40 Burst results for "PAL"
Six Minutes
A highlight from S3 E55: Its About Time, James and Monica
"Hey listeners, it's Jess here. If you're like me, you know there's nothing worse than finding out about a party after it's already happened. I don't want to miss out. Well, the GZM Family subscription is a party, and it's not too late to join. If you want ad -free and early access to new episodes of your favorite shows, plus bonus content that's only available to GZM family There are kids in this world who are different. Special. They go to school in a place you can't see. Mr. A. Dr. A. It's good to see you, Casey. Would have preferred better circumstances, but... Did you come down here looking for Brinley? Brinley? Wait, do you not know where you are? Not really. Kind of been locked in one room. Food's not bad, though. This is the Elixir Academy, where Brinley went to school. Ding, ding, ding. Headmaster's abode, to be exact. Headmaster. And you're here because...? Because I was trying to rescue sci -fi, and instead I got captured by the Headmaster, who has now seemingly brought us all together for this lovely reunion. You want to know how we got here? Kinda sorta. Childcatchers. Childcatchers? Childcatchers. Abducted us from the courthouse before my hearing. Why were you in court? Long story. Oh, your old pal Magnus wanted me to say hi. Magnus, can we please... Yeah, listen. There's a lot of weird happenings happening on this freaky deaky island. Is Brinley safe? Safe is a strong word, but yeah. I think she's okay. At least she was before I went through the portal. I'm sorry, did you say portal? Casey? Hello? Are you in here? She's gotta be back in these caverns somewhere. What are you gonna say to her when you find her? I'm gonna let her have it for everything she put me through since I was little. Yeah, except that wasn't her. Yes, it was. I mean, it wasn't her yet. You understand? No, I don't. I don't understand any of it. I'm sorry. For what? For all of this. It's a lot. Hey, at least I figured it out, right? And I even remember. What do you mean? I mean that for a while, before I discovered that Penn was the cause of it, I was losing my memories. Of home, of my family, of you. Oh, that sounds terrible. I could feel it all slipping away and it was so terrifying. Because even if we're not, you know, Siley anymore, the idea that I'd forget you, us, that was just the worst thing I could imagine. Because you changed me. We changed each other. Yeah, and I would never ever want to lose that. Casey, are you down here? She's not all bad, you know. Who? Casey, Katie, whoever she is. Oh, geez. What? You, that's what. Don't tell me you have a type now. What are you talking about? Mean girl, clever beyond her years. I don't have feelings for Casey if that's what you're asking. You'd better not, because that'd be profoundly weird. You know that, right, Sinus? That girl is my mom. I said I don't have feelings for her. Okay, just checking. I think she's gone, by the way. And we need to find a way back to Elixir Academy. Badger, where are you? I'm here, Bird. I think I came up with an idea on how we can help Bruce. Assuming we can find him. Why are you holding chains? Well, Bruce made me promise that if there was ever a chance he'd go full Adam that I - That you'd chain him up. And then shut him down. Oh, there are other options. So what's this idea of yours? Right, my idea. I was out for a little swim and it suddenly hit me. Casey is the one who made Bruce all out of me, right? We think so. And Casey was working for Delphine. Uh -huh. Well, it stands to reason that Casey was communicating with her from inside of Holiday Corp while she was working there. But you don't have access to Holiday Corp anymore. Well, let's just say someone there is still loyal. Say hello, someone. Hello, someone. Ivan is still working for you. I'm working with Queen Birdie as a friend. See? Pays to be nice to your AI. Cool. So what's the plan? Ivan? I was able to trace the signal of every called Casey Holiday place from inside the building. There was one recurring number I did not recognize. Delphine. All we have to do is call the number, pretend to be Casey, arrange a meeting, and - Wait, pretend to be Casey? How do we do that? We don't. You do. I mean, you and Bruce made your voice lower, right? And Adam was able to make himself sound like Holiday. You want me to use Casey's voice? You think you can swing it? Do I think I can swing it? I can give it a try. Yes! You're about to become the most awesome thing in existence. A 16 -year -old girl. Sibot, anything to report from the beach? As a matter of fact, Cyrus Anders, yes. Did someone come by the island? No, but I'm detecting a change in the atmosphere. Oh great, another electromagnetic earthquake? Quite the contrary, Brinley. It's all gone. What's gone? The energy surrounding Elixir Key. You're talking about the energy that made Badger and Bruce shut down, that turned off their hoverboards? The very same. So means... that Hubby! You out there? You brought Hubby? You and I rebuilt him with the idea that we could go on rides together, right? Romantic rides around Juno? That feels like a long time ago. Well, you want to drive? You can go in front. I really did change you. Sibot, you sure we're not going to plummet into the water with the robot gators once we get up there? Nope. Great. Did you say robot gators? The Headmaster has an army. I'll explain on the way. Well, after you. Thanks. Cozy, huh? Yeah. Um, just one more thing. If that force field or whatever you want to call it is suddenly down, that might mean that the Headmaster wants us to go back to Elixir Key? I'm counting on you! Shh, it's starting. GZM shows. Imagination amplified.
Game of Crimes
Fresh update on "pal" discussed on Game of Crimes
"So he was like, well, talk to your wife, talk to people who love and care about you. He's like, I personally don't think you're an alcoholic. Like you didn't have withdrawals. You don't, you know, none of that. So New Year's of 2022, January 1st of 2022, my wife and I had our first drink. She had a glass of wine and we brought in the New Year and I had two beers. Well, nine days later I get into this OIS and I was like, holy shit, I can't drink any alcohol. Like I do, stay away from alcohol. So I literally stayed sober again for, you know, my first drink was January 1st of 2022. My shooting was January 10th and I stayed sober for like another six, seven months cause I just didn't know what was gonna happen. I didn't know how my body was gonna react to this OIS. So I have beers now occasionally. I'll have with my food or, you know, if I'm hanging out with friends or something. One thing I don't use alcohol for and I make sure that I, it's my rule and I stick to it, is I never use alcohol to cope with a long week or a bad day. I try not to use alcohol as any type of coping mechanism for me. If I'm going out and hanging out with friends and I have a headache, I'm not gonna drink alcohol. If I'm going out, have friends and I'm feeling good and I wanna socialize or if I'm having a burger and some wings and I wanna have a beer, I'll have a beer if I want. But I don't use alcohol to cope with anything because I don't wanna get back to that point where I was using it as basically a coping mechanism for every single one of my symptoms. But that's just me, not everybody is like me. I have friends that they can't be around any alcohol because they'll drink everything in their fridge. So that technique, you know, that doesn't work for everybody. For me, that works for me. Yeah. I've got one more question for you because we appreciate you giving us so much extra time, Mike. No, no, no, I'm here for you guys. I drug you guys through the ringer yesterday, having to postpone till today. I apologize, blaming on my wife, she got a new car. Oh, let me put Connie's number again. Oh, you 812. Who's that behind you with the frying pan? So a lot of our listeners are law enforcement, military, first responders, and this could go for anybody. You don't have to be in a dangerous position. You could be a housewife, you could be anybody. That dealt with COVID, you know. Yeah. If you had, let's say one solid piece of advice for people who are going through challenging situations, whether you call it PTSD, shell-shocked, you're just going through a circumstance and you're not sure what to do or how to handle it, what would your advice be for these folks? That's a good question. I would say that there is no, you don't realize how sick you are until you get better, until you get healthy and you can look back and realize what a fucking mess you were. Don't wait that long. Don't get to the point where now you're having to get yourself better. And now you're, that's one of the hardest things to do is to get help or to ask for help. And then the second hardest thing is restoring all those relationships that you fucked up. And that takes so much more longer and don't, there's no honor and suffering and silence. You suffer, but your family suffers. And you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your family. You're worth it. Your family's worth it to just get the help right off the bat. Don't wait like me or other people. There's no honor in it. There's nothing honorable about suffering and silence. I know that's probably more than one or two pieces of advice. What about you though? You talk about your relationships and your family. What did it take to repair your relationship? Me and my wife are still working on ours. It was a lot of hurt during that time that I caused, right? And with other family members too, there was things that I said and ways that I acted towards family during that time that I was not doing well. And some of those relationships, just because I'm healthy, you know, back in 2019, I got out and I was feeling better and I'm ready to go and preach to the world about how to take care of yourself. Just because I'm doing good and I'm ready to move on, that doesn't mean your family, your friends, people who you hurt, it's on their time. You know, being forgiven is on, for you to be forgiven, it's on their time. It's not on your time anymore. And that's the hard part because you think you're, you know, you say you're sorry and you're trying to prove yourself, but some relationships will never be restored back to the way they are. Some may, some may be even better. It just depends. But I always tell my guys at San Diego PD, like, dude, don't wait till you're having to sit, apologize for years of hurt because that relationship may never be the same, whether it's with your mom or your dad, your real brother, your real sister, your wife, husband, your children, it's not worth it. Wellness is a perishable skill. That's another thing we say, you know, just like the range, just like DTAC, defensive tactics, the range, verbal judo, right? The way we talk to people out there so that we don't have to get into a fist fight with them. But wellness, if you're not working on it, that's one thing you're gonna work on for your entire life, not just your career. You may not ever get into a shooting, but your wellness, you're gonna work on that every single day when you get off work. You may never get into a shooting, but if you think about the accidents you drive up on, the homicide scenes, you know, like you say, the burn, that was the one thing, had to work a victim inside a car that burned to death, you know, was committing suicide. But just, you know, you think about all those things. People think shooting is the only thing that is like the big thing. No, to your point, and I'm glad you made it, it's the accumulation of this stuff over years. And if there's never an outlet for it, it bubbles up until it finds a way out. When it finds a way out, it's usually destructive and it hurts people. So what about the work, so, go ahead, Mark, sorry. I was gonna say, I'm a member of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, FLIOA, and their motto is, don't go it alone. And that's a perfect motto for this. You don't have to suffer through this alone, and there's people out there who just wait to help. Yeah, and I think a lot of it is like, people who have been through critical incidents or people who have been through personal experiences or crazy stuff in their personal life, even the OGs, right, being able to put your ego to the side and take somebody under your wing or just sharing your experience, that goes, if a brand new graduating class from the academy heard from some SWAT sniper who had been involved in two OISs, and they hear that that person's utilizing resources, whether they're seeing a therapist or going to marriage counseling, when these guys and girls are hearing that from an OG or somebody that they look up to or wanna be like, yeah, that's how you break the stigma. Yeah, and if you think there's no, a lot of insurance companies now will pay for it at your job, but if you think you don't have the resources, there's a national hotline, dial 988, 988, those three numbers, 988, that's the National Suicide and Crisis Hotline. Don't go it alone, man, don't take a chance. Your life is worth more than you might think it is at the moment and the folks that you're gonna break their hearts if you do something crazy like suicide, it's just not worth it, 988. Well, Murph, I'm surprised you remember that because he gets 911 screwed up all the time. 199, I got that one down pat. One of the things too, once you put in that hard work and you get healthier and better, you realize how much more time with your kids and life is happier. There's a light at the end of that dark tunnel. If you could just get past that, life gets better. You're still gonna have your issues and struggles, but life gets so much better. I look back, I say, I look back now and I look back at the things that I was thinking and how I was acting and what I was doing, I'm like, man, I was a fucking mess and I'm so glad that I didn't, I'm so glad I didn't kill myself, right? Not that I was going, I never thought of it, but I'm glad I didn't because the joy that I have now, years later, the love and that feeling and the laughter that I could have with my kids now, it's worth it, it's worth it. You know, this was so worth having you on here twice. And we'll talk about this in the intro and outro, but this kind of interview was requested by a lot of our listeners, believe it or not. That's how important the topics are. So our regular listeners, if you're wondering, what the hell are these guys going back to the old ways of the five hour interviews? No, we're not. But that's how important this damn topic is. And again, it's not just first responders. It can be anybody. It could be you that is listening to us right now. So thank you, Mike. God bless you, brother, for everything you do. We'll pray for you. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you guys' time and this opportunity. Thank you so much. My coping mechanism after these long interviews with Murph is to have a beer. So I'm gonna have a beer in your honor today. All right, all right. I have that effect on people. That's right, we got this figured out. And you know, Murph's whole thing where he said, don't go it alone, he forgot about that. When we were in San Diego, he asked me to go to the bathroom with him. Why? She said, don't go alone. No, that's don't go it alone. He got it confused, so. You said you'd never talk about that again. Well, I didn't until you talked about it. So anyway, yeah. I know, I know. I missed you guys in San Diego too. I was gonna come in and stop by at the booth and say hi. I know Mal called me. He's like, hey, you coming? I was like, man, I am so busy today. I can't go as it, but I'll see them on the podcast in a few weeks. Yeah. And we'll be back in San Diego next May, so. Yeah, and actually, Mal will talk to this. We're working on some cool stuff for next time. So, but we'll definitely be there. Well, look, you keep doing the Lord's work, keep staying safe. And look, I just appreciate what you said is just get in early, get off and then let these people know what's worse than asking for help, it's not asking for help. There's nothing wrong with asking for help. It's when you don't ask for help, that's when a lot of people suffer. So keep up the good work. We're gonna keep an eye on you now, Mr. OG. How many years is it now? How many years you got on? Let's see, let's just say eight. I gotta push it up a little bit. Seven and a half, but eight. Go to double digits, man, make it 10. Yeah, all right, sounds good. Well, you can truthfully say, look, I'm coming on 10 years. Well, I still got three years to go, but I'm coming on 10 years, yeah. I like that, I'm gonna start using that actually. I'm coming up on 10 years soon. I'm thinking about putting in my papers and retiring here pretty soon, so. Oh, God, I don't see the light at the end of that tunnel yet, but it'll come, I'm sure. It's a train, pal, it's a train. That's right, that's the train coming at you. Well, okay, man, seriously, great stuff. Thank you for doing this, stay safe, keep the people of San Diego safe. You guys don't go anywhere. Everybody else, stay tuned for the debrief. Well, hey, this is us again saluting you, Michael, for coming on, being so transparent and being authentic about going through what you did and owning it. You didn't run away from it, you didn't make excuses. I mean, you owned it, but by doing that, you also showed other people why it's important that mental health is a huge issue in public service, whether it's you're a nurse, you're a firefighter, you're a paramedic, you're a police officer, anybody who's dealing with this kind of stuff day in, day out needs this kind of help, and God bless him. And what I'm thankful for is he didn't end up becoming one of the silent victims who commit suicide, because he said he wasn't thinking about it, but that's what he said two years in, who knows what it would have been three years in. Absolutely, and I echo that 100%, Mike. Thanks for your honesty, for your openness. In law enforcement, there's a ton of type A personalities, and all of us think we're studs and we're above this and we don't need help. And you saw what happened when Mike didn't get help, but then you saw what happened when he did get help. So the fact that you're coming on and being open and honest, I can't say thank you enough. I apologize to you that we weren't able to get together when I was out in San Diego, but we will be back out there in May of 24. Morgan and I will be out there again with Mel and Santi and the whole crew. And I definitely want to meet you in person, brother, because you're an inspiration to us all. And for our listeners, keep in mind, if you need help, if you need help, 988, just dial 988. There is somebody on the other end of that phone, 24-7-365. As Morgan says, you don't have to go this alone. Get some help, please get some help. It's just, we all have tough times. We all go through depressive events. We all suffer from anxiety from time to time. There's no reason in the world that I can think of that you should commit suicide. So please, please, 988, make the call if you need help. Yeah, and holidays are a tough time for everybody. So just remember that, 988. All right, so we hope you guys enjoyed this. Share it with your friends, especially if you've got folks in the law enforcement, public safety, first responder profession, share this with them. And if you enjoyed it, go to Apple, hit that, and Spotify. Hit those five stars. And in fact, on Spotify, you can leave comments. Let us know what you thought about this episode. It's really important to us to know that we're reaching with the right message to the right people, so let us know. Also head on over to gameofcrimespodcast.com for more information about the show. Also, a couple of Mike's videos are on there, so we'll try and update that if we get some additional things. Also, Game of Crimes fans, go to facebook.com, type in Game of Crimes fans, join our little inside group run by Sandy Salvato, the Mafia Queen, the Iron Fist with the Velvet Glove. All fun things happen behind the curtain there. And also follow us on that thing they call social media, at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes on podcast, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but visit us at patreon.com slash Game of Crimes, because we got, like I said, our case of the month we got fired up on. We got some good things coming up this month for our Narcometer review, Black Clansman. I personally vouch for Murph on this movie. It is far better. In fact, watching Winnie the Pooh would have been better than Miami Vice, so I'm not gonna let you get away with that. Well, yeah, sadly, I have to agree with you, because that was a horrible selection, but I'm doing better, I'm doing better. I'm doing better, I'm getting better, mate. It's just a flesh wound, and we hope you guys seriously had a great Thanksgiving. Keep yourself safe for Christmas, and thank you guys once again for playing the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all, the post-Turkey apocalypse, Game of Crime.
Flight of ideas
The "Courage" of Ignorance
"On a rural excursion, I noticed a group of my friends playing a ridiculous game. They suspended an empty coke bottle with a rope from a tree branch and made it swing like a pendulum, and then they began aiming at it from a safe distance with a rifle. I approached them and decided to give it a shot. What exactly is this? Gun? How do you film it? What exactly is expected? Let me try hitting this bottle. He pulled the trigger without thinking, scattering bottle fragments in all directions, and my pals screamed in awe. I later found that they had tried for an hour and that three of them had won shooting prizes, but they had failed. I would have failed if I had known all of this ahead of time. We would not have done anything without the courage of ignorance since we assume failure from the start. That is why I was not surprised to read about the young American man who arrived late for class and discovered an unsolvable equation on the blackboard, so he copied it and assumed it was his homework. As a result, he went home and remained up until he finished solving this equation and delivered it to his teacher the next day. The professor was taken aback and demanded that the youngster tell him the truth, this equation has no solution. So math instructors throughout history believed, it was written on a whiteboard by the professor as a model for impossible to solve equations. The pupil who was unaware of the truth solved it in one night. Here, we must have the courage of ignorance and not consider the difficulty of what we face, nor the number of people who have failed before us. This is the only possible path to success, but if the ghosts of fears surround us before we begin, those predatory black dogs will come out to tear us apart before we take a step. Conclusion The courage of ignorance is a paradoxical concept that can yield both benefits and harms. On the positive side, it often empowers individuals to take risks and pursue endeavors they might otherwise avoid due to fear or doubt. This uninhibited approach can lead to unexpected successes, innovation, and personal growth, especially in situations where overthinking and excessive caution could be limiting. However, the downsides are significant. This type of courage, stemming from a lack of awareness or understanding, can lead to reckless decisions and actions. It often results in avoidable mistakes, misjudgments, and failures that could have been mitigated with more knowledge or insight. In extreme cases, it can even lead to dangerous situations or harm to oneself and others. Thus, while the courage of ignorance can spark bold moves and breakthroughs, it's a double -edged sword that requires careful consideration.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "pal" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BREAKING! SEC SUBPOENAS PAYPAL OVER PYUSD STABLECOIN!
"The SEC subpoenaed PayPal over their new stablecoin. A Swiss bank launches Bitcoin and Ether custody and trading services. The UK releases new crypto marketing rules. And Japan is about to start QE. And this is a sign of what's to come globally. Let's break it down. Welcome to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button, as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, the big news this morning is that the SEC served PayPal a subpoena related to the firm's stablecoin. PayPal also said in its quarterly report that it is cooperating with authorities in its request for documents relating to its stablecoin. Now, the headline can trigger some folks. The SEC is going after another firm, but a subpoena is not necessarily a bad thing. They just want more details. The question is, what do they do with those details? Because we've seen the SEC act unlawfully and they've done things politically to try to slow down many crypto companies, which haven't done fraud. Just there's no fraud happening, but the SEC is trying to roadblock and we've been talking about it. It's because Elizabeth Warren is working with a lot of the incumbents and they're trying to kill these crypto startups. So the big players can come in and take over. So let me give the details here. Here's a quote on November 1st, 2023, we received a subpoena from the US SEC division of enforcement relating to PayPal USD stablecoin, which is P Y USD. The subpoena requests the production of documents reads the report. The payments firm said it is cooperating with authorities. So a subpoena from the SEC is a legally enforceable request for documents, testimony, or other evidence issued as part of the agency's investigative authority into potential violations of federal securities laws. Now, folks, I've often said on this podcast, it's not the underlying asset. That's the issue, right? It goes back to the ripple case intrinsically as stablecoin is not a security. You can launch a stable coin today. It's pegged to the dollar one -to -one that does not make it a security. What does, what can make it a security and the potential scenario is the packaging, the scheme, right? It goes back to the Howie test. Was it the oranges intrinsically by nature securities oranges on a tree or in the supermarket? Of course not. That's asinine, right? It's the packaging. What was Howie offering? He was saying my orange girls come invest in mine and you'll get X and X returns and all these things, right? He, it was a whole packaging scheme. That was the issue. Same thing with crypto and stable coins. They're not intrinsically securities. It's rather Howard, a package. So that's the distinction. But, you know, Gary Gensler is a clown scumbag regulator who would lie and say, Oh, they're all securities by nature. And so, but the courts are shooting him down. I'm giving him the big fat L's. So the subpoena itself, like I said, not necessarily a bad thing. They want more information. What they do with it next is the key because, uh, will they go political and unlawful and use lies and hypocrisy like they've done in these previous lawsuits to try to take down PayPal stable coin that is to be seen. So we'll see where this goes. And, uh, the fact that the sec is trying to say stable coins are, are securities is even crazy. Like it, because they're just pegged to the dollar. It's ridiculous. Now, neither Paxos or PayPal has, uh, you know, have, have replied to any comments or, or release any new updates. So Paxos is the company that helped PayPal to launch their stable coin. Remember Paxos also helped, um, be USD to go live finances, stable coin, which, you know, the government shut down essentially. So we shall see where this goes. And in August PayPal and crypto infrastructure provider Paxos announced that the duo would enter its stable coin race with their P Y USD offering reportedly backed by treasuries, dollar deposits, and other cash equivalents. The stable coin is expected to be pegged to the U S dollar and run on Ethereum. So let's see what the sec does after this. The ironic thing here though, folks, right. Is that Congress is threatening subpoenas to Gary Gensler and the sec for delaying the release of all communications and paperwork. They were dealing with, with FTX, right? Patrick Henry's like, I don't want to be the first, uh, you know, uh, speaker here to threaten, or I should say issue a subpoena against the chair of the sec. But this is the unbelievable hypocrisy we're dealing with. Right. And we know that the sec it's a mixed bag. They're doing a lot more bad than good. Yes. The sec has a job to do. Yes. They have to protect consumers yesterday. They filed a lawsuit against these safe moon folks. That's clearly a scam, but at the same time, they're fighting Coinbase, right? And they're delaying the Bitcoin spot ETF. And they're trying to stop many different things that are not fraud related or have anything. They're not scamming people like going after PayPal. I don't believe there's any fraud here. I could be wrong. Maybe there is. Right. I'm not saying either way, but let's see what they go. Will they Sue PayPal? I think that will be a big red flag asking for information. No problem here. Right. And PayPal sounds like they're cooperating. You're like, Hey, you want to see the documents? Here you go. Right. We have nothing to hide. So, uh, let's see what the next step is, but you know, I don't trust scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler. I think you all see what this guy's doing. He's a gimp on the leash. Uh, Elizabeth Warren has control over him and you know, both of them are working on behalf of incumbents. So, uh, interesting news here, folks. Now let's move ahead. Swiss bank launches Bitcoin and ether custody and trading services in partnership with Seba folks. We're seeing stock exchanges, banks, and the largest financial institutions around the world adopting crypto. And you know, some people are still bearish, right? I'm sure you sure you can be bearish this week and in the short term, but long -term I hope you're bullish. I just reported on Monday, guys, that Thailand's fourth largest bank buys $103 million taken a new crypto exchange, or I should say an existing crypto exchange by the name of satang. So I hope you see what's taking place here. Uh, let me give you the details. Um, so one of Switzerland's largest cantonal banks has launched digital asset custody and brokerage services for its clients in partnership with Seba bank this week, St. Gaylor cantonal bank, if I'm saying that right, announced the launch of custody and training services for Bitcoin and ether to select group of clients as GKB added that it has plans to expand its digital asset offerings with the addition of more cryptocurrencies based on client demand as GKB is using Swiss based Seba bank to provide digital asset brokerage and custody services. Here are some quotes. We are very pleased to be able to support St. Gaylor cantonal bank with our expertise in expanding their services around digital assets. Seba bank had B2B and custody solutions. Christian beer said St Gaylor cantonal bank and Seba signed the contract earlier this year after a short implementation project as GKB is now ready to offer access to cryptocurrencies to a selected group of clients in the first step, Bitcoin and ether other currencies will follow shortly. Barry told a block folks huge, and this is primarily to institutional clients. So a lot of capital is going to come into this market. This is why I'm bullish. This is why I don't care if the price crashes by 10K today. It doesn't phase me because I know it's all market cycles and from the macro, right? The two to three year view, the market cycles playing out on the four year cycles, you will make money by the blood industries, by the dips, huddled, you know, don't, don't look at the price every day. And then as we run up, take your profits folks, it's playing out right before our eyes. And if you're here listening, you're here early, you're taking a position, buying the lows you're on, you are on the side of smart money because there's billions of people not paying attention and they will eventually come in and buy the top, right? It's the dumb money crowd, but that's the age old tale, right? It happens with stocks and other markets. It is what it is. This is why education financial education is important. And I'm glad I'm here early now, quick word from our sponsor and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that you can buy all the top cryptocurrencies. They have 260 plus cryptos on their platform. They have a lot of great features, full functional app, full functional website. They're safe to use. I've interviewed the CEO, the CFO. I've been using them since 2018. You can also trade precious metals on this platform, as well as 37 Fiat currencies. And they're available in over 150 countries. They are 100 % reserve. They don't commingle your funds. They don't lend out your funds. So they do audit. So your funds are safe. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Now we've got news that the UK regulator publishes guidance on new crypto marketing regime, the financial conduct authorities new ad regime took effect in October under the new rules firms are required to include appropriate risk warnings on all their communications to UK customers that have a promotional element. The regulator has already added 221 firms. It deems non -compliant with a new regime to an alert list and has promised enforcement action on companies that are not careful with approving ads. So folks, I don't have a problem with this because they're not banning crypto and they're not banning crypto companies. What they are saying, Hey, follow these rules and regulations when it comes to marketing. So you can't make, you know, and maybe any outlandish promises, or you don't exaggerate the truth on what users can expect to earn or get a return. So I don't have a problem with that, right? They're not saying you can't market. They just think, follow these rules and stick to these guidelines. And most likely it's, you know, around verbiage and things you can say so this, this is rules that are applied to the stock market and, and, and loans and credit cards and still port, right? You can't say certain things you have to abide by the rules. So I, I'm totally fine with this, but I think we're going to see more and more of this around the world that people can make, you know, outlandish the promises. And, and this is good because look, you have these like safe moon scam projects and these things that pop up around the world. And if they say, oh, you're going to get this and that, and that, and it's just like, that's not reasonable and that's not a factual then. Yeah, that's not good for consumers who may not know better and they can get caught up in scams. So I think this makes sense now, folks, Japan stimulus package to include 144 billion in spending a draft plan show spending at around two, excuse me, 21 .8 trillion yen funding in extra budget to reach around 13 .1 trillion yen. You may say, Tony, why are you telling us about Japan stimulus package? What the hell does it have to do with crypto? Well, folks, it's the cowbell, right? If you saw my interview with Rao pal recently, and we talked about M2 global M2 money supply, the liquidity is coming back. Folks. What have I been saying? Beating the drum, the quantitative tightening will come to an end, right? There's quantitative tightening happening in the U S as well as all the parts of the world. We're seeing quantitative easing starting to come back, right? Just about a week and a half ago, I told you about China injected in the tons of capital into there. I think it's a real estate market and the banks and so forth right now, all of a sudden Japan is planning to print money and offer stimulus folks. What have I been saying? Right? I hope you see what's happening. It's they can't help themselves. They have to do it. We live in a debt based system. So what does that mean? Assets will rise. The price of assets will rise as liquidity and they continue to print money increases once again. And this is why you diversify. Yes, crypto, yes, stocks, real estate, and so forth. I have an investment property. I own some stocks. I have, a retirement account and so forth. And then I have crypto folks, assets will rise again. So I hope you understand this because it's very important to know these fundamentals and these principles of what's happening and how the money supply works and how that impacts asset prices. And like I said, I shared with Raul Pal's chart from just a couple of days ago, where he highlighted Bitcoin is moving. The price of Bitcoin is moving with the global M2 money supply. And we are seeing a move upwards. Folks, I want to give you a quick note here. Joe Biden, the president of the United States will most likely follow this game plan that Japan is doing. Watch the money printing come back next year. Why? It's an election year, right? They have to come out of this really bad situation. We're in with recession, high rates. I definitely think we're in a recession. They may try to skew the day to say, we're not, we are in a recession. And I think they're going to go back to money printing next year. And then we're going to see assets go up folks. And funny enough at times with the four -year cycle of Bitcoin. So just get ready. Like I've been saying, buy the dips, dollar cost average, obviously be smart. Don't put your life savings into investments. You need to have emergency cash. You need to be diversified. Like I said, I got money in stocks and investment accounts, also crypto. Crypto is the one doing the best for me, of course. So just keep these things in mind. I'm sharing these things because once I understood these principles and what was actually happening with money printing and how you can use assets to outpace inflation and grow your wealth. That's when I started making money. That's when my retirement accounts started growing because I figured it out. Like believing it in a bank and getting next to nothing from an interest rate standpoint. I was wondering, is this it? You get what 0 .01 % return on your money in the bank. It's nothing. It's garbage. But when you understand assets is the way to go. And as Paul Tudor Jones said, Bitcoin and crypto is the fastest horse in the race. So crypto is moving at a much rapid pace from a growth standpoint. And if you look at the data, Bitcoin is the top performing asset over the past 10 to 15 years. It's pretty incredible. Well, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Don't forget to follow me on the social media platforms, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn. Links will be in the description. Also sign up for free newsletter. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And I'll talk to you all later.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Fresh update on "pal" discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Every time I go away, I say it's good to go away, but it's even better to get back. I missed you. I missed you. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving with your friends and family. I know the show was in great hands with my pal, Joey Hudson, who had an absolutely stellar few days of guest hosting and making sure people were donating to our Angel Tree campaign. We had a stellar week. Joey collected over $10,000 in donations to our this beautiful Christmastime tradition that we have here at the Mike Gallagher show where you could send Christmas presents to the children of American prisoners. We're off to a great start, but let's keep it going. We've got a long way to go. We've got a big goal, $100,000, which will serve a lot of kids. You can see, incidentally, how many kids we're helping on the counter at MikeOnline.com, and you go to that Angel Tree banner at the top of the page, and you'll see how many kids are being blessed with Christmas gifts and the gospel that come from the parent who's in jail. That's right.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BITCOIN & ALTCOINS LOOK BULLISH AS FED PAUSES RATE HIKES!! PAYPAL CRYPTO UK
"Welcome to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got big news today that the Federal Reserve is not going to raise rates. They're pausing once again and maintaining the rates at the current level. I think this is bullish. I think if something was about to break, they would start cutting rates, but they once again are pausing. So I think the markets are going to see this as a bullish sign, but we'll have to wait and see. There's usually a lot of volatility the day and week of any type of Fed announcement. So just a heads up on this. And you know, my hope or what I've been talking about for a long time is that they can't continue quantitative tightening or they're going to destroy the entire economy, which would be Armageddon. Right. Because then people will be killing each other in the streets for food and much more. Obviously they can't do that. They're going to take it as far as they can, you know, to kind of cool inflation. But at some point they got to stop. And then I believe they're going to start quantitative easing again next year, printing more money. We're seeing they're doing it already from a global standpoint. You know, recently we talked about China injecting a whole ton of money into their banking system and so forth. So global liquidity is on the rise and we're seeing Bitcoin rising with it along with altcoins. So interesting that, you know, all these things are taking place as Bitcoin has been moving upwards. And speaking of moving upwards, Bitcoin looks like it wants to go to 36 ,000. Right now it's at 35 ,400. Well actually CoinMarketCap says $534. So looking strong, ETH looks like it wants to go to $1 ,900. It's at $1 ,846, BNB at $228, XRP close to 61 cents, Solana really pumping. It's at $41, Cardano at 30 cents. So we're looking good here, folks. And as we've been talking about for months on months, we are tracking Bitcoin's retracement move, right? Looking to go to $40 ,000 to $50 ,000 range. My hope is it goes to $50 ,000, but that's less likely. Maybe it tops out at $48 ,000 or some say it may top out at $40 ,000. We'll have to wait and see. Nevertheless, I will be taking profits if Bitcoin hits $40 ,000. And here, Raoul Pal, macro investor, who I had on the podcast just last month, said technically speaking ETH is a gorgeous, gorgeous chart and ETH is primed for a move, a strong movement. As we talked about many times, the liquidity flows to Bitcoin, then it trickles down to the altcoins. And of course it starts with Ethereum, right? Now one could argue Solana and Chainlink and these specific altcoins were leading a lot of the altcoin rally, but we know they're going to hit their overbought indicator. And then liquidity is going to flow to other alts, so other alts will pop off. So we got to be patient and set our price targets for exit. And I'm personally going to be taking profits on Ethereum as soon as it hits $3K and it goes above. So for Bitcoin, $40K and above, ETH $3K and above. So that's my strategy. I personally think that we are not going to new all -time highs here. This is a retracement move similar to what took place in 2019. You're not going to new all -time highs, but you're having a retracement rally. And part of why I am not in the camp of Bitcoin's going to new all -time highs is the stock market does not look good, folks. The stock market looks bearish. And I think Bitcoin and crypto lagged a bit behind the stock market. And I think there's going to be a correction. Now I'm not saying it's the end of the world. Corrections are great for buying the dips, right? Buy the blood on the streets. And then we're going to be in this slow, steady grind going up into new all -time highs, possibly at the end of 2024 into 2025. I think definitely we see new all -time highs in 2025, at which point I'll be taking profits once again, because I'm here to make money. So that's my thesis. That's my plan. That's what I'm thinking. Not financial advice. I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm looking at the both the bullish and the bearish scenario. And right now the bullish looks like it has the higher probability of playing out, folks. So looking good. And you know, we got other folks, other macro investors and institutional investors releasing charts showing the move to new all -time highs in later 2024 to 2025. So here, Jurien Timmer of Fidelity, he's director of global macro at Fidelity, said Bitcoin is on the move again, following the pattern of previous boom bust cycles so far. What to make of it? Let's revisit my thesis from the late 2020. In my view, Bitcoin is a commodity currency that inspires to be a store of value and a hedge against monetary debasement. I think of it as exponential gold. Wow. What a statement. Gold is money, of course, but it's too deflationary and clunky to be used as a medium of exchange. Hence investors own it primarily as a store of value. And one of the many reasons Bitcoin is often compared to gold historically during these structural regimes in which inflation runs hot, real rates are negative and or money supply is excessive. Gold tends to shine and gain market share relative to GDP. Notable example is the 1970s and the 2000s. Yes, gold was a great bet in those time periods, right? But now crypto is here. And as Paul Tudor Jones said, it's the fastest horse in the race. And it's also hard cap, right? Bitcoin is only going to be 21 million. So many of these cryptocurrencies are deflationary. There's a burn system in place. Some coins are lost forever. I think we all know the principles there. While gold, they keep mining gold, right? And in 30 years from now, maybe they're going to be mining off the asteroids in space and getting gold there. So gold supply keeps inflating, not as much as fiat currency, obviously. It's much more at a slower pace. So it's still a good hedge. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying gold sucks. It's still a good hedge, but I think we see the upside in crypto to be much higher given that it's on the blockchain. It has greater principles than gold and it can be fractionalized. And that means anyone across the globe can put money into the asset class. And obviously that's incredible for the price and the adoption and the growth of it, right? Jurien wraps up saying, can Bitcoin be a player on the same team? I think the potential is there. More on this thread tomorrow. So we shall see what else he puts out. But folks, I think some of the smartest minds in the world are saying this is the feature of investing and a lot of great things are playing out here, folks. So I'm excited. The next bull cycle is coming around. We're going to be out of this quantitative tightening and recession and high interest rates. We will go back to quantitative easing, folks. As I've said many times, the system is based on debt. It is a debt -based system. They have to continue to print money. They will cool down things and try to get things to calm down after excessive printing. And they'll do their things to cool down inflation, but make no mistake about it, they're going to go back to printing money. Now folks, we got some very bullish news around PayPal. So PayPal UK unit registers as crypto service provider. The financial conduct authorities approval means the payments firm can offer certain crypto services and advertise to local clients. Folks, this is huge on and off ramps being built globally. And PayPal we know has a huge customer base. Remember, they also have Venmo and in the United States, they launch their crypto trading services so you can buy and sell on PayPal. But also a few months back, they launched a stable coin on the Ethereum blockchain. So they're all in on crypto and they're looking to expand.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Fresh update on "pal" discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Ah, it's good to get back and see some feisty textures. Here's a text from Chicago. The ignorance on display from your listeners and callers is mind-boggling. No need to speculate on Trump's death. Clearly, his supporters are already brain dead. The good news is this dope from Chicago doesn't even recognize how much support a comment like that gives Donald Trump. It's like the crowd at Williams-Bryce Stadium over the weekend in South Carolina. Thousands and thousands of wildly excited, cheering fans for this guy. And incidentally, for the record, there were some boos. Somebody showed me a video that showed some of the Clemson marching band booing him. What's up with that? Come on, Clemson. You can do better than that. Maybe we've got to get some better tuba players. Can you imagine supporting an article that speculates about the death of one of the most important political figures in the history of America? One of the most consequential political figures in the history of America. They're writing about what happens if he dies and this dummy from Chicago attacks people who have a normal reaction. And the normal reaction is one of disgust and one of shame. I've got a new mission this year. As I kick off the holiday season and you and I are going to—and I am. I decorated over the weekend. You ought to see my condo. I'm so proud of my—I've been on this vintage Christmas ornaments. Spree. I gave all the family ornaments to Trevor and Lily. We had years and years of family Christmas ornaments and I want Lily and my son and my family to have those. So I kind of started over after Denise died and I kind of embarked upon life as a single guy and four adult sons and a beautiful granddaughter. I'm going to get to spend a lot of quality time with all of them incidentally over the holidays and I'm excited about that. So I embarked on the—I got this weird hobby. I collect vintage Christmas ornaments. You ought to see my Christmas tree. I am so proud of my tree right now. I took hours. Should I send out a picture? Should we send a picture out? You want to see it? I think I might do that. I might send you a picture here in just a few minutes because I literally—and it's become an obsession. If I go to a thrift store and I—because I think about the years and years and years of memories made by those old-time Christmas ornaments. I don't have a contemporary Christmas ornament on my Christmas tree. It is chock full and there's hundreds—I mean maybe thousands. I don't know. I got boxes. I went a little goofy. I will send out a picture of my tree here in just a minute on the MyPillow text line. Don't send the keyword yet because you know what the word is going to be. But don't guess. We got to make it official. Tracy is going to put it together and we will send out the picture of my tree because Christmas is less than a month away and I am filled with the Christmas spirit. Every time there's a story like this about Business Insider and the awful thing they wrote about Trump's potential death in 2024, I'm going to counter a story of sick, twisted evil like that with something good. And I'm about to give you some good news from a study that was conducted by the Institute of Labor Economics that looked at the effects of the Supreme Court decision overturning heavyweight. So stand by for that in just a moment. For the last few years, I've been telling you about the thousands and thousands of children of American prisoners that your donations are going to help this Christmas season. I first learned—I remember meeting Chuck Colson in an airport years ago. Prison Fellowship is a beautiful, beautiful ministry. They minister to the families of people who are incarcerated. And because there are so many kids with a mom or dad in prison this year, we're already in week two of our 2023 Angel Tree Christmas campaign. And my pal, Joey Hudson, did a magnificent job in getting donations. Here's what happens here. There are hundreds of thousands of kids who, through no fault of their own, aren't going to have a mom or dad this holiday season. I was one of those kids, not because my parents were in prison. I lost my dad on Christmas Day when I was 11 years old. Sad story, lost my mom a number of years later, the week before Christmas. So Christmas was really hard for me. So I really have a heart for these children who have a mom or dad, maybe both mom and dad, in prison. A gift of $25 will make Christmas special for one of these children. A family offered us— Oops, that's the wrong place for the music. Here's the music. I want to play some music. One of my favorite Christmas songs. You can figure out where this is from. A gift of $125 will bless five children. And the beauty of this ministry is you'll be sending a Christmas present to the child of an American prisoner. The child understands that that gift came from their mom or dad from behind bars. That's right, the message is delivered by the parent thanks to your generosity. So all you have to do is go to MikeOnline.com and click on the Angel Tree banner at the top of the page. Incidentally, the goal this year is real simple, it's $100,000 and already Joey Hudson got us a tenth of the way there in just one week. My pal Joey got us $10,000 in donations. Please go to MikeOnline.com, click on the Angel Tree banner at the top of the page or call 888-206-2788. That's our special donation hotline. You can pick up the phone. Again, $25 blesses a child, $125 will bless five children. You can do the math. Whatever you can afford. Let's really kick off the Christmas season by—and not only will that child get a Christmas gift, it will be age-appropriate, it will be appropriate for boy or girl, be it football or a little doll for the girl, there will also be a Bible, there will also be a spiritual reminder of what Christmas means and what it's about. Please go to MikeOnline.com, click on the Angel Tree banner at the top of the page or call 888-206-2788, 888-206-2788 and thank you so much for your blessings and your generosity. Let's get there early. Let's hit that goal soon. Every year, I think we're not going to get there. Every year, I worry that we're not going to hit it and every year, you come through and deliver in a big way. So please go to MikeOnline.com and give what you can or call 888-206-2788. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, which of course we know politically was a—well, it hurt us. It hurt the Republican Party. There's no question it hurt the party. There's no doubt that it didn't give us the red wave. Women panicked. Women flipped out. I'm not trying to denigrate women who had the emotional reaction that many of you had. But the point is lives were saved. Check this out. At least 32,000 babies were born as a result of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Navigating Intricate Global Issues: Perspectives on the Israeli-Hamas Conflict
"Strong leadership isn't saying, oh, well, now that there has been a major crisis, here we are to help clean up the mess. That's like saying, oh, our good customer services, we've got all sorts of good firefighters to put out all the angst and the customer conflicts. No, you don't do that. You try to not create angst and customer conflict by having good leadership in a good organization. And that's what we need in government again. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick, along with my partner, Mike Speraza. Happy Halloween, pal. Yes, yes. We didn't dress up today. Our Halloween party was last week, but happy Halloween to you too. We're dressed up like just everyday average Joes, everyday average Joe Biden. That's what we are. That's the best we can do. Huh? What? Who are you? What are you doing here? Where am I? Where is my cue card? Where's the teleprompter? I don't know which way to go. All right, folks, we've got a lot of things going on here, and we're going to start with, Mike, pro Palestinian rioters are now storming Russian airports looking for Jews. Well, that's not good, and we're seeing this type of hatred across the world right now. This is not just a Russian thing right now. We've gone so far the wrong way, Mike, and this is just another example of it. This is sickening stuff. Our world is filled with hate, and our world is filled with a lot of bad information that creates the hate, so it's a pretty scary time we're living in. This is, yeah, so basically these rioters, they flood a runway looking for an Israeli flight. Okay? So, I mean, think about this. Israel's got an Iron Dome defense system. They have to combat missiles and basically bombs coming into their airspace all the time. So now you've got Russian airport being flooded so that these rioters can find Jews in an airplane. I mean, this has taken it to yet another level. I mean, this is crazy. I mean, this is what one statement was. The State of Israel views gravely attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews anywhere. Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to safeguard all Israeli citizens and Jews, whoever they may be, and take robust action against the rioters and against the unbridled incitement being directed at Jews in Israel. I mean, do you think there's going to be any type of repercussion when you've got someone like Putin who openly has been antisemitic? Yeah, I mean, I think obviously that stuff fuels the fire, right? I mean, when there's people talking in that narrative and pushing things or not, I should say too, not caring about certain people, that can definitely fuel the fire. However, at the end of the day here, I mean, I don't care where it's from. This is getting to be insane, right? I mean, Mike, there's racists, there's antisemites, there's homopho - I mean, there is so much hate everywhere, right? And now, do I think it's 99 % of the population? No, of course not, right? We're talking about small percentages of people here, but they make the most noise, these people, right? It's like in our country, Mike, you know, the left portrays that there is, you know, racists everywhere. There's not. Of course there's racists in America, there's bad people in America, there's rapists and murderers in America, right? But the noise is about this small percentage of the group, but that causes division and hate across America, across the globe. That's what I just can't take anymore, Mike, because it's causing issues everywhere. And we used to all agree that the rapists, the murderers, the antisemites, the anti -Muslims that they should be actually held accounted for, and they just don't have to be now.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh "PAL" from Stephanie Miller
"That's really the surprise. What? Yeah, I don't know. That's fine. Everyone remain calm, won't we? Might just have to reboot that computer. You need a new one. Yeah. Alright, that works. The sad trumpet works, which is good. The trumpet sad of nothing works technically in here. We're gonna rewire everything over the holidays. Tony's coming Hopefully he'll make lasagna. He makes a good lasagna. Yes, he does. And a good studio. Did you know we built the studio? Ten years ago. Ten years ago next month. Yes. Thank God I picked this color for the Did you really? It wasn't a studio then. It was just at my office. We had a real studio. And then you remember that Christmas? I remember that Christmas. I was here for it. We were both really sick too. How many times had we been fired together by that point? Was that only the second time? We were really fired. We just lost our LA affiliate and our studio. Technically I wasn't fired from KABC. They kept me on. Oh that's true. I was fired and you stayed on. Like a traitorous bastard that you are. Were you gonna pay me? No. Okay then. I was off on my own adventure. Working for Oprah. Like best of luck to you. Yeah. And then I had the gall several years later to call him and say I have another radio show. Get back here now. He's like when? I'm Lynn Phoenix. I'm like now. Yesterday. Okay. He did it. Just saying. Got my nerve don't I? Well couldn't I start on day one of the show. Yeah which I was pretty huffy about. Yes you were. I don't know why all the Thanksgiving memories are just. It's that time of year. Why we're all thankful for each other. Yes. Okay. Oh I think I'm going to have to have words with Malcolm Nance on Wednesday. Uh oh. You know we say don't like we have people on to challenge everything they say. No. I'm a fart joke comedian. I'm not a journalist. I don't agree with everything anyone says. I've never agreed with anything Chris Anyway we'll have to clarify though because I know people reacted. I don't know if he was suggesting that Joe Biden should step down. That's not how I heard it. I heard that he was saying if he does he should say here is the president Kamala Harris which I'm all for because I was team Kamala in the primary and then Liz when she dropped out so I look forward to having work yes to having no to having a president Harris at some point anyway but I hope I hope he wasn't saying that he thought Biden should because we got to stop that in my opinion I agree right I mean it's just it's like what it's his choice if for some reason that's the choice he makes yes we get behind whoever the democrat is I don't stop it already with this Biden is old he's doing a fantastic job and it's just shooting ourselves on the foot in my information in my opinion ginger rights on the other didn't you say that yeah you haven't talked since that ginger spice ginger spice ginger spice ginger spice is this a reminder to the Trump fans he had four years to fix the border four years to improve infrastructure four years to improve health care four years to improve life for the middle class and is in his four years he did nothing but help himself and his rich pals that guy thank you oh sorry oh you are really out of practice it's as if I'm sitting there okay I and did a fake show every day during the holidays down here you think I'd be better at this okay okay Rupert Pupkin yeah oh you're not a cardboard cutout no okay all right rude pundit I'll talk to a human next oh you outro outro
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1446: Bitcoin Will 20x Minimum This Bull Run - Raoul Pal
"In today's show, I'm going to be breaking down the latest Bitcoin technical analysis and quoting the high priest of Bitcoin, Max Kaiser. Bitcoin is the new New Testament. Adjust your thinking accordingly. Also breaking news just in the Bitcoin difficulty source to another record. Sixty two point four six trillion. That's a pretty massive difficulty. Also in today's show, the CME becomes the second largest Bitcoin futures exchange as open interest continues surging. Also in today's show, F the Regulator says SPF behind closed doors. According to this report, little did I know SPF was such a gangster talking ish about the regulators. And speaking of regulators, Gary Gensler's Bitcoin ETF position is inconsistent, according to the chairman himself, Gary Gensler, in a video which surfaced with him back in 2019. Also in today's show, Bitcoin is about to get ready for a parabolic leg up, sending Bitcoin to new all time highs. According to crypto strategist, I'll be breaking down his latest targets, as well as the former Goldman Sachs executive, Raul Powell, says retail will front run the VCs and institutions before the crypto explosion. He also predicts that exponential age for crypto amid the recent Bitcoin bull market will also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from WILL SBF EXPOSE SEC GARY GENSLER'S DIRTY CRYPTO SECRETS?
"Welcome to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review it supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start off by talking about the price of Bitcoin because we did close at a reasonable price. Right now, Bitcoin is at thirty four thousand five hundred and sixty seven dollars. So we closed the week and we're going to close the month out pretty strong. So looking good, we're still looking bullish. You know, one analyst here said, sorry, but there is nothing to be bearish about on this chart. Speaking about the Bitcoin chart, he said Bitcoin is up one hundred and ten percent this year. Bullish market structure, higher highs and higher lows. The price is above the twenty twenty one open. And there is a clear accumulation below thirty K waiting for a dip higher low is reasonable. Waiting for new lows is not so essentially highlighting that the charts look bullish. I think we all have been anticipating higher prices. Bitcoin could go to forty or forty K plus, but this is not a move to new all time highs. It's kind of the transition from bear to bull market. I believe the official bull market starts next year in April at the Bitcoin halving. And then we go on a slow, steady rise upwards into a parabolic move into twenty twenty five. That's how I'm looking at it. I could be wrong. So I'm not saying that's guaranteed. That is just a thesis. I think it's the more likely thesis based on how the market has played out historically. So Raoul Pal, macro investor, who I recently had on the podcast, highlighted that crypto liquidity is back on the rise, showing that Bitcoin year over year is moving with the global money supply, which is M2. And you can see here on the chart, the data doesn't lie. So M2 money supply is increasing again globally now. And we're seeing Bitcoin move with it. Just last week, I shared with you guys that China injected a whole bunch of money into the economy. Right. So quantitative easing is going to come back, folks. We are in a debt based system. They're going to find excuses to paint the narrative that they have to print more money and they're going to continue kicking the can down the road. They have no choice or the economies will collapse. And we know what would happen, right? That would be the worst case scenario. The collapse of civilization, people on the street killing each other over for food and whatever else. Obviously, they don't want that to happen. Now, Raoul says it really loves global M2. This is when Bitcoin outperforms the NASDAQ and crypto becomes a supermassive black hole. Our weekly global liquidity index is about to break above zero. Our GMI total liquidity is above zero and rising to and the Fed is net liquidity. He says here and the sweet gentle sound of cowbell can be heard in the not too far distance. So showing here the BKX index. This is the data, folks. The data doesn't lie. And we are seeing similar patterns. What we've seen historically, right? We are in that quantitative tightening cycle. It won't last forever. They're going to have to go back to quantitative easing and then we will be back in the bull markets. Now here, Kevin Swenson had a great, great video he put out this weekend. I highly recommend you guys go subscribe to his YouTube channel, follow him on Twitter. And he did a great pattern of the S &P 500 and Bitcoin showing that what we've been talking for about for a long time, that Bitcoin and the crypto market move with the stock market, the equities markets, right? And you could argue kind of what Raoul Pal is arguing is not so much that it follows the stock market, but it follows the money supply, right? M2 and the stock market obviously rises based on the amount of liquidity in the market. And Bitcoin and crypto is also doing the same thing. However, we're seeing some sort of weird decoupling right now. Now this could be a temporary thing, right? Bitcoin may be still catching up to the rally that the stock market did. One of the things Kevin mentioned was that BlackRock's ETF is such a huge catalyst because BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager. They are swaying more capital from Wall Street to flow into Bitcoin and crypto. And that's why you're seeing for the first time in history, or as it appears to be on the charts, a full deviation. It's very interesting. Now we have to let it play out because look, tomorrow a Black Swan event could happen and everything tanks, right? We saw what happened in March, 2020, you all know about the whole crisis then. So we could have something similar happen, but right now, this is very, very interesting folks. I am studying this and looking at this, like what's happening? Is this the tipping point where a lot of institutional investors are going to come out of the stock market and the equities market and put a lot of capital in crypto? We'll have to see, fingers crossed, right? That maybe it is the tipping point and don't get me wrong, I am diversified. I have a real estate property, a rental property, I have stocks and a 401k and all that stuff, right? And I obviously am heavily invested in crypto, but folks, this is very, very interesting. So you can go check out that video from Kevin. It's really, really insightful. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold. Uphold is a great crypto platform that I've been using since 2018. They have over 260 plus cryptocurrencies. They're available in over 150 countries. They're transparent. They secure your crypto. They don't lend it out. They don't co -mingle like FTX. And it's a platform that I've interviewed their CEO, their CFO and many folks. So I trust this platform. I use it. And, you know, during the Ripple lawsuit, they were one of the only exchanges that still listed XRP. So they got a great legal team and a great team overall. In addition, you can trade precious metals on this platform, folks, and they make it very easy to swap between precious metals and fiat currencies and crypto. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. All right, folks, we got some very interesting news coming from the consumer action for a stronger economy. The slogan on their website is the free market voice for America's consumers. This is a nonprofit organization and consumer action for a strong economy. Also abbreviated as case C A S E. Well, folks, you know, they do a lot of advocacy on behalf of consumers, exposing the government, challenging the government. Right. Which is what we should be doing when the government overreaches or abuses their powers. Well, folks, they are focusing in on Gary Gensler and the SEC and their role in the Sam Beckman freed FTS situation. What have I been talking about for so long? Not just me, but others. Gary Gensler and the SEC met with the FTS officials and Sam Beckman freed multiple times. It was rumored Sam Beckman freed was going to get a special broker dealer license, same that Promethean got. So I think FTS was going to be a plant by Gary Gensler, same way he tried to do with Promethean and then tried to shut down the rest of the exchanges, Coinbase and so forth. Right. So the SEC could control the market as much as possible. But we know they're trying to do it in an illegal way without actual regulations, without Congress acting. But this ad exposes Gary Gensler and the lies and the corruption, the things he's been hiding. Notice he has not sent Congress all the communications with FTS. What is he hiding? Right. We saw Congressman Patrick Henry call him out saying, I don't want to send you a subpoena and I don't want to be you to be the first SEC chair that we have to send a subpoena to. So Gary has a lot to hide here, folks. I remember when Sam Beckman freed was supposed to go testify before Congress, all of a sudden the SEC came out and a couple of these other agencies, right, to kind of steer that in the other direction and cancel that whole situation because they know they're going to get exposed. So let me play the clip for you. It's about a minute long. Just listen to everything that's said. Samuel Beckman freed was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. Meanwhile, Wall Street multimillionaire turned SEC Chairman Gary Gensler held multiple meetings with SPF while this fraud was happening. Gensler made millions on Wall Street, even laughing about how well he's done since then. And is it correct to say that you made most of your personal wealth directly through your employment at this bank, Goldman Sachs? I've done well since then, too, sir.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from Bitcoin Rally Not Over | $32,000 Next
"All right. Is the rally over? Is Bitcoin starting to face a new wall or is this the breakthrough that everybody's been looking for? We're going to try to get into all this good stuff for you guys today. My name is Paul Bera. Welcome back in The Tech Path. Before we get started, if you guys have never checked out our Market Sentiment Index, make sure and jump over to PBN. You can just go to Paul Bera Network and find it. It's right there. One of the things we do on the MSI is we break down a whole variety of tokens. You can go into the dashboard. This will, of course, measure sentiment, gives you a full blend of both TradFi sentiment as well as crypto sentiment. We even jump into NFTs and also TA. So we've got a lot of additional content over there that you guys can check out. Make sure and just, when you go to PBN or Paul Bera Network, all you have to do is click right there at the top, Market Sentiment. I'll show you some examples of that here in a bit when we break down Bitcoin. Let's get into it today, though. I want to jump over to the first tweet right here, and this is Peter St. Onge. This is a very interesting statement he made right here, and I shouldn't say him, but inflation in effect is a hidden tax. The money that people have saved is robbed part of purchasing power, which is quietly transferred from the government that issues new money. This was by Thomas Sowell. If you've never listened to Thomas Sowell, just search his name on YouTube and go listen to some of his talks. He's probably, I think, one of the best economists out there in maybe our lifetime. Very astute into understanding money, but more importantly, understanding the cycles that start to happen here. And that's really what we're going to be breaking down today. Is this a cycle for Bitcoin and other digital assets that could be starting to really roar while we're starting to see that turned down in the traditional markets? All right, so I want to go over to this first clip right here. This is the first time Jerome Powell seemed a bit doubtful listening. For the first time, you have Jerome Powell, who has had never been doubtful as to what he did, even though he has been sometimes wrong on expectations of inflation and interest rates, finally said in his Economic Club of New York talk, as well as in the Q &A session, that he did not know what is causing the higher bond yields. He attributes that to term premiums. The term premiums are not measurable. And therefore, essentially, the Fed chairman comes down to saying, I don't know what it is. And when he said that, I said, we are in completely unchartered territory. Things are going to get worse next week because of the fact that the Fed is totally out of control and they don't know what to do next. All right, so this is a very interesting statement. Fed's totally out of control. Don't really understand the course to take next. This tweet kind of breaks it down a bit more. Feels like a mildly risk off day. Stock futures are down. Copper price is down. Ten -year Treasury yields are about to cross the 5 % threshold, a move that once again challenges the idea of debt as a haven in times of weakness. So this has been the kind of the talking point that's been dashed around Wall Street over the past two to three weeks. And a lot of people have looked at this and said, OK, these are the indicators. These are some of the things that could really start to take the market into a very interesting position, much like what the clip we just played. Kind of no man's territory. I want to go to this next clip because it'll start breaking down the things I think that will help you guys get a bigger understand of when QE might take place. Listen in. Whether it be a huge bank failure, whether it should be pension funds losing a lot of money, commercial real estate suddenly worsening or a CLO, commercial loan market and levered obligations having difficulty, somewhere things are going to break and rather than expecting three to six months, I'm going to say within the next four or five weeks. Just look at last March to give yourself an indication. We had three small regional banks which failed and immediately quantitative tightening ended and quantitative easing was put in place. We took the fed assets back to November of 2022. We set it back by five months. What I'm saying is if that incident could do that, anything like a bigger crash taking place in the next two to three months is going to completely reverse monetary policy in terms of both interest rates and quantitative tightening. And yes, within the time period that you mentioned, it's clearly when I think it will happen 2024 is going to be a year of lower interest rates and clearly a much more easier fed than we have seen so far. All right. So with him making that statement, the question will be when those interest rates actually get started in terms of a pivot. And I look at these statements here, especially with some of these economists that are looking at this from more of a global perspective. And then you look at this current rally that is currently underway right now. Look at Bitcoin. This is a good example of just the sentiment data coming up here from around the 13th. And all of a sudden, you know, Bitcoin is moving. And it's very interesting because now we've got amplification and top line sentiment kind of moving in unison where we were seeing a little bit of a separation here over the past 30 days with Bitcoin in general, meaning it was kind of flat. So with this being the case and to his point, the analyst's point is are we maybe just three, four or five weeks out from a real problem in the market, whether it is new data on the real estate industry or some of those things that could really be those things that have been lagging for a little bit of time here and start to truly break, which would definitely cause the Fed to cause a bit of a, I think, an about face. Still don't know if that's going to happen. I want to play a clip here by Raoul Pal on his consideration of what a recession might look like. Listen in. I just wasn't that bearish and the market had priced it in last year, which was the big thing to me. It's like, you know, when ETH bottomed in June, Bitcoin, the rest of the space bottomed in October, that was like, it's all priced in. We've got it all in. But you said you think we will have a small recession, as in it's still on the horizon. Yeah, it doesn't matter because the markets are looking forwards. So it doesn't matter. Everyone's like, I want my recession. I want my 50 % sell off in the S &P. You're not going to get it. You had the mild recession sell off last year. That's what we're going to get. All right. So two points there from those two clips, one, catastrophe is about to happen, catastrophe. And then Raoul's point, which is this is going to be a little bit softer. But yet at the same time, remember, these assets start to move first. And this is something we've talked about here on the show quite a bit, is that these early market moves are when we're starting to see the tail end of other downstream. Now, when we see the tail end, there's that last little push that we've seen so many times in these cycles before. The economists still believe that that's going to happen with traditional markets. Raoul is counting on the other side that maybe that liquidity has already exited. And we've already seen that. The question will be, is that the limit of liquidity in the market? Or will there be one last push which could push people into gold and Bitcoin, in which obviously we've seen both gold and Bitcoin flying over the last 30 days. So it's a very interesting time. But when you think about crypto outperforming, because in reality, if you look back at the first of the year to where we are right now, I mean, come on, guys, these risk assets have been outperforming everything on the market. Listen to this clip. Why crypto outperforms is really simple. It's got a faster adoption curve. It's a technological adoption story. Everything else is noise. It's technology plus debasement. NASDAQ is the second best performing asset. Why? Technology plus debasement. People who invest in their 401k and the S &P passive index, they never get ahead. Because property goes up, and gold goes up, and all of the assets go up the same amount. So you're just not making gains. NASDAQ and crypto have been the only two assets that do it. So an interesting point there to his issue is when you look at even the S &P, outside of the Magnificent Seven, has been down for the year. You put those in, and those seven stocks alone in the tech sector, mostly tech, have been able to salvage what's happened on traditional markets. And I would agree with Raul in the sense that innovation and technology, because this is really a tech move, and we talked about this, Web3 is about to shift everything. We're going to see digital assets truly come to light in the United States under some new regulatory guidelines. So all of this is good. Now the other things you have to look at is where is this pump coming from? If the market is really down, why are we starting to see Bitcoin moving along with some of these other key assets? Here's a post by Koby Easey talking about the events in China. A little bit happening right now. Obviously we know about Evergrande, largest tax cuts since 2008. That's another big one. Let me kind of zoom in on that for you guys. Interest rates now lowered on $6 trillion of mortgages. That's another major. Could you imagine that if you had an arm and you start to see lowering interest rates right now in the market we have right now with 8 % interest rates? Unexpected rate cuts, most since 2020, and then bank run begins at Bank of Shenzhou. And then, of course, bank cut deposit rates for the third time this year. Government plans another new stimulus package. This is more liquidity going into the market. So could that be the factor in Asia that is starting to push Bitcoin into another local high, possibly beating the one that we had back in July? So there's a lot happening globally, especially when you think about what's happening just from a macro standpoint in Israel, Ukraine, etc. All of this is coming to a head, and it's winter. Energy prices are going to rise. What is going to happen here in the next step? Here was another. This was from Eric Balcumas talking about the ETF front. BlackRock is stating their recent spot ETF amendment that they are ceding the ETF in October. So that tells me something. Don't want to read too much into that, but if this new info is not original filing, so noteworthy, especially with BlackRock, this is a good one because this tells me they're Remember, we've talked about this with the ETFs in the past couple of weeks, and that is first mover may not necessarily win this one because there's going to be so many available. It's going to be the best marketer. So ceding it is a very interesting strategy, I think, that BlackRock is taking. Here was John Deaton kind of going in on this in reference to the ICC. Couple points here. They've capitulated on the spot Bitcoin ETF approval before the end of the year, or certainly before the end of the first quarter. Or the SEC is gathering more information during these discussions to come up with a different reason for denying it. I don't know. He's not putting it number two past Gensler because Gensler just has such a bur in the saddle. But I think with other things happening in the house with possibly a new speaker and also all the pressures that we're seeing globally and what we're seeing in the markets right now, I think Gensler may have seen his last denial. We'll see how it goes. I want to play another clip here of Hester Pierce. This is also going to kind of shake you a little bit. Listen, maybe the SEC is now more open to approving one of these types of funds. Is it? I can't I can't say whether or not the commission is is ready to approve a Bitcoin exchange traded product. I've been thinking we should approve one for the last five years so that the logic for why we haven't has always mystified me. I can't guess as to my colleagues approach to this topic. You spend time with them. You talk to them. Do you see any shift in terms of that type of thinking, just even generally speaking? I really can't speak to what we're going to do on the Bitcoin exchange traded products. I can say that generally the agency has not been very good when it comes to anything related to Bitcoin or other crypto assets. I guess the question is, should the public take anything away from the fact that a black rock or a fidelity is applying for these things, that that somehow is validating this space in a way that perhaps maybe some of the smaller firms that had applied for such types of funds earlier did not. People have to be careful about trying to read the tea leaves of what agencies are doing. And I'm not going to I'm not going to contribute to that. I'm just going to say that, you know, obviously we're seeing more and more interest from firms in these products. And and I hear a lot of interest from investors in these kinds of products as well.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1439: 10x Bitcoin Is Now Guaranteed! - Raoul Pal
"In today's show, Bitcoin price analysis as we just captured $31 ,500 heading towards new all -time highs. I'll be breaking down this for you. Also quoting Max Keiser, the high priest of Bitcoin, he says that the new all -time highs for Bitcoin and then $220 ,000 before the hash adjusted implied price in the mid $300 ,000. Let's freaking go. Also, this just in, SEC Commissioner says, the logic for why we haven't approved the Spot Bitcoin ETF has always mystified me. I'll be breaking down this latest update from SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce. Also, the latest update from Cathie Wood. She was recently interviewed on TV regarding the Spot Bitcoin ETF. Also breaking news, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin stash is back in profit with Bitcoin price back above $30 ,000. Shout out to my long -term hodlers. Also, Bitcoin ETF to trigger a massive demand from the institutions according to Ernst & Young. I'll be breaking this down for you, as well as crypto analyst says the Bitcoin to go faster and higher than most traders can imagine. I'll be breaking down his very bullish Bitcoin price targets, as well as SkyBridge boss Anthony Scaramucci predicts Bitcoin's value can multiply 11 fold with the BlackRock ETF approval. Also, the macro guru, former Goldman executive Raul Powell says that retail will front run the VCs institutions before a crypto explosion. Send in the Bitcoin price action, 10x. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Earn 20x Crypto and Free Tokens with Polygon Staking
"There's no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as blockchain staking rewards that will turbo boost your gains for the bull run and your favorite blue chip coin, Polygon. Welcome back to Discover Crypto! My name is DZ, and today, we're going to be talking about how you can earn free Polygon tokens via staking rewards. So if you like free money, then listen up and let's discover crypto. First and foremost, it's important to understand the difference between custodial and non -custodial staking. Custodial staking means that you're handing over your crypto to someone else to stake it for you. This could be okay if you trust the entity you're handing over your hard -earned crypto to, but the whole point of crypto is to not have to rely on or trust third parties like Celsius or FTX. If the entity you're trusting goes out of business or gets hacked or the owners decide to rug pull, then you could be left with nothing. So remember, not your keys, not your crypto. That said, some of the biggest platforms that offer custodial staking include Coinbase, Bitstamp, Binance, KuCoin, OKEx and several others depending on your jurisdiction. One thing that's worth noting, if you're in the US, Kraken was forced to settle with the SEC and pay a $30 million fine this year. The settlement included a requirement that Kraken shut down their staking as a service program in the US. So if you're in the United States, Darth Gensler is working hard to make sure that non -custodial staking is your only option to earn staking rewards. So it's a good idea to start learning how it's done. But first, go ahead, smash that like button, subscribe and turn on channel notifications so you never miss any of that crucial crypto content. To kick things off, I think it's important to note that 12 % of the total supply of the 10 billion MATIC is allocated to fund staking rewards. And the current staking reward percentage for staking Polygon is 4 .95 % annually. Now, if you're new to crypto and Polygon, one other important thing to note is that MATIC and Polygon aren't the same thing. So if you hear me or someone else say MATIC tokens, they're talking about Polygon tokens. Polygon used to be called the MATIC network before they rebranded to Polygon. And according to their white paper for Polygon 2 .0, they're planning to rebrand again and do a one -to -one swap out for MATIC tokens for PAL tokens, P -O -L. I'm sorry if this is confusing, but I think it's important to know what we're talking about here. I'll drop a link in the description of the Polygon 2 .0 white paper if you want to learn more about what's on the roadmap, but for now, let's get back to staking. Now, you can stake Polygon from a lot of different wallets. Hardware wallets like Ledger, Nano or Trezor work. Coinbase wallet and Binance wallet will too. You can also use other hot wallets like Metamask or software wallets like Zango. It's really up to you and how you want to self -custody your tokens. But my point is, there are a lot of options, so figure out which one is right for you. Anyone who wants to take MATIC tokens has to delegate to a validator. We're not going to cover how to set up a validator node in this, but if you want to do that, you can find documentation on that on Polygon's website as well. Delegators earn rewards for their staked tokens. The amount of Polygon tokens required to stake and the length of time you're required to stake your tokens for can both vary depending on which validator you decide to delegate your tokens to. There's no minimum requirements set by the network, but validators can choose to set up a minimum to delegate and stake on their node. Validators can and usually do charge fees for their services as well. Staked Polygon tokens have an unlocking period of 80 checkpoints, which is usually about three to four days. Now, as I said, you can use a lot of wallets to stake, but I'm old school, so I'm going to use Metamask for this video. To stake MATIC on Metamask, you'll need to visit the Metamask website and set it up as a browser extension and set up a new wallet if you don't have one already. Once you logged into your wallet, you need to connect your wallet to the Polygon blockchain or the MATIC network. To do this, go to Networks and Add Network. In the window that appears, you have to populate the relevant data regarding the Polygon blockchain. Next, you'll need to transfer an amount of MATIC to your wallet to use for staking. To transfer MATIC tokens into your Metamask wallet, just copy the receiving address from your wallet and paste it as the destination address on whatever wallet you're sending your Polygon tokens from. Go ahead with that transaction, and it should bring the MATIC tokens into your Metamask wallet. A word to the wise here, it's usually a good idea to do a test transaction first before sending your whole bag, just to make sure you have the right address and everything is working properly. It might take a little bit for your tokens to come through, so don't panic if they don't appear instantly. Next, you're going to want to visit this site and connect your Metamask wallet to the Polygon wallet. If you're staking with a MATIC wallet, then you won't have to do this step, but I wanted to show you this since I know a lot of people use Metamask. Okay, now you've got your MATIC tokens in your wallet and it's connected to the Polygon network and the Polygon wallet. Staking should be enabled now, so now it's time to choose a validator and delegate. It's usually a good idea to check out a validator node before you jump into staking to make sure you feel safe trusting them with your funds. Polygon keeps an open list of all validators on the network for anyone to review, and you can find information here like the total MATIC token staked in each node, what commission they're charging, how many checkpoints the node assigned, and the current health status of the node. Once you've found a node you like, it's time to get staking. Alright, navigate over to the control panel for the staking on the Polygon wallet suite. Enter the name of the validator you want to stake with and click delegate. Input how much of your MATIC bag you want to stake and click continue. Confirm the transaction to MATIC and that's it. Congratulations, your MATIC tokens are staked and you're earning free Polygon tokens. Now remember, there's a few different wallets and we're showing you Metamask, so just make sure you're not making any mistakes before you go rushing in with your MATIC tokens and end up making a mess. That does it for this video. Let me know down in the comments where you'd like to stake your Polygon tokens and what other assets you're staking to earn free rewards. Make sure you hit that like button and I'll see you at the top.
Unchained
A highlight from Another Bad Week for Sam Bankman-Fried in His Criminal Trial - Ep. 558
"I would agree with your assessment that this is not going well for SPF. The evidence is utterly overwhelming. I don't think there has been a cohesive theme or narrative to the defense. It is hard for the defense sometimes to have a theme when they are basically only have cross Hi, examination. everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the October 20th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Thinking of launching your own stablecoin? Start with the open source stablecoin studio toolkit on Hedera. Start your journey at hedera .com slash unchained. Shape tomorrow today. Vaultcraft by popcorn is your no -code DeFi toolkit for building automated non -custodial yield strategies. Learn more on vaultcraft .io about how you can supercharge your crypto portfolio. With the crypto .com app, you can buy, trade, and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code Laura. Link in the box retailers led by Walmart and target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. If you love your credit card rewards, visit handsoffmyrewards .com and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition. Hey, all the paperback version of my book, The Cryptopians, will soon be here. On Tuesday, October 24th, which is in just a few days, the paperback version of my first book will be published. It contains a new afterward covering some recent developments in crypto since 2021 when the book went to press. Plus, this version names the person I suspect to be the DAO hacker. In case you never got to read the book in hardback, or like me, you prefer to read paperbacks for bedtime reading, pre -order today. Check our newsletter and the show notes for the link or just search for it at any of your favorite bookstores. The title is The Cryptopians. Idealism, greed, lies, and the making of the first big cryptocurrency craze. Thanks for listening. Today's guest is Sam Enser, partner at Cahill Gordon and Rindell. Welcome Sam. Thanks for having me again, Laura. It's a pleasure to be back. For frequent listeners of Unchained, you will know that Sam has repeatedly come on the show to discuss the SDF trial and he's here to discuss the events of this particular week. Sam, I'll have to say at this point, from my experience in the courtroom, I continue to feel that the prosecution is winning in a pretty overwhelming way. This week, we had Nishad Singh, the head of engineering. We also had some technical and legal experts, including the general counsel of FTX. And you and I had previously talked about how, at least last week after the end of the second week, it wasn't totally clear what the defense's strategy was. And I wondered if now, after this third week, if you're seeing, you know, anything useful that they can use in their closing or, you know, just your read on how the trial is going for both sides. I would agree with your assessment that this is not going well for SPF. The evidence is utterly overwhelming. I don't think there has been a cohesive theme or narrative to the defense. It is hard for the defense sometimes to have a theme when they are basically only have cross examination. They haven't put a case on. And we do know from the comments earlier today in court that there's going to be a break in the trial. The parties are going to come back on October 26th. The government will wrap up their case and the defense is saying they're going to put a case on. And it's expected that the testimony will last through November 3rd. So it is possible that whatever the defense case is going to be, we'll see it when they put their case on. I don't think they've landed much of anything significant. A smattering here, a smattering there, a question here, a question there for, you know, we'll get into it. But, you know, there was some questioning of Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at FTX, where, you know, they got him to admit that he had a hazy recollection of some of the events in the summer of 2022 that were pretty important to the government's theory of the fraud. Is that going to win the case for the defense? I don't think so. He's not the only government witness. I think that the fact that he didn't remember all the details is not that all that significant. He remembered the important details. There was also, I think, a moment that got some fanfare in the press. The government put on an FBI forensic accountant this week who testified that the FBI had traced transactions and was basically purporting to show that customer funds from FTX had been used to pay, for example, political donations. And it seemed from cross that some mistakes were made in the analysis. Yeah, mainly one that I remember, but I don't remember if there were others. That's not that uncommon. I don't think it's all that big a deal. The press reported it, they said that the agent's lip was quivering. Okay, fine. A mistake was made. I'm sure they felt bad about it, but this isn't material to the overall arc of the testimony. The overall arc of the testimony, you've got multiple witnesses now confirming that customers were told their funds were theirs, would be segregated from proprietary assets of the company, that FTX was separate from its trading arm Alameda, that Alameda would not have special privileges beyond those of other customers. And in fact, according to multiple witnesses now, they did have all kinds of special privileges. And it's hard for me to see how the defense is going to overcome it. We do need to see what their case looks like when they put a case on. And I think the biggest question is, is Sam Beckman -Friede going to testify? Yeah. And we're going to talk about that in a little bit. So I did want to ask, you know, Nishad's testimony seemed to me to take the most aim at Sam's character. For instance, he relayed to meetings in which Sam became extremely angry with him for even bringing up the fact that Alameda owed money to FTX. And at the time of discussions, the amount owed was $13 billion. And the most memorable part of the testimony to me was when he described the second meeting where he asked Sam for the plan to fill that hole. And he described what he called physical tells for when Sam is upset. He'll just quote a little bit of it here. He said, puffed at his chest, had his hands back. He was grinding his finger, closing his eyes, grinding his teeth, tongue in his mouth. And when he opened them to respond, he would sort of glare at me with some intensity. Then he said, I ended up apologizing to him at the end for asking for the meeting because I could tell it was so unwelcome. A lot more additional emotional moments like that. For instance, he talked about how in the lead up to FTX's collapse, he had felt suicidal and then he remained suicidal for months afterwards. He also talked about things like attempting to cut spending, but by his telling, it seemed to be sort of like nominally supported by Sam. And I just wondered generally like how you thought all this kind of pretty charged testimony went over with the jury. To my mind, actually, it almost felt like he was more emotional than Caroline and definitely way more emotional than Gary. Yeah. I mean, I think when I was on a previous time, we talked about how Caroline, when she cried in her testimony, how that is something that will stick to the jury's ribs and what made her cry. She was testifying the about relief when the, when the fraud was starting to unravel and you know, just the, just how much of a release it was because it had been such a burden to keep it secret prior to that. Right. So similarly, I think Nishad, as you've pointed out, there are several emotional aspects of his testimony. There was also, I think he used the words that he had felt betrayed by Sam. He, he characterized this dynamic, you know, Nishad sort of said the way he comes into this, he grew up with Sam's little brother. So you can sort of see this dynamic, right? Nishad is, is pals with Gabe Bankman -Fried, Sam Bankman -Fried's younger brother, probably looked up to Sam Bankman -Fried. Then he's given the opportunity to work at Alameda and then FTX. So they'll worry whether that was an opportunity, but right, we'll call it an opportunity. And he's, in his eyes, Sam is larger than life. He's older than him, right? He's on a pedestal because he's the, he's the big brother, the friend of the big brother. He's got this huge company. And, and he said he was intimidated by Sam and he, unlike some of the other cooperators, it sounds like he was read into the fraud much later. So, you know, Gary and Caroline, I think were aware of what was going on much earlier in the scheme and Nishad for a much longer period of time is just sort of in the dark about what's happening, starts to figure it out in the, in June of 2022, when they discover that there's this bug in the software that is concealing an $8 billion hole in customer assets that have gone from FTX to Alameda. Yeah. But just to clarify, he, yeah, didn't actually really understand what had happened until September. I think like, you're right. He kind of got clued into some of the details, but he was still in the dark about what was actually happening. Agreed. September is when it really, when he's really starting to get read in. And I think him describing that he looks up to Sam, he thought this was a good company. Now he's discovering that in reality, they're ripping people off that he literally is feeling suicidal at some point. These are things that the jury is never going to forget. They will relate to Nishad, at least some of them. And that begins to make them feel so part of convicting a person in a trial. One aspect of it is the evidence you need for the elements, but there's also an aspect of condemnation. The jury has to feel motivated that this is a person who deserves the condemnation of a guilty verdict and the consequences that they know will follow from that. And in some cases, this is what some folks call Trump. Some trial lawyers call this jury appeal. Like you can have a case. The U S attorney's office has cases where somebody commits a technical crime, but a jury isn't going to care about it. And so the government will sometimes not prosecute that case because it has no jury appeal. You have the facts to meet the elements, but it has no jury appeal. This is the opposite of that. Nishad gives the jury. I mean, he's not the only reason. This is why they also call investors and people who are victims of the federal damage. He thought he was helping to build something in reality. He was aiding and abetting a major fraud and he benefited from it. And he went along with it and he's accepting responsibility for that. And he's going to have consequences for that, but he does in a way present like a victim. And that is, is giving you that piece of, okay, we got to condemn this person. Well, one thing that I did want to ask though, too, is in the class examination, the defense definitely went after Nishad's own character a lot harder than they did with the other witnesses, at least in my opinion.
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A highlight from Yearn Finance Introduces veYFI
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday October 19th, 2023. Yearn Finance introduces VE .YFI, Pulled Together V5 goes live, Polygon proposes a protocol council, and Eigenlayer announces a fellowship program. All this and more starts right now. The Give ETH Quadratic funding round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash give. Yearn Finance, a yield aggregation protocol, introduced VE .YFI, a non -transferable vote escrowed version of its governance token. Users can lock their YFI tokens in exchange for vote escrowed YFI, which allows them to partake in governance, cast votes on vault gauges, and earn DYFI rewards. The locking period for tokens can vary from one week to four years, with more rewards granted to long -term lockers. Users can exit their lock early but will incur a penalty. DYFI is an ERC -20 token that allows holders to redeem YFI at a discounted rate. DYFI serves as a reward mechanism for active users. The rewards are allocated from a yearn buyback initiative executed in 2021. About 1 ,700 YFI tokens have been locked so far. The fifth iteration of the Pull Together Price Savings Protocol is now live on OP mainnet for all users. The upgrade introduces immutability, permissionless vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. Initial pools for wrapped Ether, USDC, and DAI are available, which leverage Aave v3 on OP mainnet as a yield source. Notably, the upgrade eliminates the need for manual price claims, transforming the protocol into a permissionless price savings hyperstructure where anyone can deploy a price vault backed by ERC4626 compatible tokens. It also replaces governance with automation and incentivized auctions. Two initial front -ends, pooltime .app and cabana .fi support the v5 release. Polygon introduced Polygon Improvement Proposal 29, proposing a 13 -member protocol council to oversee upgrades to system smart contracts. The council will manage changes to the PAL migration contract and emission manager contract. Regular changes will require 7 out of 13 signatures, and emergency changes will require 10 out of 13 signatures from the council. Council members include Jordi Beyelina, Murti Gupta, Victor Bunin, Justin Drake, Guantlet, L2B, Zak Imanyan, and Zak XPT. The proposal aims to balance decentralization with efficiency in preparation for the network's transition to Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Eigenlayer announced a research fellowship where restaking enthusiasts can apply to be one of five fellows in a three -month program. Fellows will have access to the Eigenlayer research team, technical support, a trip to Def Connect, and Eigenlayer co -working spaces. Users who apply before October 27th will be prioritized. In other news, L2B now tracks Scroll Mainnet, Base migrates its testnet from Gourley to Sepuljia, and Avic considers staking diversity for its DAO holdings. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Yearn Finance Introduces veYFI
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday October 19th, 2023. Yearn Finance introduces VE .YFI, Pulled Together V5 goes live, Polygon proposes a protocol council, and Eigenlayer announces a fellowship program. All this and more starts right now. The Give ETH Quadratic funding round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash give. Yearn Finance, a yield aggregation protocol, introduced VE .YFI, a non -transferable vote escrowed version of its governance token. Users can lock their YFI tokens in exchange for vote escrowed YFI, which allows them to partake in governance, cast votes on vault gauges, and earn DYFI rewards. The locking period for tokens can vary from one week to four years, with more rewards granted to long -term lockers. Users can exit their lock early but will incur a penalty. DYFI is an ERC -20 token that allows holders to redeem YFI at a discounted rate. DYFI serves as a reward mechanism for active users. The rewards are allocated from a yearn buyback initiative executed in 2021. About 1 ,700 YFI tokens have been locked so far. The fifth iteration of the Pull Together Price Savings Protocol is now live on OP mainnet for all users. The upgrade introduces immutability, permissionless vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. Initial pools for wrapped Ether, USDC, and DAI are available, which leverage Aave v3 on OP mainnet as a yield source. Notably, the upgrade eliminates the need for manual price claims, transforming the protocol into a permissionless price savings hyperstructure where anyone can deploy a price vault backed by ERC4626 compatible tokens. It also replaces governance with automation and incentivized auctions. Two initial front -ends, pooltime .app and cabana .fi support the v5 release. Polygon introduced Polygon Improvement Proposal 29, proposing a 13 -member protocol council to oversee upgrades to system smart contracts. The council will manage changes to the PAL migration contract and emission manager contract. Regular changes will require 7 out of 13 signatures, and emergency changes will require 10 out of 13 signatures from the council. Council members include Jordi Beyelina, Murti Gupta, Victor Bunin, Justin Drake, Guantlet, L2B, Zak Imanyan, and Zak XPT. The proposal aims to balance decentralization with efficiency in preparation for the network's transition to Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Eigenlayer announced a research fellowship where restaking enthusiasts can apply to be one of five fellows in a three -month program. Fellows will have access to the Eigenlayer research team, technical support, a trip to Def Connect, and Eigenlayer co -working spaces. Users who apply before October 27th will be prioritized. In other news, L2B now tracks Scroll Mainnet, Base migrates its testnet from Gourley to Sepuljia, and Avic considers staking diversity for its DAO holdings. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Matt Hougan Interview - BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF Approval Fake Out, Bitwise's BTC ETF Application, Relisting XRP, Paypal Stablecoin
"And so what we're doing every day with a 20 -plus person sales team is having meetings with these advisors, talking to them about what Bitcoin is, talking to them about where it fits in a portfolio and sort of laying the groundwork for when that ETF launches for them to adopt it readily. We're seeing real traction. There are a lot of advisors who want to allocate ahead of the Bitcoin ETF. This content is brought to you by Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using for years. In fact, I've been using them since 2018. They have 10 -plus million users, 250 -plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and 37 fiat currencies on this platform, and you can instantly swap between crypto and precious metals in these fiat currencies. So Uphold is a unique platform. If you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Matt Hogan, who's the chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management. Matt, it's great to have you back on. Thanks for having me. I love being here. Matt, yesterday, Monday, we're recording this on a Tuesday, but yesterday was a wild day with rumors and fake news of a Bitcoin spot ETF approval. What were your thoughts on that? I saw you tweeted out that you liken this to the Emulux stock fraud in 2000. That's right. Yeah. Actually, my very first job out of college, I was working at a high -tech mutual fund, and one of the stocks we owned was Emulux, and a disgruntled employee of a wire business put out a fake press release, and the stock fell dramatically. I think it fell like 60 percent, and I had flashbacks to that this morning. Of course, it went the other way, right? Bitcoin, this thing that I love, this thing that I'm focused on, popped on the news. But any time you get this sort of fake news scenario, it's bad. It speaks poor things about the market. I don't think this colored the crypto media in any sort of glory, and I'm glad that it's behind us. It was a crazy morning, not what I needed to wake up to on Monday morning before I even had some coffee. So I do think it's a teaser of where we're going, though. One thing you did see was news of a spot Bitcoin ETF approval lifted the markets. And I think that's a reflection that the market hasn't fully accepted yet that we're on path to get a spot Bitcoin ETF, which of course, there are no guarantees, but I do think we're on that path. I do think it will be positive for the market, both in the short and long term. And so we got a little taste of that, but I still wish it hadn't happened, Tony. For sure. Yeah, it was a big time fake out. And, you know, I know the market is kind of clamoring, you know, people wanting to get this ETF and, you know, following the SEC not choosing to appeal the grayscale ruling. Everybody's almost on edge, just waiting. But we can't have the fake news. It's just, you know, it just muddies the whole thing. Mm hmm. What were your thoughts on what Larry Fink had to say yesterday? He kind of went to do a bit of maybe damage control. He went on Fox Business talking about the ETF, talking about crypto as a whole and saying that crypto may be a flight to quality. What were your thoughts on that? Yeah, absolutely amazing. I'm going to repeat those words four thousand times between now and the end of the year. If you thought if you had Larry Fink calling Bitcoin a flight to quality asset on your bingo card at the start of the year, you are a better forecaster than I am. It shows you how completely BlackRock has changed its position on Bitcoin. And I think it's honestly reflective of a change underlying the market in the attitudes of traditional finance to this asset class. It is really flipped over the last six months. Sort of BlackRock may have been the catalyst, but it's no longer just BlackRock. We're hearing similar words out of other major asset managers, whether that's Fidelity or Franklin Templeton or Wisdom Tree or others. We're seeing similar actions out of firms like UBS expanding efforts, tokenized assets on Ethereum. I think we really are in this transition to mainstreaming of the market and the world's largest asset manager calling Bitcoin a quality asset, a place people move to when they're worried about the state of the market is an absolute game changer. It makes me really excited for the year to come. I think we're in a multiyear bull market and this was just another clarion call that that is true. Now, with that said, we are still facing some headwinds as it relates to the SEC. Just recently, Cathie Wood said Gary Gensler is the one blocking the Bitcoin spot ETF. The SEC also, as mentioned, chose not to appeal the court ruling in the grayscale situation. And the court said the SEC was arbitrary and capricious. So, you know, what do you think is going to happen? Is the SEC in a position where they're getting caught flat footed? There's a lot of media attention and everybody's waiting for this approval. What is your thoughts to say, you know, as far as approval and what the SEC might do next? Yeah, you know, I'm going to take a very unusual position in the crypto industry, which is if you look at the facts, we've had multiple commissions reviewing spot Bitcoin ETFs and crypto ETFs, and it's never been approved. Under this commission, we got Bitcoin futures ETFs, we got Ethereum futures ETFs, we got crypto equity ETFs. I think that point, that fact pattern puts us on a glide path to a spot Bitcoin ETF. So even though this SEC has been much slower than we want and even though I think they should have approved a spot Bitcoin ETF years ago, I think we have to give them credit for opening the door to ETFs in crypto land. And I feel a high degree of confidence that it's going to open wider. We are going to get a spot Bitcoin ETF. Of course, there's no guarantee, but I think the SEC is moving in that direction. I bet they're feeling some pressure to do so. And I think the facts on the ground suggest that they should, in fact, push this forward. So I'm very optimistic. I want to give them more credit than the rest of the crypto industry, even if they're not moving as fast as I want. They have moved substantially on the ETF front. Sure. And Matt, what do you think about this theory? It's something I've been talking about lately. I could be a completely off base here, but I almost feel like the approval, I kind of want it to be under quantitative easing versus quantitative tightening when there's more liquidity in the market, when people are not worried about inflation and conflict around the world and they're more focused on, okay, the economy's in a better spot. I think I want to invest now. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I think if you're thinking about the short term impact, then the timing of it matters, right? We saw, for instance, the Bitcoin futures ETFs launched the height of the 2021 market and really accelerated the price upward, attracted a lot of assets. By comparison, the Ethereum futures ETFs, which just launched, met a very quiet reception. And I think that has to do with the market attitude. So from that short term perspective, it would be better in a positive market with more excitement if we get it at the early part of next year, I think we'll be in a good time in the market, but longterm, it doesn't matter longterm from my perspective, it's completely transformative to the asset class. And if we look back three years, five years, 10 years from now, it'll be this step function up. But I think you're absolutely right. The scale of the short term impact will depend on the market climate. Now, bitwise, any updates on your application? I know there was a lot of applicants making updates to their filing. Did you guys have to do anything like that or are you still just moving along with the application waiting for the SEC? Yeah, completely fair question. Unfortunately, the lawyer perched on my shoulder says, I can't comment on our specific application, but on the broader space. But we have seen other companies update their filings. I would read that as progress if I was an outside observer of the market. That is a sign of forward momentum that aligns with the forward momentum we're seeing in other ETF avenues. Now, in addition to your filing, are there other things that bitwise is working on in preparation for the Bitcoin having next year, whether it be accumulating more Bitcoin or another ETF product or anything else? Yeah, absolutely. First and foremost, it's massive education. So the thing to think about with the Bitcoin ETF, why it matters is it unlocks this other segment of the market that is essentially has no allocation to crypto, which is the financial advisor marketplace. Now, this is an important market. It's at least twice and maybe four times as big as self -directed retail investors. So the people who own crypto now are mostly self -directed retail investors. The financial advisor marketplace controls between two and four X as many assets. And so what we're doing every day with a 20 plus person sales teams is having meetings with these advisors, talking to them about what Bitcoin is, talking to them about where it fits in a portfolio and sort of laying the groundwork for when that ETF launches for them to adopt it readily. We're seeing real traction. There are a lot of advisors who want to allocate ahead of the Bitcoin ETF. And of course, we have products that do that. We have index funds, we have estimates, we have equity ETFs, and we're seeing a lot of people who want to get in ahead of the wave. But more than anything, we wake up every day and just talk to these people, these next buyers of crypto about what this is. And we do it relentlessly and we'll keep doing it right through the launch. Yeah, I was recently talking to investor Raoul Pal and I was sharing a story that I have a financial advisor and for years I've been talking about crypto and he knows I'm allocated and he's but they can't touch it. They can't do anything. They can't make money off of it. But now that the news of Bitwise and BlackRock and all these folks, they're like, OK, talk to me more about crypto. It's all their antennas are up now because they know something's around the corner. That's exactly right. And once that happens, once you have BlackRock and Bitwise and Spot ETFs, they can't tell you, I can't touch it. Right. And as you know, 50 million Americans own crypto directly. They want their advisors to understand this space. They, you know, advisors want to be seen as being on their side. And I think the change you're seeing with your advisor is happening to millions of Americans right now. And to me, that's enormously positive for this space. That's how we get to the next level. It's how we return to new all time highs. And I think it's tremendously positive. Now, in the crypto industry and market, we're seeing a lot of TradFi players coming in outside of Bitcoin and Spot ETF filings. For example, PayPal launch a stablecoin. What are your thoughts on the stablecoin market and these different big players like PayPal, maybe Amazon's around the corner? Who knows to launch a stablecoin? What do you think about these things? I think the market is dramatically underrated how significant that PayPal launch is. And here's why. You have to remember stablecoins are politically controversial. They still exist in a regulatory gray zone. You could even call them like the third rail crypto, right? Because people are worried about them pretending to be money market funds. How are they structured? Who can operate with them, et cetera? The fact that PayPal, the largest fintech in the world, thought it was important enough to establish a position here, that they were willing to touch that third rail, tells you that they see a huge future of stablecoins in the payment space. The fact that they built a product on Ethereum tells you the direction the market is going towards public blockchains. PayPal or stablecoins are one hundred billion dollar market. I think they could be a trillion dollar market overnight if they start to penetrate the payment space. And I think, you know, I think the market didn't fully read what a big statement this was from PayPal. If you've gone, I'll point out another thing. We use we use stablecoins today mostly between trades and crypto exchanges, but go to the PayPal website. Look what they say in like size one hundred font. They say built for payments, right? This is about real world uses. This is not about crypto traders parking cash. This is about disrupting the current payments model. And that's another example of this mainstreaming of crypto that is the defining feature of this bull market. I think it's a really big deal. Yeah. One of the things I was talking to some family members and people I know who are still skeptics of crypto and don't understand the technology. You know, I pose a question to them. PayPal, you currently use PayPal. They send money, you could send money to different people across the world. Why do you think they created stablecoin? I just left it at that. And then the light bulb went off for many of them to understand instant settlement and transaction speeds and much more. And I think as these large players start adopting the technology and building with it, I think it's going to click for a lot of people because they have an affinity to the brand or the company. It just breaks down the barrier of we don't know who uses this stuff. Oh, PayPal uses it. That is right. Yes, exactly. And it's these companies that see a step ahead that push people to the next level. PayPal innovated on payments. They did a fantastic job, but they see where the puck is going. We're not at the end of payment improvements. Stablecoins are the next step. And they were willing to to go there. I think it's a great proof point. And these these proof points are just stacking up right. The largest asset manager calling it a quality asset, PayPal launching a stablecoin. It's it's at some point it becomes overwhelming, even to your skeptic friends. For sure. Now you're based in California recently, Gavin Newsom, Governor Gavin Newsom passed a crypto regulation bill, not perfect, but certainly put some guardrails in place to help protect consumers as well as foster innovation. I don't know if you got a chance to get a gist of what that was about, but any thoughts on California and as well as states kind of leading the federal government right now and regulations? Yeah, I think when you have a vacuum at the federal level on sensible regulation, the states will fill in. Right. We saw that with New York, with the bit license, and we're seeing it in California. The goal as an industry is to hope for balanced regulations. I haven't done a full deep dive into the California bill, but it looks like it at least has some elements of balance to it. They're not going to be perfect, but I think we're going to move along.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Evangelism: A great Suggestion or a Great Commission?
"Good morning church. My name is Hunter Long and I serve as a student pastor here at First Baptist Pal and this morning I have the privilege of worshiping God with you through the study of his authoritative word. For those who have been with us you know that our pastor, senior pastor, Pastor Perry Garrett, he's been working expositionally verse by verse through the book of Acts and last week we had the privilege of listening to Pastor Rick as he taught on the book of 2nd Chronicles and this morning we are going to be bouncing off of Matthew 28 18 through 20. Matthew 28 18 through 20. I say bouncing off because really this text is just going to serve as a foundation for our conversation around the topic of evangelism. Most of our time this morning will be spent considering a number of different passages as we look at this topic and once you have found Matthew 28 verses 18 through 20 would you please stand together as we read from God's authoritative word with one another. I don't think this will be on the slides but for context I'm actually gonna have us go back and read verse 16. So beginning in verse 16 in Matthew 28 Matthew writes under inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them and when they saw him they worshipped him but some doubted and Jesus came and said to them all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and behold I am with you always to the end of the age. Let's pray together. Father God we are so thankful for this opportunity to open your word this morning. Lord we pray that you would soften our hearts and open our ears to receive the good news of the gospel and not only to receive it Father but to in turn go and share that which you have given to us. We pray all this in your son's precious and holy name. Amen. You may be seated. A college freshman was wearing a large lapel button that had printed on it the letters B, A, I, K. When asked by a friend what he what it meant he replied boy am I confused. The friend reminded him as most of you are about to remind this friend don't you know confuse is not spelled with a K. Man he responded you don't know how confused I am. The young man's predicament is not unlike that of many in the church today. Few subjects I suspect are connected with more misunderstanding than Christ's last command to his followers go preach the gospel and make disciples of all nations. Some have reduced this divine call by the Son of God to a great suggestion rather than a great commission. Presently I'm halfway through my Masters of Divinity Studies at Southern Seminary. In this past term I had the privilege of studying personal evangelism under Dr. Timothy Bucher. Maybe some of you have studied under him or you've read some of his material on evangelism. But the Holy Spirit has certainly used this class to convict me of my call to personally evangelize and to personally invite people to come and know and treasure Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. And if I may be transparent this morning my my heart went into this class as hard as a rock. Because I because I am a pastor I foolishly believed that there is nothing more about evangelism that I need to know because I preach the gospel week in and week out to students and hopefully my students would say the same. I'm always inviting young people to come to know and treasure Jesus Christ so what else is there to learn. And whenever we say prideful things like that before God he quickly humbles us in his kindness. It was in his kindness that the Lord reminded me that although I have received a calling vocationally to preach the gospel it is not an excuse to turn off evangelism when I leave this campus or I leave some church related activity. Evangelism brothers and sisters is not a suggestion. It is a commission given to us by the one who has all authority Jesus Christ. If you're taking notes this morning there are three points that I want us to consider and although Perry is absent from the pulpit I will do him justice by incorporating three points and also various sub points. I know he likes to say that as well. So three points various sub points underneath them. First I would like for us to define evangelism. First point define evangelism. It's word I've said over and over and doubtless you have said this word time and time again and so it is worth defining for us. Second I want to establish a theology for evangelism. You may be wondering what that means well you'll just have to stick around to find out. I'm not going to give it all away here. And the third point just some application for us there are various barriers that may arise in evangelism and so for some application I want us to study and think together how we can overcome barriers in evangelism and note that these barriers are not things that God puts up. These barriers to evangelism are things that we put up in the way of reaching others with the gospel and so three points. Define evangelism, theology for evangelism and third overcoming barriers in evangelism. So first let's define evangelism together. Humpty Dumpty's assertion in the fictional work. I never thought I'd say that in sermon but here we are. Humpty Dumpty's assertion in the fictional work through the looking -glass highlights the problem we all face when it comes to definitions. When I use a word it means what I choose it to mean neither more nor less. I could pull a hundred of you aside and ask you to define what evangelism it is and doubtless I will walk away with 200 different definitions.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Raoul Pal Interview - When Will the Next Crypto Bull Market Start - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BlackRock BTC ETF, Fed Interest Rates
"Larry Fink of BlackRock talked about it in the last cycle too, because they put some stuff on Bitcoin on their website that had the most ever hits on their website in BlackRock history. They've been all working on this. Everybody from Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan to BlackRock to Apollo to, I mean, you name it, they're all involved. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Raoul Pal, who's the co -founder and CEO of Real Vision, also the co -founder of Exponential Age Asset Management, and the founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor. Raoul, absolutely great to have you back on. Great to be here. Looking forward to this. Raoul, the last time we spoke was in 2021, and things have certainly changed from a macro perspective, from a crypto perspective. And I want to set the table here. Maybe we can start with a macro. Where do you feel we are at in the QT, quantitative tightening cycle? Are we at the tail end? Will the Fed pause rate hike soon? Yes. My view is that the whole global business cycle, including the crypto cycle, is driven by the debt refinancing cycle. So if you go, cast your mind back to 2008, 2009, we had a global reset. And people didn't really realize at the time what it was. But people were looking for a reset that nobody had to pay debts or something of that form. But what actually happened is they said, nobody needs to pay interest on debts. So everybody set interest rates to zero back in 2009. Since then, every major economy refinanced interest rates at every three to five years. So we've got this four -year cycle that happens to be the same as the Bitcoin halving cycle. And we see the economy, what happens is, you get later cycle, inflation picks up, interest rates pick up, the economy slows down because the economy really doesn't grow fast enough to pay the interest payments. So cut forward to today, where we are is a position where interest rates have gone up a lot because inflation went up a lot because of the pandemic, the economy slowing down, and now the payments, the interest payments are due from the pandemic from three years ago. And those payments just keep accelerating. And we've seen the bond market get very unnerved by this, by the amount of issuance that needs to go on to pay all of the interest on the debts, the previous debts plus the new debts. So at some point soon, the Fed will have to stop quantitative tightening. We saw something similar back in 2018. End of 2018, the bond market blew up. That time it was actually the repo market, but part of the bond market blew up. And the Fed kind of started saying, okay, we're going to stop raising rates. Then eventually, several months later, they stopped doing QT and eventually cut rates. So I think we're in the similar kind of zone where the Fed have stopped raising interest rates. And soon they'll either have to stop the bond market on yields rising by something called yield curve control, or the inflation falls fast enough that they've got the cover to start cutting rates again so that they can roll these interest payments at a lower level. So we're at that phase where actually the bulk of the downside of the economy should be playing through in this quarter or so. But inflation should be continuing lower for a long period of time because inflation, for example, is driven by two things. One is the short end, which is the stuff that moves a lot like commodity prices and the dollar and stuff like that. The other side is stuff like rents and wages. They're really lagged. And those things take a long time to slow down. So what you tend to see is you tend to see a fall in inflation, which we saw, this kind of sideways period where commodities start pricing in the other side of the business cycle. And then eventually you'll see inflation continue to grind lower over time. So that's what I think is going to happen. So we won't see anything but disinflation going forwards, and we'll probably see continuing weakness from the labor market. So again, that gives the Fed an excuse. So I think everything starts to change in Q4. The other thing that could happen is if the banks blow up. We almost saw Metro Bank in the UK blowing up, and we've obviously seen a lot of the banks in the US under pressure. So that whole scenario, I think, is all in Q4. So I think we're at the point where liquidity starts coming back into the markets, which is something we've all been waiting for. So it sounds like you're saying there's going to be a hard landing. We saw a bit of it earlier this year with these banks having some issues. And they're going to have to start money printer again sometime in Q4 or next year. They start the money printer again.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Parasocial Relationships: That Podcaster is Your Friend!
"Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And this is Step You Should Know, the little close to home edition. Yeah, right. In two ways. One is that as podcasters, we are on one end of the parasocial relationship relationship. Correct. Yeah. And the other is like, I have these, I don't know if you do or not, but I have parasocial relationships of my own with podcasts. I don't have any because I'm sane. Right. Oh, I'm totally kidding. I don't think I have any. No, I don't have any. I think what it is, is it has nothing to do with sanity. My imagination is just not that vivid. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Because I think for this to set, you have to be able to imagine yourself like in the room with the people you're listening to, for example, or what you would do after they stopped filming the TV show or something like that. Like any, you're big into comedy. Any of your big comedian people that you love, you know, never think like, God, we would be friends if we knew each other. No, I really don't. I don't. I feel like deficient because of it, but I genuinely do not have any parasocial relationship that I can bring to mind. And I don't remember ever having that. I think I just assumed that they wouldn't like me rather than they would like me, which makes it much harder to have a parasocial relationship with somebody you just assume you wouldn't get along with very well. Well, then by some estimates, you're part of the 49 % of people that of Americans, that is, that do not have parasocial relationships. And if you're yelling at us right now, because we defined it yet, a parasocial relationship is a, it's like when you listen to a podcast and you think, I know those guys. They're like my friends. We would be so, we would be such good friends in real life. It's a one -sided relationship between a consumer of a thing, a fan of a thing and a public figure. Yeah. And one of those papers you sent me, I saw it described rather aptly as a one -sided intimacy at a distance. Yeah. And in our go -go, be normal as much as you can type society. That sounds a little like off base, a little weird, a little out there to some people, I should say to others. It's like, well, yeah, of course this is normal life, but we, we should say like, there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It can go wrong as we'll see, but at its base, having a parasocial relationship does not make you a loser, a loner, social misfit, a weirdo. It actually makes you slightly healthier emotionally, intellectually, in my opinion. Yeah. And as we'll talk about, studies bear that out that it's, you know, I think they put it at generally about three to 5 % of the time it can go south and we'll talk about that kind of stuff when it becomes obsessive and stuff like that. But yeah, for the other 95 to 98 % of people, it actually provides quite a benefit because it makes someone feel good and it makes people laugh a lot of times. And I feel like comedy a lot of times is what you associate more. I'm sure you can have parasocial relationships with like Peter Jennings or something or Dan Rather. I'm sure that happens. It would be harder though as we'll see. You generally think of it in terms of like either a podcast or a TV show when you would sit around and you would think about which friend am I or which Sex and the City character. You're such a Miranda. That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here when people identify so much that it's like a real relationship. Yes. And I want to say I am in that very unusual and unique position as are you and as are most podcasters. That you're Miranda? Right. I totally am a Miranda. Actually, no, what's the other one's name who is married to Kyle McLaughlin. I feel like I identify more with her. Yeah, Charlotte. Charlotte. Yeah, I'm a total Charlotte. What I was going to say though is I'm in the unique position of being on the opposite side of a parasocial relationship. That's a very rare place to be. And I can tell you that I do enjoy hearing about that. Like when we're at live shows and people tell us like where they think of us as like their friends or whatever, I always love to hear that kind of thing. Yeah, me too. Yeah. So I don't want to, I don't engage with them myself, but when they are thrust upon me, I'm like, oh yeah, I love that. Yeah. And we feel the same way generally. And most times when we meet listeners who are awesome like that, if we did know each other, there's a good chance we might be friends. Yeah. I think that's another thing too is I think that's kind of like that weirdo view of it. Like the irony of it is they're so far off base that like if they ever actually did meet the person in real life, they would be horribly crushed and maybe even mocked. I mean, at least from our experience, most people who do come up and tell us that they think of us as friends do seem like people we would probably hang out with in real life. Totally. There's also, and I'll talk about this a little bit I guess later, but I'm in a situation where a lot of the podcasts that I consume are comedy podcasts where I do kind of know the person. Oh, okay. But that's a quasi -parasocial relationship because I find myself thinking I'm better friends with them than I am when in fact they are just industry colleagues that are loose pals perhaps. But I think like, oh yeah, me and Scott Aukerman are like great friends because we have so much in common. Yeah, he does not think that. Scott's a great guy, super nice, he's always been very nice. I'll be on his shows occasionally. We both worked with him a little bit but we're not great friends even though I feel like we are because I listen to so much of his stuff. Okay, I'm glad you need to check somebody. I was going to ask you who you have parasocial relationships with but I feel like quasi -parasocial relationship is very niche. Yeah, probably so. So let's begin at the beginning. These things haven't been around forever mostly because they're a product of media communications. They would not exist otherwise because without media you would actually be interacting with this person face to face and that's the big rub of the whole thing is that other person is on the other side of a screen. They're in your headphones. They're not there physically but the way that they present themselves to you tricks us into um becoming friends with them or having an affinity for them just as you would if you met them in real life and the whole thing is traced back to a couple of sociologists named Donald Horton and Richard Wall who back in the 50s started noticing that people would actually talk back to their TV and that they as sociologists they said this is interesting that's kind of unusual and probably new people don't understand TV and I think I'm sure it existed before in radio but as we'll see media has added to itself added to itself added to itself over the generations over the the last you know half century or so to make it more likely that you're going to have a parasocial relationship with somebody in media and a deeper one too but the whole thing started with TV and people shouting at it and what they coined was a term called parasocial interactions. Yeah and that's I think TV also was all of a sudden you had a couple of other ingredients to the recipe that could spawn a parasocial relationship which is repeated consistent faces that you're seeing it's not like you know go into a movie which you could do before the you know 1956. That person being in your house in your living room every week or even every night was a different thing and they were talking to you they were looking at your face and there were new kinds of media personalities that they hadn't seen before which is like game show hosts talk show hosts newscasters people looking into the camera and talking to you the home audience and that changed things and they were fascinated by what they called this relationship between what they dubbed personae who are you know the Dan Rathers or whatever I don't know Dan Rather or so on the tip of my brain. What's he even doing these days? He's writing and stuff right? I don't know it's been a while I haven't heard from him in a while he hasn't called me back.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 119: Part 1: Ed Calderon Fights Cartels, Corruption, and Crime in Tijuana, Mexico
"It's been a recurring thing that I hear like, oh, the DEA arrested him. No, we didn't say that. The guys we talked to made it very clear it was the Mexican Marines who went in, you know, they were working with them, but you're saying it was two federal police officers? He carjacked us. No, I mean, eventually, but I'm talking about the operation. I know what you're getting at, the actual arrest. The actual arrest was done by two federal roadside cops. He's in a dirty white, he's in a dirty t -shirt, you know. Yeah, he went through a sewer because he had some of the most advanced escape safe houses that anybody's ever seen in Mexico. At least on that end, he was the top of the game. And I say this because it seems to me that a lot of effort was put into the narrative of this operation, you know, and it was boggling the mind to some of us that have been in that field for years to try Why all that effort over some specific guy? You know, because if you designate somebody as a big figurehead and then you get that figurehead, you claim victory, you go, hey, we've done something about it, as opposed to have you really. I mean, is it about the stat or is it about the actual impact? And I know, Murph, we've had these discussions before. Well, even, and so the reason I was in Mexico City on those original meetings is as I was working out of our special operations division and I was running the Mexico Central America section. And I can't get into a lot of detail on some of this because it's, some of it's still classified and some of it you just don't want people to know capabilities. But there was a lot of discussion about that guy, about Chapo, and there were assets in place that could monitor certain things. The execution part was the problem. And this was back in, what do you say, 2003? I was there from 01 to 06, so this was 03 or 04. And my suggestion to everybody was let's bring in our special operators, just like we did in Columbia against Pablo. The problem is, once we got, we had Dev Groom, we had Delta down there with us, but then their general said, well, you can only be in the base, you can't go out in the field. Special mission unit Delta, Delta Force doesn't exist. Not the best frickin' operators in the world were confined to base. I mean, these guys are the frickin' studs of the world. But here was the difference. The Colombians invited us down there, the Mexicans won't. Mexico has a very, and I'm Mexican by birth, and I'm making my way into being a citizen in the U .S. Mexico in general has a very difficult relationship with the United States foreign policy, and it's historically been pretty bad on the Mexican end. So inviting the U .S. military to operate in Mexico is political suicide in every single way, shape, or form you can have in Mexico. If you do that, you're dead politically, and the army knows this. You go all the way back to Pancho Villa and the Alamo, and this is not something that just happened yesterday. Yeah, but I've heard rumors of very tall people wearing federal police uniforms that didn't know how to respond in Spanish. I was around for some of those weird fuckin' events. The main issue, I think, is that Mexico is realistically free -for -all and lawless. If the United States really wanted to stop the fentanyl flow through its borders, it would probably have to set up some sort of military or naval blockade on the Pacific and the Atlantic side. I've floated this idea of actually discussing this with the guy at DOD this morning, talking about the legalities of it. You almost get to the point where you have to declare a demilitarized zone. You have to say three miles either side of this is open for military action. To your point, you've got to blockade everything from the border to the water to the airspace. We're almost back into a Tom Clancy, clear and present danger thing, where you have to declare, until they declare the cartels a terrorist organization or something that gives them an official designation to go after them. To your point, it's a political issue and it's not been handled well. The whole terrorist designation thing, it's interesting. They're in politicized every way. That's why Mexico has one of the most... They assassinate a lot of political candidates in Mexico. I think it's one of the places where it's one of the most dangerous places to be one in the world. They also go after the press a lot because members of the press report on one side or the other. They're very much politicized and they're very much in the political sphere. They hang people from bridges and the amounts of the ISIS execution videos that you would see back in the day were all realistically inspired by the Mexican ones. The cartels they were doing this year, this wasn't anything new to them, beheading people. We got so upset, and we should have, when ISIS beheaded a couple of captors. But then there'd be 10 people you'd find buried in a mass grave all had their heads taken off and it was like just another day in news reporting. The ones that really pioneered the whole projecting horrible events aspect of it was Mexico. The cartels were posting some of these execution videos before ISIS. It's been interesting to see them basically express every single element that you would consider for a terrorist organization. It's a transnational group engaging in violence for a political end. They affect elections, they affect spending, they affect... I don't know why we haven't designated them that, but then the question is even if we did, what would change? I think I know one of the reasons why that hasn't happened, and it's a political and immigration reason. As soon as you declare all these organizations a terrorist organization, everybody coming over that border, fleeing from the violence, now has a legal claim to asylum. And that is a big issue. I think that is at the core of things. It's not like it's stopping anything at this point either. I mean, it's when you look at what's coming across, it's like everybody's claiming asylum anyway. Yeah. I mean, it's a hard issue. It's a complex one. Something has to be done, and if it isn't done, something's going to be forced upon the United States to react, and I think that's where we're headed. Five years ago, I said in five years, not two years ago, I said in five years, we're going to see some sort of military intervention by the U .S. and Mexico. And with everything that's going on, I think I'm pretty well on my way to kind of be right about that. Members of Congress have talked about that. It's a bipartisan thing, so something's coming. We're heading into elections now in Mexico. And what do you think about the woman candidate? Do you think she's got a shot? There seems to be absolutely nobody in the political realm that has any sort of name behind them. I think she's going to be a sure win for these coming elections. guy The other that was running, Evrat, who was basically taken out, he had some interesting ideas about the state of security in Mexico. And I think some of these are going to be rehashed by this political candidate. He had something called the Plan Anquil for Mexico, which is basically an AI -ran, Chinese state -provided security plan that involves social credit. Social credit, here we go again. Yeah, it's social credit and surveillance and drones and you name it, basically. And he showcases video of the people that were involved in the creation of this. There's a big segment of that on the Chinese president showing up in that video. I think that's where we're headed. There's open hostility and there's an open political hostility between Mexico and the United States now. There's a lot of tension going on and China's being invited in. And you can see that in different letters of the politics in Mexico and anti -Americanism in Mexico is at an all -time high. So it's a perfect storm. Let's rewind a little bit because I want to talk a little bit more about your time on the police force now and on this experimental group. What were some of the things that you got involved in that you started... At some point you felt like you could make a difference, right? So what were the things that you were doing that you thought, hey, man, I really can make a difference. I really can impact things. What kind of operations or things were you guys doing? We would basically get information from basically a national platform of information that just got started through leadership. And our leadership was basically the military members that were working in a civilian capacity at this point, like Lezola. Since they were members of the military and they were high ranking officers, they had access to information that none of us could ever have access to. So there was a clear line of communication from the top all the way to the bottom. And we had people that we can trust, that we can work with. And we had actual secrecy within the groups once we were settled. So we'd basically be going out every night, figuring some of these target packages out. From growth sites to laboratories to people who were running some of the most sophisticated abduction and ransom operations the world had ever seen back then. To just figuring out where things were coming from and where they were going to. A lot of that work was done in cooperation with the United States. I got to work on a lot of stuff with our liaison unit. So it was basically, you could see the pace of it as soon as Lezola got involved in actually being the director of us. And getting everything lined up so we could operate, it was clear. It was work being done, it was fear being felt on the other side of the table, the people we were fighting. Our weapons changed. Before we were on, it was unheard of to see a police officer carrying around a fully automatic rifle. Or a grenade launcher for that fact. Slowly but surely he started arming us and preparing us for a war. He very much treated it as a war, or as a counter -insurgency is what he would say. He would, instead of sending us out in small groups, he would send us out in big groups and we would operate in different parts of the city during the night and we would move around. So it was an unknown where we were going to be or what was going to happen. We didn't even know where we were going to be sometimes. Some nights we would just be moved around randomly. What was your area of responsibility? Just Tijuana or the state? All of Baja. I worked outside of Baja a few times on loan, but mostly all of Baja. And Mexico, if I remember, is structured, is it 38 states or 37 states? 37 states, I think. So you've got state police forces, right? Then you've got a federal police force. So back then the federal police was basically army guys dressed in grey and they would ride in the back of our trucks. That was the federal police back then when it first got started. It eventually professionalized and they were trying to figure out, so they were trying to catch up with what we were doing basically. But back then the federal police was army guys dressed in grey in the back of the truck. So there's federal police, state police, and local municipal police. The municipal police historically and all over the country has been the issue. Because it's local police that live there, that have their families living there, and obviously it's a very easy target to go after. And since there's a lot of them, you know, it's hard to move anything in a city without them knowing. So that's who the cartels basically didn't get involved with directly. And I think you mentioned it in an interview you did, it basically boils down to right, plateau or plomo, right? These guys are living there. Yeah, Lezola had a very interesting approach to cleaning up some of those municipal institutions. He basically took, when Tijuana was very corrupt, back then it still is now, but there was a time when he cleaned it up for a bit. He would go into the police precincts and say, hey, who's in charge? This guy. Oh, cool. Obviously he's in leagues with one of the two cartels that are fighting over Tijuana. So he would send him, move him to the precinct that was being ran by the other cartel. They would switch him. So they would immediately quit and then he would put his people in, you know? It was basically the best confident exam ever. Immediately most of these people would quit the next day. This sounds like Northern Ireland, the Protestants and the Catholics, you know, you switch things up. That's an issue in Mexico. I mean, some of this corruption just goes deep and is blood related. It's historic and it's very fractured. Even within a single city, you'll see one side of the city is involved with one group and the other side is involved with the other. So politics are always, it's a game of thrones almost, a level thing. But he did a lot of, we were working daily to get things back to a sense of normal or a sense of safety. When we were, when I got started, these cartel groups would broad daylight run around the city in convoys with AKs out the window, this Tijuana. And by the time we were probably five or six years in, that didn't happen anymore. They were hiding now. So things were changing. So we did feel that things were changing. How did you make it change? I mean, what did you do to make it? Because obviously at some point there's got to be, I mean, violence is inherent in things that happen like this. But how did you, from an operational standpoint, you talk about even like an insurgency. Do you get the public to work with you on this or is this just simply your tactics and your own resources? I think the municipal police was key. Lieutenant Colonel Isaulabe specifically went after cleaning up, professionalizing and sorting out the municipal police locally and using us as a brace to hold things while that was happening. And the municipal police was disarmed for a few weeks at some point. All of the municipal police in Tijuana, their guns were taken. So all of us were basically used and the military were used as an auxiliary police force in Tijuana. I remember going out on a few responding calls and that's probably the bulk of my real community policing experience was when I was basically replacing the municipal police. So he went at things systematically and I think he was allowed to do a lot at different layers of the government, which is why he was so successful. Since he came from the federal branch of the military, he was involved directly in basically institutionalizing a professional police force at a state level with us. And then he was put in charge of the municipal police in Tijuana. So he attacked it from three layers and from three sides. And I think that's what led to his success cleaning up the city, at least for the time it was, because it's pretty much back to square one right now. Was that during the Arellano Felix days? It was at the tail end of them. Something happened to the Arellano Felix cartel, probably related to most of their members being arrested or killed. There was a fracture there. A few of their top level lieutenants basically switched sides to the Sinaloa cartel. Among them, a guy named, they used to call him the three letters El Teo. He basically formed a hyper violent Sinaloa cartel cell in Tijuana and then went to war with the remnants of the Arellano Felix cartel. That's the bulk of the violence that I saw during the time that it was initially active down there. You would see 12 people show up dead one night. You would see shootouts in the middle of the day in different parts of the city. You would see the military basically show up and be involved in some of these shootouts as well. So it was very much an urban warfare setting. With a lot of the things I saw, I think when we would go to foreign training and learn from other people, I think I remember having this moment where we were being shown some of the IRA violence that happened back in the day in Ireland. How they were fighting the military, the English basically. That very much reminded me of some of the stuff that was happening in Baja at that time. I was going to say, we had two of my friends on from New Scotland Yard, the Counterterrorism Command, and one of them was working back in the day when it was the Royal Ulster Constabulary during the troubles in Northern Ireland and some of the tactics they did. He was there. He actually responded when they blew up Lord Mountbatten and the boat that he was on. We always wondered how much cross -pollination, was there any cross -pollination between the provisional IRA and some of those folks that are ending up in Mexico to teach them techniques to resist? Bomb making in Mexico comes directly from the IRA. There's no question about it. IRA people were arrested and detained in Colombia training the FARC members. Some of those same techniques and tactics have shown up in bomb testing fields in Guadalajara and Jalisco, for example. Those homemade mortar devices, mining explosives being utilized to arm civilian drones and to disperse very poisonous chemical pesticides as part of the payload. A lot of these actually do stem from some IRA influence, so there's definitely an influence there as far as the explosives that have been found all over Mexico. We've been experiencing this renaissance of explosives all over Mexico recently. Roadside IEDs are now a thing, and the military is actually learning and preparing for them now. It's something that hadn't happened realistically. We've had car bombs before, but roadside IEDs are now being utilized in places like Michoacán, for example. Murph, when you and Javier were down there going after Pablo, how many bombs a day were going off at the peak? It wasn't unusual to have 10 or 15 per day. There was one evening when we'd been out on ops all day, we came back, we were at the base in Medellín. That night we heard 17 different bombs go off. Wow. In Mexico, there's places where these bombs are being utilized, specifically drone ones. We don't have a lot of ordnance laying around all over the place, but we do have a shit ton of mining explosives that are all over the place. Do you see them using the ammonium nitrate to blow things up also? Every now and then, specifically what they utilize is a thing called Cemex, which is basically mining -level plastic explosives. Those loads are usually made with that. It's controlled and restricted, but it's Mexico. You can't have a gun unless you're poor. If you're poor, you can't have a gun, but if you have money, you can get whatever you want here. Let's talk a little bit more, because this leads into a discussion about, you're on for a long time, but you kind of crossed, as they say, the Rubicon. There becomes a point to where you realize, hey, what I'm doing isn't making a difference anymore. There are some changes in the government, changes in the unit. What starts happening where you start seeing going, yeah, this is not something I think I can do for the next 20 years. I've got to start thinking of an exit strategy. When does that kind of thinking start happening for you? I mean, it lays all the leaves, and it leaves under very bad terms, basically. Bad terms with who? With the government. He's basically pushed out by people who think he's doing too well of a job. Two of our guys get brutally killed, and one of them came out of the academy with me. I knew his family. Great guy. What's his name? Arenas. All right. We salute him. We dedicate this to your buddy. Absolutely. He was a lawyer. He had no reason to go into the police force. He just wanted to make a difference, and he had a giant heart. He was picked up outside of the hotel we were staying at by some dudes dressed in federal police uniforms who were not federal police. And while we were all being basically concentrated in the city to find these people, he was told to step down. That was the first major blow. Was he getting too close to something or just being too effective? I think he was being too effective. He was being too effective and too broad in his approach is what I think probably happened. He was basically going after everybody, and that is not something you could do for a long period in Mexico, apparently. Did he eventually suffer an injury? He over had nine assassination attempts on his life. They tried to poison him with the fruit juice that they would put in his fridge in the office. A military convoy was cloned. They found Hummers painted exactly like the military, and they were going to ambush him in some part of the city. A friend of mine was involved in the security, and he did some legendary shit to get him out of that. Eventually, when he was the police chief of Juarez, when he was leaving that job, he got shot in the back by somebody. That cost him the use of his legs. He's in a wheelchair now. He's still smart as hell, and I'm still afraid of him as a man, but when he left, it basically gutted us. He created a very velocos, forward -driven, militarized police force with a lot of dudes running around with machine guns just ready to respond to shit. All of a sudden, we were neutered. We were told to quiet down. We were told to be less overt. We were told to go back to community policing. We were told to stand down, basically. Things started slowly changing. Politically, this to -the -right presidency left office and was replaced by a central leftist presidency that was more of the old guard of politics in Mexico, the PRI as its own. The PRI, right. They had ruled for a long time. They lost the first election, I think. Wasn't it after Vicente Fox? Didn't he lose? In the PRI, that was their last. Vicente Fox and Calderón got back to the PRI with Pena Nieto. When he came in, a lot of stuff happened. It's the amnesia effect, is what I call it. Every presidential cycle ends, and anything that worked, if it worked because it was because of the other party, fuck that. It's gone. Gee, that sounds familiar. It certainly does. It's not unique to Mexico, pal. I think what's unique to Mexico is that they will throw out everybody. I mean, it doesn't matter if you have, there's no job security. Imagine this. Every five years, you would fire everybody from the FBI and rehire everybody new. This is the level of retardation that I'm talking about. You had these institutions that were built up over the span of two presidential cycles, like the one that I belong to. They were doing the job, they were getting good at it in a lot of ways, and then a lot of the people that were fired because of the polygraph exams being failed sued the government and were hired back because that's not illegal grounds to fire anybody, even though they were on the take. You would see people that hadn't been on the force in six years, seven years, just all of a sudden just show back off the office, people that you clearly knew that were working on the other side or back. And some of these guys you had actually arrested, right? Some of them were arrested by the unit that I was in, yeah, and they were back. That's got to be a weird feeling is that you realize you were in handcuffs, you were kicked off, you were charged, and now you're back. I mean, you talk about trust issues, I mean, inherently. They were laughing in the office. The cars that were in the parking lot, I didn't earn an absurd amount of money and I basically drove the same car driving into that job as the one that left that job just for discretion purposes. But some of the absurdity you would see in those parking lots after these changes were made, it was pretty fascinating. The overt nature of the corruption was like, oh, yeah, we're not going to hide anymore. Let's just take my Hummer H2 to work. In the meantime, go check us out. Also, patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. It's where we put a lot more content you won't hear on our regular podcast. We go into a lot more topics and folks, it is a lot of fun. So go check us out. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. In the meantime, everybody stay safe. We'll see you tomorrow for part two.
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"Ciro site contains graphic content that some listeners may find disturbing listener discretion. Is it boy. Welcome to cereal psych. Today's game is prison pen pals. This is a game kind of like fuck. Mary kill but instead of fuck mary kill. We're going to go through. three different. Pre prisoners and daniel has to decide whether he would like to start a friendship with them. Start a romantic relationship with them. That these are women right. I have women for the first round. And now you're straight inside and yes sir. Okay so daniel has to decide whether he would like to start a friendship. Start a romantic relationship or just not right to him in general and he will not know why these people are in prison. It could be first degree murder or it could be something as simple as having weed in the car. That's life imprisonment right there bitch. Oh yes it's unfortunate. Are you ready for the first round round. One fight picture. We're gonna show them the pictures. Yeah we can. We can pose the pictures on patriotic. So this lovely young lady named tarini. I have no idea rainy. Brown tyrrhenian tyranny michigan tyranny. That's her name. I don't care if i'm getting the pronunciation ripped jeans. Yes that's her. Professor sex appeal yes tyranny brown. She is thirty years of age. Let me read hugh her prison. Pen pal profile. This is what she wrote. Hi my name is tarini brown. I'm thirty years young and currently incarcerated at chao chile state prison. I am currently in college. I'm taking courses chow. Chila some california wants him chow chinchilla which is an adorable pet Maybe on a conjugal visit god. I'm taking courses to get a major in behavior science and business. I love staying busy writing and behavior in being incarcerated. Guess step towards your future in a better mental development. I love staying busy writing and music. And i love to encourage others and help them get on the right path..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
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"This game's on this. So i think for what it is. The sixty four does a good job of like you said you know if you wanna just plug and play game that you remember from way back when that's exactly what it's made for. That's it does the job admirably. Even if it's emulated you know. Most people aren't going to notice that most people aren't gonna notice you know. What will you one of the things that we found early on. Your pointed out that The me like it was like they it was like they had frozen the Whatever game so it's like you start it up and it like kicks into like it's already in progress you know like the music started like it's already is quite possible. That's what they did and that's something that we noticed and drove us nuts. You know we we. You know your accent emails back and forth to them and i think they may have fixed it but today a year later area the average i got an instant message from from darren saying I message agai. I remember i message because snide phone and and tibo saying like get me started about it. Yeah and they decide to finally fix it. Now that's something that's something. I found really interesting. I remember when i got my d. tv. And the first time i played at one of the first games i played on it was regional spiegel great game. I love that. And i noticed there was a glitch on the score panel and that glitches exactly the same if you it on a real sixty four right so that shows the emulation in the tv is pretty good. Really emulation isn't it. isn't it implementation yes. Mouse called Fda pg so yes so that works really well and you can see and you can see the same in the emulation in many in the full size. So for a lot of games the expansion on.
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"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"I think it was like forty bucks. I bought up somebody from. Bbs you know and like we'd like some like weird like alleyway and it was a really weird like like. I was making a drug deal. But you know to me this giant disc. Drive my older brother. Chris went after university. He actually bought himself and new six sixty four and drive then to university with him. Then my upgrade at one point i was looking at. I i really i. I was really into the amiga. Although they didn't. I knew nothing about it. All i knew these tax catalogs that you know the computer expresses mail order stuff and they made it look really good. But you can't see what any against you look like because it's just a little black and white picture besides postage stamp and i had saved up just enough money to get him. You'd get twelve hundred putting away lunch money from school and all that stuff and i just saved up enough and coming to run a business and the catalogs weren't coming anymore and it's like so and around that time to a friend of mine said i got this whole commodore system do you do you want. I'm like yeah. I'll i'll take it because i got to figure out how to stretch out my c. Sixty four worrying because at that point was getting a little bit long in the tooth is like ninety six ninety seven and it was one. Twenty eight and upgrade became a commodore one twenty eight inches which is a huge which is a major upgrade sixty four and kept me going for another until two thousand and one. I used that as my main machine is headed. Got my new six. Describe in ninety two so then with the money made from the the writing one of the first things i did by myself then was a super nintendo and nine thousand nine hundred four Saw an ad in the local paper citing a with games and control is an all this thing. He was upgrading to this brand new finkel the sony playstation he wants. He wants to import one of these brands. Sony playstations so we need the money quickly yes so that was then ready to start what became retro gaming collection. Then yes because i'm already. I'm already a generation behind playstation. I'm going to say yeah. And that's a repeated pattern along along the way so when everyone else is when everyone else's I'm getting a xbox three sixty. I shout for an original xbox right yeah you're said sneh's yeah just that and well i'll tell you something i still say i i say snow because that's what i heard i on eighty in the uk. I worked on the super nintendo college a couple years. The big book from the french publishes hundreds reviews latin some interviews and features and also slap. That's what paid for the new laptop on the. Yeah so while. Were doing that all the way through every day it was. You must super any any every time you write it. So yeah so am i had. It still snows because that's say but it shouldn't be any is super well. We always called it a we always call either just a super nintendo or or or we. Snes that was. That's that's also how we said he interview as and ask the first time..
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"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"Where do i sign up creole. Descent open yet. There will be a new website open later in the year. Four books dot co dot. uk off. Because it's not. Just it's not just. The book is not just the sequel. There are several other projects. I'm working on at the moment. More retro gaming related books getting your own. You are becoming your own publisher. Well i'll be doing. I'll be using one of the prints on demand services. Not so i. Obviously i don't have the space from time to handle hundreds of books myself so beginning free print on demand. I think that's the sensible way to do it. These days because i i don't i don't want to be a publisher. Can i get my copy. Autographed there will be opportunities off. Making things. Available on moving to do is fun. Free preorder sravan kickstarter or anything like that too complicated again. There's all districts to handle. Make make things tough as it stands those. Those are the as we sit here tonight. So nine cool. Very cool is nice. I am jazzed. Well that was the idea. That's that's why i wanted to drop news. Yeah very cool. So you're actually you're actually have say turning from a magazine editor in a book author candle. Well i mean it's it's writing writing yet. So that's yeah. That's what i do and as i say it's a it's a big moment. Forty years of the corner sixty four. We've got off somehow. We got to got remind. I how important the commodore sixty four is in terms of computing history. Because i seriously doubt without the commodore sixty four wherever there'd be a computer in every home right now so many people got an early experience. We've commodore computers the pet vic. Twenty the commodore sixty four. All he goes to the pc and to the into the apple two. That's exactly exactly but apple two wasn't even i in the race in eighty seven exactly apple furred in one hundred and seventy seven because thandi thandi sold the most right. Pat was second apple. Apple were hand building. I'm right but i didn't the book on the edge of the rise and fall of komodo or from prime bicknell already correct. The that has a lot of really good facts and a lot of a lot of myths dusting it even down to the fact that one point commodore nearly bought apple apple couldn't produce fast enough apple. I remember that this book was the marking point. Took correct history. Yeah one fife down. Brian bagnall has gone onto produce the second volume. The amiga is and is now working on the early years as well which is going to even more data into what happened before if commodore had bought apple. Though it's interesting. I think things would things would have been slightly different. I don't think. I don't think around as a company because i think a company was floored. Oh absolutely story. yeah. I think they would have been. There have been slight differences in in certain aspects of the what we think of as the modern computer. Think the pc live in even slower to take over and more successful. I mean here's the thing guessing just just yesterday. At the time we have recording this the g nerds actually released him. A video about the branding of komodo and what the italians did to the. So there's footage of hsa's refueling it and my horrible boxing british. I hate..
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"Because that tweeting about the same topic and so yeah got quickly got quite following on twitter. Free thousand now here Yeah so that's quite good and yeah so it's been interesting that one. I've actually managed to get in touch quite a few people through twitter of one twitter competitions as well. Which is you win some. Yeah yeah so you know to do. Try and keep that on. Updated regulars stuff arrives as i do. You knew stuff you know. You know what i say. You're you're a brand of your own kind of i mean it's it's it's the truth because there is what you do is seaworld. But you're also like you know when people talk about andrew fisher. They just know who that is you know. He's a you know a guy within sixty four senior fat books you've had you know all these different magazines you worked for so it's like you say the name and people know who your personality unto yourself. You know it's not like when people think of your you know your is tied to seen world. That's kind of what i'm just saying. There's nothing wrong with that. And you're saying that's what you know that's what you're connected to. Quite flattering mark hardesty. He wrote the book. Granted works looking at gremlin graphics. Which is amazing book. I believe there's a reprint coming up from bit macbook soon. Yeah he He he me. The retro gaming girl on twitter great riches robert cool. Yeah if i do see a question Or dear member or what was the game. I do try and put in a reply in my hit. Rate's pretty good on that. Yes yes seen as an expert on video games. You know another string to my bow has been the various retro events in the uk also been leading the panel discussions and interviewing people and that is a lot of fun to do as funded researching and talking to them at the events and getting the chance to meet people whose games i love to play myself is just such an honor. I mean i remember the first back in time lies then i went to in two thousand and two others just all of everyone there. I was so shy. I just couldn't speak to anyone. I saw jeff. Minter of lama soft i could. I could go up and talk to. I mean i did talk to john. Herron richard bitch joseph of that first show and i would great people carmela the programmer. A teenage mutant hero titles and people on the sixty four great guy. The hero turtles in england to here in england renamed here because of that yes so germany to everybody else. It's called ninja and the us turtles and ninja and they renamed here. Okay the same but any strange thing was than when the the first of the live action films came out that was then teenage mutant ninja turtles. Oh a that's tunes and the kit. Yeah yeah yeah debate instead be or is my video frozen kind. That's just you know best me. That's good but yes interesting but yeah so yes meeting those guys in recent years fantastic opportunity at a couple of years ago to go and meet andrew braybrook programmer of uranium empower. Droid just touchy. Go to his house. And he was there to With that with chris wilkins of fusion retro books. Who did the zappa annuals in recent years and is now the news magazine because sap is back in a big way yes well. We're on tissue free. We're working on issue free right now. Okay yeah well come. And pats was always coming like an issue like every couple of months or years originally originally back in the eighties and nineties a monthly magazine. And then as i say. Chris wilkins the the free annuals. So two.
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"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"Downhill at that point leading up to my diagnosis in two thousand nine crohn's disease but yeah i mean it was never a case of. I wanted to walk away from it completely. I felt bicker. Always do something with it. I mean i'm glad you know why it hang around because now we got these new avenues. The podcast the youtube which having a such a great things. Add to it. Because it's taking us out too wide audience. It's taking us into lots of different topics in areas related to the city. Sixty four in retro gaming. That we're all interested in. I think that's you in a way. Perhaps we needed that. Downtime that breakaway to find you know to find the new purpose again to find find that mojo. They say yes. I say if you'd like to call it the new era of seen wells. Well i mean you're responsible for that as well because this surprised me in may twenty ten. When i was at your house and i woke up. You actually were sitting in front of a computer like oh by the way pulled out the heart cry from an old laptop and i got all the texts together. We got we got. We got an intro by ganesh from hungary that we can use so we can all put it together and release it and then the defeat peg on be so positive that asked like hey guys do we want to continue and then which simply did say that was. That was perfect timing. Really first time. We'd met in person and you came to england for visit and that was a lot of fun to do and writing the editorial live my house. So yeah so yeah. Glad you got the visit. Glad we got the chance to put saying well back on the map actually. There is a photo that moment. Yes there is right here. I was actually asked if if we can. If we can take a photo for this floppy these floppy disk book. I told you about it by the dutch and portuguese researchers that interviewed us but floppies and they were actually asking if we have photo very unseen boroughs nine. The only photo i can think of is this particular photos i i would. I would tell them that. I would ask you if you are a cave. When we've been ascended to them you can use it. The rooms of mass. But you can use. That room is still a mess because at the most of my most of my computer collection is is still sitting in that room. That's that's that's five miles away from it in the moment. Because since i got married since i got married and moved in with my wife. I'm sort of my. My collection is in another castle thing. But you're working on moving over the collection not not in the foreseeable future because this is a really small house got room for air. I see room at the moment is a huge part just to my right. There's a huge pile of books about five. Miles is not not not that far away. we're looking to move into a bigger place. Yeah been better than. I'll have an office space and iceman k. Paps yes yeah talking about. Which i remember the first time. Aj sawyer. twitter h. As comment was like oh enter is a random himself. Follow versi has yeah seriously. Yeah yeah do. Quite quite quickly on twitter Obviously because there's quite a few contacts ads through retro gamer magazine which open into free so instantly when owen on it suggesting oh follow this person because you know them..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"Is interesting And also one thing you you often say or asking her from your Boss-like very modest. And i would hear a lot like. I'm not really good. At coding and stuff and then i remember when i was talking was ha about that ha totally at the different opinion. Like hey man. He had the code from weapon heartburn. Well yeah you had to reverse engineer the entire magazine outfit. Yeah i will. I will say i did have some help on that. We've from robin. Because he sent me a list of your entry points into it because he was using the mouse code from from lodestar the as the base for what was running the pointers. The point in the menu system is a case of that asked him you. Call this address with this value and it will do this. You tell it to dropbox this point. And i'll do this so when you know where they are more straightforward. You still actually have to physically put the numbers into memory. They are the trick. The trick with that was there's a particular value it's not in not on my head after there's a particular value that signal the end of each menu peace. And if you could find those you could see how long each menu section was. because it's an interest that you you are there's a basic program you can poke you put all the menus strings and it pokes in the peace correct piece of menu memory and you save that piece of memory load into the maxis and they that the menus up so okay. Another thing. I didn't know all the secrets coming. Oh so yeah so. It was a lot of fun working on on that second issue. Yes and then it was so settled into a bit of routine. Then you you'd gather the text and do the the final edit and together we it and some highs and lows good some bad news and here's the one thing i would like to know because i think you said once in a comment you said like it's good with the continued after our five years break and you set once that uber kind of responsible for the year sprague and from my perspective. That wasn't the case. I had the from my feeling. We had mutual agreement that we quit because of the negative feedback received from the outside. Thanks yes. I mean to to a large extent. Yes it was the negative feedback completely. D motivated me to carry on. We've seen for wall again. you know obviously. My health was.
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
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Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"I haven't shaved in like five days. That's your who has shaved today. So we're right on weird opposite. Yeah well i'm getting vaccinated tomorrow for the first time and clue and i want to be affect p to conform which which action. You're getting the biotech pfizer. Okay okay cool cool. I got my dern which i believe is similar. It's similar as more. We'd like to wish you take a moment to encourage all of our listeners. To actually get the vaccine. Because i was the as part as part of my job i have to take part in these webinars and stuff where we follow the progress of everything going along and we need to have best seventy to ninety percent of the population vaccinated to reach her immunity right now in the us. We have about forty. Four percent of the population has at least one shot. That's not it you know and people are now canceling because of the happened with the Johnston johnson astrazeneca whatever. It was shot. Both both have the same problem right right. And it's only applicable those problems for people younger than sixty. You can get lat classing in your brain we rains. Yes actually caused try. It was actually causing people to cancel their appointments to get defies early. Dominant everything else. Yeah because they're just afraid of it and the thing is even after one shot of modern pfizer. You're at eighty percent which is better than you would have for for For biontech fi and say you are effectively. Sixty five percent. Okay but again with with the astrazeneca and a johnson johnson sixty five is what you got all at the end of it so even after one shot the others. You're better off than with launch out of that. So it's your if you're only gonna do one shot to do it. Yeah but still still. Even if it's sixty-five person only still meets their the schloss of getting a long cove it so long term side effects which called in the medical term long cove it is nearly zero recourse are protected. Good enough and and actually actually if the astor seneca sixty five depends on the calculation. In germany that recalculation and figured out. It's eighty five not sixty five and well. There are countries like denmark. Who now today announced they will not do johnson johnson either. Which many virologists thinks. It's a mistake i mistake. As of course because the The desired effects severe only for fourteen people world by it right. Yeah very very small amount of people out of out of everyone that got. They got the shot you know. It's i understand being cautious with it but at the same time you know we're going on we're over a year where we're essentially just locked down and it's ridiculous this needs to end. I know i know. And the thing is that why am while denmark is stopping to use johnson. Sean s for seneca. They are actually selling esser. Sinica germany and here in germany. We get it at people. Sixty and the bath aren't getting astrazeneca because the desired effects were only for younger people younger than that. And and the the w. h. o..
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"pal" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Your bitcoin that is to say you can't get your actual money your bitcoin off of pay pal so shapeshifts then buys keep key and says something along the lines of. Hey we're going to integrate shape shift into the key itself and i'm thinking. Oh this is awesome a hardware wallet. That's completely secure and has the shape shifting abilities in it and so on thinking. This is awesome. I finally get the email that says. Okay we're going to integrate these things on this date. All we need you to do is complete your kyc information. Know your customer. Which means uploading some sort of a document generally a government idea birth certificate that type of thing confirming your address and phone number etc. And so on stuff. That erik voorhees supposed libertarian. Said he would never do and he went ahead and did it. And so i then was placed in a position where i had crypto currency on a hardware wallet that was going to require me to put in information to get the cryptocurrency off down the wide so so was it anything that you did after that point was you know you had to see. You couldn't send the kroto out or so. I contacted support. Of course because well i me. I'm like dudes. What up right know. I explained you know. Put it into different words for the technicians on that kind of thing daily digest listeners..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"Or how A chairs to together this this this this resonates because like when i get a car the very first thing i do is i take it all apart because i wanna know. I wonder how it works. You know the same thing was like the old machines and stuff. It's like i got this computer. I've never used week before. The first thing i did was taken apart and try to figure out what the hell does and how it works. Yeah yeah that's not what people usually do nowadays right right right. And many like kids generations ago. It was normal that you would take stuff apart and Of course you would break Stuff and you would not be able to put it back together in one piece but nowadays. Many kids are not allowed to do that anymore. They're not out to to handle tools in. Yeah and parents are very protecting. They don't want the kids to get hurt. They don't want them to to hammer there some And of course there that makes sense but on the other hand It's also good to just to let kids find out what happens when you do something. That's also a mindset that and can help you become Well repairer yet. And that's that's what i did when i was i remember. I have voted members of being a kid of and getting like rc car. And i i played for diana and i went down. There took it apart in. Of course my. My family was doing that because they spent money buying me this. Rc car. And if i break it then they're out however much it cost at. I did break it. But but i got it a working idea of of how it worked side by breaking it yeah. I think that many parents could read value that aspect to von to pray can take to keep to keep life. Yeah that'd be nice. That would have been nice. Yeah yeah surprise. I despair spend most joining together to work again. I never could. I don't know what i did to walk. I know what i did to it. It was called eight years old and pull it apart an rc car. That's what i did to it now. You could bring it to repair i. It would probably if i still had it. If i still had it. I could probably look at it and instantly be like. Oh yeah i plugged that wiring throng and whatever and then it will be fixed but at the time i was. I was just a a wee lad right right well. That's that's nice. I learned what so also basically a problem of society. Yeah yeah and those parents you mentioned there. There's a phrase for that we call them helicopter parent author parents over careful over itch overreacting parents. You know that's me with my dog. Helicopter parent yeah. But the talk isn't repairing your electron executive. I don't know what he does run around all right. So is there anything you would like to add. Martine that we know only that repairing is.
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"At a certain moment we started having Reporters from foreign media so the dutch reporters Who were reporting for their Newspaper or devi show radio program in their country. They started to visiting us. And that's how the concept got a broad and then when these articles were published and the dvd programs broadcast. We got emails from people in germany and in belgium and in france and in the united states from people who wanted to do something like that in their own in their own community to and then so i i i when i started in the netherlands. I wanted to I i want to visit each city Apart and they're helping the people to set up their own repair cafe. But after the first Edition the i. I cafe People were were so enthusiastic that i Got a lot of emails and phone. Calls from people wanted advice from me and there were so many people asking for advice that i thought i have to come up with something else. A different procedure so then i wrote a starter kit telling you what to do to set something like this up in your own community and that was I was only available in dutch. But then after we got Attention from from foreign media. I recognize that we had to translate the starter kits in into french and german and english. And so that's that's what we did then and it kept us very busy for a couple of years bit. Should have been easy for you. I read that you know a ton tons of language host rush. Tim dutch english french. Yeah i do about sermon. But not well enough to occur due to write without mistakes and i didn't have time so we we just hired proper translators to do this To those well. Wow i'll trust may see your profile that by how many languages you know that That really amazed me Well the netherlands as a small country..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"So improvement. Is your your your final destination of being an enterpreneur. You just don't want to create new companies as a sake of creating new companies and bringing ideas to people to actually but actually improving the lives of people buy the product you offer yup a little bit silly but still i think i think a saving lives okay. Well i mean. I can say right now. For example as we have this pandemic a lot of products right now in the metro area that allowed to connect to patients remotely are in the hype because the doctor can can keep the distance to patients. Let's still make sure they're vital. Data our k. and so on so yeah so Perhaps instead of you know seeing it as a bad situation because certain businesses and companies are going down. It also creates new opportunities because of new necessities caused by the pandemic in a way. Definitely definitely i mean. They're they're definitely there is A challenge a huge problem for many people end companies but there's also many opportunities and actually wrote an article on lengthen the day evolve this and the current state. We are in But not from chroma problem point of view but from an opportunity point of view. This is actually a huge opportunities situation for many entrepreneurs many companies because there will be no other situation in the future where all your competitor competitors are frozen. That's actually an interesting. I never thought about it this way because everybody we spoke to dense march are like ya. My business going down. Things are going slow and you are actually one of the first saying like hey take it. S an opportunity to make something new by. Your competitors are struggling. That's a totally new angle of seeing things. Because this is the greatest opportunity that you can have. I guess there's challenge definitely. I'm well aware of the challenge for for the business owners and you just need to not walk on the same Football as you used to. You need to think a little bit outside the box and see how you can do things in another way..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"Pbs back in the nineties when you logged in and but here's the point. Here's the pond actually bear some projects really an issue. I mean we we we We mentioned at our. I don't know how to pronounce it. y in the beginning. And then there is this other thing. c. seen database. And everybody's like if. I mentioned if i mentioned. Just because they have such i mean they. They started in twenty one being open for everything basically and the they narrowed down more and more over the years. What is preserve -able rusty but mostly to be the database. You can only get a user account if you were credited. In a demo scene birthday realized the moderators the cfd. Be are the guys that are still seventeen years old in nineteen ninety-three you know i mean that's and that's That's definitely i'm i mean. I'm very happy that you mentioned like the different arts which all go into the demo same so that's super important. I almost age eight. It's true because otherwise. I mean guess title. We put out of gordon. Because that's the one defining thing to the outside what people at least understand. Okay it's about chater spot minimalism. It's about so people first thing what people always understand his four k right as we can explain that and that's like the super big power effect but this is like the tip of the iceberg and that's think throughout the demosthenous and it's really pushed by seoul many movements underneath and so i think this is really. It's the preservation but also again the living part of it so as philippine was describing or if also discussing it's really about how could be the demo scene a life in twenty years and who is actually doing competitions who is playing in in whether playful and in the future because we have generated does democratic..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"To re revitalize the boons louis demo party this year on the label of mountain bites. Which was supposed to be happening this very month. However due to the external circumstances which must not be named. We have postponed to next year. So the spiciness quite active. I'm i'm I'm in touch with all the lead figures there and everything is culminating around each side and People are are are involved in all matters so we are in fact also working on the unesco application from from switzerland and infect due to the fact that we have advertised the mountain bites demo party. We have gained a lot of traction and new members being flooded into each side. So you'd be hopefully have some more hands to now work on on the proposal. This there's great work going on and in fact there Very early Coders the scene and even a malware programmers have roots switzerland. So if you you look into some of the stuff that was An virus on amiga. Some of it even has its roots. Switzerland so yes may not be widely known talk. Oh yes. I really already interview about this topic Historical interview about the topic. This somebody from vista traffic with the perfect from switzerland. So i'm veal. Covered this whole amiga virus story already. How will how it came to be how it happened to be so but of course of course i i've also mayor that there are damascene. Pardon and stuff in in other countries actually One of the main organizers of the party in france. Some anno sixteen years ago. When i was unemployed. She really tried to get me there. I'm like yay i'm unemployed. I don't really have the financial backup travel anywhere. And she was like. Yeah we would. Even we would even pay a plane tickets. No no no. She said yeah right. A plane ticket. Oh yeah anybody. And and at some point i got an invitation to a democrat party in moscow. So i've lost the bear that there's nothing going on. But but i mean. But i mean anyway from the average adele senior of from for the average retro fan. It's not like it's not like you could say out of you..
Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"pal" Discussed on Scene World – The C64 NTSC/PAL Disk Magazine – Podcast
"In case own wants to take over and add more features And it's it is the best damn version of cc gm s that. That i mean yours. His version of last one he made the cc. Gm ultimate was the best version. Ac- gm ask that. I ever used just because and i'll give you reasons for this one is It supports aside from the fact that it supports the wifi modems and super fast transfer rates. You know up to thirty eight k in like good speed Aside from that is the fact that It uses the argue to ram expansion. So instead of having normally you'd you'd have this dist file and memory and then you get like a paltry little bit of buffer. And i've got a ton of buffers from boards way back in the nineties and lady whenever i was calling And know they're they get pretty big but they're not that big Whereas this you get a full sixty four k of buffer because it's using the you to store that And another interesting thing is that It is Ntsc in pal fixed. And you'd think to yourself why the hell way terminal program needs to be. Ntsc fixed is because they're the us report has timing issues. You know it needs to be you know you need to be compatible with that But yeah so it's it's awesome it stable which is something that i can't say for older versions of c. g. m. s. is just. Yeah i love it. It's six minutes. Nick david staff. Yes yup Uses script you can do swift link. It'll let you use the ultimate the the the Even connection in ultimate sixty four or whatever Yeah yeah it's it's a very awesome Very awesome and if you call boards which you should then you should download it will pull links to where you can get that down below. Nice also Since this g twenty twenty one and twenty twenty one just started and along with twenty twenty one started also started the msmx twenty twenty one dev contest dental development contests. Yeah heights that began on january. First deadline. to submit. entries is august thirty first so not yes. So this is this is A four games for the msmx which again the msmx was a z. eighty machine. Running about four megahertz It had a A y three eight nine ten whatever sound chip.