that disrupts the peace. Good. Yep. So, it's illegal to fatten up a sheep, cow, or pig within the city limits of Fairbanks. Are we talking about people or animals? Well, maybe it's meatball, and you'll have to listen to her. You'll have to listen to our warden of the throne. All right, it is also a crime to speak so loud that you offend a sensitive person enough to make him, her, or her leave if you're in Fairbanks. What? Okay, well, hey, be nice. That's just be nice. And you can only carry a concealed slingshot if you have received the appropriate license. The license. Do you have a license for that slingshot? All right. Oh, okay. I didn't know you had to have that. But Murph, this is the craziest one. This reminds me of an episode of you and JP on Narcos where you were accused of doing this, not a moose, but it is an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. Well, you know, I gotta agree with that, but have you seen how big a moose is? How do you push it anywhere? Well, how do you get it into the damn airplane to begin with is what I wanna know. And who wants a moose, a pissed off moose, in their airplane? Uniquely Alaskan. So Mark Cameron, as we get into this, and again, we wanna thank our buddy, Patrick O 'Donnell, Cops and Writers. Go listen to his podcast. Hooked us up with him, but Mark Cameron is an interesting dude, moved from Weatherford, Texas to Alaska. And we're gonna talk about his book that was just released. It's an Arliss Kutter novel, Breakneck, by Mark Cameron. But the interesting thing too, Murph, was he wrote the last seven Tom Clancy novels. And this is a guy that used to be a marshal, which most of the reports were saw bad guy, put him in jail, you know? Not extensive reports in the marshal service. Saw a fugitive, arrested, same.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "of people" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from MilitaryFares.com with Scott Lara
"Scott Lehrer president of military affairs comm is a US Navy veteran taking his passion of traveling and serving fellow veterans He was recently appointed president of military affairs comm an online travel website giving deep discounts to veterans coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success and now your host Joe Crane As a member of not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org Alright today we're talking with Navy veteran Scott Laura who is a president of military affairs comm Scott You and I've been in you know in loose touch for several years now You've been following the podcast like almost way back since the beginning if I remember correct Absolutely, just a huge fan of the podcast and appreciate everything you do Joe for our veterans and family members of veterans Yeah, so let's start off like we usually do take us back and tell us what you did the Navy Oh my gosh back in 1979 I was working at the Kmart camera department in Aurora, Illinois Just outside of Chicago and I was about to graduate from high school and my assistant manager there said Scott What do you want to do after high school? I said I have no clue, but I don't want to go to school You know don't want to go to college and he goes well join the Navy see the world Well, the problem is he didn't tell me that the world was 75 % water. So I joined the Navy When I went into Chicago to get all registered They said, you know, what do you want to be? I said, I really don't know and they said well What about a fire controlman? I said, well, I don't want to fight fires and the guy laughed He goes well about like being a radarman and it's like that sounds cool and they said, okay Well, you'll go to boot camp here in Chicago in a couple weeks. I said I'm going to San Diego They said you're going to San Diego cuz I mean I joined in set in September and it was starting to get cold So I went to yeah, I went to boot camp in San Diego at 79 then I went to a school at Damnet, Virginia Went up to Maine to get my ship the Morrison FFG 13. It was in three pieces in Bath, Maine They put it together. We sailed down to Boston and Was commissioned there went to Mayport Went to church there in Jackson, but here in Jacksonville met my wife I'm married 39 years to grown kids and two grandkids And so I love the Navy and all over the world Italy Spain France Panama Canal off the coast of Iran and Iraq and I love the Navy but I stayed in nine years It was just really hard on my wife with two small children So I got out and then I went on my entrepreneurial journey. We'll talk a little bit about that What was your transition like when you got out of the Navy you get a job right away? Was the entrepreneurship thing already there? Well, fortunately and the one thing I want to share with the audience. It's who you know, and You've got to be out there you and it's not even the internet It's just like who do you know? Because I knew some people and I was able to get a job with a division of driver's license in, Florida So I got out I immediately had a job I wasn't making a ton of money but I was an employee and I worked there and then I of course I got a couple other jobs to as Other things opened up. But yeah again for those folks that are listening to the podcast you got to get out there There's no one who's gonna promote you but you and you got to be professional. You got to look good You got to speak good and it's who you know, and I will just say for anybody listening reach out to Joe or myself We would both love to help anybody to to move into that transition the only thing I would caution you about is that a lot of people will try to come after veterans and say hey Join this franchise and you know 50 $100 ,000 and a lot of us don't have that kind of money A lot of us don't have time to go back to school Now a lot of guys do have the GI Bill or other Opportunities like that, but I always love helping fellow veterans get on the path to a good job and success Yeah, it's so true it's who you know and unfortunately if you've been in the military like you were for nine years You may not have a big civilian network But you might have a network of veterans that got out before you and keep in touch with them but I hear I've heard stories were like I applied for a thousand jobs and didn't get one response from anybody and it's like Well, that's pretty typical these online job boards most of the time you don't get hired from them unless you know somebody on the inside and Then you still got to apply through the job board and then because you know somebody your Application gets pulled and then you find your way in it's it's it's all about who you know Definitely one super secret tip. I'll share Joe is that veterans get one free year of LinkedIn premium so just go on LinkedIn you know let them know you're a veteran and There's lots of free courses on LinkedIn and that that's my secret. I mean, that's how I know people Being in the travel industry getting to know the CEOs of these travel of these cruise lines And once you're on LinkedIn and you reach out to them and be humble be nice. I am so -and -so and But again, the problem with the military is they really don't prepare us for civilian work We veterans think well just because we're a veteran or we work hard and we're dedicated. We should automatically get the job Well, the job market is so tight now that they're being very selective on who they hire Yeah, they want they want somebody to have all the qualifications that they already need They don't want to train somebody like the military always does train people from scratch In the civilian sector, they don't they don't have time to train you They they need you making them money from day one And but there are there are some good skills military guys have as far as you know The soft skills the leadership the motivation You know, they show up to work on time They're not late, you know, those kind of things can be huge Some some people like to view those things as maybe the givens of a typical good employee But if you don't have some of those basic skills that the job requires, it's it's really tough for civilian companies You know to hire you and bring you in because they can't afford To train people for months or years on end like the military does well Joe You make a very good point in addition to that guys. You can't go in. I want 80. I want 90 I want a hundred you may need to go in for 25 or 30 thousand get your fee You know be trainable be open listen learn and once they see that then you can go up But I think so many people Joe think, you know I deserve 70 80 90 100 and maybe your wife or your spouse wants you to make that money To bring it in but you got to be realistic absolutely As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing that they do Low fees and great rates resources to help you crush your financial goals 24 -7 access to stateside member service representatives with award -winning customer service earnings and savings of four hundred seventy three dollars per year by banking with us an average credit card APR that's six percent lower than the industry average a Market leading regular savings rate nearly two times the industry average I'm still with Navy Federal after 33 years and not going anywhere Navy Federal is insured by NCUA NFC you reserves the right to change or just continue promotions and rates at any time without notice Dollar value shown represents the results of the 2022 Navy Federal member give back study credit card value claim based on 2022 internal average APR assigned to members Compared to the advertising industry APA average published on credit cards comm value claim based on 2022 internal regular savings rate average compared to 2022 industry regular service average rate published by FDIC gov learn more at Navy federal org In a startling description the UN food chief warned the world with words knocking on famines door He called what we're facing a perfect storm of a perfect storm He's not alone parents published that a food shortage could be coming even in the u .s.
Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Rebecca Alvarez Story Built a Sexual Wellness Brand
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. I've been wanting to talk with Rebecca Albera's story for a while. She is an award -winning entrepreneur, sexologist, and intimate product developer. Three titles that do not often go together. But I'm glad we waited for this moment when, like many of my very favorite conversations, we find Rebecca and her company Bloomy, a wellness brand focused on clean, intimate care essentials, at an inflection point, asking the very familiar question, will what got us here get us to where we want to go next? Rebecca, finally, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad it worked. I'm so happy to have this conversation. Rebecca, among the things you say about intimacy is that so much of the root of intimacy is unlearning bad sex ed. What was the bad sex ed that you grew up with? My bad sex ed was actually no sex ed to start with. I definitely saw love, and my parents modeled that so well. But in terms of, like, in my community, in my school, did we have sex education? Not really, because it was abstinence -only education in high school. It's wild that someone goes from growing up in an environment that is abstinence -only to, I mean, by the time you are in college, you're very clear that you want to study sex and sexuality. I sit at the intersection of so many things, being Latina, a woman. I was a single mom at that time. I just felt like I could relate to so many people's intimacy journeys. And I wanted to create the spaces where we could talk about it. I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like. But yes, in college, I tell this story, you know, I was apprehensive about sexuality because my first year in college, I was actually assaulted. And I ended up transferring home. I ended up at Cal, a very liberal, very progressive school where I could take so many wonderful classes that were holistic, and I shared with people that it was very healing for me. I had great therapy. I had great all of that. But the education, it just transformed my life. When did it become clear to you that you are an entrepreneur? To be honest, I feel like I've always known this since I was little. I had that spirit of, oh, that should be a business. And why don't we have a solution? I would just see things differently than like the cousins I grew up with, I think. They would joke and say, why do you always have so many ideas? Why are you always so bossy? But it was just little. I was little and I was like taking initiative to create things. Talk me through the evolution of Blumey, because as I understand it, the original idea was a multi -brand marketplace. How did it morph from that concept to a place for education, advice on intimacy with a line of sexual wellness products? I had been in the industry for 10 years. I was working as a consultant for startups, helping them with their product development. And I was coaching both singles and couples, learning so much about intimacy challenges, intimacy goals, and really helping people in a lot of different ways, where at the end of so many of my sessions, my clients wanted solutions. They wanted the book, the product, the toy, the whatever it was. And so I would manually send this to them. I started creating a list, but it was a little bit like it was a lot of work on my end to always curate. And so what I did is I said, I'm just going to put these products that I recommend that are clean, because it's very important that these products be healthy, especially for these areas of the body, put them all on a page. And that was the beginning of Bloomie, where I had multiple brands. They were my favorite clean brands that I would recommend in the category. And then when I developed our first product with our team, it was called Bloomie Arousal Oil. We still sell it. It's a bestseller. That was just the beginning of a pivot for us. And that's why we fundraised and why we ended up really focusing on Bloomie's products, making solutions for products that I wish I had 10 years ago. The question I'm about to ask you seems particularly relevant given the timing of your and my conversation, but I want to take us back to April 2022. Your line is set to debut at Target and your funding falls short. How does that happen? Funding for women of color entrepreneurs is severely lower than what it should be. There is less than one percent of funding that is going to entrepreneurs of color and Latina founders. So I never use that as an excuse. But when I went out and I fundraised, I did everything by the book. I trained, I did accelerators, I did boot camps. I had a cis white male co -founder. I had everything you're supposed to, and I'm using quotes, to have. And we fell short. We wanted to raise two million. We raised one million. So what did I do? I ended up seeing that there is no standard for my industry. This is new. Intimacy companies were not being venture backed at that time. And I just realized I'm going to have to do things differently. So we crowd raised. We basically opened up part of our round to the community where they could invest one hundred or two hundred dollars minimum. We raised almost a million dollars that way, two different times. And then we also I took out personal loans. We had a few angels give us personal loans. I took out a line of credit. Like I did everything to make sure that we could have sufficient capital to meet the demands of going into retail. And even with that, I'll say when founders ask me, what does it take to go into retail? It's so big of a question. I want to sit down and go through things with people. But you have to estimate how much you're going to need to be on shelf, stay on shelf. That's even harder. Mark it and to not plan to be profitable right away.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 1: Boston Gets Jrue Holiday With Ryen Russillo
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The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Versatus - The Most Versatile DevEx in Web3
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges, yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves, what do you do? Well copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself, thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Andrew Smith, Andrew is the founder of Versatus Labs, building out the most versatile DevEx in Web3. Welcome to the show Andrew. Thanks for having me Andy. It is a pleasure, let's do what we do at the beginning of the show Andrew, it would be great if you could please introduce yourself. I'd love to hear a little bit about your, I guess, personal and professional backstory, what you've been doing that has led you to founding Versatus Labs. Yeah, absolutely. So I was born and raised in Miami, Florida, which is where I now reside again. I did do a stint in Denver, Colorado and an extended stint in Los Angeles. So I was gone from my hometown for about 12 years. I programming started at the age of 14, a technology teacher and seventh grade enemy, the classic, the C programming language book and said, learn this, I think it's going to be important. And so I did, never really did much as a kid other than like, you build like space invader clones and C and a couple of other things. Picked up Python and C++ a little bit later in life, during high school and, you know, was very, very interested in the cross -section of like machine learning and AI and economics. Economics is really sort of my first love, even though I'm a programmer, I kind of always wanted to be an economist, but just found that there's not really a lot of money in it unless you work for a political campaign. So it wasn't going to do that. And programming and machine learning in particular was something that I thought I could apply my love and knowledge of economics to. So it was building machine learning algorithms very, very early on before you add any of the sort of open source tools that you have today that makes it easy. And was sending my resume and GitHub around to a bunch of different hedge funds. Yes, this was going back about 10, 11 years now. And finally found one that was willing to give me a little bit of money to play around with. It's a group called Trident Asset Management. They're based part -time out of Connecticut and part -time out of Colorado, wasn't going to move to Connecticut. So that's what took me to Denver, then did the same thing for a fixed income shop based out of Newport Beach. That's how I ended up in Los Angeles. Started my first startup there, it's called Owl ESG, it's a environmental, social and governance data company built out, you know, some machine learning models and, you know, from PDFs, sort of scraping about 30 ,000 documents a day and extracting the data and building out a ESG data set. Grew that company and then in 2020 decided to start Versatus. So started this sort of hobby project, was doing a solo build on it, spent about 18 months solo building and was talking to a few friends in the space and they thought I was really onto something. So made some introductions, next thing you knew we were raising our first round from jumping big brain, hiring out an engineering team and now 14 months later, here we are. Very nice, very nice. Thank you, Andrew. Give us an idea then of, I guess, your vision for Versatus. What are you guys building? What's the vision? Yeah, so the vision is like the best way to put it, even though this is an imperfect if analogy is you think of like the cloud compute providers, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, et cetera, you know, they own these huge data centers and these data centers are effectively a commodity business. You know, they build out a warehouse and put a bunch of servers in it, connect those servers to the Internet, occasionally maintain them and update them in and of themselves. They're not really that valuable. What makes them really valuable is that they provide all these tools that make it easy and efficient for developers to interact with those data centers and build applications on top of them to store data inside of them, et cetera. We believe that blockchain is analogous to that. It's not, again, it's an imperfect analogy. But if you kind of view the blockchains that exist in the world today and the ones that will come in the future as those data centers, next generation data centers where we provide value is we provide that program ability layer and compute layer that makes it easy and efficient for developers to build on top of blockchains. So we what we're building is a decentralized compute stack that enables developers to build in any language on any chain. And I think this is really powerful for a number of different reasons, which I'm sure we'll get to. But one of the major barriers to entry for developers is the language barrier. There's also a pretty big tooling barrier as well, which we saw that the language barrier, you know, if you're you want to build in Web3, the first thing you need to do is either go learn Solidity or Rust or one of the other languages. And Rust is a general purpose language. There are some people that already know it, but anybody that's entering into Web3 at the very beginning and they've got to go learn Solidity. Right. So a lot of them just don't view it as worthwhile to go learn Solidity. It's a domain specific language. The only thing you'll ever be able to do with that is build EVM compatible smart contracts. So until and unless there's a robust enough financial incentive for them to actually go and learn Solidity, they're probably not going to. But what we found from doing some pretty significant market research is if they could just use their existing languages and existing tools, they'd be happy to hobby hack and maybe even look for a job or start their own project and build on top of blockchains. So we want to make that process easier. We want to reduce the barrier to entry for developers. We believe that developers precede users, that you need developers to build applications that users actually want to use if we're ever going to see mass adoption for Web3. Yeah, I mean, that's a great point, Andrew. And I've seen you guys talk about this and some of your comms, I guess, because that's kind of it is flipping the script, right? Because everyone thinks, yeah, OK, it's the transition to Web3, easy as just got to build some user user friendly apps and and and if you build it, they will come. But of course, real life has has not been that simple. So so your philosophy is essentially the reverse of that. So you want to attract as many developers as possible. So just talk us through that again. I mean, you have a little bit, but just explain why you think that is really the key to the paradigm shift for Web2 to Web3. Yeah, absolutely. I think like just kind of telling the story of some case studies probably helps here, right? So you never know where a killer app is going to come from. I mean, Facebook started as a dating app for Ivy Leaguers, right? And it's Harvard and Yale dating app. You know, Slack started as a video game studio and Slack was their internal messaging network. So and now that is the product. Killer applications oftentimes come from experimentation. And the more experiments you have going on, the higher the probability that you're going to find stuff that people actually want to interact with and use. There are some precursors to what makes a killer app, things that make people's lives more convenient. That's just undeniably is going to make their life better, makes their work more productive. These are usually more business applications, makes the world more connected. These are social media type of applications or makes their life more affordable. So things that create efficiencies that reduce the cost of things that they were already doing. So, look, if I knew what that killer app was going to be, I'd probably go build that. It probably would be easier. But what I what I think where I think killer apps come from is lots of developers trying lots of things and competing for the limited funding and resources out there. And then you have unfortunately you do have gatekeepers in the world that you have VCs and you have investors and angel investors. So typically, yeah, there's going to be some stuff that's lost in the process of gathering funding and everything else that might have been really cool. But really, like if you have lots of things competing, probably the cream rises to the top and you're going to get well -funded, really interesting application ideas that can then promote themselves and attract users. The users are going to come for the applications right now. We have sort of the most users will ever have. If this is all we ever have to offer, which is effectively gambling and speculation, I think we've captured the gambling market pretty, pretty, pretty well. The speculator market we captured pretty well. They're here to make money off of token price fluctuations. If we want people that are here for the long term to use applications, well, we need to offer the applications that they want to use. And I think where that comes from, it's largely a numbers game. It's Pareto principle, you know, 10 percent, 20 percent of the developers are going to create the applications that get 80 percent, 90 percent of the users. So if we want to have a bigger 20 percent of applications that get lots of users, we need a bigger 100 percent. We need a bigger pie in general. And the only way to get a bigger pie is to reduce the cost, both time and money cost of building in Web3. And that's what we're attempting to do, particularly on the on the time cost of things, reduce the opportunity cost of learning how to build in Web3 by making it easier for them to build in Web3. So that's really sort of how we think about this. We think that developers necessarily are a precursor to users. If you look at like some of the market research we've done, it's kind of an either or like if there were more users, developers would take the time to learn this stuff. But the problem is, is that there's not going to be more users until developers learn how to build this stuff. So that's kind of where we see ourselves. We we believe we can be the catalyst for a Cambrian explosion of Web3 developers coming from all different walks of life, bring in product managers that they can understand how to manage a project that's being built in Python or Go or C++, but may not understand how to manage a project that's being built in Solidity, bring in on, you know, entrepreneurs that they come into this space and they look at, OK, well, how do I build a team out to build this? And what they see is extremely high cost of talent acquisition because there just isn't that big of a pool of Solidity developers. So make the talent pools that they can hire from significantly bigger, reduce that cost. Now you get some of those non -technical entrepreneurs looking at Web3 as a way to build their application. That's kind of the way we look at it. Just make the process easier, reduce those barriers. You'll get that first wave who's like jumping at the bit to come into Web3 and then they'll build some apps. You'll get more users. You'll then get the next wave of developers who see that there's financial incentives to doing so. It's going to be a process. It's going to take time. But we believe within the next seven to 10 years, if you offer up the correct tools and stacks, that about a third of all applications will be built on decentralized stacks for a number of different reasons, which we could talk to if you'd like. But that's where we see our value proposition is we make it easier for them. They come in, they build, then you get the users, then more come in and build, and so forth and so forth. You create a flywheel effect. OK, well, thank you, Andrew. And look, we don't need to get too deep into the weeds, but just talking about that decentralized stack, I suppose that you guys are building at Versatus. You have your own layer one blockchain, right? And there's the consensus mechanism, I believe, is proof of claim. So maybe just give us the kind of the two minute overview of your stack, I suppose. Yeah, so our L1 is primarily used for content addressing programs that are deployed to our network. So this is a way that our compute nodes can verify that they're executing the correct programs and such that watcher nodes and validators can also ensure that those compute nodes are not acting maliciously, that they're executing the correct programs. Our consensus mechanism, so proof of claim is actually our election mechanism. So this is how we elect nodes to quorums. Our consensus mechanism, we call it farmer harvester. Basically, it's a modification of what many distributed systems engineers would know as the worker collector model, but to fit a Byzantine fault tolerant model. So in your worker collector model, you basically have worker nodes that are individual nodes that they're allocated compute tasks. They execute those compute tasks and return the results to a collector node, which collects them and does batch updates into a database or to wherever they're storing state in our model. You don't want to have single nodes doing this work because then if a single node is malicious, they can actually create have state altering transactions that are incorrect. So we do have we form quorums as opposed to having single nodes. And then 60 percent of that quorum needs to what we call redundant, redundantly execute the program. So redundantly execute the program, return results, agree on results and then send votes to the what we call the harvester quorum. So, again, instead of having a single collector, we have a quorum of collectors that they then need to agree on the threshold of votes being reached before they would commit that to a block. So that's sort of very high level overview of how our architecture works. Now, again, like our goal is to enable language agnosticism on top of every chain. So not just for our L1, but on top of Ethereum, on top of other chains as well. And the primary reason for having our own L1 is it's a place where we can efficiently prove that compute nodes in our network are using the correct program, they're executing the correct program. And it's also a place where we can accrue value to those compute nodes. So whether they're being paid by another network's native token or they're being paid for executing compute on our network, we can emit our native tokens to them as an L1. So they're bootstrapped. And that way they're earning some money off of it. And then also it's a place where we can accrue fees back to our own L1 so that those compute nodes have a place where they're getting paid. Got it. Thank you, Andrew. If we kind of zoom out then to some more kind of, I guess, just a general state of where we are and the slow transition from Web 2 to Web 3. You saw a lot of the big brands, big financial institutions start to experiment with blockchain, but they were kind of like, they weren't really interested in building on Bitcoin or Ethereum. They went down the route of building their own private blockchains, which was a little bit pointless perhaps in hindsight. And now we're seeing with so many different chains around now and much more interoperability, brands and institutions are recognizing that it's to their benefit and everyone to build on the decentralized stacks that you're talking about. So maybe just you look at, I'd love you to paint a picture of, I suppose, your ideas of where we are now and your vision for what the next steps are just over, I guess, the next wave of adoption, maybe what's going to ignite the next hype cycle. How do you think about this? Yeah, so it's an interesting question. I try to steer away from predictions as much as possible. If I were a better investor, I probably would just be investing and making money that way. I do think the key, going back to hate to just sort of beat a dead horse, but the key is going to be getting more developers and whether those are enterprise developers, which I think what we're building provides a lot of value to enterprises. Again, they don't need to go out and hire a bunch of solidity developers that have four or five, six years experience. They can hire much more experienced developers or use the existing developers they have on staff. That to me is the key. I think we need more people trying things, pushing the limits of what's possible on top of this technology in order for us to find the use cases that are going to lead to mass adoption. I also think that enterprises, there are potentially some use cases for enterprise blockchains, but for the most part, I think one of the things that steered enterprises away from using public blockchains were privacy concerns. Right now, if you were to have a corporate wallet on top of Ethereum, everybody knows how much money you have in that. I think that level of transparency is something that scares a lot of enterprises and the closer we move towards being able to have on -chain privacy, so provability, but without revealing the underlying values, the more you'll see enterprises adopt public blockchains as a place, as a development environment, as a place to build and deploy applications to both internal applications as well as consumer facing or other business facing applications. But I think you've got to solve that privacy issue. Transparency is good when needed. It's also something that can be a deterrent to particularly large publicly traded companies who have to report to the SEC, who get audited, all these other things. They don't want all of this information, their financial information public. So finding ways to create some privacy around that I think will probably help with enterprise adoption. Yeah, yeah. Makes perfect sense, Andrew. What about, how does AI fit into this? I know it's a little bit of a tangent, but I've seen you guys talk a little bit about AI. I think you've probably got some opinions. So yeah, I mean, anything you want to kind of speculate on in terms of the, I guess the intersection of AI and web3 in the future? So in one word, trust, I think that's the key is that we're able to offer trust is very, very expensive. And I'm not talking about just necessarily blockchain trust, but trust in general. It's very expensive and it's at the core of how and why society works. If you don't have trust, society breaks down. So we have to trust each other, that we have our individual best interests in mind. And as a result of us trusting that we each want to do what's best for ourselves, we know that we're not going to put ourselves in a situation to damage each other because that might hurt ourselves. So having trust in AI models is going to be really, really important. And right now that mechanism works because OpenAI runs it and OpenAI is a big company, they have profit motives, but it's all centralized. As we move to a world where there's decentralized AI models, there needs to be some way to trust that that AI model is not malicious. And I think blockchain can be a huge component of that and tokenization, staking, and being able to lend trust to compute models is a really important component of it. I think it's an area where we fit in really, really well in particular. So that to me is the most obvious intersection of AI and blockchain. Particularly when it comes to things like deep fakes, I think you want to be able to have some verifiability behind images. You want to have some verifiability behind videos. You can just imagine a scenario where somebody creates a deep fake there's and no way to prove that this came from an AI model, and all of a sudden chaos ensues in a city or in a region or in a country because of some deep fake that people think is real. So there are a lot of concerns around fake news use cases for AI, and how do we solve for that problem? How do we put a marker on that image or on that video that proves that this came from a model and having some sort of watermark of trust? I think that crypto can provide that in some ways. So that's one area. I also think there's a lot of concern about existential threats related to AI and decentralizing AI models and getting them out of the hands of individuals and into the hands of communities, open sourcing them, and then providing incentives around building these models in a way to where they won't create existential threats. I don't think we're quite there yet. I'm less of an AI doomer than a lot of people. But to the AI doomers, I would say use crypto as a way to provide some of these guarantees that your model is not going to go off the rails.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from God's Plan for World Evangelism (Part 1)
"Mark chapter 16 in your Bibles. Mark chapter 16, last chapter in the book, I believe. Mark chapter 16. God's plan for world evangelization. And I'm happy to say here this morning that he does have a plan. No FNS or buts about it. For world evangelization. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Okay? Let me ask the question, why is Trinity Baptist Church here? I could say a lot of negative things and then I would think of some more. Trinity Baptist Church here is not here just to make a name for itself, even though I might say that it has. It's not here to entertain people. It's here to carry out a tremendous commission that God has given us that we're going to read about here in just a moment. But it's tremendous and great responsibility that the Lord has given to us. It says it all right here in these verses I'm going to read this morning. Here in Mark 16, we're going to start reading in verse 15. And he said unto them, his disciples, who was following him, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. And he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up servants or serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Would you bow with me in prayer? Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for this opportunity just to stand here and open this precious book called the Bible, the Word of God. Lord, we thank you for this month already. Here it is, the first day, first Sunday, Lord, that we now have entered into our missions month. Father, I will first of all want to thank you for how you have used the Trinity Baptist Church down through the years in the area of missions. That's been made possible because of faithful people that have followed your leadership, your guidance, and have been obedient to doing their part in making this ministry what it is, and of course I believe it's going to grow. The sun never sets on the ministry of this church. We're so thankful we gave you all the honor, the glory, and the praise for it. And then Father, as Brother Shelton said, we do thank you for those visiting today. We thank you for every person that's here today. We pray for that person who may be here today, who's never trusted Christ. May this be that special day in their lives when they repent of sin and give their hearts to Christ. And then I'll pray, Lord, for the encouragement and strength of your people. And Lord, I think I said it, but I want to repeat myself, and I'm thankful that the church appreciates their pastor, but not any more than I appreciate every one of them. Thank you, God, for them and their faithfulness in doing what they're doing to make this church what the Bible says it ought to be, and even carrying out and doing what our passage reads we have read here this morning.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from Navigating Not Enough
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Remain standing remain standing. Once you've hugged enough put those hands together and welcome our eFam all over the world. Hey everybody. We're about to be we're about to be out on the road this week Elevation Nights, Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida. Knoxville, Tennessee, Atlanta area, Birmingham, then we're going to Texas. I'm gonna get Tim Riggins and then we're going over to Lubbock and Dallas and Houston. ElevationNights .com. There are still some tickets in some locations. Don't buy it from a scalper. Don't support that nonsense, but we really want to see you there. We're expecting God to do great amazing things. Clap your hands if you're expecting it right now. God is good. God is good. God is so good so faithful. Well today this message that I have to share with you is one that everybody in the room needs. So sometimes I'll say this message is for somebody. I don't know who this is for. But today I know it's for all y 'all. So look at somebody and say you too, not the band. It's going to be good. I'm going to read from Matthew chapter 15 verse 29 through 38 a familiar story with a twist and not for the sake of being clever, but for the sake of something that I believe God wants to speak to you today in a fresh way. Matthew chapter 15 verse 29 And while you're turning there in your Bible, let us know online where you're joining us from. We'd love to know your name and where you're joining us from as well right there in the comments. Matthew chapter 15 verse 29. Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down great crowds came to him bringing the lame the blind the crippled the mute many others and laid them at his feet and he healed them. The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking the crippled made well the lame walking and the blind seeing and they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called his disciples to him and said I have compassion for these people. They have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry or they may collapse on the way his disciples answered. Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd? How many loaves do you have Jesus asked seven they replied and a few small fish. He told the crowd to sit down on the ground then he took the seven loaves and fish and when he had given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples and they in turn to the people they all ate and were satisfied afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. Okay verse 38. Let's read this one to the number of those who ate was besides 4000 men women and children and I'm calling this message today navigating not enough. We've all been there. We will all be there at some point so I can't think of a more important class to teach today than navigating not enough and let's just pray one more time for the Holy Spirit to guide us into truth Lord. You said that you would do that that you would lead us and guide us and remind us of the things that matter and teach us the things that we need to know do that just now for these people for everybody who will hear this message is navigating something that is not enough, but you are more than enough. Yes, so bring us to that place in space and presence of mind to see you as you are. We give you praise in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. I made a list in my phone. I read it to you. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom, and I stopped there with 15 because Matthew 15. I thought be cool do 15 15 things that I just said that someone in this room feels like they don't have enough of right now time money sleep energy friends confidence opportunity authority freedom flexibility discipline experience joy peace wisdom everyone will have to navigate an area of not enough in your life in a way that comforts me to know that for all the things that I don't feel like I have enough of there's some things you don't have enough of with your needy self either kind of evens the playing field. So don't be intimidated. Don't be intimidated not in here. Anyway, the ground is level at the foot of the cross. We're all here because we need Jesus and Jesus is complete. Jesus Christ is complete fully God fully man at the sound of that truth echoes back another truth that in him. I am complete. He is enough. I am enough and yet there's no shortage of needs in this room and everyone will have to pass through in different moments of your life different facets of this same neighborhood called not enough and we have to talk about how to navigate that because I have found that not only is the the not enough thing a battle that never goes away, but it is a battle that never fully gets in balance and what I mean by that is when I read that list of things there have been seasons in my life where I worked my way into enough of one of them. Only to find another one screaming. Hey now that you got enough money, you don't have any time. Yeah, I thought about this in the area of discipline. I try to be disciplined person in my life. I need that to stay on track and yet I noticed the times in my life where my discipline is really keyed in sometimes I get so rigid that I lose my empathy. And I'm doing really good with my disciplines, but I'm mad at everybody else that they aren't as disciplined as me. Now I'm judgy. So it's good, you know, I've got my macros and my workouts and my Bible time but creates a whole other not enough over on this side and I don't really want to stay in this too long just wanted to set up the idea of not enough and I realized when I made the title navigating not enough and God kind of led me to call this message that that in that title navigating not enough. I am the best one to teach this class because the two biggest fears in my life are both in that title. Not enough and navigating. I told you two weeks ago that I have no sense of direction and I still don't there's been no supernatural miracle since then and the idea of this passage here I looked at one verse and I want to show it to you again that the disciples said again a pretty familiar scripture that I'm sharing with you today. But what they said to Jesus when he said I want to feed all these people I can get with because in verse 33 they answered where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd and we're going to stay with that question for a moment because it's very important. Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd and here are my two primary fears in life all in one Bible verse and the first one is the fear of running out which runs deep for me. I don't know if there's any scarcity mentality in your life or some kind of like deficit oriented way of thinking where you wake up each day at zero. I don't know if you ever do a little fire drills to try to figure out how you could sell everything and live in a living underground live in a tent somewhere if it came to that but the fear of running out I can't tell you how I can't explain I cannot explain to you how important it is that my phone is completely charged 93 % is not a hundred percent. I cannot run out of battery. What would I do if the phone died? I would die. It's a fear that runs from everything from iPhones to sermon material a lot of times when I preach too long is because I was scared I'd get up here and have nothing to say. So then I went and messed around study too long and kept you three hours, but my heart's in the right place. I don't want you to show up hungry and collapse when you leave because I was watching the game instead. So I really really really relate to this thing of where could we get enough the fear of running out and then what makes it even worse put the scripture back up. Where could we get enough bread in this remote place? Did you notice that so now not only do I not have enough that's my first fear in life, but I don't know where I am. And I need to know where I am and if I don't know where I am I need to be with somebody who knows where they are and that's where you're like, but the disciples had Jesus. So it really didn't matter because if you've got Jesus you've always got enough and isn't it interesting how confidently you say that about them back then.
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Awards Chatter
A highlight from Tim Burton - 'Wednesday' [LIVE]
"Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 507th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a filmmaker unlike any other. With directing credits dating back some 40 years including 1985's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, 1988's Beetlejuice, 1989's Batman, 1990's Edward Scissorhands, 1994's Ed Wood, 2003's Big Fish, 2005's Corpse Bride, 2007's Sweeney Todd, 2012's Frankenweenie, 2014's Big Eyes, and most recently in 2022, half of the eight episodes that comprise the first season of Netflix's giant hit drama series, Wednesday, for which he is personally nominated for two Emmys, Best Directing for a Comedy Series, and as one of the show's executive producers, Best Comedy Series. The New York Times has called him a visionary artist, noting, quote, he has developed a singular if not easily pinned down sensibility. His style is strongly visual, darkly comic, and morbidly fixated, but it is rooted just as much in his affection for monsters and misfits, which in his movies often turn out to be the same thing. He all but invented the vocabulary of the modern superhero movie, brought new vitality to stop motion animation, and has come to be associated, for better or worse, with anything that is ghoulish or ghastly without being inaccessible. He may be the most widely embraced loner in contemporary cinema, close quote. His most frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, who he has directed in 19 films, said that he is, quote, a filmmaker I admire, but he's much, much more than that. Without embarrassing him, he's a true artist, which is something I wasn't sure was possible in today's cinema. But he's the real thing. He's a visionary, an auteur, totally uncompromising, close quote. He's talking, of course, about Tim Burton. Over the course of a conversation in front of a large audience at the Burbank International Film Festival, including two of Burton's most celebrated and longtime collaborators, the composer Danny Elfman and the costume designer Colleen Atwood, the 65 -year -old and I discussed his complicated childhood and how it led him to pursue drawing and attracted him to characters regarded by others as freaks, how he wound up working at Disney Animation and then making his feature directorial debut with a live action film, the challenges of getting films made even with hits under his belt and what ultimately led him to TV for Wednesday, plus much more. And so, without further ado, let's go to that conversation. Hello, everyone, and Tim, thank you so much for doing this. Great to see you. I normally begin every episode of this podcast asking our guests where they were born and raised, which I think we have addressed, but I do want to get into it a little bit more because, you know, over the years, you have expressed that sort of what you just alluded to, that, you know, you were very shaped by Burbank. For better or worse, there were elements that were great, elements that were complicated. Can you talk about, but one thing that you've always said is that without Burbank and without those childhood experiences, the filmmaker we know today would not exist. So just break it down. Well, I mean, you know, I keep reading that I hate, you know, like the press has a way of sort of taking what you say and take out the nuance and subtlety and, you know, like go right to the core. But I think, you know, and when I said about whatever I said about Burbank, it had more to do with my own psychological state of mind than it did with the actual city of Burbank. You know what I mean? So and that's a bit too complicated and psychological to go into now, but in the sense that, you know, you grow up in feeling a certain way, Burbank helped shape me because, you know, there was like my first film school was the Cornell Theatre. There was this amazing theatre that was torn down, I think, in the late in the 80s. I don't know when it was, but, you know, they would for 50 cents, you could see a triple feature. Like, I saw one amazing, I saw War of the Gargantuas, Monster Zero and Destroy All Monsters in one go, you know, 50 cents. So that's where I learned my love of film and that really, so there was amazing places and it was incredible. There was like five movie theaters, Burbank at a certain time, and then they all got sort of taken away. But for me, that place, especially that theater was very, very special to me. And you've said that during your years in Burbank, which I think up until 12, you're living at, was it Evergreen Street? Is that where you were? Yeah, right down the street. Just down the street here. You can all walk over there after this. Yeah, we'll do a little. Check it out. Then you moved in with your grandmother also in Burbank, right? But as a bit of a loner, as a kid, you were kind of thinking about things, dreaming about things in everywhere from some of the cemeteries in town to... Yeah, the one right next door here, you know, I used to play around there, you know, that was, yeah. Yeah. You know, and I could look out my window, the thing that freaked me out, I looked out my window at Disney and this was like the weird, called the Bermuda Triangle of Burbank. Because I could see where I was born at St. Joseph's and then I could see the cemetery where everybody, all my family was buried. And I was, so it was like a weird Bermuda Triangle that I had to escape at a certain point because it was just too scary. Now, you've also said that as a kid, you were, you know, not only a bit of a loner, but sort of not particularly communicative, verbal with other people. You lived in your imagination, which manifested itself through drawing. Can we talk about how that entered the picture? And as was noted, I mean, to the extent that it was, you were talented enough that in Burbank, your work, anti -littering art was on the back of every garbage truck. I wanted $10, and at that time, that's probably like about a million now. Right, right, right. But drawing was an outlet for you. What kind of things were you drawing as a kid? Posters for trash trucks, I don't know, I mean, whatever. But also, I mean, the movies that you were drawn to, and I believe maybe therefore some of things the you were drawing were things that other people might find frightening or scary, but that you actually, in a way, related to, right? Like what are we talking about? Yeah, but I mean, like, you know, I didn't feel that different. It felt like, you know, I love famous monsters. I wait for that magazine to come out. I love monster movies. I live near a cemetery. You know, I mean, you use what you have, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was good. Totally. And I think also, too, growing up in Southern California, where you don't really have seasons, I think that's why I kind of got into, you know, like things like Nightmare for Christmas or Halloween, just because it gave you a sense of occasion, a sense of season that you didn't get through the weather, you know, I mean, to experience, like holidays, you had to go like to the main, like, at Save On and look at the holiday displays to kind of experience.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from It's Over.
"Brand bigs for one week, this is what I have to deal with. She's pissed. So you know the saying, if the cat's away, the mice will play. So it runs away and like people are not going to fucking work. Sure, it's actually absolutely manic in there. I take a few minutes break just to get out of the madness that's going on. It's definitely the biggest conference that I've ever seen. And I'm running around like a mad person. I'm absolutely having the time of my life. So we're at token 2049. I'm not going to lie, it kind of looks like a bull market. Like it looks incredible here, I've met a lot of cool fans already. And now we're going to the Birdgate yacht party. So it's my disclaimer, it's my first yacht I've ever been on. So I'm super excited for that. What's up, Brian? Did you see there is drama in crypto land, or at least in influencer land. Crypto Rover took Miles' tweet, now they're fighting with each other. So you can see over here, Miles, congrats on surviving the longest bear market in Bitcoin history. They'll still call you, keyword, lucky next cycle. Crypto Rover, exactly the same tweet. Yet in the next cycle, many will still label it as luck. So he did change like one line. And there's another one over here, look at this one. Here he's showing the stablecoin market cap going down, Miles. And then you've got Crypto Rover, stablecoin market cap going down as well. We're just in that phase of the market cycle, everything is boring, people are copying each other, fighting. Yeah, welcome to the bear market. One of the things we've spoken about a lot this week is around people stealing our content. People repurposing our content or copying our content to try and get clout. And there's an account called Crypto Rover. And we've seen that recently Rover's been copying our material and tweeting it as if it was his own. And then what happened is, Ron found out about it and he confronted on what? On Twitter, he literally typed it to Rover, hey, why are you stealing Miles' tweet? And then two days later, Rover copied one of Ron's tweets. If you think about it from the perspective of the Twitter algorithm, it's a really smart strategy, but I think it just lacks a bit of integrity. You've got to understand, people work hard to try and bring creative things on Twitter. To just take someone's information and just tweak it and then take clout for it, it's not cool. Now, I know Dan. Dan's quite a smart guy. And it disappoints me to see that that's the tactics that he's resorting to. As we're approaching the yacht, I look to my right and I see Crypto Rover. He's here. And I'm thinking, this has just become an incredible trip. Good, you're pushing through, eh? Still living in South Africa? I am, I am. I'm going in January for something. You must come see, you must let me know. Yeah, let's do it, bro, I'll take you around. Have you seen Ron yet? What happened there? No, not yet. Have you seen him? No, not yet. I probably will see him in the coming days. Probably by then, we're going to go to the... Yeah, definitely. Because I was confused, I was like, what the hell, you guys met each other then? I don't know what happened. Because, like, from my opinion, what happened is that first of all, I was like tweeting and Rand was posting on my account, reacting to my tweets like, oh, this is fake news or this is that. And I sent my sources to him and he doesn't reply. So I thought, okay, maybe he's got something against me, I don't know. And then like the glass note shark about the bear market, like so many people tweeted about it on the internet, tweeted about it five times, but with a different text because I tweet 40 times a day. So sometimes I post the same stuff. And you said I was copying now this or that. In the end of the day, you can literally see my page that I posted it four times before. So you're going to try it, you guys are going to chat it out? I definitely want to chat it out. We need to come together, we can't. I don't want to have to be with anyone. So his side was saying that, you know, he was posting these things a while back and they actually possibly copied him and he posts 30 to 40 tweets every single day. So he needs to use stuff and things like that. I don't know, it didn't sound super convincing to me. I like the guy personally very much. I've met him a few times. But I do think he was wrong in this instance. And when I got his side of the story, I wasn't super convinced. It's just a bunch of egos and I just don't swim in that lake.
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from #brunchtalk: Is lack of experience a turn off?
"Hi, I'm Yui Xu and I'm Julie Kraftchick. We're active daters turned dating sociologists here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships. Welcome to the datable podcast. Hello, datables. Is it time for brunchies? I'm going to use the word. Damn right it is. But only if you use the word brunch. That sounds so basic. Hey, you want to go to brunchies? Oh my God. Please don't start that. Brunchy talk. Well, we are back for another episode of Brunch Talk where we answer your burning dating questions, that is the goal of these episodes. They are weekly. They are on Sundays. They are shorter than our midweek podcasts episodes, but we answer your burning questions and we get them done. Question for this Brunch Talk is, is the lack of experience a turnoff when it comes to dating? Yes. And we want to thank this listener, Rahim, who submitted a wonderful review. In addition, five stars with the question that said for more context, I'm a 26 year old male who has limited dating and relationship history. I feel like relationship history and experience is very much relative. You could be 26 and have been in two relationships, but maybe two relationships where you learn nothing from them or you were only in one relationship where you learn a lot from it. I think the bigger picture question is what have you learned from dating that you can apply to relationships? Not so much the experience of relationships. So 26, you're a baby still. It's okay. I don't know why as a culture, we have this thing because we do hear this a lot of people being like, Oh, they don't have any past experience or I'm their first relationship, or they haven't had a lot of partners. There's something wrong with them. That's the feeling. I don't agree with that at all, but for whatever reason, we think that the quantity of our past partners are saying like how desirable we are. I would reframe it of what have you been doing for the last 26 years? Probably some of them, you were just being born and coming to your own. So like even what have you been doing for the last six years? It doesn't even have to be 26 years and just tell your story. It's okay if relationships haven't been a priority for you until now. I don't think 26, even if you're 36, 46, 56, whatever it is, there's never an age. Like we go through different stages of life. It's just, how do you share with someone of where you've been, where you want to go and why right now you're interested in dating and meeting new people? It's all about the narrative that you tell yourself and to other people. If you go into dates and you start with, I haven't had that much relationship experience, yeah, someone's going to corner you into that and think, Oh, okay. Maybe this person doesn't have much to offer. But if you go into dates saying, Oh, I haven't had that many long -term relationships, but I've learned a lot about relational skills, people, skills, learning about myself. I've been in therapy. I've done all the self work that shows experience in itself. And I think that's more valuable than the actual relationships. I've listened to this great podcast, dateable. It's really helped me out.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1273. Ethereum Built on Bitcoin | Spiderchain Layer-2 INTERVIEW w/Botanix Labs
"All right, so today we're going to dive into Bitcoin, but not in the normal and usual way. Actually, we're going to break into possibly an alternative for Bitcoin through an Ethereum EVM. We'll talk all about that today. You guys are going to love it. My name is Paul Veron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Joining me today is Willem Schrow, who's coming over from Botanics Labs. So, great to have you. Great to meet you all. Great to meet you, Paul. Hey, Willem. All right. So first, let's get into just in general what you guys are trying to do with Botanics. Give me kind of a breakdown. Yeah. So Botanics is actually a layer two on Bitcoin, but it is fully EVM equivalent. What that means is any of the applications that you see on Ethereum today are now possible on Botanics and are possible on Bitcoin. So with any of the applications, suddenly you will see Bitcoin instead of Ethereum. And so we bring the whole world of the EVM to Bitcoin and we bring the whole world and the capital of Bitcoin to the EVM. So why bring EVM to Bitcoin? What's the core behind it? What are you guys trying to solve in terms of just the overall technical aspect? Yeah, very good question. Well, it went back like a year where we tried to figure out where is this whole crypto infrastructure going to go to 10 years from now. And very interesting, we saw like a paradox play out. On the one hand, you have Bitcoin, which is the biggest market cap and still considered by many the one and real decentralized reserve currency. And on the other hand, you have Ethereum and the EVM with so many applications built on top of it. And how do you fit these two together? And basically what we saw play out is, OK, Bitcoin, almost no applications on top of it. And the EVM, which is what powers Ethereum, is actually where all the applications are built upon. And you can actually take the EVM part and put that on top of Bitcoin. And suddenly you can use all the Bitcoin that you have and you can use it in the applications that you find on Ethereum. OK, all right. Is it a scenario where Bitcoin benefits more or does Ethereum benefit more in this particular scenario? In this scenario, because we are fully on Bitcoin, so the whole protocol will run on Bitcoin, you will use Bitcoin to buy NFTs, you will use Bitcoin to be in DeFi indexes. Bitcoin is here, the big winner, and our applications that we want to bring are really to the Bitcoiners. All right. So I was looking at your website and on the how does Botanics work, and it gets into the spider chain. You know, I'm kind of highlighting that on screen right now. But the question I have for you is the difference between the spider chain and what Layer 2 Labs is doing with their BIP sidechain, because we've had Paul on before talking about, you know, what Layer 2 Labs does and what sidechains do and how they would kind of change the dynamic. What is the difference between what you guys are doing and them? Yeah, so the end goal is actually very similar to bring the EVM or other sidechains to Bitcoin. However, the approach and the technology is very different. Drive chains need a Bitcoin soft fork, so they need an upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol while we do not require any soft fork. So the spider chain is actually possible on Bitcoin today, which is a big difference. So in reality, this is actually a proof of stake. And so the random subset of participants are all stakers. So anyone in the world will be able to run the full protocol. Anyone will be able to stake and then the decentralized multistake will basically choose random participants out of that staker set. And so right now we are fully building it. I actually saw the testnet run this week. We will go public with that very soon and then we will start building towards the main net. Now, one of the things that happens when you run proof of stake on top of Bitcoin, it also means that in the very initial phases, when you have very little Bitcoin staked, you are very vulnerable to an attack, basically someone coming in with 5000 Bitcoin, taking over majority control of the stake and attacking the platform. And that's why we will start off federated in a more centralized way. We will be like liquid basically on Bitcoin, have some federated partners that we work together with until there's sufficient activity in win and we can make the full protocol permissions. All right. I think that's a good step, you know, because you're right with these kinds of things and this kind of scenario that would make it a little bit of a thing at risk. All right. So when you look at both Bitcoin, what we've seen in terms of the core, the core devs on Bitcoin, very reluctant to change over the years. And then you look at the evolution of what's happened within the Ethereum ecosystem and it's the exact opposite. They're just a constant, you know, throw of new devs. There's a constant new innovation happening, a test of all sorts. I mean, when you look at Bitcoin and Ethereum, is Bitcoin ever going to catch up in terms of dev activity and real movement to become something of a true currency or at least the use case of currency? Because I think that's obviously for Ethereum what ETH seems to be trying to achieve. Bitcoin ever going to catch up here? What do you thought? Yeah, I think Bitcoin itself as the Bitcoin protocol, I don't think so. It's most important for Bitcoin that it's decentralized and secure. And so that also means not a lot of upgrades. I think for all the layer twos and a lot of applications that are built on top of Bitcoin, absolutely. I think we are going to see a very big explosion of applications and layer twos in the coming years. And maybe to go further on to that point, I actually believe a big portion of the differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum is because of their foundational beliefs, which leads to a culture difference. Like the Bitcoiners, they align more with decentralization is the first principle that matters the most. The Ethereum proponents align more as a first principle. It needs to be composable. It needs to be a virtual machine. And then you have, for example, people who like Solana more, they say speed is the other most important. Same for Monero and privacy. Now, out of all of these properties, I would say Bitcoin as being the layer one for reserve currency is the most important. But all the other properties who are also very valid and have reached product market fit, you can bring them on top of Bitcoin as a layer two. And that's what I think will happen. Yeah. So in terms of the user experience on on spider chains like this, is this going to be different from other layer twos that would play into this? Yeah. So in terms of user experience, we have optimized for that and we think it's going to be extremely easy to go on to Botanics. For people who have used Arbitrum, Botanics is going to feel like you're bridging from Ethereum to Arbitrum, exactly the same. We will provide you with a certain Bitcoin address you send from any wallet, any exchange, any cold wallet, Bitcoin to that address. And boom, you have Bitcoin in your metamask. I like it. Which is that is so bizarre to see how this is going. As far as timeline, when you look at the current progress you guys have made so far, what the roadmap looks like. I'll get to the roadmap in a second. I'm just kind of curious, just from a framework of timing here, you've got a halving coming up. There's going to be a lot of acceleration around Bitcoin and its use, along with a lot of people getting into it, just recognizing Bitcoin for the first time. How long before this could potentially be a real solution? Yeah, it's very interesting. Development, as long as you're not online and the blockchain is not fully running, can go really fast. So our iteration steps, our testing process are going very fast to the moment we will go out with a testnet this month in October. And then after that, we actually are very happy with the timing that the Bitcoin halving is coming very soon because we actually aim for the mainnet by the Bitcoin halving. So mainnet basically means you will be able to use it. You will start having all your favorite EVM applications, but using Bitcoin with it. So explain to me, Willem, how Spiderchain would be different than, say, something like Stacks, you know, building obviously with ordinals playing into this. How is it and what are the core attributes that would make it different? Yeah, two big differences there. So Stacks runs on the Stacks token, Botanics runs on Bitcoin. And a second big difference is we are fully EVM equivalent. What means that any application that is built on Ethereum is able to be deployed, plug and play, copy paste on top of Botanics. OK, so we have a lot of Bitcoiners on our show, people who just think it's kind of the only way. And then we have a lot of people where I would say we're a neutral network. You know, we look at people that are really into Web3 and the development of what's going on with Bitcoin, along with other projects that are in the layer one camps, especially if you think about even Cardano and Avalanche. But you look at Bitcoiners and they're very, very centralized into the, I should say, the culture, not decentralized, obviously, as a platform, but the culture itself kind of has one vision. Have you had a lot of pushback from Bitcoiners in general? Yeah, more than I expected, actually, and the biggest pushback is actually on the EVM part, even though our whole protocols run on runs on Bitcoin. So I expect that a lot of Bitcoiners to actually fully love this. A lot of the pushback has been on the EVM, which is the Ethereum virtual machine. And it is actually because of the connotation and the bias that they have with Ethereum. But you actually argue that the EVM is a hugely powerful virtual machine and actually think the EVM has won out what we call the virtual machine battle. We think a lot of the applications that we're seeing have been built on virtual machines and the EVM is the biggest virtual machine out there. Yeah. Is there, in terms of support, where is that coming from for this project? Yeah, very interesting. It's everyone who aligns with our vision that says, like, OK, we see Bitcoin is the currency, but it's very good at being digital gold and being very decentralized and secure. But then on the other hand, they also love the EVM. They also love playing around in DeFi, on DEXs, by NFTs. And so it's basically someone who is active in the application ecosystem, but still holds Bitcoin in there called Wal -Mart. And so these two visions, they're not mutually exclusive. You can build the EVM on top of Bitcoin. And those are the people who we've seen the most support from.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Where Crypto Has Product-Market Fit (And Where It Doesn't)
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 1st, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome to one of the best months of the year, October. You love to see it. Around here in these crypto parts, we call this October, and I don't know if the price is going to follow that, but I certainly know that the vibes will. Now, it is Long Read Sunday, and this show represents for me not only a chance to bring in the opinions of other people, but also a chance to think a little bit more broadly, a little bit less focused on the news of the day or the week. And so with that in mind, we turn to a piece from Li Jin, one of the co -founders of Variant, that makes an argument about one of the big challenges that faces the industry as it attempts to go more mainstream. I think it's an interesting argument, and so I'm going to read the piece and then we'll talk about it a little bit further. The essay is called, The Barrier to Mainstream Crypto Adoption Isn't UX, It's Product -Market Fit. Li writes, Discussions about accelerating adoption of crypto often focus on improving user experience. The popular thinking goes, Web3 products lag behind from a user experience perspective, onboarding poses multiple points of friction, and technological concepts come with learning curves. Web3 is missing a seamless experience for apps that will unlock greater adoption. While improving crypto UX is certainly important, I believe that the more significant and urgent barrier to adoption is building things that people want. Web3 has a product market fit problem, not a UX problem. Product market fit is when a product satisfies a strong market need. For consumer builders, the elegance and challenge in building for consumers is that humans have remarkably consistent needs across time. That's why Maslow's hierarchy of needs continues to resonate nearly a century after its introduction, with universal needs ranging from the physiological food, shelter, and clothing, to the psychological — belonging, love, entertainment, and esteem. The history of consumer startups is one of continual innovation in solving for human needs in novel ways. Though people often dismiss new consumer apps as incremental innovations in flipping categories — i .e. teens making dance videos — the truth is that successful startups offer a step -function improvement in enabling people to achieve a core need. Amazon sold us books and everything else in just a few clicks, dramatically easing the process for procuring goods. Facebook enabled us to connect with those we care about instantly. Tinder exposed us to an order of magnitude more potential romantic partners than anyone could stumble on in real life. There is a lot of evidence that when the user benefit is great enough, users are willing to jump through UX hurdles and learn new behaviors, in crypto and beyond. Examples include the first iPhone, which lacked a touch keyboard, the internet itself, and all crypto assets and applications that have had significant adoption to date — NFTs during the last bull market being a primary example. For products that solve a core need, unfamiliar and complicated UX hasn't been a blocker. Despite the long list of multifaceted user needs, so far, explorations of the opportunities that crypto can uniquely address have been largely limited to the financial realm. While income is a widespread need, products where income derives from speculation work when the market goes up but lose their appeal as prices fall. It's a tough sell, especially when there are alternatives for users to attain income with less risk and uncertainty. There is an opportunity for crypto builders to build products that better address other human needs, such as belonging, community, and entertainment. What could that look like? On a small scale, NFT communities and decentralized autonomous organizations have satisfied some people's need for belonging, forging novel social graphs on the basis of asset ownership. To those who say that shared financial interests can't be the basis for real relationships, consider that many of our real -world connections are predicated on ownership, whether that's There's an opportunity to leverage on -chain assets as the basis for new communities that solve for belonging, esteem, and connection. In August 2023 alone, 94 .5 million NFTs were minted across Ethereum and its Layer 2 scalability protocols. As the volume of user activity grows, imagine inferring users' interests based on on -chain actions and exposing connections based on a rich activity history. On -chain media expands our entertainment options, giving us skin in the game for what we consume and create online. On platforms like sound .xyz, friend .tech, and Zora, users can bet on media and creators they believe in, enhancing their experience of the content and turning these networks into financialized games. In a world where all media is incepted as NFTs, there will be a new economic dimension that can enrich our experience of the internet. These are just starting points for what it could look like for crypto to find product -market fit and address needs beyond just income. There's room for much more experimentation from here. To achieve widespread adoption and evolve beyond their current niche, crypto products need to enhance the human experience through solutions that wouldn't be possible without crypto.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Reaching Out / Great Ideas for Evangelism
"We talked about survival last night. You know there's a saying I've always thought, don't wait until you're thirsty to dig a well. A lot of times we wait until the 15th round before we've been knocked down, before we go for help. Isn't that true? Sometimes we have to hit that bottom bottom, I guess. Just don't take things for granted. Good lives, lives that are together are not my accident. They're my right choices. The world just says you're lucky, but we know it's not luck. We know it's not luck. You don't order godly kids in the catalog. I'm a godly kid, respectful. You don't order me, you have to build lives. And I tell you what, we live in a day that, I tell you what, it's kind of sad. God doesn't give you wisdom. To see things how he sees them, and actually to see through things. To see through the deception of Satan. Look, two things I begged for in my life. I begged to be a solider, and I begged to raise my kids. He used to beg God for wisdom, because I knew his past was going to be greater than me. He used to say, if you want to mess up your life, that's your choice, but you're not messing your kids' lives up. And I don't know, I guess God, I just begged God for wisdom, and then James, he says he'll give it to you liberally if you ask. And I do believe he has. I got a lady in my church, my secretary, I'm going to be the secretary. She said, I think there is certainly something about raising kids. And if I really even know what I said, I just need to ask her. I think she wrote down everything I've ever said. And it's nice to have people listen. You know, it's ironic, people in my church now are more like me than my own kids. That's just the way it is. They're more like their pastor. They've been influenced by their pastor. My people have been influenced by me. They've been sitting under my preaching group, some of them, for 29 years. So, you know, they actually thank and remind me of how my kids would be. I see my kids, and they've kind of sometimes drifted away from different ways. And it kind of hurts me, but they become like their pastor. And, you know, so we just need to try to encourage each other, you know, hold together. You know, we're one body of many members. Amen. I think I heard one time that a car has about 30 ,000 parts. You know, it takes all of them to put together. It only takes one of them to miss malfunctions before you're in trouble. Isn't that the truth? You know, when one malfunction, you know, you have maybe eight cylinders on your car. You know, when one of them malfunctions, you lose a lot more than one -eighth of your power. Anyone in those cars knows if one plug or one wire is misfiring, it's like you lose 70 % of your power. And, you know, we got to make sure we don't malfunction on starry again. Mm -hmm. Joe, Steve will bring her own water tonight, because I'm not falling for that one yet. You know, we just need to work together as a body. You know, hey, I always tell my people, the devil only needs one heart to work out of. Don't let your heart be that one he works out of. It's a dangerous place to be, too. And, well, I think we have enough work out here. We have enough people that I think God's work, besides having Christians, amen, but Ezekiel, if you're Ezekiel 33 now, verse, I just thought we'd start at verse 31. It says, and they came unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear my words, but they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after covetousness, passions, desires, things like that. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, for they hear thy words, but they do them not. They were too powerful at first, aren't they? Man, I just read that. They point that verse, so many people are, they sit in church, and, you know, they may say, oh, it's a good message, whatever, but they just don't do them. God says, happier little do these things, amen, you know? And just knowing them and not doing them actually just makes you miserable, probably, right? Some people just have enough religion to bug them instead of bless them. Isn't that the truth? Yeah, just enough to just make them miserable without making them joyful. One guy I've told, and I've heard this all the time, but he's going to tell me in church, he says, the pastor's job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, you know? So I'm here to try to disturb you where you're comfortable and comfort you where you're hurting. Amen? And so we come here tonight and turn with me now to Mark, Matthew, Mark, I think, with the gospel, where Christ is portrayed as his servant. You know, the four gospels in Matthew, God is portrayed as a king, as a king, and Mark as a servant, and Mark and Luke as a son of man, and John, the son of God. And we find here one of my passages I love, and I don't know, anyone have favorite, I love, I have so many favorite passages, I guess, but I like this one because it's about four men, I guess, a four, but I guess I can't even say for sure, I'm sure there were probably men that took a man of palsy that was paralyzed through the Peter's house roof to get him to Jesus to be healed. It says there in chapter two, no, actually this just follows where I talked about it the other day about the leper that was healed, and Jesus said in verse 44, right before that in chapter one, see thou say nothing to any man that would go thy way and show thyself to the priests and offer for like cleanliness these things which Moses commanded for a testimony to them. But he went out and began to publicize it much, to blaze abroad the matter, and so much that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city. I mean, God, Jesus at the end is so well known now, it's hard for him to even, you know, move and around stuff, and set him up in the desert places, and they came to him from every quarter. So we come here now, it says here, and again, he entered into Capernaum, you know, that's kind of where he kind of made his home, where Peter was after some days, and it was noise that he was in the house. And straightway, many were gathered together in so much that there was no room for them, no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door. And he preached the word unto them, and they came unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was born of four, and when they could not come nigh unto him from the press, in other words, the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and when they had broken a nub, they let down a bad brim the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he sent unto the sick of the palsy, saying, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. And there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, you know, isn't that amazing? Here in this crowd, there are some hearts that were very, very ungodly. Here they are just looking for a reason to cause trouble, looking for a reason, observing just with a critical spirit, you know, and sadly, they can be in a church, someone comes just to be a critic, but there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, why does this man thus speak blaspheming? Who can forgive sins but God only? See, they knew exactly what Jesus was saying he was. Jesus said, I am God, you know, and that made them angry because they didn't want to receive it except that, and immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye of these sayings in your hearts? Whether it is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk. But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. He said to the sick of palsy, I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go thy way unto thy house, and immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this faction. Isn't that amazing? You know, I love that. You know how exciting when God's moving in the hearts of people. When you have a revival, you know, it's not about one person. It's about what God is doing in the hearts of people. And your testimony has brought tears to my eyes. You know, man, isn't that great? Somebody cared enough to go out and make that extra effort, and here he is in church today, almost waiting ahead on the sight of somebody who cared for his soul. You know, I had one psalmist who said, There's no way I cared for my soul. You know, tonight, that's why we're here. We're one beggar telling another beggar before we found bread telling people. I thank God I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home. And I tell you, I didn't have to make us go to church. We loved church. We loved revival meetings. Loved evangelists. You know, that was just kind of the highlight of the year, really. It was like the Super Bowl, you know? And I just thank God. We were poor. It was just like church mice. There were six kids we were poor so we could get out. But I tell you what, I remember I was a little boy. I had my own little horn, you know? I won't tell you. Because there was an evangelist. He blew up. He had a horn. And I would not get out in the middle. I wanted to be like him. I tell you what, that's the kind of heros you ought to be wanting your kids to have. My friend today, if you don't get them in church, if you don't build up the man of God, if you don't build up authority in your life, it will come back to bite you like you've never seen. Go ahead and teach your children disrespect to pastors, to the president, to police.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from MAKE IT HAPPEN - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"You can't pour from an empty cup and before you give love to anybody else you have to truly love yourself And I think the easiest way to love yourself as a man is to be proud of yourself and to be proud of yourself You have to decide who you want to be inside of the metaverse inside of the matrix You decide the character you want to be and try your best to achieve it Why do you think people struggle with being proud of themselves? I think because they know they're failing I think that most people failing in life know very well they're failing and it doesn't matter what avatar you decide to absorb or Who you decide to be? You can decide to be it and you know true in your heart if you're giving a hundred percent of your energy towards becoming or Doesn't matter if you want to become a famous musician does not gonna come ball a bodybuilder doesn't make them come become a pro fighter It doesn't matter what you want to be You know in your heart if you're actually trying you have to decide what you want to be and try and become it and a lot Of the people who are genuinely unhappy or miserable in their hearts know they're not trying well And they also I think they also focus on what everyone else is doing right or wrong and then judging outward and everyone's like focus on this our reflection of like what that person has and versus what they don't have and it's all just like Cycle of negativity completely and it's just if we found ourselves especially with social media nowadays We found ourselves like most people because maybe they're not mentally strong enough to understand like wait I need to create my own value instead of looking outwards How do you think we fix it successful is all about self -definition which is what I was saying at the beginning We have to defy decide who you want to be and if you're if you wanted to be Joe Schmoe and you pull it off And you'll be a pretty happy content person to decide who you want to be I think the people who are miserable is the dip it's the gap between their expectations and their reality That's what the misery lies. My expectations were always enormously high even when I was a nobody I knew I had to be filthy rich and a kickboxer at the age of 15 I knew that if I'm the kind of guy that if I raise my voice people are gonna care I'm not gonna be the guy who starts shouting and everything's just funny I know I'm gonna be the kind of guy who's genuinely a formidable opponent all around the human endeavor I know I'm gonna have money People who are miserable are the people who don't try hard enough to obtain it because I actually believe and it's another thing I believe the universe is very giving I think the universe and God himself is very giving I've yet to meet someone years All my who is genuinely giving 100 % of themselves day after day doesn't snake anyone firm handshake Look you in the eye doesn't lie to nobody and tries 100 % doesn't get what they want I've never seen it every single person who doesn't have what they want There's something in their story that doesn't quite add up I've yet to see some guy who have you ever seen a guy who eats right trains his ass off and never misses gym session Ever not grow. It's just that's the way the universe works, right? So if you're truly about it, you're truly trying your absolute best You're gonna do it and I that's what I believe. I believe the universe is extremely giving So when I meet somebody and they go I really wanted this and I don't have that so you didn't really want all like the successful People most successful people in the world Would you say that all of them have have like something in common in the sense of like some sort of hardship in their life? It's not I mean trauma is extremely important and this actually goes back into answering the first part of your question, which is interesting There's a study I read about stress and it was saying that stress they Stress has a placebo effect attached to it because the placebo effect is extremely powerful So they found some of the most stressed people in the world and they split them into two groups and they're all equally stressed They all have a bunch of cortisol People who believed they were that stress was bad for you and that stress can hurt you and they believe those media articles We're dying earlier. They're having heart attacks and having stress related illnesses The people who believe the opposite who just said stress is part being successful I like stress when I feel stressed I do my best makes me anxious. It turns my brain I like being stressed lived longer than average point is the same drug how you look at it and how your body Anticipates it how you feel about it affects the real -world results, which goes back into what you were saying earlier about the jealousy You're saying people look on social media and they get jealous and it demotivates things That's because they decide to be demotivated by it Do you know what happens when I get jealous of somebody I fucking beat them If I look at somebody has something I got I will take it from them by hook or by crook. Well, then I love I wish someone could make me jealous. It's hard. Now. I got everything I wish I could look at somebody and go fucker would you say would you say jealous? He's the number one part for motivation? Well, I don't think motivation is a real thing, I don't believe in motivation it's a concept I think discipline is real and I also think discontentment is real and I don't think it's possible for anybody to stay in a scenario Where they're truly uncomfortable if you fall asleep on your arm and your arm really starts to hurt even in the deepest sleep You're gonna wake up and move your arm if you sit there and your life has been in a rut for seven years You are semi comfortable in that rut. Sure. There's days. You're pissed off sure You're semi annoyed by it, but there's also days when you just play video games eat pizza and you're kind of cool with it It's no big deal if you were truly Unhappy and uncomfortable and discontent with your scenario. You wouldn't be in it. So I think I don't believe there's anybody who's truly When I was broke, I couldn't sleep Sam. Please understand me when I was broke. I couldn't sleep I'd be trying to go to bed thinking How the fuck these people have Ferraris. I want a fucking Ferrari I couldn't sleep people aren't taught to be self -aware anymore People are taught to just like like I said look at that guy what he has and be mad that she don't have it Or like if something's going on with me I don't want to look inside and say what's actually happening with me. Why am I this way? Why am I the person that I am today everyone, but I want to figure out deeply How do you think a man specifically in this case is able to look at themselves more comfortably without? Holding the judgment the fact that they don't have the stuff over themselves because completely you're totally right I think there's two answers to the question one I think a lot that came from chess because chess is the most ruthless game on the planet and what chess will teach you Chess teaches you that if you lose at some point you made a mistake It doesn't matter if it's the smallest mistake It doesn't matter if you just took too long too long to think to make the right move and run out of time on the clock At some point you fucked up for you to lose that game. It's 100 % accountability with no luck That's what's so important about learning chess That's the first thing and the second thing is you need to as a man adopt the mindset that absolutely everything that happens to you It's completely an earlier fault whether it's good or bad Most men don't have that when the matrix was attacking me and they were destroying me and they're calling up My ex is trying to get fake fucking charges on me and put me in jail when they closed my bank accounts I use ten eleven million dollars when they banned me on all across all social medias and lie about me when they harassed my Family when did I'm sitting there going? This is my fault. All of this is me. I got here. It's my fault I'm not going that was unfair. It was orchestrated NGOs worked against me because that is not helpful. It's accountability It's a hundred percent accountability in all things, but also when I go out there and I start to Bugatti It's like that's me. It's Mike. This is my fault The car is my fault and the big house is my fault and everything that ever goes wrong Yeah, absolutely. You have to take complete in our accountability for everything. You can't make excuses ever There's never an excuse and you're right people try and put things on the outwork outwards on the outside. It's interesting I remember watching Forrest Gump about five years ago I was on a plane and coming where I was flying and the beginning of Forrest Gump has a scene in it when he's sitting On the bench at the beginning think about a Forrest Gump He's sitting on the bench at the beginning and there's a feather and on him and the movie begins what they're saying with that is Forest is the feather and life has just pushed him all over and put him in all these unusual scenarios Life has directed him everywhere That's what that's what it's saying And if you're gonna be the guy and you're gonna allow life to happen to you and you're not gonna happen to life Then you're at mercy of the wind. Perhaps it might work out. Okay, but it might not right So you have to be the guy who goes? Okay, the winds blowing in this direction. Fuck them. I'm doing this You have to come to life You can't let life come to you because if you let life come to you Then you're gonna be living inside of a matrix and a system which is designed not for you to live your best life It's designed for you to comply How do you think men can build more confidence in like deciding their life instead of just letting be decided for that? Yeah, so they have to take absolute responsibility, which is the first thing the second thing they have to get competence and competence It's gonna allow you to have confidence. You're not gonna be good at shit. You're bad at shit You have to be good at things. You're only gonna be confident things if you're good at things I know what I'm good at and what I'm bad at So you have to go out there and take risks you have to make mistakes and you have to risk it all and and once Again, this comes down to competition. I think competition is such an important thing in the masculine world I grew up in the chess world, but I went fighting world was all extremely competitive. It's competition driven You can't make excuses if I sit here and say I lost a fight cool You lost a fight, but I lost a fight but my gloves when they were wrapped up my gloves My hand was hurting and then excuses like you have to understand that excuses don't matter Nobody cares life's binary winners or losers and you just have to take absolute responsibility for people are so caught up when things happen This is why this happened to me because of this because my childhood cuz my past trauma cuz my life whatever But people are so not taught to like look inwards and go towards those things Well, I think I think victim playing victim is a it's an easy way out. Yeah, it's it's a lazy This is an easy way out It's a good excuse and it also makes you feel better about yourself me and my brother have another thing We do we do this all the time if either of us are ever complaining about anything We say we have this we shut each other up and saying what do you want therapy? If you don't want therapy what you're talking the main reason people complain about things is to get a dopamine rush, right? I'm unhappy but if I sit there and I complain about it and you give me a little bit sympathy I feel better dopamine That's why they're complaining for dopamine if someone comes to me and complains about something It's the best thing I can do for them because I'm a philanthropic nice man. I'm mr. Nice. It's time to get fucked I don't care shut up But a lot of this comes down to your social circle because there's a whole bunch of guys out there whose friends accept excuses If your friends will allow you to make excuses, you're gonna make excuses if you're a family and let you make excuses You're gonna make excuses. You're gonna complain and feel better You gotta be around killers who don't accept that shit if I have a good me and my let's say me and three friends There's four of us and we all decide to do 10 ,000 push -ups a day and all of us do them except one There's no words inside the human language There's no sentence He could possibly construct my how compenduous or concise or how intelligent the man is that will allow us to forgive him failing Don't accept excuses.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"of people" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Well, I posed the question to my tech subscribers over at The Universe. I got hundreds of responses that fall into basically, I'll talk about it in my after show at a Grand Old Pod, but it basically breaks down to, I feel what I felt beforehand, but I'm angry at the Democrats. Selina, I gotta get your reaction to former President Obama's condescending and cynical attack on Tim Scott and Nikki Haley. I just think it's disgusting. What do you think? I agree. That was so unnecessary. It doesn't help the Democrats' causes, period. It doesn't help his legacy at all. It was incredibly, not only just condescending, but also insulting, but also just completely tone deaf. It's as though I can be the only, he's basically saying only Democrats of color can be legitimate standard bearers in politics, not Republicans. They're illegitimate in either being a Republican and or being able to talk about race. To me, you talk about the entire American story. It began with a fatal flaw that had to be corrected. It cost 600 ,000 lives to correct it. It took the suffering of reconstruction for 100 years on top of 300 years of slavery, but we are an equal opportunity society and Tim Scott and Nikki Haley talk about that. And I believe Selina, a vast majority of Americans believe that and they're tired of the race card. They are, people are so tired of the race card. And you know, all of this started when Barack Obama became president. And I remember being so stunned by it because I thought, Jesus, we got it right. Why are we doing this? And he didn't stop it. And I thought, you know, and the thing that really bothered me a lot was a lot of people being called racist to voted Trump when they had voted for Obama twice. Exactly, it is. He stepped on a rake, the former president Obama did. And Tim Scott's response yesterday on Fox News Sunday with Perfect Pitch Perfect. I hope he joins me this week. Nikki Haley is joining me this week for sure. Vivek saw me tomorrow. But it's always great to begin the week with our friend Selina Zita, Road Warrior Extraordinaire. Thank you, Selina. Go nowhere, America..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"of people" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Now, Senator, you have won twice in deeply contested Wisconsin, battleground Wisconsin. It really ground zero for elections in 2024 and beyond. Why do you win and other Republicans haven't won statewide? Well, first of all, I'd say in 2022, I advocated for the vaccine -injured. I didn't toe the line. I put pressure on federal health agencies and on a bipartisan basis. An awful lot of people appreciated that. My approach to the abortion issue, I think, is pretty consistent with what conservatives have been saying for 50 years, is let the people decide. So I didn't want nine Supreme Court justices. I didn't want 535 members of Congress, or even 132 members of Wisconsin legislative. Beside that, I proposed a one -time, single -issue referendum to decide the profound moral issue, the question, at what point does society have the responsibility to protect life? Now, what's interesting about that, it kind of inoculated me against the lies of the left, but the media never talked about it because they realized it's a very reasonable approach and really how this profound moral issue ought to be solved is let we the people decide. And you can design the referendum question. I've got literally 10 choices to answer that question. A conception, one month, two months, all the way to nine months, which I think is the extreme position. It would say an unborn child has no rights. I don't think that's where the American public is. So I want we the people to decide that, and I think that was probably viewed more reasonably by Wisconsinites than other positions. Well, it is very reasonable. Winston Churchill used to say over and over again, borrowing from his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, trust the people, trust the people, trust the people. And that is the best response. Senator Johnson, always good to talk to you, thank you. How many debates do you want to have, Senator? How many times do you think the Republicans ought to get together on the stage? It doesn't, who knows? We'll see what happens. The more the merrier, in my view. I want more of the merrier. Senator Johnson, thank you, always good to talk to you. Don't go anywhere, Merrick. I'll be right back on The Hugh Hewitt Show. ["The New York Times"] Welcome back, Merrick, on this Juneteenth Monday. Time for the Yinzer Report from Selina Zita, who's actually in West Virginia. Good morning, Selina, how are ya? Good morning, sunshine, how are you? Great, I wanna cover three things with you. Former President Trump, former President Obama, and future President Josh Shapiro, in reverse order. I joke a little bit when I say future President Josh Shapiro, but I think he's the most talented Democrat in the United States, and the governor of Pennsylvania has pledged, as you wrote in your column, to get the I -95 open again in three weeks. Do I remember that right from your column? Two weeks, two weeks, yep. What, has he got a rabbit in his hat as well? So what they did was, is they, there's this certain kind of rock that's mostly made out of recycled glass, and it's kind of spongy, but it can be used, the way that it works is it doesn't sink down when you layer it, and so they're putting that down road where the collapsed, and then that will fill in while they build the two new ramps to I -95. So my question is, can he pull this up? Because, you know, Republicans rebuild bridges. Tim Pawlenty in Minnesota, and Pete Wilson in California, and Ron DeSantis in Florida. You think he's gonna pull this up for two weeks? Two weeks? Yeah, I actually think he's going to pull this off. And, you know, as you and I have talked about, and I think you've been on your show in years past, Shapiro is very non -ideological when it comes to governing, right? You look at all the rest of the Democrats currently, and there is some sort of politics that goes into everything that they do when they're trying to accomplish something. And Shapiro's very no -nonsense. Yeah, watch the Zito -Hewitt coalition here. We are not Democrats, but we know talent when we see it. All right, former President Trump, 55 % of Americans believe that the indictment was political. My, my, my, that is a, it's getting worse every day. People have come to the conclusion this was terrible interference with the election. What do you hear and think, Selina? So there's a nuance here that I think is really important because I don't know that anybody knows what's going to happen next in terms of support for presidents. I, in interviewing people, whether they did or did not support Trump, the bulk of them, the most of them that I run into and I interview, this is anecdotal, but I think this is important, they also believe this is political. However, that doesn't mean they'll vote for him in a primary or in a general election. It doesn't mean they won't. It's just, there's two different things going on. You can believe that this has been hoped political and this is terrible for the country and also either being able to move on if you're a Republican or still not vote for him if you are a dedicated Democrat..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"of people" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"You wanna take a swing at this and tell us about Otis McDonald along the way? Because it takes him six brushes with criminality before he even thinks about buying a handgun. Yeah, so Otis McDonald moves to Chicago for a better life, right? And he's a veteran, he goes into the military, he comes out of the military on the GI Bill, he uses the money to go to school and work at the same time so he can give his kids an easier life than he himself had. And Otis gets married, has kids, they move to Morgan Park in the South Side of Chicago, what once was a wonderful community, hopefully still is a wonderful community, but as the crime problem grows in Chicago, the crime goes out into Morgan Park, drug dealers, everything, violence, and people start breaking into his home. First, he puts up bars, you've recounted six times, he puts up bars to try and stop them. He then puts in an alarm system to try and stop them. He joins community groups to try and stop them. He leads community groups to try and stop them. And the book recounts everything, including his brushes with gangs, and then what happens when his neighbor luckily calls the police when someone is under a car in his garage, hiding under a car, had broken in and was coming into the house. And he finally says enough is enough, the police aren't gonna get there soon enough. And he thought very highly of the police, but they just weren't gonna make it there quick enough. If someone was inside his house, he was adamant that he was gonna protect his wife and kids. All of his kids, by the way, became successful in their own right. He needed a handgun. He needed a gun by his bed in case someone broke in because by the time the police got there, it would be too late. Okay, interrupt me for a second, Judge. One of the elegant parts of the People's Justice is that you recount each of his incidents with lawbreakers and you discuss how neighborhood kids would break into his house. And I think it's important to realize that the choice to buy a handgun here is predicated only on a half dozen brushes that might've cost he or his family their lives. So he is a reluctant gun purchaser, but Chicago doesn't care what your record is. Go ahead, Judge. Yeah, and what happens next is he's denied the right to possess a gun. Here's a veteran who knew how to use guns. He hunted some in his free time. And not that he had a lot, but when he did. And yet Chicago wouldn't let him have it. So he wanted to challenge the gun laws of Chicago, yet Heller hadn't been announced. And I won't go through that, but the book recounts the interesting story of how he got teamed up with Alan Gura and how he had to wait. And he wasn't happy waiting. And he has this nephew who's a lawyer who really does a great job counseling Otis and teaching him be patient. And you know what Otis does? He reads all the decisions. He goes through and reads all these decisions and he learns about the privileges or immunities clause. And what he learns is - 15 minutes after Heller has decided they file. I love that, I didn't know that. 15 minutes after it comes down, they file McDonald. Go ahead, tell them about this nightmare of law. Well, Otis wasn't gonna be patient, Hugh. Otis was ready for it to be filed and wanted it to be filed, but the privileges or immunities clause and the book recounts it and I don't wanna give away too much, but it recounts the crook shank and the slaughterhouse, all that went on. And I think the reader, I wanna save this nugget, Hugh, so people go out and get the people's justice and read it because I think it will educate and hopefully, yeah, and I think people will really enjoy the read, but how the privilege or immunities clause was put in the 14th amendment to protect blacks..
Ubuntu Podcast
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"Part of the late night Linux family if you enjoy the show please consider supporting us and the rest of the late night Linux team using the PayPal or Patreon links at .sh linuxmatters support for five dollars a month on patreon you can enjoy an ad free feed of our show or for ten dollars get access to all the late night Linux shows ad free you can get in touch with us via email show at linuxmatters .sh or chat with other listeners in our telegram group all the details are at linuxmatters .sh contact I've automated a load of repetitive tasks on my desktop using the stream deck this is the stream deck they said together it is such a close name collision it drives me mad it infuriated me at the time because I was like how could valve do this right the stream deck is a well -known thing and now these days I've got stream decks but I type it and say it wrong all the time and I'm sure I'm going to trip over myself whilst we discuss this so if I say that's not what I think maybe you should say stream deck a few times in lots of different cadences and then joke and like slot it in at the points where you say it wrong so if you hear marty go stream deck like part way through you know he's done it wrong anyway what's it what have you done well I originally got the stream deck for streaming obviously so I live on twitch and places and it's a very useful tool for just being able to switch scenes and transitions whilst you're streaming
Ubuntu Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Ubuntu Podcast
"Whether they actually it's not the most I thought it was, but it's, it's got 982 posts as I last checked. But the Ask Ubuntu bot has over 2000 posts. So there are actually more people asking questions than there are people reporting bugs. That says a lot. I think we've just identified why your Mastodon server is running at an average of 500 kilobits a second. Well, these are pieces of text. There's not a lot to it. The interesting thing about this script, this RSS to Masto that Leon made, it keeps a little SQL lite database where it's running of posts that it's already sent to the Mastodon server because you don't want it to repost stuff every time it runs. So it keeps a little database. And the database is made up of a hash of some of the parts of what it posts. So I think the URL is in there and some text and stuff is in there. So it doesn't post duplicates. And I had a bit of fun when I was setting up because when I first set it up and I got it working, hooray, it posted 20 posts to Mastodon. Brilliant. But then I wanted to tweak the output. And the problem is I run it again and it's cached and so it knows not to post those 20 again. And so I have to wait for something to happen. So I ended up doing a bit of debugging and I had to go and find a script to delete all the posts from that Mastodon account because actually it's quite hard to manually delete every post. You can go through each one and go delete, delete, delete, delete, delete. And then the Mastodon rate limiter kicks in and it stops you being able to delete any more posts. So I hit that. So I found a script that does it in the background. And then I tweaked his script so that it would write to the database but not post to Mastodon. So I would make it exit before it actually posted to Mastodon. It would return OK and say, yeah, I've done it so that I could see the output on the command line.
Ubuntu Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Ubuntu Podcast
"I am happy to report RSS is alive and well and powering my bots. Your bots. My bots. I've been creating bots and I've made a few of them and these bots are powered by RSS. So back at the start of February, I was quite alone and lonely on the little Mastodon server that I set up, Ubuntu .social, there weren't many people there. And the home timeline was a bit sad because it was mostly just me. So to keep me company, I thought I'd create some bots to generate some traffic. And I had some ideas of what I wanted. Because it's an Ubuntu -adjunct Mastodon server, I thought I could have some Ubuntu -related content. Where would I get that content from? So I could get it from RSS feeds because I know there are various places that publish Ubuntu -related stuff via RSS and I thought I could turn that RSS into posts. That would also drive traffic towards those things and raise awareness of those things. But it would also mean the home timeline on that Mastodon server wouldn't just be me posting pictures of cats and food and stuff. So I started by writing my own scraper thing as a shell script, of course, that goes off and visits these RSS feeds. And then I realized this is a stupid idea because somebody else must have done this already. Turns out not many people had done this already. But someone has. A guy called Leon Cowell has created a thing in Python called RSS and then the number two, Mastodon. And it's on GitHub. It's open source and the goal of this thing is to take posts that are available via RSS and then use the Mastodon API to post those as individual toots or whatever you want to call them on a Mastodon account. And so I grabbed this code and created a Mastodon account and put a URL in the script and ran it and it sure enough it posted 20 or so entries onto that Mastodon account. It just immediately worked.
Ubuntu Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Ubuntu Podcast
"I am happy to report RSS is alive and well and powering my bots. Your bots. My bots. I've been creating bots and I've made a few of them and these bots are powered by RSS. So back at the start of February, I was quite alone and lonely on the little Mastodon server that I set up, Ubuntu .social, there weren't many people there. And the home timeline was a bit sad because it was mostly just me. So to keep me company, I thought I'd create some bots to generate some traffic. And I had some ideas of what I wanted. Because it's an Ubuntu -adjunct Mastodon server, I thought I could have some Ubuntu -related content. Where would I get that content from? So I could get it from RSS feeds because I know there are various places that publish Ubuntu -related stuff via RSS and I thought I could turn that RSS into posts. That would also drive traffic towards those things and raise awareness of those things. But it would also mean the home timeline on that Mastodon server wouldn't just be me posting pictures of cats and food and stuff. So I started by writing my own scraper thing as a shell script, of course, that goes off and visits these RSS feeds. And then I realized this is a stupid idea because somebody else must have done this already. Turns out not many people had done this already. But someone has. A guy called Leon Cowell has created a thing in Python called RSS and then the number two, Mastodon. And it's on GitHub. It's open source and the goal of this thing is to take posts that are available via RSS and then use the Mastodon API to post those as individual toots or whatever you want to call them on a Mastodon account. And so I grabbed this code and created a Mastodon account and put a URL in the script and ran it and it sure enough it posted 20 or so entries onto that Mastodon account. It just immediately worked.
Made For This with Jennie Allen
"of people" Discussed on Made For This with Jennie Allen
"One of those people that talks to my mom. Nearly every day, we've logged a lot of hours on the phone, but I feel like I'm constantly learning new things about my mom. It always surprises me because my mom grew up on a dairy farm and I really small town of like 14 people in Missouri and so she is constantly telling me stories about what it was like growing up on a farm and basically just running around free range all over this dairy farm growing up. And that got me wondering how many other stories are there that I don't even know. And that's why I got story worth. Story worth is offering $10 off your first purchase at story worth dot com slash made for this. So every week story worth emails, your mom, or the mother figure in your life, a thought provoking question that you get to choose, so it's like what matters most to you in life, or who are your favorite artists, musicians, museums, songs, and it's really cool because you get to read your mom's answers to these questions, learn about stories and memories that maybe you've never heard of before. After one year, story worth compiles all of those questions and stories, including photos into this beautiful keepsake book that your whole family can share for generations. Man, I wish I had had story worth a book about all of my grandmothers memories and stories, for example, because what a treasure for my kids in years from now or my kids kids to read about my mom's life and the legacy that she built in us from an early age. Give all the moms in your life a meaningful gift you'll both cherish for years, story worth. Right now for a limited time you'll save $10 on your first purchase when you go to story worth dot com slash made for this. That's STO RY, W, O RTH dot com slash made for this to save $10 on your first purchase. Story worth dot com slash made for this. As we build this out, I know you're looking for some special thing that you're good at. But at the end of the day, we're set and temporary places to do eternal things. And what you're good at is supposed to just give you a path to share God with different people than me. What you specialize in as a major, or what your job is or where you live, all of those things are just meant to be places where we can love people to God. Our friendships are neighbors are clerks at the grocery store. Those are all just people gods put in our path so that perhaps they may feel their way to him and you are who he chose. The rocks could cry out, the donkeys could speak scripture says, but we are the ones that are the ambassadors of Christ, taking the love of Christ, what we saw him do on earth and doing it in the lives of people around us. I just think we overcomplicate our lives so much. We try to find our exact career and we try to find our exact spouse and our exact right life and we work so hard to build it when the reality is we're missing all along the way that every place of waiting, every place of unknowns, every time we end up in a doctor's office or perhaps receiving chemo that those are places that God's allowed us to be so that perhaps people may feel their way to him. People are it. And it grieves me a little because find your people just came out almost a year ago and I've just heard from so many of you how hard people are for you. Just how hard it is to love people. How hard it is to continue to get hurt by people. So just especially aware of how Tinder this is and how much rejection, many of you feel and have faced, and bigger than having a community group that you love or dinner club or some friends in college. This is about eternal glory about people that are immortal that will go on forever. This is about heaven and hell this is about taking our short lives and helping them count for eternity. That's the weight of glory that C. S. Lewis was talking about and when I feel it for the people around me, it just changes what I need from them. It changes what they need to be for me. It helps me love them when they can't love me back. It helps me love them in the midst of their sin and their struggle and decisions that I wouldn't make. It helps me love them as they try to love other people that might be clumsy and might take away time that I could spend with them. It changes the way you view friendship. It changes the way you view the people in your life. And so it matters. I know this is a heavy one y'all, 'cause I know so many of you are praying for your parent Salvation, you're praying for your children's Salvation, you're praying for somebody that you love that yet has not trusted Christ. And I just want to say, I am praying with you today. I feel it with you today. And I have those people too that have popped in my mind the whole time I'm talking. I don't have an easy answer for that. Except to know that God saves. That he is mighty to save, to not stop praying. To not stop sharing about your life and your faith with them. And I think this is just to lift up even a little higher kind of crazy to do are hard to do. Higher than this. But I think this is why I care so much about y'all being free because freedom is contagious and if you're out there and God is working in your life and you're experiencing freedom in your emotional life and your relational life and your spiritual life, then you're going to talk about that, you're going to share. You will naturally become a great evangelist because you have a compelling life. I mean, I've watched this happen in college where Greta came up to me and was like, why are you so joyful? Why are you so free? On the stairwell of our sorority house, she just stopped me and asked me that. And I think joy and freedom and hope are so foreign these days, hard work, integrity, humility. These are things that when you see it, it's just so different and God has the power to change our lives and to make its joyful and full of self control and all the things that stand out in this culture. So that is my prayers that first that you would be full and free and that hopefully as we've walked together over the last few years, you feel more discipled. You feel more free, but ultimately that freedom too would be so contagious that other people want it. Other people want to know about your God. They want to hear about your story. Why are you so different? But even if they don't ask, because a lot won't. We tell them. We tell them what's really going on in our lives. The marriage stuff that is hard, and we then say, hey, we have hope because we have God. And people are like, what? God, how's God helping your marriage? And all of a sudden, you get to tell them. That's what we do. We show the hard, we show the bad,
600 WREC
"of people" Discussed on 600 WREC
"And ofttimes door to door, literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus. Look Equity equality. It remains at the heart of our responsibility of ensuring the communities that are the hardest hit by the virus have the information And the access to get vaccinated. So As we shift from the centralized math mass vaccination sites were doing thousands of people a day. We're gonna put even more emphasis on getting vaccinated in your community close to home. Conveniently and location You're already familiar with. That man doesn't know where he is. He's not the one that scares me. The fact that they realized they can use federal funds to send out troops to organize register voters and win elections that scares me. I mean, Can you imagine what that's going to look like? When the feds send people door to door to do this. Hi. Can I help you? Hello? I'm from the county. Um, the county. What county this county. I work for the health Department. You do? Okay. What do you want? We are testing for the confident about this. And I have come to take a sample of your blood. No dumps. I'm sorry. You want my blood? How do I know I can trust you? Of course you can trust me. I work for the government. We are.
Of Consuming Interest
"of people" Discussed on Of Consuming Interest
"About that. We're gonna talk about some of the special hardship programs that are available summer expiring but what other help is there for consumers. Were also going to talk about scams and what you're going to see some targeting the most vulnerable in our population and then there's a big subject of renters if you're facing eviction and don't know where to turn we're going to have some advice for you on that my guest today is bruce mccleary. He's the senior vice president Communications at the national foundation for credit. Counseling bruce welcome to consuming interest. Thanks for having me on the program. Shirley it's great to be here with you again. You always give good information for our our listeners. I'm eager to get into this. Because i know we hear it call for action from so many people who are having so many issues and as i indicated in the intro there are special hardship programs for people who are in need. And would you like to give us an overview of that and then. Maybe we'll get into some specifics. Sure i'd be happy to and just to turn back the clock a little bit and talk about what's happened. Since march and april we. We experienced that initial financial shock as a nation when we had to go into shutdown during the month of april that extended into may And started started ending easing up in in june during that period of time so many people were out of work or underemployed were struggling to make ends meet and so there was this mass Call to action from the From the creditor Sector the lenders the credit card companies the mortgage issuers for student loan issuers and. They all came together in provided a wide range of programs temporary hardship programs for people who were struggling at that time and it was an overwhelming response from the credit and lending industry and it was It was very helpful. And a lot of people plugged into those Those programs and millions of of of people continue to take advantage of programs that are available from the credit card.
Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Slick Talk: The Hospitality Podcast
"So we will list it. We will not have photos but we will listed on the ot as we will let our direct b. two b. clients not we their property for their employees And we will presell that space before we even have photos and so what will simply do is what with a coming soon photo. That has a bold and white says coming soon but in the background you can see a faded kind of image of the living room with furniture in it. But you can't make it out enough that it's not that it's going to match the listing later right. And that's the only photo will use lose that when we may do a couple of photos of the the the location of around the property. You know some some attractions or things like that and You will be surprised we got. We presold more nights houston. Nash strategy Then i can remember. Well so yeah. This is that we do that. That's school so you're basically putting this into your property management software and allowing it to be ready to book at a certain date like you're going live but then you're setting you're blocking up until let's say you know may i whatever so. Let's actually yup okay using that using that algorithm. I liked that. I liked that using the algorithm time. I like that. It's really nice. Okay sweet and you've mentioned so you said students earlier on the podcast now kind of curious so you guys are teaching this to other operators newcomers in the industry that type of style as correct so. I'm currently doing one on one mentoring which i'll be honest where me the hell out. So we're getting ready to launch group. Coaching that's coming up. I'm i'm super excited about it for all the obvious reasons. Yeah but yes so we we do. Have those available to students. Okay really interesting. How'd you get started in. That was just seeing that your guy's model worked and then realizing that there's a lot of people that the same questions i'm asking you on the podcast and you're like sort of repeating myself twenty thousand times. I'm going to go ahead and just do this To be honest clubhouse man. Wow i had no intention of teaching this stuff to anyone like. We've helped a ton of people but we just we never charge for it. We like i can't even count. How many people we've helped get launch And we just never never envisioned myself being on the education side of this business. But when i'm not in the clubhouse on started talking in different rooms and things. I was surprised at the number of people. Were deeming me..
Growth Mode
"of people" Discussed on Growth Mode
"Hey what's up champions and welcome to growth mode. I'm your host donny. Bovine on the ceo and founder of success champions. I've been in the sales game for over twenty years and for the past three and a half going on four years. I've run my own company. And i spent most of that journey trying to figure out how to get better sales and how to scale business hanging out with me as always is my buddy. Kevin snow a sales automation tactician and bad ass. This dude can make the back in your company. Sales process work like nobody else in the world. He's just fucking rat at it and the show. We talk about all things sales automation business development. I make fun of kevin regularly and we debate all things from the viewpoint of an extrovert and an introvert. So kevin on this episode. What the heck are we talking about. Hey donny hi everyone. So today. I wanna talk about. Why how some people who are just complete geniuses at certain things are actually scaring people away because they're geniuses at those. This is going to be a fun episode. Have you ever been on a sales call in. Kevin has because he's seen me do this because but everyone sales call with the salesperson who just won't shut the fuck up they just want to ramble on and go on and on and traditionally find these with two types of people. If you're familiar with disc find this with high seas and i find it with high is are the two worst at at doing this. The people that are just flat out like the proven house fucking smart they are or just like the sound of their own voice..
The Indigo Podcast
"of people" Discussed on The Indigo Podcast
"Maybe you're one of the first. Outsiders maybe get hired in as as that. Vp or that director. Or maybe people just maybe heard something about you. That could be true or untrue. So you're going to have to overcome that these are all very challenging situations Another time in which it can be very tricky to lead is when there's a lot of change and uncertainty so if you're tasked with moving and organization into a different product maybe exploring new industry. You know those kinds of things. That's really worrisome. Especially for people that have settled into their job. You know. so if they're like oh man i just you know. I have three kids an infant for four. I don't need all this stress of change at right now. I i actually took this role so i could phone it in for lease until i'm getting sleep right so and here comes new leader and maybe and you'll hear this bigger organizations especially like the military. Everybody will text everybody. How was that captain at your unit. Because it's everybody kind of knows everybody so when mattis had a reputation those kinds of people like everybody has tons of people had worked with tons of people. So you know if you've got to come and lead change like oh my gosh. This guy's a real axe grinder. You know so. I tip and we'll do lots of tips later on is be careful how you win and how you lead it every step of your management career. Because it's going to follow you and if you do it the right way. It's gonna make future assignments less. We're not going to say easy. But less challenging they would be. If you're just a scorched earth drive results kind of person right because if you come into that environment even if it's toxic if there if all the information about you that people are trying to glean from various sources is positive and they think wow. This person actually has high integrity high competence. Good communication skills really gets it all. That kind of information can be very helpful for you. So i i like your point there. You're building your reputation at every point in your career so make it a good one. You know another time in which it can be very challenging to lead other. People is when you have to make changes that no one will like this happens. Sometimes maybe it's just something for the good of the organization you have to make unpopular decisions and you know that's sometimes is your job as a former leader of an organization or of a group. Yeah so you know. If you're at everything was cruising you guys were printing cash and now you've got new competitors in your industry and you've got to tighten up discipline the keurigs scott go and the folger's has got to come in as a cost cutting measure. You know those kinds of things at people are going to hate it because there's like you know. They only worked for hours at any given day and especially at the large words. I can't tell you how many people like. Oh yeah so. I probably just blow off two hours of everyday just baloney by the water cooler walks around the building and maybe might lunches an hour and twenty minutes. You know so you all the and now discipline has to come in and you have to drive real productivity and value. People aren't going to like it when you gotta make those kinds of changes. Even when they're for the good of the organization another common one i see is an production factory environments where they just they would run overtime well. We don't want to hire bunch of people. We're not sure if this business is going to be here to stay well enough. Time goes by on overtime. Where everybody's relying on that over time. Now they'll they'll wind.
Mom And ... Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Mom And ... Podcast
"It's considered a rare disease. You wouldn't assume that's the whole reason why people were. Eds are called zebras. Because when you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras and everyone things forces and like weirs zebras. Though that's that's a good way of thinking of it in an unfortunate way of having to think about it because it means that there's a lot of people that i'm sure in the same boat as you are where it's undiagnosed and even you know because this may be a rare condition. But the whole point of your book chronic Chronic pain for chronic profit. It doesn't have to be this particular medical condition people's from migraines or any type of ongoing persistent issue. I really i mean it doesn't even necessarily have to be a pain. It could be like a chronic illness that you know is otherwise distracting from your ability to build a business or really any life circumstance that occupy so much of your mental state or so much of your energy so much of your attention that you have trouble keeping all the balls. They're absolutely well. And i love the i mean when i think of the word hustle like ooh how you doing the hustle to get your job done or getting work done when i think of hustle. I think of you as far as talking about having balls in the area but just owning your talents and owning your leadership and moving forward and creating a business for yourself and just making it happen you know not waiting for someone to come and knock on your door but going to knock on all the doors so what. What do you think it is about you if you always been like that or i know being a single mom. You don't have any other choice. You gotta you gotta happen. It's not optional. I didn't settle on a refrigerator box. I thought they'd becoming success. What would i do as a good alternative but the reality is that you know i did. I graduated two years early from high school..
Vamily Show
"of people" Discussed on Vamily Show
"Go. Am i happy. This makes me and when we're naked in for like as we're born we're just there and if you can say yeah i'm happy. I know plenty of people that are overweight and totally happy. There's a there's a line between overweight and obese and it affecting your health health inventing your home. I know plenty of people that have had some baggage. But they're happy they go. You know what. I'm i'm a little bit. I'm a little bit Impulsive or my really like to travel and they're happy right whatever whatever you are the essence of you figure your figure happiness out. I and i call it. I'm sure the video that you're talking about is framing right. When i taught when i talk about framing guys guys framing themselves properly right so if you picture a frame you gotta put the picture inside of the frame right. And then they put the wood and then they put the tax behind it and tighten it and all of that and so you have to frame yourself properly in know who you are and be okay with whatever whatever you come up with like whoever you are right. There's no right wrong or indifferent answer it just is and it but the be happy and truly happy not not not lying to yourself. Happy because a lot of us do that like men this is. I've worked on myself. I've done this. I've done that in. And i'm pretty happy here. And then you start attracting people right the women or the men into your life that operate at the same frequency as yourself that that are on the same page is you right. Could you imagine a you know a lot of people in even myself been in relationships. Where you're you're you're struggling to do basic stuff with around your significant other. You should never be in a relationship where you're struggling to. Just be you around the person you spend the most time with..
Jay Anxious Podcast
"of people" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"That i would tell us tell people to do is especially in. This era is focused on online relationships. More than you ever thought you should. used to think. There's no reason to really build all nine relationships. I'd rather have in person. They're more real. They're more fun they're more able and those are true extent but it doesn't diminish the value of meeting people online and the reason is a people in line can help your business. I've met a ton of people on twitter and those people have exponentially grown my following customer grown Follower customer count. Because they've helped re tweet me. They've promoted me. They've talked me up. And it's all because i built relationships with these people So i can help your business be like with the leak connectors i met jeff online and now we're business partners so you can meet people that you want to build things with in do meaningful work with i mean that's there's not much of a stronger bond. You can get with someone the building something important together with them and you can also just make friends. I have calls in and talk to people. Line just for fun because i connect with them more than i connect with a lot of people in real life. So it's not to say that people muli farnum But you can get a ton of value of connecting with people online in. That's another thing that elite connectors teaches people as that yet. You're learning in person skills by having the zoom calls or teaching you how to reach out to people and build these connections These connections to and so even though inside the group. Yeah you both have a common goal of practicing your social skills. Whatever were also teaching you how to. Dm people reach out and start conversations. Even if they're not in the group so you can take that skill over to twitter in help build those online relationships and then turn them into more real friendships. Absolutely absolutely. Because that's i know that sounds like i mean it. Sounds like a great idea and to be honest with you i. That's where we are going..
Trapping Today
"of people" Discussed on Trapping Today
"You probably live in a rural area most trappers and so there's plenty of places in open space and and maybe you got a farm or friend who has a farm has a dump pile or something so so. That's not an issue but it is a good question. Some people may have some some potential issues so I don. I don't know i thought i just kinda rattle that around my thoughts about that on disposing carcass number one. Obviously if you're if you're trapping beaver muskrat they make really good bait and so you a lot of the carcass. You can just use for bait. So so that's That's not a problem If you are trapping in an area in the deep woods and there's not a lot of people around and you can just toss carcass in the woods. That's that's kind of what happens. What goes on a lot here. You go off on the end of a road. That's not very well traveled. And you toss the woods and and maybe scatter a few carcasses out evenly different places so they don't make a big stink an area that that people are going to be traveling much. I mean moose and deer get hit on the road all the time and and they're just dragged off to the side of the road and they break. Nature has a incredible way of breaking things down quickly so you throw your carcasses out in the woods and you could feed the birds and and all that if you get into where you have massive massive number of carcasses it's gonna be an issue we actually have areas like there's a designated site in my town. That is a kind of a carcass disposal site that has the landowner's permission to dispose carcasses on and it's usually used for meat processors Lot of times they'll be like Oh in years past during say moose hunting season..