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WTOP
"one group" Discussed on WTOP
"Israelis are waiting for the first group of hostages to be freed. Israeli officials warn they may face health complications and say they will be brought to medical facilities where they will be reunited with their families. Israel has said it will release 150 Palestinian prisoners and the deal of hostages could be extended. But in Gaza which has been battered from the sky by Israel since the Hamas terrorist attack into Israel a month and a half ago. They marched through the streets of Ramallah shouting the deal between Israel and Hamas isn't enough. They want to see an end to the war on Gaza completely and the release of all Palestinian prisoners. CBS News correspondent MTS Tayyab with the show. Watch for the episode when it Fleers. Watch what happens. It's becoming one in some countries that don't even celebrate Thanksgiving. Heinz offer tales from Germany. Similar thing. They are just starting to have a similar day on the same day. everybody But not knows what Black Friday is, so it's different and similar at the same time. New York Mayor City Eric Adams says he does not know the woman who's filed a legal document accusing him of sexual assault some years ago. The accusation actually did not happen. I don't even recall who this person is. I've never recalled even meeting them. Adams was in the NYPD at the time. As funeral and memorial plans finalized were for former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, details of her final moments are coming into focus. CBS's Linda Kenyon tells us about them. Chip Carter the son of Rosalynn and former President Jimmy Carter describes how his parents held hands the night before Rosalynn died. Then aides helped Jimmy into his hospital bed placed feet to feet with Rosalynn's so the two could sit propped up facing each other to talk. Chip says by Sunday with Rosalynn no longer able to speak and with Jimmy gazing at her she died. There are tight elections and then there is this. A candidate for parish sheriff in northwest Louisiana is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43 ,000 ballots were cast. Correspondent Jim Krasula. In Ireland there have been violent clashes in downtown Dublin after a five -year -old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack that also left a woman and two other young children hospitalized. AAA's national average for a gallon of regular gasoline $3 .27. This is CBS News. You don't need a job platform, you need a hiring partner. Indeed lets you schedule and conduct virtual interviews all from one place. Start at indeed .com slash credit. It's 103 on Friday morning November the 24th many are cleaning up after a great Thanksgiving. 41 degrees. Rouge. Good morning, I'm Dan Rohnen. Welcome into the overnight shift
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "one group" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Watching. Mm News Radio 1000 FM 977, your information station. You're listening to Northwest News Radio. Here's I'm Jeff Kim Kojla. Shepherd. Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease fire for two more days as the exchange of continues. prisoners ABC's Jordana Miller is joining us on the Northwest News line from Jerusalem. And so far, it sounds like these swaps have been happening as planned. A fourth exchange happening today. What do you know about this release? Well, it happened each night. Tonight actually was a little bit of a nail biter because there were a lot of problems initially with the list of hostages that Hamas said they were going to release. Apparently, it split up children and mothers and Israel. It's been one of their key demands that if children get out, they're released with a mother and that mothers won't be released without children. But in the end, Qatar was able to mediate a resolution to that. And we saw just a short while ago, it's been a dramatic night. We saw 11 more Israeli hostages come out. includes It a mother with her three year old twins, another set of boys that were in captivity with their father, their father still in captivity, and then another mother a mother and her three children, a teenager and two younger kids, in all nine with nine children and two mothers. And this now completes the required number of hostages that Hamas said they would release in those first four days, reaching the number 50. Now Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend this ceasefire for two more days. So Israel is expecting at least another 20 hostages, women and children to be released. In exchange, Israel will continue to release at a three to one ratio, Palestinian women and minors that have been convicted of crimes and a huge boost in aid will continue to enter the Gaza Strip. And what are we hearing from the prisoners about where they were held and how they were treated over the last six weeks or so? That's a great We're question. only now beginning to hear just some details. For example, one group of hostages has said they were only fed once a day a piece of pita, which is the round traditional kind of Middle Eastern bread or sometimes a little bit of rice. They didn't shower at all in the 50 days that they were held. They either had to sleep on the floor or on plastic chairs. They were kept in tunnels deep underground. They described going down four levels to some of the areas where they were held. And what about those prisoners who are still being held? Have the international mediators had to a chance check on their wellbeing yet? Nobody has visited. Now there's about 160 left in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have called on the Red Cross and they did it again tonight to go and visit those hostages. Hamas has prevented that so we don't know how many of the others are alive. Obviously those who've out come now are going to give very valuable intelligence to the Israelis about who and if and where. It's a bittersweet moment for the country and I have to say the families who've had their loved ones released. There's an incredible level of sensitivity. Their remarks are always about how grateful they are but also that they will continue to fight for the other families whose loved ones are not out yet. And it's not just in word. We saw some of these hostages even in a senior citizen who was released yesterday. She showed up at a rally, a solidarity rally in Tel Aviv for the other families because it is now really a national cause to get whoever is alive out now especially since Israel will continue this war and it will be much more difficult this. after ABC's Jordana Miller on the Northwest News line from Jerusalem. That's Northwest News Radio's Kim Shepard. For what it's worth, I'm Derek Dennis, a three -year cruise suddenly canceled passenger Meredith Shea not happy. Devastated, disappointed, sad. The retired flight attendant paying $35 ,000 a month for one of the biggest cabins. The life at Sea Cruise was to embark from Istanbul this month, stopping in 135 countries. Prices starting at $87 ,000 a year. Carrie Whitman on board for it. I owned a house. I had needed knee surgery so I expedited all of those things. I sold my house, got rid of most of my things. ABC News obtaining messages the parent company sent passengers citing unrest in the Middle East as one of the reasons it couldn't buy a boat, confirming the cruise was canceled. The cruise owner now saying the trip has been postponed till spring and telling ABC News it will reimburse passengers. Cruise writer Ashley Kaushalek says there's a lesson here. Anytime somebody tells you have fully to commit sight unseen it should give you pause. For what it's worth your stock charts .com money update on news radio 1000 FM 7. 97 We check money news 20 and 50 past each hour here at Northwest News Radio. Let's get the
Mark Levin
The Democrat Party Is a Breeding Ground for Anti-American Hate
"Turning one group of Americans against another group of Americans. Stereotyping Americans Based on wealth. Based on age. Based on genitalia. Based on race. Based on anything they can think of. Because the more that we're at each other's throats, the more the Democrat Party seeks to exploit it. Fundamental transformation. Requires a revolution. Requires an angry people. Requires people who are hateful and jealous of each other. It requires an assault The destruction of actual education Replaced with indoctrination. The Democrat Party's been behind all of this. Really, since the founding of the Democrat Party, but especially now. It rejects capitalism for socialism. It rejects free speech for indoctrination. At the beginning of my book, I explain in great detail how the Democrat The Democrat Party is more like the authoritarian rule... rulers, excuse me. and The the Communist Party in China and the fascistic elements The problem is, no longer can the institution of the Democrat Party control what it's created. This is the new thought that I'm passing on to you.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Fresh update on "one group" discussed on Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
"Well they've happened each night tonight actually was a little bit of a nail biter because there were a lot of problems initially with the list of hostages that hamas said they were going to release apparently it split up and mothers and israel it's been one of their key demands that if children get out they're released with their know you a mother and that mothers won't be released without children but in the end cutter was able to mediate resolution a to that and we saw just a short while ago it's been a dramatic night we saw 11 more israeli hostages come out it includes a mother with her three old twins another set of boys that were in captivity with their father their mothers still in captivity and then another mother and her three children a teenager two younger kids in all nine children and two mothers and this now completes the required you know number of hostages that hamas said would they would release in those first four days reaching the number 50 now how israel and hamas have agreed to extend this ceasefire for two more days so israel is expecting at least another 20 hostages women and children to be released in exchange israel will continue to release at a three to one ratio and minors that have been convicted of crimes and a huge boost in the aid will continue to enter the gaza strip and what are we hearing from the prisoners about where they were to held how they were treated over the last six weeks or so that's a great question we're only now beginning to hear just to some details for example one group of hostages said they were only fed once a day a piece of pita which is the round traditional kind of middle eastern bread or sometimes a little bit of they rice didn't shower at all in the 50 days that they were held they either had to sleep on the floor or on plastic chairs they were kept in tunnels deep underground they described going down four levels to some of the areas where they were held and what about about those prisoners who are still being held have the international mediators had a chance he's visited the now there's about 160 left in the Gaza Strip you the know Israelis have called on the Red Cross and they did it again tonight to go and visit those messages Hamas has prevented that so we don't know how the others are alive obviously those who've come out now are going to give very valuable intelligence to the Israelis about who they've seen alive and where is a bittersweet moment for the country and I have to say the families who've had their loved ones released there's an incredible level of sensitivity their remarks are always about how grateful they are but also that they will continue to fight for for the other families whose loved ones are not out yet and it's not just in word we some saw of these hostages even in a senior citizen who was released yesterday she showed showed up at a rally a solidarity rally in Tel Aviv for the other families because it is now really a national cause to get whoever is alive out now especially since Israel will continue this war and it will be much more difficult after this. ABC's Jordana Miller on the Northwest News line from Jerusalem. And that's Northwest News Radio's Kim Hayward. We check business news at 20 and 50 past each here hour at Northwest News Radio. Let's go to the latest StockCharts .com money update. Here's Jim Chesko. Traders paused there buying today the market awaiting key inflation and jobs data later in the week. In a fairly quiet Monday session the S &P 500
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from An NBA Power Poll, Plus Malcolm Gladwell Plays Sports Czar
"Coming up, an NBA Power Poll, Malcolm Gladwell. This podcast is an A plus. Next. This episode of the Bill Simmons Podcast is presented by Airbnb. Maybe you're traveling to see friends and family for the holidays. When you're away, your home could be an Airbnb. Whether you could use a little extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun, your home or spare room might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at Airbnb .com slash host. We are supported by McDonald's. This month, McDonald's is upping its game by introducing two beloved sauces to its lineup. Mambo sauce and sweet and spicy jam. Hmm, why do I love these? Well, they both pack a spicy punch. They let you switch up the flavors in your usual order. I like having more choices. You know what, if you're gonna give me eight choices, why not give me 10? The sweet and spicy jam sounds delicious. These two sauces are only available for a limited time and participate in McDonald's. So make sure to try them while you can. Tap the banner to learn more. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. If you missed it, we started, wait, that movie made how much money? Month last night on the rewatchables. We did Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, me, Chris Ryan, Van Lathan, it was a wonderful experience for all of us. Van looked at Chris at one point and he said, everything I do, I do it all for you. Oh no, that was Bryan Adams, but we had a great time. Coming up on this podcast, I'm gonna do an NBA Power Poll at the top because there's no games as I'm taping this on Tuesday. So let's, where are we after two weeks? I tried to fly through this. I limited myself to 22 minutes. I think I went two minutes over, but I flew through it, tried to get off as many comments as I possibly could. And then our old friend Malcolm Gladwell is gonna come on and do some sports hour stuff. There's some things that he's noticed about direction sports are going in that he doesn't like, and we're gonna try to fix it. So that's the podcast, first, our friends from Pearl Jam. Here we go. All right, I'm gonna throw an NBA Power Poll at you. I'm not sure I'm gonna do this every Tuesday, but I definitely wanna do this some Tuesdays. I'm gonna go through all 30 teams as fast as possible. And I'm gonna throw things out that I feel like are important when necessary. Pot shots, important comments, things I've noticed, some fake trades, you've known me for a while. It's gonna be all the typical stuff. Going backwards from 30 to one, I'll give you the groups as we go. The first group is called the Dregs. That's Washington number 30. They are 30th in defense. And the only reason they're 30th in defense is because we only have 30 teams. I actually think there's some way they could have been 36th in defense. They're the only team in the entire league that I do not wanna watch on league pass for any reason at all. They're one and five, 15 .6 point differential against them. Shoot this team into the sun. I cannot believe House thought this team was gonna go over 24 wins. They might not go over 14 wins. They're awful. I never want them on my TV. Next group, probably the lottery. I say probably, but I'm gonna zip through these teams and then go back to somebody. 29 Utah, 28 Portland, 27 Detroit, 26 San Antonio, 25 Charlotte, who is way more fun than I expected they would be to watch, and 24 Chicago. It just feels like the lottery's in the future for all these teams. I wanna talk about San Antonio really quick. Three and four, kind of a sneaky, tough schedule. They played Phoenix twice, the Clippers, Dallas, that goofy Indiana team, Houston, and Toronto. They're minus 8 .6 point differential because they've gotten blown out a couple of times, and they're 29th on defense, which I was surprised by per 100 possessions. The thing that I wanted to point out here, because this one Benyama thing is super important. This is the best teenager that's come into the league, at least since LeBron. We can debate. LeBron, I think in year two, for two months at least, was a teenager when he was putting up 27, seven, and seven. When he started his 27, seven, seven cycle. Wembe might be the best teenager I've ever seen. They're starting Jeremy Sohan at point guard, and Pop's been transparent about this. No, no, we know we're gonna take some lumps. We're trying to figure this out. I went to the game when they played the Clippers, I talked about it in a previous pod, and it was just an absolute debacle, watching poor Sohan try to run the offense, bring the ball up. Now we're seeing teams starting to pressure them because he's not a point guard. He's a small forward. There's crazy stats now. Trey Jones, just by being on this team and not being Jeremy Sohan, is now one of the best advanced metrics point guards of all time. Right now, his per 100 on -off is plus 28 .3 because Sohan is minus 22 .7. That's how disparate the two things are. Which brings me to my point, this is too important. You have the best teenager maybe ever. You have one of the best league pass players already in the entire league in Wimby. I have no idea how long he's gonna stay healthy, knock on wood, hear me knock really loud. I just got my dog going. No, that was me, dumb ass. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is on Indiana, and they have Halliburton, who's averaging a 24 -12. He's awesome. They have Nembhard, who's great as a backup. McConnell's like, he's 13 minutes a game. He's clearly a trade piece for them. Just go get him. I'm not saying San Antonio has to make the playoffs, but they need to be entertaining, and Wimby needs to play with point guards. He clearly needs just to play off people, high screens, all that stuff. They need one more point guard. TJ McConnell is my choice. They have all their own firsts. They're not gonna trade those obviously, but they have some goofy picks. They have Charlotte's top 14 protected first. They have a pretty good Chicago first that I wouldn't give up. They have a first swap with Boston. There's ways to do this. I would just put that Charlotte pick next year on the table and just grab them because you guys hit the lottery. Literally, with Wimby -Dyama, literally hit the lottery. You hit the lottery and you hit the lottery. Get to do two point guards. We're not asking for much here. I wanna watch this guy. I wanna enjoy him play basketball. All right, next section is panic time. Number 23, Memphis. They're one and six. They finally got out to Schneider. And number 22, Sacramento, who lost twice to Houston in three days by 18 and 25. No Darren Fox for either game. Panic time in this respect. I know we're six games in the season, seven games in the season, but the West is one of those things where you're gonna look up and the car is left. The car has left the driveway and your family is gone. You're gonna be basically Kevin and home alone if you don't get your shit together. And I don't even wanna be two games under 500 in the West. That's how deep and good the West is. So when you're one and six, like all of a sudden two and 12, two and 13, Sacramento could all of a sudden be three and nine. I would just be nervous constantly. This is not like last year when the Lakers started out two and 10 and ended up making the playoffs. Nobody is doing that this year. The cutoff line is gonna be 46 wins. Memphis looks, they just can't score. And I think it's gonna be really, we talked about this verno last week. It's gonna be really hard for them to crawl back and be at least like 11 and 14, something like that by the time Ja comes back. The Sacramento thing, we predicted this when we did the over -under preview, like the conference is way better and they stayed basically the same. And now Fox is hurt. So it can take Fox going out for 10 games and all of a sudden you're not even in the playing game. I would just be nervous, so it's both of those teams. Again, it's early. Next group, friskier than we hoped. We have number 21, Brooklyn. Ben Simmons averaging almost 11 rebounds and seven assists a game. And yet you can't play him at crunch time, bizarre. Number 20, Orlando. Number 19, Houston. Number 18, Indiana. And number 17, Toronto. Just quickly on Houston, a delightful league pass team. I had no idea. It's like being at a buffet dinner and somebody brings like some, have you ever had a fried oyster? It's like, great, I'll try that. And then it's delicious. They play hard. I like watching them. And I did not expect a Shungun to be a potential all -star, but that's where we are. They're three and three. Again, they beat Sacramento twice, we'll see. But Orlando at number 20. Every time I do this, I'm gonna have a BS all -star of the week. I used to do this when I wrote my column back in the day. I used to call them the Bill Simmons all -stars, just people that I just liked for whatever reason. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't really know fully what he is. He tries harder than everybody on every other team. He really gives a shit. He feels additive in all these different ways. And yet at the same time, he'll absolutely like airball a three in one of the biggest moments of the game. But that guy cares. I watched a game where he got this hustle rebound. Can't remember who they, they lost at the buzzer. Get this hustle rebound and dribble back out and took a three and missed it and put his jersey over his head for like the next minute and a half. I actually think he might've been crying. He was so upset they lost. He is the most competitive random guy in the league. I love Jalen Suggs. Oh, as Saruti said, it's the Laker game. I love Jalen Suggs. I don't know what he is. He might just end up being like a seventh man on a championship team at some point. He's gonna have a moment on a good team. I don't know if Orlando's gonna be the team, but it's gonna happen for that dude. I also really like Anthony Black more than I thought, but we'll see. It's early for this team. Palo hasn't gotten going. Somehow they're four and three. We'll see when the schedule gets harder. Toronto at number 17, just the Lakers miss Schroeder. And I like what Schroeder's doing in Toronto. They're three and four, but they easily could be five and two. I've been watching them because I have their over under, I bet on. And I like where Toronto's at. I think they're better than they were last year. I think they're at least a playing team. Number 18, Indiana though. So their second in offensive rating and 25th in defense. In the 25th, I was actually surprised it wasn't worse. They can't guard anybody. They're shooting 43s a game. Their top six guys are all over 40 % three point shooting. They're kind of like the 80s Nuggets, but with threes. And they just play with a certain pace. And some days it's going to be bad. Like the Celtics put 155 points on them and it probably could have been 160 if they'd made some shots. Hal Burton's special. He's a 24 -12 this year. But the crazy thing about their offense is that Matherin's been terrible. And Matherin was a guy that they were like, this is going to be our guy. He's making a leap. We're going to trade Buddy Heald. We got to give the card keys to Matherin in that spot. And he's been bad. And their offense has still been pretty good. This is a team that anytime you see them, I don't know if you bet basketball, but if they're like plus 11, plus 12, it's like they could beat anybody any night. I'm just telling you. I'm not saying they're going to win a round in the playoffs, but just night to night, that's a team that they could just go 22 for 45 from three, make some shots. And Hal Burton, they actually should be five and two. Hal Burton blew the last possession against Charlotte the other night. But I've enjoyed watching them. I've watched an insane amount of basketball, by the way. All right, next group, the wildcards. I don't have a lot to say about these teams, but we'll go in order. Number 16, New Orleans, just seem jinxed. I'll come back to them in a second. Number 15, Cleveland. I want to see them with Garland and just, I want to watch them for a couple of weeks. I like the Struce edition, but we'll see. The Knicks, they're three and four. Nice win against the Clippers. The Randall thing continues to be nuts. Now he's taking out guys in the other team. Clippers 13, just traded for Harden. We talked about the Knicks and Clippers last week. Look, the Clippers, they played one game and they got killed by the Knicks. They're worse. I told you that last week. Still feel that way. Guess what they can't do now? Any transition stuff. The Knicks, 26 to six in fast break points last night. Rebounding. They got out, rebounded by 17 by the Knicks. Harden just brings so many things that you don't want in a starting five, but then he brings the great passing and the scoring and he can have the ball all the time. They don't need anyone to have the ball all the time because they have all these other guys who need the ball. I just don't like the trade. I continue to not like it and I don't understand it. I actually liked the team they had before they made the trade. So congrats again, Clippers. Number 12, Miami. 28th offensively. Kind of feels worse when you watch them. They haven't had their full team for a couple weeks. I'm not gonna judge them at all until December. I'm not gonna judge Dallas either. Dallas I have at number 11. They're six and one, fourth in offense. They've had a really easy schedule. So that's why, let's see what happens. Their one loss is to Denver. Let's see what happens when they play some tough teams all in a row and have one of those four games in six nights or three on the road. One of those situations. But they are in better shape than they were last year. And you look at the Grant Williams piece, which I'm not spiteful when I watch my old players. I'm rooting for Grant Williams. It's like seeing somebody you dated that you still have a good relationship with. It was nice to see him do well for them. Derek Lively seems like they have something. We talked about him last week, but he's at least like a rim runner in that kind of Nick Claxton world, but maybe a little more violent alley -oop or a little young Clint Cappelli. The Kyrie thing is the piece that I'm really interested in this. He finally had a good game last night, but for this season, 24 % shooting, 3 .8 free throws a game, which are always the two numbers to look at with Kyrie. What's he shooting threes? Is he getting in the line? And so far it's been neither, but he seems happy. When you watch them, they've been a surprisingly pleasant watch, and he seems like in a good spot. So I don't want to jinx it because as annoying as he's been over the years, and you know my stance on Kyrie, I just don't trust him. And I just feel like a seven -year track record of imploding kind of has to start to mean something after a while, but it is fun to watch him play basketball. And it does feel like he's got a specific spot on this team. They don't have to rely on him too much. It's very similar to where he was in 15 and 16 and 17 with the Cavs where he could kind of float in and out like a cat with LeBron. It's like, I'm feeling it. Oh, all right, let's give Kyrie the ball. The shooting going down though, it's a small sample size, but they also haven't been playing tough teams yet. And I'm just monitoring that because with guards, it can kind of sometimes go sideways pretty fast, and you don't realize it happened until after it happened. Just quickly going backwards to number 16, New Orleans, because they lost Ingram, they lost McCollum already. And they have this Hawkins who they drafted that everybody liked coming out of the draft, but the fact that he can play right away has actually kind of saved them a little bit. I just, I still feel like we need to do some sort of ceremony or something with them. Like we need the people from the Conjuring to just do something with New Orleans basketball. It just shouldn't be this bad every year. Your team shouldn't have two, three major injuries every year. You should have good luck at some point. And this goes back to the seventies. Remember, when they moved, when they became the New Orleans Jazz, their first major, major giant trade was for Gail Goodrich with the Lakers. They had to give up two first rounders, and he immediately blew out his Achilles. He played, I'm gonna say, less than a season. And one of the picks turned out to be Magic Johnson. So that's where we started with New Orleans, and it's been awful ever since. Nothing good has happened in this team other than they've won a couple of lotteries, but even the lotteries they won, the Davis, Anthony when they were in Charlotte before they got to New Orleans, they bring him to New Orleans and he wants to leave. And then they win the Zion thing, which seemed like the luckiest thing that ever happened to them. And meanwhile, we're still waiting for him to play two straight months. So Conjuring people, something. We need something to happen with that team. All right, the top 10. We're at a good pace right now. Where are we at? Yeah, feeling good. This is working. Young and hungry is the next thing. We got Oklahoma City at number 10 and Atlanta at number nine. If you remember, Atlanta was one of the, these are the two teams I was going nuts for before the season for their over -unders. I love the Atlanta over -under. I love the New Orleans over. And I like what I've seen from both. OK sees four and three, Atlanta's four and three. Atlanta's sixth in offense. And that's notable because Trae Young has sucked again shooting west. He's 28 % from three. Last year's 33 % from three. This might not be happening the next Steph Curry thing. Like what age does he have to hit where we have to go? All right, he's not the next Steph Curry. Because I think I hit that age last year at age, when I was age 53. I think I hit that for Trae. They killed Minnesota, which is notable. We'll talk about Minnesota in a second. But they really, I watched that game and they really, really, really handled them. I like this Atlanta team. And I think there's a path for them to be a three or a four seed if Trae can get going. And then OKC, trade for a big already. You're a guy short, like stop. You guys have a chance to be like a 50 win team. What are you doing? I want to see what's going on with Josh Getty in about two weeks. Whether it looks different than it has for the first couple of weeks here. I don't like, he's not going in the free throw line at all. 1 .3 a game. 26 % three point shooting, which we knew. He can't shoot threes. But there's also like the Chet piece of it. Seems like it's throwing them off. And I've watched games where they've taken them out at crunch time.
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
Fresh update on "one group" discussed on News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
"Skies in seattle and seven ninety seven your information station thanks for joining us taylor van size editors desk i'm kim shepherd and an update on the amber alert that we told you about just a few minutes ago issued out of the tri -cities a for teenage girl we're getting reports that that fourteen -year -old has been found we're working to get some more information for you shortly israel and hamas have agreed to extend their cease fire for two more days as the exchange of prisoners continues abc's jordana miller is joining us on the northwest news line these swaps have been happening as planned a fourth exchange happening today what do you know about this release well they've happened each night tonight actually was a little bit of a nail biter because there were a lot of problems initially with the list of hostages that hamas said they were going to release apparently it split up children and mothers and israel it's been one of their key demands that if children get out they're released with their you know a mother and that mothers won't be released without children but in the end cutter was able to mediate a resolution to that and we saw just a short while ago it's been a dramatic night we saw 11 more israeli hostages come out it includes a mother with her three -year -old twins another set of boys that were in captivity with their father their father still in captivity and then another mother her and three children a teenager and two younger kids in all nine children and two mothers and this now completes the required you know number number of hostages that hamas said they would release in those first four days reaching the number now 50 israel and hamas have agreed to extend this ceasefire for two more days so israel is expecting at least another 20 hostages women and children to be released in exchange israel will continue to release at a three to one ratio palestinian women and minors that have been convicted of crimes and a huge boost in aid will continue to enter the gaza strip and what are we hearing from from the prisoners about where they were held how they were treated over the last six weeks or so that's a great question only now beginning to hear just some details for example one group of hostages said they were only fed once a day a piece of pita which is the round traditional kind of middle eastern bread or sometimes a little bit of rice they didn't shower at all in the days that they were held they either had to sleep on the floor or on plastic chairs they were kept in tunnels deep underground they described going down four levels to some of the areas where they were held and what about those prisoners who are still being held have the international mediators had a check on their well -being yet nobody has visited the now there's about 160 left in the Gaza Strip you know the Israelis have called on the Red Cross and they did it again tonight to go and visit those hostages Hamas has prevented that so we don't know how many of the others are alive obviously those who've come out now are going to give very valuable intelligence to the Israelis about who they've seen alive and where it's a bittersweet moment for the country and I have to say the families who've had their loved ones released there's an incredible level of sensitivity their remarks are always you know about how grateful they are but also that will they continue to fight for the other families whose loved ones are not out yet and it's not just in word we saw some of these hostages even in a senior citizen who was released yesterday she showed up at a rally a solidarity rally in Tel Aviv for for the other families because it is now really a national cause to get whoever is alive out now especially since Israel will continue this war and it will be much difficult after this ABC's Jordana Miller on the Northwest News line from Jerusalem. 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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Persecuted Apostles, Prevailing Gospel
"When I was a child there was a time in which trick birthday candles were all the rage. It was always somewhat interesting to watch someone's face as they tried and tried and tried again to blow out those candles but to no avail. Some of us tried with all of our might and no matter how hard we tried the light that we had thought that we had snuffed out came back. It's been like that throughout as history different leaders have tried to snuff out God's Word. Whether it's Antiochus or Diocletian, whether it's philosophers or false religious systems or communist regimes, many have tried throughout history either to chain or to cut off the Word of God. Some have tried to prohibit transmissions, others have tried to cut off translations, but they all have one thing in common. They have all ultimately failed and that long list of failure you might say in the New Testament Church begins right here in Acts chapter 4. As we make our way into the text first I want to briefly create some context. We have been studying Acts chapter 3. We just finished that. We're making our way into Acts chapter 4 but I want to remind you what happened in Acts 3. There was a man who had been crippled for over 40 years. He was lame from his mother's womb and he was miraculously healed. You'll remember that a crowd ensued as a result of marveling at the miracle and that a massed audience provided an occasion for Peter's evangelistic preaching. Those who played a part, some role or another, when you look at Peter's speech, Peter's preaching, some who had some role or another in Jesus's crucifixion were actually given an opportunity to have that sin and all of their other sins blotted out, wiped away. They could have left in that time. If they would have heard the gospel and repented they could have left being like those who would come to sing in later generations that hymn, my sins are blotted out I know. And there would be many that day that would respond to the gospel by God's grace but there would also be those who would add to their guilt. And I'm not simply referring to those who would hear Peter's message and then in an unwise and undiscerning way not respond to it with faith by God's grace. I'm talking about persons that we know. Familiar villains will reemerge on the scene in our study of Acts chapter four and they are going to try to snuff out what was to them a familiar name. We'll see all of that and more as we get into our text today. We begin in Acts chapter 4 verse 1 where we read, Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them. So in the beginning of verse 1 of chapter 4 you see it says now as they spoke to the people. Doubtless this refers to Peter and John. You're going to see that the lame man was with them. He was with them on this day and he's actually going to be with them when they appear before the Sanhedrin, before the Jewish Supreme Court if you will the next day. But right here you get the idea that Peter and John at least primarily are the ones who are doing the preaching and teaching because look at verse 2 they were teaching the people and they were also preaching in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now before we get to verse 2 just a little note here a couple of notes about these parties that were involved in coming upon Peter and John. If you look at verse 1 we have three groups mentioned. The first one is the priests. The priests. They were the ones who essentially functioned in different roles at the temple. They had different responsibilities in the service at the temple. They might burn incense, offer sacrifices, teach the people, do whatever tasks pertained to the sanctuary. Now there were in 1st And now interestingly it looks as though they would serve in kind of rotations. So it could have worked out in one of two ways people usually say. It could have been that they served for two weeks during the course of a year. They would go to the temple and officiate at the temple because remember these were priests and Levites and remember they were scattered throughout the land of Israel to teach the people the law and so on. But two weeks out of the year they would come to the temple and they would serve at the temple. You also have the possibility that they would go to serve at the temple once every two years and they'd stay there for a month. So that's the first group here. The priests. They officiated in the temple. They offered sacrifices, burned incense, taught the law. Then you have the second group or a second person. The captain of the temple. Now he was essentially the chief of security and if you look through commentaries you find over and over again this role was a highly regarded one. It is repeatedly said that his position was second to the high priest. That's how prominent this role was. He served over the temple guard. He was kind of over the Levitical police force if you will. So he's there. And then you have the last group, a group that many of you doubtless are familiar with, the Sadducees. They were a religious group in Israel. Power brokers if you will. They had a lot of political clout and they also had a lot of religious clout within the nation of Israel but I think they are best known for what they didn't believe. Remember the Sadducees are those who did not believe in a resurrection. They are not they are those who do not believe in angels or demons. They did not believe in an afterlife. They only believed in the first five books of Moses it is often said as being divinely inspired. They had a lot of sad beliefs and like my grandpa used to joke that is why they are sad you see. They had a lot of sad erroneous beliefs. They were also political opportunists. They were those who were in positions of power. It appears that they came to their power after the period of the Maccabees, that intertestamental period. They're like a group of priestly families that get connected with the power brokers in the land and they try to solidify their power. That's why they tried to keep things nice and calm with Rome because they had a nice set up for them and they didn't want anybody rocking the boat. They're also have said to have been a pretty cruel group. Josephus had noted and I saw this in the pulpit commentary that the Sadducees were more severe and cruel in their administration of justice than any other Jews. They went on to note their tenant of no life to come made them look to severe punishments in this life and doubtless they would have looked for severe punishments right away for Peter and John but you're going to see in God's Providence God set it up in such a way in which they weren't going to be able to do what they wanted to do. The Lord will and will see that in future studying. So that brings us to verse 2. They make haste these three groups the priests the captain of the temple in the Sadducees and the reasons for their haste are found in verse 2 where we read being greatly disturbed in other words they were greatly annoyed in the Greek here this verb annoyed or irritated or angered and it's compounded by the preposition dia so they were very upset very disturbed and we're told that they were disturbed because they Peter and John taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead so this is why they were angry reason number one Peter and John are teaching and they're like who are these guys well we didn't give them the green light to teach we are in control we are the Sadducees they did not go through the rabbinical teaching system who was their rabbi we don't know who these people are so they were bothered that these people were teaching and they didn't have the the right to it as it were the religious leadership of that day they hated anything that infringed upon their authority that's one of the reasons why they hated Jesus he infringed upon their authority and they thought he needed to be stopped well Peter and John were doing so and they thought they needed to be stopped as well second reason why they were upset is basically I think this was multifaceted because Peter and John were preaching in Jesus the resurrection from the dead I think there's a lot of aspects to why this made them upset first they were a part of the Sanhedrin many note a primary part of the Sanhedrin the majority part of the Jewish religious ruling council that wrongly sentenced Jesus to death and handed him over to Pilate so a lot of these Sadducees were the very people who looked at the Son of God the Messiah and said he deserves to die and now Peter and John are preaching no no no Jesus has risen from the dead so they were upset doubtless they were also upset because they didn't believe in a resurrection and now they're teaching people that Jesus has rose from the dead and that's going to undercut their erroneous message and if you undercut their erroneous message you're going to undercut their clout and they didn't want their clout to be undercut being right wasn't the priority as much as having power and wealth and influence being right was incidental if they were right along the way that was great but protecting their power was the priority think about this you see this even in Matthew 28 remember after the soldiers come back and they are telling to the religious leadership what happened and they're saying that the tomb is empty and so on what does the religious leadership tell them they create a lie for them Matthew 28 verse 12 they give them money they give them a large sum of money Matthew 28 verse 12 they tell them the lie Matthew 28 verse 13 and they assured them that if this ever got to Pilate that they would cover for them suffice it to say the Sadducees in this case did not have righteous indignation one other possibility as well and maybe they're all together these aren't mutually exclusive is that they thought if word got around to the Romans that a Messiah was being preached who rose from the dead the Romans could esteem this as being somewhat revolutionary and what would be the problem with that it could ruin the nice gig that the Sadducees had so maybe to one degree or another all of these things are what bothered them in Peter and John preaching in Christ the resurrection but you'll find in verse three their indignation didn't just stay mental they weren't just upset on the inside it manifested itself physically look at verse three and they laid hands on them please know this wasn't a good kind of laying on of hands you know they weren't praying for them they weren't like ordaining them to ministry they weren't doing any kind of a good laying on of hands or so on this was a laying on of hands that was a seizing interestingly the word that's used here in the Greek epi ballo that word ballo means to cast to throw epi you think typically of being a preposition that means upon it's like they threw their hands upon them they seized them so that's the picture that I think is meant to be painted here they come down they laid hands on them now I just want to tell you something that I would do if I was a filmmaker and if I were recreating this scene in the kind of movie where we're trying to depict acts chapter four what I would do is that the moment that acts for three happens the beginning of it and they laid hands on them at that moment I would all of a sudden insert a flashback to Jesus's teaching on the Mount of Olives where he said but before all of these things they will lay hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to synagogues and prisons you will be brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake here is the initial fulfillment of those very words and it would keep manifesting itself but I want to remind you here that this was a prophecy that Jesus made this was the initial fulfillment of it and his word always comes to pass you can believe it you can believe the words of scripture you could believe every word that Jesus said he has a perfect streak that will never be broken some of you might remember my favorite pitcher when I was younger oral her shizer he pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers believe he's a professing Christian brother in Christ and in 1998 he had an amazing year the Dodgers go on to win the World Series I believe he won the Cy Young Award that year and that year he pitched what I believe still is the record for number of innings pitched without giving up a run 59 innings pitched without a run being given up and if you were a baseball fan if you were oral her shizer fan then you were watching those games saying it's the street going to continue is it going to continue and when it did you were excited but eventually you were disappointed because that streak like other streaks in professional sports don't go on forever but with Jesus you will never be disappointed his perfect streak of having his words fulfilled will always stay it will never be broken and this is a witness to that right here in Acts chapter 4 verse 3 so they seized them and they put them in custody until the next day so the Sanhedrin had a rule they had a law that they essentially subscribe to that they would not try people at night before dawn didn't stop them when they wanted to kill Jesus that rule so they were okay with breaking their own rules probably they based this rule on Jeremiah 21 12 and ministered justice every morning and it didn't stop them from persecuting Jesus and having their kangaroo courts happen during the night but in this case they were going to wait they needed some sleep perhaps and they were going to wait until the next day Peter and John are put in custody until then and then we're told to get a it was late to use language from Matthew 14 15 notice a little bit of context here this event began at around 3 p .m. because remember that Peter and John were going up to the temple around the ninth hour that was 3 p .m. now that it's late now that it's evening you know that it's at least 6 p .m.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Economics of AI & Bitcoin Mining with Daniel Roberts
"If you want to keep pushing more renewables onto the grid in the absence of a price signal, in the absence of underlying demand, there's only one group that pays for that. It's the taxpayer. Hello there. Happy Monday. I hope you're all doing well. Right. If you didn't see it, Danny and I announced a cheat code last week. Our conference is going to be held in Bedford next year, April 12th and 13th. We're doing things a little bit differently. We're doing one day a conference, but the second day where you're all hungover, we're going to be doing football. We're going to take you all down to Macmillan Park to watch Real Bedford to see our cheat code in action. And do you know what? With our ladies' team top of the league, they've won every game. The men's team, they can go top of the league if they win tomorrow, actually, on my birthday. And with Bitcoin looking strong and a halving in place in April, it looks like it might be some special event. So hopefully we'll see some of you there. If you want to get a ticket, please head over to cheatcode .co .uk. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today I've actually got Iris Energy co -CEO, Dan Roberts, on the show. Now first met Dan earlier this year in Canada. Me and Danny went out to meet the guys. We were discussing them becoming a sponsor. And we were really intrigued by their takes on mining. We really liked the company's approach. Their values matched ours. And I've got to know Dan pretty well over the last year. And I love listening to him talk about mining, especially the stuff recently where he's been talking about AI as well. We had a good conversation about this when we were in Australia. And I said to Dan, come on, you need to come on the show. You need to tell the listeners about what you're up to and your takes on mining. Now, Dan is the co -CEO of Will, and they've been building Iris with a long -term plan in mind. And it shows with every decision they're making. So in this episode, we get into co -integration of Bitcoin mining with AI Compute. The economics of mining and the halving and how Bitcoin is helping the grid. So if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do get in touch. My email address is hello at whatbitcoindid .com.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from The Blessing Of Letting Go
"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. I do want to just take a moment and say to each and every one of you that I don't wear a red hoodie for just anything. It's fall season, holiday season. God is going to give us a very strong end to this year. How many are believing for that? How many have got some catching up to do because it has been a really weird year so far? We're going to believe, God, that every blessing you haven't received that you're supposed to receive this year, God would compress it into these next few weeks for you. I'm believing that he's going to give you supernatural guidance, his wisdom, his reflexes, his response. In fact, that's what I want to preach about today. I want to preach about the blessing God wants to give you. Sometimes these things do come in unexpected ways, so prepare for it. Just tell your neighbor, real quick, get ready for it. Get ready for it. I want to share some time with you today in Genesis, chapter 32, and remain standing for the reading of God's Word, greeting to all of our campuses and our epham around the world. Let's thank God for all who are joining us today, that they would receive the flow of this anointing right where they are. Come on, Elevation Valentine. Put those hands together. Let's welcome our worldwide epham. Genesis, chapter 32. I had a hard time deciding how much of this to read to you, but I decided that we should go from at least verse 7, so buckle in. This passage of Scripture, wow! It's really for those of you who are wrestling with something. You've been struggling because you're wrestling. You've been struggling to rest in what you have and who you are because of what you're wrestling with. That's who I'm preaching to today. Genesis, chapter 32, verse 7. The Bible says, In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well. He thought if Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape. For everybody who is kind of a control freak, you can relate to this. You start making all of these plans and backup plans for your backup plans and all of these ways that you start working it out, but Jacob is doing that because it said in verse 8, that he thought Esau was coming to attack him, his brother. But look at verse 9. This is kind of a turning point in the passage. Then Jacob prayed. Verse 8, he thought. Verse 9, then Jacob prayed. The Devil shouldn't have let you get here today, because he has had you in your head and you've been thinking about the attack. But the moment that you started praising God today and lifted your eyes to him, come on, I declare a level change in your situation. Then Jacob prayed, O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, go back to your country and your relatives and I will make you prosper. I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness. You have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he will come and attack me and also the mothers with their children. But you have said, I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted. He spent the night there, and from what he had with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau. I'm going to read you the whole list just so you can see how blessed Jacob was. Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls. This old boy is doing pretty good. He said a few verses ago, I started with just a staff. Look what God gave him. And twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, Go ahead of me and keep some space between the herds. He instructed the one in the lead. When my brother Esau meets with you and asks, Who do these belong to and where are you going? Who owns all these animals in front of you? Then you are to say, They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us. He also instructed the second and the third and all the others who followed the herds. He's covering all his bases for this thing that he's got to deal with the next day. You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him, and be sure to say your servant Jacob is coming behind us, for he thought, I'll pacify him with these gifts I'm sending on ahead. Later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me. So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp. That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons. That would keep you up all night. All of it. The eleven sons, the two wives, all of it. That would give me indigestion and insomnia.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from The Ongoing Israel-Gaza Conflict: Americas Role
"When we say America first, what we mean is that we need America first. We need to worry about what's going on here. That doesn't mean that we're anti -immigration. That doesn't mean that we're racist or xenophobic. That's not what that means. It means we need to address American issues first. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick along with my partner, Mike Speraza. So Mike, let's start with this. Israel is ready for ground troops to go into Gaza and thank goodness, Joe Biden is heading to Israel. I'm sure he'll be a real help. I'm sure he'll be able to change everything that's going on over there. I mean, all kidding aside, I don't know why America thinks that this is a good, I get the show of solidarity. I get that whole thing, but sending Joe Biden to do anything right now is a bad idea for America and it's a bad idea for whoever he's going to help. Um, I personally, Mike would have kept him way the hell out of there. That's just me. Yeah. And I, I mean, it's interesting. We don't need him as the president of the United States to physically be there. However, there have been times where we've said, why won't the president go down to the border? For instance, why won't Kamala go to the border? Why won't, why won't they actually go witness the things going on? So in a way, I mean, I don't have a problem with, with him going. I just wonder, and here'd be my question. Is it even going to be helpful? Is it going to make a difference? Because the weakness that he and our country have now displayed for several years now, right? Three years running soon as Donald Trump left office, we became a weaker, more vulnerable, uh, country under Joe Biden. There was just no question about that. I don't know how anyone can say anything differently about that. So is it even helpful at this point or is it too little too late? Here's my problem though, Mike, you brought up the border and let's talk about that for a second. So Joe Biden still heck actually has not been to the real border, Mike, right? Like, like, yeah, he went down there about 600 miles away. Like, why, why is it that that's important? Right? And again, I get it with Israel. I'm not suggesting it's not important to go to Israel. My point is, is that why is it important for all of our politicians to go everywhere else other than the problem areas of America? That bothers me. And I wanted to start there, Mike, because I've made that point on Twitter. I'm going to make it again. That is a problem for me that, that American leaders find it more beneficial to go to other places when America is truly breaking from within. Mm hmm. And the border is an example of that huge example or Philly or now getting worse. So the things happening overseas are actually making the border issue even more and more critical, right? We're seeing all sorts of what they call, what special alien type, uh, designations. These, these people coming was like in the single digits. Now it's into the triple digits of, of the special aliens that are really the ones that you don't want here. Yep. And they're, they're making their way here. I mean, to me, it's just laughable because we've been so weak. We've been such a waffler on, are we supporting them? Are we not supporting them? I mean, they, they haven't supported, this administration hasn't supported Israel, especially since Benjamin Netanyahu got back into office. And I mean, there's such mixed mixed signals that you end up just getting a whole mixed up a policy, right? It's all, it's all like, we don't want to appease any one group. So what happens? You're really not helping anyone. So that's, that's my problem with us. Michael, first of all, Hochul's going over there. She says now, like, like to me again, yeah, cause New York's in fine shape, right? Like can we, can we get priorities, right? Like Kathy, whether Kathy Hochul goes to Israel or not, nothing will change. So can we just let people like the president maybe go like that again, as much as I'm complaining about Joe going over there cause he has been to our border, I get the American president or Anthony Blinken or whoever to go over there. That's what their job is. Kathy, you're the governor of a failed state. What, what are you going to do over there besides take photos and put their flag in your Twitter bio? Really? What are you going to do? Tell us. She's adding it to her resume, right? She's going to say, look at me, look at me. I was, I was, I was actually involved in international matters as governor of New York. That's going to be really helpful. I'm sure there's going to be a lot accomplished with Kathy Hochul going on. Well, that's, that's exactly what's going to happen. Senator Cotton, he believes that since Americans were killed and there are still missing Americans that we should be considering boots on the ground.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 119: Part 1: Ed Calderon Fights Cartels, Corruption, and Crime in Tijuana, Mexico
"It's been a recurring thing that I hear like, oh, the DEA arrested him. No, we didn't say that. The guys we talked to made it very clear it was the Mexican Marines who went in, you know, they were working with them, but you're saying it was two federal police officers? He carjacked us. No, I mean, eventually, but I'm talking about the operation. I know what you're getting at, the actual arrest. The actual arrest was done by two federal roadside cops. He's in a dirty white, he's in a dirty t -shirt, you know. Yeah, he went through a sewer because he had some of the most advanced escape safe houses that anybody's ever seen in Mexico. At least on that end, he was the top of the game. And I say this because it seems to me that a lot of effort was put into the narrative of this operation, you know, and it was boggling the mind to some of us that have been in that field for years to try Why all that effort over some specific guy? You know, because if you designate somebody as a big figurehead and then you get that figurehead, you claim victory, you go, hey, we've done something about it, as opposed to have you really. I mean, is it about the stat or is it about the actual impact? And I know, Murph, we've had these discussions before. Well, even, and so the reason I was in Mexico City on those original meetings is as I was working out of our special operations division and I was running the Mexico Central America section. And I can't get into a lot of detail on some of this because it's, some of it's still classified and some of it you just don't want people to know capabilities. But there was a lot of discussion about that guy, about Chapo, and there were assets in place that could monitor certain things. The execution part was the problem. And this was back in, what do you say, 2003? I was there from 01 to 06, so this was 03 or 04. And my suggestion to everybody was let's bring in our special operators, just like we did in Columbia against Pablo. The problem is, once we got, we had Dev Groom, we had Delta down there with us, but then their general said, well, you can only be in the base, you can't go out in the field. Special mission unit Delta, Delta Force doesn't exist. Not the best frickin' operators in the world were confined to base. I mean, these guys are the frickin' studs of the world. But here was the difference. The Colombians invited us down there, the Mexicans won't. Mexico has a very, and I'm Mexican by birth, and I'm making my way into being a citizen in the U .S. Mexico in general has a very difficult relationship with the United States foreign policy, and it's historically been pretty bad on the Mexican end. So inviting the U .S. military to operate in Mexico is political suicide in every single way, shape, or form you can have in Mexico. If you do that, you're dead politically, and the army knows this. You go all the way back to Pancho Villa and the Alamo, and this is not something that just happened yesterday. Yeah, but I've heard rumors of very tall people wearing federal police uniforms that didn't know how to respond in Spanish. I was around for some of those weird fuckin' events. The main issue, I think, is that Mexico is realistically free -for -all and lawless. If the United States really wanted to stop the fentanyl flow through its borders, it would probably have to set up some sort of military or naval blockade on the Pacific and the Atlantic side. I've floated this idea of actually discussing this with the guy at DOD this morning, talking about the legalities of it. You almost get to the point where you have to declare a demilitarized zone. You have to say three miles either side of this is open for military action. To your point, you've got to blockade everything from the border to the water to the airspace. We're almost back into a Tom Clancy, clear and present danger thing, where you have to declare, until they declare the cartels a terrorist organization or something that gives them an official designation to go after them. To your point, it's a political issue and it's not been handled well. The whole terrorist designation thing, it's interesting. They're in politicized every way. That's why Mexico has one of the most... They assassinate a lot of political candidates in Mexico. I think it's one of the places where it's one of the most dangerous places to be one in the world. They also go after the press a lot because members of the press report on one side or the other. They're very much politicized and they're very much in the political sphere. They hang people from bridges and the amounts of the ISIS execution videos that you would see back in the day were all realistically inspired by the Mexican ones. The cartels they were doing this year, this wasn't anything new to them, beheading people. We got so upset, and we should have, when ISIS beheaded a couple of captors. But then there'd be 10 people you'd find buried in a mass grave all had their heads taken off and it was like just another day in news reporting. The ones that really pioneered the whole projecting horrible events aspect of it was Mexico. The cartels were posting some of these execution videos before ISIS. It's been interesting to see them basically express every single element that you would consider for a terrorist organization. It's a transnational group engaging in violence for a political end. They affect elections, they affect spending, they affect... I don't know why we haven't designated them that, but then the question is even if we did, what would change? I think I know one of the reasons why that hasn't happened, and it's a political and immigration reason. As soon as you declare all these organizations a terrorist organization, everybody coming over that border, fleeing from the violence, now has a legal claim to asylum. And that is a big issue. I think that is at the core of things. It's not like it's stopping anything at this point either. I mean, it's when you look at what's coming across, it's like everybody's claiming asylum anyway. Yeah. I mean, it's a hard issue. It's a complex one. Something has to be done, and if it isn't done, something's going to be forced upon the United States to react, and I think that's where we're headed. Five years ago, I said in five years, not two years ago, I said in five years, we're going to see some sort of military intervention by the U .S. and Mexico. And with everything that's going on, I think I'm pretty well on my way to kind of be right about that. Members of Congress have talked about that. It's a bipartisan thing, so something's coming. We're heading into elections now in Mexico. And what do you think about the woman candidate? Do you think she's got a shot? There seems to be absolutely nobody in the political realm that has any sort of name behind them. I think she's going to be a sure win for these coming elections. guy The other that was running, Evrat, who was basically taken out, he had some interesting ideas about the state of security in Mexico. And I think some of these are going to be rehashed by this political candidate. He had something called the Plan Anquil for Mexico, which is basically an AI -ran, Chinese state -provided security plan that involves social credit. Social credit, here we go again. Yeah, it's social credit and surveillance and drones and you name it, basically. And he showcases video of the people that were involved in the creation of this. There's a big segment of that on the Chinese president showing up in that video. I think that's where we're headed. There's open hostility and there's an open political hostility between Mexico and the United States now. There's a lot of tension going on and China's being invited in. And you can see that in different letters of the politics in Mexico and anti -Americanism in Mexico is at an all -time high. So it's a perfect storm. Let's rewind a little bit because I want to talk a little bit more about your time on the police force now and on this experimental group. What were some of the things that you got involved in that you started... At some point you felt like you could make a difference, right? So what were the things that you were doing that you thought, hey, man, I really can make a difference. I really can impact things. What kind of operations or things were you guys doing? We would basically get information from basically a national platform of information that just got started through leadership. And our leadership was basically the military members that were working in a civilian capacity at this point, like Lezola. Since they were members of the military and they were high ranking officers, they had access to information that none of us could ever have access to. So there was a clear line of communication from the top all the way to the bottom. And we had people that we can trust, that we can work with. And we had actual secrecy within the groups once we were settled. So we'd basically be going out every night, figuring some of these target packages out. From growth sites to laboratories to people who were running some of the most sophisticated abduction and ransom operations the world had ever seen back then. To just figuring out where things were coming from and where they were going to. A lot of that work was done in cooperation with the United States. I got to work on a lot of stuff with our liaison unit. So it was basically, you could see the pace of it as soon as Lezola got involved in actually being the director of us. And getting everything lined up so we could operate, it was clear. It was work being done, it was fear being felt on the other side of the table, the people we were fighting. Our weapons changed. Before we were on, it was unheard of to see a police officer carrying around a fully automatic rifle. Or a grenade launcher for that fact. Slowly but surely he started arming us and preparing us for a war. He very much treated it as a war, or as a counter -insurgency is what he would say. He would, instead of sending us out in small groups, he would send us out in big groups and we would operate in different parts of the city during the night and we would move around. So it was an unknown where we were going to be or what was going to happen. We didn't even know where we were going to be sometimes. Some nights we would just be moved around randomly. What was your area of responsibility? Just Tijuana or the state? All of Baja. I worked outside of Baja a few times on loan, but mostly all of Baja. And Mexico, if I remember, is structured, is it 38 states or 37 states? 37 states, I think. So you've got state police forces, right? Then you've got a federal police force. So back then the federal police was basically army guys dressed in grey and they would ride in the back of our trucks. That was the federal police back then when it first got started. It eventually professionalized and they were trying to figure out, so they were trying to catch up with what we were doing basically. But back then the federal police was army guys dressed in grey in the back of the truck. So there's federal police, state police, and local municipal police. The municipal police historically and all over the country has been the issue. Because it's local police that live there, that have their families living there, and obviously it's a very easy target to go after. And since there's a lot of them, you know, it's hard to move anything in a city without them knowing. So that's who the cartels basically didn't get involved with directly. And I think you mentioned it in an interview you did, it basically boils down to right, plateau or plomo, right? These guys are living there. Yeah, Lezola had a very interesting approach to cleaning up some of those municipal institutions. He basically took, when Tijuana was very corrupt, back then it still is now, but there was a time when he cleaned it up for a bit. He would go into the police precincts and say, hey, who's in charge? This guy. Oh, cool. Obviously he's in leagues with one of the two cartels that are fighting over Tijuana. So he would send him, move him to the precinct that was being ran by the other cartel. They would switch him. So they would immediately quit and then he would put his people in, you know? It was basically the best confident exam ever. Immediately most of these people would quit the next day. This sounds like Northern Ireland, the Protestants and the Catholics, you know, you switch things up. That's an issue in Mexico. I mean, some of this corruption just goes deep and is blood related. It's historic and it's very fractured. Even within a single city, you'll see one side of the city is involved with one group and the other side is involved with the other. So politics are always, it's a game of thrones almost, a level thing. But he did a lot of, we were working daily to get things back to a sense of normal or a sense of safety. When we were, when I got started, these cartel groups would broad daylight run around the city in convoys with AKs out the window, this Tijuana. And by the time we were probably five or six years in, that didn't happen anymore. They were hiding now. So things were changing. So we did feel that things were changing. How did you make it change? I mean, what did you do to make it? Because obviously at some point there's got to be, I mean, violence is inherent in things that happen like this. But how did you, from an operational standpoint, you talk about even like an insurgency. Do you get the public to work with you on this or is this just simply your tactics and your own resources? I think the municipal police was key. Lieutenant Colonel Isaulabe specifically went after cleaning up, professionalizing and sorting out the municipal police locally and using us as a brace to hold things while that was happening. And the municipal police was disarmed for a few weeks at some point. All of the municipal police in Tijuana, their guns were taken. So all of us were basically used and the military were used as an auxiliary police force in Tijuana. I remember going out on a few responding calls and that's probably the bulk of my real community policing experience was when I was basically replacing the municipal police. So he went at things systematically and I think he was allowed to do a lot at different layers of the government, which is why he was so successful. Since he came from the federal branch of the military, he was involved directly in basically institutionalizing a professional police force at a state level with us. And then he was put in charge of the municipal police in Tijuana. So he attacked it from three layers and from three sides. And I think that's what led to his success cleaning up the city, at least for the time it was, because it's pretty much back to square one right now. Was that during the Arellano Felix days? It was at the tail end of them. Something happened to the Arellano Felix cartel, probably related to most of their members being arrested or killed. There was a fracture there. A few of their top level lieutenants basically switched sides to the Sinaloa cartel. Among them, a guy named, they used to call him the three letters El Teo. He basically formed a hyper violent Sinaloa cartel cell in Tijuana and then went to war with the remnants of the Arellano Felix cartel. That's the bulk of the violence that I saw during the time that it was initially active down there. You would see 12 people show up dead one night. You would see shootouts in the middle of the day in different parts of the city. You would see the military basically show up and be involved in some of these shootouts as well. So it was very much an urban warfare setting. With a lot of the things I saw, I think when we would go to foreign training and learn from other people, I think I remember having this moment where we were being shown some of the IRA violence that happened back in the day in Ireland. How they were fighting the military, the English basically. That very much reminded me of some of the stuff that was happening in Baja at that time. I was going to say, we had two of my friends on from New Scotland Yard, the Counterterrorism Command, and one of them was working back in the day when it was the Royal Ulster Constabulary during the troubles in Northern Ireland and some of the tactics they did. He was there. He actually responded when they blew up Lord Mountbatten and the boat that he was on. We always wondered how much cross -pollination, was there any cross -pollination between the provisional IRA and some of those folks that are ending up in Mexico to teach them techniques to resist? Bomb making in Mexico comes directly from the IRA. There's no question about it. IRA people were arrested and detained in Colombia training the FARC members. Some of those same techniques and tactics have shown up in bomb testing fields in Guadalajara and Jalisco, for example. Those homemade mortar devices, mining explosives being utilized to arm civilian drones and to disperse very poisonous chemical pesticides as part of the payload. A lot of these actually do stem from some IRA influence, so there's definitely an influence there as far as the explosives that have been found all over Mexico. We've been experiencing this renaissance of explosives all over Mexico recently. Roadside IEDs are now a thing, and the military is actually learning and preparing for them now. It's something that hadn't happened realistically. We've had car bombs before, but roadside IEDs are now being utilized in places like Michoacán, for example. Murph, when you and Javier were down there going after Pablo, how many bombs a day were going off at the peak? It wasn't unusual to have 10 or 15 per day. There was one evening when we'd been out on ops all day, we came back, we were at the base in Medellín. That night we heard 17 different bombs go off. Wow. In Mexico, there's places where these bombs are being utilized, specifically drone ones. We don't have a lot of ordnance laying around all over the place, but we do have a shit ton of mining explosives that are all over the place. Do you see them using the ammonium nitrate to blow things up also? Every now and then, specifically what they utilize is a thing called Cemex, which is basically mining -level plastic explosives. Those loads are usually made with that. It's controlled and restricted, but it's Mexico. You can't have a gun unless you're poor. If you're poor, you can't have a gun, but if you have money, you can get whatever you want here. Let's talk a little bit more, because this leads into a discussion about, you're on for a long time, but you kind of crossed, as they say, the Rubicon. There becomes a point to where you realize, hey, what I'm doing isn't making a difference anymore. There are some changes in the government, changes in the unit. What starts happening where you start seeing going, yeah, this is not something I think I can do for the next 20 years. I've got to start thinking of an exit strategy. When does that kind of thinking start happening for you? I mean, it lays all the leaves, and it leaves under very bad terms, basically. Bad terms with who? With the government. He's basically pushed out by people who think he's doing too well of a job. Two of our guys get brutally killed, and one of them came out of the academy with me. I knew his family. Great guy. What's his name? Arenas. All right. We salute him. We dedicate this to your buddy. Absolutely. He was a lawyer. He had no reason to go into the police force. He just wanted to make a difference, and he had a giant heart. He was picked up outside of the hotel we were staying at by some dudes dressed in federal police uniforms who were not federal police. And while we were all being basically concentrated in the city to find these people, he was told to step down. That was the first major blow. Was he getting too close to something or just being too effective? I think he was being too effective. He was being too effective and too broad in his approach is what I think probably happened. He was basically going after everybody, and that is not something you could do for a long period in Mexico, apparently. Did he eventually suffer an injury? He over had nine assassination attempts on his life. They tried to poison him with the fruit juice that they would put in his fridge in the office. A military convoy was cloned. They found Hummers painted exactly like the military, and they were going to ambush him in some part of the city. A friend of mine was involved in the security, and he did some legendary shit to get him out of that. Eventually, when he was the police chief of Juarez, when he was leaving that job, he got shot in the back by somebody. That cost him the use of his legs. He's in a wheelchair now. He's still smart as hell, and I'm still afraid of him as a man, but when he left, it basically gutted us. He created a very velocos, forward -driven, militarized police force with a lot of dudes running around with machine guns just ready to respond to shit. All of a sudden, we were neutered. We were told to quiet down. We were told to be less overt. We were told to go back to community policing. We were told to stand down, basically. Things started slowly changing. Politically, this to -the -right presidency left office and was replaced by a central leftist presidency that was more of the old guard of politics in Mexico, the PRI as its own. The PRI, right. They had ruled for a long time. They lost the first election, I think. Wasn't it after Vicente Fox? Didn't he lose? In the PRI, that was their last. Vicente Fox and Calderón got back to the PRI with Pena Nieto. When he came in, a lot of stuff happened. It's the amnesia effect, is what I call it. Every presidential cycle ends, and anything that worked, if it worked because it was because of the other party, fuck that. It's gone. Gee, that sounds familiar. It certainly does. It's not unique to Mexico, pal. I think what's unique to Mexico is that they will throw out everybody. I mean, it doesn't matter if you have, there's no job security. Imagine this. Every five years, you would fire everybody from the FBI and rehire everybody new. This is the level of retardation that I'm talking about. You had these institutions that were built up over the span of two presidential cycles, like the one that I belong to. They were doing the job, they were getting good at it in a lot of ways, and then a lot of the people that were fired because of the polygraph exams being failed sued the government and were hired back because that's not illegal grounds to fire anybody, even though they were on the take. You would see people that hadn't been on the force in six years, seven years, just all of a sudden just show back off the office, people that you clearly knew that were working on the other side or back. And some of these guys you had actually arrested, right? Some of them were arrested by the unit that I was in, yeah, and they were back. That's got to be a weird feeling is that you realize you were in handcuffs, you were kicked off, you were charged, and now you're back. I mean, you talk about trust issues, I mean, inherently. They were laughing in the office. The cars that were in the parking lot, I didn't earn an absurd amount of money and I basically drove the same car driving into that job as the one that left that job just for discretion purposes. But some of the absurdity you would see in those parking lots after these changes were made, it was pretty fascinating. The overt nature of the corruption was like, oh, yeah, we're not going to hide anymore. Let's just take my Hummer H2 to work. In the meantime, go check us out. Also, patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. It's where we put a lot more content you won't hear on our regular podcast. We go into a lot more topics and folks, it is a lot of fun. So go check us out. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. In the meantime, everybody stay safe. We'll see you tomorrow for part two.
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A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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A highlight from Ep. 561 How do Web3 DAOs Work
"All right, everybody, Bryce and Pizza Mind here coming at you with some big news. Pizza Mind, how are you feeling about this big news? Well, change is scary no matter what it is. But this is going to be a change that's going to benefit everyone involved. Even if it sounds scary at first, once we get more comfortable, I think people are going to be very, very happy. Go ahead, Bryce. Make the announcement. Yeah. So Pizza Mind, you know, we started this company together, what, four years ago already. And life changes. Pizza Mind wants to take on a lot more. OK, he wants to take on more, more, more. But what does that require him to do? It requires him to kind of go out and travel and become one with the world and become one with crypto conferences and get all sorts of different advisorships and with his day to days here, which is insane day to day, insane hours. You know, ultimately, he wants to be able to have a little bit more freedom. And we think that what we're crafting here together is actually going to add a lot more value, giving Pizza Mind this new level of freedom to go out, travel, network and actually make our community a lot stronger by him being boots on the ground out there. And it's, you know, it's just going to result in, you know, you and me actually seeing less of Pizza Mind on a day to day basis. So Pete's probably won't be as active in our community, but you bet your bottom gold and Bitcoin he's going to be reporting back what he finds. I'm sure you'll join us, you know, once or twice a quarter to report back. And when I find really good things that I want to invest in, you can bet I'm going to report back. I'm still here for you guys, but I'm going to be traveling around the world, taking on a slightly different role as more of an outside correspondent going forward. All right. Everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast. I just saw your host, Pizza Mind, and I'm flying solo today and but not by myself because I have the beautiful and talented Maria Gomez, the managing director from one of my favorite groups in all of the crypto space, the Interchain Foundation. Maria, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Thank you so much, Pizza Mind, for inviting me here. Well, I couldn't have asked for a better tag team partner while we're on the podcast today because there's so much to be excited about in the Cosmos ecosystem, and it's been a little while since we've had someone on to kind of talk about it. So if you would first, let's get to know you. What were you doing before you joined the Interchain Foundation and what was it about the Interchain Foundation that attracted you there? Yeah, before the Interchain Foundation, I was working in a project in Ethereum that was building tools for DAOs. The project was called Aragon. And my background is in law. I used to be a corporate lawyer. So when I started working in crypto through Coinbase, that was my first work within crypto coming from the traditional world. And I started learning about Ethereum and the DAO project. As a lawyer, I was very interested about DAOs and what they were and how different they were from traditional organizations. So, yeah, before coming to Cosmos and to the Interchain and the Foundation, I was very involved in DAOs. And for me, my world was mainly Ethereum and the Ethereum ecosystem. And I knew some things about other ecosystems like Cosmos. However, at the moment that the opportunity came to join the Foundation, you know, like there was a lot of conversations and discussions around the future of Ethereum and the scalability of Ethereum. This was like more or less two years ago, two years and a half ago about the scalability of Ethereum and their change to POS. And then I started looking at other ecosystems that were already having that. And for me, I was like, yeah, it looks like Cosmos is going to be the future of Ethereum. And Cosmos is already, you know, like the things that I was seeing that they were going to move towards, those things were already being applied in the Cosmos ecosystem. So for me, that was interesting enough to join the Foundation. Yeah. There's so many interesting things going on there. What is the role of the Interchain Foundation within the Cosmos ecosystem? Yes. So we are one of the entities that we are focusing on the funding of public goods. we have a stack and we call it the Interchain Stack. Previously, the Cosmos Stack, we are trying to change more to, like, you know, talk about the Interchain rather than Cosmos. So we have this Interchain Stack, which is a set of tools and technologies that people can use to set up their own blockchains. And those set of tools are like the IBC protocol or the inter -blockchain communication protocol. Then the Cosmos SDK and the consensus engine, which is ComEd BFT, previously known as a standard mean. So we make sure that those public goods, they don't have a business model and they will always be free and open source. They keep running and they keep evolving. And so, yeah, so that's our main mission, making sure that this stack is innovative and is well maintained. So the Cosmos ecosystem can flourish. And I think it's really cool how you've built that out in such a modular way where someone can have a Cosmos chain, but they don't have to have it IBC connected or they don't have to use the Tendermint algorithm. They can have proof of work if they want to or anything else that makes them comfortable, but they can still be part of this much larger ecosystem. So I've been very, very impressed with all the different groups that are contributing to Cosmos over there. Let's talk about DAOs. At a high level, what makes a DAO different from a normal LLC or C Corp? Well, you know, through my experience, my years of experience working with the DAO tooling, you know, and at the beginning, like the project was launched, the Aragon was launched like around 2017, even before DAOs were so hot as they are right now. My learning was that, you know, a real DAO is a real decentralized and autonomous organization. And right now people don't really know what's decentralized and what's autonomous, what that really means. And a lot of the entities that are being called DAOs are not different than any... Actually, most of them are legal entities. So there is no different whatsoever. And or some of them are not even incorporated. So they are just, you know, like sort of an unincorporated organization that sometimes don't even use the smart contracts to operate. I say that currently DAOs are having a huge identity crisis. And this is very problematic because it's very risky for people, you know, that they join a DAO or what is called a DAO with an understanding that like, you know, like things are transparent and open and trust minimized. And in reality, that's not what is happening. But so for me, to go back to your question, yeah, decentralized autonomous organizations are totally different than legal entities. First, they are autonomous. That means that they are self -regulated. They are trust minimized. The trust is based on the system or the encoded rules, open source rules that these systems have. And also there are not extrinsic powers that can control these systems. That's what it means to be autonomous. And then they are decentralized, meaning that these individual powers of any group or any person or any jurisdiction are really minimized among a sea of contributors, among a sea of participants. So, yeah, nobody there really controls the full picture. You really can interact with those DAOs according to the encoded rules. And yeah, there is no one person that can control that system. So for me, a DAO is like something like the Ethereum blockchain or a DAO is a really decentralized protocol on top of the Ethereum blockchain. That's what for me is a DAO. And they are not, the legal entities is an incorporated entity that has to be attached to specific rules in certain jurisdictions and these entities need to follow those rules that are set up by people. And the difference with a DAO would be that the rules in these systems are software. OK, so what is the right use case to form a DAO over a legal entity? I mean, I know there's not every organization is big enough where they need to incorporate or doing as important things, where they need to have an EIN number here in the States or a bank account. You know, can we operate as a DAO or will some government jurisdictions view that as doing business illegally? What have you seen so far in being in the DAO space for like five years plus now? So, yeah, I always say it depends on like what is it that you're trying to do? And if you are trying to do set up like an automated system, like a blockchain, for example, or a specific protocol, and if that is really going to be decentralized, yes, you don't have to incorporate that thing as an entity. However, you are contributing to the system and it's good that if you are, for example, part of the team of the developers that are setting up that blockchain, it's better for you to incorporate. But you have to make a difference between what is it that you are incorporating? Is it the organization under which these group of humans are going to be working for that DAO that they are building or that protocol or that blockchain that they are building? So, what you are doing is just forming an organization full of humans to collectively go and buy a house, go and buy a golf thing. There are now a lot of social DAOs called social DAOs and they are just a bunch of humans using a multi -sig. So, yeah, if these are the cases where you see that technology is not going to play a big role within that entity or system that you want to organize, you should incorporate. Yes, you should incorporate technologies front and center of DAOs and front and center of a system like the blockchain. If you go and see other types of what people call DAOs, they can use a multi -sig and that's a piece of technology. But they use that just to keep their funds, which are tokens. But then their main activities are always off -chain. They set up a group to go and buy certain tokens or buy a certain house or a land to build a golf course or something like that. In those cases, you should incorporate. Got it. So, what kind of tools out there are there to serve DAOs right now? Because it's very, very difficult to run any kind of business without the right kind of tools and software. Is it just a multi -sig wallet or are there other things as well, like analytics and hiring platforms, accounting, et cetera, et cetera? Yeah, so for me, as I said, for me, one thing is this really decentralized and autonomous organization like the blockchain or a protocol. And then there are other entities that they can contribute to these systems, to these blockchains. And we are seeing it already. These are the ones that are wrongly called DAOs. However, what I believe is that these entities are legal entities that can be used, not only multi -sigs, but they can use the smart contracts. They can also be governed at some point by the blockchain system or the token holders themselves, for example. So they can set up a foundation where the multi -sig is the tool for holding the assets of the foundation. However, for example, the token holders can decide through a connection with that multi -sig and the blockchain. They can decide who are the signers of that multi -sig. And yeah, they also can even keep the multi -signers accountable. So I think there are a lot of tools, starting with the smart contracts itself, that can make these entities, which are not a DAO because they are just a legal entity, but it can be very innovative as well because they will call there is a lawyer that call them a cybernetic entities or cybernetic organizations or borgs. So, yeah, they can also have their operations automated, for example. And they will be contributing to the system through many ways. Hiring the developers are one of the group of the developers that are maintaining and developing the software of that blockchain. And yeah, it's the tools that you can use for those automated or like more technological entities are unlimited. One of the features of DAOs is voting with different tokens and you have an on -chain record of what the vote was, it's transparent. But is that vote enforceable on -chain with code where you could transfer ownership automatically through the smart contracts if that's how it's voted? Or do you still need human recognition of the vote and willingness to hand over some of these things? For example, we saw in 2017 Tezos, which is a smart contract platform that really pioneered on -chain governance. Their entire treasury was basically held hostage by one of their founders for several years. And they had to go through all kinds of lawsuits just to get them to give it over because they were basically creating a solution for a problem that they themselves had, which was the irony of the whole thing. Where is it at today? Not necessarily Tezos, but just in general. Yeah, no, I think today in general you can have on -chain enforcement. And that's a very good thing because you don't have to go to the traditional legal system to enforce any decision. However, I know that also the blockchains and the systems right now are very limited. So there are certain things that you could automate, like, for example, they vote on the upgrade of the system itself, like a software upgrade of the system itself, that can be once a vote passes, that can immediately be enforced. Today we have the blockchains and the different toolings have that capability. However, there are other cases where the automation is not about the tooling, if that is possible or not, it's about if that makes sense or not. And I think one of the biggest examples for that is, for example, when the community or the token holders are voting for a grants program. It's very difficult to automate decisions like what team to fund or what not. This is still very human. There are activities around these blockchain ecosystems that are still very human. And it's important for humans to participate rather than automate those things because they are very subjective. It's very difficult to set up objective rules around allocations of funds, for example. So I think today you can have an automated enforcement, but sometimes it's best not to have that automated enforcement. Another thing is that, as I was saying, you can have a foundation, a legal entity and certain parts of that foundation can interact with the blockchain and also can be influenced or directed by the token holders. Like I said, a foundation that has a multi -sig and their funds are, even though the foundation manages the funds, the token holders keep these people accountable, the signers of that multi -sig accountable. And the thing is that, yes, you can do that through a totally on -chain and say that if the participant does something specific, I don't know, move beyond a certain threshold, for example, and move assets beyond a certain threshold without following the specific processes, then through a vote, the token holders could change those signers or leave those signers out of that multi -sig. However, in terms of if some of the things happen and the community was not aware of those things and they could not act before those facts, then I think it's also useful to have some legal system in place. For example, there are jurisdictions that are starting to recognize blockchains. And so you can say, you can put in the bylaws of that foundation that the ultimate directors of that multi -sig are the token holders and that multi -sig is just a set of code that is deployed in this blockchain address. And so already certain jurisdictions, of course, not many are recognizing those things. So it's also good to have certain protection, legal protection whenever humans are involved. Can a DAO have a legally enforced contract or is it still this kind of ethereal creation that's not really recognized? Because for me, DAOs are truly blockchains or protocols are more close to a machine or to a computer than to a corporation like the ones that we know today. It's best that DAOs don't have, you know, I see these systems as an illegal thing and it's not because of our revolutionary thing. Your legal system doesn't apply to us and why not? It's just because there is no need. And we have examples of systems or like jurisdiction recognizing that it's not, there is no way for them to come and try to regulate that system or control that system. For example, you have seen the SEC saying that, you know, like that Bitcoin is not a security. They don't try to regulate that blockchain. They don't try to to regulate the Ethereum blockchain either. They consider those things truly decentralized. There is no one group that they could regulate. They couldn't go and like try to, they can't regulate. And, you know, the people that are contributing to the blockchain, to the Bitcoin blockchain that are based in the US, but beyond that, they can't do much. So I think, yeah, having, saying that a blockchain has a legal enforceable contract, it doesn't make sense. There is no need for that. And also it's like there are two different systems that they can complement each other. However, we shouldn't confuse them. And this is why I say currently there is this DAO identity problem that, yeah, people are, depending who you are talking to, for a specific person, a DAO is one thing and for another, a DAO is another thing. Yeah, it's hard to get our head out of the traditional mindset of an organization. You know, when I'm thinking of, okay, I want to start a DAO and I want to have a team under me, you know, I better come up with an employment contract or, you know, I better have articles of incorporation if I need to get on an exchange because they're going to ask for it. But a DAO wouldn't have any of those things, would it? Yeah. So how do you, how do you like literally join a DAO? Like, do I need to like send someone an invite code and they log in with their wallet? Like, what is the actual step by step process of joining a DAO? You just have to follow the rules of that DAO. So, for example, and again, and I go back to the biggest examples for me, which is the Bitcoin blockchain or Ethereum blockchain. If you want, you just, if you want to push some code, you have to follow the rules of that system. And of course, I mean, I imagine that also, you know, like you should join the core, some of the core teams that could, that have that, the power to push code to the system and upgrade the system and change the rules. However, this group of developers, they per se, on their own, they cannot change the rules, you know, in Bitcoin, miners have to accept those things and also they know that around the blockchain as well. So, yeah, it's like for you to participate in a DAO, you should be following the encoded, the software rules that are public and knowledgeable by everybody that can be publicly auditable and open source. And so as soon as you do that, you can become a core developer. You can become a miner. You can run nodes for the blockchain, you know, in proof of stake, you can be a validator following the rules of that system. That's how you participate in the DAOs. Got it. So if we're thinking like a decentralized exchange, for example, they're pretty much the same, whether it's, you know, Uniswap or PancakeSwap on BNB chain or Osmosis on Cosmos. You know one, you know them all. They're 99 % the same features. Are all DAO tool suites the same, just on different chains? Or is one more robust than another? Where should we start looking if we want to start researching and getting our hands on actual DAO tools? Yeah, I mean, that depends. Like you said, you said that you put as an example, the DEX, depending on what is it that you're looking for. For example, Uniswap is a good example of, for me, it's another DAO. Even if a lot of people criticize that, yes, that is decentralized. Decentralized system doesn't mean that there is not centralized participants, right? And so, but the thing is for it to be decentralized, it means that these centralized participants, they might have control over a piece of the picture. They don't have control of the whole picture. So in terms of Uniswap, I think the protocol, every time that they want to, they need to upgrade the system, come with a new version of the protocol, they have to deploy a total new version and the community has to, like the previous version, the community can still use it. It's like, is this social consensus, the one that defines what's understand and identify as the Uniswap protocol? And so, yeah, on tooling, I think right now, for these systems, it's like mainly the smart contracts and in Cosmos, like I said, we don't have smart contracts in Cosmos, but there are other tools, like I said, like our stack. And, but in terms of like tooling for entities to interact with them, right now in Cosmos, there is something called DaoDao. So it offers a lot of toolings for the connection between blockchain and then these entities that are in the periphery contributing to the DAOs. And so, yeah, I think right now, I have to say, there are not a lot of Dao toolings or toolings for these entities. I think the most things that we have are like payment solutions, which at the end of the day are multi -six and like automated payments, for example, to pay, there is a DeFi protocol. I think right now, I can't remember the name in Ethereum, where what happens is that, that is out of the inflation of the token, that is part of that inflation goes to a multi -sick. And then the token holders, they decide to allocate funds, for example, to pay the developers that are developing the protocol. And those payments are automated according to also certain rules that the contributors need to follow. They need to go and present certain proof that they have deployed some code and they have worked and then the payout will go almost automatically. That sounds like an amazing system. I'll have to look it up and find out what that is. There's so many things that seem just to be built on. Coordinate is the name of that. Coordinate. Coordinate, exactly. OK, awesome. There's so many things that are built by Ethereum on default, but the Ethereum blockchain is so bogged down already. It's got most of the DeFi. It's got most of the NFTs. It's going to have most of the real world assets that are being minted now. This thing's going to be really, really heavy as we get into the next bull run. What are some of the things we should look to offload to the Cosmos ecosystem instead? Is there enough stablecoin liquidity for DeFi to come over? Or what should we really look into? What are some of the bright spots of Cosmos? The brightest spot in Cosmos is the IBC protocol and is an interblockchain communication protocol. The thing is, in Ethereum, all these L2s and rollups, they are chains.
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A highlight from How To Live Your Life Fully with James Heppner
"Welcome to A Magical Life, Health, Wealth and Weight Loss. I'm your host Magic Barclay, Lead Practitioner at Holistic Natural Health Australia and number one best selling author. In this podcast I aim to give you practical tips on how to accelerate and sustain your health, increase your financial, spiritual and emotional wealth and to look at something that haunts many of us needlessly, weight loss. In some episodes I'll have guests available to give you even more tips, but in others the floor is yours. Drop us a line at A Magical Life podcast on Facebook and let me know what you would like to know more about. Now sit back and enjoy because it is time for you to create and truly discover a magical life. Welcome back to A Magical Life, I'm your host Magic Barclay. Today James Hepner joins us. James likes to think of himself as an artist of experience. His passion is to create transformational experiences for himself and others as a way to explore what it means to truly live fully alive. James is a results coach and founder of Weekly Wins and Losses podcast and Weekly Global Community Call. He helps people in their journey to embrace all of life, both the wins and the losses equally. James helps you firmly establish the mental and physical courage needed to do difficult things while guiding you to activate your ability to leverage the good news that lies at the heart of both a win and a loss. People from around the world find James when their way of handling losses just no longer works and when leaving 50 % of life on the table is no longer an option. James' current client list ranges from well -known professionals and executives to average ordinary humans. Both of which are deeply hungry and curious towards the worthy work of breaking into and establishing a brand new dimension of life. Wow, welcome James. Thank you for having me on. It was an honor to be invited onto your show. And by the way, your name, Magic, that's spectacular. So let's see what we can create together. Thank you. Now look, James, I always ask my guests the same three questions and everyone gives me such a different answer. It's kind of amazing how diverse people are. So here's your first one. What can your expertise do to accelerate health? Now, not just physical health, but also emotional and spiritual health. What can my expertise do? That's fascinating. Some people, they ask me, James, are you an expert at anything? And to be completely honest, in another part of my life journey, not at present, but over a decade ago, I would have said, well, I'm an expert here, there and a few places. So I have learned in life, humbleness is probably ultimate state of leadership. But if you ask that question, I would say that one of the things specifically when I think about mental and physical health, gosh, we live inside of our life. We don't live inside of another person's life. And so inner acceptance, and I think so often, acceptance is just a word and it's a catchphrase, but I think beneath acceptance lies tolerance. And so if we cannot build the inner musculature to tolerate in a joyful way, what we observe, I think there's a problem. And so to accept is to tolerate and to enjoy tolerating and to unfold in real ways and to observe what that looks like. And then to say, wow, that was in there. And so I think to get playful with the presence that we actually all are, instead of being so harsh, and of course, harshness leads to shaming and blaming, which never tends to work. So yeah, my work tends to have a bend towards a whole bunch of inner work. And inner work, of course, is the thing and is the power that creates anything from the external, especially if it's going to be sustainable, it's got to come from within. So thanks. That was a great question. Talk about wealth here. Now people think that's just the financial wealth, but we miss the personal and emotional wealth, the personal growth, I guess. So what are your top three tips to creating wealth? Very simply, I would say when you align with the foundation of life, life supports more of life. At Current, I'm looking at your logo. It's a hand, and then there's some sprouts coming from it. Life supporting life. And so you must be about regeneration. You must participate with the ecosystem of regeneration. So that's number one. And so that's like you say, wealth, physical, mental, financial, whatever it ends up being. The next piece that I would say is very important. And that is we must have a leaning towards that life owes us nothing. When life owes us nothing, we end up realizing we are wealthy because wealth is abundant. It's everywhere. It's not a bank account. Wealth, often people will look at it as a sometime down the road experience. However, arrival happens at birth. And the next one, when I think wealth, wealth is a state of mind. So there's a lot of state of mind here, but the concept is, and I repeat these things to myself every day. I've created these things and that is nothing traps me, everything frees me. So wealth is a decision. And when something happens in your life, you get to participate with it and that is to utilize it, or you get to be able to trying to eliminate. And of course, when we try to eliminate things in life that are present, it seems not to work very well. If we try to flee our presence, it just seems not to bode well for us or anybody else around us. I just want to sit with that comment for a minute about decisions. I think people in general, I think we kind of shied away from making decisions and really taking ownership and leadership of the direction of our lives. Why do you think that is? Gosh, that's a great question. I think, just in my opinion, I think humanity, we all understand that without decision, nothing happens. The only thing is there's a wide divide between decisive decision and decision. Decision is just simply saying, well, I'm going to decide to do something about this. But a decisive one is one that brings a decision into action. And a decisive decision is a non -negotiable decision. A decision that isn't decisive lacks that absoluteness. And absoluteness, not to say we're going to plow things down and plow people or self or traumas over, because we have to be gracious. We have to lean in. We've got to be sensible about things. But I think ultimately, I think we as humans, and I don't think that we mean to sidestep reality or fast track too quickly. I think most of us value that if we get to be a part of something and participate with it, we all know that that brings meaning and value. But I think there's an anxious striving in society and it's kind of, I at least have observed, it seems like there's an undertow and the anxious striving supports people away from being present. And so they want things quicker than maybe what is there. They fear that they're not progressing fast enough. And so I think a lot of it has to do with just fearing that we're not, again, we're not progressing fast enough. And I got a little tale, like one of the people that come to mind, and I study many people, but the one group of people that I think are pretty interesting, the Jewish people. The Jewish people, when it comes to Sabbath, Sabbath is an act of rejection for them. It's not an act of restriction. And so I think oftentimes, I think we've mellowed down the importance and the power of decision. Because a lot of, I think North Americans variety of decisions comes through the lens of, well, I probably should decide on this. And so I should restrict myself away from certain things. And so, for example, when it comes to Sabbath, I don't have a leaning towards whether to work on a Sabbath is good or not. I just think, for example, Western society, if we think of secular Christianity in North America, what does that look like? They have a Sabbath too, but if it's restriction, what does the human want to do? The human wants to not do that. So if you say, I can't do something, the human typically says, well, now I want to do it. But the Jewish people, when they were in slavery and they finally were freed from that, they made a pact that for them, not working on the Sabbath, so whatever that looks like, like a six in one rhythm, you just unplug for a bit. When you do that, that is our decision, our decisive decision to wrap around the idea that we don't need to consume or create more so we can consume more. So I think, I mean, I'm going in a few different directions, but I think a lot of it has to do with fearing that we're not getting far enough. And then fearing we're not getting far enough, it's hard to bake into production and we fear we're not producing enough, so we can't consume enough. So I think it's a bit of a gluttonous concept, honestly. Interesting answer. James, we talk here about weight loss as well. This is our final standard question before we get into being fully alive. And I guess it kind of leads into being fully alive because many of us live our lives fearing weight or trying to change weight. So have you ever battled with your weight? If so, what was the trigger to losing it? And what can you offer the listeners who may be on this journey? And it's just stopping people being fully alive.
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A highlight from THE HASH: SEC to Challenge XRP Ruling in Case Against Ripple; FTX Claps Back at Creditors
"Hey there. Welcome to Coindesk TV. Welcome to The Hash. It's the best show on Coindesk TV in my humble opinion. I'm Zach Seward. We're joined by Jen Senassi, Will Foxley. They both agree. Best show. Good stuff. That's a fighting word, Zach. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Is that a compliment or a diss for me? It's a compliment. All of them. We're this, all of us together. We bring so much. You know, Jen, you have multiple shows. I'm not throwing shade at the other show, but this show. Sorry, Lawrence. This is what it's really all about. I have to agree. There you go. Love that. All right. It's pretty good. Enough hemming and hawing. My bad, folks. Let's get to the stories of the day. Will, lead us off. What's up? Okay. Let's go to FTX land and talk about bigger problems. This is a tough one. Creditors and debtors are fighting it out after a draft reorganization plan was filed by John J. Ray III, the new CEO of FTX and the FTX estate. Of course, they're going through this chapter 11 process, which is going to be drawn out for quite some time. They've been at it for well over six months at this point, and they've been racking up a lot of fees. The creditors here are not super happy with the handling of a lot of different aspects of the estate. For one point, they even issued that, Hey, why is the treasury not being put into UST bills so we can earn a yield on top of all the money that is waiting to be distributed to FTX creditors? The estate has some thoughts about that. There's some back and forth here. At the end of the day, I think it's just two groups arguing over a vast sum of money that is owed from one party to another. This is a story as old as time itself, right? Like chapter 11 back and forth. Jen, I got to throw it to you. What's your take on this one? I'm imagining when I read the story, I imagined FTX's new management, like in suits, you know, all the lawyers that are making all that money that we spoke about way back when trying to talk to like a bunch of degents who won't turn their zoom cameras on and just getting absolutely frustrated. There are some real great nuggets in here if you read the footnotes and the whole thing, but I think it makes sense. Like FTX's management needs to be conservative. They need to look at this whole thing holistically. I think this is one group, it's the group of unsecured creditors who are saying, no, you need to do X, Y, and Z. I think they were suggesting putting some of the money into long -term crypto holdings. They're talking about US treasury bonds. And, you know, I think that's a little bit risky when you're looking at getting as much money as possible back to all of the people who are owed money in this. There's a lot to dive into here, but Zach, I want to get you in first before we dive down that rabbit hole. I do like the part where it's just like, we're going to put it all on red and we are going to weight it back in one spin, baby, let's do this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like that meme. It's like that, I don't know, I forget which movie it is, but the Las Vegas meme where everyone's like gathered around the craps table, like various disfigured injuries, and you often see various sort of crypto figureheads placed into that meme. And you can imagine the degens on the creditors side being like, yes, we can do it this way. But really, it's just a tug of war between two parties seeking to establish power over these proceedings, right? I think this is very much in response. This is kind of John J. Ray kind of clapping back and saying, hey, creditors like pipe down. I know you said this thing where you want control over who's making these decisions. I think that was the previous week that the creditors committee came out and cast a little shade on how the estate is handling things. And hey, J. J. Ray the third is going to clap back. If we know anything, this man does not mess around. We've seen this guy come out firing time and time again. He's ready to roll sleeves and put the fisticuffs up on this one. So interesting to see, again, the war of where it's escalating between these parties who see different priorities and how this should be handled. And this is some tension sort of spilling out into the public sphere. Will, what do you think? Three bits and pieces here. Maybe it's context. Maybe it's just kind of fun facts. I just want to bring up one. There's this debate over should FTX reboot FTX 2 .0. As it were, John J. Ray the third and the FTX estate has hinted at it and maybe even like suggested that they might move forward with it. Certainly a lot of creditors and debtors who want this to occur because they think this is possibly the only way for them to see more of their money, typically in chapter 11, and we see like maybe like 11 cents on the dollar get paid out. Eventually, I mean, Gox Celsius, there's so many different stories in the past where we haven't really seen the money go back completely. Another few thoughts on this is one, the debtors have issued in this note, a complaint that they have not met with the estate at all. And it seems to be some frustration there because the FTX estate is spending so much, like millions of dollars, like the hourly cost for these things is incredible. Yet they're unwilling to meet with the debtors in this situation, which strikes me as a little bit odd, but maybe they just don't want to deal with it. And I suppose if I was in their situation, making a lot of money, I wouldn't answer the phone either. I don't know. Jen, I have to add this to Tidbit and they are, I guess, looking for solutions if we want to get the unsecured creditors some points here. They the reason that they were suggesting that FTX look into short term treasuries was to help offset that 330 million dollar legal fee bill that we spoke about on the show, I think it was months ago now. So they are coming with solutions. You got to give them some credit there. Zach, I'm going to hand it off to you for last words. This story will never die. This is the story that will never die. Maybe we can talk about it 10 years from now, if we're lucky. Oh, wow. It's kind of like all the other FTX stories too, right? Whether it's like got new information about Allison or Sam or whatever, it's like two different tracks for the same story. Yeah, you got to have, you know, like the, you got the A storyline and the B storyline. You got the suits sparring over various procedural updates. And then you, you got the juice over here. You got the, you got the Machiavellian and you got the personal drama, you got all sorts of stuff, all sorts of stuff. Maybe, maybe when Netflix finally makes the documentary, they'll use a clip from the hash. That is my dream. We have been in a book about this. Yes. Shout out to Brady Dale. Now Avaxios, go get that book. All right. That's it. We're going to change gears. We are going to go to an update on the Ripple case. Now, last month there was a big judgment from a federal judge saying that certain sales of XRP satisfied securities transactions. Others did not. And now the SEC is appealing or is asking for permission to appeal that judgment a in major case that has been closely watched in the crypto world. When this judgment was first issued by federal judge Annalisa Torres, who was seen as a partial victory for Ripple and a partial victory for the industry writ large. So clearly, the SEC is advancing its case that maybe those programmatic sales also qualify as securities transactions and they're asking for a certain type of appeal on the matter. Jen, I'm going to throw it to you. Everyone was super duper bullish about this decision from Judge Torres, and now they may have to take it back to appeal. How does that sort of change our understanding of what happened here? This is another story that just will keep going on, I think, until the end of time. It feels like we've been following the Ripple case. It did feel like there was like a moment where this entire industry took a breath and thought, wow, this this is a small win for us. It's a small win. It gives us a little bit of clarity, a little bit of direction. We, of course, have seen since then Coinbase has referenced this partial win in some of their filings against the SEC. And now I just feel down in the dumps again. Of course, there's still a trial pending here. And now we have the SEC filing this appeal, which I think everyone expected. The SEC said that they were going to file the appeal. The part that I'm going to watch and that I think is kind of interesting is Judge Torres said Ripple did not break the law when the XRP token was sold on public exchanges because purchasers had no reasonable expectation of profit based on Ripple's efforts. I just wonder if we're going to see Ripple's efforts come to light here compared to the price of the XRP token. Ripple has made a lot of announcements about acquisitions, new projects, new products, and if that is going to be some swaying information in this case, because I think that it's not a far cry to draw a parallel between Ripple's new project and the price of the XRP token, even though Ripple has definitely distanced themselves from that narrative. Will, what do you think? Yeah, classic Ripple. It's not our token. We just found it out there. I don't know. It was in the wild somehow. Going back to like the lawsuit here in the case between SEC and Ripple Labs, the programmatic selling part that Zach brought up, this is the thing that confused a lot of people, and there was definitely a lot of lawyer opinions on this, including some op -eds I've written on Coindesk, so definitely go check those out for an expert's opinion. From a layman's opinion, just looking at this, it seemed a little odd that you could have this broken up into two different tranches, right, where we could sell to VCs, we could sell to banks, we could sell to institutions, and that's not okay. But if we sell it onto an exchange where there's just retail clients and they're not really having an investment contract, they're just purchasing, I guess, like a commodity in this case or something like that, then it's okay. And it just didn't make sense to a lot of people when they first saw this. I only saw a few lawyers who were looking at that and were like, oh, yeah, that checks out. I think it also, if it stands, sort of cuts at the heart of how a lot of crypto lab companies or foundations do their sales of assets when they create them, or quote unquote assets. Oftentimes we see private rounds where initially there's like a premium uncreated, and then they divvy up that pre -mine to investors, to insiders, to the foundation, to the early team, and then they do a huge sale to the retail, either through like an airdrop or listing an exchange elsewhere later on. So let's take a world coin, for example, they did this, right, where they gave some to early investors, they gave some to the team, and then they gave a ton to market makers to be able to keep the price of the token pretty steady. And under this ruling from this judge, a lot of that would be broken, right? Like, would you be able to give a token to market makers to even loan it out so you could have a price? I don't know if you can do that anymore under this. It seems like you could only really sell it to retail. That seems odd to me, it seems like it's going to change. And I don't think it's a surprise to anyone to see the SEC go against this, or at least try to challenge it. The outcomes from it could have huge repercussions for how everyone is looking at the token market. Zach? Yeah, my understanding is that a lot of these sales sort of date back before established best practices were set up right for a lot of these token distributions, right. So this is this is from an era in which a lot of the regulatory kosher practices were being embraced. So I think a lot of this space has evolved. And I think there is a question as to whether or not this will impact sort of the current understanding of how tokens get distributed to early investors. I think the SEC had to appeal this one because, Will, as you mentioned, it really undercuts Gary Gensler's argument that almost everything except for Bitcoin basically is a digital asset security. Now, I mean, I think my understanding of the ruling was that it's not really the securities, it's not really the assets themselves, it's which type of transactions they're involved in. And that was sort of the fine line that Judge Torres was trying to distinguish here, right? You know, similarly to how in the Howey test, it stemmed over an orange grove in Florida, right? The oranges themselves aren't necessarily securities, but if they are involved in a securities transaction, then they meet certain requirements in terms of disclosure and other things that need to happen, right? So the understanding, at least on the industry side, was, hey, the assets are just like the oranges. They aren't inherently securities, but if they're in a securities transaction, then certain rules will apply. And that's what Judge Torres was trying to articulate, whereas Gary Gensler has been trying to say, these things are securities, they look like a security, they walk like a security, they quack like a duck, I don't know what I'm saying anymore. But he was saying that that is always the case with these things, that they are by nature of their existence are our securities. Whereas the judge is saying, no, no, we need to look at the specifics of the transactions in which they're involved. So a lot of people, I think, within the industry specifically saw that as a pretty reasonable explanation of how it can be both at the same time, a security and not a security. And now I think the SEC is at least taking another shot at advancing their case here, such that other claims relating to other assets can be supported. But yeah, I mean, this is I think, I think a lot of lawyers, this was definitely the thing where a lot of lawyers on crypto Twitter were sort of placing their bets in terms of what would happen. Some were more cautious that an appeal would would occur. Others were indicating that there would likely not be an appeal here. Now we see with this particular type of appeal that the SEC is going to have this one looked at again, under video review, but who knows? There's a new social marketplace on the block and it's called Calixi. The platform hopes to empower content creators to build personal economies and interact directly with their fans. Joining us now to discuss is Calixi CEO and co -founder Solos Sisay and co -founder and NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie. Good afternoon to you both or good morning. I don't know where everyone is. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good morning. All right. Let's let's talk about the launch of this. It's been in beta for a while. It's now officially launched on yesterday's show. We spoke about Grimes coming out in the media and saying she actually made more money from her NFTs than her music career. Talk to us about the experience that creators can have on the app. As we look at monetization of the individual holistically, I think you're going to get some of those familiar features that you see from like in OnlyFans, et cetera. People being able to message, video chat, and then Calixi isn't very unique in the fact that they can create individual experiences. Like I have like a jump shot tutorial, things of that nature. But yes, it's all about monetization of oneself. Also, you can post your NFTs, et cetera. We have Web3WAD in there running on Hedera. But yeah, I mean, it's about monetization. So let me ask this one to you. This has been a long time coming for you guys, right? This project, I think you've been working on it for three years. Talk to me about what it means to get this fully launched today and what you learned over that process of cobbling this thing together over those three years.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 08-08-2023 16:00
"Today, Scar, I'm wondering if investors were coming in and buying the dip or if they got a little spooked and they took a step back and said, wait a second, our worries are confined to one sector. Yeah, it just looked like the bank's downgrade from Moody's was a repeat of the worries that existed in April and May, but nothing really new there. I mean, people had already kind of factored all of that in. Yeah, absolutely. But I think the two, I think what rattled, what seemed to rattle the market out of that Moody's report was really kind of some of the corporate looking statements, the idea that I think what everyone thought was in the past with regards to the regional banking crisis, at least in Moody's view, they're saying still up ahead in the future. And I think that maybe is why, and also it wasn't just the banks that got downgraded. I think it was a lot of the bigger ones that got put on watch, that rattled some folks. Nevertheless, as we talk about a market that opened lower by more than a percent, and in fact, some of these indices were down two, three, 4 % on the day. Now we're only looking at fractional losses. The Dow Jones Industrial average down four of five -tenths of a percent. The S &P 500 down four -tenths of a percent. The NASDAQ composite down eight -tenths of a percent. And the Russell 2000 is going to finish out the day down by about six -tenths of a percent. All right. And let's just take a quick look at the S &P 500 in particular. We're seeing, just pulling it up here, 153 names in the index, actually higher for the day, 349 to the downside. So we did see a bit of a clawback, if you will, in a lot of these names in that index. All right. Let's take a look at the industry groups because when I came in this morning, it was pretty much all red. There was one group in the green, and that was the pharma stocks because of Eli Lilly. You can see how that's shifted a little bit here. Pharma stocks still at the top of the heap there, powered by Eli Lilly. Utilities led by Duke Energy moving higher. And notable that Apple snapped its five -day decline. So tech hardware also finishing up in the green. On the downside, you have chip makers, healthcare equipment stocks, and insurers, each off by more than 1%. All right. So as Scarlett...
The Dan Bongino Show
Matt Palumbo: PolitiFact Hides Joe Biden Speaking to Hunter Biden
"Throw a question that you're a really good analyst what's going on the political space right before we came on the air uh... peter baker at the new york times i mean a devout leftist this probably a communist he tweeted out this thing that that i thought you get a kick out of it trumps last defenses what about ism and um... responded back what about ism is great like what about a set of constitutional principles we don't violate like if you're we're going going to prosecute trump first free speech and objecting to election results but i want to see clinton al gore in jail to correct any what about ism is a great thing and we shouldn't run from that i think he exposed himself yeah i don't know what you think a double standard is apparently an indictment of us nowadays but there is again a double standard writing that statement it's incredible yeah i i just i get a kick out of it because they seem to think that's an insult what about ism you you should engage in all the time it it like you said it's it's us saying hey we live in a institutional republic where we believe everyone's held to the same standard you have a series of god -given rights if they're violated before for you know one group republicans and then protected by democrats of course going we're to call it out so i had a lot i know you're a critic of the media like i am but yeah i actually i was researching uh... what politically acting about all the stuff this week and uh... right before the show and uh... so so as we know you know the smoking gun from devin arthur is that hunter and his father joe he knew about other's each business arrangements joe was playing a role so politically act is trying to sort of obfuscate and the way they characterized it is that devin arthur's revelation was that joe biden spoke to his son hunter not not about anything in particular just that the father and son happened to talk to each other like as if that's something need we would a whistle -blower to learn so that's another way that they they they just straw man what reality is i'm like he's not
The Dan Bongino Show
Dr. Peter McCullough: Three Risks Groups From COVID Vaccines
"The field. There's a little But bit a good of news and what he had to say, but I want you to hear his answer. Check this out. There's some new data that came out in the science direct dot com and they're saying that the risk of myocarditis for teens was no higher than and other vaccinations and it was actually significantly higher in 12 to 17 after Well, let Well, let me get to that in a minute. Let's just address your situation dances less than I talked to a really critical go paper was published. And the first author is Schmeling and colleagues from Denmark. They had all the Pfizer administration data and all the side effects. They figured out that there are three risk groups for the lots the batches of vaccines that come from the companies and the first group about a third People of they have zero side effects zero. I mean none Another two thirds. They have some moderate side effects like a sore arm for a day or two and then nothing happens after that. And then sadly, there's a third group 4 .2 % of all doses. The side effects are through the roof. Myocarditis blood plots, stroke, immediate death. So what we've learned is, you know, fortunately you're probably in one of the groups where nothing's going to happen and it's because you got lucky. We think some of the batches basically got super loaded with messenger RNA aggregation of lipid nanopires. It could have been contaminated with cDNA or other contaminants. They're not inspected by the companies. Under EUA, there's no inspections for quality, it could be purity or safety. So I think that's important to know. With myocarditis, I have to tell you Dan, I'm a cardiologist, I'm seeing this every day in the office. There's over 200 peer -reviewed publications on it and the bottom line is COVID -19 vaccine causes more myocarditis than anything we've ever seen. It blows away other vaccines. With COVID -19, before the
The Dan Bongino Show
Dr. Peter McCullough: Study Signals 3 Risk Groups From Pfizer Vaccine
"Let me get to that in a minute let's just address your situation dense last this time i talked to you a really critical paper was published and the first author is schmeling and colleagues denmark they had all the Pfizer administration data and all the side effects they figured out that there are three he risk groups for the lots the batches of vaccines that come from the companies and the first group about a third of people they have zero side effects zero i mean none uh another two -thirds they have some moderate side effects like a sore arm for a day or two and then nothing happens after that and sadly there's the third a group four point two percent of all doses the side effects are through the roof myocarditis blood blood clots stroke immediate death so what we've learned is uh... you know fortunately you're probably in one of the groups where nothing's going to happen is because you got lucky we think some of the batches are basically still got super loaded with messenger RNA aggregation of lipid nanopires that could have been contaminated with cDNA there or are other contaminants they're not inspected by the companies under EUA there's no inspections for quality purity or safety so i think that's important important to know with myocarditis i have to again tell you i'm a cardiologist i'm seeing this every day in the office there's over 200 peer -reviewed publications on it and the bottom line is a COVID -19 vaccine causes more myocarditis than anything we've ever seen it blows away other vaccines with COVID -19 before the vaccines it was just a handful of cases no serious cases now there are fatal COVID vaccine -19 myocarditis all over the place recent paper by Cho and colleagues from korea 481 cases dan
Bloomberg Radio New York
"one group" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Yeah. I'm definitely hopeful in that there's one group that looks at the labor market and that it's prized measure of tightness is the vacancies to unemployment ratio. And that ratio hit record highs and it's come down a lot. It's still the level is still higher than it was before. But it's come down in a way that hasn't tanked the labor market. The danger of course is if you if you get a recession and you try to land the plane nose down tends to be that the labor markets when they deteriorate, they deteriorate rapidly. The unemployment rate goes way up, you see layoffs and everybody's trying to avoid that. If at all possible. What would you say to the idea of rate cuts in the sense that Wall Street is already thinking that you're probably going to have to do that by the thing is I've said a very first speech that I gave is when I took over in Chicago. Emphasize, I'm not a fan of setting monetary policy based on what the market says or try to predict how the market's going to react. I think the overwhelming thing that the feds got to do is pursue the dual mandate. It's about the real economy. It's about inflation, which is too high, but at least we're making progress and is about the employment mandate where the job market remains quite strong. So I think it's far too premature to be talking about rate cuts and premature to be saying even for the next meeting. Are we going to pause? Are we going to raise? Are we going to cut? We got to get as much data as we can, and it behooves us at a moment where we followed the strangest business cycle in history with one of the strangest credit conditions that we've seen in decades. We got to look at a lot more measures than just unemployment inflation and wages in the kind of the conventional box of numbers that we looked at. And that's the president of the Federal Reserve bank of Chicago. Austin Gould speaking with Bloomberg's Michael McKee from the fed's conference in Amelia island, Florida. If you'd like to hear the full conversation, you can get it on today's Bloomberg daybreak podcast download that on Apple Spotify or anywhere else you get your podcasts. And on the topic of the data dependency that we heard from president Gould's V at the end of that conversation, stay with us for much more fed speak coming up here. We'll bring you thoughts from Richmond fed president Thomas barkin on why he sees the latest data and is thinking maybe pause, maybe not, pause when the fed holds its next meeting next month after we get that slew of inflation and consumer data that will proceed the next fed meeting. Up next, the latest on the debt ceiling talks heading into crunch time and why Elon Musk may be changing his mind when it comes to ads for Tesla that's coming up in our 5 30 news. First
AP News Radio
Texas shooter's 'RWDS' patch linked to far-right extremists
"Authorities have not said what they believe might have motivated a man to shoot and kill 8 people at a Dallas area mall over the weekend, but one police official suggests that the shooter may have embraced the views of far right extremists. An official who wants to remain anonymous tells The Associated Press that social media accounts believed to have been used by 33 year old Mauricio Garcia appeared to have expressed an interest in white supremacist and neo Nazi views, Garcia was wearing a patch that read R wds short for right wing death squad. It's a phrase that has been embraced in recent years by far right extremists who glorify violence against their political enemies, one group that has adopted the term is the Proud Boys, smaller groups that participated in the white nationalist unite the right rally in Charlottesville Virginia in August 2017 were named right-wing death squad, Garcia, who opened fire at the mall on Saturday, was killed by a police officer. I'm Donna water
The Charlie Kirk Show
Shameful New California Law Rewards Race-Based Victimhood
"Cut 16. I want to get your response to it. Cut 16. How do you qualify for it though? Because they're obviously are people who perhaps have just moved into California. They wouldn't be eligible, would they? Or would they? Well, what they've done here with this particular measure of the day, I looked at it, that they have the tried to tie it into particular things. So for example, if you lived in California for a set amount of years and you could have theoretically been redlined, which is an act done by the housing department, which discriminated against communities, you could receive money. If you have been arrested within a certain range of years, you could have been a victim of mass incarceration, so to speak, I mean the criteria for this is so sloppy. It's so unrefined. And frankly, it's so downright shameful that I'm not entirely sure how they came just by this themselves. So you heard the logic that's the red line, which I predicted. But I did not predict that if you had been the victim, the victim. Now we're talking about the gaslighting of the American people. If you have been the victim of mass incarceration, Libby. Yeah, again, if you were incarcerated, you have served your time to society and nothing further should be asked of you because of that. Nor should you be asking anything further from anyone else unless you actually were innocent in which case there are ways to go about getting your record expunged or what have you and people Sue about that. But that's not even what we're talking about. We're talking about not at all. We're talking about taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people based entirely on their skin color. As though these people are the victims just across the board of everything. And this is, of course, such a huge problem in our society right now, this grievance culture, this need to declare your level of oppression, this need to say that you have been victimized to cross your arms over your chest and demand that people pay attention to you in exactly the appropriate way that you want them to pay attention to. And it's not reasonable. The level of pride that goes into demanding that everyone else treat you a certain way and bow down to the things that you have experienced in your life is just absurd and it's anti American and we should all know this,
KLIF 570 AM
"one group" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
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WNYC 93.9 FM
"one group" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Ethnic unemployment gaps. And she just explained Why, Wendy Thanks a lot really good talking. Thank you. Amid all the economic uncertainty the pandemic has wrought. There was a note of success this week. A really important one too. The number of households that were food insecure last year didn't go up. Yes, Flat is good to hear. The report comes from the Department of Agriculture. But there is A bit more to the story as marketplaces, Amanda Picture reports. In the pandemic. Early days, food banks saw long lines and a lot of folks were in a scary, uncertain place. So the USDA report is good news, says Jim Sullivan, economics professor at Notre Dame, He says despite so many people losing work in 2020 and lots of struggles with the pandemic and health concerns. We don't see that overall food insecurity has has increased. What Sullivan calls sizable government relief is why pandemic unemployment benefits and stimulus checks also more access to food through the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. There was actually an increase in snap benefits. Elia guards with hunger Free Colorado Aid efforts did try to lend extra support two households with kids but sometimes getting food meant, for example, having a drive to a brown bag meal pickup hard for families without a car. That's something that that family is not going to be able to access, even if it's offered that kind of challenges. Why households with Children were the one group that did experience more food insecurity last year? Many families had to turn to food pantries when they lost a job or hours were cut. Kelly direct with the Mississippi Food Network, says some of them just barely didn't qualify for snap. They were just a little over the threshold and making too much money or having too much income, but they still don't have enough food to feed their families. Even for those who do get assistance. There is what some call a benefits Cliff coming this fall pandemic unemployment benefits for parents who couldn't work or gig workers ended on Labour Day and others, like the.
WIBC 93.1FM
"one group" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"I don't know why I'm talking like this at all. Not trusting the New York Times is exactly what you're supposed to do, because you have a mind. Can you trust the nobles will schools It was it was sent to me. It was sent to me this This conversation that nobles will had And how they were gonna break up into these little groups. And discuss things going on in the schools, and they really want you to know that they have no plans of teaching critical race theory, but they're very, very invested. In Not only d E I Diversity equity inclusion, but they're also very vested. Very invested in social emotional learning. Now I will tell you I am still learning. About social emotional learning. What I have seen thus far does not make me feel Very good. In that you might want to say that that social emotional learning Is about helping kids deal with adversity, but I don't know if teachers are qualified to do sexual thing. I don't know if you was a school are qualified. Mainly because I've seen some of the other things that happened. No, I'm not gonna specifically call out nobles will schools about this. It's just where I saw the video. Let me show you how one group of parents responded in Georgia. When critical race theory and social emotional learning were kicked to the curb. Pretty important nor your school board have.
The Business of Thinking Big
"one group" Discussed on The Business of Thinking Big
"Because that's really what i do. Best in make it easy for them to say stick their hands off. We all let handle everything for them. Yeah yeah that's something that we i think. A lot of us can relate to because i coached so many amazing women that are good at so many different things. Rachel have oh you. What's your experience. Been like getting the package down has been a huge challenge for me and mostly because of my inability or resistance to nation. Like i've spent years just trying not even trying. There's a resistance to Because i'm a coach and my processor. Rhyme method doesn't have to be specific to anybody. Coaching can be for anybody. And i do have a lot of people coming right. It's students who are in ivy league colleges leaders managers moms entrepreneurs a coach essentially anyone through transformation or healing and so really just niching is has been my biggest challenge. Yeah yeah i. I feel you on that and i feel like what i have experienced in coaching. So many amazing women like you is. There is a fear that we might leave somebody out or a fear that we we might be doing them a disservice by not speaking to them by not sharing. Not zeroing in on them dimple. I feel like this might be something that you can chime in on his. Well ipad a huge resistance to shane and partly because i love coaching moms but i also love coaching their children. So it's been very difficult to just narrow it down to one group and now realizing that you must the more narrow you get the more successful the businesses right because you can speak directly to the client. You know exactly how to to speak to them and how to market to them and how to get inside their heads and feel really the motions that they're feeling so i feel like the niching is actually key and i've been resisting it for a long time as well. Yeah it's funny. How we resist. The things that we know are gonna build us the business that we want right nice suzanne. I see you nodding. And i know that you've already really started to do some of this work in this department. Tell me about your experience and you know to be honest in my vulnerable moments. I still panic a little bit. Because i'm worried that i committed what i have been able to do is define and because i've been able to define i'm able to find people and they're able to find me and it. It has been my moments where i quiver in vass. I'm invalidated validated. When i when that woman find me again and the issue with knee shing is..
Scientific Sense
"one group" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Stimulus let's say a noxious stimulus that would generally provoke the sensation of pain. It's you have to remember that it isn't just a neutral stimulus lake say Seeing an apple or or you know an apple pie. This is a stimulus that carries with it the prediction that if you don't respond to it you're gonna dammit. You're gonna suffer some damage there's gonna be a cost to you thing did is important to remember about painful stimuli in particular. Is there not just about what's happening there prediction about what's gonna happen right. What's happening is you know you're near a red hot. You know iron the prediction is did you You're going to get a burn. You're gonna get tissue damage and it's not gonna be good right so Knowing that you wanna get you wanna escape as quickly as possible. And you activate your motor system in addition a because it's predictive. There's a what we call a top down modular 'tory pathway recall it the pain modulating system and this runs from the cortex through the brain stem back down to the spinal cord and it controls the volume on the pain intensity scale. The point of that in it is that you know. Generally there's gonna be a time course for the pain intensity and this is a really important point seventy to go over slowly if the pain if let's use a temperature because it's the simplest to understand if you put your hand on something. The temperature's rising the predictions can be if you leave your hand there over the next center to get worse so you wanna pull your hand away. But let's say that it's mildly painful but instead of the temperature rising it's falling right at that point. You think oh well. I don't need to worry the temperatures going down so i don't need to respond to it now. We have evidence that this top down system can control sensation. Bi directionally if stimulus intensity is rising. It amplifies the signal so it feels worse at any given temperature than it would if it was a steady state temperature stimulus on the other hand. If the temperatures falling at any given temperature it's felt as less intense than a steady temperature so M we have evidence from a functional imaging and people that this rising this falling temperature engages this top down inhibitory system it can also engage a tap down excited to resist. The top bound system is bidirectional one group of cells. Amplifies the pain. We call those pills. There's another group of cells. In the brain stem that inhibit pain. And we call those off cells. The off cells are activated by analgesic. Medications like morphine can be activated. By dodges opioids call endorphins and they can produce actual.
The Know Show
"one group" Discussed on The Know Show
"After so many years hanging out with particularly you know this one group is family that has adopted me and i kind of know them really well and unfortunately the older generation a slowly dying away and but i kind of felt like you know i kind of knew what life is like and despite the changes you mentioned you know research a long period of time. Things have changed but at the same time. There's a very strong continuity. I mean i tend to say what gets people up every morning is the same. Actually any kinship. You know. it's their relationships. Their fights and every time i go. The fights shifted a.
Fandom Zone Podcast
"one group" Discussed on Fandom Zone Podcast
"Yeah twenty scream. I've always to i and i miss. That can't really do it. Justice but yeah it's it's it's very disturbing and it's perfect for the winter soldier. It's kind of like the high pitch strings. The job gets in the dark knight that kind of thing get sex so dissonant if you will right you hear those notes that you're like eat your instantly thinking of the winter soldier because it's so identify with the character which is so good as to the score for composer was very much so warming. It's just like you know. Our beloved hans zimmer with the wonder woman theme where soon as that starts playing electric shadow star took to That's one of the best modern themes for a superhero of lake. So i think so. I think so There's nothing else about this episode. What your ratings are those talk about. Our favorite quotes quotes did have a couple because the we in the it was. Actually the show is really the the one that i really like. One of them was when it came to allay. Actually when she said you know how you call the guy whose wife died. A widower with your parents die. You're an orphan you know. There's no word for someone whose kids die because it's like the worst thing that can happen like that's going to hurt and and then another one i liked was sam speech. Well at least. I'm not going to the whole speech because it's gonna take forever but what i did like was the fact that though the fact the phrase steve represented the best in all of us courageous righteous hopeful and he mustered posing stoically. And i'm just gonna leave it at that. But that's what justifies he represented the best will. It was beautiful. Big laughs stoically Let's see i like Torres talking with you see these guys. This is torres talking. These are the guys you gotta worry about. I've been stumbling other manifestos on message boards. They call themselves. The flax smashers. Am as like then a new thing. Bad guys giving themselves bad names. It torres says there's a lot of worst knaves for that. What basically they think that the world was better during the blip. Trust me. it wasn't instead replies. Trust me every time something gets better for one group. It gets worse for another. Why does that sound eerily close to home right the rhody talking crazy place right now. People are well..
The PR Playbook Podcast
"one group" Discussed on The PR Playbook Podcast
"We did But it was so. That was one piece that we did that. We're really proud of but then on the more sort of people reaching out to us. Because they were in crisis we had one group that called us who had a brick and mortar business. Who had never done anything ever done anything virtual and then all of a sudden. They're like i you know we need. It's all virtual and i. We need press. We need lots of press and we need everybody to cover us. And the ceo e. o. Wants press and i was like okay. Yeah no i. I hear you so since the world is on fire. What are you going to give to everyone because the service that you offer. I think well no. It actually was in the health space right. It actually was a very important thing. And i'm like you know we could probably put together a package where we go and we present it to multiple people at where you're partnering with sad elected official to operate for free or x. number. And they're like a. We're not gonna do it for free and i was like okay and they're like but you know the ceo just wants to make sure we're getting national press. And i said i go. Yeah here's the deal. I was like there is nothing special about it. I said we'll people pay people a good morning. America pick up our phone call. Yeah and then the last knee out of the room because the world is on fire. You know regardless of your politics like at the time we had a president that was chaotic in his communication style. At best right like so. I'm just. I wanna be like non not trying to get political. But it's just like that's like from a reporter's point of view point of view was in a nami right and by the way the world was on fire and there was a pandemic region so the people really thought that they could become thought leaders like this is like end of march that like by april..
Radio Survivor Podcast
"one group" Discussed on Radio Survivor Podcast
"One one group of people could really use an oldies radio station and another group of people could use christian music radio But they only have one casey. W it's a it's a and that's a story that's familiar to people at community radio stations. That oftentimes there are different Different needs being met by one station that make that make the station. Seem very You know the like avert a wide a wide variety of of programming Becky meyers you. Are the general manager. At kcrw. Raven radio in sitka alaska. You're here with us on radio survivor. we've been talking about the the year that was the pandemic you're at your radio station and i'm wondering how i've actually eric. I wanted to follow up on that on on this topic..
The Dave Pamah Show
"one group" Discussed on The Dave Pamah Show
"How that's playing out like you. It's during those times when you get to know people trust them or done and so that could show up. The trust part could really show up in a pressured situation. Like you know a fire or you know some kind of emergency. But you know. I think too about like in the the world of trusting your coworkers even just things like sometimes you know how people will have like sidebar conversations. While they're working and stuff like that you might be having way you feel like it's just a regular conversation at somebody else kind of spins it or repeat it and you didn't think it was gonna get repeated so there there's actress actor and the gallup organization has done a lot of studying around having friends at work and how more engaged you are. You have good friends at work. And one of the recent stats. I saw said that if you have a best friend at work your sixty three percent more likely to be highly engaged and a lot of that is because you have that safety. You have a friend you have. Somebody look forward to when you're going to work so you're kind of excited and happy and you've got that feeling where if you go to work and you think i don't have any friends you know. No one likes me or they all go to lunch together. Don't invite me whatever it might be right. Then you feel good going in so if you're not feeling good from the get go. You're probably not doing the best possible work that you can do. And those things show up in their called micro inequities when one group goes to lunch together and leave someone out. Were maybe after work. Go out and have a beverage. They don't invite yeah and then that person starts feeling excluded. Yes there can't be good relationships or trust or great work coming out of the team because there's not necessarily a weak link. They might be a really great employees but it doesn't have is not firing on all cylinders like it could..
Problematic Premium Feed
"one group" Discussed on Problematic Premium Feed
"Elite who are tolerant politics but even there racism though the Working class whites sincerely hold racism where the upper class whites Insincerely all just cynically deployed out For reasons of prophet so on top of that even though the Working class whites are posited as Sincerely racism racism. Gets you know kind of showing some kind of insurrectionary value or whatever. It is still taking waiter agency like their race. I can be condemned so much because they were propagandize and brainwashed by the powerful into it so one group is racist but it's not their fault then the other person is at fault but it's not actually racist and it just kind of secretly woke to secretly. Yeah it's funny. The logic go the other way if they wanted. If they're doing everything out of prophet. Then why are they secretly woke but clearly racist. Why can't they be sincerely racist and insincerely woke for profit. Somehow that doesn't really is not is never the case when amazon puts out an ad that says black lives matter. All that's real. That's how they really feel. That's that's i'm very cynical and savvy political observer and i believe every black lives matter instagram ad that a large corporation shows me like. That's how those people behave. Like i don't understand. They reconcile their like cynicism their pose of icy through it all and then they take corporate. Pr face value whenever it is like woke. Yeah but but whenever they're doing like Racist then no that's that's on just Cynical things to trick the white working class. I know it's kind of funny to this. Is another thing that makes no sense about them. They keep talking about how Not only is identity politics bad for bad for class ball six. They say that it's not actually useful for the actual identities reports to help.
The Better
"one group" Discussed on The Better
"The opposite is true. Doesn't make any sense at all in this study showed. That surgery was not effective. Okay i can find a little foreignness study. So maybe you know this question marks of the study you know often that's not the case but maybe there is so i'm guide to firmly conclude the opposite of what that concluded. It's there's no evidence whatsoever and yet. That's what i believe so i. I often sigh of of the scientific method is that it's it's the worst way of knowing things except for all the otherwise winston churchill when he said democracies the worst form of government except for all the others. So it's it's the best thing we've got and people get confused about science and i think it's all you know a little bit of theory. Let's separate what science these just a systematic method to reduce era and. It never actually tells you what the truth is. It could give you confidence limits and and estimates and things like that but it's fairly reliable and it's a fairly good tool to estimate the effectiveness of something of an operation or or or treatment And it does it. By reducing the amount of wrongness in the banana. Takes out all these things that can make your method wrong. You know Biases confounding The fact that this group saudi will one group that treated as older than the other group that he didn't treat so that's not fair. You know all these sort of unfair. A biased comparisons scientists away of minimizing all of that. So that the answer you get is as close to the truth as possible as you can get So that's all science. Is you know it's not that hard and so when we do trials of a surgery preferably we want the people doing the follow up to be blinded as to what treatment the patient Preferably we like the patience to be blinded as to what treatment they gonna sometimes very difficult to do but we certainly want the treated the.
Ron Paul Liberty Report
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"Be that That we would reassess it and And and do something about the fbi but it brings up in my mind right now. That a wanted. A couple of comments about the pardons because that was one thing that trump tried to do even before the final stage. But this final stage didn't get the Libertarian super hyped up. Say hi we have a great guy in there because we add a couple of names that we help we tried to help and others some progressives that were very strong in favor of them but it wasn't touch you know assange and in many others that he could have really gone out with a bang in really hit the deep state As people would say. Unfortunately it's kind of fitting and disappointing trump presidency where there was a lot of talk and very little action A lot of talk about getting out of wars. And then john bolton and mike pompeo came on stage but i would just close out. If you think. We're getting getting there with something. I hopefully. You'll find a little bit humorous. Dr paul and i haven't told you about this beforehand. So i want to surprise you but you know the military dot com. The democratic politicians are all on board with the military taking over. Dc the mayor of dc. She's been urged urge to actually force. Hotels refused business of trump's supporters. People who might be violent lawless protesters but they got she got a good backup in a good suggestion. Because there's one group out there that is very concerned about violence in his very concerned about preventing these horrible trump supporters from committing violence and mayhem. Here's a quote for military dot com the local black lives matter affiliate and shutdown c. issued a joint statement wednesday urging all downtown hotels voluntarily close and pay their staffs. Isn't that nice. That black lives matter worried about rioting in washington dc. I mean you just have to throw up your arms. Well maybe that proves that the organization backlog mavericks do matter. It does matter and they were. They have the clout which is really really a dilemma..
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