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A highlight from Jeremiah: A Burning Word
"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos November series 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post -Christian prophet, the one to preach to post -Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard -hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post -Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
Fresh update on "one more thing" discussed on SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
"Now we're left with Dazon, still in it, but they're raising prices. They're certainly trying to make as much money as they can off subscribers at this point. ESPN, we'll see what ESPN does in a couple of years when they have to pay all this money for NBA rights and for UFC rights. I keep seeing everybody saying boxing is the best place to be, Ben is having a great year. Sure, that may be true, but if it was in this great place, you would have networks and streaming services dying to get in business. But the fractured nature of it, Keith, it's not good. It's not a good landscape right now for boxing because you don't have providers eager to get in business with the sport. I think that's a problem. Chris, the surprising thing to some degree anyway is that boxing is cheap in comparison to other sports, like you mentioned the NBA, which frankly, these rights fees, they're grossly overpaying for these rights fees because they're just not making a real return on their investment. I think some of these high level TV executives are starting to realize that. The NFL might be a little different, but most other sports, they've overpaid for these licenses. But boxing is comparatively cheap. You would think that television streaming executives would view it as such and continue to televise it, but it all comes down to how many viewers it's doing. If they just don't see the juice as worth the squeeze, they're just going to eliminate it like anything else. It's not hard to figure out, I guess. I know, Chris, you cover the NBA as well, but I make a living exclusively covering boxing now. It's not positive for the future of the sport, for HBO to have gone out of boxing five years ago and now potentially Showtime going out of boxing. Fox was involved, which was good for the sport because it was available to more people just by it being on broadcast television. Now, like you said, ESPN has a little less than two years left on its deal with top rank. And if for whatever reason that deal is not renewed, which who knows, then you would have gone from having boxing on ESPN, Fox, Showtime, Dazon here in the U.S. to potentially Dazon if Dazon stays in boxing. Then what? Then where is boxing in terms of how you view it? The pay-per-view model has been destructive to the sport to some extent. You put all the best fights on pay-per-view. Here's a good example, Chris. If you're a hardcore boxing fan and you buy a lot of the pay-per-views, I know a lot of younger people in particular find a way to stream it or steal it, however you want to frame it. But if you paid $85 on Saturday night, you couldn't come away from that feeling good because you feel like one of the B-side of the main event didn't really try to win. And the unfortunately, what was billed as, and rightfully so, was billed as a great undercard. I mean, there were three very good matchups. You know, the co-feature between Erickson-Lubin and Jesus Ramos was a very dull fight and also one of the most perplexing decisions I've seen in quite some time because one of the judges scored nine rounds for Erickson-Lubin when he lost the fight. So you wouldn't come away from that. The first fight was amazing, by the way. I don't know if you watched the whole thing. The Elijah Garcia, Armando Resendiz fight was a dogfight that Elijah Garcia won by a knockout eventually. And that was an excellent fight. The Ugas Barrios fight was reasonably entertaining. But point being, if you spent $85 primarily to see Canelo fight Jamal Charlie, you would be pretty pissed off, and rightfully so. Yeah, I agree. I would add one more thing about Amazon. Just my take on Amazon. If they do want to get into boxing, don't do an exclusive deal with anybody. I think exclusive deals have been a major problem for boxing over the years because it has shrunk the pool of available fights and available shows. Look, a boxing budget for Amazon is nothing. Let's hypothetically say they threw $200 million a year into boxing. That's nothing. They pay billions for Thursday Night Football to the NFL. If they were to say, we have $200 million a year for boxing, hire somebody to oversee that and say, look, if you're a promoter and you want to do fights on our network or on our streaming service, pitch the fight. Pitch me a good fight. Don't give me bad fights just because we have to provide you with 10, 12, 14 fights per year. That doesn't work. It's proven it doesn't work. I think Amazon is an opportunity because they can afford to throw a couple hundred million at boxing and do some good things, do some big things. I'd love to see them try something new because they're one of the few entities out there with the budget to do that. So we'll see what Amazon does in the future. I think they're a player to watch in all this. Couple things before I let you go, Keith. The Fury-Ussek fight is signed. We don't know the exact date of it. Fury's got to get through Francis Naganou first. Maybe it's late December, possibly the first couple of months of 2024. My immediate takeaway from that fight, Keith, was Tyson Fury is just laughing all the way to the bank. Tyson Fury took a lot of heat over the summer for making this deal with Francis Naganou. People said he should have been stripped. People said this fight should never happen. He was making a mockery. People believed him when he said he was going to fight Jon Jones and do all these exhibition-type fights. Now he's going to get a big bag to fight Francis Naganou in a fight that he frankly can't lose. And then he's going to fight Alexander Ussek in what I believe is a two-fight deal. I've had people on both sides tell me this is a two-fight deal for these guys and probably make a boatload of money for that. Look, Ussek is a winner because Ussek is going to get a chance to unify the titles, no question. But I think Tyson Fury is the big winner in all this, Keith. He is going to make a lot of money from the Saudis to fight Francis Naganou and Alexander Ussek. So I think the criticism he took and the wait for this fight was probably worth it. Yeah, and look, he's going to be very active here over the next few months, Chris. I don't know that December 23rd is realistic and that if this Naganou fight goes, let's just say it goes 10 rounds or who knows what's going to happen. I don't really see it as being all that. Based on the footage I've seen of Francis Naganou, boy, I don't see that being remotely competitive. I think Tyson Fury will basically toy with him and then just, you know, of course, try to avoid getting hit with one of those big right hands because the guy can punch. I've had people who've been in the gym with him in Vegas tell me over the last couple of weeks that this guy really can crack, like at a Deontay Wilder level. I don't know if that's possible exactly, but he can really punch. He's a big, strong dude. But he has virtually no idea how to box based on what I've seen, unless they were trying to lure Tyson Fury in by making him think that he's that terrible. I mean, he looked pretty fundamentally awful is the best way to put it. So I don't really expect that to be much more than kind of just like Tyson Fury moving around the ring and picking apart Francis Naganou. And the biggest thing, of course, is that he doesn't come away from that with any injuries, any cuts or anything, because, of course, that would push the USIC fight back. But even if he comes out of it completely healthy and goes the full 10 rounds with Francis Naganou, it's less than two months later. It's two days before Christmas. I don't know how much that matters in Saudi Arabia or whatever. But it's probably too quick of a turnaround. The way Bob Arum explained it to me is as long as they do the fight before Ramadan starts, which I believe is March 10th, it's fine with the people who are putting up the money. And look, they're putting up the money. So they call the shots. They do whatever they want, which is why according to what Bob told me the other day, why it was announced on Friday, they, you know, they had the deal done. They wanted to make the announcement Friday morning. Bob said, I could have waited till after the fight because now you have this, you know, we don't really think all that much of Francis Naganou if we're announcing his next fight. That's never a good way to go about it. In terms of promoting this upcoming fight that they've also spent a lot of money on, Bob would have preferred them to just, you know, announce it in the ring after the fight or something like that. But they're paying all the money, so they get to call the shots and dictate how it goes. Bob kind of felt like Al Heyman would be angry with him because they announced it the day before the Canelo-Charlow fight. He said that was not his call and he didn't really do this on purpose. It was the Saudis decision to do it anyway.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1278. Gensler LOST AGAIN! | Judge Shreds SEC Appeal! | XRP Update
"Let's get into some XRP news today and talk about the SEC taking another black eye. These guys are taking round after round from the judge, and it's going to be an interesting one for sure. You don't want to miss this show. All right, my name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's get into it. A couple of topics that we'll break down from the judge, but also the kind of impact this could have for the overall crypto markets, even the Coinbase case. We'll give you guys kind of a rundown. One thing I do want to do is thank our sponsor, and that's iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at going into long -term investing into crypto IRAs, this is one of the vehicles you can use, and it's very simple to do it. Easy to start up, there's no monthly fees, and all you have to do is you can do your own self -directed trading. So if you want to get into XRP or others, you can do that right here within the iTrust Capital IRA. Very easy to join, and you'd be joining 200 another ,000 accounts that have already created IRAs there with iTrust. So check the link down below. You get a $100 funding reward if you decide to do something there. Helps our channel out. Appreciate that. All right, so let's get into a couple things here. I want to go over to the PDF here. This is the judge response, and there's a few points. I'm going to kind of zoom in on this a little bit for you guys. There's a few spots in here. There's going to be a lot of scrolling, but the point is we're going to get to a couple of points here. I want to go down here to page five. All right, so let's get into this. First, SEC has not presented a pure question of law. This is one of the things that the judge has already pretty much put in in the judgment on the first ruling, and of course, kind of them just saying, hey, this is, you're still in the same position here. In fact, the court specifically rejected defendants' essential ingredients, the legal test, and applied the SEC's legal standards. So this was where the SEC was essentially trying to create their own rules. Judge says, nope, not going to work here. Further into the document, the SEC seeks to appeal question C, and issuers offers and sales of crypto assets and trading platforms create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. But the court did not hold that offers and sales on a digital asset exchange can create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. So I think that is pretty much the same kind of scenario that's playing out in the Coinbase trial that we will most likely, I think we're going to see a win there as well. Ripple's programmatic sales were blind, bid -asked transactions, same as almost every crypto transaction out there. Ripple's programmatic sales represented less than 1 % of the global XRP trading volume, did not make any promises or offers, and the SEC failed to provide evidence. The SEC failed to provide evidence, and she just keeps on, failed to provide evidence over and over on all of this. So really kind of hitting home on the SEC, just not holding up their end of being able to even prove that XRP or other digital assets are securities. Further in this document, it says the SEC failed to provide evidence and the development of use cases for the XRP ledger, which constitutes a tangible and definable consideration to Ripple. That's important. Court also rejected the SEC's argument that XRP provided Ripple employees as compensation and bonuses satisfies the Howie's first prong. So getting into a lot more detail here, and I think this is going to flow into the rest of the civil cases that are still out there against Garlinghouse and Larson. All right, so court rejects the SEC's remaining argument that the courts have accordingly found section five violations where unregistered crypto asset transactions occur not between the issuer and the investor, but through intermediaries, including on trading platforms, keyword on trading platforms. That is Coinbase in a nutshell. And I think that's the scenario. Digital assets I think are getting ready to fall outside of the guise of the SEC. Court rejects the argument that there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion, meaning it doesn't matter what you think the court has a rule of law to go by and we're going to affect it. And, uh, the SEC is not creating their own law, which is the other scenario. Okay, so further in the court, uh, in the document, the court cannot draw any conclusions about library's core reasoning, uh, to an issue because it was never litigated. Therefore the SEC fails to point to any digital asset cases which conflict with the court's holding as to the other distributions. If you don't know about what happened in the library case, this was a really a milestone event for the SEC, but now the court is pretty much saying, man, not really. Listen into this clip right here. After the blockchain was launched and we didn't do an ICO and this was during the ICO boom and then we said we were trying to be a conservative company and eventually the SEC sued us and they declined to actually bring the trial until shortly before the statute of limitations was going to hit on our, on our first buying time. Yeah. We came in and we did a whole presentation and they just used that stuff against us. Never answered a single one of our questions. We've said we'll destroy the entire company. We'll give you our entire pre -mon. You can have every dollar in our bank accounts, right? But what we want is the status that Bitcoin has, right? If I have to blow everything up, if that's what's somehow the difference here. Okay, fine. Just tell me that that's what I have to do. They won't tell you that. They'll say you're, I mean, seriously, it's so it like gives me an energy. That's crazy. I mean, that would be in the founder of library talking about how much pressure and just gravitas that the sec is wielding out there on small companies. And that's the problem of overreach that we talk about all the time. All right, so let's go back to, actually there's another clip I want to play for you. This is John Deaton. Listen to this one. The judge agreed with me, promised me, assured me that he was going to make sure that the world knew that his decision did not apply to secondary market transactions. And that was a very important point because judge Torres in the ripple case cites that hearing Jeremy Kaufman and library spend between one and $4 million and they spend another couple million dollars in legal fees. The sec spends ungodly amount of hours taxpayer money. And when it's all said and done, the government protected us by getting $111 ,000 in legal fees. From library. Well, we've successfully destroyed them financially. We did what we told Jeremy Kaufman we were going to do when he argued with us and we said, we will bankrupt you pal. What happened is the library is appealing the decision by the judge granting summary judgment to the sec. I think that they have been emboldened, if you will, because of the grayscale ruling by the ripple decision by maybe even the Uniswap decision by judge failure and hopefully a really good decision that comes down in the Coinbase motion to, to dismiss. Remember people, there's not a case in 80 years that supports taking an asset that may have been an investment contract in the beginning and then calling it an investment contract. The underlying asset forever. None. Yeah. So Deaton pretty, pretty benefit. I'm pretty passionate about that. And I think he does kind of hit that point home is that the sec kind of plays unfairly, not surprising and to anyone out there. But the good thing is, is now the courts are starting to rule against them. And this seems like they are finally in a position where they're taking the bully to class here further in the conclusion denied at the sec's request for a stay is also denied. So this court basically just lashed everything down. This is an interesting statement at the end prior to the final pretrial conference council for both parties along with parties themselves shall meet in person for at least one hour to discuss the settlement of the match. So they are really meaning the court is really pushing to get this done. This of course is Annalisa Torres, judge Annalisa Torres, which I think is the one that has pretty much outlined that the sec has no case here for digital asset control and most likely is going to fall under, under outside the graces of the court when it comes to the, to the Coinbase, uh, case as well. All right. Just a couple of tweets here. Uh, corrupt sec got an effort fail on their appeal. Judge Torres wrote the fail 10 times. Uh, here's Stuart Alderati, of course, the ripple attorney courts, um, July 13 ruling was and remains law of the land XRP is not a security. Jeremy Hogan comes in and says, Hey, okay, look here. A couple of things here that I want to note. Uh, and that is really this statement right here. This is a disaster for the agency. I'm going to mark that just it's there. This is a disaster for the agency, but I think this is, this is a good thing for crypto in general and digital assets. But more importantly, I think for digital asset technology and how all of this is moving forward, keeping government overreach out of industry and innovation is important because as you know, Deaton kind of mentioned, they went through all that, you know, millions and millions and millions of taxpayers money for $111 ,000 for a library case, which is probably going to get overturned out. So not a good one. Here was Scott, Scott Chamberlain, uh, further talking about the XRP case and he kind of hits something here. So there's a lot in change. SCC failed to prove its case. Now it has to push not something nice uphill with a pointy stick if it wants to win. So they have a huge boulder in front of them to get this done in being able to win. I think the SCC has lost this and I think it's going to start either looking very bad for Gensler or the SCC is going to start to pivot their position. Now you look at it politically, that could be the case because we're starting to see some things in DC that could also kind of tie into this. I want to go over to this last clip, which is Deaton talking about this a little bit further into what this might mean. Listen in. She said some XRP holders, no doubt bought XRP for speculative reasons and they may have relied on the efforts of Ripple, but the SCC didn't prove that. Programmatic sales of XRP on exchanges are not securities. XRP itself is not a security. And what she did in this decision was solidify it. And I'm telling you it's untouchable. It cannot be touched. She even said, look, I never said that it's impossible for some crypto token to still be a security when it's bought on an exchange. I've just said that XRP in this case with these facts are not period. She even made it more clear that as of right now on this day, excluding Bitcoin, XRP is the only one clearly, with legal clarity. I'm really hoping that judge failure comes through on the Coinbase decision because I think that will be when Gensler is forced to pivot. And that's when Elizabeth Warren has to accept that her anti crypto army is a bunch of old people about to die. All right, there you go. Anti crypto army dead. Uh, and I think back to my point is that I think that Gensler is going to pivot. He has to, this is starting to impede political positioning. It's also impeding the benefits of what the SCC is going to try to do in really the work they should be doing, which is real securities law. And that is the challenge because right now it's just overreached. This is just power grabs. You look at what Graywall was saying here. Of course, this is the Coinbase attorney. SCC just filed its opposition motion to dismiss their case. This is the opposition to the motion for Coinbase trying to get this dismissed. This is going to take on a light of its own. If you look back down here at the end, it says, we look forward to filing our reply in October 24th. So as always, we appreciate court's consideration. So this is probably going to move into November, but the key here is the SCC continues to lose and they're losing in very, very grandiose ways. And this is not good for anything from a governmental overreach standpoint. I think it's even worse for the political position of the SCC. And this also starts to change things dramatically, I think in digital assets as a whole. Most likely Coinbase is going to come out of this. Coinbase is going to look really good pretty soon. So, all right guys, we're going to get into that more. We're going to be covering more of this. Obviously we had the speaker house change up this week. There's a big implication there on crypto and digital assets as a whole. We'll cover that. Make sure and stick around on the channel. If you're not subscribed, make sure and subscribe right now. 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Crypto Banter
A highlight from IMMINENT Stock Market MELTDOWN Could Take Bitcoin To $42,000!
"Listen, if you're in crypto, you need to watch today's show till the very end, because yesterday was a huge turning point for crypto. Most people aren't going to admit it, but that's because they don't know what's happening under the hood. But let me show you a few things that build the case. So first of all, yesterday, we had the stock markets absolutely obliterated yesterday, everything was red. While this was happening, we were getting a credit meltdown. This is a TLT bond, which shows 10 to 20 year credit. And this shows a capitulation candle in the credit rating. But while this was going on, something very interesting happened in Bitcoin, Bitcoin was flat and up. In fact, Bitcoin didn't respond. Now, as I said to you, most people will say, well, this is a coincidence. It's just, you know, Bitcoin's had its day and it was it. But I'm going to show you today why anyone who says that just hasn't got their eyes on them all, doesn't really know what's happening under the hood. I'm going to show you exactly what's going on and why Bitcoin held and actually started climbing when the stock markets and the credit markets were starting to collapse. Also today, we want to talk about another big coup for crypto that happened in the US government. Because if you weren't paying attention, this is what happened yesterday, a historical day in the US government. On this vote, the yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The of office Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And just like that, Kevin McCarthy, who was the Republican Speaker of the House, was fired from his role. And now we have a new Speaker of the House who's very, very, very pro crypto. This could be a massive turning point for crypto. And if you want to talk about another third big event that happened yesterday, we should talk about what happened in the XRP case or the Ripple SEC versus case, because that was another massive win for crypto. So all in all, yesterday was a big turning point for crypto. Today, what we're going to do is analyze why. And I'm going to show you why I think that this rally is actually going to continue. So let's go. Tell you one thing, if we were in the midst of a Uber bull market yesterday, the market, the crypto markets would have had their biggest day in a long, long, long time. But because we've reached a stage where people are getting apathetic, we didn't get the pump that we that we that we were waiting for. And I think if I understand what's happening in the crypto markets, a lot of people are actually getting flushed out of the crypto markets because what's happening is every time these people start to trade or every time it is another green candle up, people try and trade as we get the reversal, they get messed up again and they lose their money and they get flushed out the system. And after that happens five or six times, they kind of say, look, we're not coming back to crypto. We hate crypto as an asset class. You just lose money and they start feeling almost like an apathy. And if it's not an apathy, it's almost like an anger or resentment towards crypto. Now that's the natural market mechanism to get people flushed out. If you're feeling that like that, be careful that you're not falling into the market cycle, because that's what the market cycle is trying to do at this part of the cycle. We can talk about that today. I'm going to show you how this part of the cycle is designed to get the last of the weekends out before we actually go into the raging bull market. I'm going to show you where we get into, why, where and why we get into raging bull market. And I'm going to show you how the fundamentals and the technicals align exactly to show you that this is what's going to happen. When I was preparing the show and I realized what was actually going on, I was like, Holy shit, I cannot believe what is actually going on here. I think yesterday was one of the biggest turning points that we've had for crypto. And I think we need to analyze why yesterday was such a big turning point for crypto. So if you're here and you haven't been shaken out by the markets, let me know that you're still here. Design entity is still here. Chuck Strickland is still here. Lindsey B is still here. Space is Vibes still here. There are a lot of us who are still here and I mean, some of our friends have been flashed out and that's okay because that's what markets are supposed to do, but you're here and you're present. So let me know if you're present. Also, if you're not already subscribed to the channel, you know what to do. Subscribe to the channel. Now's the best time to do it. We're also going to bring you another channel. We've got another channel called Banta Plus, which I think you should subscribe to. There's a link below. Go and subscribe because there's a lot of additional content, premium content that's going to be on that channel.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/04/23
"The dis in functional, don't we? I have to tell you, I just want to just offer the floor to you and say, how did yesterday afternoon work out for you? Well, there's so many fascinating layers and aspects to this. First of all, I think, and before we even get started in this huge history making move yesterday, kudos to the good old Atlanta team who came to Tampa Bay yesterday and walloped the Tampa Bay Rays. They had a toast to the Rangers for game one. Did you just refer to them as an Atlanta team? I started to say Atlanta. Listen, this was a late night. What the hell's the matter with you? It was a late night. Do you have a stroke? Obviously, the Rangers, excuse me. Thank you. I did. I'm smelling burning toast. Tracy's there. Did you burn the toast? What happened again? That's all right. Who ordered the field cutlet? No, I'm sorry. No, no, it's quite all right. But I did want to give kudos to the Rangers because, listen, and you know why Tampa Bay lost? Guess how many people showed up at that pitiful field. I know it's the worst facility in sports, but the Rays are really good, have been good all year. They're in the playoffs. The capacity of the trop is probably about 45 ,000. How many were there? The smallest playoff baseball crowd since game seven of the 1919 World Series. That's the Black Sox, right? Yeah, 19 ,000 people showed up. It was 3 o 'clock in the afternoon local time. But everybody plays hooky, exactly right. You bring that game here and we'll cram globe life a few. It's the weirdest thing I've ever experienced when I moved here and I kept saying, why doesn't anybody support this team? And all they keep telling me is, because everybody hates the owner. Well, what the heck? Who cares? You might go to the World Series. Well, I mean, Rangers might have something to say about that. Well, maybe so after yesterday. I mean, now Tampa Bay's hanging on by a thread, which would be awful because Tampa Bay came out of the gate strong. I mean, man, oh, man, they were looking like they were 10 -0. I think they won their first 10. And they're certainly one of the four or five best teams in baseball, but so were the Rangers for much of the year. And now they've decided to awaken. Nice 4 -0 shutout. And I would love for Tampa Bay's season to end this afternoon at about five because game two is today at two, our time. Well, congratulations to the Atlanta Rangers. Exactly. Go Braves. All right. Now, let me go through some takeaways from yesterday, which I think are, first of all, to me, the biggest story that was not covered is it was the immediate action, the first official act taken by Patrick McHenry, the acting speaker. Did you see what he did? Oh, no, but to Pelosi? The first action he did was to evict Nancy Pelosi from her cushy private office that she was given, I guess, as some kind of a courtesy, right? And first thing he did was get out. Now, it was pretty rough because she's in California for Dianne Feinstein's funeral. She's not even in the building. And he said, hey, we're going to re -key the locks Wednesday morning, get out. But here's what that tells me, Mark, and I think it's significant. Why didn't McCarthy do that? I don't know. If that's not symbolic of what we're talking about here, there's another narrative here. The narrative is, I know you're not going to want to hear it, and I get it. Everybody's all up in arms and everybody's realizing there's gridlock. Listen, everybody's got to put down the smelling salts for a moment. Do you think we're in bad shape if Jim Jordan is the speaker of the House going into the 2024 election? Do you not like Jim Jordan as the speaker? I love Jim Jordan as the speaker. I believe he's unelectable as the speaker. Well, who's going to be electable? Steve Scalise probably has the best chance. And Steve Scalise reportedly doesn't want it. The reporting is that physically he's got a lot of – he's asking for it. He was lobbying yesterday, but is that just window dressing? Is Steve Scalise the fighter that we want for Jim Jordan? I mean – Listen, electability, you could say all day you want. Things can get done, and if – why wouldn't the Republicans unify behind Jim Jordan? Because there are 200, 212 of them, right? Because for many of them, Jordan's a little too spicy.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: Demystifying Crypto With Bitwise, VanEck, and Fidelity
"This episode of Money Reimagined is sponsored by PayPal. You're listening to Coindesk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. I see a lot of panels that get called demystifying crypto, but we're going to this is it. This is the one we literally are going to demystify it, right? Because it's it's still a mystery to a lot of people for some strange reason, but this is it. The total and utter complete demystification of crypto. I got an incredible panel, actually, guys, this is you want to call on some experts, some rock stars in this space. These would be the gentlemen that you'd want. We're represented by Fidelity, by Van Eyck, by Bitwise, all of whom have really been so much more driving into this space than anyone else really in this industry. So it's going to be a good ride, I think. Maybe a bit of a show of hands, because if we're demystifying, you know, show of hands, who knows what HODL represents? Okay, that half. We've got one down there already. So that's pretty good about half. But Jan, why don't you just do the honors and explain the HODL story. So at least, you know, it's got some reference. Well, I mean, there's a lot of communication in the Twitter and the crypto community on Twitter and Signal and Telegraph and other kind of alternative social media. HODL stands for Hang On For Dear Life, which means, you know, be a longtime investor and holder of Bitcoin. My favorite phrase is FUD, Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, which represents all the misinformation. But since we're demystifying, we don't need, we can forget what FUD stands for. This is a FUD -free zone. However, we are going to start talking about Washington where there has been some FUD. Look, the thing that is, we'll just get the elephant in the room out of the way first. And that is, you know, when are we going to get a spot Bitcoin ETF, right? Because it's all dependent on the say so of a certain regulator. And we've been down this road for quite a long time now. But a number of institutions, BlackRock over there, Bannock, others are all in this space, Fidelity, all of you are playing in this space. I want to know when you think it's going to happen. Why don't we start with you, Jan, as well. Like, when is Gary going to give us the okay? My dad used to say, you know, pay attention to what people say, because often they do what they actually say. And it seems like the chairman of the SEC has no interest in approving a spot Bitcoin ETF. It may go to political levels higher than that, but I'll stick with that. So unless you have a change in parties in power, I just, I don't see it happening. I'm a little polluted by my law school background, which always says that, yeah, the law is one thing, but look at the power structure. And lawyers can always come up with different excuses for different things. So I'm sorry to be the negative outlier on this panel, maybe, but that's kind of my view. Whenever the Republican president gets elected. Okay, so possibly a long time, possibly not. Matt, though, you're a little bit more optimistic, I think. Yeah, I'll take the under on that, Jan. Another way of viewing this SEC commission under this chairman is it's the first commission that approved a ETF with the word crypto in its name. It's actually a bitwise ETF. It's the first commission that approved a 40 -act Bitcoin futures fund. The first commission that approved a 33 -act Bitcoin fund. First commission that looks likely to approve Ethereum futures funds. Approved a 2x levered Bitcoin futures fund. Compared to all the commissions that came before us since the Winklevoss filed for the first Bitcoin ETF in the 1930s or whatever, this commission has made a lot more progress. And I think they're sort of boxed into a corner where I think there's a reasonable probability that we'll get a spot Bitcoin ETF. I'm not certain, but I think there's a good probability. And I think they've actually done more on ETFs, even though I don't think they're favorable to crypto, they've done more on ETFs than any other commission before them. And they probably don't get enough credit for that. They certainly don't in the crypto industry. That is a rare perspective, actually. He clearly has not received enough subpoenas.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Fresh update on "one more thing" discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"I wanted to buy more Tesla stock, not short it and dump it and say, Oh my God, he's running into the ground. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's based on emotion and it's rarely, I mean, when you look at like anything, crypto traditional stocks, like it's all emotional. Like this, a CEO could do something not even as bad as, you know, as bad as going on Joe Rogan show and smoking a little bit of marijuana, you know? And then the issue with that is like, you could sell the stock because you think that's bad, but people that look at the product, which was booming and especially in California, they're going to sweep up that stock because they know it's a good product. And that's not anything heinous. You know, if you do something heinous and some people will sell your shares as they should, you know, but that's crazy to me because he just delivered, like, I think Tesla's are great cars. Like if you, yeah, we actually had a, uh, drew, why do we want to buy a boring, actually don't say, don't say, I can't even remember. I float out the idea. We got to get a boring flame thrower. You know, he started the company. I think he raised 12 million. If my math career, if I remember correctly, raised about 12 million of selling a bunch of flame throwers, maybe around 10, we're getting one. We're getting one. Okay. Yeah. A boring company, space X, uh, you know, Tesla, uh, star link. I mean, they, they all seem to be doing pretty well and X he's a fighter for free speech. So to me, that's probably saving humanity. All right. That's a close, you know, it's close. That's a toss up. Yeah, sure. I guess I got to give, he's trying to save humanity. Number one, but, uh, he's trying to say free speech and to me, that's pretty cool. So, uh, Elon Musk live stream Diablo four on Twitter to show off Twitch, like features. I saw a little clip. He was just like, Oh, that was embarrassing. I almost died. Uh, when I read the book, they said he's actually insanely good. And I can't remember if it was space X or pay, maybe it was the PayPal. The X team, when he was early on PayPal, they joined a quake tournament with Elon Musk. They got second place. Wow. Elon's company joined a freaking quake tournament and they got second place. They said he's really, really good. Crazy, insane Twitch reaction speed. I was just like, he's a gamer. I knew he kind of played, but I didn't know he was good. I'm a former Twitch streamer. I know. Yeah. For a game that I like. So to me, I'm like, I, I, you know, I respect the hustle. I respect the drive, what it takes to become a top tier game. Oh yeah. And quake tournaments. It's not just some like obscure thing. That's the hardcore people, any high level, upper echelon, any game, the skill level is insane. It's not even funny. You know what I mean? Like, so CS go to be good at anything. Call of duty. Why do you think Sam Bankman freed couldn't get out of bronze league? He's just bad, bro. He you know, it's fine. Okay. Okay. Good escape by the games. All right. Yeah. That's a fair assessment. Uh, he better be good at holding the soap. Hey, let's talk about, uh, yeah. So this is going to be a new feature. Maybe we'll do something here. You know, I'm down, I'm down to play a little magic, the gathering or something. You guys are down. I brought the storm deck with me. So I don't think DZ wants the smoke right now, but he doesn't play cards. You don't play actual cardboard. Oh, if I was to play against storm, I guess I would just want to, uh, disrupt your hand with black removal. So I would probably just go with something with a lot of thought, and inquisitions. We'll see. You know, that destroy your combo. Took a great shot. Yeah. There's so many people were like, Oh my God. Your grape shot. They don't get a great shot. They don't understand. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, uh, yeah. Uh, I I'm rooting on the gaming there. All right. Let's uh, all right. One more thing on the Fiat scam here. Tom Hanks, Oh, Mr. Peace and other celebrities worn over AI deep fake scams. Yeah. We're going to see more and more of this. Oh yeah. Fake Tom Hanks going to tell you to invest in box of chocolate coin. And next thing you know, ends up being a rug pull. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Just, you gotta be careful out here. There's going to be more and more of these. So, uh, it looks like a lot of people are getting this deep fake scam out of me. Are they ready to handle the rise of AI deep fakes? This is a serious problem. Yeah. Uh, that almost reads like someone gave it to them. Yeah. So like read like Jimmy's language doesn't post, but what I tell people out there, if it's too good to be true, it probably is like, even if you see Vitalik who had his ex account hacked a couple of weeks ago, if it's too good to be true, please don't click on a link and plug your wallet up into it. Cause I mean, these make millions of dollars within or hundreds of thousands of dollars within a couple of hours of being up. So these, you see somebody, you see Tom Hanks shilling box of chocolate coins, you know what I mean? Or anything like that. All right. All right. Tom Hanks has a coin. What are we calling it? I just came up with a box of chocolate coin, but I think we can do better. We got Wilson. Oh my God. It probably would be Wilson. It'd be the Wilson face. All right. All right. Drew's in the lead with Wilson right now. What else? I mean, I don't think mannequin it's taken off or mermaid, you know, I don't think it's obscure things. Big gotta be Wilson. It's gotta be big is probably the best name for a coin, but it's just to obscure a movie and there's really no connection there. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it's gotta be Wilson. It's gotta be Wilson or frazzle. I don't know what that is. Uh, we don't talk about that here. Drew that is basement talk. I didn't finish the sentence. Yeah. Um, you just know the, the groups that they've connected him to maybe related to an island. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.
Unchained
A highlight from The Chopping Block: Michael Lewis Swindled, SBFs Effective Altruism Ruse, Ethereum Protocol Enshrinement - Ep. 552
"The claim that Michael Lewis makes is that he thinks that Sam lost his way, but fundamentally he was more or less the same guy. He never really believed in crypto. He always saw crypto as instrumental. And that, I think everybody who's ever met Sam agrees with, is that Sam was not a true believer. He didn't really care that much about the industry. He saw it as an opportunity to make money. But it wasn't because he loves cars or private jets or whatever. Not a dividend. It's a tale of two quants. Now, your losses are on someone else's balance sheet. Generally speaking, airdrops are kind of pointless anyways. I named trading firms who were very involved. DeFi protocol is part of the antidote to this problem. Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Chopping Block. Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together and give the industry insider's perspective on the crypto topics of the day. So quick intros. First, we've got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes. Next, we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur and Tsar of Superstate. Then we've got Tarun, the Giga Brain and Grand Poobah at Gauntlet. And finally, I'm Haseeb, the head hype man at Dragonfly. We are early stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see ChoppingBlock .xyz for more disclosures. Okay, so just for context for everybody listening, we are recording this on Monday morning, US time. The news by the time this drops, I'm certain is going to be 100 % about the FTX sandbankment free trial. So I believe the trial starts on Tuesday. So by the time this goes out, I think it's going to go out Wednesday morning. And so we're televising this from the past, basically. At the end, we should make our predictions and then our listeners can listen to whether we're horribly wrong or not about what will happen. Okay, all right. All right. We'll end the show with some predictions about how the trial is going to play out. The trial is going to take multiple weeks, so we'll have plenty of time to do the play by play as the trial is actually playing out. But in the lead up to the trial, all eyes have been on Michael Lewis. So Michael Lewis, a very famous finance writer. He was the author of the Flash Boys book, if I'm not mistaken, yes. And so he, long story short, he was kind of embedded with sandbankment freed for something about a year and a half since 2021, before FTX collapsed, basically more or less lived with him in the Bahamas and was writing a book, didn't know what the book was going to be about. And he's dropping the book tomorrow. So the day the trial begins, Michael Lewis's book is going to drop. It's called, what is it called? Finding Infinity or something. So I don't know, something like that. And he appeared on 60 Minutes to give something of a preview of what the book is going to be about and his perspective on sandbankment freed. And this interview has got the entire internet in a tizzy. I watched the entire interview. The first thing I'll say about 60 Minutes is it's really weird that 60 Minutes is not 60 Minutes long. Like if you watch it, it's like 27 minutes long, which is like, there are so many commercials on TV. It's crazy. There are multiple stories within an episode. So in aggregate, it's 60 minutes long, but you're right that the content is only like Oh, I didn't realize it wasn't the only story. Okay. You ever see 60 Minutes? Yeah. It's like 40 minutes of, I do not watch 60 Minutes except at very, very brief snippets when something important is on. To be fair, the ads definitely make it less than 60 Minutes, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Well, I watched it on 2X. It was 13 minutes for whatever the period of that 60 Minutes was. So there were a few snippets from the 60 Minutes story that got the internet really excited. One of them was this anecdote that apparently near the end of the FTX, right before FTX collapsed, Sam Beckman -Fried, in part of his effective altruistic mindset and thinking about ways to ameliorate risk in the world, he believed that one of the biggest risks in the world was Donald Trump. And he knew that Donald Trump was going to be running in the next election. And so he contemplated paying Trump not to run in the upcoming election. And so apparently word of this got to Trump, Trump named a price, which was $5 billion, and SPF, at the time that FTX collapsed, apparently SPF was trying to figure out the legality of paying Trump not to run in the 2024 election, but then FTX collapsed and this never happened. Kind of an insane story. I don't know what you guys think of this. Obviously, there's no way he had the liquidity to be able to pay $5 billion in cash to Donald Trump. So this feels like kind of a harebrained story. Well, Alameda had the customer liquidity. And I feel like at a certain point, when they were doing the math, they did have access to $5 billion. I mean, there was also other stories where he was trying to invest multiple billion dollars in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Like when these multi -billion dollar opportunities came up, I assume they looked at the metaphorical piggy bank, saw that there was high single digit, low double digit billions of dollars available and thought, well, what are the craziest things possible with this? It's not the first time there's stories of him using multiple billions of dollars potentially on something. So I believe it. I believe he probably tried. I'm sure that's not legal. Maybe it is. I doubt it. I can't see why that wouldn't be illegal. Not to rib a sieve like I did at that time, but you know who was doing all of these deals of trying to pay billions of dollars for both Twitter and Trump was McCaskill. So apparently the book describes the McCaskill piece as the interlocutor for all of these kind of ideas. So apparently he was the one who came up with the idea.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
Fresh update on "one more thing" discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Wow. Next question. Would you like to hear the scientific evidence that's in harmony with God's word? Every single student said they said yes. And so what you don't see is we turned off the camera and the microphone with every one of those students and we shared with them the best we could the scientific case and then also the gospel with them. So listen to what I learned doing this. And again, this was just one campus that I went out to. About half the students said they grew up in a Christian home, rejected their faith in three to six months, really couldn't tell me why they rejected their faith. They didn't really have a good reason. Most of them who had rejected had never heard that there's scientific evidence for their faith. Every single one of them wanted to hear the evidence. You know what that tells me is why am I sitting around at home coming up with creation videos and creation. I should be out on the campus like every day. They want to hear it. Wow. That's conviction. Okay, I also used to go to some high schools. The high schools were totally different, which is interesting to me. When I lived in San Diego, I'd wait for Time Magazine to come out with the biggest, ugliest ape man, and you know that happens about every three months, right, because Time Magazine's got to put a new ape man fossil on there, right. So I would go to the grocery store and I'd buy that magazine, and I would go to the campus, the high school campuses in San Diego, and if this was the border of the campus, I would stand with my little toesies right there. And as the kids were coming out of classes, I would go, Yo, is this your great, great, great granddad? And they'd go, let's go see who the nut is, right. And so instantly, foof, I would have a whole group of students around me, and they didn't know which side I was on, and as long as they didn't know to start with, I realized I could ask some questions, and I asked this. I said, How many of you believe that you evolved? And a few students, loud and proud, boom. And then I would ask, How many of you believe that you were created with a purpose? Here's what I saw. Most of the students, capital M, most of the students were like this. Even the non-Christian kids. Wow, you know what that told me? Is that inherently young people know that they were created with a purpose. So how easy is our job now? If they already believe that, now we just have to come alongside and reassure them, and tell them, Yes, you were created for a purpose, and here's all the evidence that goes with it. Here's the scriptures, and here's who God made you to be in His image, and here's the plans He has for your life. They want to hear that. But then later in life, they go off to college, and they get it all educated out of them, right. But when we think about creation evangelism and young people, let's go with the fact that inherently they already know that they have purpose. That makes our job pretty easy, right. All right, so these are random thoughts by Pat, all right. So here's the next one, is the power of a question. Do you know that questions are amazingly powerful? Matter of fact, when I read the Red Letter edition of Bibles, I notice that there's a lot of questions in red. And here's the reason why was Jesus was always asking questions. When you're witnessing to somebody, questions are gold. Because when you ask a question, it forces them to think through what they actually believe, and it's not you just bringing your ideas to them. It's them saying what they believe, and in the midst of all that, they can go, oh yeah, that does sound a little ridiculous. So here's four questions you can ask. Now, these are just four questions that came from Bill Jack, a guy who has an apologetics ministry. I heard these many, many years ago. I've used these questions so many times myself. Again, remember, there's no rules. These are just four questions that you might want to use. What do you mean? Powerful question. Here's the reason why is when you ask the powerful question, they have to think through what they're really saying. You believe you evolved? What do you mean? Do you mean that non-living materials became alive? What do you mean? How did that work, right? Dinosaurs evolved into birds. What do you mean? Did like one dinosaur like jump off a cliff, and then the next one jumped off, and he went a little further, and then the next dinosaur went a little further, and eventually they sprouted wings as their arms were turning into wings? What do you mean dinosaurs evolved into birds? I can't tell you how many times I've asked the question from somebody, and as they're explaining, they go, yeah, that does sound kind of ridiculous, doesn't it? Yes. Okay, so powerful question. How do you know that that's true? All right. This rock is 2.8 billion years old. How do you know? Well, I read it in the book. Yeah, but how did they know? I don't know. Another powerful question. What does it mean if you're right? If evolution is true, does that mean that when you die that you just go back to dust? Does it mean that there's no meaning in life? Does it mean that nothing matters? What do you mean? What if you're right? And then here's the last one. What if you're wrong? That's a great question, isn't it? What if you're wrong and someday you're going to have to stand before the Creator? Okay, so big question. What do you do with this guy? We've all met this guy, right? One time I was flying home on an airplane from San Antonio, and I was flying to San Diego, and I sat down next to this guy, and boy, isn't the airplane always a great place. It used to be a better place. Nowadays everybody puts their earbuds in and everybody kind of zones out, but it used to be an excellent place to witness. It still is, but you have to pray about it, and I always try and pray when I sit down, Lord, whoever sits in the seat, if you want me to share with them. As a matter of fact, I pray the prayer. Dear Lord, I'm an idiot. If you want me to share, please put together all of the... So anyway, I prayed that, and this guy, not really this guy, but I'll tell you, he looked a lot like this guy. He sat down next to me, and he wasn't looking like this at first, by the way. He sat down, and I said, because you always want to engage somebody in conversation if you can, I said, so sir, what do you do for a living? And he said, I work for Texas A &M. And I went, oh, that's really cool. I go, what do you do? He goes, I love to research. And I went, oh, that's awesome. I said, what do you like to research? He goes, my passion is researching evolution. And like already, I'm going, oh boy, this is going to be fun. So anyway, he goes on, and he tells me for about an hour all of the things that he's been researching with evolution. And it was really interesting. By the way, when you listen to a non-believer or an atheist or an evolutionist or somebody from a different world view than you, what an opportunity. If you listen to them, you're learning more about why they believe what they believe so that when you come around to apply the gospel or something, you've already heard why they believe what they believe and what they believe. Listening is so powerful. So I listened to the guy for about an hour, and after about an hour, it was so great. He turned to me and he goes, I'm sorry, I'm being so rude. He goes, what do you do for a living? He actually said this. I loved it. He said, ah. He goes, please, please tell me that you're not one of those young earth creationists. And I said, guilty as charged. And then he rolled his eyes and he said, he actually said this, look, I'm going to take it easy on you because I know this is very emotional for you. I said, no, it's okay, let's do this thing. Let's go for it. So what was fun is I just read a book by Dr. John Sanford called Genetic Entropy, which is, I think, my favorite book in the creation movement as far as scientific. It goes through and shows how we're devolving, and it goes into mutations and how many mutations are happening, and he quantifies everything in that book, and almost every page of that book utterly destroys evolution. And I just got done reading it, and I even had it in my laptop case on that flight, and I brought it out and showed him some charts and diagrams, and I kept asking him questions that he couldn't answer. And it was so much fun just to ask questions. But do you know what? It's not about winning the argument. It's not about nuking somebody with the facts because what have we accomplished if we do that? And so he and I, for probably about two or three hours, went back and forth on stuff, and I realized probably the way that you treat these guys is you just ask questions that they can't answer because what my goal is is I want him to walk away and say, why didn't I have answers for why I believe what I believe? Because I did ask him several times, how could mutations that only lose information and scramble information, how could those create the human genome in the first place? And he didn't have an answer for that. And then I asked him a few more questions based on Sanford's work, and he couldn't answer them. And I even made the statement to him, and this is my goal, is I said, sir, I just want to point out today that you did not have answers for your faith. But he asked me why I believed in my faith, and I said, I believe design of the eye and design that we see all around us point to a designer. And then I left him with the statement, sir, I just want to point out that you did not have answers for your faith, but I gave you answers for my faith. Well, now there was that face. And then he said, I'm going to the restroom. And it's okay. I felt like it was okay for him to be a little bothered. I wanted those questions to burn a hole into his heart. Why couldn't I answer those questions? And he went to the bathroom, and it was so great because when he went to the bathroom, like the people in front of me and the people in front of them, they all turned around and we said, hey, we're all Christians, we're praying for you. I was like, yeah. So he came back, and I realized that it's not about winning the argument, right? And so I said, sir, could I share one more thing with you? And he said, sure. And I said, listen, if it's true that there's a God who made you and you didn't evolve, just know that someday you're going to stand before that creator who made you, and you will be accountable for your life. And he just listened quietly. And then we went back to, you know, he went back to reading a book, and I went back to my thing again. But I wanted those questions to burn a hole in his heart. And remember, it's the different soils. And remember how different people, they break ground, you're watering, you're doing all of those things. And I just figured hopefully the Lord used this in this man's life. By the way, when I worked at the Institute for Creation Research, here are all these great PhD scientists that now worked for the Institute for Creation Research. A lot of them had this testimony. I heard this over and over again from our scientists at ICR. They were usually a professor teaching evolution on a campus somewhere, and then some student came up and just asked the question that they couldn't answer, and then it started to drive them nuts, and then they would begin to research it, and then finally they would come to the place where they would reject evolution, and then they would realize the only alternative to that was creation, became a creationist, and now they're doing scientific research for the Institute for Creation Research. I heard that story more than once. You guys know Dr. Joe Martin, right? You guys know the Martins? Dr. Martin, it was a kid asking about the bombardier beetle. It was the thing that got him going. Boy, questions are powerful. All right, I'm going to hit just a couple more things, and then we'll be done. You know, I've been working a lot with some young men at Liberty to try and get them out teaching on creation and sharing the gospel message. You know what I hear from these young guys all the time? By the way, one of them's got like a master's in apologetics, and he always says, Pat, I don't get out there because I don't think I know enough yet. Wow, if we have to wait to the point where we know enough, we're never going to make it. I think that that's a little bit of a deception, right, is we want to be prayed up so that we can, and knowledged up, I guess is what I really mean, so that we can answer every question, but you know what? God doesn't call us to do that. You don't have to know everything. As a matter of fact, you don't even need to know a lot, and I've got to tell you, a lot of times when I went out and shared with people, I really didn't know hardly anything at all. But you know what? It's God who works, not us, and a lot of times is when somebody would hit me with a question that I didn't know, you just humbly go, I'm sorry, I don't know how to answer that, and then you go find the answer so that next time somebody asks that question, you got an answer for it. As a matter of fact, the Bible promises that he's going to give you the words to say, right? So here's Jesus talking to the disciples, and you'll be dragged before governors and kings for my sake to bear witness before them, and Gentiles, when they deliver you over, do not be anxious. This is how you're about to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Okay, check this out. I know this is true. In this room right now, if you have had that happen to you, let me see your hand. If you've been talking to somebody and all of a sudden God brings to your mind a verse, or yeah, look at the hands around the room. He does that, doesn't he? You're going, wow, how did I even remember that verse? I think it's because he's delivering the word. So we've got to remember it's God who changes hearts.
Club 31 Pod
A highlight from Ghanaian Youth AND Manifestations??
"Don't sit there and just be living a lackadaisical life, no please. Because you are in tune with the Holy Spirit, it's going to be super easy for you to create your reality with Him, provided you are in communication with Him, provided you are in tune with Him, provided you are connected to the source. And we're telling you, don't be mute as a Christian. We are live! Hi guys. Hi everybody. Welcome to today's episode. Hold on. Welcome to Club 31 Pod. Welcome to Club 31 Pod. Period. Last week you were met with the Cupid Shuffle. I hope you guys loved it. Actually, it was the ChaCha Slide, yo. I made a mistake. It was the ChaCha Slide. Wrong info. Wrong information. Sorry guys, sorry guys. You know, I got out of the recording and I was thinking to myself, did I say Cupid Shuffle? Yes, you did. And I picked it up. And then when the episode aired, I heard myself say Cupid Shuffle and I said, I mean ChaCha Slide. And I wish I could go back and edit it and say, right? Oh yeah. It was live. It was. It's true. The Cupid Shuffle went to the left, to the left, to the left, to the right, to the right, to the right. Now kick, now kick, now kick, now kick. Now come and kick. We have welcomed you to the club with the Cupid Shuffle. Officially. Officially. and they say no lie we actually got it right this time yeah that's funny I love that I love that hope you guys are doing good I hope you guys enjoyed the last episode it was very dense we we do acknowledge that but we hope you guys learned a thing or two and we are open to learn from you as well so please don't hesitate to share what you like what you do to improve on yourself and how you're also probably gonna implement what we said how are you doing how am I doing like how am I doing like you know like how are you how are you or how am I dancing around this question since Saturday I don't know what is wrong but every single time I ask since Saturday how are you doing you go I'm good I know because you know I noticed but you know I'm no one to say anything until like you're comfortable enough to come out and say so I thought oh she'll be fine but today again you were given the same energy well huh yeah I mean I mean I feel like you know a lot of times we like ask how are you and it's more like a formality and you the person that's being asked you're most likely to just say like oh I'm good and also the person who's asking is probably like 80 % of the time just expecting like yeah I'm good what's up how are you to have thing right so then I feel like the question hits different when you're actually going through something and someone's like how are you and you're like Tom between am I just gonna go the formality route or am I gonna be like open and actually share how I'm feeling and that's kind of where I've been okay well I hope you know that with me you could tell me I I really have time and patience to listen to if you're not feeling good like I'm actually expecting a genuine answer so burying us with so much on this episode yeah next week LA you know God willing next week if she's feeling better yeah fingers crossed I'm doing I'm doing good I just had a problem with my group we had like group work there was yeah and the members of the group where one person didn't pull her weight that's what I'm gonna see she didn't pull her weight and literally cause the whole group to crash and that was a very stressful moment in my life but guys that I don't think I have like too much going on yeah well we hope that person that person pulls your weight because the most stressful thing I would say like in a group setting is like when someone isn't doing what they're supposed to do like girl or boy all right we counting on you please do your part and right and then like she was barking out orders like taking on the leadership roles I was expecting her to like you know at least do 80 % of the work since you want to be a leader you know something that's actually interesting I read somewhere that like if you're like in a group setting and you like let's say you don't want to do too much in the group usually right when people get into a group setting nobody wants to talk nobody wants to make the first move nobody wants to like take on you know the lead role and stuff like that but people have mastered this thing where they realize that listen if I'm able to start everything people are gonna see me as like you know I know I know what's going on I'm the leader blah blah blah and then I can delegate the duties and then give myself less to do so I feel like maybe it's a strategy she's using or he sees it all right and I don't have a problem with that right yeah maximum work generally right yeah I don't got a problem with that but my problem is okay so if you delegate it the rules in the test and everyone do your way your end of the exactly where is your weight you did zero work okay well that that actually is problematic like like even if you had 2 % to do you should have said exactly because you chose a 2 % right but then I don't want to go too much into it I don't want to go too much into it cuz like I'm hope the person picks up their weight and then everything can go on smoothly right yeah well I'm gonna praise into this episode all right all right shall we pray God we thank you we worship you and we adore you we praise your holy name Lord God we ask that you will give us a tongue of the Leonard and that you would speak to us and that you would come and teach us more about even this topic that we're sharing on that as we speak Oh Father God you speak to us and that we will understand even more on this topic we pray God and we ask that your presence will fill this place and saturate this atmosphere and may everything that we do bring glory and honor to your holy name in Jesus name I praise on my thanksgiving amen amen amen alrighty so today's topic before we get into that we actually have two topics for one episode today the first being occupy julie house and it's a little bit sticky it's a little it's a topic but we still wanted to put our two cents because unfortunately we do not have the liberty of being in person and then protesting with you people and standing in solidarity with that fellow guy means so we just wanted to use our platform to talk about it to get into it a little bit so Joanna was you think about the whole protest thing okay what did I think about it well I don't know I feel like there's gonna be a long one but let's see how well I can do so hmm so first of all I must say that I've had this conversation with multiple friends and had varying opinions on what they thought about the situation and it actually took me time to figure out what I thought because everyone kind of had you know a little bit of a different approach or perspective because I feel like this topic affects everybody differently okay like yes we are all onions but the impact of the economy on everybody is different so just hearing from different people how this has affected them or what they think about the situation has been really interesting and for me I want to approach this from a personal and a Christian point of view so after talking to multiple people and hearing what everybody had to say and also doing my personal research to understand where all of this stem from and what the protest was about the question that stood out to me was concussions be a part of peaceful protests I want to be really honest and say that when I heard all of this initially my almost default reaction was to just coil and and kind of be silent and act like nothing's really going on and not contribute my voice or not contribute to what was going on okay and this is just more of I want to say a personality trait maybe I don't know if I can call it that but I want to say this is more personality based why I must say that I really I'm not a big fan of controversial and confrontational situations okay and my friend coming at me and just like all of the things that were going on I felt like you know what I want to sit this out but then it was always on my mind right seeing all of the posts pop up I mean yeah I'm not really active on social media but I do go there occasionally and then I would see multiple posts about it okay right so I was really thinking about it for for a minute I was really thinking about it for a minute and as I said the question that stood out to me was concussions be a part of peaceful protests and also what would Jesus do in the face of injustice okay okay so those questions to me I feel like I needed to break down the layers of why I was feeling like I wanted to sit this one out and not a contribute in any way that I could I obviously I'm not present in the country so I can't partake of physical protests but I can you know support through multiple different ways virtually but I didn't want to and this is me being very honest right so I started to think I started to do a bit of research like and kind of try to come in from and I learned that in in scripture it's not explicitly stated that Christians you know should or should not be part of protests however one scripture that stood out to me was that Christians are to be a light in the darkness to and speak up against injustice okay and my initial thought process when I kind of did my analysis was that I thought that protesting was a sign of disrespect for authority and so with that mindset I didn't want to engage in such activities right to be a part of it however I came to realize that through more introspection and through learning that we're also called to call out and to condemn evil and so though the Bible may not have specifically addressed protesting God does not stand for injustice so after finding out this I started to think okay what do I say how do I act what can I do you know asking myself all of these really important questions and one thing that I acknowledged when I was doing the research of the protesting was that the protest was a peaceful one and as Christians as well we are called to be peacemakers and so I don't expect myself or a Christian to support a protest that is not peaceful.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Is Uptober Real? Data Shows What Comes Next For Bitcoin!
"Is October real? Is Bitcoin really going to see an expansionary move in the month of October and for the rest of Q4 or is this simply a fake out narrative and are we going to see Bitcoin come down to that major 25k level and flip bearish for October and the rest of Q4? Well in today's video I'm going to dive into the data which is giving us a telltale sign of Bitcoin's next move and today want to break down what the data is showing from historical past cycles to work out what we might do this October and beyond for the rest of Q4 2023. I've got the bullish case I also had the bearish case and then at the end I'm going to present my argument what I think may happen as well as showing you what you need to know on the charts. So the first thing to note is the current Bitcoin structure that we're in. If you go into the monthly chart you can see that we are currently wedged in the middle of a key range between the 25k region and the 31 .5k region and the real question investors are asking right now is are we going to make a push up towards the extremity of the range high here or are we simply going to come back down and October becomes one big fake out back down to the 25k region and then simply teeter on the edge of a breakdown. So I want to dig into the data now and look at what has happened historically to give us an indication as to whether we will push up towards the top of this range or down towards the bottom of this range as Bitcoin continues to range there are opportunities both on the long side and the short side and of course with altcoins as well to take advantage. The first thing I want to point out is that Bitcoin had a green September it's one of the only times in Bitcoin's history that we've had a green September and actually four out of the five times Bitcoin has been green in September we've seen continuation bullish continuation into the month of October. So most of the time when we do have a green September we also have a green October as you can see here four out of the five times have resulted in not only positive price performance in October but also often that extends beyond into the month of November and December as well and corresponding to that we know that Q4 is Bitcoin's strongest period we have a mean performance for Bitcoin in quarter four of 93 .38 % compared to the other quarters which are only 6%, 33 % and 4 .67%. 60 % of quarter fours end up bullish for Bitcoin so that is obviously in Bitcoin's favor. What's also in Bitcoin's favor is the fact that last time Bitcoin finished up during September of a pre -halving year as Ran points out we had another 70 % rally in the last quarter of that year that was back in 2015 and this is only a sample size of one so you have to take it with a grain of salt but the more encouraging data set here is that green September four out of five times has led to a green October and of course Q4 is typically a good period for Bitcoin and October is typically a good period for Bitcoin but coming in as the second most bullish month in Bitcoin's history on average behind November which is by far the most bullish month in Bitcoin's history. So are we coiling up for an October and potentially an extension into an upvember with November being a strong month? Well there is definitely an argument for this and I want to read this post by Game4One which reads out October a short story which kind of pinpoints the reason why the market could go up in October and he says price up on a random October due to seasonality effects as we just looked through the seasonal data before this repeats one to two times one of these may just be a random coincidence market participants learn a pattern and get programmed to believe up prices during the period aka investors chasing positive returns during Q4.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Begins - Everything You Need to Know
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on guys? It is Tuesday, October 3rd. The SBF trial has begun. This is all the background that you need to know. Of course, before we get into all of that. If you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello Breakers. As you can imagine, this is a fairly weird time for me. A year ago at this time, I was deep in the midst of planning FTX's second Super Bowl ad. And yet a month later, I had resigned, the company had declared bankruptcy, and the world had discovered a rotten core of fraud around Sam and his closest consigliaries. Now, I did a very long episode about the experience of the week of the collapse from the inside last November 14th. It was called Sam Bankman Fraud to give you a sense of how I felt about it. Since then, I've been covering the FTX bankruptcy and Sam's legal battles as I would any other crypto story. In other words, just part of the necessary cleanup of the last cycle, but ultimately something that is hopefully for the past and not for the future. When it comes to the trial, I've spent a long time deciding about how to approach it. The reality is, for the next five or six weeks or however long this takes, this is going to drown out a lot of other things that are happening in the space. I have to imagine that most products will choose not to launch during this time for fear of being outshined because everyone is just laser focused on this. The question then of course is how much time to give it. Is there a risk of over focusing on it? You bet. It's going to have lots of drama. But does it need to be covered? I think that the answer is also ultimately yes. This is something that has to get concluded for the industry to fully move on. It is in many ways an exorcism that just has to be done. And on top of that, I think that this trial and everything that surrounds it will have some impact in shaping how much the external world sees the crypto space as itself inherently fraudulent versus Sam as specifically fraudulent. So how is the breakdown going to cover this? Well, I talked to a lot of you listeners and the general request mirrored my own thoughts, which is to every few days do an update, sometimes with a guest discussion. This won't be then an everyday thing. At least there won't be some big feature every day. But you will get all the salient details as they come up. And with that in mind, I thought it would be valuable to try to create a bit of a definitive primer, something that if you haven't been paying attention at all, if you were barely watching last year, you could pick up and listen to and feel pretty well prepared to get into what you're going to see over the coming weeks. What that means is that today we're going to go over the charges, the rough timeline of events, the key witnesses, what we expect from the defense, the latest procedural news and info from the bankruptcy and the trial schedule. I don't think we'll have time to get into people's very strong feelings about Michael Lewis's book that just came out, but I imagine that that will be on the docket for later this week as well. However, where we begin is with the charges of which Sam faces seven. Those include two charges of wire fraud, two charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as well as charges of securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering. More generally, Sam is accused of fraudulently dealing with customer funds in a multitude of ways. The most damning allegation, and the one prosecutors will likely focus on establishing, is that Sam knowingly diverted customer funds to FTX -affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Alameda, of course, served as the primary market maker on FTX. Now, FTX is widely understood not to have been able to obtain bank accounts, and so in many cases used accounts held by Alameda Research to receive funds from customers. The thing that prosecutors will seek to demonstrate is that Alameda not only held customer funds, but that it racked up billions of dollars in debt to FTX, which it could not repay. Evidence has been put forward that Alameda did not have the same risk controls as other entities when it traded on FTX, and that the lack of limits allowed Alameda to continue to operate while carrying a large negative cash balance. To put a fine point on it, the prosecution will allege that this large negative cash balance represented improperly using customer funds to trade and lose on the exchange. Now of course, Alameda had a significant balance sheet of assets held against this negative cash balance, but these assets were crypto tokens largely created by Sam and FTX. They were far too illiquid to realize it anywhere close to their full book value. The SEC summarized the allegations in their separate lawsuit by stating that Sam, Put more simply by Bloomberg's Matt Levine in an article published yesterday, It was pretty much entirely because Alameda had lost it. Now the key to proving these allegations will be establishing that Sam was aware of this financial artifice being run using Alameda. Fraud isn't fraud if it was caused by a mistake or an oversight. Prosecutors will need to show that Sam was either aware of the fraud or willfully blind to it. As the judge put it during a hearing last week, Now let's move on to the timeline of events. Much of the DOJ's case will center around the fateful final weeks as the FTX empire came crashing down. The beginning of the end came on November 2nd when Coindesk's Ian Allison published an expose on the Alameda balance sheet. There had been some rumors of trouble at Alameda prior to that, but with a partial copy of the balance sheet, this piece of reporting blew the lid off the situation. TLDR, what the balance sheet showed was that a huge portion of Alameda's holdings, the were pretty illiquid tokens and in particular, the native exchange token of FTX, FTT. Now in terms of a huge portion of their assets being in FTT, there were also a bunch of other Sam coins from DeFi projects that barely got off the ground, which in some cases had Alameda representing up to 95 % of the overall token supply. According to the Financial Times, just $900 million in assets on this balance sheet could be easily sold. The next major event was the very public sparring between Binance CEO CZ and Sam. Binance had been an early investor in FTX, but at that time had been bought out of their stake for $2 .1 billion. That repurchase, a theoretically pretty good return on an $80 million investment, had been paid out in a mix of stablecoins and FTT tokens. On the Sunday following the Coindesk article, CZ tweeted that quote, Due to recent revelations that have come to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. He said the firm would attempt to do so in a way that quote, minimizes market impact over the next few months. But of course, when you have CZ, the single biggest player in the industry, saying dump FTT and run for the hills, guess what happened next? Within the hour, Carolyn Ellison absolutely pissed gasoline all over the situation. She had taken over as sole Alameda CEO just a couple months prior and tweeted to CZ quote, If you're looking to minimize the market impact of your FTT sales, Alameda will happily buy it all from you today at $22. The market immediately plunged, with FTT's price being very visibly defended against Throughout the week before, FTT had traded around $25 and a market cap of $3 billion. By Tuesday night, with Alameda's traders and balance sheet exhausted, the token settled at $5 and FTX closed withdrawals. Now like I said, I gave my account of being on the inside. And while Tuesday when FTX closed withdrawals was clearly a final moment in the coffin for many of us inside, for me when it was clear that something very nefarious had gone on was on Monday, when I started getting hit up by other friends outside of FTX in the industry who were asking if I had heard anything about an FTX emergency fundraising round. Now of course, as an exchange that was supposed to be fully backed and given Sam's recent statements to the team that we had around $2 billion in cash and liquid assets thanks to trading revenue as well as recent fundraising, the only way in the world that we would need an emergency fundraising round was if Sam had been using FTX customer funds for purposes other than sitting on FTX's books waiting for those customers to reclaim those funds. Anyway, in the middle of that week after withdrawals were closed, there was also a weird sham sale announced to Binance, which they very quickly backed out of. And by Friday, with most FTX staffers having already fled the Bahamas, Sam finally capitulated to bankruptcy. Now to this day, Sam claims that he was forced by external lawyers to place the FTX empire into bankruptcy and appears to continue to be holding onto the idea that the exchange could have raised an emergency fundraising round to make customers whole. For most people, that might be where the event ended, but not so much for Sam. What followed was a bizarre string of press interviews, an incredibly disjointed Twitter thread, and basically an odd media tour that attempted to paint Sam as a wayward and naive CEO in over his head rather than a perpetrator of criminal fraud. This tour was capped off by a live broadcast interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times on November 30th. During that sprawling interview, Sam claimed that he, quote, didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. Authorities disagreed, and on December 12th, Sam was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US government. Although initially defiant, Sam ultimately agreed to be extradited to face charges and was released on bail. Once again, for any normal person, that might be the end of the story until we get to trial, but not for Sam. Although he was confined to his parents' house in California, Sam managed to continuously test the boundaries of his bail conditions. February, Sam was hauled before the judge on allegations that he had used encrypted messaging apps to contact the General Counsel of FTX US as well as using a VPN, which Sam claimed was just to watch NFL games. To the former General Counsel of FTX US, Sam had reached out to see if it was possible to, quote, have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other. The DOJ characterized this communication as an attempt to taint a potential witness. At that point, the judge decided not to revoke Sam's bail, but instead expressly forbid Sam from using encrypted messaging apps and VPNs. And yet, in July, Sam stepped over the line once again by leaking the private journal of Carolyn Ellison to the New York Times. The judge agreed that providing this material to journalists was, at best, an attempt to embarrass Ellison, if not a brazen attempt to intimidate her and discredit her in the public eye. During the course of that hearing, it was uncovered that Sam had held more than 1 ,000 phone calls with journalists, including over 100 with the New York Times reporter who published the story. And thus, by early August, Sam had his bail revoked and was locked up at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to await his trial. Since then, it's basically just been a never -ending set of appeals to try to get Sam out of jail, but alas, jail is where he remains. Next up, let's talk witnesses. What became clear quite fast was that there was a cohort of around four people, including Sam, that seemed to know about the extra special privileges that Alameda enjoyed and the fact that for all intents and purposes, customer funds on FTX were just used as a slush fund for their hedge fund traders. And it turns out that while Sam was still in the air being extradited from the Bahamas, multiple FTX executives were revealed to be collaborating witnesses. Of those, Carolyn Ellison is the one likely to get the most attention. As well as being the CEO of Alameda, Ellison was also Sam's former girlfriend. The couple split prior to the collapse of FTX and there will no doubt be extensive cross -examination which questions Ellison's motives in giving evidence against Sam. Although Ellison was only at the helm of Alameda for a little over two months, recent reporting describes her as essentially in charge of the trading firm for much longer, at least as much as anyone could be in charge of the firm relative to Sam himself. Nominally, Ellison and Sam Trabuco, another Sam in this story, had been appointed co -CEOs of the firm in October of 2021 when SPF stepped away from the role. However, Trabuco had recently been described as almost entirely checked out at that point, leaving Ellison in charge of day -to -day operations. Ellison is expected to give evidence regarding the inner workings of FTX and has acknowledged that she knew about the hole in Alameda's balance sheet prior to the collapse of the exchange. Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are the other two executives known to be cooperating with prosecutors. Singh acted as engineering director while Wang was the exchange's CTO and co -founder. These two basically built all of FTX from the ground up, so anything going on with the codebase is basically going to be mostly just their work. Nishad is expected to give a first -hand account of how the Alameda backdoor was enabled in the code. Nishad was reportedly extremely distressed and wracked with guilt during the final weeks at FTX and was confrontational with Sam during that time. Gary was one of the last employees left in the Bahamas as the exchange collapsed and famously coded almost the entire platform by himself. Some have speculated about how he will be as a witness given that he is notoriously quiet. Now, each of these three key witnesses have already pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges and have agreed to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. Prosecutors will need to demonstrate that each one is presenting an honest account of events rather than merely throwing Sam under the bus to save themselves. There are also complicated personal relationships between each of these executives and Sam, which could be used by the defense. All three cohabitated with Sam in a Bahamas penthouse and were some of Sam's closest friends as well as employees. To give an indication of how hostile cross -examination could become, last week a DOJ motion to prevent the defense from asking questions about recreational drug use was denied. The defense will need to provide notice to the court before asking witnesses about their drug use, but the subject was not ruled to be out of bounds. Another FTX executive who has pleaded guilty to criminal charges is Ryan Salem, who served as CEO of FTX Digital Markets. FTX Digital Markets was the operating company for the Bahamas. Now, Salem was particularly involved in the political campaign side of things for Sam and was charged with violations of campaign financing law in relation to making straw donations to politicians on Sam's direction as well as operating an unlicensed money -transmitting business. Unlike the other three, Salem is not cooperating with prosecutors as part of his plea deal, but could be called to testify as a non -cooperating witness. Alameda co -CEO Sam Trabuco has not been heard from since he stepped away from the company last August. He has not been disclosed as a witness and has not been charged at this stage. The DOJ has also flagged that they have at least two additional witnesses set to testify under a grant of immunity but have not publicly identified them at this stage. By and large, speculation about who those witnesses might be include not only Trabuco who we just mentioned, but Daniel Friedberg who served as FTX's chief compliance officer and who had formerly been implicated in a major online poker scandal, and Constance Wang who was FTX's COO and was described as Sam's right hand during fundraising efforts. Now in addition to FTX executives, the DOJ will also call multiple customers and investors to give brief testimony. Prosecutors have flagged that they will call upon retail customers who traded tens of thousands of dollars on the platform, as well as institutional clients who traded millions of dollars. The high range could imply notable industry figures will make an appearance on the witness stand. Several high profile market makers are listed as top creditors of FTX and are no doubt none too happy about their funds being locked up in the bankruptcy process. Both customers and investors are intended to present their understanding of the FTX terms of service and representations made about the use of customer funds, which could be crucial in refuting possible defenses. Which indeed brings us to that section of this primer, what are the defense strategies that Sam might try to employ? SPF's legal team have flagged a few potential arguments. In a filing on Monday, they sought clarification on a few issues they may wish to present. The filing asked whether the defense could argue that FTX International was not regulated in the US and therefore did not have to follow applicable rules. They also asked whether Sam could discuss the likelihood that creditors could see massive returns from the bankruptcy process. Still, the primary defense expected from SPF relates to instructions from legal counsel. In August, SPF's team flagged a plan to argue that he relied on advice from both in -house attorneys as well as lawyers from Fenwick and West in basically all elements of FTX's operation. Sam sought to introduce advice from lawyers on topics ranging from his use of self -deleting messages, unconventional banking relationships, and intercompany financial arrangements. The DOJ objected to this defense, claiming that not enough detail had been provided, but the judge reserved their decision on this point until later in the trial. The judge said that they would make rulings on individual advice of counsel arguments on a case -by -case basis as they come up. Outside of what indications we've gotten from Sam's team, the industry and the wider world at large have had no problem speculating about how he might defend himself as well. Bloomberg's Matt Levine paraphrased his view of a likely defense as The crypto market crashed, there was a run on the bank, and the run on the bank is what evaporated the customer's money. It was an accident, perhaps a careless accident but not theft. Certainly, in media commentary, SPF has been focused on the bank run, rather than the hole in Alameda's balance sheet as the cause of FTX's collapse. Now, of course, there are some obvious issues with that defense, particularly if witnesses establish that Alameda had effectively commandeered customer funds in contravention of the exchange's terms of service. Another plank of Sam's defense will likely be to rely on prosecutors being unable to In a New Yorker article published last month, the journalist wrote, Going back to his article, Matt Levine again sketched out a plausible way that Sam could brush off an $8 billion balance sheet hole as a careless oversight rather than willful fraud. He suggested Sam could claim he thought FTX had so much money that $8 billion was a rounding error. From Levine's back of the napkin math, at its height, FTX had somewhere approaching $100 billion in crypto assets on its books. Finally, it's also expected that Sam will seek to blame Caroline for mismanaging Alameda. The publication of excerpts from Caroline's journal was an attempt to paint her as a naive child way out of her depths, and some of Sam's leaked writings also showed a belief that Alameda had failed to hedge correctly, as if that was the main issue here. Now, one thing that's important to note is that when considering defenses, SPF does not need to prove his innocence. He only needs to introduce a shred of doubt in the minds of the jury. To convict, the 12 jurors must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Sam is guilty and reach a unanimous decision. Prosecutors often fail to get their cases over the line due to being unable to entirely convince each juror of the defendant's guilt. This can be even more of a difficulty when the case involves complicated financial crime which can be difficult to fully understand. And yet, many commentators are convinced that the case is damning. Daniel C. Silva, a former prosecutor who participated in the BitConnect case, said, Now, in terms of the latest from the bankruptcy, as the trial gets underway, the FTX bankruptcy process is entering its 10th month and has had no shortage of intrigue. The current focus has been on pursuing clawbacks from people and organizations that had been, in the estimation of the bankruptcy estate, unjustly enriched by FTX. On the very top of that list are Sam's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Two weeks ago, the estate sued Bankman and Fried, claiming that they had received over $26 million in gifts from FTX, including a luxury property in the Bahamas. The lawsuit alleges that Bankman was intimately involved in the operations at FTX and used his position to enrich himself. You may have seen the now -famous email where he tried to raise his salary to a million dollars by threatening to involve Sam's mother. Now, speaking of Sam's mother, Barbara Fried is alleged to have directed political donation efforts at FTX. This instructing included Sam on how to structure donations to avoid donation limits. She is also alleged to have knowledge of loans made to FTX executives, which were then used to fund election campaigns. All in all, the lawsuit alleged that the pair, quote, Now, for their part, Sam's parents immediately hit back at the lawsuit through lawyers saying, A last note on the bankruptcy, while current FTX CEO John J. Wray has no doubt been cooperating with prosecutors in providing internal documents, he is not currently expected to testify as a witness. Now, in terms of the latest trial procedural stuff and timeline, today was technically the first day of the trial with jury selection the goal. Both sides have alleged the other is attempting to bias the jury pool. The DOJ claimed that Sam's questions for the jury about effective altruism, political donations and ADHD are intended to paint him in a sympathetic light. In particular, prosecutors are concerned that asking about charitable and political donations could improperly introduce the idea that Sam's actions were justified outside of evidence. The defense, meanwhile, have complained that the DOJ are treating Sam's fraud as an established fact in their jury questioning by omitting the word allegedly. They also claim a question about being stopped or questioned by the police is intended to racially filter the jury in a manner irrelevant to the case. Last week, as I intimated before, SPF placed a last minute appeal to be released from jail for the duration of the trial. Sam's team claimed that his incarceration would be an unreasonable barrier to adequately preparing for each day's hearing. Unfortunately for him, the judge found this argument insufficiently convincing and stated that they consider Sam to be a flight risk. They said, Sam was granted some concessions to be allowed to meet with his lawyers early at the courthouse each day, as well as during jail visiting on off days. Now, while a decision is yet to be made on exactly how Sam can introduce the concept that he relied on the advice of lawyers, limits were placed on what can be said during the defense's opening arguments. Specifically, Sam's lawyers have been prohibited from mentioning any advice of counsel arguments while presenting their case. The judge ruled that this argument may confuse or prejudice a jury when presented without specifics and evidence. The trial is currently scheduled to take six weeks. Jury selection is expected to be completed by the end of today's hearing, although before I was recording this, there were some indications that it might go into tomorrow morning as well. In either case, tomorrow we will likely see the beginnings of opening arguments. After that, the prosecution will present its case and call its witnesses. The DOJ has estimated their case will take four to five weeks. The defense will then have an opportunity to present their case, which they have estimated will be much shorter, taking around a week and a half. Now, the defense is not compelled to present a case and can simply choose not to if they are confident the charges have not been proven. We don't yet have any indication of whether SPF will speak in his own defense. Traditional legal strategy suggests that defendants should never take to the witness stand to avoid giving prosecutors an opportunity to cross -examine them. However, this is no ordinary trial and SPF is no ordinary defendant. Judging from how extensively Sam has defended himself in the media, I would not be surprised if his lawyers have a tough time keeping him out of the witness box. Hearings will be held four days a week with a short break after three weeks. If the trial takes longer than six weeks, it will be extended, but the consensus seems to be that it will be all over by Thanksgiving. And won't that be something to be thankful for? Now, even if Sam escapes a guilty verdict, his legal troubles will continue well into next year. The DOJ will present additional charges related to bribery of Chinese officials, as well as political donation violations during a second criminal trial, which is scheduled for March. Sam will also face civil lawsuits from the SEC and the CFTC after the first criminal trial is concluded. Beyond that, there's still the possibilities of lawsuits from the FTX bankruptcy estate, as well as from former customers and investors. So my friends, that is the lay of the land. That is what we are going into. Like I said at the top, for me, the most interesting thing, the thing that I will be watching most closely, is actually the meta -narrative analysis around this. I want to know how much, especially mainstream media looks at this and treats this like what it is, which is Sam Bankman -Fried going on trial, versus what I fear it might become, which is the entire crypto industry being put on trial. But in any event, this truly is a scenario where the only way out is through. So get on your boots, friends, because we are getting into the muck. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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Dinesh D'Souza: The Signature Elements of a Police State
"Police State I'm involved in this film I'm actually in the film too. You know Dinesh it's interesting we were doing the when we were filming portions of it you know you and I were chatting for the film and you know obviously it's you know it's about an hour and a half the movie the movie could have been I think you and I both agree we could have done five hours I mean you and I alone probably talked for two hours and it's interesting when you and I were done with our segments everything was like gosh this stuff is so good it's so bad I mean everything I was telling you about how we've degenerated into this mess and how a government and that's a constitutional Republican a representative democracy is not supposed to target citizens in search of crimes they're supposed to target you know crimes in search of the people who did them yet it's the exact opposite now yeah you know if it'd be one thing if I we were making a a film and we said that look there is one aspect of the police state let's say censorship that is now creeping its way into the country but what terrifies me is that all the signature elements of a police state I mean we if think of North Korea China the old Soviet Union they had mass surveillance they had censorship they had a rampant ideological indoctrination all the way from the the lowest grades of school all the way through colleges and in the media they were one -party states where the opposition party if it existed at all was weak and ineffective they had political prisoners so think about all these elements are now manifestly present in our society and it becomes really difficult for us even to
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A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/03/23
"Not just any Fleetwood Mac record, little secondhand news, first track when you put the needle down, when that little Rumors album was released, you heard this, you heard the great Lindsey Buckingham, who is 74 today. Mike, you've caught, you've caught the Mac a few times, have you not? Oh, sure, sure. Love Fleetwood Mac. What a sad, what a sad story because he's so, he's a genius. He's a total genius. And they fired him like four or five years ago. The chemistry was just terrible. He does solo tours now and does some, some Fleetwood Mac stuff, but I just hope he's just not... These stories, these stories about these guys all breaking up and fights and all that. The Eagles, of course, had an epic, epic battle. You know, who they fired, they fired, I guess, the, I mean, they had a big, the two of them, the two founders, I guess, of the Eagles. They broke up and then they came back and, you know, it's like, hey, life is short, you know? That's it. You know what it makes you think about? It makes you think about Aerosmith. Same five guys, 50 years. There you go. You got to get Steven Tyler well again because he like blasted a vocal cord. But anyway, speaking of people who've been together for a long time, here's my buddy. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. I'm just trying to make sense out of the, the rage that the establishment Republicans and the Rhinos and the squishes are exhibiting towards Matt Gaetz. Now, I, I think there's a lot of merit towards the frustration over what Gaetz is trying to do in, in ousting Kevin McCarthy personally. I think Kevin McCarthy has done a great job. I think he's, he's fine. You know, it's a tough conference. It's a tough coalition. You got to hold it together. McCarthy did a great job in helping to identify strong candidates in California and New York, in New York. And without those victories, Marc, we don't have, we don't have a Republican majority in the House. Now, we have a slim majority in the House, slim, four, four people. That's it. All right. So I want to present, and I get it, you know, this is probably giving the Democrats a lifeline. It's ceasing our momentum. This is probably not the most productive thing to happen right now to try to have this crisis over the Speaker of the House. But what the establishment types are saying in their rage, and man, are they mad. I mean, Marc, they're not agitated. They're not, they're livid. I mean, I, I heard this morning, I, I never knew Switzerland could be so angry. Man, for Switzerland, Switzerland's got the knives out in the show before yours. Geneva is on fire. Oh, my gosh, Switzerland is burning. This is a reference, of course, to the always even -handed, neutral, and presidential matters, et cetera, our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who has decided to take a couple of sides, take one side on this. Not so neutral on this issue, is he? I mean, it's just like full -blown, Gates is a clown, he's a fraud, he's a traitor, he's a this, he's a that. I saw a tweet last night that got me thinking, and this is, I think, a reasonable thing to have as part of this conversation. Has Kevin McCarthy fulfilled the promises he made in order to get elected speaker in the first place, or hasn't he? It's a reasonable thing to talk about. It was, you know, Gates and Lauren Boebert and Eli Crane and all these real, you know, sharp -elbowed Republicans got concessions from McCarthy in his bid to become speaker. Remember, I'm old enough to remember that wasn't so easy. That was not long ago. Exactly. And it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that easy, right? Well, he promised they would pass 12 appropriations bills for a budget, in other words, fiscal responsibility in the budget. He'd give members at least 72 hours to read legislation. Now those are not, that's not onerous and that isn't crazy. So those two promises, well, both of those promises were broken this past weekend. And Gates is saying, you broke your promises and we're going to hold you accountable. Now, does he have a plan? It doesn't really sound like it to me. I don't know who you replace him with. Thank you. And it does hurt the Republican momentum we have. There are over 200 Republicans who are solidly in McCarthy's corner. But Mark, we expect some accountability. We do expect disruption. We do expect people who are warriors and fighting for what we believe in. So it just seems to me that to turn on Matt Gaetz all of a sudden and, P .S., insult the millions and millions of Americans who are rooting for him isn't very productive. Are they rooting for, first of all, your sound, sound logic throughout. Are they rooting for him in this particular tactic or they admiring the lofty standard that he has? And it may not even be all that lofty is like, hey, you made us promises to become speaker. How about keeping those promises? There's an old adage that it's possible for multiple things to be true at the same time. Here are the two things that are true at the same time. Kevin McCarthy has been a very successful, very impactful speaker and deserves a lot of conservative praise for the things he has been able to do. There's thing number one thing. Number two is he might have fudged on some of these things, seems to have fudged on some of these procedural things, and I don't say that to be dismissive of them. Some of these things that he promised the Gang of 10 or whatever they were that were that were holding him up. So in what form is this the only accountability? Is this the only way to call him out? Because all I would ask, and I'll give this back to you in the following way, is if Gaetz tactics are so great and if they are to be admired, what is the end game? What is the plan? Trump's have disruptions a plan, and it's a wonderful plan. Various other people who are disruptors, there's a place they're trying to get you to. Here's what I want to do that is specific. Here's the goal I'm trying to get to. What exactly is the Matt Gaetz end game? I don't know, and I don't know that he knows. I'm not sure he does. I would suggest, I would respectfully submit that the way to deal with these differences is behind closed doors, not to burn it all down. I mean, again, make no mistake. I don't agree with the Gaetz tactic right now. I don't want anybody to be lost on that, but I also strongly disagree with disparaging the spirit with which he's doing it. And again, savage millions and millions of Americans in the process. So listen, I guess Cal's out of the barn. He's called for the vote. The vote's going to come today or tomorrow if they oust McCarthy, which is possible because Democrats are quite capable of adding to this misery right now. Right now, Gaetz needs some Democrats. And if he gets Democrats to support him because they like to sit back and see this kind of dumpster fire, well, McCarthy's out, Mark. Is there an irony there in that Matt Gaetz needs Democrat help to oust a speaker whose worst sin is doing something with Democrat help? Yes. That's a great irony with a capital I. Great way to put it. It really is. And I heard a congressman, you know, a RINO New York congressman on Hewitt this morning and they are again, they are on fire. As you said, Geneva is burning. But this guy pointed out, well, I don't think any of the Democrats are going to want to be associated with this guy, Matt Gaetz. Don't be so sure. Strange bedfellows sometimes. Well, AOC of all people said this week, hey, we're not going to it's not up to us to bail the Republicans out of the mess they're in. Believe me, they're enjoying this. I do agree that this benefits the Democrats. I'm sorry for that. And I hate it. But I also don't like seeing, you know, somebody called a nihilist. I mean, nihilist. You know, it's like and he's anti -American and he's got his daddy's boy and daddy was the Florida. I mean, they're just attacking him personally. I mean, it's it's kind of wild. To see it. There are bigger fish to fry. I want to share with you. You mentioned earlier I was listening to you talk about the plight of the big cities. Horrible story out of Philadelphia. There was a young journalist, an LGBT journalist who was very prolific on X and social media mocking conservatives for being concerned about crime in big cities like his city of Philadelphia. And this guy was even mocking the idea of having a gun to defend yourself in your home. He was mocking and taunting Republicans for criticizing cities like Philadelphia. He loves this Jim Kenney, this sanctuary city mayor. Markie was shot and killed in his home this week. He was murdered seven times, seven bullets put in his body. And of course, the ghouls on social media are dancing on his grave and they're mocking him. Can't do that. But but you must understand that this is life or death, that things are happening in these cities. And I hate it. I hate it for his for obvious for him and for his family, his loved ones. And again, a well -known journalist in Philly, apparently in the LGBT community. But the bottom line is a day before he was murdered, he was literally, you know, poo pooing the idea that we got a crime problem in Philly, mocking the people who are trying to draw attention to the issue to make it better. And it's funny. So did you hear the two things when I was talking about the conversion of Dallas mayor Eric Johnson? He said, listen, we need Republican mayors in our big cities, so I'm going to become one. We also need to elect more of them. And that seems like a ridiculous long shot. How do you get a Republican elected in most of America's big cities? And I don't know the answer to that except to try. A lot of people don't even want to try. We have given up. We have ceded the cities to Democrats. Is that helpful? 70, 80 percent of Americans live in these big cities. Is that helpful to just give up or should we try to it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's an uphill steep climb to try to get some sensible Republican mayors who can save our cities. You spend so much time in New York. I grew up in the suburbs of D .C. I'm in Dallas and Fort Worth all the time. You're in Tampa all the time. Big cities are beautiful. There's no more beautiful city in America than San Francisco. It breaks my heart what happens out there. Should we try to save American cities or say, screw them, get buried under your own bad policies? I'm inclined to say you own it. You live with it. You've got to you inherited this. There's a great column by Douglas Murray of the New York Post called The Fall of Lululemon. How stores have surrendered to looters. He tells the story of how Lululemon fires employees who try to stop shoplifters from walking out with the high end material and merchandise from Lululemon. And a lot of stores are doing this. They're firing any of the employees. They're saying, let them go. Let them walk out. And guess what? When you when that happens, when you encourage it. I mean, it's not a sane society anymore. I mean, call us old fashioned. Law and order is an important thing. It's one thing that people want to steal, but for businesses not to mind being stolen from. Well, but I'm intrigued by the employees thing. And for those that don't know, Lululemon is high end athletic wear, mostly for for women, but not exclusively. And so there's some some an arm load is some serious cash if you're going out the front door. Thousands and thousands of dollars. What do we expect? I mean, if I'm an employee, I'd love to say, well, I'm not going to let this happen, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes these people might be armed. I mean, what these what these stores need is armed guards to prevent this, not employees trying to try and try to go vigilante. Two female Lululemon employees in Atlanta confronted three masked men who pillaged the store. All they did was call the police. Right. I mean, one of the systematically said, you know, what do we want them to do? What do we want? They did call them. They were fired. They were fired for for for OK. Pardon me. Confused host for for calling the police or for not doing more for calling the police. No, they did too much by calling the police. One of the fired employee told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we are not supposed to get in the way. You're supposed to clear the path for whatever they're going to do. And then it's over. You scan a QR code. We're not supposed to call the police. We're not supposed to talk about it. And Douglas Murray says Lululemon isn't the only company in America that has taken this completely lax approach to its own stock. Well, guess what? Lululemon's on the verge of bankruptcy. They're going out of business. And Douglas Murray writes, you know what? I'm sorry. Count me as one who's not real sympathetic. We're in post consequences America. And this is how Congressman Henry Cuellar gets carjacked. Or it's not the specific because of this, then that because crime is going to happen. But we're going to get more of it in cities where people know they'll get away with it and know that punishment does not await them. And there is a choice that Americans get to make. Republicans are law and order. The Democrats are certainly not, no matter how mad Switzerland gets. Look at that. Look at that call back. Happy Tuesday. And the Mike Gallagher Show lies ahead. Everyone knows that putting money aside and savings is really important. But then what? Should you keep your savings locked in a CD for a higher rate or keep them liquid in a money market? Can your checking account help you save, too? 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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Surge in US Job Openings Sparks Economic Jitters and Market Reactions
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about Ether, Hong Kong, jobs and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. The launch of the crypto market's first U .S.-listed Ether futures funds yesterday did little to lift spirits. After rising in early trading, Bitcoin drifted lower throughout the rest of the day and today so far it has been holding steady. According to data from CoinDesk indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,434, down 3 .5 % over the past 24 hours. Ether weakened by even more, trading almost 4 % lower at $1 ,655. In a moment, we'll discuss the underwhelming results of the Ether fund launch day. One thing to point out is that Bitcoin's price is still higher than it was heading into the weekend. In other words, it has not yet completely unwound Sunday's sharp jump and is currently almost 2 .5 % up on early Saturday morning. Ether, on the other hand, is half a percent lower. Today we got a fresh batch of job market data for the U .S. with the job openings and labor turnover survey, known as JOLTS. This tells us how many job openings there are each month, how many workers were hired, how many quit their job, how many were laid off, and so on, and is a key indicator of labor market tightness. It came in way higher than expected. The consensus forecast was for 8 .8 million job openings reported. The actual figure came in at 9 .6 million. This suggests that job market tightness is not abating, not even close, which complicates the fight against inflation and makes higher interest rates in the U .S. more likely. In reaction, U .S. yields jumped by even more, gold fell, and the dollar did some see -sawing. Moving over to stocks, the JOLT to interest rate expectations sent U .S. indices lower. As of 10 .20 Eastern Time, the S &P and Dow Jones were down roughly 1%, with NASDAQ down more than 1 .4%. This kind of sharp reaction to economic data is typical, and things could calm down as the day progresses. Markets are jittery, though. U .S. stocks were mixed yesterday, with the S &P flat, NASDAQ up almost seven tenths of a percent, and the Dow Jones down two tenths. The fact that the S &P did not have a good day yesterday in spite of the U .S. government shutdown being avoided shows just how cautious investors are feeling. The flat performance is also, in spite of August manufacturing data, coming in much better than expected. This was good news, and yet the market was still nervous. The U .S. 10 -year Treasury yield today has reached almost 4 .8 % for the first time in 15 years. In Europe, stock indices are also heading down fast. Yesterday, the German DAX, the French CAC40 and the Eurostock 600 all lost roughly 1 % and have continued lower today, losing another 1%. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei Index dropped more than 1 .6 % in today's trading, partly in sympathy with stocks pretty much everywhere, and partly because concern about the exchange rate is ratcheting up. One thing to keep an eye on is potential intervention by the Japanese central bank to defend the currency. The yen -U .S. dollar exchange rate is a hair's breadth away from the key 150 level for the first time since last October. Back then, the central bank intervened by selling dollars and buying yen. This sent the DXY dollar index tumbling over the next couple of months. It is not clear whether the Bank of Japan will do the same this time, but if it did, it could have a significant impact on global markets. A weaker dollar in theory would be good for crypto prices, as Bitcoin and the dollar often move inversely. It should also receive some pressure on commodities and other currencies. Speaking of commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued to fall in early trading, as the supply outlook is becoming more complicated. Yesterday, the Turkish energy minister said that a pipeline channelling supply from Iraq would reopen this week, yet it closed in March due to a payment dispute. According to Bloomberg, an Iraq official has cast doubts on this timeline, so who knows. Traders are apparently also getting concerned about the impact on demand of a global economic slowdown. Over the past few hours, however, Brent has been clawing back some of its recent decline, and earlier today was trading at $91 .5 per barrel. It is still down 1 .8 % on the week and up almost 3 % on the month. Gold continued to retrace, earlier today hitting its lowest price since the beginning of March. It is currently trading at around $1 ,820 per ounce, down 0 .6 % over the past 24 hours.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Surge in US Job Openings Sparks Economic Jitters and Market Reactions
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substat. On today's show, we're talking about Ether, Hong Kong, jobs and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. The launch of the crypto market's first U .S.-listed Ether futures funds yesterday did little to lift spirits. After rising in early trading, Bitcoin drifted lower throughout the rest of the day and today so far it has been holding steady. According to data from CoinDesk indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,434, down 3 .5 % over the past 24 hours. Ether weakened by even more, trading almost 4 % lower at $1 ,655. In a moment, we'll discuss the underwhelming results of the Ether fund launch day. One thing to point out is that Bitcoin's price is still higher than it was heading into the weekend. In other words, it has not yet completely unwound Sunday's sharp jump and is currently almost 2 .5 % up on early Saturday morning. Ether, on the other hand, is half a percent lower. Today we got a fresh batch of job market data for the U .S. with the job openings and labor turnover survey, known as JOLTS. This tells us how many job openings there are each month, how many workers were hired, how many quit their job, how many were laid off, and so on, and is a key indicator of labor market tightness. It came in way higher than expected. The consensus forecast was for 8 .8 million job openings reported. The actual figure came in at 9 .6 million. This suggests that job market tightness is not abating, not even close, which complicates the fight against inflation and makes higher interest rates in the U .S. more likely. In reaction, U .S. yields jumped by even more, gold fell, and the dollar did some see -sawing. Moving over to stocks, the JOLT to interest rate expectations sent U .S. indices lower. As of 10 .20 Eastern Time, the S &P and Dow Jones were down roughly 1%, with NASDAQ down more than 1 .4%. This kind of sharp reaction to economic data is typical, and things could calm down as the day progresses. Markets are jittery, though. U .S. stocks were mixed yesterday, with the S &P flat, NASDAQ up almost seven tenths of a percent, and the Dow Jones down two tenths. The fact that the S &P did not have a good day yesterday in spite of the U .S. government shutdown being avoided shows just how cautious investors are feeling. The flat performance is also, in spite of August manufacturing data, coming in much better than expected. This was good news, and yet the market was still nervous. The U .S. 10 -year Treasury yield today has reached almost 4 .8 % for the first time in 15 years. In Europe, stock indices are also heading down fast. Yesterday, the German DAX, the French CAC40 and the Eurostock 600 all lost roughly 1 % and have continued lower today, losing another 1%. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei Index dropped more than 1 .6 % in today's trading, partly in sympathy with stocks pretty much everywhere, and partly because concern about the exchange rate is ratcheting up. One thing to keep an eye on is potential intervention by the Japanese central bank to defend the currency. The yen -U .S. dollar exchange rate is a hair's breadth away from the key 150 level for the first time since last October. Back then, the central bank intervened by selling dollars and buying yen. This sent the DXY dollar index tumbling over the next couple of months. It is not clear whether the Bank of Japan will do the same this time, but if it did, it could have a significant impact on global markets. A weaker dollar in theory would be good for crypto prices, as Bitcoin and the dollar often move inversely. It should also receive some pressure on commodities and other currencies. Speaking of commodities, the Brent crude benchmark continued to fall in early trading, as the supply outlook is becoming more complicated. Yesterday, the Turkish energy minister said that a pipeline channelling supply from Iraq would reopen this week, yet it closed in March due to a payment dispute. According to Bloomberg, an Iraq official has cast doubts on this timeline, so who knows. Traders are apparently also getting concerned about the impact on demand of a global economic slowdown. Over the past few hours, however, Brent has been clawing back some of its recent decline, and earlier today was trading at $91 .5 per barrel. It is still down 1 .8 % on the week and up almost 3 % on the month. Gold continued to retrace, earlier today hitting its lowest price since the beginning of March. It is currently trading at around $1 ,820 per ounce, down 0 .6 % over the past 24 hours.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 123 - Dream DAO - Empowering Gen-Z builders with Web3 to regenerate the planet
"Dreamdow comes from this place that the kids will lead. When she was training all these young people to change democracy and government, they realized that there was not many people investing in having 15 to 20 years old in the web3 space. When you're at that age and you're in this world, in between worlds where the internet that you're using and all the things that you're using, you had no contribution in creating it. And the generation before you did, to have an ability to co -create and develop the new version of that, that's one thing that is super exciting. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice and please make sure to do your own research on opportunities investment or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get onto the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. This is a saying you've probably heard many times and while it's true, I also believe that youth are the leaders of today. After all, we've seen so many movements of change led by young people, whether it's climate justice campaigns or the civil unrest in Iran following the death of Masa Amini. Youth are the leaders of today and it is important that they have a seat at the table and are given the opportunity to, well, lead, including in new and emerging spaces like web3. For today's episode, I'm excited to welcome Amanda Maritan and Sean Patel, co -stewards of Dreamdow, a movement that gives Gen Z the funding, mentorship, and training to contribute to web3 projects that regenerate people and our planet. We discussed their innovative program that has helped onboard pioneering Gen Z leaders to web3, why young people should get excited about blockchain, their incredible Skywalker Z NFT collection, how web3 technology can help regenerate the planet, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Amanda and Sean to the Cryptoaltrism podcast. Amanda and Sean, thank you so much for being here. It's a pleasure to have you on the Cryptoaltrism podcast. Hi. Thank you for having us. Thanks. Excited to be here. Yeah, for sure. I'm excited to have both of you here and to learn about the great work that Dreamdow is doing. I've been following it for quite some time. I think it's such a great mission, so really excited to dive into that. Before we get there, I'd love to hear about both of your stories of how you got into the world of web3. It's always just so interesting to hear everyone's unique journeys to this new and innovative world. So maybe we can start with you, Amanda, and then I'd love to hear your story, Sean. What was your aha moment that got you excited about web3 and crypto originally? So I joined web3 through Dreamdow. It was co -founded by Civics Unplugged. So I was part of the Civics Unplugged fellowship. It's like a leadership democracy fellowship of three months. And then after that, I realized that they were launching Dreamdow, it would be used like this emerging technology and also like social impact and democracy. And it would be really nice to explore. So I applied and I got in and I didn't know much about web3 actually. I was never like this very tech person. I know like how to do things in your computer and all that, but I never actually tried to get more knowledge. And I was like, okay, maybe it can work, but maybe not. But they were actually very nice in giving us confidence to just join, even though you're not like very tech savvy. So I joined and I began, you know, contributing to the DAO, just helping actually build this learning journey that we were going to do. So all the offerings that we have for builders to learn about web3, we were actually building during the first season. So I was just actually getting engaged on that. And it was how I actually began, you know, working in web3, like as a part time thing. And I think my aha moment was when after all of the things that we did with Dreamdow, they decided to like reward all of the builders, like for the time that we spent building things in there and creating. And they also began organizing like these travels for conferences. And it was when I realized that it was actually about us Gen Z, like young people, they were actually going to support us. And when I joined Climate Collective through an internship that Dreamdow matched me, we were mapping all this like refined projects and there was like so many different ideas. And it was when I was, Oh my God, this is really exciting. You know, it's something that you definitely will change because not just because of the technology, but also because of the creativity and the innovation that is in the entire space. And yeah, it's been really excited about it since then. Yeah, totally. And I love that because too, you mentioned there around the, you don't have to be like a tech savvy person to be really, to succeed in this space, right? Cause I'm certainly not, my background is not in technology, but really in web3, you know, no matter what your background, if you're in business and artists, legal, you know, marketing, whatever it is, there's a place for you in web3, right? So yeah, that's amazing. And it's great to hear about the excellent experience you have with Dreamdow too, which I'm excited to dig into a bit later on. And so Sean, I'd love to hear your story now. Yeah, of course. So my journey started in 2018, about then, when I had started my first year in university, studying environmental economics. And I had started my first semester doing research for one of my professors and honestly, you know, going into academia and just being like really immersed in doing research, especially when it came to how to incentivize sustainable decision -making, you know, it was a big task and I seen how many hurdles my professor that I was researching under had to jump through just to like get a little bit ahead and get a little bit more funding for her research. And yeah, it just, it was really frustrating for me because her stress kind of overlaid on to me and everything kind of came full circle at that point where like something that I was really, really interested in and really thought I was in the right place, right, then kind of got dismantled because I was like, okay, a lot of politics involved, all these things. And then a lot of overall inefficiencies in terms of the actual application of that research, even if it's reputable. And so yeah, they say I look for ways in which to disrupt my professor's research, but also it was kind of just a random occurrence in that fact, right, where I had always known about Bitcoin because of a trend and it came to a point where really it was understanding that that was the space, not only Bitcoin, there's a lot that's happened in even like those past three years, whether it had been from 2015 Ethereum and understanding what has come next. And so it was a lot of trying to find ways, like new ways to disrupt basically incentivization research. And that was kind of the aspect that drew me in where at first, what my part of the project was, was how to track individuals' consumption and basically put nudges in their daily life or whatever it might be to get them to reduce their consumption. And a big part of it was just me trying to go through a supply chain and understand things and then seeing all the fragmentation and stuff, I'm like, oh, well, now I'm trying to solve a second or third order problem. And it's really taking away from the main research aspect that I was expecting to enjoy a lot. And yeah, and that was kind of what pulled me in was, I guess, not even the sustainability implications of using blockchain, but it was purely the fact that programming our values into financial services was a possibility. Because what I saw was my professor who was an academic and people I got interested and introduced to in the space of Web3 were practitioners. And I saw both very smart individuals, but very separated by a big gap. And it was just that kind of thing where I had to dive in like everyone kind of did and get pulled down so many different rabbit holes of just experimenting per se, because there is no like absolute kind of fully functioning use case in that sense. So a lot of exploration for a lot of years had not invested any money, very small amounts like pennies to dollars and just to be able to test and experiment with things. I think the coolest thing was at the time of studying economics, you had a place in those economic experiments, rather than doing it on real people and like a case study or something. And then nevertheless, overlaying the environmental aspect. So I think the idea of provenance and tracking things faster than our source and not having any of that right now, then the opportunity to have that in the future was like profound for me because I was like turning, becoming more vegetarian at that point and everything. I wanted to like know where my food was coming from and stuff. And I'm like, Oh, which way to solve this? Oh, you know, watching and ended up being this kind of just like deep rabbit hole. And then finding myself kind of in that Dow space, understanding that like this can be something that's developed only by a select few people because you started seeing that in the beginning. A lot of corporations kind of just coming out saying they have their own private blockchain and that's good enough. And I hate it always hearing that kind of good enough kind of saying. So yeah. And then I had the kind of opportunity by exploring the Dow ecosystem by finding my own Dow and it called EcoDow to then have the opportunity to just like be in New York and be in that area and randomly meeting Gary from Civics Unplugged, just like at a coworking session. And yeah, I mean, it was that kind of serendipitous thing where like, we all had made those same decisions and came to those same conclusions from our own personal experiences. Then we ended up finding ourselves in that same place. And it was ultimately like a trust, a meaningful sense of trust that like we didn't have to really build, it was already there. And DreamDow kind of showed me that value proposition from the inception. Even before DreamDow had launched, Amanda could say like at Civics Unplugged, there was this moment where that transition was happening for a lot of people and no one knew what to expect. I think that was the biggest thing where I was also like 20 years old. So I was between the cutoff maybe for being a builder or a mentor. And so it felt weird for me too, to be still in university and then like supposed to be a mentor. And I'm like, I need a mentor myself. You know, and yeah, it was a beautiful experience in that sense that like we didn't know exactly what we were getting into. There was a rough guidelines that Gary had designed in terms of like having DreamDow be his brainchild, but it wasn't only him. It was a lot of inputs from the builders that were Civics Unplugged members and also just people around him, his friend network, my friend network, and that was a beautiful thing. I think it was a beautiful arrangement of cross pollination between different orgs in and outside of Web3 that made DreamDow possible. And it ended up bringing a lot of unique people from different backgrounds together. And I just tell my friend today that like, even though maybe things have changed in the ecosystem of market and things, it's like one thing that has at least stayed true to the experiences and the meaningful relationships that have been fostered is still there with DreamDow in a lot of ways. And even just Amanda, knowing her for this long and the expectation that it would have been for something else, you know, it's the kind of thing that we didn't have any expectations. Right. And so then what kind of manifests it, whether DAOs didn't work out or they did work out, or they're still trying to get worked out, a lot of benefits came along the way, especially because it was all focused on funding public goods and DreamDow being the public good and that kind of influence from Gitcoin people and stuff. Like, it's really just been a great opportunity to get to this point in the space. At first, that was my main intention. And then I got lost down all the rabbit holes in the space. And then as coming to DreamDow and now to present, being re -centered and reinvigorating that original conviction, it's hard once you go through the ebbs and flows of different cycles of the market and stuff, you get tossed around. But it's nice to still be here and have that original conviction, let's say five years ago. So, yeah, it's been a fun time from that first aha moment of just like, how can I disrupt my professor's research? Yeah. Yeah. It's funny how that happens, right? You like first start by looking at one thing and then you kind of go down this rabbit hole and you see all these other kind of use cases and discoveries. So, yeah, I can totally resonate with that. And, you know, it sounds like DreamDow has played an important role in both of your Web3 journeys. So I was hoping now, like, I'd love if you could just give an introduction for listeners who aren't as familiar to the mission of DreamDow and Civics Unplugged. Yeah, of course. So DreamDow comes from this place that the kids will lead. So when she was training all these young people to like change, you know, democracy and government, they realized that there was not many people investing in having, you know, 15 to 20 years old in the Web3 space, right? Because usually you need to have some sort of experience and previous knowledge to join either as like working or as a builder in the whole space. And they thought that why we don't do this on boarding and then we train these people and give them like their first opportunities like mentorships and internships and all like help them to build this network. So that's what DreamDow has been doing since it was launched in November 2021. We are investing in the future of Web3 social impact ecosystem by training, funding and mentoring and giving opportunities for Gen Zs, specifically 15 to 20 years old. People are still in high school, beginning college or in gap years so they can discover this whole Web3 space and find ways to leverage, you know, use the technology to leverage the world. We really believe in the solarpunk movement. So how we can, what we can do right now to reach this point, you know, in the future. And we thought about bringing the people who will lead in the future because right now we have, you know, other generations building the Web3 space and innovating and doing all these things, but in the future we are going to lead and I hope I'll be leading as well. So, yeah. And then we just have this intergenerational learning community between like, you know, other generations who are the champions and also this Gen Z builders. So we just have all this knowledge exchange and it's a place not for builders to learn and champions to teach, but also, you know, vice versa. I think Sean always talk about this, about how you get in here expecting to like teach someone about it and then you also learn about it. And I think that's really interesting. So it's like this whole community of having people learning about how to use the Web3 and like the ReFi space so we can, you know, change and do things like that, improve our system and, you know, that makes the world a better place and more sustainable as well in that sense. I love that. I think that that's such an important mission. And, you know, like we said, too, that it gives people a chance to kind of figure out and, you know, experiment in Web3 and learn about the space in a very accessible way. Because I think that, you know, at that age, you know, 15 to 20, if you think about that, you have to make a lot of big life decisions. Right. You know, and often you're like in the moment, OK, what do you want to be? You're in a university, you're going to be a doctor, a lawyer, you know, an accountant or whatever it is. Right. And it's a big decision. And then, you know, having something like this that gives you a chance to kind of experiment in an area, learn about it, see if it's something that you want to like really dive into is really, really powerful. And so, you know, the focus is obviously on Gen Zers of DreamDot, which I think is great. I'm really inspired by just the work that, you know, so many young folks in Web3 are doing. So why should Gen Zers care about and get excited about Web3? I think like the one thing that Amanda was highlighting in the fact that there's this opportunity that's given, right, that is not really like an open opportunity. It's a lot of kind of experience has to come with just trying to like get some position of, you know, contributing on a structured basis in the space. We actually now have like this opportunity, right, to not only disrupt that way of like working, right, but disrupt just education in general, right? That like how you were saying, you know, a lot of decisions have to be made at those young ages. And is this type of thing where it shouldn't have to be so deterministic, and also just like discrete to what you have to do, per se, instead of like having a learning experience be something that's more perpetual, rather than something that, you know, you do till you're 18, or you do till you're 20, and you finish your university or whatever year, and then it's like, it's over. Right. And I think that's something that like Amanda has benefited from in the sense of like, okay, there's not even like more to learn about, but that like, the learnings don't stop, particularly. And then more so, it's even more relevant, because when it when you're at that age, and you're in this like, world in between worlds, where like, the internet that you're using, and all the things that you're using, like you had no, like, contribution in creating it, right, the generation before you did. And, you know, there's a lot of things that are being pushed on you, whether it's what you have to do in terms of choose a career, choose what you study. And then also, just all the things you use in your daily life, right, to have an ability to co -create and develop kind of the new version of that, whether it just be the internet, or how you learn, right, and how you educate yourself, like, that's one thing that is super exciting, because like, yeah, like teaching yourself has been always something that's been valuable. But now it's even more like, I guess, emphasize with there being like, this kind of open source space that is interfaced with like, a more friendly experience for kind of everyone, right, even though the space had been like, highly technical, that was like, somewhat maybe a barrier to people that were just getting started adopting it. There had been so many new avenues opened up, right, for someone to come in from like, any vertical, right? Like, we're just lucky, actually, in DreamDell that, you know, the vertical have been civic innovators and young social entrepreneurs, and they cared about it on like, a deeper level rather than just like, what they can kind of get out of it, right. And so that was like, something that is getting, I think, ever more so exciting, right? It's just being able to see how the kind of the impact not only happens from the value capturing that you see is there, but now like coming in and like, okay, how can we create more value? And that happens from an earlier age. You know, I think we all wish in some ways we got in earlier or whatever, but it's more of just, you know, age component, right. So I think I've seen all these builders, been able to gain more that expertise I could have ever in that short amount of time, especially at that time in my life, right. So it's just, yeah, the hope is, I think that the most important thing when it comes to that, right, just getting excited about all the hope that gives us for moving forward, right, especially in these, like, very, very uncertain times, when anything can happen. Yeah, totally. And I think, you know, some you said there, too, that, you know, really stood out to me is I think, you know, these Gen Zers, these 15 to 20 year olds have grown up with this technology that they had really no part in creating, right. And there might be some value misalignments, right, with this technology and them, you know, like, you know, you've seen what's happened with traditional web to social media, and the breakdowns of trust and, you know, lack of transparency, and, you know, those sorts of things, and then being able to have the opportunity to right the wrongs of, you know, the past internet and build a new, you know, more internet that more lines with their values, I think is really powerful. So I think that's a great point that you made there. And we'll be right back after this short message.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: 10/03 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. We may not know for weeks whether Sam Bankman -Fried will take the stand at his own trial. He may want the chance to explain himself to the jury, but his lawyers are surely wary of the withering cross -examination such a tactic would invite. No matter, the unconventional former crypto executive has already said publicly plenty about what went down in FTX's final days. What follows are a series of excerpts from interviews that SBF gave in the month between FTX's collapse and his arrest in the Bahamas. They provide a picture of the mind of the man prosecutors allege was behind one of the greatest financial frauds in history. According to the man himself, he was a well -meaning altruist whose heady risk -taking got him in over his head. In early December, a Wall Street Journal interviewer pressed SBF on his knowledge of operations at Alameda, the crypto hedge fund accused of borrowing billions of dollars in crypto from FTX and its unknowing customers. According to SBF, who had a 90 % ownership stake in Alameda and lived with its CEO, Caroline Ellison, he too didn't fully know what was going on there, a refrain he later echoed in documents shared with the New York Times. FTX was a full -time job, he told the Journal. It was more than a full -time job, and I didn't have enough brain cycles left to understand everything going on at Alameda if I wanted to. I also didn't want to because I was concerned about conflicts of interest, and I felt like it would be inappropriate for me to be looped into, certainly to details of what was going on there. Prosecutors are almost certainly keen on demonstrating the opposite to the jury. Here, testimony from Ellison herself may prove critical in showcasing what SBF knew and when. One thing he did seem to know, or at least claimed, was that FTX's U .S. operations did not go kaput when its sister exchange, FTX International, fell into the black hole of those Alameda loans. I believe that withdrawals could be opened up today, and everyone could be made whole from that, and none of these problems plagued the U .S. platform, SBF told Andrew Ross Sorkin in the New York Times headline -grabbing first interview with the Feld CEO. Despite SBF's insistence, U .S. customers still haven't gotten their money back. Look out for prosecutors to explain why this argument is the source of at least one ongoing procedural dispute between the defense and DOJ. Part of his identity has always hinged on the idea of amassing great wealth in order to give it all away. SBF's effective altruism was a philosophical tilt and also an ad tagline for crypto's white knight. Was it real? A Vox interviewer asked SBF over Twitter DMs if the ethics stuff was mostly a front. Yeah, I mean, that's not all of it, but it's a lot, he said. Later on in the screenshotted conversation SBF said, I feel bad for those who don't say the right things and therefore lose this dumb game we woke Westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us. SBF's apology tour was set to culminate with him providing congressional testimony in mid -December, an unheard of gamble for a Feld financial executive dogged by scandal. His plan derailed when Bahamian authorities took him into custody on December 13, 2022, but a leaked notepad of what appears to be his roadmap for remarks includes a strange characterization of FTX's internal controls. According to SBF, he and others inside the FTX empire lost track of Alameda's massive loans because of a historical accounting quirk that mucked up all important dashboards and that this massive oversight led the whole ballooning much bigger than he realized. Historical accounting quirk is a hell of a way to describe the hard -coded $65 billion ceiling that Alameda could borrow from FTX. In filings, prosecutors have alleged the hedge fund had access to an infinite money glitch bigger even than FTX's total deposits. And we'll hear more about this soon because Sam Bankman -Friede's trial begins today. He faces two counts of wire fraud and five counts of conspiracy to commit wire, securities and commodities fraud. Watch coindesk .com for updates as they happen and stay tuned for this newsletter to catch up in a single pocket.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1275. Ethereum ETF Launches! | VanEck Predicts $11,000 Ethereum
"All right, so let's roll into the ETF futures launch today. It has happened. This is going to be a big episode for you guys. You don't want to miss this one. If you're an Ethereum lover or maybe you're just trying to venture into crypto for the first time and you're finding out, hey, there's an ETF futures out there on this thing. We're going to teach you a little bit about that. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in The Tech Path. Let's talk a little bit about Ethereum, some of the projects it could affect, and also its future. That's what we're going to try to break down for you. I think you guys are going to like this. James Seaford, he's been on our show before, one of the ETF experts over at Bloomberg. He tweeted, updated version reflecting the change due to the end of the Kelly and Hashtag's partnership will just be the Kelly ETF's product. And he kind of breaks it down. But the point is, is you've got the ETFs that have launched here with VanEck leading the way right now. Of course, we've got a whole litany of these starting to roll out now. So this is going to get interesting around the ETFs as when it comes to the futures ETF for Ethereum. And we'll show some stuff on this and how this plays out. But very, very interesting. So further over here, here's kind of just the layout of the VanEck. Obviously the cheapest total expense ratio at about 0 .66. So one of the lowest fees out there in being able to get into an ETF for sure. VanEck also is starting to do a little bit of advertising. This is kind of interesting with them actually starting to promote an Ethereum ETF future. This is crazy. So truly, and this is obviously institutional finance, so good stuff out there. I want to play a clip of them talking about this. Let's go to that. Ethereum has emerged as the system for an age where connections are no longer bound by location or space. We're not just using the network. We are the network. So when you're ready, enter the ether. Now you can tap into Ethereum's potential with the VanEck Ethereum strategy ETF, EFUT. All right, there you go. Big, big news because that is mainstream advertising. And when you get into mainstream advertising, it means you're going to be getting into mainstream investing and investing is going to start to shift that. That's why ETH and this ETF is such a big thing. It's why we're seeing a little bit of movement on Ethereum itself. VanEck, of course, their Twitter account says, what sets the EFUT apart? Typical ETF setups don't give futures, good tax benefits. C Corp is set up now designed to have potential for better performance after taxes for people who invest in a long time. So there are some apparent tax benefits here that VanEck, of course, is touting. So if you are in that case, make sure and, you know, investigate it. Let me know what you guys think. Further into this, just to show you where you can get this, now you can invest through your brokerage account in Robinhood, SoFi, Charles Schwab, E -Trade, Fidelity, pretty much anywhere you can buy EFUT. So easy to do and easy to get into. I want to go to this next clip right here that kind of breaks down a little bit further into what VanEck is trying to do with Ethereum as a whole. And this is Mr. VanEck himself What do you see coming in the crypto space that you thought it was important enough to get your firm that was established in the 50s moving towards this new area? Talk about Ethereum and there was CryptoKitties and all the potential of the blockchain. It felt like a lot of talk back then and a lot of PowerPoint presentations. But over the last three years, especially this year, I mean, it's just amazing how many software projects are not only coming to the market, but also upgrading in a very significant extent. And that includes Ethereum. I see three major areas of finance being potentially disrupted. One is the banking and brokerage. The second is payments. And the third is banking and lending. I think the larger point is that Ethereum is the leader and Ethereum is making enhancements, if you will, to its software. And so it's getting better over time. I like the fact that we're starting to see real business people recognize what's happening because this is one of those things that happens in those early curves. And that I think VanEck is obviously all in. But there's many of them that are all in on this. And that's including companies like Fidelity. You look at what ARK and Cathie Wood has been talking about in terms of Ethereum growth. So where is Ethereum going as a whole? Well, here is a report by VanEck talking about Ethereum's price prediction. And this was $11 .8K by 2030. Now, I want you to think about that because Ethereum right now trading around $1 ,700. And look at that kind of growth in a very short period of time. We're talking about 2023, end of right now as we're recording this video. That's an accelerant that's pretty heavy. Let me go through a couple of things they highlighted in the report. So it's revenue rising from an annual rate of $2 .6 billion to $51 billion in 2030. Big move. ETH takes a 70 % market share amongst smart contract protocols, which implies a token price of around $11K by 2030, which we discount to around $5 .3K today. So that's what they think the core value is. And then we value Ethereum by estimating cash flows because they're kind of treating the chain much like a business would be treated in terms of revenue and et cetera. A couple of points here that they look at here in their revenue price targets. You see the base case, bear case, and then the bull case. $11 .8K right there on the base case. $3 .43K on the bear case 2030. And then a $51K bull case. That's $51 ,000 per token right there on the bull case. So a lot in terms of confidence around what this is in terms of Ethereum as a whole. There was a We introduced a novel revenue item called security as a service, which is interesting, which is going to help businesses will be utilizing security through the ETH ecosystem to enhance, obviously, security around businesses themselves. So another big advantage there. Since ETH is a bearer asset, ETH can be locked behind some businesses or protocol guarantees to act honestly. So it's another way for how blockchain is permissionless. And it makes it easier for so much of what we see in Web2 to be completely revamped in Web3, which is what Van Eck was talking about there around blockchain and what Ethereum is doing in the banking space, the investment space, tokenizing a lot of things that we typically have to have these intermediaries to be talking to. Further into this report, we assume that 5%, 20%, and 10 % of the finance, metaverse, media, and tech infrastructure activity will move on chain. And what they're looking at is the base case, bull case kind of scenario that plays into finance, metaverse, and media, which is kind of an interesting mix between those. But media, we've talked about one of the reasons we do what we do. We believe that media is going to be moving on chain in the future. Further into this, let's see, we have one more couple of points here. Yeah, all right. Base case 2030 price target $11 .8 to Dermot valuation today's dollars. And then we find today's discounted price to be around $5 ,300. So not a bad value if you're looking at the overall on this. Let's go over to another clip here. And the other clip I want to get into is Matthew Siegel and kind of how they got to this level. Listen in. We're seeing a base case for 5 % or so of revenue banking is applied in some way to crypto and public blockchain. So that'd be the base. And so we dial it up a notch to 10%. Likewise, we do the same thing with each of the other categories, metaverse infrastructure, the bear case, we pull that down to 1%, 5%, 1 % respectively. And the idea behind that is that we see regulatory climate or adoption curve failing in each of those from the bear, hyper bear scenario. Not only is like the end markets not using blockchain, but Ethereum has a very small market share. Our assumption in the base and in the bull case is there's thousands of interchangeable L2s that don't have any real way to differentiate themselves. And so in that kind of scenario, you can see the cut rate that Ethereum can take of those settlements would be much, much higher or the underlying businesses. In our base case, we assume that Ethereum will take 70 % market share of all open source blockchains. And when we do our models on Solana, like that, our base case is that Solana takes 70%. And then we see what type of upside we get when we put in those assumptions. And we look at owning each of these tokens is basically we're owning a bunch of call options that each protocol will become the dominant protocol, even though it's impossible that they all could do so. And then we manage our position size based on what type of upside we see. Most of our deep dives have been on either layer ones or application specific. We have not done one of these models for L2s. And I think there's just more uncertainty around how that's going to play out. All right. So those were the VanEck analysts breaking this down that were part of that report that we just showed just a minute ago. So both of them kind of indicating that obviously ETH in a very bullish case, also Solana in a very bullish case. So another thing that is happening within VanEck, which is kind of interesting, is this right here. So they announced, let me kind of zoom in on this for you guys, that they intend to donate 10 % of our ETF profits into Protocol Guild for at least 10 years. So Protocol Guild obviously designed to help the ETH ecosystem develop, prosper, build on new Ethereum projects that are really kind of growing the ecosystem. So that is a pretty big statement, but it's also kind of investing in the infrastructure. It's interesting because you didn't really see that happen during the evolution of Silicon Valley, which is kind of where I case what's is we're in that kind of zone. They talked a little bit more about it. I'm not going to buy ETH Futures ETFs, but if I was, I would buy VanEcks mainly because they're doing what they should be doing, and that is supporting the industry and supporting where the growth is going to come from. So that's always benefited. I think the interesting thing there is that the space likes it. Here's Eric Balshunis, and they're off. ETH Futures Derby underway. VanEck is in slight early lead. Although it looks like a few of them are not necessarily out of the gate. We'll post updates as we go. VanEck, of course, leading the way right there and you've got Valkyrie coming in with a little bit of activity as well. VanEck with their low fees and what they're doing as an overall strategy might be the winner here. Remember, they were the first one. So it goes back to first mover. If you look at the current ETH Fut, of course, it's very early trading, but you can kind of see the big boom and then a little bit of a slight down where they are holding right around $16 .91. So interesting stuff. Let's go over to this next clip. This will break down a couple of things, I think, when you really consider what the store of value argument is around Ethereum. Let's just play this next clip. You'll get what I'm saying. So the whole exercise of the store value discussion is a little bit, you know, I really have to put a big caveat in there because what I'm really doing is mind reading. I can't point to a statistic and say, people, there was no poll that says I bought Bitcoin because it's a store of value. Things could be built on top of Bitcoin as well. And maybe they're just saying, oh, no, actually, I think Bitcoin's the best smart contract software. So I'm not a mind reader. So these are kind of generalizations and best guesses based on the narrative. And if you look at the transactions, on -chain Bitcoin transactions are about $400 ,000 a day. And that hasn't changed a lot over the last several years, which I think is interesting. But if you look at Ethereum, the Ethereum transactions, the total amount of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain is in the trillions annually now. That's a big number. Ethereum is the most famous. Solana has performed really well this year. I actually think that will continue next year. That category of digital asset tokens has been the best performing this year. We think that's kind of accessing the blockchain and that's the space that we're most interested as a firm. All right. Well, it's good to know. I mean, because I think they hit on both the tokens that we like, which is Solana and ETH. And if you do look at Bitcoin's transactions that it was mentioning there, and I meant to say Bitcoin transactions, but this is the one year and if you just go out to the three year, there has been a little bit of an uptick here. But I think some of this has been the idea of where all of this is going, because just in the essence of what is happening in crypto in general, it's starting to accelerate in a big way. And what he mentioned there, meaning Van Eck mentioned, is that the explosion has been happening around Ethereum. Of course, if you look at Ethereum's transactions, almost same period of time, you see the kind of movement that we're talking about here all the way back from 2019 right there into 2020, all the way to where we are right now, which is in the depth of a bear market. We are in the depth of a bear market when all this is happening. And when NFTs are dead and all those kind of things that really cause pain in the ETH that's ecosystem, the kind of transaction levels that we're continuing to see. Now, other things that are driving this, there's been a couple of projects that have launched here recently. One, of course, is Pudgy Penguins. We did a full report on this, but Pudgy Penguins ran a live shopping experience on TechTok. And there are some interesting things within this that is going on. And what I want you to think about is just forget that it's Pudgy Penguin, I just want to think about retail in general, because retail in general is going to start to implicate. Now, obviously, a Pudgy Penguins project, they're very native to what's happening in crypto. But the cool thing is, is direct sales, they have some key insights. Let me zoom in on this for you. Direct sales showcase products, increase discoverability, audience engagement, global reach. Any retailer out there, especially direct consumer, etc., would love those kinds of insights coming out of something in terms of a digital campaign. So, big deal. A couple of things that came, they did a pin appeared, allowing viewers to add the featured toy to their cart and then check out directly within the app. Remember, this is the digital version of the NFT. And then Pudgy Penguins received over 33 ,000 likes. TechTok Shop recently launched in the U .S. It was available through parts of Asia and the United Kingdom. And then live shopping is expected to reach around $235 billion in sales this year in China. That's insane. And then Pudgy Penguins obviously is a unique position to leverage TikTok Shop to expand their brand. This will grow globally for them, but I think what you're going to see is more retail and also more projects that understand how to leverage all of this. Remember, this is all riding on Ethereum. So, it plays right into the hands of think of what's happening here. So, it's not all friendly Penguins. Now, we've got the Swiss bank UBS launching tokenized money market fund on ETH. And I think this is just one of those things. They're doing an exploratory initiative, but they are going to go through traditional financial institutions, fintech providers, etc. Further into this, you get Ethereum applications from the New York Stock Exchange to the SEC. All of this riding on Ethereum. This is the point that I talk about often, and that is this whole adoption curve. Many people think it's that slow curve, and then all of a sudden it's just straight up. I don't know if we're there yet, but what I am thinking is that there's so much activity in this space and the timing through this bear market has been so suppressive of some of these digital assets that we could be right there on the cusp of an explosion. Now, obviously, there's a lot of other things that have to happen. Some of the things that could happen to cause that kind of explosion are things like this. Is BlackRock's next to file for a spot ETF? That would be huge. If BlackRock said, we're going to go the Ethereum route as well, absolutely massive for the ETH ecosystem. So, for sure. Now, this was an interesting statement. Ripple effect of grayscale decisions is massive. SEC would have faced similar legal challenges for denying ETH futures and ETFs. By approving ETH futures, ETF, now the SEC is effectively conceding that ETH is not a security. This will no doubt impact the Coinbase and Binance litigation. All of that starts to play into this. You start to get a picture of this global reaction that is going to happen within this ETH ecosystem. And I think this is the kind of thing that starts to put you in a position where you can really start to leverage against these. Now, it's not all beautiful, but this was Dave Levine. He talks about this whole ETF futures thing as a scam. I want to play a clip for you. Listen to what he had to say. Do not be fooled by the news that there is an Ethereum ETF. There is an Ethereum ETF, but it's not buying Ethereum. In other words, Bitcoin went up 35%. It's a pretty big game. But if you bought the fake ETF that is not buying Bitcoin, you only went up 14%. So where did that other, where did 50 % of your gains go? They're lying in the pockets of the bankers. Again, it's supposed to be protecting investors. You know, that's why I call these ETFs a scam and they use the name Bitcoin to say what you're buying and it's not what you're buying and it's guaranteed to underperform. I mean, what is the definition of a scam, right? He is a hired gun to do that stuff, right? And the, and the court ruled on it. They said that the SEC loses on all counts because its case and its, and its, uh, its arguments are capricious and incoherent. And there is this risk that, you know, ETH goes up so much, so fast. The Wall Street bank that is trying to track the price because they don't actually own ETH can't actually track it because whatever they're holding doesn't go up anything close as much. And then they go bankrupt because they can't meet the obligations. Believe me, if some Wall Street bank goes bankrupt because ETH goes up or Bitcoin goes up so much because they were playing games and they got exposed, they're going to blame crypto, not their shenanigans. So the whole thing stinks. Coinbase has a thing, it's called stand with crypto click. It tells you who your Congress person is, gives you a little script. I went off script and gave them an air full. Do it. All right. So he hits on a few things with point with these future ETFs is it happens in all markets. This is, this is just one of many out there that are non crypto related. It's obviously being crypto related. So I would dispel the fact that these are scam. These are yes, they're high fee scenarios. There are other ways to invest in these assets, but people look at this in a different way. Mainly this is mainstream investors wanting to go in on these assets and they're not ready to open an account with Coinbase or other things like that. But he did mention something at the end and that is stand with crypto. Listen, this, if you're not already doing it, you should be doing it. Go out and just hit stand with crypto. You can call your Congressman, email your Congressman and it helps you kind of go through the process of letting people know where you stand on all of the 16 ,000 contacts right now at the Congress. So huge, huge movement here. 150 ,000 crypto advocates. This is going to be a big part of next year because next year we are talking about an election year. So it's going to be huge. So definitely. Now if you are interested in buying ETH directly, you can actually do this in a traditional finance way right through the Fidelity app. So check it out if you're not a Fidelity customer. They're not a sponsor, but we've used it, we've tested it and it's fantastic. So that's another way to go. All right guys, we're going to wrap that one up from here. One thing to remember, and I'll leave you with this, this is Mr. Patrick McHenry hitting it in right there home. And that is SEC Chair Gensler refuses scheduled commission vote to provide Congress with requested documents. They are talking about the first subpoena to the SEC ever. That would be huge in the way of who knows what they'll find. What would we see in the way of bipartisan, you know, enforcement that we've seen the FCC pretty much put at will to go out. This may play its course right now with Patrick McHenry. He's not playing around anymore. We'll see how it all plays out. But you guys know what to do and that is join the diamond circle so you can follow what's playing it out. Not only the legislative side but also taking a look at some of the projects that we break down and of course some of our additional content including our Web3 podcast over there with Kyle. We do a We'll leave a link down below if you guys want to catch me on Twitter. It's out there at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Healthy Aging, Sleep, Light, and Circadian Rhythm with Jason Prall
"This podcast is sponsored by my friends over at shopc60 .com. If you haven't heard of carbon 60 or otherwise called C60 before, it is a powerful Nobel Prize winning antioxidant that helps to optimize mitochondrial function, fights inflammation, and neutralizes toxic free radicals. I'm a huge fan of using C60 in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle to support your immune system, help your body detox, and increase energy and mental clarity. If you are over the age of 40 and you'd like to kick fatigue and brain fog to the curb this year, visit shopc60 .com and use the coupon code JOCKERS for 15 % off your first order and start taking back control over your health today. The products I use, I use their C60 in organic MCT coconut oil. They have it in various different flavors. They also have sugar -free gummies that are made with allulose and monk fruit. They also have carbon 60 in organic avocado and extra virgin olive oil when it's combined with these fats, it absorbs more effectively. Carbon 60 is great as a natural energizing tool because it really helps your mitochondria optimize your energy production. Now if you take it late at night for some individuals, it may seem a little bit stimulating so that's why we recommend taking it earlier in the day and it will give you that great energy, that great mental clarity that you want all day long. It will help reduce the effects of oxidative stress and aging and really help you thrive. So again guys, go to shopc60 .com, use the coupon code JOCKERS to save 15 % off your first order and start taking back control of your health today. Welcome back to the podcast. I've got a repeat guest, my friend Jason Prall who is the creator of the Human Longevity Project. He is the bestselling author of the book Beyond Longevity, a proven plan for healing faster, feeling better and thriving at any age and we are going to talk about sleep light and circadian rhythm and how that plays a role in mitochondrial health, aging and longevity. So this is a really power packed episode. You guys are in for a treat. We're going to talk about different theories of aging. We're going to talk about some of the main hierarchy of symptoms and how to really understand symptoms you might be experiencing and we're going to dive deep into sleep light and circadian rhythm and how critical that is. So I know you guys are going to get a lot out of this and be certain to check out Jason's website. You can go to beyondlongevitybook .com to check out his book Beyond Longevity and also his film where he traveled all around the world and studied some of the longest lived people, people who are aging really, really successfully, you can check that out at humanlongevityfilm .com. So again, you're in for a treat here. If you've not left us a five star review, now is the time to do that. Just go to Apple iTunes or wherever you listen to the podcast, scroll to the bottom or wherever it says write a review. Go ahead and leave us a five star review. When you do that, it helps us reach more people and impact more lives with this message. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for being a part of our community and let's go into the show. Well, Jason, always great to connect. And I know we've talked in the past and I had mentioned how much I really enjoyed your book. I mean, I talked about it in the intro, but I love this book, Beyond Longevity, phenomenal book and anybody that's interested in aging and longevity. This is the go to books, really the best book that I've read on that topic. And so just really appreciate your wealth of knowledge and really appreciate your overall perspective on this. And I'm excited to really, really dive into some of these topics that you discussed in the book and really starting with this idea of what is longevity, right? Because that's kind of something that most people think they know, right? But it's a little deeper than what most people really understand. Yeah, well, I appreciate that. The kind where it's really from all the work that you do, it means a lot. So thank you for that. And yeah, it's interesting. We're in such an interesting time when it comes to longevity because we have this new medicine that's coming online with stem cells and biologics, which is essentially dipping back into our own innate intelligence. So that's an interesting thing to explore. And then we have the other side of the coin, which is all this technology, which is interesting and also potentially dangerous and very kind of weird in another way. We can go down some really dark rabbit holes in that realm, and we kind of are in some ways. So we're at a very interesting nexus. I think how we think about aging and how we think about longevity is really, really important. There's historical context for aging and for longevity and for life itself as a cycle. So it's really important to, I think, really explore these things from a foundational principle. Because if we lose that, then we're going to start veering off into these random territories that are going to get us in trouble. And so for me, when I wrote the book, it's like longevity is an important thing. We want elders. We want really experienced people to guide our younger generations. There's a lot of benefits to increasing longevity on the planet. But then it's like, what is longevity? What is aging? How do we think about aging? It's a very deep topic. And I interviewed you for my film series, The Human Longevity Project. And I remember we interviewed 80, 90 health experts. You were one of them. And I asked this question to many of them, I said, what is aging? And not a single person gave me the same answer. And these are very, very intelligent people who do a lot of work in a lot of different realms in the health sciences. And so that's interesting. It's interesting the fact that we don't have a definition of biological aging. So I actually had to sit and think about that for what that is. And it's really a process. So a lot of the times when we're thinking about aging and anti -aging and longevity, what most people are actually talking about are the effects of, quote unquote, aging, the damage that accumulates over time as a result of aging. We still don't really know what aging is, what causes this process in an organism, be it salamander, a a whale, a tiger, or a human, right? But it's an innate process. So it's built into all these organisms, right? And so there's interesting things when it comes to aging itself. And so without going too deep into that rabbit hole, because we can get lost in that, it's important to recognize that damage is one thing, and aging is another thing. And I think we can slow the rate of aging. In fact, I'm quite confident we can do that. I'm not so confident that we can stop aging altogether. And I'm absolutely convinced that we can't anti -age, right? We can't go backwards. Now, look, we use these terms colloquially, right? You probably use it, I use it, right? And it's okay. But I think what I want to affect here is that the term anti -aging is really damage reversal, right? The ability to sort of turn back the clock from a damage perspective on a cellular level or an organ level. So in a sense, it's like anti -aging, but really, it's just cleaning up some damage. And we're utilizing the repair mechanisms that are built within us. But that's the important distinction is, yes, we can turn on repair. Yes, we can clean up damage. And no, we can't undo whatever aging is and whatever is actually guiding that process. Again, we don't know. Whatever is doing that, I'm confident that we sure as heck can't figure out how to undo that yet. Like that would be like Benjamin Button style, like going backwards and we start getting younger and, you know, in 10 years, I'm now 20 again. Like that is just not going to happen, right? So just want to like lay that framework down because I think it's really important as we have these discussions about longevity, what it is we're really talking about. And I think it is slowing the rate at which one ages and or cleaning up damage that has already accumulated. And we can do that to an extent because we have the mechanisms built within our biology. We have that magic within us. That's what's cool. Yeah, that's really good. I mean, we know that damage is going to happen. It happens to all of us. In fact, actually, it's to some degree, it's necessary. You know, it's a hormetic stressor that creates adaptation and creates a level of resilience with our body. So we know the damage is going to occur. We can't get around that. So then, you know, the other factor is how well we respond and recover. So I've heard the term, you know, healthy aging is really successful adaptations to the stressors that we're under and how successfully we're adapting. Absolutely. And it's a balance, right? Like if we lose this ability to destroy cells to, in other words, create death on a micro level, then we have cancer, right? So so we actually want cells to die. We need cells to die. We need mitochondrion to die, right? And that's a really critical aspect. In fact, there's a lot of longevity researchers that are in the mitochondrial sciences that are in the cancer sciences that are looking at these sort of rates of how much apoptosis do we want? How much autophagy do we want, right? If we have too much of something, it's bad. If we have too much of another thing, it's also bad. So there's a there's a dynamic balance that is always occurring inside the body. And this becomes the art form, if you will, of how do we do this throughout our lives, knowing that this is going to happen. We want it to happen. We want to actually encourage it to happen. And a lot of the things that we look at in the health world, right, when it comes to, again, exercise, sunlight, fasting, certain foods, these are all hormetic stressors, right? In other words, they are damage causing. They are they're innately creating a pressure on the system, right? Some sort of selective pressure, adaptive pressure that the that our organism has the amazing ability to both sense and then and then adapt and modify in order to meet that stressor, right? So that's what's really, really amazing about our human organism. And yet we push it too hard. Then it gets out of this hormetic zone and it gets into the straight damage, right? And yet again, just like if I were, well, actually, it was at the gym a few months ago and sliced my finger up and had to go get stitches and all that, right? And it was like, it looked like it went through a meat grinder. I mean, the nail was hanging off and I'm like, Oh my God. And yet the doc comes in there, throws in like four stitches through the nail bed and all this, but my finger miraculously heals, right? And right now there's a lot of scar tissue in there. So there's, there's some reorganization of the tissue itself, but over time, it's going to go back to a normal finger, like pretty much all the way, right? Like that's remarkable. So we have this intelligence within us. So no matter how much damage we cause, we can almost recover from anything. Like that's, what's really remarkable. And the younger that we are, because there's something important about youth itself, right? The amount of STEM cells we have, the, the, all the growth factors, all the magic that is within a young life form, there's vitality in there. Um, that does wane over time, right? That guy is part of the aging process, but when we sort of make mistakes early in life, we can still come back from them, right? So this is really remarkable. And that's, what's worth acknowledging here is that there's, it's really important to remember that there's an innate intelligence. There's a built in magic to us, right? And to honor that, to respect it and not sort of try to play God in every turn, because it gets us into trouble, right? To really trust the inbuilt humanity is really, really important in this process.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Time To Buy The Dip On These Altcoins? (LAST CHANCE)
"The market is finally showing signs of life and many altcoins are now starting to break out of their month -long downtrends. So in today's video, I'm going to discuss what altcoins I am looking at this week. I've got a variety of long setups for you. I've also got a couple short setups that I want to share in today's video. And it's funny, every single Monday I do the Watchlist shows, right? But they don't get that many views. You can see in front of you last week, I only got 4 ,000 views on the show. Yet, in my opinion, they are my most alpha -packed shows of the week. Because if we just look at last week as an example, there were many trades here which we nailed. I mean, Bitcoin, I pretty much said it was going to move sideways for the majority of the week. That is what happened, although we did get a pump in the last couple of days. LINK, I said that I was expecting us to move up heading into the conference. And then the conference could be a local top. Well, we've certainly gotten a massive move up. Now is the conference. So proof will be in the pudding when it comes to that one. But we did get the first part right. Arbitrum has pushed up massively in price. So we got that one right. OX, I was a little preemptive when it came to DCAing. That's one we can talk about later. But they have had a massive correction. And if you like OX, it could be a DCA opportunity. OP as well, I said they weren't looking as strong on a relative strength basis versus Arbitrum. And I was waiting for PostUnlock to reconsider my positioning. And I mean, pretty much you haven't missed out on a relative basis versus ARB, which has been the stronger trade. And it's all about opportunity cost in crypto. And then Frax has performed very well. And I said I was buying some Frax as well. So mostly hits when it came to the watchlist last week, 80 % hits. The only one that I did take a slight knock on was my DCAing into OX, which obviously did end up dropping. But on all the other coins, we pretty much have traded them pretty well. So that's why I believe that the Monday shows are so important. If you're not watching them, I recommend watching them every single week because this is where I go through my plans for the week. I talk about the old coins I'm interested in. I talk about what I'm seeing in the market. And it's really important. It's a great chance for us to reset and chat one on one ahead of every single week. And this week is looking to be a little more lively than previous weeks. And it comes on the very important day for Bitcoin, which is the beginning of Q4. So October, now we are officially in the Q4 period. And actually historically Q4 is the best quarter for Bitcoin. And specifically October and November are the best performing months historically for Bitcoin. You can see in front of you, October is the second best performing month and November is the best performing month for Bitcoin. So it's funny that we've kicked off Q4 in style with a very strong Bitcoin move to the upside. We've now started to break above that key 200 EMA level, as you can see here. Although last time we did break above and then we deviated below and then we didn't end up having a daily close above. So this is really what you want to keep your eye on now. Can Bitcoin actually close above and then look to use that as a launchpad to push into that major zone at 30K? That's obviously going to be the next question. Or will it close below again? Only time will tell. We'll know obviously within the next day. This video is prerecorded a few hours before it goes live. So we will be approaching daily close at that point and we will need to monitor this level. But I would like to see a few days continuously above. Just one daily close above oftentimes isn't strong enough. You often want to see multiple daily closes above and it just forms some sort of support basis, a substantive basis for Bitcoin to spring to the upside. But let's not get too much into the Bitcoin discussion because we have lots of altcoin talk today. And my plan on various altcoins I want to discuss with you in today's video. So as you can see, the market is up today. The market is up this week. Arbitrum, one of the best performers that we talked about in last week's watchlist. Solana, one of the best performers. I'm going to get into my thoughts on Solana in today's video. This is one I also called on my Twitter when I said that I thought that the pre -dump was going to be greater than the actual selling event. That is what happened. And we ended up timing the bottom pretty nicely on Sol. So overall, it's been a great couple weeks of trading, but let's get into today's one. The first thing I want to talk about is Ethereum. I think it would be remiss of me not to talk about the leader of the altcoins, given the fact that it's primarily an altcoin video today. Ethereum showing some interesting signs here, starting to push into this range high territory. It has pivoted nicely off those lows at 1540 and never quite got down to that major structural support level at 1422. And it's actually started to respond and show signs of a reversal here. Range high does correspond with the 200 MA. So that's going to be your major resistance level. Only time will tell whether Ethereum has the strength to break through there. But that is a heavy level of resistance. So if it does get rejected there, I would not be surprised. I probably wouldn't be longing ETH into resistance. But I do find more interesting is the ETH BTC chart. It did get rejected off its major resistance level. However, this is a level that it did an SR flip back in July. This is definitely a key level for ETH. If you're looking at ETH, maybe outperforming Bitcoin on a relative basis over the next couple of months, that would be your level that you really need to reclaim. This was a trade that I was in. I got stopped out. I mentioned that on the show that I did about my ETH pair trade at 62 here. But this may be a trade I get back into if we flip and confirm above this major level. So that's what I'm watching on ETH BTC. And it comes at a time where the ETH futures ETFs seem to have gotten approved, which is obviously great news for Ethereum. But we are still hanging out for that Ethereum spot ETF. Lots of speculation now about an ETH ETF. Lots of speculation also about a Bitcoin ETF. Very interested to see what happens over the next few months when it comes to ETFs. Looks like Bitcoin will be pushed forward into Q1 2024, given the fact that we got a slew of delays last week. But the Ethereum ETF is another one to keep your eye on. And the Bitcoin ETF would certainly be precedent for ETH, although ETH is on a lagging basis versus Bitcoin, typically regulatory -wise on about an eighth to, I would say, 16 months lagging basis versus Bitcoin. Now let's get a little more degen now that we've framed the market. We've looked at ETH. ETH BTC is interesting. We've looked at Bitcoin and the key levels there. Now let's get into some of the alts. Got longs, I've got shorts, and I'm going to go through this rapid fire. So I'll probably be speaking really quickly, but I want to get the alpha to you and not waste your time with 40 -minute shows anymore. First one's Radiant Capital. I like Radiant Capital long term because it's one of the only bonafide proxy bet plays for the layer zero airdrop, which is going to be in Q1 2024, most likely alongside Stargate. So Radiant's one I like. Lots happening on the third. So Radiant's one that I've been accumulating, and this is one in my watchlist every single week on the show and on my Twitter. I've been quite public about the fact that I've been accumulating spot, and I actually did buy some spot at the support level at 22 and added a little bit more lower towards the 19 to 20 zone. In terms of Radiant from a TA perspective, we have broken above major resistance at the 24 cent zone, although we have had a very explosive move to the upside. So personally, with my spot positions, I've started to unload a little, and I do think we may see a mean reversion back down into this zone here at the 24 cent level. I mean, if the market keeps pumping, clearly Radiant can pump up until this next resistance level at the 30 cent zone. But for me, at some point, I do think there is a significant amount of liquidity here that I think is logical that Radiant comes back and captures. So for me, that's why I've just started to offload a little bit, and I'll continue to offload out, ladder out if we go up in price. And I may even look to short Radiant if I have the balls to do it over the next few days. I need to firstly wait for a confirmed reversal and breaking of structure on the lower time frame, because obviously I don't take trades on the daily time frame. I would take it on the one hourly or four hourly. So that would only happen once you start to do something like this and reverse under and make a lower high. And then maybe I'll look to get into a short position. But until then, it's all longs and Radiant from a long term perspective, irrespective of the short term trading opportunities. For me, remains a good one to DC into on major pullback. So that is my Radiant update. It is definitely a token to watch this week, given the fact that they have their main net, but by the rumor, sell the news, maybe, maybe. And that's why I'm being cautious and offloading some spot. Let's get into Solana now. This is the talk of the town. This has been one of the market leaders over the last couple of days. And that comes off the back of a few different reasons. Firstly, the fact that there was a massive shorter that got liquidated and that caused a short squeeze to the upside. So this massive whale got liquidated on a huge Sol position. And also the fact Galaxy didn't end up selling any so far Solana from the FTX liquidation. So I did a tweet on this. Actually, I said, as bearish as the one Bill Sol liquidation seems at face value. And this was back in September, a month ago, the majority of the Sol's locked. Gallancy are incentivized to sell for the best possible price. There will be a $200 million a week cap on FTX sales. And I wouldn't be careful shorting. And pretty much this was spot on. In the end, the pre -dump was greater than the actual selling event. And once again, it's another reminder that peak FUD equals peak opportunity in crypto. I did a tweet saying I was buying Solana and Matic during the Robinhood sale FUD event. And that ended up being the local bottom. And I did another tweet again saying, I would be cautious shorting here, given the fact that we could likely see a pre -dump greater than actual selling event. And that's exactly what happened again. We saw the FUD, so the market's fear to do with the selling actually accelerate the downside quicker than the selling could actually be priced into the market. And no, there hasn't been any material selling of Sol yet. So this is another reason, a contributing factor as to why Sol pumped massively in price. A lot of people were anticipating selling and we didn't get major selling. So Solana definitely is one to watch. This isn't really one that I'm that interested in shorting. Maybe only if we start move up here into the $26 zone and then you may get an opportunity to short at range high. But for me, this is mostly looking bullish and Sol's one I've been stacking spot for quite some time. So any major pullbacks, I'll continue to look to add Sol at these key horizontal levels that I've laid out here. If you are looking at a leverage trade, I think you've missed the major trade. You would either wait for mean reversion back down to the 200 MA, then maybe you could long that's around the $22 zone if Bitcoin is still structurally holding up. And then the X level is obviously that short at $26 .5. So until then, we're in no man's land, but this is the hottest token. And it's funny seeing everyone suddenly liking Sol again after fighting it a couple of weeks ago. All of a sudden the price pumps, everyone likes it again. And that's something that Rand pointed out in his tweet. If you're looking at getting additional confluence with your trades on top of your TA, one tool that I've been using is Kyber AI. For Solana, it's a bit weird because there's only wormhole Sol. So it's not native Sol on the Solana What you can do on Kyber AI is you can see the Kyber score so you can get a bullish momentum score. This can tell you the momentum of the token based on on -chain analysis. Something I like to do is look at the changes in trading volume. So if I want confluence for a long, I'll look in a reversal from trading volume going from large sell amounts to flicking into that bullish territory where you start to see more buy volume kick in and vice versa. On the short side, I'll look for reversal from the buy into the sell zone. So Kyber AI is a tool I've been using to help my on -chain trading and you can also see here net flow to whale wallets. This gives you an idea as to whether whales are buying or not. So positive net flow where it's more green than it is red indicates that whales are buying and then if it's more red than green that's called negative net flow and that generally means that whales are starting to sell. So also interesting to see what whales are doing when it comes to positioning themselves in tokens and that's something I also look at when it comes to trading. But yeah it's not just soul that you can look at on Kyber AI. There's a bunch of other coins as well and if you actually go to their bullish section or their bearish section you can see the most bullish coins of the day. Kanto is actually one of them. This is one that fundamentally I've been doing some research into and I really do like as a project based on the limited research I've done so far and you can see that this is heavily in bullish territory and if you look at the on -chain analytics you can see buyers are starting to ramp up and we also seeing the trading volume to the buy side starting to ramp up as well. So yeah you can basically look at the most bullish coins and the most bearish coins for the day and this can help you become a much better trader. So yeah Kyber AI is one tool that I thought I would mention today in the context of this watchlist given it's a more trading centric show I guess although we are incorporating fundamentals of course as usual as per my you know normal show structure. But if you do want to use Kyber AI there's a link in the description and for every crypto bounty member that uses the link we're going to give you early access because if you're in the general public it's very hard to get access because there's a huge wait list that can take weeks to get approved. We are going to expedite approvals for crypto banter loyal viewers so link in the description below. If you do want access to Kyber AI it is a free tool so I'm not shilling you a paid service it's a free tool that I think can really benefit everyone and yeah of course Kyber is a sponsor of the show and they've been a great partner to work with because I believe they built an amazing AI product. Let's get into some of the other coins these are really interesting link especially very interesting trades being one of the most bullish coins over the last week or two and I actually have a controversial play here I'm thinking of picking off a short on link and I'll explain why even though a lot of people are starting to long link maybe this will bite me in the ass but I'm going to tell you why and I'll also give you my invalidation.
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"Give it a whirl. Yeah I definitely want to see it. And I'm going to say one last keep going for one more thing. I didn't mention this on the show before. That's what this episode is going to call it and one more thing. One more thing. And this is the thing you have to watch because if you have so it's on Amazon Prime. And it was it's 6 episodes of the most brilliant comedy English comedy. I. Keep watching it. I can't stop watching these episodes. Only 6 I honestly have never done this where I watch 6 episodes. And then like a day later I watched them again. Because I'm missing things but it's called Garth meringue's dark place. I am writing this down Garth Moringa's dark place and it's on Amazon. It's not prime. And it was they ran for one season in England and it was from 2004 but the premise is that north meringue is a horror writer who in the 80s had a show that I don't think aired or was not a hit and he's now releasing these incredibly cheaply made shows about a haunted hospital called dark place. And there's and his his publisher will funds it but demands a role on the show and that's played by Richard Iowa whose genius remember from the IT crowd he's one of my favorites. But he and he's can't act at all. So he's constantly looking at the camera where it's like you need to get down there now and then he punches late on the table. You know and it's filled with jump cuts and continuity errors and they keep coming back to the cast to talk about Matt berry isn't it from a oh I love Matt. He plays like this Playboy doctor named doctor Sanchez for no reason. And and. Every line in the show is it's all goes to praising north merengue. So like at one point he's a sick kid is dying and he's like how you doing buddy? And the kid goes you work too hard doctor you know? You've been too good. It's like it's a lot of that shit. And then the worst special effects. I'm telling you it is such fucking genius. I'm still in awe of it. So okay I'm definitely gonna watch that. Okay. Doing it nation. Thanks for indulging just the two of us. Just the two of us. I mean that's how you know we prefer we just sometimes will let somebody bask in the glow of our presence. I see the crystal raindrops fall and there I should have just half assed that one because I can't. So who do you think you are? You think your three river band? That wasn't no. That was what's his name? Who did a lovely day? Oh that go withers. Yeah Bill weather's good. I'll go through what are they saying? There was something that was thinking about the little river band? Little river band. I think my edible. Have you heard about the lonesome loser? No what? That was a little over man. Have you heard about the loon some loser okay we have to end on that. Just from where we started with. Take us out from loser. I know now take things out of just the two of us. How about that? Yeah. Okay. Thank you guy. You're getting anything to promote? Shit. Sacramento Labor Day weekend. Well fortune Pheebs or go to fortune or my page and get tickets. I'll be open in for her. Wow. Danny what about yourself? Not too much to promote. And this will come out..
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"Andrew he's so good and like all the characters on that are. I mean just really really you have to wonder sometimes like are they just really well written or is this who they are? Yeah. Well I mean data is clearly accessing something real in himself but but to be able to you know a lot of people can be that person but can't bring it on the screen. I've known a lot of funny people who are like you're just like either funny stand ups or and then you put them on camera and they just they can't even play themselves you know? Yeah. And the way he disappears into it is just it's fantastic. Oh and Benny Blanco. Oh yeah yeah yeah. When the chuck when I keep going. I was a little annoyed in that whole I think they were in love with the homoerotic and more than I was. It was like I felt like that would have played better ten years ago. It would have been more shocking. I think it was something just to show to me I took it as like showing Dave who is wanting you know like the people to like him that are in here but he didn't want to invite gated to come over because it's like you know something hell Danny you and I do this you know you compartmentalize your I completely get that. I just think the homoeroticism as a comic engine. Was like it was funny a little bit but then it was like too much. And I was like I love the truck thing. I thought that was hysterical but it was super funny but it was something that I was like I got that they were trying to get to there was a you know definitely like a deeper meaning behind all of it with Dave but yeah I'm sure there was some shock value part you know. I know this is not turning into a mini soda but I'm like one more thing I saw that I just really wanted to recommend. The Tig Notaro special drawn? Oh yeah yeah. So it's basically her stand up animated. And yes it's a series of like did you see it? No I haven't seen it yet. So I will watch it. It's a real treat because you know basically it's a collection of like I guess 5 maybe stories that she's telling big chunks. And those chunks is animated in a different style. And. Weirdly it pops. It's like it's just a very cool way to do it. I can't explain it. I really I really enjoyed it. And I love her obviously so. Oh I mean she's God she's so dang funny. Yeah. Do you follow her Twitter account where it's like somebody she doesn't ever tweet he has people guessing. Yeah that's funny. It's her Twitter account where she just has her friends tweet thing. Oh my God it's so it's so funny. And then last thing is a show that is not good and I'm going to watch every fucking minute of it. And by the way the people on it are great but it's still it suffers..
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"No no Doja Cat. That's right. Yeah. And it was like I mean immediately I'm watching that like that's Dave is a show that you genuinely do not know where it's going to go. You're almost like you don't have an anxiety feeling watching it because you're like he is going to self implode. Every time and he does but it is in the most spectacular hilarious way. Well it was just it was awful. And like what the best to me my favorite actor on TV right now is data. So oh my God we're gonna say that. I want to get gate on the podcast. Do you like he follow you? I don't know. But I am so team data. I fucking love that guy. I'm telling you. I'm going to make it happen. I'm going to be delivers he's so goddamn good. He plays the pathos and that moment when he brings those fucking people like he sells those braces he doesn't know yeah yeah. And he's left it's so it's just a stabs your heart so hard. It's so painful. But that character has so many layers and is so deep. Oh it's rady. And all you know like on the exterior it's such a good way of showing okay just these people you know like to Joe blow it's like oh look at just some wrapper whatever. Yeah. Taking the time to like peel back the layers of a person and instead of just assuming one way because Gators would have the deepest characters. Oh my God it's so deep. And it's important to have a character like that on a show because Dave himself is fairly especially this season was a little irredeemable. He's so and both both with like extra friends and all this and he's like I'm annoyed and so then to end it where he comes through. It was just good. It was like a nice. That was the nicest little bow on that episode where you know you. I love that thing you know we've got to see that performance his rehearsal performance daves and it was amazing. You know like it was just within the you know it's like oh cool we got to see it. And then but the performance was the other. It was what they did. Exactly exactly. Now we're not going to show you in front of everybody else. And not only that we're not going to know how it went. Two other people that are on that show that I can not get enough of are Dave's parents. Holy shit you pay me and I don't know who the woman is. Oh my God the two of them together when that scene spoiler alert whatever but when Andrew Santino goes in that fitting room. Oh my God. Did you jail on yourself? And he's just okay. All right. An amazing scene. And he's really good in this show. I mean I know. Do you know him at all? I don't know. I did note it. Yeah I've done stand up with Andrew a bit. And. He's a great guy. He's a super nice guy. And he'd be a good one to have him on the podcast too. He has a podcast called whisky Ginger..
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"It felt real. It felt like if you stab somebody that was more what it would be as opposed to come running at them and be like ah. Yeah yeah. And I got the feeling that that got you know the guy the actor's name is Jake glacier and of course I'm forgetting his character's name but he has you know this completely over privileged life. He's washed in it. It's just everywhere. And when and he wants to get his way and he thinks he's got his way and he thinks he's got the and then when it actually came down to it like he's grabbed something you know and he's like the look on his face was almost like whoever it is I got you motherfucker. You know like he was really really intense. And then when he did it I'm sorry there's a siren going by. Okay. What he did it? I don't know why people can't just die quiet or sometimes right? What do I have to have this sirens? I'm so goddamn rude. But when he actually like that the moment where he stabs armand and you know like can he backs up and he all of a sudden it was like oh this is real. You know it's not just my. It was the first moment he saw him as a human being. Yeah and he apologizes. It was sincere. It was genuine and it was like but you almost felt like he was like apologizing for everything. And most importantly in the episode I believe it's the first shit I've ever seen on camera. Okay that's I think the first the first shit I've ever seen on camera was in the first season of Dave. Oh that's right but was it coming out of his butt? It came out of his butt. Yeah like you saw it where he was like on a hike with his girlfriend and he just like grabbing his stomach and he goes and he was like it's coming. Just look away. Look away and then they slick showed it coming out of his butt. And I'm like oh my God I can not believe I'm watching this. And then that last episode of her mind shits in that suitcase. Oh my God it was so crazy. Well just upsetting for you because I know that poop is not. I just like it was upset. I felt I wasn't sure how exactly how necessary I needed it to like it off. I don't know. Shock for shock value but it was definitely shock value 'cause I the moment I saw him like look at that suitcase and starts wrestling with his you know button and zipper. I was like oh no. Oh no. No here it comes. Oh and there it is..
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"And that's what's very cool about this is like the behind the scenes aspects with Spielberg and like how unbelievably detail. You know not that we don't know this about him as a director but to see like his vision. And you know this was all in you know 1993 when the movie came out. So we were like holy shit we can do it. I will say this. Like the one you punch for me of like Jurassic Park and then terminator two. I realized oh anything we write they can make now. Right. You know it was just even more so now but like back then you're like this is 1993. The scene that first team with Laura Dern and Sam you know when they're like they see the dinosaurs. Yeah. For the first time and you know like oh my God you're just chilled and you're thinking is there anything Hollywood can't do? Like oh my God this is remarkable. And then I'm watching this documentary and they're like yeah of course you know they were playing to nothing. These two. What a nod to what great actors they are because their reaction to what they were supposed to be seeing. You know what we see on the screen all these dinosaurs moving. I was like oh I was so you know enamored when I saw that movie for the first time. Oh my God yeah no. And. It holds up though. But I've always still an asshole when I watched Jurassic Park. I'm still like oh God those kids are really slowing them down. And when the kid gets shocked off of the fence I laugh every time. Like I shouldn't. We had and it provided so many room jokes for me. And obviously who were aware but there was a there was rather portly executive that with really dumb notes all the time. And Harvey Weinstein and we always used to like somebody somebody would say like you know I wish you know warning before that person walked into the room. And I was just like look at our water. So I'd be able to they're coming. That was a big one. Oh I bet that kills. I might steal that from me sometimes. Also I also find it's always fun to say my favorite part of that movie was the dinosaurs. People loved this. No. But it was my favorite part too. I know it's a joke but yeah. Like bring on more dinosaurs. I'm so sick of these people explaining it. And it was a recycle of my joke from twister which was you're my favorite part of that movie twisted. The 20 Nemo's. Well okay so this is what I've been watching. What have you been watching Danny? Okay. Hit me with it. Hold on. I gotta tell you why they're watching. No white lotus again I want to talk about because I just a little bit more because so few I was annoyed at that. I did a complete one 80. I finished white lotus I was like I don't know I feel about descending. And then in the morning I woke up it was like that's the best possible ending. Like I was sort of rooting for the fiance. The newlywed woman for a while. You realize no you're weak. Yeah. You're not like what are you writing? What are you doing? Why are you doing it?.
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"Do it. Do it doing it do it right now. Come on. It's just amazing. When I did that my dog because I'm that passionate and he knows it. He's wearing his raycons right now. I've never seen Jenny this passionate about any anything. No I have zero passion in my life except now I have something I'm passionate about. I've watched her slay a crowd of a thousand people and nothing nothing compared to this. How about you Jenny Johnson? I mean what are we watching? What's going on? Okay so. Finish white lotus we love them. I started I mean I'm so excited. There's the second season and it's going to be like at a different resort a different place with a different cast. I very much was committed to that cast because there were so unbelievably good but I know that they'll find. Yeah. A good cast as well. You know for the next one. But the way it was did you did you know what was coming at the end? I don't want to spoil it. I really really didn't. And you know spoiler alert for people at home. We're going to talk about it. It's been a week. Yeah. I was. Horrified and then realized oh no it makes perfect sense that God I'm forgetting the character's name and the newlywed woman went back to the guy. Okay isn't that funny that. As much as I love that show? I'm like I don't know that I could name. I know I thought about this too. I have trouble with the character names too. I think also they don't say their names a lot. But I remember that armand is the I absolutely love the hotel manager and then one of the daughters was Olivia. Yeah. And then I'm like um. But but look I absolutely love that. And then there's this documentary series that's on Netflix that I've watched a few episodes it's called the movies that made us. Have you seen? It's a season two because I feel like there was a first season of that that I did. Yeah there was a first season and then season and there's only four episodes in this second season has like a lot of my favorite movies which is Back to the Future Jurassic Park pretty woman. And then die hard I believe. Well I mean I like all but pretty woman. That's good. But like all these you know such classic movies I watched the Jurassic Park one and I've seen that they even had like a different special that was like I think the holiday movies that made us. It was like thing like they had home alone or whatever. But I really loved it. I watched the Jurassic Park when the only thing I would say is it gets a little busy and loud like oh. They use a lot of music and voice-over and quick cuts and you know it's like they're trying to make it too you know I get that. It's funny because so do you know you know my you know my favorite part of Jurassic Park was the dinosaurs. I loved that part too. Big fan. I know a lot of people when like Laura Dern wasn't going to be in the second one they were thinking like uh oh good luck. But it was the dinosaurs ultimately. They just did a great job..
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"With a chip is just who's just a fake therapy dog at all. Totally. But you know as funny as I will say though the last four episodes of the season it really like expanded the world and fell down and it's like oh yes that's like and so it's been really fun. We're bringing a lot of fun episodes nice a good writers room really good a bunch of people I haven't worked with before but knew and yeah that's awesome. Yeah I mean that show obviously I'm an animal lover too. And just the idea behind it of having them meet every day for therapy. And it's but there's still animals. They don't you know they don't take away the animal characteristics. Yeah but they all they're dealing with you know it's a great place to project all of our writer insecurities and characters onto them and. I get the biggest kick out of Tony Hale. I mean he voices different animals and he does max the pig that's George Clooney's pig or whatever but then what he does is a Diablo. Yes. Yeah. He's like my mom and my dad and my Randy because his parents have divorced. Totally oblivious. Those of it watched max the pig is a celebrity page. It was a George Clooney. And so he's always he's always name dropping and I don't know where you are in the series but I'm all caught up. I'm like I don't know where I am though because I've seen one you haven't seen is he still with George Clooney or has he moved on? He's still with George Clooney. But he's found out that he's not the original. And which made like the continuity even funnier to me because when that character was there and he kept name dropping that you know he's George Clooney. I was like the fact that I knew that George Clooney's pet pig max died years ago. I knew that information. I've been working on the show for a week. Are they that's really true? Like he had a big name. He had he had a pot bellied pig. Even more useless information that I have that George Clooney had this belly pig name max that was given to him by his girlfriend at the time Kelly Preston. Oh my God. How about that for a random piece of trivia? I gotta say I'm gonna go in there. This is you know this is music to my ears. And I know. And speaking of music to my ears. I was that good? Well I mean standing ovation right now that was beautiful. Now doing it nation I want you to watch because that was a moment. I'm now going to see you won't even know we're doing a commercial for that then it's like you're not going to know that we're going to give a shout out a paid shout out to our advertiser and I would say audio heroes real. Break. The greatest ear devices of all time. Yeah these are like everyday ear buds you know? And you don't have to worry about their wireless. They don't get all twisted up but they also don't look like the other you know. About kind of things that look weird hanging out of people's ears. It looks like you know Ben Stiller in something about Mary or something. Yeah because there was a period of time where the shorthand for a douche was a big old ear thing hanging out of your hair..
Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
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"So you know like a humpty dance. I'm not afraid to go. Rest in power. Shock G. He's the one who put the satin on the girl's panties. That's right. Yes. Yes. I also with Pearl Jam the advantage of them is you also don't need to know the lyrics because it's just like. Danny you fucking nailed that. Fuck I know. Wow maybe you should add that to your karaoke. Holy shit. Lately I've done it. I get it recently. I found karaoke like twice. It's the lockdown ended. But the one I love doing is I do midnight train to Georgia but I always but I only sing the pips. So I'm sitting there and. People don't know what the fuck you're doing for a long part of the verse is the lyrics are coming up. And what I'm hearing is that you think karaoke is an open mic for you. I always killed them. You ever just gone to karaoke it just done the song without trying to make. Oh for sure. I've done a bunch but we should go do that together David. I would love that. I did I'll do some muse. Like my falsetto can hit like supermassive black hole. I love that song. I will do I'll throw down sometimes with like an old you know Dolly Parton or some old like country. Oh yeah I don't I got a little classic. Yeah I never I never had the country well. I'll hit like I've definitely done the clash. I've done. It out. I've done Elvis Costello. But I know not to do like Joe Jackson from that era because I can't hit those notes. And that was the only thing that was holding you back really. I am so Joe Jackson. Usually that's what I think of what I think of you. Yeah. I always say oh and I was standing never mind. Yeah. So how is your new week with new work? Can we discuss that? Yes we can. So I am I've spent the last year or more writing pilots alone. In my underwear Christ for baiting. I'm with you. And I had a meeting with the production company and I'm going to supervise some things and they asked me what I really wanted to do and I said put me if you have a show that needs somebody upper level like I would be very happy to do it. You get me at a discount because I'm going crazy right? Yeah. Not even like about like finances of the finances would be good but it was more like my mental health. And I'm with you yeah. An hour later he calls me and hey how would you like to be on this show? So I don't know if I mentioned the show last week. But it's a show on Fox called house broken that was created by two friends of mine I've written with for years. Well I meant Gabby Allen who I worked with back on Jesse navigate show and then Jen crit in her partner who was. Married to my friend Bill ruble who worked on Modern Family with me. And it's a show about it basically I love animals and I've been in therapy since I was 24. And this is about animals holding their own group therapy session..
Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"one more thing" Discussed on Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"It really into the opening track and then he's like Jesse's out here. I've also done that with I believe in a thing called love when I get to the. Chorus. Darkness. Are you and you never want to pick a song at karaoke that has like a large music intro before you come in? Uh oh. I'm getting alert. Oh my God guys we have an emergency alert from the broadcast system. There's an endangered missing advisory. Oh really? You know what I bet this is I bet if we clicked on it and it's gonna pull up a picture of Barry. Wow. Barry wood. We love him. That would be historical if like the emergency broadcast system now is doing it. But if we did that like on April fools or something like everybody's from gets an alert you're like holy shit. I'm missing child. You got me. It was. You do karaoke ever Jenny? I do. And when I karaoke I've learned that the best thing for me is to not sing but too rap. So then what are your go tos? Bust a move and shoot. Oh those are both good. I've done bust a movie before when I broke it out. Yeah. And it can be a little tougher than you think. Oh yeah. Well because for me it brings because I do have a best friend Harry who has a cousin Larry and 5 days ago he was gonna be married. So I get it. Yeah. Guy I'm gonna invite you to this conversation. First of all we should say this is a this is one of our ebony or meeting episodes. And we're Jenny and I are talking to each other about stuff because this is how we communicate now. Yes. And thanks for joining us. We've got a lot of good guests coming up. We love you. Yeah we really do. We love you doing it nation. But guy or guy or guy what should you do? So I mean I think for me it's probably something by Pearl Jam just because it's low it's easier to you know you don't have to crack your voice and you can still go for it. Oh. Thank you cut out a little bit. By the way that was our that was our our producer that was his audio cutting out completely. So we're in good health. Yeah. So come back you said and we're leaving that in. You said. You said Pearl Jam because low voice yeah? Yeah I mean that's in my in my range. I don't have to like crack my voice. So I'll pick something by curl jam..
Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"one more thing" Discussed on Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"I was like if I go how are you? Come on here. I can't believe we've ever had musicians on this podcast. I sing like an angel. I don't know what you're talking about. I always feel like every time you know like if I'm just singing in the car and I think you know I actually sound pretty good. Like I'm really going and then you know those moments where if you're talking to someone and you're like oh have you ever heard this song and then you try to sing a few bars? Yes. And I never sound the way I sound on the car when that happens. I will say when I am in a position where I have to sing something for somebody. I have two modes so the mode one is I just sort of like you know it goes like you know you know you know rock the casb. You know. It's like you do it like that. I completely understand. That's way one. But then the other way I'll do it is like oh come on you don't know that song you know black by Led Zeppelin. It's like hey mom says the way you move. I go full bore. There's no middle ground for you. But I have to make that decision pretty am I going to sell this right or not and depending on the people but I will frequently I'm usually impressed with my when I sell it. I feel like you can sell a song. You felt it always happens to me when it's like a song that I have no business even trying to recreate. Like I was talking to my mom one time and I said I think I was talking about Nancy Wilson being on the podcast and how you know you and I were just big huge fans and she's like what songs does heart sing and I'm like you know I was like barracuda and. Of all the like voices that all the vocalists in the world I have no business trying to imitate Anne Wilson. Absolutely. One of the if not the greatest rock and roll voice. I mean it's like I'm gonna sing her and then let me tell you this and I'm gonna do a whole Queen medley. I'm like I said oh God I remember like Amy and I my sister we went and saw him in concert. We were like front row in a room saying Ann Wilson and she was singing alone and it was like Nancy was just playing an acoustic guitar and that was it. So it was just all vocals you know? It was so like you know where you just had chills all over your body. It was insane. And then my mom what song is alone? I'm like my God alone. Give me a minute let me warm up my vocals. So I'm like you should just Google that shit. For 20 years I'll warm up. You can give me all the time in the world to warm up. I'm not going to nail that Anne Wilson impression on a loan which is. One of my I actually did this on Instagram ones but sometimes when I'm out of karaoke he plays with people. It's the quickest karaoke ever because I play. The outfield. I don't want to lose your love tonight. So just an insanely high song so it's like and then I come in for two beats on Joey's on a beach. And I can't let my voice crack so I walk up the stage. And he did that on Instagram once where I like again..
MyTalk 107.1
"one more thing" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"It's an hour long 15 minutes in you feel like you figured out resolution and then you're like, What are they just gonna slowly unravel this and let us know how everybody is doing now? No, no, no. Oh, contraire, mon frere. There is more disco Bob. Let's say I'm proud of you and HBO. Max Subscriber for the moment. I have to figure you gotta give me something else. 15 bucks a month. Oh, really? Is that how much it is box a month? Wow, That's a lot. That's what I think. Yeah, that's too much. Um, maybe watch hacks. I think you might enjoy that. Um, one more thing about Mayor of these town the very last scene. I just thought was beautifully done. It was it was the perfect way to wrap up the whole theories. Yes, And you know, I'm so I would like to say that in And some ways I'm smarter than my wife. And in some ways she's smarter than I am. And it's always the case in shows that she figures things out like a minute before I do you know, that's s O straightening. Yeah, And then I just I used to say like, Oh, no, Don't tell me anything. I don't want to know. I want to hear the sound of my own. But now I'd like to just sort of like verbally process with her. But even even something like the last scene, which was more beautiful, less mysterious. Does. She knew that was coming and I would have He never guessed that That was happening. I forgot until it Yes, but you forget about it, and I was like, Oh, it makes me want to cry right now Thinking about it, by the way, people, of course, loving the show. They're also loving an interview that Kate Winslet did with The New York Times. And she just sounded like she was in such defense of her character. Mayor. She just said that you know, like she didn't allow the makers of that show. To correct her flaws because she felt that it was just an important part of her character. Don't airbrush me in any way. Just let me be me as her And she says. That's why people have connected with this character in the way that they have, because there are no filters, right. You feel like you're seeing Ugo somebody different and she says she's here. So she describes Mayor Kate Winslet says she's a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves and way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we're starved of that a bit. So she was saying she like she didn't let them There's a scene where her stomachs out and they're like, Well, fix it up and she was like, Don't you dare touch it. Just leave it. Leave it there. I know how many wrinkles lines there next to my eyes, So don't mess with those. And Kate Winslet's point is We need. We need this as you watch that you relate so deeply because you finally you're sitting there saying that's like me that's like I would be on camera. Not like you're watching a movie star. You're you're seeing yourself through that character, and I think it's really interesting how The one about dressing these people the cast they They went and scouted out like people in Walmart, for example in the local count and took pictures of what people were wearing. And that was part of the inspiration of dressing them so that they were dressed like the people in that area really dress and they it probably helped to that they were Filming in the actual, you know, in that part of the country in the state, So they film on location in eastern Pennsylvania. Did they talk about that? Yes. Yeah, You can't really mimic those, You know, like the row houses that you see interest in Pittsburgh, and we're driving through and it's we don't have that much here. But where it is, you could reach out and touch your neighbor's house. Right? Just right through the window. Yes, that's funny. You say that because when I was back home, I was like It's just so interesting to me like you could be walking on a sidewalk. And be touching someone's front door. You know, Because the houses are so close to the sidewalk. It has this old timey East Coast vibe to it. Totally. They don't build them like that. You sure? Don't Steve God, mer Abi's town, HBO. Max, Check it out when we come back. I've got another audio illusion for you. We all listen one last week from Tic tac, you will hear the same thing. Fame audio the whole time, But I will tell you the new thing that you're hearing. It's the power of suggestion. Next on my talk nothing but.
Real Monsters
"one more thing" Discussed on Real Monsters
"Yeah my opinion. I agree right. I think we're done here. I think we kinda beat the crap out of kemper. He deserved it. I the problem is he's a likable guy. He really is the scene. Yeah definitely is you know. Y- a lot of these guys are just like everything about him. Just creeps you out a. He's an campers not like that he's a i think. He is deserving of some degree of sympathy. I mean that's not to excuse what he did or minimize the suffering. He has caused. No i agree. I completely agree. It's an acknowledgement of the suffering. That he also has been subject to and leave and go ahead one. He had a normal childhood. Maybe this wouldn't happened but absolutely true. One more thing you just got me thinking along those lines of i was kinda thinking you know if his mother had if he'd let his mother live and then say gone. Look what you made me do. She would've taken any of that responsibility on herself now. No not that kind of person. No not at all all right. Thanks for joining us tonight. And you next week is way. Oh yeah we are. Starting up with something special we got specialness all up and down the month of may celebrating women who kill yep and they can look at the fairer sex the gentler sex. I love that is so ironic. Yup all right.
Home Gadget Geeks
"one more thing" Discussed on Home Gadget Geeks
"Here to make sure that we talk grilling before the summer gets. I mean it's unclear. I've already started. I've been i've been using the smoker a lot lately. I have a pulled pork yesterday. pulled it off the smokers. They morning i've been. I've been a girl and fiend i am. I made some mistakes the other day. I just fired the thing up. Got it super hot. And then almost turn it into nothing and just put the stakes on set and i just measured that temperature just until it was just exactly the right thing in his tank off and it man so good. Oh so good so we'll have to get mark back on here as well. Well one more thing. Mike before we go to talk a little bit cloudflare which always seems to be kind of me like an enterprise cashing kennedy. He'll you've been using it for home. Use yeah yeah so so. This was interesting too. I just learned this is. This was news to me that there is a free cloudflare up offering so if you go to clarify Calm you sign up and you linka domain to it. They try to get you to pay but at the bottom. There's actually if you're not using the power features there is a free version. And so i started to play around with this. And essentially the use case for using cloudflare is if you have your own domain and this is how i would use it. I'm sure there's a million use cases but for a home user if you have your own domain and you use that back probably through a reverse proxy at home to services at home. It's a great way to manage your dns records for domain. So in my example. I run and i bought my domain through hover. I had been doing all my dns records in hover. And that's what i was using. We'll hover doesn't have any dynamic. Dns dns capability into it and for those. You haven't experienced that before for most of us home users we have dynamic ip address. Wayne address right. Your public. Ip address is constantly changing. And it could be an issue when you run services at home on your server that you want to access right because that's constantly changing so dynamic. Dns service is essentially a tiny little app. You would run in your home. And it's constantly checking. What's my what's my p. And when it changes its updating some record outside the house and you can point to that record. So what i had been doing in the past i have been using. There's a free service that almost every unreal User out there probably started with at some point which is duck. dns and duct dns is a free dynamic dns of plugging docker container service. The you can run so for example. I have been you know mike. Dot duck denounced dot org and that is constantly updated.
Los' Lounge
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Los' Lounge
"one more thing" Discussed on Los' Lounge
"Give recommendations for podcast more than athletes podcast. Jimmy bonds podcast. Tnt crimes podcast The the omega terrance henry Experience which by way sir. Good sir young man. I heard her episode. And you were speaking on the loss of your brother. Which oh my god. I can't even like see. I'm not gonna cry on this. Is you young men and in the confidence that you spoke that in brother who and the strength mr terence henry you understand what i'm showing you the strength that you spoke it in. You reminded yourself you gotta you still have purpose and you're gonna make every day that you here last night. that's what. I took out of that entire episode. I mean that's a lot more. You know what i'm saying. It was so beautiful just so you. You inspired me today. Brother i heard and my heart goes out to unifem. So as we as as puerto rican sake the oester rotate model and nobody. Everybody says i'm sorry. This happened to not a false. But what i will say because i don i'm not saying that's shady but i would say offer me words is that i'm with you Heart goes out to you and your family in our prayers. That's for sure so ashes publicly third year roses puppy and god bless you in the show. And i'm gonna continuously. I'm getting sidetracked. But i just really wanted to make sure. I didn't forget about saying that. More than athletes podcasts. Jimmy bonds terrence took. Excuse me the town's henry experience. Cnc crimes excuse me. i'm so sorry and obviously myself. am. I missing anyone on the team. Man i always do this. Shutouts nicky weaver nikki. Pp inc shutouts. Podcast pulse big shout. Bullhorn shots my cousins. Melanie and sasha thank you. I love you amy thank you i love you tabby thank you. I love you i appreciate. It meant the world to my cousin. Louis i love you. Thank you meant the world This isn't the way. I was going to end episodes commercial break..
Los' Lounge
"one more thing" Discussed on Los' Lounge
"First of all start with. What would a my eulogy say. Well i'm such a control freak. That i'm sure it'd probably have swimming that already and ready to be read I needed to be a party. I need posters. I needed to be like you know you know. I needed to be nevada. I needed to be specific soundtrack. Plane i don't want just anyone speaking. Please please harry. Are you listening to not mom. Do not allow just anyone to get up there. Harry right now and i just wanted to be a celebration. I needed to be like a video. Montage background matter of fact somebody to sign onto my instagram and play all the funny clip. That's what i would want so this is on record in case all right so it makes it legally binding and i swear. If i don't get that whenever. I transitioned in this world. I'm going to be the first ghost and fucking history to come back in and bust a cap in your ass in the words and the deal next question. What part of the human face carlos. What part of the human faces your favorite. The moisture is part next question. Not next fashion. That's the one. I'm not gonna answer is i'm not relieve. Whatever with a self conscious is going on last last question. How would you sell hot chocolate in florida in.
Los' Lounge
"one more thing" Discussed on Los' Lounge
"Be real have a whole entire missy. Misdemeanor elliott episode. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to the song. I always say this on the. It's on my profile. Please don't come sue me. I am just paying mahjong capturing the moments and so. I promised you a game of funny questions. Here we go. What would you do if you found the penguin in the freezer. Damn but the penguin he'd be alive. I love animals. I would love it. No doubt i mean he. He obviously be alive. It's cold temperatures unless he was frozen frozen and maybe we can thaw him out and bring them back to life. I don't know animal control.