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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
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Fresh update on "pass" discussed on Jim Bohannon
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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Fresh update on "pass" discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"All right, this is an action-packed podcast now. We don't even have an emotional parent corner. Hasn't even happened yet. We're already at almost an hour mark. This is great. I don't know if I'm gonna make it. I also have a surprise for you. I also have a birthday surprise for you towards the end, but go ahead, yeah. Oh, well, you were also supposed to work on Bill McAfee. Well, that's the surprise. All right, yeah, I know. Well, it's a surprise that I thought you forgot about. Okay, yeah. No, I didn't forget. Guess the Lions week four. You're winning two, oh, and one. I'm like basically the Bears. Thursday night, really good Thursday night game. I mean, I think this is probably one of the best four games of the week, Packers-Lions in Green Bay. And hard to guess this one. I wonder, you think this is one of the reasons they rested, or not rested, but scratched Jones and Watson and Bakhtiari when they knew they had this Lions game coming? Oh, interesting. Yeah, because if they play Sunday, they're not gonna play Thursday. Yeah, it's like risky, right? I have Packers minus one and a half. I had Packers minus one, and it's Detroit minus one and a half. So I get that one. But I have a theory on these one and one and a halfs. They all flipped. They always flip this year. And I think Green Bay was involved in two games where they flipped. Today, they flipped. They were one and a half. Now they're against Atlanta, the same thing. So I'm not gonna be too upset if I'm off by three points the wrong way here. I think the Packers should be favored in this game. And I don't 100% trust Goff on a Thursday night in Lambeau Field. Goff still, I know Detroit's been pretty good this year, and Goff's had some good stats for a while, but I still don't trust him 100%. He'll have it for everyone. It's like, oh, there it is. He's back. I just, I'll never be convinced. He has three interceptions in the last two games. He went forever before doing that. So maybe, you know, good team, solid run game. They put, Hutchinson's all, and everybody's drilled the whole time. But yeah, you're getting the old Goff a little bit here. I thought their defense was legitimately good today. I was impressed. I didn't know how much of it was the fact that Atlanta, with the Ritter piece of it, they're just not threatening at all in a passing game. Sunday, marquee game. This is the best game of the year so far. Bill's dolphins. Couple good ones. Yeah, I wish this was in, it's in Buffalo. I wish this was in December, but I guess we have to take it when we take it. It's in Buffalo, and it's a red hot Miami team that has scored 130 points in three games. We didn't even really talk about the 70 they dropped. The speed that they have. This Devanet Chain, who didn't even play the first couple games, and comes in, and he almost in some ways seemed better than Mostert. He's just extending the lead with these long plays. And Mostert might be a top three back now that Nick Chubb is out, right? Like, it's just, the offense, you're right. They do feel like they have a different gear. Do you know he's the only guy I have in all three of my leagues? Mostert. Mostert? Yeah. Wow. And it was not intentional, but I ended up with him in two, so then I was like, all right, I guess I gotta go all in on him. Are you counting the Patriots defense too? Cause I know you have like six defenses in our league. Were you mad that I picked up the Pats defense? That wasn't fun. You hate when I have three defenses. Yeah, I don't like that. It doesn't make sense. Well, sometimes it's an advantage. I have the Bills favorite in this game against Miami, but not by three. I think it is Bills by two and a half. All right, you got it. It's two and a half. I said three, and we're on a text chain with the Ring of Wives guys. I'd already picked. They said two and a half, and you're like, I already picked. Simmons is gonna see this now. All right, fine. It's two and a half. I think that's the right line. I don't think it should be Bills by three. Really? And I think this line's gonna go down. I think this ends up at like maybe Bills minus one, or maybe even Bills pick them, would be my guess. I mean, they were both blowouts. We won't see a blowout like the Miami Denver blowout in a while, but the Bills dominate it too. It's, I like the fact that we're getting them at their best right now. Great game. It's a must watch. It's definitely the first kind of must watch afternoon game we've had. I have two watchable games. The first one, just because it's us, Cowboys Patriots. Always fun when our teams play. Catching you guys, I had a nice time with a bunch of O-line injuries. Digs out for the year. Sorry about that. Never liked to see guys go out for the year, but that did feel like a bad omen. I think your favorite- Bad omen, the guy has 18 interceptions in less than three years worth of starts. It's more than a bad omen. Yeah, it's lousy. All right. Yeah, it was like after 96 straight hours of everybody talking about how great the Cowboys defense is and how great Parsons is, is Parsons the best defensive guy since, and then Digs just goes down in practice. Not good. Not good. Cowboys I have minus seven against the Patriots. Ooh, I think you get this. Yeah, I said five and a half, and it's six and a half. I'm surprised you went that high. You get it. My team sucks. What are you talking about? Yeah, but don't you think we barely beat Zach Wilson? He was getting booed by these poor fans that were just beginning this pouring rain, and they were just watching Zach Wilson go three and out, three and out, and I thought they were gonna charge the field, and we won by five. But you think that Arizona defense, that coach schemes up better than Belichick will be able to defensively against this Cowboys team? I don't know. I will say this. We're catching you at the perfect week where offensive line's banged up, coming off a loss. The Cardinals scored us at the perfect week, but yeah. I know what you're saying. The penalties are really bad. Those pre-snap penalties are just, there's nothing worse than watching something like that. Tell you who looked pretty good today. Zeke Elliott. Yeah. He had a little pop. Maybe he's ready for a little revenge game against his old team. See, that's what I mean. I'm just trying to talk myself into anything. No, but you would never think he'd have as many. Did he have more carries than Stevenson? Like, they screw that up, or they switch it up so much, you don't know what to expect. He could do something. Stevenson's been really disappointed this year. He had a play today where they had a screen pass for him, and it was gonna, and Romo was breaking it down after. It was like, that would have been a 30-yard play. He just dropped it. But I think as a pass catcher, this is yet another year. It's the curse of James White, where every other team has, like, who's that guy in your team this year? That guy who made five great plays today at the running back? Yeah. Every team has one guy like that, except the Pats. Yeah, Zeke had a 16 for 80. Ramond Ray, 19 for 59. Yeah, he was good today. They're hard yards. Next game is for the watchables, is Cleveland hosting Baltimore. I think this is more than watch, what's more than watchable? Super watchable? It's super watchable. This is, we're gonna know a lot about both teams. I like this game. I think this is another catching the other team in a good week, because the Ravens have had a lot of injuries, and if they don't have their offensive line, the Stanley's still out, and the center's still out, and if they don't have their full offensive line, this could be a tough day for Lamar. I have the Browns favored by one and a half. Ah, dammit. I thought I was gonna steal it from you. I had one and a half also, and that's exactly what it is. Browns by one and a half. Very, very good game. I don't know if it's catching them at the right time. I think catching, there's the injury part of it, too, but I think it's like, the team like the Ravens don't really lose two in a row a lot, right? True. Had they won, might have been a different story. I did something today, betting-wise, and I did it in million dollar picks, too, that I swore I wasn't gonna do all year, because the Browns line was like either three or three and a half, there was juice on the three, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna make it easier. In real life, I was like, I'll do a money line, Browns, and I'll put Cowboys, Chiefs, money lines with it, and then I can knock the juice down. And heading into the year, I was like, this is the one thing I'm not gonna do this year, is that. If I like a team, I'm just gonna bet them. I did that in week one, New Orleans, Carolina. Think that was week one. I was like, you know what, three and a half, I'm not scared, I'm just gonna do it. And then I talked myself into Sean, and then all of a sudden I'm trying to hedge this Browns bet that I love the whole week, and I have losing money on it, because you're a stupid team. But I'm just saying, that's the last time I'm doing that. If I like somebody at three and a half, I'm just betting it, I'm not thinking about it, and if they win by three and they don't cover, fine. But it's much better than getting the game right and then losing, because it's some stupid parlay. I'm not doing that anymore. You can buy it to three, too. I feel like I'm in Gamblers Anonymous right now. I'm not doing that anymore. All this is, right? My name is Bill, I'm from Los Angeles. All right, I have eight Fairly Watchables, and only one Poopfecta game, and then one for a new category that I can't wait to share with you. Fairly Watchables, first one, Jags, Falcons, in London. They're saying the rating is gonna be down for this year, because it's gonna be going against Ringer-Wise guys on FanDuel TV. It's like the best Sunday morning show. The show is great again today. I like that I texted in a bet, and you guys just ridiculed me for like two minutes. Just trying to help the show out. Now the Falcons lost. The Colts won, the Colts money line hit, and so did Pittsburgh. I almost hit the bet. I texted you that it was Colts, it was Colts, Steelers, and I think maybe in Washington. It was like 27 to one, and I texted that, and then you guys ridiculed me for two minutes. That's right. Well, that's all we can do. That's what we do best. We don't give out picks, but. Jags, Falcons, London. I'm gonna say Jags minus three. Yeah, you get that. I went a little lower. I thought it'd be one and a half, but both were subpar performances, but I guess you gotta give, I guess it kinda is a home game for Jacksonville, right? And they're there next week too.
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB128_TIM NIEMEYER: History Echoes Bitcoin
"You know, the phrase Bitcoin fixes this, I really think it incentivizes this because what you're talking about is incentive, take these incentives away. What is there to do? Free societies lead to an increased quality of life for that very reason. Controlled societies lead to a decreased quality of life for that very reason. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Welcome back into the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast. This week, Josh and myself dance sit down with Tim Niemeyer. Tim is the co -host of the Lincoln Land Bitcoin Meetup in Springfield, Illinois. He has a background in technology. He was a U .S. Air Force avionics technician. His degree is in psychology and his day job is as an elementary school teacher. He also loves history and he just authored a book titled History Echoes Bitcoin. Those of us who have spent any time studying Bitcoin recognize that it's like a sprawling, gorgeous cave. One small entrance leads to larger and larger chambers, each one blowing your mind more than the one before. What you thought was just some bizarre and useless internet money morphs into a species altering idea that could foundationally improve human cooperation. During this chat and in his book, Tim does a marvelous job leading us into the Bitcoin cave and exploring how Bitcoin's design and incentives mirror a variety of powerful and recurring patterns throughout history. Bitcoin's a big idea and history illuminates why. Speaking of history, one thing it teaches us is that too much trust in other human beings can leave you exploited and broke. We recommend that you keep at least a portion of your net worth in an asset you can fully control. And when it comes to Bitcoin, that requires you embark on self custody. We both use the cold card and there's a reason why this device has stood the test of time and is used by a large percentage of hardcore Bitcoiners. It's because it fucking works. It's reliable, ultra secure, easy enough to use, but still gives you room to grow if your technical aptitude and appetite increases. You can use code BCB that's BCB for a delectable discount on the cold card or visit the cold card link down in the notes for discounts on a bunch of their products, including the block locks. Couple of other quick shout outs and codes if they're helpful for you. If you do plan to attend Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up quick here in early October or Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville next July, take 10 % off your tickets with code BCB. These ticks aren't getting any cheaper, ladies and gents, so jump on it if you do plan to attend. Also open enrollment is upon us. If you have healthcare needs or healthcare bills and want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out crowd health at join crowd health .com and use code blue. That's code blue for a big discount on a three month trial period. Lastly, do us a huge favor folks. Can you just sit back, relax and strap in for a cosmic and occasionally comical romp with Tim Niemeyer. Tim, welcome to the show, man. You wrote the book History Echoes Bitcoin and I'm reading this book and I love history and obviously we love Bitcoin. So it's a great book and it reminds me, and I think you should take this as a high compliment. I don't know if you guys, either of you guys have read this book called Lessons of History by Will Durant. It's a short, it's very similar to yours and it's like short essays on different topics. This book is phenomenal and the fact that your book reminded me of it is I think high praise and if anyone hasn't read either of these books, you should read them both. Thank you very much. Thank you for helping me by the way. Appreciate that. Yeah, we're delighted to have you. It's a fun, interesting, very important angle. This kind of book and this theme that we're going to explore today really peels back the magnitude of Bitcoin. Like there's probably a newcomer or two out there listening that's like, I thought this was just some stupid quickly passing fad of fake internet money. And this is the kind of book that's saying, no, this whole decentralized protocol thing we call Bitcoin, it's hitting on some of the deepest, most powerful and important threads that date back through the history of our species. I mean, even if Bitcoin doesn't work, I think we learn a lot from Bitcoin. Obviously the three of us think Bitcoin is going to work, but my takeaway from reading this book is just a healthy reminder when I finished it. Bitcoin is a really, really big fucking idea. Absolutely. I mean, from what you're saying, it makes me think of the phrase in Bitcoin zoom out. So many in Bitcoin, we tend to hyper focus on the little things on the details of the code or whatever, the 21 million, this that, but when you zoom out far enough, you see how all of these ideas, all of the properties that are expressed in Bitcoin, they've been with us kind of throughout history. We've been wanting to be free of asking for permission or being censored or whatever. When you zoom out far enough, you're forced for the trees kind of thing. You're able to see how this all kind of comes together. 100%. Before we go too deep, let's rewind for a second. Who the hell are you? What do you do? You kind of have a little bit of an interesting story. We've never had anyone on here that's teaching music to kindergartners, Josh. So, Tim, who are you? Introduce yourself. I'm Tim Niemeyer. I'm from central Illinois. I grew up around here. My father was a farmer. I did a few years on that and I was thinking either do I want to be a farmer my whole life or do I want to see the world? So I ended up going in the Air Force, spent a couple of years in Japan, traveled around a little bit. And then after tour of service, I decided to go to college, got into psychology, got into elementary educating.
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"Hey, no, I think you're right. And is there a chance he retires? I mean, because we're talking about, oh, Sean Payton first coach fired. And like, oh, wait, Staley, you can't forget about him. He just went for it on fourth and whatever in his own 25. Like we could talk about that. But does he quit? Does he just like, hey, screw this, I don't need this. Our defense gave up 70. Yeah, I can't come back from this. Well, here's the interesting thing about the Denver piece that I didn't realize. They have their first round pick this year. So to me, they're in tank mode now. Like why not? If you're Payton, you have like, what was it? Like an eight year contract for like $100 million or whatever it is, your team sucks. You're going nowhere with everybody you have. You have this Caleb Williams prize that's sitting there. The Bears, so the silver lining for the Bears is they have two cracks at it because they have their own pick, but they also have Carolina's pick. Carolina's own three. Carolina's going to be in the, I don't know, in the Caleb Williams kind of mix. Is it worth it from an ego standpoint for Sean Payton to tank it even if you could tank? So that means he would go like two and 15 or three and 14 this year. And that means, okay, let's say he gets his guy and even next year he would have to still go like six and 11 at best. Like now you're like three years in and you're Sean Payton and you're nine and 24 or whatever it is. I don't know, I don't know if they play like that. One of the reasons I couldn't get behind them as a playoff team was because of their schedule. And Chicago, ironically, is their easiest game next week. And we're going to go, when we do Guess the Lions, we'll go into whether they're favorite or not. But they still have, they have two Kansas City games left. They have two Chargers games left. They're at Detroit. They're at Houston. Houston's super frisky. They have to play Cleveland. They're at Buffalo. Like they have a lot of losses left if you look at their schedule. They have the Chiefs twice in the next five weeks, I think. Yeah, so they might end up, if they lose the Chicago game, there's a real chance they could be like 0-8, 0-9, something like that. And then maybe you'd have to think about it. The Bears, they're going to get two cracks at it. It was interesting, Carolina, they hung with Seattle for a while and they had Andy Dalton, who's basically, after watching Mac Jones for three hours and then Andy Dalton, I couldn't tell the difference. And he's starting to Adam Thielen. I was thinking, one of these NFL teams needs to try, it's almost like an old-timers league for the NFL. You just get all of these guys. Zach Ertz should be on that team and all these dudes that are kind of on their last legs. And you could kind of put an offense around all those guys that would be pretty confident, right? Like Dalton throwing to Thielen, bring back AJ Green, let's get him back in there. DeAndre Hopkins. You need to put up good, big stats, Adam Thielen, but we need you to come in and score at the end of a game and cover on a two-team teaser. Not even cover the regular spread. Could you do that once a year? I have more topics for you. We didn't talk about the Drunk Coaching Bowl yet. Minnesota versus the Chargers. A game that I bet on, which is- Oh, no. Yeah, I actually did the adjusted, I figured it would be a touchdown or less game. So I did the Vikings plus seven and a half. And I did the over under down to 52. And it hit. Or I did it to 51 and a half and it hit. I hit it by half points, so I actually hit the tees. We talked about taking both teams plus seven and a half because we knew it was gonna be a one-score game. Yeah, but of course it did. And yeah, that was bizarre. And I don't know, people are like, oh, Stanley got lucky. He got lucky, he gets to keep his job. Like, should he get to keep his job? Because he keeps getting lucky doing dumb things. If you shot me in the face, if you shot me and missed three days in a row, and I'm like, oh, you're lucky. You would've gone to jail if you hit. No, let's get this guy off the street now because he's really doing damage. Eventually it's gonna be bad. I don't know, he's just so inconsistent, Stanley. Like he had fourth and two from the 40 against Tennessee last week, 21-17, and punted. Yeah, and then he goes for it here. The team must be like, what the F is going on with this guy? I follow, I swear this isn't, this is gonna be a diss. I follow this guy, Seth Wilder, on Twitter, who's really good. He has like good analytic stuff, and he immediately lays down what the percentages are. So when the Chargers went for it on fourth and one, he said their analytics were go, 88.9% chance to win the game. If you punt, it was 82.1%. So he said Brandon Staley made the correct decision. I'm gonna forget those. No? Hold on. I just disagree. Like you can give me the math. First of all, that's a 6% difference, which means if you play the situation 100 times, one time it's 88 times it works, the other time 82. Not that huge of a difference. But it also doesn't take into account the game itself. Minnesota, I just want to punt, and I don't think Minnesota can go 70 yards from watching that whole game. I didn't think they were gonna be able to do it. They were gonna fuck it up. They're gonna do something dumb. Cousins were gonna do something dumb. If you shorten the field there, now they have a better chance. So that's one thing. The other thing was the play they ran stunk, which they never factor into the 88 per se. They just ran this stupid, what was it? A full back dive into nine people? Like if they're gonna run that play, run like with the picket play that they won to win the Pittsburgh game, where he rolled out and he had a whole bunch of people and three receivers in front of him or whatever. But they never factor in how bad the plays are with these percentages. So if you told me like, all right, what are the percentages with the most predictable full back dive ever right into the middle? I don't think it's gonna be 89%. Here would be my analytics. It's a little unorthodox, but I would ask all knowledgeable Vikings fans, do you want them to go here or do you want them to punt? And 107% would say, we want them to go for it here. That's my analytics. Yes. If the opposing teams, smart fans want you to do one thing, you do the other. Also because the chargers of their history would be like, please go for it. They'll fuck this up. Please, fork the one. I know you guys make a mistake. We're gonna jump off sides. We're gonna do this. I mean, so then Cousins comes down and as we described earlier, he fucks up. 41 seconds left, just spike it. Now they don't do it. They end up losing the game. There was more than that though. Like Herbert, I think was, Herbert was incredible today. He was 40 for 47, but there was some stat where Brian Flores blitzed him on like 82% of the passes. The Vikings were like, nope, this is the one where the blitz is gonna work. It's like, the blitz is never working. It's failing every time. Both sides, just the strategy, it was just exactly the monstrosity that you would've guessed. So I guess Minnesota's done now. They're 0-3. I don't really see a roadmap. And you were right. 0-3 in close games. In one score games. And you pointed that to that last year. I think they were 11-0 or 11-1 last year. Now obviously 0-3. Yeah, and the Thursday night game pits the two 2-0 teams and the Vikings and Bears are at 0-3. I don't know if they're a cross off yet because you're right. They could be, that seven seed could be bad. Could be like nine and eight. One thing with Minnesota is, their receivers can get open. And it always feels like they have plays downfield at all times. I don't know what Madison's stats were today and maybe they were better than the eye test, but he just doesn't seem like an everyday, every down back to me. Which maybe is one of the reasons they traded for Cam Akers. But it feels like they're a running back short. And I know they've had a couple injuries too. All right, so that game was ridiculous. He actually had 93 yards and 20 carries. But it just wasn't about that. But they just didn't get the big number. When you watch him, does he feel like a, like he doesn't feel like Dovlin Cook the last couple years or anything like that. I left that game feeling worse about both teams. I don't know if that's possible. I know the Chargers won, but I don't feel good about them at all. Another thing that happened. They're the two worst teams in sports. Let's put it that way. They really are. Another thing that happened, Houston not only beats Jacksonville, I didn't put that game on until they took a lead. I didn't, they didn't make my initial cut. And that was an ass kicking. But they were just better. That wasn't flukey. That wasn't like Dallas, Arizona. You could be like, all right. Dallas got a little lazy at the start. They fell behind. A couple of dumb penalties. Houston was better than Jacksonville. And I don't know what to make of that one. Yeah, I think what to make of it is both south divisions are kind of up for grabs. And this is what we're going to see every time they play each other, you know? And the other thing is we talked about it last week on Guess the Lions. Damn, the odds aren't up. But Stroud for Offensive Rookie of the Year was 10 to one. And I know everyone's saying, Bijan, Bijan this. And he was like 250 or 300. Stroud's got to be the favorite. That's got to be way less. Did you see the stat about his passing arts? Most career passing arts in first three games. Cam Newton won. Justin Herbert too. Stroud three. Mahomes four. Luck five. Baker Mayfield six. His 906 passing arts in three games. Only three guys have ever done it. And eye test-wise, it's fucking unbelievable. Love it. Really confident. I like his receivers. You know, Nikko Collins and Dell who are like, if you're in fantasy leagues, you know who these guys are and people are bidding on them. But big, physical, fast guys who make plays. And these guys. Robert Woods is fine there, yeah. Yeah, and he's got a shitload of confidence. I like that team. I got to say, AFC South odds, Jacksonville plus 150. I don't like that at all. I just don't think Jacksonville's look good. Tennessee plus 220. We have that from earlier in the year. What do we have that at? Like plus 390 or something like that? Yeah, I was in the threes there. I just wish, I don't know what I wish. I didn't like what I saw today, but I also think they can compete with Jacksonville. I think you throw out Cleveland games. Cause they're big. Indy's plus 280, which actually seems too low. And then Houston plus 750 didn't seem like a crazy long shot to me. They have a lot of talent on both sides. And I like Tamiko Ryans. And I was thinking like Sean Payton murdered the new coach theory. We talked a lot about before the season about Sean Payton, new coach. This is usually works, but I was scared. I stayed away from them. I was like, I don't know who the new coach is. Who is it? Maybe it's Tamiko Ryans. Yeah, I had an apology for him. I apologized for him for what's about to happen. I guess I jumped the gun on Ringer Wiseguys today. I was like, Tamiko Ryans, I'm sorry. You deserve a better job than this. You're going to get blamed. Just like the last two Houston coaches were. They were all both one and done's, but this is Bill O'Brien's mess still. And just hang in there. But yeah, he's doing more than hanging in there. They have some, they get to play Carolina later this year. They get to play Arizona. They still get to play, they get to play Jacksonville again. They get Tennessee twice. They have an Indianapolis game. They get there at the Jets. They're home for Denver. They got, there's a path for nine wins for them. And before the year, Houston 10 plus wins was plus 5.50. Houston to win the playoffs was plus 5.20. And Houston to win the division was 10 to one. And now it is plus 7.50. And I got to say that division looks wide open to me. You got Jacksonville going to London now and they're playing two straight London games. God only knows what's going to happen after they come back from that. But I don't know. I didn't feel like that Houston game was a fluke. I love going over odds and everything, but I feel like both South divisions we talk about way too much. I really do. I feel like it's, it's like, these teams aren't going to make a dent in the playoffs. I'm sorry. This is, this is like us talking like a half hour about Pete Buttigieg's candidacy. And the Democrat, it's a nice guy, seems smart, but why are we spinning our wheels here? They're not going far. With that said, NFC South division odds. New Orleans plus 145, Atlanta plus 160 and Tampa plus 290. And Tampa might lose by 30 tomorrow night. I have no idea. I, at gunpoint, I would say New Orleans, just cause I thought Atlanta, Detroit, and Detroit was really good today. I've been very dubious to Detroit, but their defense locked down Atlanta. And they were basically like, you're not running the ball against us. Desmond Ritter, if you could beat us, Godspeed. And he couldn't do anything. And they scored six points. While Tampa was four to one, you pointed this out and they didn't even play in their plus 290, obviously, because New Orleans and Atlanta lost. But yeah, we don't know when he's coming back. Quickly, you want to talk Zach versus Mack? What was it like as an innocent bystander? I got to say, it just seemed boring. It seemed rainy. It seemed like the turf couldn't even handle the rain. Like nothing was working out in that game, but I didn't love it so much. Well, you must've been nervous at the end. I mean, it really, it seemed like a beat down until the fourth quarter. And then you got outscored seven to two and it was almost enough. I was nervous the whole game. Mack Jones had three points in the second half. Since week 11 last year, the Pats have scored 10, 26, 10, 27, 24, 18, 23, 23, 20, 17, 15. We're going down. We're less than 20 points a game in the last 11. The defense, which it was weird, the announcers didn't mention it. They had a lot of defensive linemen like going out or a couple of guys got hurt and the pass rush kind of slowed down. And Zach Wilson started to get confident. And there was like a 20 minute stretch there where I think every Pats fan was thinking this could be rock bottom in about an hour. Like if we fucking lose to a Zach Wilson comeback and Belichick loses to the Jets and we go to 0-3, like this is rock bottom. Like what happens now? Because the schedule gets hard the next couple of weeks. But the defense is going to have to win. But this is exactly what we thought, right? We thought this game goes way under and the Patriots win by, if they're given two and a half, take them, they'll win by three or four or maybe 10. But it's going to be in the mid 20s or 30s, right? I mean, we called this one and we called the Minnesota Chargers game, almost exactly. I hate to be the Boston, like the Boston radio guys, because I know what they're going to do tomorrow. And they're going to be like, Max sucks, he's terrible. Get him out of here, he's a bum, all that stuff. He's just not good. Like he doesn't make big throws and big moments ever. He has, I said this on Thursday, he has one come from behind win in 36 starts now. They had two third downs in the fourth quarter where all they had to do is complete like third and three, third and five. And they had, it's not only that we don't complete the passes, it's these like precision lob passes to backpedaling receivers who don't realize that the ball was thrown over the wrong shoulder. And it's like, they're fucking disasters. And these are like the biggest plays of the game where it's like, all we need is like that picket made today and third down. He rolled out, he threw it to his guy, the guy was open and that was it, the game was over. The Pats can't even do that. It's really rough. Here's my devil's advocate. I thought Romo did a decent job pointing out that nobody was open this whole game. None of the Jets receivers, none of the Patriots. But who, honestly, who is he embarrassing? Farrell Brown, Kendrick Bourne, Devante Parker. What have they loaded this guy up with? Juju Smith-Shuster's good for one or two receptions. I don't know. But this is like, now we're turning into like the youth sports parents who's like, the coach won't play my kid enough. At some point, Mac's gotta have a good game and he's gotta make good throws and he's gotta make like some, have some awesome comeback or something. Like, what are we gonna, he's gonna have 100 starts? We're like, oh man, if he only didn't have, I don't know, I have a lot of trouble watching it. And I really don't think, like I watched Andy Dalton today in the Seattle game. I'm like, Andy Dalton's better than Mac Jones right now. He's his. And I don't even think Andy Dalton's good. You have the, well, I said, everybody's the same. Everyone's 15 for 29 for 201 with a touchdown or an interception or something. I just, I'm so down on all the quarterbacks in the league. And you play Dallas next week. There's your comeback. You'll be thrilled with that win. That is exciting. All right, we're gonna take a break and then we're gonna bring in a special guest to talk about this, Taylor Swift. Oh, Travis Kelce combo.
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"I was researching them, because when we talk about the torture teams, we always talk about like the Lions and the Vikings and the Browns and the Bills. In the last 25 years, the Bears have won three playoff games. Like how long can you ride the 85 Bears thing? There's people who are 40 who don't remember the 85 Super Bowl at this point. Their last seven coaches were Eber Flus, Matt Nagy, John Fox, Mark Trestman, Lovey Smith, who's the best of the bunch by far, Dick Jaron, and Dave Wanstad. These are their last seven coaches. Like doesn't that make you feel better about the Cowboys? Yeah, it does. The best quarterback was Jay Cutler for a year. Their biggest rival is the Packers, and they never ever beat them, right? That's the other thing. And got mocked by the Packers quarterback year after year. And the Justin Fields is just, he's not the answer. I don't know what, they were gonna get smoked anyway. But when you lose 41 to 10, you expect the losing quarterback to have 400 yards passing. He had 99 yards passing. He had 11 completions. No one else played quarterback. Yeah, he can't even do garbage time yards. Yeah, right. Yeah, I don't understand what goes on there. Yeah, and they're the cursed franchise. I thought it was the Colts. I was like, oh, they have the new A-hole owner. They had a lot of off-season stuff, right? No, it's the Bears. Now it's their coach. Now it's their 0-3. Didn't they have $100,000 worth of equipment stolen this week? Like every week there's a crazy story with them. Well, and then they got Michael Parson stolen. That's right, that's right. Yeah, they could have taken, when did they take Fields, 11? They trade up for him? I can't remember. But that was in the Michael Parson. And Patrick Holmes will always remind them that they passed on him, right? So, of course, this was gonna be a 31-point blowout that we should have just jumped on. So, silver linings for the Bears. I can't help you. You wanna do cross-offs right now? Because I have Chicago and Denver as our first two absolute cross-offs. Do we wanna wait? Because they play each other. Nah, they're both fun. They're two cross-offs. Denver lost by, Denver gave off 70 points today. And then I was watching the overtime show with Terry Bradshaw, the Fox show. And he's like, they'd been probably on too long. I don't think Terry should be on live TV for more than maybe 20 minutes at a time. But it was like the 30-minute mark. And he starts going this whole thing about, this is not the quarterback, Sean Payton. Sean Payton doesn't have his quarterback yet. It's like, how is this Russell Wilson's fault? They gave up 70 points. They gave up 10 touchdowns. They gave up 11 touchdowns. Did he mean cornerback? Did he mean corner? Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, and I think there's a collective exhale when Terry gets through the halftime highlights. But I love him, God bless him. But yeah, I don't know what to do about that. All right, I'll cross both of those off. Yeah, I mean, Denver's my best bet. It has to be the worst in the league, not to mention the Wilson part. Hey, maybe we've seen this happen sometimes with the coaches that come back and they don't have it anymore. Remember when Joe Gibbs came back that time? It's like, oh, Joe Gibbs is back. It's like, eh, okay. Like you had Landry, he just didn't have his fastball anymore for what, four years there? It would be like right now, it would be like if Brady retired and the Patriots went 500 for the next four years. You're getting there, yeah. Oh, shit, that was a bad example.
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"We don't see lugar a ludas, esta nueces una taria para tibios, esta nueces una taria para córdes, esta nueces una taria para los politicamente correntos. Xo no me me ti yaca para estar y ando córderos. Xo me me ti yaca para despastar de odres. ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! ¡Quiero! When you think of Argentina you might envision tango, soccer, or maybe a juicy steak, but today it's all about a wild surge in bitcoin advocacy and a man whose opposition to statism might be louder than a wake -up call from Frankie. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM That's right, baby. Wake the f 'up and get on the Freedom Train. We get a lot of s*** to cover. Let's get it! I think that it can be my moment. Because as we have seen, we are in all of them. And we are not one of them. This is what we are in all of them. Because we are going to do everything, and we are going to take care of everything in the world. Yes, to be able to build Argentina properly. A liberal Argentina. An Argentinian people. An Argentinian that is going to build the borders of the world. And yes, in 35 years, we will be able to build the first global potential. So yes, effectively, I am going to be in politics. be Will it Teresa? Míle he is right. Míle? Míle, he is right. farm. go I'm gonna ahead and start with this go ahead and take a look down there 339 .8 million views and I want you to put that in perspective so when I said that you know these bit corners just made history well they're both advocates and it just became the most watched interview in history now Tucker's last interview with that orange guy yeah Trump that set the record and beat Oprah's former record with her interview with Michael Jackson and it appears Tucker Carlson is going full Eminem breaking a record every time he drops a record right now what this really had me thinking is the fact that well you know Joe Rogan gets like 11 million views he's the number one podcaster in the world Tucker was the number one show on Fox News and all mainstream media and he was getting about three four million views I'm putting that in perspective he's gone independent and he's got 340 million views blowing everyone out of the water talking about well look at this Argentina's next president and this guy is winning big -time you saw those crowds who is he well Tucker traveled to Buenos Aires to speak to him and find out and we of course hear it simply Bitcoin have covered Malay quite a bit but very exciting stuff an amazing conversation very base and before we get into that now Malay you got to understand they kind of do language a little different right so when he uses the the terms liberal he's referring to classical liberal like Bastia which is closer to libertarianism or anarcho capitalism if you'd like to say and when he refers to anything like socialism or communism of course they're all the same thing all statism and that's really the point that he's driving home is the fact that it's freedom versus the state and I love it until you fix the money for example a lot of Western democracies went full tyrannical regimes over the past few years and they're supposed to be democracies with representative government that is supposed to work in your best interest but I think we know the truth well let's get to it we're in downtown Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina this was once about a hundred years ago one of the richest cities in the world and you could tell as you walk around the fated grandeur of a once great city but this is now a desperate country its economy is in shambles has been for a long time Argentina famously defaulted on his debt more than 20 years ago but now hyperinflation has made this country genuinely desperate you see when you have dinner here in restaurants and people pull out bricks of local currency the peso to pay it feels like Weimar or Zimbabwe but it's not this is a developed country that's moving backwards at high speed and because of the frustration that has built up among the population particularly among poor people a man called Javier Miele is poised to become its next president he's a former soccer star goalie a performer in a Rolling Stones cover band and a libertarian economist he's not a libertarian in the traditional American sense he wouldn't fit into the Cato Institute he's libertarian in the traditional sense he believes people should have the maximum amount of freedom they can be given which is a lot much more than they now get in Argentina he has moved from basically nowhere in the last several years to become maybe the most famous person in this country the election is next month in October and once again it seems like he's likely to win he himself is a Bitcoin enthusiast right he jetted off to Argentina not for steak not for soccer but to meet the rock star economist and fellow Bitcoin advocate Javier Miele why do you think from your perspective you've become a man with no political background so popular so quickly in this country that in a cable con el hecho de que ese de huador de football a mismo tiempo ese do cantante rock -and -roll y ademas a soy economista y creo que esa combinación es una combinación attractive en terminos de producto televisivo pero por otra parte lo que también es importante el tema de las cídeas y argentina a pasicamente es un país que se va cien años abraçando las cídeas socialistas y entonces la revelión natural del sistema era ser libérales y es por eso que la revelión natural la parece siempre los jovenes y los jovenes encontraron alguien que man Miele from an 18 % poll prediction grabbing a 29 % victory in the primaries Miele maybe is unpredictable as a Bitcoin price chart and with hair that's probably more talked about than the latest thing what is that now like men in black aliens in Mexico or something and the guy is very based he's just gonna say what he thinks what he feels but Miele's boldness isn't limited to just critiquing the state but he also questioned the Pope talked about advising the orange guy and has many times advocated for Bitcoin is the future of financial freedom in short Javier Miele is making waves the Pope the current Pope is from Argentina I would think he would support you he has instead criticized you and you've called him a communist why the disconnect bueno primero porque el papa juega politica vente a si luma some papa donde tiene forte Ingenencia política ademostrado además una granda finidad con dictadores como Castro o como comaduro si restar el lado de de dictadores wait I'm sorry Raul Castro's a murderer si if you got to the minute at Rocesino but the Pope you believe the Pope has an affinity for Raul Castro si exacto si decho no los condena si repatante condescending de conesos y esta mien condescending de con la dictadora venesolana a si el condescending de con todos los discuiras a un cuando se verdaderos criminals toco el esos un problema prudemas es a lien que consider a que la justicia social un elemento central de desu vision y eso es muy complicado porque la justicia social case robar el fruit su trabajo una persona y dar ciudad otra en dos es implicado dos cosas una es un robo y el problema es que el robo esta encontra de lo que seniela los días mandamientos si ha valar la justicia sociales ha valar el robo por otando son problema de que está violando los días mandamientos el otro problema es que es un trato decíbal friende a la ley now me and myself I'm kind of against protectionist policies but Malay on the global stage he has a clear stance no deals with status so china lula unless it's about decentralized money of the future bitcoin probably don't bother knocking you've said that as president of argentina you will not do business with china de cho no solo no via certain negocios con china no via certain negocios con nimún comunista esir habar yo soy un defensor de la libertad de la paz y la demogracía lo comunista no entranay but also incredible beyond the politics and probably his bitcoin price checks who is this Javier Malay at heart well one thing he's a man whose phone screensaver is joy has no end and is as passionate about freedom the austrian economic community as he is about bitcoin and decentralization no no no no no no when you talk about and live according to your conscience you don't have me because you know what is the definition of this personal me you know that when you are in the last moment or when you are in the constant pressure of being big you know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? This will pass all over your life.
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The Breakdown
A highlight from How the Crypto Investing Landscape Has Changed
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 24. And that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to Long Read Sunday. Today we are getting into a topic that relates to maybe one of the biggest themes that we're watching right now, which is capital fun flows and the institutional engagement with the cryptosphere. Now, our piece today comes from Jeff Dorman, the CIO of ARCA, who has some really interesting insights to share about the time that he has been running his fund. The piece is called What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. And because I am recording my sixth podcast of the day, I am going to enlist a little help from AI me, but I will be back as regular old NLW with some wrap up thoughts at the end. I've been running a crypto fund for one thousand eight hundred and twenty five days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto, we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years. And with twenty four seven trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As chief investment officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times and constant innovation. The five year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. One tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an often accurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early stage venture funds, where many of these real time market related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models to interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 seven globally does not necessitate 24 seven trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after hours equities trading post earnings, these initial knee jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. Three, careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 seven workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a 30 billion dollar ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over the 72 hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period. And we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor who lacks that full set of information because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge, handoffs and documentation for balance between short and long. In debt and equity markets, quiet periods of time, summer holidays often lead to slow grinds higher in price. It is expensive to stay short and dividends and coupons continue to accumulate, adding more buy interest to the market. The opposite is true in digital assets, since the majority of crypto projects accrue value through network activity, slower periods of time tend to slow momentum of an asset. And since most assets have no distribution of cash flows, the cost to short is minimal. As such, negative price action tends to be more prevalent when markets are slow, leading to difficult decisions with regard to hedging and long exposure. As a result, active management continues to trump passive indexes. Rules based passive index strategies simply cannot keep pace with the innovation and changes to these markets. Similarly, these indexes can't take advantage of the volatility, which creates quite a bit of alpha. Over time, this will likely change as the market matures, but we're not there yet. Building a good team is fundamental for success and incredibly challenging. I've worked for seven different financial firms over the past 25 years. I've seen thousands of resumes and have interviewed hundreds of people. I've worked personally in just about every financial department, banking, trading, research, sales, business development. If a TradFi Wall Street firm asked me for a candidate, I could find them one pretty easily that best fits their needs. Five, hire people passionate about the industry. But what are the best attributes and qualifications for a research analyst in crypto? What makes the best trade ops person? Who is best suited to handle investor relations? These are still not easy questions to answer in crypto. During the first few years of our fund, we took what we could get, which is to say, whoever wanted a job. The pay sucked, the hours were long, and the future was very uncertain. Anyone who wanted a job in this industry in 2018 shared a true passion for blockchain success and was willing to learn any part of the job necessary to succeed. Most people who joined this industry pre -2020 are still working in this industry, and their job responsibilities evolve in real time. But in 2021, I could have handpicked any person I wanted from every major bank, brokerage, and hedge fund, who all had zero crypto experience but saw big money ahead. The resumes were pouring in. Many of these employees didn't work out. In 2023, we're back to the passionate souls who will do anything to work in this industry. Six, everyone wears multiple hats. This is a very hands -on business where research analysts have to test functionality of applications, challenge status quo financial modeling, and network live with other industry veterans at conferences. Traders have to navigate back and forth from US macro to Asian currency markets to crypto -specific on -chain wallet movements depending on the current correlation du jour. Back office employees have to test new service providers every three weeks to keep up with changing regulation, best practices, and LP demands while navigating constant bankruptcies, closures, and hack attempts. The common denominator seems to be a real willingness to test new theses. If you give 10 equity analysts the same inputs, they will give you largely the same answer and will present the same homogenous modeling techniques to arrive at this answer. If you give 10 crypto analysts and traders the same inputs, they will most likely give you 10 different answers using entirely different analyses. That's refreshing and often leads to outsized alpha, but also creates challenges when it comes to creating a repeatable formula for success. Seven, trade ops is the most important department. When I worked at credit and equity funds, the back office was overlooked. They were usually young kids eager to move into a real trading role as soon as they could. The job was basic blocking and tackling. Make sure trades settled, make sure your brokerage statement was accurate, and make sure the fund admins did their job. Compliance teams were there simply because they had to be. We all knew the rules, we obeyed them, and if there was any doubt, we checked with compliance but knew the answer would be, don't do it. We should be so lucky in crypto. Trade operations is the single most important job in crypto. You have to touch the assets every single day and a single mistake could cost the firm millions of dollars. As a result, not only do these need to be the most trustworthy people in the firm, but they need to build redundancies that can still operate even if they themselves vanish. Getting into a trade ops role is more glamorous than getting out of trade ops, and those who build their careers in this subset of the fund business end up learning the most about blockchain. Similarly, compliance is not an afterthought in crypto. Unlike in TradFi, it cannot be assumed that your employees know the rules, as most come from completely different backgrounds than Wall Street. Constant education and monitoring is a must. Further, a compliance officer can't just read the rules and assume compliance since there are few clear rules to follow, despite Gary Gensler telling us otherwise. To do your best as both a fiduciary and a law -abiding company is a Herculean effort. 8. The sell side is getting better. In traditional finance, the sell side offers a pretty valuable role. They underwrite new transactions, create novel financing ideas, advise companies on how best to participate in the capital markets, facilitate trading in existing securities, write research on new and existing securities, and pass along market color between participants. Both full -service investment banks and niche broker -dealers exist, but regardless of whether you use a one -stop shop or piecemeal the services with multiple firms, the services themselves are all covered. While the sell side is getting better in crypto, it is still incredibly fragmented and many of these services still do not exist. As a result, fund managers are often on an island, forced to manufacture its own deals, structure its own financings, and do its own research from scratch. Written research from OTC trading shops has greatly increased in volume and improved in quality, providing a necessary channel check on the state of the markets. But the trading itself continues to be very exchange -based, black box, and therefore lacks natural axes between investors. Trading color about flows and activity has improved, but there are fewer market participants to glean information from. There is still no full -service investment bank, and in fact, true investment banking services for underwriting and advisory of token launches is probably the biggest white space going forward. I'm constantly shocked at how few well -known Wall Street capital markets tools are utilized within crypto. Most token launches are doomed from the start. From low float, high fully diluted valuation, FDV token launches, to direct listings at insane prices, to poorly written tokenomics, token issuers, who are often developers and lack financial knowledge, continue to have to come to market without the assistance of those who know how to do this best, which subsequently leads to worse investment opportunities for asset managers. Some service providers are getting a lot better, like Custody Solutions, OTC Trading, and Options Liquidity. Still, others are getting worse, like fund admins and auditors, who in the wake of FTX are pulling back from these offerings. On the tech and research side, it's amazing that Bloomberg's crypto services continue to be irrelevant. The coverage list, their index, and all functionality is still from 2017 and does not take into account how much this industry has grown and evolved. Fortunately, newcomers like Nansen, Masari, Glassnode, Dune Analytics, Telegram, and others have innovated fast enough to take this corner, and we are grateful for these companies. It is entirely possible to run a crypto fund in 2023 without ever logging into a Bloomberg terminal. Overall, fund management is still challenged by the lack of sell -side tools. As the sell -side improves, so will the number and breadth of funds. 9. The investor base is getting smarter. When we began our fund five years ago, we knew the educational journey for prospective LPs would be slow. We were learning constantly as we invested and doing our best to educate interested investors in real time, but it was not practical to expect anyone who wasn't focused full -time on this industry to keep pace. Questions from prospective LPs tended to focus more on how we invest versus what we invest in, and there was definitely a bit of a leap of faith by investors. Fast forward to today and the script has completely flipped. LPs are getting much smarter about the asset class and the investment universe, thereby asking better questions. In some cases, the LPs now know more than we do as they are exposed to different areas of the industry that may not be in our everyday focus. That said, the amount of bad information that continues to flow effortlessly through the media and influencer accounts continues to reach LPs as well, often surprising us in regard to certain topics of interest that we deem irrelevant, but our investors believe are topical. As investors start to become more digital asset savvy, they want far more control over investments and specificity has increased. Asset managers in this space have launched highly specialized funds based on investor demand, including DeFi focused funds, NFT funds, etc. Many asset managers, including ARCA, have started creating funds of one inch that allow for more specificity, but provide the professional team to manage the investments. In 2018, if you asked us, we would recommend going with a professional investor, but as information is more readily available and UI UX of projects get better, we encourage retail investors to research and invest. However, to generate alpha where information asymmetry exists, it's still valuable to have professional fund managers who can take advantage of the 24 -7 news cycle, market volatility, and a murky regulatory environment. Overall, running a fund in this new and innovative space has been incredibly rewarding and we look forward to the next five years. Fund managers will continue to straddle the line between becoming more TradFi -like and adopting best practices of Wall Street, versus finding ways to take advantage of crypto -only opportunities, yield farming, airdrops, testing new applications. The most important factor for success in the digital asset space is faith in the future. We have to believe we are at the frontier of building a new financial system that has the capacity to transform society. While we fully expect bumps in the road and pushback from incumbents benefiting from the status quo, we know that as long as we continue to move forward, fight for the necessary changes, and adapt as needed, this industry will succeed. Okay guys, back to regular old non -AI NLW. The thing that stands out to me after reading that article, as trite and as cliche as it sounds, is just the how early we are theme once again. Every cycle it feels like we see it as the mass flow of new institutions into the space and to some extent it's true. We obviously got a lot more market participants from the traditional sector last time around than we had before. It feels, however, now that we're inching ever closer to a period in which those traditional actors aren't just tourists, but are long -term participants in the space. Certainly right now you have an interesting jockeying for position where the Blackrocks and Fidelities and Franklin Templeton's of the world are laying the foundation for what seems like a much more proactive end -to -end from the beginning of the cycle on through whatever happens after kind of approach. I've said before and I'll say it again that I think Blackrock's ETF application will mark a significant pivot inflection point of this cycle when we look back at it historically. I think we will see it as a firewall that stopped whatever further slide might have happened and reinforced for market participants that crypto, despite being as down as it was in every sense of the word, was going to come back. And so I think about Jeff's next five years running a fund and how different they'll look. The different participants that will make up the market. The different ways in which people will engage. It's pretty hard to imagine from where we are, but it's certainly interesting to think about. Anyways friends, that is going to do it for today's Long Read. I hope you are having a wonderful fall weekend wherever you are. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
Mark Levin
Rep. McCarthy Frustrated After GOP Hardliners Push for a Shutdown
"A significant increase in securing the southern border and the northern border. And you turn that down, when 214 of your colleagues, including the vast majority, overwhelming majority conservatives, including the Freedom Caucus, are all in? What's your game None. plan? You don't shut down the government with no game plan. Because you know what happens then? Somebody else comes up with a game plan. Like the in Democrats the House, yanking a few of these Republican reprobates over and getting their budget passed. And you already have McConnell and the majority Republican senators who have sold out to Schumer and Biden. So you don't shut down the government. So, when you have this tiny majority and you have a plan that's put forth that slashes the government at the domestic level bigger than any plan that I've ever seen anybody from and seeks to secure the southern border, why would you throw that away? And if the Senate isn't going to support and fight over that, then you have something concrete, something tangible to fight over. and spending major steps towards the securing the border, defending the military spending, defending that's a winner to me as a conservative.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Inside the Funding Fight With Kane of Citizen Free Press
"Us now is Citizen Kane from citizenfreepress .com. Mr. Kane, thank you for taking the time. I think all eyes are on this funding fight. You guys at CFP Nation have been covering this. What are you hearing, Kane, front lines, grassroots, as far as what are the expectations and demands going into the 930 funding fight? Well, expectations probably match up with the emails and responses you just got that you just mentioned, which is everyone is incredibly cynical. I put up a story in the stack yesterday that some members of the Freedom Caucus are looking for an 8 % reduction in federal spending. And as one of my commenters pointed out, when you have a $2 .2 trillion annual deficit and your budget is $7 trillion, 8 % of $7 trillion is $560 billion. So even doing something as dramatic as an 8 % cut in spending would still leave the deficit at $1 .6 trillion. So getting a little deeper, I'm sure you saw the headlines. I put up three headlines. I think it was on Wednesday. I originally was drawn into politics because of national debt decades ago when it was crossing $1 trillion, $2 trillion. So that's always been an issue that I paid very close attention to. And as the debt balloon passed $15 trillion, the total national debt balloon passed $15 trillion, then $20 trillion, then $25 trillion. We weren't getting hit that hard, as you know, because interest rates were so low and they were financing the debt on short term, essentially three months to one year bills. So they were able to finance it at 1%, 2%, 3 % for about 10 or 12 years. And I kept telling people, if you own gold, if you own silver, just wait, because we will revert to the mean. We will get back to 5 % interest rates. And a 5 % interest rate, and this was the point of my post earlier in the week, a 5 % interest rate on a $33 trillion national debt is $1 .65 trillion every single year just for your interest payment. That knocks nothing off the debt. All that does is keep you, essentially keep you even with paying your interest. And so to wind it back to your question, CFP Nation is cynical. They don't believe it. They don't believe that the cuts that are out there are even big enough. And so that's where we
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 09-22-2023 19:00
"When professional soccer player Marcus Rashford injured his shoulder, he turned to Resil's virtual reality training program to help him maintain his skills and return to the field with confidence. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. And this is Bloomberg. Stay with us now. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden is joining the United Auto Workers picket line. Biden tweeted that he was going to Michigan Tuesday to stand in solidarity with the workers as the fight for a fair share of the value they helped create. This comes after UAW President Sean Fain announced earlier this week he would send more workers to the picket lines if substantial progress wasn't made with the big three automakers on a new contract. Governor Phil Murphy is calling on New Jersey U .S. Senator Bob Menendez to resign. Menendez was indicted on federal bribery charges that allege he accepted cash, gold bars and gifts in exchange for using his influence to help three businessmen and the Egyptian government. The White House is calling on Congress to do its job and pass legislation to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. House Republicans failed multiple times this week to do their basic duty, keep the government running. Instead, they were pushed to the extremes with increasingly severe cuts to programs Americans rely on. Press Secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre called on House Republicans to abide by the bipartisan funding agreement negotiated by Speaker McCarthy and President Biden. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying more buses to the border towns of Eagle Pass and El Paso.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Matthew: The Temptation Of Jesus Christ
"In chapter 4 of Matthew, our Savior was led out into the wilderness where He was tempted for 40 days by the devil. But what did the devil think He was going to accomplish? Did He really think He could convince Jesus to sin? And why did Jesus undergo this temptation in the first place? Those questions will be the focus of today's study. Does the Devil Think that He Can Win? Does the devil think he can win? In today's text we are considering this temptation of Jesus which occurred when Jesus goes out in the wilderness at the very outset of His ministry and the devil comes and tempts Him at least these three times over a course of some 40 days. And given the lengthy amount of time that went by and given the amount of intervals in which the devil went at Him, you have to wonder, did the devil think that one of those approaches or all of them might succeed? Did the devil think that he could be victorious? Did the devil think that he could win? It probably depends on how you define winning. If the question is, does the devil think he can win? It probably depends on how you define winning. You see, we tend to define winning, especially when it's mono e mono or one force against another force. We tend to define it in, I guess, I don't know, wrestling terms. Two men enter and one man leaves sort of thing. Whoever is the last man standing is the one who wins. When we think of this sort of conflict with these sort of stakes, we think that he who is standing at the end of it is victorious. Now, under that definition, if you think long term, we think that only God will be victorious at the end of days. We see the devil cast into the pit of fire and we say there's only going to be one standing, only one standing, that will be God Himself because He's bigger and stronger and more powerful and transcendent and all these things. Well, here's the thing. I don't think the devil defines winning the way we might. I don't think the devil believes that he can out muscle God. I really don't. I don't think that's something he believes is an option. He's going to out muscle God. However, however, he may have thought this. He may have thought that although he might not be able to out muscle God, he may have thought that he could at least become equal to God. Maybe he thought that he could at least share the stage with God. In fact, I can prove it. Isaiah chapter 14, we read this, how you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, how you're falling from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. For you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mountain of the congregation on the farthest sides of the earth. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. I don't think the devil thinks that he can make God subordinate to him, but I do think that in his perverted sinful mind, he thinks that he and God can be equals. In fact, he's always had a complex with that. And Isaiah 14, he says, I can ascend. I can be like the most high. He overtly says that. And God says, no, and that's why you're being judged the pride that you think you could do that. But what was the temptation to Eve? He comes up to Eve and he offers the same idea. Eve from the tree, what will happen? You'll be like God, knowing good and evil. I think the devil has a complex about this, the idea of being like God. Now, how could that equality occur? Is it possible? Well, we know, no, it's not. But theoretically, how could that sort of equality occur? Can the devil ever rank up, you know, perk up, rise up to God's level? Can he ever do that? Can the devil ever graduate and become the level that God's at in terms of power and authority and might? Well, probably not. However, maybe the objective of the devil isn't necessarily that he's going to rank up to God's level. Maybe, maybe the objective is to bring God down to his. And that's how the equality would be attained. When a child rebels against a parent, the objective isn't necessarily that I'm going to overthrow my parents. They know that's not an option. But if a child can make the parent frustrated, if a child can make the parent break ranks from their previous attitudes, if a child can make a parent sin, then what happens? Well, then we're both wrong. Sometimes children in sin are just looking to get their parents to that point of anger and heat and temper where they do something wrong. And what is the net effect of that? It brings the parent down to their level, right? We're both wrong. There's an equality that could perhaps be attained if you can take the parent down to your level as a child. Well, what do you think's going on here in the wilderness? The devil's tempting Jesus to do what? To sin. And what would be the outcome of that? Well, suddenly, suddenly then, the differences between the devil and Jesus are just a matter of degree and not of nature. It's very possible. I can't say this dogmatically because I don't know what dogmatically, but it's very possible that that's the objective. To somehow even the playing field to be like God, if I can't rise up to His level, maybe I can break Him. Whatever the case, the objective here clearly is that the devil wants Jesus here to do that which He shouldn't do, to give in the temptation of the human flesh. And as we're going to see in the text, Jesus won't fall for it. All right, let's expand on this now. Let's look at verses one and two and then just work our way through this short passage. Verses one and two. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. This is not an accident. This is intentional. God sends him there. The Spirit leads him there. And when He had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, which is a significant number, afterward He was hungry because He was a man of flesh and blood, just as He was fully God, He was also fully man. All right. As we said a few moments ago, this passage occurs at the outset of Christ's ministry, really at the start. It's right after He was baptized and before He recruits His disciples, which will occur later on in this same chapter. Now, verse one suggests that the Spirit, remember, had come down as a dove at Christ's baptism and lighted upon Him. The same Spirit drives Him out after the baptism. After God has said, this is my Son in whom I am well pleased, He's driven out into the wilderness in order that He would be tempted, in order that He would be tested, in order that His obedience would be put to the test in the most difficult of landscapes. Now, again, at face value, you can stand back and go, well, why? I mean, I get it happened, I read it happened, but why? Why did God the Father, why did the Spirit hand deliver the Son into just the most rugged landscape on earth, which if you've ever been there or looked out upon it, it's like the moon. It's hard to describe. When you look out at this, it looks like the least desirable place you could possibly ever spend a day, let alone 40, 40 days here. So why would He go out into that environment in order to encounter the world's toughest spiritual adversary? You're sending someone in the worst circumstance, the worst environment, in order to encounter the worst adversary they'll ever face. Why? Well, let me answer that question as best I can in the shortest amount of time I can answer it. R .C. Sproul, the Presbyterian theologian, he explained it in this way, and I'm partial to this, but he says, all right, here's the first Adam, way, way, way back in the garden, was tempted by the devil, right? The devil basically asked him some variations of the same thing, or asked Eve some variation of the same things that we're seeing here, put God's word to the test, and without any hesitation, Adam and Eve, our first parents, yielded to temptation and did that which was wrong. So the first Adam messed up, and the result of the first Adam messing up is that you and I are messed up. We might not like it, but that's the way it is. We are fallen as a result of being the progeny of our parents' first sin, our federal heads first sin all these years back. So Adam messed up. Well, in Romans 5, we see that, all right, if Adam is messed up, then what do we need? Well, we need a better Adam to come along. If Adam messed up, we need a better Adam to come along and do that which is right and live up to God's standard and to pass the tests and temptations that he might face. Well, Sproul makes the case, and I agree, that the whole objective here going out in the desert is that the second Adam would do what the first Adam failed to do, be tempted and yet stand. But here's the difference. If you think about Adam and Eve, think about the garden. Was the garden a nice place? What do you think? I would think so. Based on everything we read there, it sounds pretty grand. So Adam and Eve are just in this lush garden. There's fruit on all sorts of trees. I mean, there was one tree not to eat from. Everything else was cool though, right? So there's animals and plants and flora and fauna and just good times. It's the garden of Eden. It can't be that bad. Contrast that to the wilderness here. And what you see is that one difference between the test of the first Adam and the second Adam is the environment.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1409: BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Will Drive $1,500,000 BTC Price
"In today's show, Bitcoin fails to recoup post -fed losses as $20 ,000 Bitcoin price returns on the radar. In breaking news, the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was indicted for corruption by the federal prosecutors who seized $100 ,000 in gold bars and $480 ,000 in hidden cash from his home. Max Keiser responded to this story. Gold is the poor man's Bitcoin. It encourages thievery, war, violence, excess stupidity like Peter Schiff and Nassim Taleb, both who turned down my offer of free Bitcoin at $1 in 2011. Also in today's show, Bitcoin blast pass is 2021 all -time high in Argentina, but hyperinflation outpaces once again. We'll also be discussing Binance and CEO CZ asked the court to dismiss their SEC suit. I'll be breaking down this latest saga as well as Bybit will suspend services in the UK following the financial regulators final warning. We'll also be discussing Nick Carter doubling down on the theory the Bitcoin was invented by the NSA. We'll also be discussing major fund managers as the BlackRock ETF will drive the price to $1 .5 million per Bitcoin as it literally unlocks $30 trillion worth of capital. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. And a quick reminder, if you gain value out of today's episode, the greatest compliment you can give, simply smash in that like button as it helps out tremendously with a YouTube algorithm. And if you're not already subscribed to the channel, you know what to do to receive daily premium crypto news alerts every single day, just like this.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"Mother Theresa and Me" With Actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
"Back. It's my privilege to be speaking with the actress and producer Jacqueline Vricci Cornaz. I keep trying. You were just telling us the story of so so this film Mother Teresa and me. There are two storylines. One is the story of Mother Teresa whom you play in the film, but the second storyline involves this girl you were just telling about telling us about named Kavita and so that's happening in a contemporary time. In other words, this is she when she goes to Calcutta and she meets the Sisters of Mercy. She does not meet Mother Teresa because this is years after the passing of Mother Teresa. Exactly. Okay. Exactly. There is one moment actually where Mother Teresa holds her in her arms when she you know took her out of a burning hut. So as a baby Kavita she's in the arms of Mother Teresa, but I don't want to tell more about Kavita because it's it's so interesting. I think for the audiences to discover themselves the whole Calcutta story because and Mother Teresa really changes the life of this young woman. Well, it's interesting you talk about. I don't know how you phrased it, but Mother Teresa was you know putting her faith into action and this is a big thing. The the the great Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer about whom I've written this was his central idea. If you can boil things down was that unless you're living out your faith, you really don't have faith. You have to live it out. You have to put it into action and in a way when you put your faith into action, it deepens your faith and so it's kind of a conundrum because it's it's the two go together and I think a lot of times the tragedy of many Protestants or evangelicals because I wrote a biography also about Martin Luther is to say it's just faith as though it's this intellectual thing and they forget that I must put it into action. Otherwise, perhaps I have no real faith and so it's an important idea and I'm so I'm excited that in this film you give people an opportunity to see that because that's something that people often think of Christianity as just a series of doctrines or beliefs and that's not right. Well, on one hand, of course, we see Mother Teresa as a Christian as a Catholic nun, but we also feel this universal energy of love because this nanny of Kavita, she says, you know, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, we all need the same love and I think that's the main message of the film because our world needs a lot of love to you know to develop and to overcome all the film doesn't take a position, but it wants to inspire people to live with more love in action.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1264. Government Shutdown Approaches | Crypto Markets in DANGER!
"All right, so today we're going to dive into the government shutdown. Take a look at how this may affect markets, especially the crypto markets, and of course break down a few charts for you guys at the end. You make sure and stick around for all this good stuff. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back in The Tech Path. All right. Before we get started today, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital, for looking at long term holding. Make sure and jump over to iTrust Capital. You can do everything from Bitcoin, Ethereum, a handful of all coins, but you can also get into gold and silver. All of that is available into your own IRA account, self -directed. All you have to do is click our link down below. It's going to give you a $100 funding reward, and you can go on your journey of setting up your IRA. And it's almost that time of year. We're starting to get into tax planning and all those kind of things. Always consult your CPAs and or your tax advisors for the best advice out there. But check it out. All right. Let's get into a few things. I want to get into the government shutdown first. I've got a couple of clips we'll play for you. We'll get into some charts a little bit later for you as well. I want to go to this first clip, though. This gives you kind of a rundown of what's happening. Here's a refresher. First off, Congress needs to pass 12 appropriation bills annually to give government agencies a budget for the coming fiscal year. If some of those bills pass but others don't, by the deadline, the government enters a partial shutdown. If all 12 appropriations bills aren't passed, the country goes into a full shutdown. Congress has only a handful of working days left to keep the government funded. Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's willing to keep the House in session on Friday and Saturday if a deal hasn't been reached to avert a government shutdown. However, both of the sides, the House and the Senate, will be off the following Monday in observance of Yom Kippur, continue to jam House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who's been trying and failing to pass bills to keep the government open with Republican votes only. Do you believe the government is going to shut down? Yes. And it's Kevin McCarthy's fault. Kevin broke this deal. And I intend to hold him to that deal or to hold daily votes on a motion to make. Some members warn an October 1st federal shutdown is increasingly likely, which could rattle the stock market and Americans for a one case. The seven hundred fifty thousand member American Federation of Government Employees has warned members to save up whatever money they can. This isn't happening in a vacuum. It happens when we have a spreading strike of UAW workers and we have a lot of people who are being asked to start paying student loans. So we could be hitting the economy with three things. Three things put together could begin to have a punch. I mean, are we already at more than 50 percent odds of a shutdown? Well, I think so. I think it's more likely than not. It's possible if there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get. And we you know, we would just have to deal with that. And I don't know, it's hard for me to say in advance how that would affect that meeting. It would depend on all kinds of factors that I don't know about now. But it's certainly a reality that that's a possibility.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Tom Emmer's Anti-CBDC Bill Passes House Committee | EP 830
"You're against freedom. Good morning, everybody. What's up? It is Friday, September 22nd. I'm your boy, Opti. And as you can tell, I'm hosting the show today, but the show don't stop. And very interesting stuff that we didn't cover throughout the week. Apparently Tom Emmers has been spearheading this anti -CBDC bill and it passed in the House Committee. And we've been talking constantly about the ideas of CBDCs, the dangers. And I was going to say the pros, but there is no pros to this. This is absolutely nefarious stuff coming out from every country in the world and everyone wants to roll out a CBDC. Well, as I've been saying, there may be still some good people out there. I know we don't like politicians, but there may be some that understand how dangerous a CBDC will be. And they are saying the quiet parts out loud. And I do have some contention. We will kind of talk about this during the news. And the bill will now have to advance to the House of Representatives, but at least the signal is getting out there and it's constantly getting out there. And we're constantly talking about the fact that a CBDC should never happen in the US. It is literally anti -American. And I'm just glad that more people are noticing this. And it's not just simply Bitcoin that is telling you this. It's not just Bitcoiners that are talking about the dangers of CBDCs. Remember what CBDCs really stand for. It is not central bank digital currencies. It is central bank digital control. Remember the meme. And anytime they talk about a CBDC system, remember what it really is about. It is about controlling your behavior, controlling your transactions in a world where they are censoring content creators, independent content creators, where you can't talk about the truth. You think they will let you transact freely if a CBDC system gets rolled out. Don't be naive, guys. This is the last thing we should want. This is the last thing that should ever get rolled out in America. And we know that they're trying to do this everywhere around the world. We've seen that a few different CBDC pilots have been rolled out. We've seen, especially like in Nigeria, that the citizens do not want it. But we even have the memes from Elon Musk about making Twitter be the WeChat of the West. I don't know. It all sounds dystopian to me if you're talking to just a humble Bitcoiner. But anyways, I do have some good videos here and we will be talking about sovereignty in all its forms, whether that's health and education on today's show and rather in life in general. So I think we have set this show up perfectly where I'm going to give you guys some context of why we Bitcoin. Then we'll talk about the news. And then we have a guest here today that I think you guys are going to really enjoy. But of course, I am not alone. But anyways, welcome to Simply Bitcoin. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. We cover breaking news, culture and romantic warfare. We bring on Bitcoiners from all around the world, from the biggest names to the everyday savage Bitcoiner. We got them all. And we will be your guide through the separation of money and state. And of course, I'm back with one of your guys's favorite off the bench, Simply Bitcoin co -host, Mike Hobart. Mike, how are you doing today? What up, nerds? I hope you guys are having a good Friday. I just got my Friday started off with a workout and I am still soaked in my own filth. So I'm just rolling in this raw, man. I'm ready to go. Wow. Okay. Let's we'll gloss over that. Okay. All right. Anyways, our guest today is Scott from Free Market Kids. I really, really love what you're doing. I think it's one of the most important things to be doing is not only educating everyone out there, but educating the children so they don't have to deal with the fiat messes. Anyway, Scott, how are you doing this morning? And maybe just TLDR people. What is Free Market Kids? -oh.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 13:00 09-22-2023 13:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. Anicot Steel loves Blue Horseshoe. Yes, Blue Horseshoe loves Anicot Steel. All right, check out that reference on YouTube. This is Bloomberg. Sound on, Joe Matthew, next. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg Sound On. We're talking about red and blue division within states. How busy is Donald Trump's legal team going to be? Is the economy stupid? Is that actually what will decide this race? Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. So hey, where'd everyone go? Welcome to the fastest show in politics as lawmakers head home for an extra long weekend with no plan to fund the government pass next week. We'll talk about the difficult path ahead and whether a shutdown is inevitable. Coming up with Bill Hoagland from the Bipartisan Policy Center, he's with us at the table in just a moment. The United Auto Workers Meantime, expanding strikes, as you've been hearing on Bloomberg against GM and Stellantis, but not Ford. We'll take a look at why and explore how it's playing on the campaign trail.
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: Ethereum Absorbs Alt-L1s | SEC vs. Stoner Cats | Mark Cuban's -$870k Wallet Hack
"Layer two summer is getting hotter and hotter. Three new roll -up ecosystems have joined Ethereum just this last week. This isn't just another OP stack. It's not just another Arbitrum or ZKSync. These are brand new ecosystems coming into the Ethereum layer two roll -up fold. Bankless Nation. It is the fourth Friday of September. David, what time is it? Ryan, it's the Bankless Friday weekly roll -up where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor. This week, no exception, yet we persevere into the frontier nonetheless. How are you doing this week, Ryan? I'm good, man. Back from permissionless, feeling energized. It was great to meet the community last week in person, get some proof of humanity. One time a year that Ryan manifests. Yeah, some hugs. Well, handshakes, high fives, stuff like that, fist bumps. Yeah, it was great. Anyway, okay, we got some topics of the week, David. The SEC, they're coming after the celebs, man. Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher. Gary Gensler does not like what they did with their NFT project. We're going to talk about that. What else we got? But why this NFT project? Is it because of the celebrities? We'll talk about that. Coming up after that, Ethereum collects three new roll -ups this week. Two of them previous layer ones, now layer twos on Ethereum. And the third, based on Solana. Solana on Ethereum as an L2. What is going on with that? We're going to cover that. And then Ryan, what's after that? We got Coinbase. Apparently, they have a 570 ETH work of Alchemix's money. How in the world did that happen? And should they give it back? This is kind of an MEV question. Legal question, moral question, some big questions. It's a quandary. It's a real quandary we got on today's episode. And then speaking of quandaries, Mark Cuban, he lost almost a million dollars in a wallet hack. Not good news. We'll tell you a bit more about that. David, before we get in, we got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Bridging Protocol, Platform, Layer Zero. What do they want people to know? Layer Zero and Google Cloud have partnered up and they are ready to bring the interoperable cross -chain apps of the future to you. This is what they want to do. So, of course, what is Layer Zero? It's a simple modular framework for applications to use the Layer Zero smart contracts that exist on 15 different chains. And then Google Cloud as the default Oracle between these different smart contracts are the service provider for passing messages so that apps on different chains can start to be woven together. So Google Cloud is the latest option of Oracle's for Layer Zero is served as the default. But, of course, Layer Zero, if you want to pick your own Oracle, that is something that you can apparently do. So visit LayerZero .network for more information if you are working in the world of cross -chain interoperability. Cross -chain, we're moving from this world of cross -chain to a multi -chain, which is different. You deploy once and you got to cross many different chains. So very cool stuff there. David, let's get to the markets though. Speaking of cool stuff, how are we looking on Bitcoin price? Is that cool? No, it's not cool. Not cool stuff. Bitcoin lost $100 in the week, which isn't that crazy. No, that's not that crazy at all. I mean, it's not cool, but it's not like bad. It's definitely not cool. Yeah, it's something in the middle. How about ETH? It's worse. Definitely not cool. Down 3%. Started the week at $1640 currently at $1590. I think I saw a low of $1575. Not, not cool. It's not cool. Thanks to Kraken for these charts though. And if I press reload, does the price go up at all? You should try that a few more times. How many times do you do that per day? Just like, you know, if you don't like the price, you just reload.
Backstage Pass Radio
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"But that was it for me. That was kind of my story that that moved me from. Move the needle from tech to sales okay because it was a money thing right i mean every year. You're like man. I hope i get a three percent raise this year. You're always it's always contingent on what they wanna give you. I want to be in charge of my own destiny. If i if i make no extra money. That's my fault if i make more money. That's my fault it's all contingent on me. I live or die by my own sword right so that was that was kind of bit for me now. When you were working for a i think it was a major health care provider in the chicago area. You became a contestant on the ultimate fighter season six on.
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"I think you are referenced as a ground and pound fighter but you had a wrestling background. Did you not have a come through a wrestling background at all. Or was that something that was picked up later on as you got into. Mma picked up later when i got because of victims on a chain that there were typically wrestling based and then you just follow. Your instructors are sure kind of where it started off the ground and pound for sure. Gotcha now. it's kind of interesting. Because you and i are in a lot of ways poured out of the same mole so we were ex engineers for an it consulting firm. We've worked some of the larger manufacturers in the world and then at some point in time we decided that we wanted to go from factor fiction and moving the sales right so so talk to me about a little bit about that transition. Like what drove you to move out of tech into sales while i got into texas. I was really computers. When i was younger too as well so i was a bit of a nerd even though as a competitive athlete but really loved tinkering as well So that got me into the engineering side. I was a consultant for many years. And then after about twenty four years of doing that with a little break for fighting of course between there but you know it was kind of the same thing over and over learned new technology. What's the new features new functionality. you really heads down in these The the wedesday collot. I feel like i'm the account manager sighed get be more broad you get to be more businesslike talk to different type of executives So that was kind of the impetus that maybe moved towards that route. Sure sure and so on the tech side. What would you say was your your area of expertise as it related to tech like. When i go back people say well you were consultant urine engineer. What what was your thing and my thing was citric acid citric guy right. I architect and design citric solutions. I implemented them. I supported them. What do you feel like your forte was and tech right. Did you have one that stuck out that you were just better at than any other. Maybe manufacturer technology has changed over the years. When i first started it was microsoft and sedgwick's we would call them. I worked for a isp's application service providers. I would say that was the precursor to today's cloud. But you know there wasn't the connectivity back down. Oh yes do. Isdn's was you're gonna minding you isd together to get faster through so it never really took off. And then the crash of two thousand one really hurt but microsoft issues where i started off. That was my it consulting years. Then i moved over to be somewhere then. Storage and servers. When i moved over to dell. Emc yeah and then now. I'm in the in the channel. Okay and do you feel like you would have move to sell sooner if you could have like if you had to go back and do it all over again. I think it's great to have the tech background because people like you. And i i. I think that lends some credibility to us that..
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"Do solos like nobody. I've ever heard it very much stuck out in my mind to it's like wow that's pretty pre technical playing there. It sounds really good. If i asked the same question of savage what song. What was your song back in the day. What was your favorite song to dubai savage when you guys played live. Probably break away okay. It was that was on. The first record of that was actually written by lance ross. He was he was in brittany for a while and then came over into savage. He was actually the first guitar player. Savage and then michael scott came. Let me get my chronology together right. So yeah he. He came into Savage and then then michael scott but he wrote hero breakway and that was off the ep. Our remember yeah and was. Cut it out a unoriginal yahoo by you guys. That was always one of my favorites formal training on the drums. Yeah the funny part of it is is a just said come back from l. a. Thomason bang bang out already. Done the winter cat thing and was in bang. And it's word. I met the the great greg lemay. He was at one of my shows and he just walked up to me and he goes. Hi i'm craig lane you ever think about taking drum lessons. Here's my car. Give me a call and any will turn out walked away. And i was like man if fucking but you know i thought card and i thought about it for a couple of weeks and i said you know i found out that actually he had he had Todd bobby rock and blas elias. A probably should give this guy call and he he certainly changed my drumming life for sure he he took me to unravel. I was not at all if it hadn't been for him the lot that i'm doing now. That would not be able to do him. For so bobby rock he he was. I think a houston guy right and then left and went and auditioned for the vinnie. Vincent invasion right and landed that big. We were in the hallway together because auditioned for that too. Oh did you. Yeah i went in. I and i knew that it was over. Bobby going in after me because it was There's no way that i was going to win. Something over that guy. He's he's beyond incredible. Joey had a lot of nice things to say about yum yum. Right great guy wonderful. I've carrying guy known him all these years and you know was he. I'm trying to remember. So i was he a drum instructor at h. and h. music here does sound. Oh i didn't. I knew of him. He he would come see savage economy of him. I didn't renew found more about him. After a loss audition you know started doing some research about who who was and what he did and so but i. I don't know as good as he is. Probably you know. I can't see him not teaching. You know all i know. I don't know to what extent that he worked with craig. I'll know that they actually did work together. And they remain Best of friends to this day. Great in it seems like if my memory serves me correctly he might have done some producing with dana strum well. Dana strum was Our producer you. He produced the sweet savage record. Okay and That's actually how. I got the audition for the vinnie. Vincent invasion and then Dana strum was the bass player for the vinnie. Vincent invasion bobby. Got that gig. So that's how they stayed together scout and for the listeners. That are wondering who the hell is. Vinnie vincent right. I was one of the guitarist that was in kiss. Yeah he was a while. I think that they might have been the third replacement i think. Mark saint saint. John hewlett bruce kulich. And then i think vinnie and Tommy something is the new guy. I can't remember no. I don't follow kissed him on. Don't either interesting radio. I wanna thank you for Being gracious with your time and joining me here and I i wish you all the success in the world and hopefully the swamp hippies get out and start playing some shows and you get some of that stuff recorded so we can make sure we get it in the hands of the listeners. As always i want the listeners to like sharon subscribe to the podcast. And if you can do a review on the show that would be super awesome as always. You can find us on facebook at backstage. Pass radio podcast on instagram at backstage pass radio. Twitter is at backstage pass. Pc and then on the website at backstage pass. Radio dot com. You guys make sure to take care of cells in each other and we'll see you right back here on the next episode of backstage pass radio. Thanks so for joining us. We hope you enjoy today's episode backstage. radio make sure to follow randy on facebook and instagram at randy hosie music and on twitter at our palsy music. Also make sure to life subscribe and turn on alerts for upcoming podcast. If you enjoyed the podcast make sure to share the link with a friend and tell them backstage pass. Radio is the best show on the web for everything music. We'll see you next time right here on backstage pass.
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"Black oak arkansas. I'm remember so then. Went on from there. But i got to meet. Tommy wants in the rainbow in la. It was really like my besides bottom my biggest heroes so that was a. That was a wonderful shining moment while yesterday. Finally get to meet him so well. The first time that i ever heard of tommy aldridge. He was on tour with ozzy. And mike wow this guy. He's phenomenal drummer. And i'm not a drummer but you know i. I think i know a pretty decent drummer. When i hear one play right but but i think he's floated around with a lot of big names. Was he considered kind of like a hard gun or would you say that he was. Maybe a hired gun session guy that traveled around and latched onto different bands. Look at that way. I don't know if that's the way he may we would want to have himself categorized but has played continuously Ever since i've heard his name and his various bands from you know black oak. Arkansas pat travers japan travers one of my favorite bands of course whitesnake and then the osce thing and i'm not sure exactly who who's playing with right now but They he's playing with somebody and he's he's played with many a listers for sure. So was drums the first instrument of interest to you and was at the only instrument that you were interested in. Because i think a lot you know start out on one thing and then gravitate the something else later on. Was it always drums for you. Well i always loved guitar but it was not really meant for me. I guess the way after the little dabble with me. Anti back in the third grade when i was in the eighth grade when we moved to grand perry texas. My best friend alam lewis. His brother carlos was in a band called wit's end and we used to go watch her all the time. And so me and allen and our other best friend richie moore's We all hung out together and we decided one day. Let's put together a band. You know and reduces says along to play guitar in allen. New is not gonna be as good as his brother was on. The tories will play bass in nozzle. Okay well. i guess. I'll play drums and prime sky. How started and then I guess the sad part is story is my dad had passed away and my mom knew i wanted to play drums so she said you know. Go find a drum set. So i did an interesting. We went to go. Check it out with me and enriching and I was looking at. It is beautiful. It was what i wanted. It was old. Ludwig psychedelic grad. Mcdonnell know why they call. It psychedelic riddick. Red green and blue swirly has really neat looking and the guy said we'll sit down and play. make sure you like it I never really. We'll just sit down to bang on it. So i sat down and hit a couple of times and i just kind of jumped straight into four groove and and ritchie looked amigos me. I didn't know you could actually play this exact. So that's kind of where it started and it kind of took off from there from grand prairie texas and the eighth grade. Is that up around dallas. Yeah you've got dallas irving grand prairie oakington forward. I mean all the mid cities there's teen teen towns around there but it's kind of south west of dallas. Technically okay now. When would you say that you started taken the drums serious. You know everybody starts banging around and make it some racket on then just day because I kept playing accord. Nothing really materialized with me. And allen richie. I'm an eleven to that but it just didn't really gonna take off and some other players throughout high school and mom helped me with my second drum set which was another ludwig and and that A few other players. And and i guess it got serious when i met a bass player named michael mullins at the time. He was living in arlington with his wife. Linda mullins but there from san antonio and he was just an incredible bass player and he kind of took a plane to another level. We actually for the first time put together serious act and we call ourselves britney and we started playing the local clubs in and arlington and dallas and fort worth. And what have you. Yeah while well they they do say that you become a better player when you surround yourself with better players you can kind of pick your game up right because i think a lot of musicians like to stay secluded in a closet or a studio in the house and they never branch out. And it's there's a fear factor. There no doubt right but i think the more you collaborate whether you suck or whether you're good i don't know how you judge musicians i mean i don't think music is a competition myself. But are you you should you should. I mean you should always play with better better players or somebody that helps you. Step your game of court and before again. Trouble of britney being my first band. I've got mentioned the singer. Gary minner keith. Kreider was guitar players. Steve davison was the keyboard player. If i didn't mention the names etendard hunt me downs. Will you've cleared it up then. So how long was britney together Was that a short-lived projector was that. Were there some longevity to it was okay a couple of three years. I think we started when i was nineteen and i believe the sweet savage project started around. Twenty two maybe twenty three years. Also i was in brittany for a couple of okay. A couple of years in Actually the two brothers. Chris and lane from sweet savage kristen lanes sheridan had moved down from columbus ohio and they were looking to put a band together and they came out to see brittany because they wanted my guitar player. Michael scott okay. He was kind of like a stand in kind of the end. Britney on also lance ross to and britney of august shot so they came to see Michael scott and like me to They actually got a two for one. So that's kind of weird started and then we all met together. It of an apartment on greenville avenue in dallas and Lane played a tape of joey. Because joey was still up in columbus ohio. 'cause all you know land chris all those guys from columbus And we said that's the guy and the next thing you know joey's down here and boom there you go. yeah he. He said in his interview that he was rescued by you. Guys from being a hill billion columbus thawra in ohio right so he got here as quick as he could to join join forces with you guys back on back on the drumming piece were you. Were you in band in high school. Did you follow that track at all. Not at all I wish i would have. Because that's one of the biggest mistakes that i ever made was not learning how to read the charts. I mean i can read exercise charts but a could've done more as a career drummer. If i knew how to read didn't really interest me back in those days when you talk in the eighties it was like okay. Let's just be a big rock star. Sure reading music is for chumps. You know that just idiot mentality. i wish it would've. It would've been different. And you know you're not the first one that has said that i've done a couple interviews and in the first interview i did you know i was a guy. Vocalist kinda That why did the theory thing all through school. So i had a really good foundation in music and one of my guests had mentioned that you know. He probably regrets that the most because he really didn't have any guidance or somebody to push him to the choir to the ban to get that musical background. So that's one of the things that he regrets much like yourself. And i'm i'm i was educated just recently in an interview. I interviewed geigy. Also from zebra. And you know. He's teaching in the new orleans area now and Like i didn't know there was music to read for the drums right just i. I guess i was naive. That it's you just learned patterns on the drums right even be a musician. I didn't realize that you could actually read music for drums..
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"And where they can find you though. I'm like a big instagram guys. So you can find yet night. Ej music on instagram. And you can find me on facebook at matt eugene music and On spotify you can find the at matt. Johnston and on my I guess you know if you go on google you look be off utah and everything else is at night you jane music so they can find me. They're like everywhere writing. I got all my purse right right. No that's usually the easiest way certainly to to find people is just google them but Sometimes it's easier to just go directly to to a site. But thank you for sharing that. I i wanna thank you for joining me on the show today. I know that we worked a little bit on getting the schedules to coincide. I know you're busy guy. I'm a busy guy. But i'm glad that i had the opportunity to chat with you. I look forward to the The release that year. You're gonna you're working on. I encourage my listeners. Of course to go out and and Indulge in your music. Listen to new things. Maybe that you haven't heard and think you'll love the music that that match you puts out and i also asked the listeners to like sharon subscribe to the podcast also. Don't forget the follow matt on all of his social media platforms. I know that he would appreciate that And as a reminder you guys can find backstage. Pass radio on facebook at backstage pass. Radio podcast on instagram at backstage pass radio on twitter at backstage pass. Pc and on the website at backstage pass radio dot com again. I want to thank the listeners tune in and matt thanks again for being a gracious guests and sharing your story with my listeners and you guys stay healthy and thank you again for tuning into backstage pass radio you got it. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you enjoyed today's episode of backstage pass. Radio make sure to follow randy on facebook and instagram at randy hosie music and on twitter at our palsy music. Also make sure to life. Subscribe and turn on alerts for upcoming podcasts. If you enjoyed the podcast make sure to share the link with a friend and tell them backstage pass. Radio is the best show on the web for everything music. We'll see you next time right here on backstage pass radio..
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"He no ooh natures. Just a dig that so. That's a brand new one that you've come up with and that's not on Of course is not laid out on a on an album yet. They'll probably get extended from that. But that's the that's the bare bones. I like it. I like that. Well thanks for sharing that with us and the listeners. If you like we go to some Quickfire questions real quick This is kind of a a little segment that i like to do. I just like just throw out the first answer that comes to mind. You don't have to elaborate unless you want to kind of keep it concise. But the first one is strike cats or elvis elvis carl perkins or jerry lee lewis. Oh that's the toughest one I'm going to say jerry lewis. Which is crazy. Carl perkins's one of my favorite guitar players on the planet. One hundred percent. Like that's would be a number one go-to guy but jerry lewis Really really effected my guitar. Plan my my guitar style. I learned how to play the guitar. Because i wanted to play the guitar. Like he played the piano. Yeah and and so much of my tonk in boogie. Woogie stuff come is straight straight out of the book of of jerry. Lewis crazy jerry jerry lewis trivia question for you maybe maybe i'm wrong but where where is he from where to. Where was he born to. you remember. he's louisiana guy. Yeah yeah faraday. Fair day louisiana a threat. Yeah yep knew that five. My my cousin Gene dillard she summa mom's side of the family she she worked for jerry lee in alabama really long time. Yeah that muscle shoals thing. Yeah yeah well i i. It's interesting. I watched a documentary the other day about muscle shoals and if you remember the line and skittered song muscle shoals it has got the swampers. I never knew what the swampers were dino. The crew the the musicians like i never knew. Like what the hell's swamp right so these shoes that i've got these. I i saw a picture of of jerry lee and it was his latest birthday that he had an all of all of his family Mickey gilley and everyone their standard. I'm so happy and just like grabbed him on his shoulders and everything and he's sitting in this chair with his feet propped up in these these white shoes white shoes and he's got this this huge snarl on his face and he's kicked up a toll mom story and she said well john janis. Mom talks like this. He's southern belle said johnny. You will those What he would call his go to hell shoot. That means. He can wear those shoes where he wants to keep his chin up high. And i was like. Yeah i bought two pairs louis anita fair. that's awesome. That's a great story behind the shoe. There what about tv or radio. Tv guy or radio radio guy. perfect vacation for john evans. Punta mita mexico or Yeah on on the beach in mexico s about coral blue green water. That's that's we believes that area acoustic or electric both strategy telecaster telecaster but we already covered this when producing performing depends on. How much whiskey ahead exactly rock or rockabilly rock early bird or night owl. I know favorite place to play. You can plead the fifth on that one too. If you like mcgonigal's monkey done and town here. Yeah yeah the duck. I'll have a. I think a staple artists that has played there. A lot of years is committed to do my show shake. Russell shakes awesome. Yeah yeah shakes. So i haven't got. Yeah i haven't got him on the We haven't scheduled anything yet. But i've got some confirmation that he'll do the show with me so i'm looking forward to that one. Yeah he's a great guy. Good good friends with jack saunders who get host dessel in town. Yep your favorite song to play live. You have one like this. Is my this song right here. This is i know you love all your babies and you don't call any of them ugly but is there one that sticks out in your mind that is just. It is just a good live song. Oh man Hot rod country. Okay off which release that would be off of Unlucky thirteen or is no. That's on lolly gagging. Okay sat on. Lolly gagging lolly gagging Lucky thirteen they run together now and that wasn't a quick question. I wasn't trying to stomp you. But yeah i like okinawan nice What about Formal training or play by ear. Play by your number one influential musician or band Might sound. Strange hank williams. Yeah he wrote From songwriter standpoint. He he in my opinion wrote it all and he wrote it in the simplest format so used the fewest amount of words and got the most impact out of every word. That's the goal for me. Yeah right and songs is like. That's i think that's where the genius in the song is can say it in the fused amount of words for sure. Yeah i never thought of it that way. That's a great explanation. Well it's been a blast. I wanna thank you for for driving all the way out here and taking the time to talk to me and share your story and put up with me The listeners thank you. I appreciate that as always. I asked the listeners to like share and subscribe to the podcast. I asked you guys check out john on his social media platforms online. Check out the schedule. Get out and support these musicians. It's been a A rough time over the last year with covert and so many Fulltime musicians out of work. It's been a struggle and they've had to stay relevant and try to make money in different kinds of ways so as always support john. Also make sure you check out. Emily bell online as well. And thank you guys for tuning in and listening to john and i chat can find me and the show on facebook at backstage. Pass radio podcast on instagram at backstage pass radio on twitter at backstage pass p. c. and then on the website at backstage pass radio dot com. John thanks again for being such a great guest rainy. Thanks for having me my pleasure. I really enjoy the podcast. Thank you great job. And i appreciate you doing that for for all the music app for sure. Thank you support your local musician for sure. Local venues for sure. And you you guys take care of yourselves in each other and thanks again for tuning in a backstage pass radio. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you enjoyed today's episode backstage. Pass radio make sure to follow randy on facebook and instagram at randy hosie music and on twitter at our palsy music also made sure to life subscribe and turn on alerts for upcoming podcasts. If you enjoyed the podcast make sure to share the link with a friend and tell them backstage pass. Radio is the best show on the web for everything music. We'll see you next time right here on backstage pass radio..
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"When they were still doing music we did a thing. It mows place on mason road while i was living in l. a. f. lou here and did a thing at mojos it was really thrown together but it had like some really top notch. Musicians like bubba. Gould was on pedal. Steel nob- guys. Can't i'm i'm he was associated up their great southern music. I'm was he was a staple in the scene and our condit no no See data dad was on rhythm. Guitar on guitar from justin was on drums. My mind is escaping me at the moment we had see the keyboard player. Skip now you know. Skill luther Healers for years and years He played keyboards. And so yeah whenever time allows will will love to to play together when you get tired of can't call up and say i got to the curb for a little right. This is the basket. We love him and dad. He does his own gigs around. Katie oh does yeah. He plays out at midway barbecue. Sometimes in A place called texas traditions on highway ninety and old katie. Look that's interesting. Because pre covert i was also booked at midway. We negotiated everything got like three dates on the calendar and then cova came around and that was that never got to play out there analyst. I've just been so busy with now with the podcast and with plenty of shows to play and then trying to work a forty fifty hour week. Doing what pays the mortgage i. I just don't have time but The food looks amazing. Yeah it's really good staple yeah. He plays out there with. He's got a swing band. Texas swing male. Does they do. Like all. Like bob wills asleep at the wheel really cool yeah technical yeah swinging jazzy texas wings stuff like chords that i can't even pronounce and right and yeah. It's really cool. Yeah i'll have to be on the lookout for. Does the ban habit nine. Yeah they're called the the swing and on band okay swimmer. Just a little trio with upright bass and Dad plays acoustic. And then they have a lead guided. Does all the runs moms and my mom plays. She's nuts. she's not in the in the music scene like you know bars and restaurants. But she's One of the featured singers at the ed doctorate young's The second baptist. Church there katie off the feeder. Yeah she's she sings there and And has a beautiful voice and should be singing more in my opinion. Yes sure well. When you said the the theriault at the upright base it made me think a little bit. I'm going to have a guest on a need attack down the date but shake russell is gonna be on the show right. That's when i've seen shake play around town it's him and two other guys you know. He played with. Michael hearn for a long time and whatnot in dana cooper. Yup so that'll that'll be cool. Now you spent time in both original and cover bands correct right. Was it original first and then you bled into cover later on his that kind of how it went down. Yeah yeah so in junior high. Come at come. You know coming out of junior high into high school. I didn't know what cover song was. I'd never heard the term. I mean. I knew my parents in their bands and stuff. That always played hits from the radio. I had never heard the term cover before editor what that meant..
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"Out the end of the year beginning of next year cost from womb to tomb and We recording that right now. Mary overly thrilled about themselves. Penn so a lot of things going on so that's awesome you know the also check out them facebook page and on youtube. We have a youtube channel with love. And more she can watch all forty episodes. It's pretty funny. I think once you're watching you kind of get hooked on it. I recommend that you guys make sure you check out levin war on on youtube and while i'm thinking about it i was talking to To joey jones yesterday two days ago and he asked me to pass along his phone number to you. So i will text you after the show a joey's contact information and then so we talked about where you guys could be found on social media. I thought we would wrap up with some quickfire questions. Steve these kind of meant to be fun. If you want to elaborate on any of them you know that's fine but you know one one word answers or certainly fine as well and will wrap up so beatles or the stones while influential allow lean towards stones okay van halen or hendrix summer or winter. I think you answered that earlier but you still. You stole my thunder you still. Everybody wants to steal my thunder so winters at right. How about tv radio perfect vacation for the blaze family while Soup gatlinburg disney and you just recently came back from spending your life inheritance in this and this yeah right. We've was amazing because last year we went. We all got the disease ripe before it happened. So i'm pretty sure when we had it was brought so we had to go back and and Make sure we. We had a good yet. Well i have to ask. Did it help with the crowds. That were just kind of. I wouldn't say we're coming out of. I mean who knows what cove it is and where it's going to be and all that but did you see the crowds down like. Were you able to actually get on rides within a reasonable time. Got on ride like that. There was probably about half capacity beyond still cry. Yeah at the people that have good contacts i was. I don't think. I waited in line at all four days while we went out to San antonio years back and they had this deal called speed pass. And i'm sure they have something like this at disneyworld where you pay extra money. Not i mean you certainly pay the park admission. But you buy this device and you put in an somehow like i wanna ride Xyz at noon and your pager goes off. And it's like the best two hundred dollars per head that i spent because we did. I'm white on nothing. Which is a have fast passes but you go to a certain ryden and you you sign in and they will text you what time especially somebody mainly on the bigger the resistance which there's everybody's trying to get on and stuff like that so there's some but i never have to take care of that. Thank god so because i'd be lost throughout my friends. How acoustic or electric I i can't go eat away. I even you know the all my years of as a child who you know. Ten years of class going and Flamenco acoustic so. I can't stay in Or go out. Stay in family guy. I'm all you different. She's like my wife teaches college so she has all these tests..
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"And now here's your host of backstage. Pass radio randy halsey. Hey steve welcome to the show. Good to see a man good to see you. Thank you very much for having me on that. It's an honor. I'm honored first and foremost on the show. Because there's been a lot of interviews that you've done over the years with such great publications parameter cream karang. The list kind of goes on and on and on and if the listeners haven't heard of these publications than they were the ones to be interviewed back in the day. So thanks again for being on backstage. Pass radio it's an honor man. I appreciate it so as a multi instrumentalist. When did you get into. And what was the instrument that you picked up i. i can actually remember it pretty clearly. You know when you think back about your path. He see things in images in i do at least in snapshots and i can see snapshot of the on my six birthday walking outside in the backyard and sitting on picnic bench with this cardboard. We're box. It was it was kind of a weird dyke rama's shape or whatever. I opened it up and there was my first classical acoustic guitar. I think by folks paid about twenty bucks for it and time which is probably about two or three hundred bucks now and you know it was a big important thing and i was like okay..
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"They were so talented. And it didn't matter back in the thirties. Exactly so yeah you and there were probably some people that were like a rare articles by christopher cross. You know he was remember. That's how you won a grammy. He was at whatever year that was that was it san antonio boy and he always talks about how he just. It was right before the visual era. And he just isn't a. I mean he's just a dude as a good looking guys abnormal looking guys. He's fingers you're out of his head but he i mean and these are his words. I'm not saying but he said he was just a little. That was just that era and then you had that magical weird time where it all worked like a youtube good looking people. The police Duran duran i mean you can say what you want about duran but those guys took their that was. They were serious about that. Know so it all worked kinda worked together but that was when the visual you know again. The that's where you're saying like when we grew up it was not the visual part of it was something but it wasn't all you now. You can almost kind of almost always think about that for sure. You almost can't separate it at all and you'd always hear about i remember. I gave a great example. We went and saw the cars. This was like the candy. Oh album came out and we love the cars and these are like all musician buddies who use other great so we go see him in austin and we had no idea they were like a chick ban they were like benjamin order like the most beautiful creature ever said and these women are just like. We didn't know at all really. This is the have that appeal. We think about that. You know so it wasn't that we were disappointing. But you're just like okay. I guess right but it's true. I mean it's just a and everybody makes it's about the i dunno performance or it's about sincerity. You look like a guy like rick springfield you think of being more about image than music right man they. Nobody's more serious about music than rick springfield he. He's he lives and dies. Songwriting you he just pretty man. He's a rockstar. Have you ever go see rich. Springfield live even if you're not a fan but it's on a great show. God you guys should be. I think the media has taken it. I mean you look at american idol and the voice. you know. there's some fantastic singers that are like you said. Have a face for radio but when i think when these people are signing talent you have to have the appeal to. I think that's part of it is part of the marketing of the music. And here. here's a crazy thing. Is i see a lot of The the artists that i follow on instagram specifically and some of the female artists. Every picture you see on post on instagram is almost like it's like a glamour shot and how about how about singing a song or your musician. So and so music. How about singing a song and showing us your talent. I don't yeah you you're beautiful and everything but it's like that has preceded the whole talent thing. I'm beautiful but oh i play a little guitar too ended tricky. I mean it's again. I don't i don't know i mean everything's just different. You know music in general consume so differently than it used to be. Yes that was. That's the thing that. I think being older that i just i would never pretend to be some kind of historian like a kept track of it. But i've seen it. I actually have played music since there was nothing like that. I mean i remember the first time i saw four track recorder. You know up until now was actually create an album with no one. So i've seen i've been in. I've lived in an interesting transitional time and has kinda done it the whole time. A lot of people will either adapt or die or just quit doing it. Because it's not the way they want to do it so they say i wanna do it anymore. Yes or or some people adapt. They don't really get good at it until they adapt like i don't know how to say this but like i have friends that were not that are like in production now and they really kept up with the technology and now they have jobs and they're doing stuff but they might not have the best year they just knew exactly to run the machine. The best you know guys didn't talk real quick to the listeners about bands that were pre wrapped ranch where what can't do in pre pre right ranch and i know you are with ranch a long time but what happened was it was every. I think everybody has a weird. They think their stories weird. But i i play in the emotions which was a fantastic group like fifteen and sixteen because those guys were all like twenty. I'd been in like high school band. And when i and the where the way that's relevant. I mean like i'd been in groups of people trying to create music. I've been in jazz ban stuff like that. So the first rule band. I was in was a bunch of big country. Boys from shire. Do don't do that. And i think when you're fifteen or sixteen that's what you need. You need somebody kind of telling you know man. Don't you know it's like the old a lot of my most respected musicians. I've ever play with kind of said the same thing. And when i say respected i mean guys that were way. More talented than me and had a lot more complex than they. They would all a few of them have said to me. My one of my best. My best friend. David simpson when we we grew up playing together and he played piano and i play guitar and i learned a lot every pretty much everything i knew about music up until we quit working together all from david and are just from having a communicate with them but he was a great musician and he could play anything but he would say something like no. It's not can you play it. It's should you play. Yes and i think. I learned not that i always knew what the play. I would never pretend that i ever learned that lesson but i just was all. I was from a very early age. Like the i bands our was in our in. I was in those guys were they were. They didn't let you just do whatever you want it. You know and i think you kind of need that when you say maybe not everybody but i already kind of jammed already kind of gotten that out of my system that you know just doing. I'm gonna just do what. I wanna do right at a very early age kind of gotten past that yes and i kinda immediately had already thinking in that one guy playing something awesome or like when you're talking about like the voice or american idol. You see one person doing something in the they've spent a million hours and they're really really good at it and it's impressive. There's no doubt about it. But i was always more impressed. You know by everyone. Doing you know like a band like us. Because it's rarer to this day it's rare you go see a band and you know i've said this and i don't know i'm probably not the first person to say but five guys all playing the same song as an that's doesn't mean it's a ban and even when i was in for thirty years i like we'd all be on the same page and just it just couldn't have been better four guys or even five and then a month later it was just horrible. It's not even a lot of it's just timing. You know and people's attitudes at the time but so before range they're really. I kinda had quit. I really wasn't doing it at all. And then when that started back up the philosophy was this. I don't know if this is a good win or not but was no plan. B like these. I already had a job. And i was doing something. So the guys that wanted to start this ban. We're doing anything. So i was like okay. I'm going to quit what i'm doing. I'm gonna quit working with my dad. I'm gonna give all this up. That i know is money in my bank account to do this. So everyone's gotta do it for a living. At least we'll have that in common. Yeah you know that if we don't all agree on everything we at least all have to make a living doing this some common. No plan b if you have a plan b. go do plan b. Yeah and in my life and that was one of the advantages to get into it. I wasn't a kid. That point a kid but i was my late twenties so i kind of approach it'll differently. I didn't it was like it's not gonna fail. It's just not yup. I i i've done things long enough and done enough research and gone and seen other bands ago. Okay i know what works what doesn't work and the one thing i learned or not that i learned but i i noticed right away was you can't create something that's not there and what i mean by that like like you had your ford especially when it's a small band like four or five guys. They're going to do what they do And they're gonna all have strengths and weaknesses. Got a play to those. Yeah you can't hire like if your keyboard player leaves. You can't fill that guy's roles exactly. It was correct so we would always adapt like every time we would lose a member or change it. Would you know what does that guy do. You know exactly what he does and whatever he does good. That's what we're gonna do. Well ranch formed by think back and eighty nine. Is that correct. And what did the original lineup look like for it was drums bass guitar and keywords in Everybody's saying for guys. You know like. I said were in victoria so we would travel. You know we get a gigging corpus. We get in austin so we had a lot of places to choose from. Yeah and it was a different again. I'll say this a lot. It was just things were different than there. Were probably more fulltime. I want to say fulltime bands. There were there. Were more bands back then without a doubt because more people just went out to see bands like you could go up and down the yon- sixteen austin do thousands of people out every night of the week. Not just the weekends. I mean you. Probably inserted. Sunday at maggie maze. And there'd be four hundred people so there was a mechanism to keep those bands working. Yup you know. How would you say that the set list. The song choices changed when i think the original singer was mark is that it was me and malcolm our original. While it was the three of us was pretty even look at when mark russell joined that was a fifth guy okay and he and he became more of a lead singer just because we kinda felt like we he was a he played guitar too but we kind of had felt like we needed that like we needed a more of a focus in just something to sing lead. Yeah that's kind of the way it happened but really with mark on a personally. I mean i wanted mark in the ban because he was just so serious about it. Yeah i mean he was serious and he still is. He's one of those guys that i knew that. I don't bands are tricky. I mean they're like any other relationship. They're they're very very complicated. But i've always felt like if you had at least have two guys. They're really really on the same page. Yeah you can. You can drive the drive. The ship that way. Well i was just curious. Like 'cause i remember when mark was with the band. If my memory serves me correctly there was quite a bit of things. Like sticks. And i remember rush. Yeah and and then he left and it went four piece. I think yeah and then some of those songs fell out. And i'm assuming i mean. Of course you have to adapt to what the the lead vocalist is capable of being right. They can't pull off every artist golota in that particular case We're doing. we're doing originals. Into so we were thinking in along those lines but also you know everything kind of runs. Its course like it sounds funny but there was a time whenever mark was in the band when that kind of music like now i have abandoned some seventies rock man. That's all we plays that kind of stuff but at the time you know there weren't a lot of bands at did that and that's kind of why we wanted. We thought you know what we like. Some of our favorite music we wanna play journey and russian and stuff so we kind of got him. In the band do that and he became. It wasn't a novelty but we did pretty well if the band was suited to doing that kind of stuff you know people really liked it. We did it and we were playing a lot so when he left in some of those songs. Kinda got retired and this through. Nobody's planning this is just highness happen. We had to learn a lot of new songs and we had a lot of learning more current sauces. We play anything current for a while so we were learning like blink one eighty two and all of a sudden that was when it was a big deal will. The reaction was huge to that because all of a sudden they're all my god i'm people are not they're never going to tell you they don't like what you're going to do with playing that song but when we did quit they're all my god. I'm so playing that now and it's just so much better. It wasn't better. No it's just different different. Yeah and So yeah we just kind of had again because we had to adapt to yes. I think Later on scott holding join our band and he was a like a kind of a. He's a great singer but he could sing like that kind of he added that to kinda high screaming voice. He could do a lot of stuff. We can do audio slave stuff like that and that's when it was a big deal so we adapted and we started doing stuff you just have to have to win and i think that that's a great segue into walking into the now with current bands you know. Let's talk about those so you have shotgun road you have the still newman do. Oh you have Mr wonderful you have diamond jack which happens to be my favorite of all of them. I just maybe. I'm just a seventies kind of guy that music just resonates with me. Diamond jackson kelly your favorite. Because i do the least well. You heard it first ladies and gentlemen all you listeners. I didn't want to say it but has confirmed the obvious. And i'm just sexy and that s my only purpose every ban has fabrio right. Yeah i think the brel brett brett was it and rat ranch while right and know what happened was again. Those are bands. That kinda they will like. Stacy already had his theory. Won't stacey stills. he's the best man and that was a relationship. That really helped me when i got out orange because he had his vision for his country ban which was classic country. It's like eighty nineties country and that's just as you know what he's really into and we were finding that it was it worked. You know he was right. I mean people like that kind of music. We ended up and with that with our country band. You know there's a lot of how i put this. There's bans is still kind of bill. Say their country band. They'll say us and they still want to try to be like a variety being. They still kind of want to be everything to everybody. Get away from it and that's okay. I'm not. I'm not look. It's if it works for them. I'm not gonna say they're anybody's doing anything wrong. There's no one way to do it but for us. We kinda san thought about it and we're lying you know we like to rock songs and it's all country you know and what we found again. No one's going to come up to you and man you guys suck it when we get any kind of complimentary one of the ones that we get. A lot is over so glad. 'cause y'all just do deaths which do do country right. We're playing in a country bar it's like actual guy can play the wobble. The dj complained that stuff. That's what for that's the point is and i think people kind of took to that and nowadays everything's so pigeonholed. I mean the tribute band thing. People kinda wanna know what they're going to get and i think that's why tribute bands are such a big deal right now. So variety bands are just. You know it's just not like it used to be you know. Play everything like what was cool about that and it was a band of its era. The thing that we did in a rare ranch where we'd probably we did anything right was we didn't man. You never knew what the hell when we play anything. Yeah and that was cool because because it really opened up we.
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"To this day it's rare you go see a band and you know i've said this and i don't know i'm probably not the first person to say but five guys all playing the same song as an that's doesn't mean it's a ban and even when i was in for thirty years i like we'd all be on the same page and just it just couldn't have been better four guys or even five and then a month later it was just horrible. It's not even a lot of it's just timing. You know and people's attitudes at the time but so before range they're really. I kinda had quit. I really wasn't doing it at all. And then when that started back up the philosophy was this. I don't know if this is a good win or not but was no plan. B like these. I already had a job. And i was doing something. So the guys that wanted to start this ban. We're doing anything. So i was like okay. I'm going to quit what i'm doing. I'm gonna quit working with my dad. I'm gonna give all this up. That i know is money in my bank account to do this. So everyone's gotta do it for a living. At least we'll have that in common. Yeah you know that if we don't all agree on everything we at least all have to make a living doing this some common. No plan b if you have a plan b. go do plan b. Yeah and in my life and that was one of the advantages to get into it. I wasn't a kid. That point a kid but i was my late twenties so i kind of approach it'll differently. I didn't it was like it's not gonna fail. It's just not yup. I i i've done things long enough and done enough research and gone and seen other bands ago. Okay i know what works what doesn't work and the one thing i learned or not that i learned but i i noticed right away was you can't create something that's not there and what i mean by that like like you had your ford especially when it's a small band like four or five guys. They're going to do what they do And they're gonna all have strengths and weaknesses. Got a play to those. Yeah you can't hire like if your keyboard player leaves. You can't fill that guy's roles exactly. It was correct so we would always adapt like every time we would lose a member or change it. Would you know what does that guy do. You know exactly what he does and whatever he does good. That's what we're gonna do. Well ranch formed by think back and eighty nine. Is that correct. And what did the original lineup look like for it was drums bass guitar and keywords in Everybody's saying for guys. You know like. I said were in victoria so we would travel. You know we get a gigging corpus. We get in austin so we had a lot of places to choose from. Yeah and it was a different again. I'll say this a lot. It was just things were different than there. Were probably more fulltime. I want to say fulltime bands. There were there. Were more bands back then without a doubt because more people just went out to see bands like you could go up and down the yon- sixteen austin do thousands of people out every night of the week. Not just the weekends. I mean you. Probably inserted. Sunday at maggie maze. And there'd be four hundred people so there was a mechanism to keep those bands working. Yup you know. How would you say that the set list. The song choices changed when i think the original singer was mark is that it was me and malcolm our original. While it was the three of us was pretty even look at when mark russell joined that was a fifth guy okay and he and he became more of a lead singer just because we kinda felt like we he was a he played guitar too but we kind of had felt like we needed that like we needed a more of a focus in just something to sing lead. Yeah that's kind of the way it happened but really with mark on a personally. I mean i wanted mark in the ban because he was just so serious about it. Yeah i mean he was serious and he still is. He's one of those guys that i knew that. I don't bands are tricky. I mean they're like any other relationship. They're they're very very complicated. But i've always felt like if you had at least have two guys. They're really really on the same page. Yeah you can. You can drive the drive. The ship that way. Well i was just curious. Like 'cause i remember when mark was with the band. If my memory serves me correctly there was quite a bit of things. Like sticks. And i remember rush. Yeah and and then he left and it went four piece. I think yeah and then some of those songs fell out. And i'm assuming i mean. Of course you have to adapt to what the the lead vocalist is capable of being right. They can't pull off every artist golota in that particular case We're doing. we're doing originals. Into so we were thinking in along those lines but also you know everything kind of runs. Its course like it sounds funny but there was a time whenever mark was in the band when that kind of music like now i have abandoned some seventies rock man. That's all we plays that kind of stuff but at the time you know there weren't a lot of bands at did that and that's kind of why we wanted. We thought you know what we like. Some of our favorite music we wanna play journey and russian and stuff so we kind of got him. In the band do that and he became. It wasn't a novelty but we did pretty well if the band was suited to doing that kind of stuff you know people really liked it. We did it and we were playing a lot so when he left in some of those songs. Kinda got retired and this through. Nobody's planning this is just highness happen. We had to learn a lot of new songs and we had a lot of learning more current sauces. We play anything current for a while so we were learning like blink one eighty two and all of a sudden that was when it was a big deal will. The reaction was huge to that because all of a sudden they're all my god i'm people are not they're never going to tell you they don't like what you're going to do with playing that song but when we did quit they're all my god. I'm so playing that now and it's just so much better. It wasn't better. No it's just different different. Yeah and So yeah we just kind of had again because we had to adapt to yes. I think Later on scott holding join our band and he was a like a kind of a. He's a great singer but he could sing like that kind of he added that to kinda high screaming voice. He could do a lot of stuff. We can do audio slave stuff like that and that's when it was a big deal so we adapted and we started doing stuff you just have to have to win and i think that that's a great segue into walking into the now with current bands you know. Let's talk about those so you have shotgun road you have the still newman do. Oh you have Mr wonderful you have diamond jack which happens to be my favorite of all of them. I just maybe. I'm just a seventies kind of guy that music just resonates.
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"Percent the face of the Outside the lights every saturday at nine. Am eastern on espn happy on people. Happy twentieth birthday. Jalen sucks. Gonzaga guard was all but unknown nationally. At the start of the season by the end of the season he was a revelation. Subs ran the show from gonzaga. As zags went undefeated all the way until the national championship game where they were beaten soundly by. Bela zada may have been depleted by their final four game against ucla. The score was ninety to ninety and over time when suggs slipped. Just a bit over half court and let fly a buzzer beater. Thanked him for the win. Subs came to gonzaga from many ha ha kademi in minneapolis. The same school that just sent the number one ranked for food in the country chat home grin. Also after the tournament subs announced he'd go to the nba while cade cunningham of oklahoma state is presumed to be the number one. Pick subs projected to go in the top five tone. I'd love to see suggs in that red uniform. Not sure you could win. Number one belonged to derrick rose and you never know when a guy mike need is all you jersey back. I'm just saying sons though look like an nba player to. You could step in to help you right away. At least a little and then a lot later. Yup happy anniversary michael jordan on this day. Twenty nine years ago jordan hit six threes in the first half of game one of the nba finals against portland. Those threes punctuated by jordan looking over at magic johnson at the broadcast table. And shrugging as if to say. What can i tell you jordan. Thirty five points in the first half. He wasn't even a three point shooter. He made only twenty seven three that entire season. Now shrug game needs to be differentiated from the flu game. Sydney hilo game and switch hands game. We could do jordan anniversary every day in june. Because jordan was winning a playoff game every day in june. This this statistic hard for me to say that separates jordan from everybody else is that he was six and in the nba finals. Lebron james has gone the ten finals but only won four even bill. Russell lost one final. But not jordan. Weren't you sitting together at that game. You were at shrug game. Not are you being here. Is that your favorite non knicks finals. Game perhaps perhaps. Maybe i love to watch jordan. When the when the light was the brightest jordan was the best loved watching happy trails march. Shy flee the winnipeg centre was elected from last night's game at a hearing with the lead today for this vicious hit on montreal's jake evans. Just as evans was sticking the ball into the goal for an empty netter. In the last minute of montreal's five to three win over winnipeg in game one of their second round playoff series shifu is no goon. He's ninth in the nhl in points this season. He's an assistant. Captain it's understandable. He would try to prevent the goal but the puck was in the neck..
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"Late seventies eighty. And we've been shown tom. Tillis centers down. This guy is cheaper. Jumping up and there anyways so tom on one of one of the quarter amount of dollars to get start in terms of you know it wasn't a frontloaded bernard shoe that just kept telling them. This is crazy to quarter million dollars from go wrong. Let's get rid nelson robin zander. Marcia birds me like crazy and he goes on. Those guys are research. They're great resistance. Are those are not producers. trust me on. This spun out what they want when he was unwilling to do other. I'm not about to go. I'm not taking one damn for this project. And i was being attribute that anyone wanted to spy on us and work with targeting rigor deals in the late nineteen nine so he contacted and ordered thousand dollars versus a quarter million dollars while tobin hidden pennies on the dollar in comparison for and so we're milton indices is used in the back and And for me. I'm never been nervous about doing any show. Except for that. And i don't get nervous about shows at all then another saying looking at their stage right in that area. There's nielsen charter. Show up roses. Are you know millions ever get excited about or anything so nielsen agreed to do it. And all of a sudden were off to just north of rockford illinois cheaper central to do some rehearsal and we ended up according to the record in the joakim all while g thinking milwaukee because there was a studio there eighty production run across the street from the conning mr hotel and still to the space studio backing the those were the days of the seven hundred fifty thousand dollar makes me were ten vote. Live yup joe again. We did pre-production with milton. Yeah i kept telling marshall borough in readiness by go look. There's about two or three are shocked to songs that have a lead reporter. How 'bout we do about ten cheap trick. Song the known. Ever and noticing. Lovely idea but marshall borough us when but we did but chew song i can wait online on his dream and now and then a force iranian negative year we were ninety about eighty five percent finish the data recorded eight percent finished and we were sporadically over budget over four thousand budget. Such a perfectionist is why on. Yeah yeah so all the sudden. Come up with some more money to those. The project was going to work out. And marshall borough refused to put up any more money. Management can adam any wouldn't budge don't wind up with ten songs. That were eighty. Five percent of the backup vocals in the nelson gave us a rough mix of everything. And of course i've turned germ that ended putting on best out of joey records. Excetera still. i'm not bitter about anything. Robert xanax like legally say that. Now we're not saying anything. Play guitar about five or six of the track genuine. Her dad is blown away. And i did get so much out of that. Obviously bragging rights myself and my damage for the only act. That renault's robin zander. Wherever went in the studio produced obviously did not stop people from directory producing it to know to me. It's a little small piece of cheap for history and to me that means more than anything in the world. You're saying thank you for reminding every trick in the book and then there twi awesome also have always been a big cheap trick fan. I think of all the acts that i've ever seen along the way i probably see. Well i take that back there. Probably the second most viewed act that. I've seen probably seen them in concert. Six or seven times I would say the number one that i've seen is zebra big band out a louisiana speaking of louisiana. I think so. I'm doing an interview with steve blaze tomorrow. Night of lillian axe. And and and i think he's got ties to berle is well if i'm not mistaken and rat so that's interesting. I'll have to talk to him a little bit about that tomorrow night. I won't go stevie stablized. Love you steve. Were the first of two people. Send our music marshall borough. So i stevie summers uninviting dinner. I hope that you you do show donald soon. In fact we another show it to. You can just one. Maybe blatant william adam jones. Tony oh man. I'm only going to charge you. Thirty nine thousand. Not forty thousand that. I'm giving you the discount bro. I would. I would. Gladly i if i could be a part of setting that up i would take. I would do it as a labor of love. Because i love both of the bands and i had that conversation with you the other night. It's like i have nothing to gain by this podcast network. Monetary is just the love of being able to talk to guys like you and antonio hear your story exposed the music in hopes that if you get five more listeners or ten more listeners out of this. That's ten that you didn't have yesterday so anyway. So i wanted to expose the listeners to of the cuts from i guess different bands. That you've played an we'll come back and talk a little bit about the three clips. They happen to be some of my favorite clip so I don't know that you would necessarily agree that your they're your favorites or not but their mind and it's my show so i'm gonna play these clips. The first one is a song called broadway and we'll come back and chat just.
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