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A highlight from 1275. Ethereum ETF Launches! | VanEck Predicts $11,000 Ethereum
"All right, so let's roll into the ETF futures launch today. It has happened. This is going to be a big episode for you guys. You don't want to miss this one. If you're an Ethereum lover or maybe you're just trying to venture into crypto for the first time and you're finding out, hey, there's an ETF futures out there on this thing. We're going to teach you a little bit about that. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in The Tech Path. Let's talk a little bit about Ethereum, some of the projects it could affect, and also its future. That's what we're going to try to break down for you. I think you guys are going to like this. James Seaford, he's been on our show before, one of the ETF experts over at Bloomberg. He tweeted, updated version reflecting the change due to the end of the Kelly and Hashtag's partnership will just be the Kelly ETF's product. And he kind of breaks it down. But the point is, is you've got the ETFs that have launched here with VanEck leading the way right now. Of course, we've got a whole litany of these starting to roll out now. So this is going to get interesting around the ETFs as when it comes to the futures ETF for Ethereum. And we'll show some stuff on this and how this plays out. But very, very interesting. So further over here, here's kind of just the layout of the VanEck. Obviously the cheapest total expense ratio at about 0 .66. So one of the lowest fees out there in being able to get into an ETF for sure. VanEck also is starting to do a little bit of advertising. This is kind of interesting with them actually starting to promote an Ethereum ETF future. This is crazy. So truly, and this is obviously institutional finance, so good stuff out there. I want to play a clip of them talking about this. Let's go to that. Ethereum has emerged as the system for an age where connections are no longer bound by location or space. We're not just using the network. We are the network. So when you're ready, enter the ether. Now you can tap into Ethereum's potential with the VanEck Ethereum strategy ETF, EFUT. All right, there you go. Big, big news because that is mainstream advertising. And when you get into mainstream advertising, it means you're going to be getting into mainstream investing and investing is going to start to shift that. That's why ETH and this ETF is such a big thing. It's why we're seeing a little bit of movement on Ethereum itself. VanEck, of course, their Twitter account says, what sets the EFUT apart? Typical ETF setups don't give futures, good tax benefits. C Corp is set up now designed to have potential for better performance after taxes for people who invest in a long time. So there are some apparent tax benefits here that VanEck, of course, is touting. So if you are in that case, make sure and, you know, investigate it. Let me know what you guys think. Further into this, just to show you where you can get this, now you can invest through your brokerage account in Robinhood, SoFi, Charles Schwab, E -Trade, Fidelity, pretty much anywhere you can buy EFUT. So easy to do and easy to get into. I want to go to this next clip right here that kind of breaks down a little bit further into what VanEck is trying to do with Ethereum as a whole. And this is Mr. VanEck himself What do you see coming in the crypto space that you thought it was important enough to get your firm that was established in the 50s moving towards this new area? Talk about Ethereum and there was CryptoKitties and all the potential of the blockchain. It felt like a lot of talk back then and a lot of PowerPoint presentations. But over the last three years, especially this year, I mean, it's just amazing how many software projects are not only coming to the market, but also upgrading in a very significant extent. And that includes Ethereum. I see three major areas of finance being potentially disrupted. One is the banking and brokerage. The second is payments. And the third is banking and lending. I think the larger point is that Ethereum is the leader and Ethereum is making enhancements, if you will, to its software. And so it's getting better over time. I like the fact that we're starting to see real business people recognize what's happening because this is one of those things that happens in those early curves. And that I think VanEck is obviously all in. But there's many of them that are all in on this. And that's including companies like Fidelity. You look at what ARK and Cathie Wood has been talking about in terms of Ethereum growth. So where is Ethereum going as a whole? Well, here is a report by VanEck talking about Ethereum's price prediction. And this was $11 .8K by 2030. Now, I want you to think about that because Ethereum right now trading around $1 ,700. And look at that kind of growth in a very short period of time. We're talking about 2023, end of right now as we're recording this video. That's an accelerant that's pretty heavy. Let me go through a couple of things they highlighted in the report. So it's revenue rising from an annual rate of $2 .6 billion to $51 billion in 2030. Big move. ETH takes a 70 % market share amongst smart contract protocols, which implies a token price of around $11K by 2030, which we discount to around $5 .3K today. So that's what they think the core value is. And then we value Ethereum by estimating cash flows because they're kind of treating the chain much like a business would be treated in terms of revenue and et cetera. A couple of points here that they look at here in their revenue price targets. You see the base case, bear case, and then the bull case. $11 .8K right there on the base case. $3 .43K on the bear case 2030. And then a $51K bull case. That's $51 ,000 per token right there on the bull case. So a lot in terms of confidence around what this is in terms of Ethereum as a whole. There was a We introduced a novel revenue item called security as a service, which is interesting, which is going to help businesses will be utilizing security through the ETH ecosystem to enhance, obviously, security around businesses themselves. So another big advantage there. Since ETH is a bearer asset, ETH can be locked behind some businesses or protocol guarantees to act honestly. So it's another way for how blockchain is permissionless. And it makes it easier for so much of what we see in Web2 to be completely revamped in Web3, which is what Van Eck was talking about there around blockchain and what Ethereum is doing in the banking space, the investment space, tokenizing a lot of things that we typically have to have these intermediaries to be talking to. Further into this report, we assume that 5%, 20%, and 10 % of the finance, metaverse, media, and tech infrastructure activity will move on chain. And what they're looking at is the base case, bull case kind of scenario that plays into finance, metaverse, and media, which is kind of an interesting mix between those. But media, we've talked about one of the reasons we do what we do. We believe that media is going to be moving on chain in the future. Further into this, let's see, we have one more couple of points here. Yeah, all right. Base case 2030 price target $11 .8 to Dermot valuation today's dollars. And then we find today's discounted price to be around $5 ,300. So not a bad value if you're looking at the overall on this. Let's go over to another clip here. And the other clip I want to get into is Matthew Siegel and kind of how they got to this level. Listen in. We're seeing a base case for 5 % or so of revenue banking is applied in some way to crypto and public blockchain. So that'd be the base. And so we dial it up a notch to 10%. Likewise, we do the same thing with each of the other categories, metaverse infrastructure, the bear case, we pull that down to 1%, 5%, 1 % respectively. And the idea behind that is that we see regulatory climate or adoption curve failing in each of those from the bear, hyper bear scenario. Not only is like the end markets not using blockchain, but Ethereum has a very small market share. Our assumption in the base and in the bull case is there's thousands of interchangeable L2s that don't have any real way to differentiate themselves. And so in that kind of scenario, you can see the cut rate that Ethereum can take of those settlements would be much, much higher or the underlying businesses. In our base case, we assume that Ethereum will take 70 % market share of all open source blockchains. And when we do our models on Solana, like that, our base case is that Solana takes 70%. And then we see what type of upside we get when we put in those assumptions. And we look at owning each of these tokens is basically we're owning a bunch of call options that each protocol will become the dominant protocol, even though it's impossible that they all could do so. And then we manage our position size based on what type of upside we see. Most of our deep dives have been on either layer ones or application specific. We have not done one of these models for L2s. And I think there's just more uncertainty around how that's going to play out. All right. So those were the VanEck analysts breaking this down that were part of that report that we just showed just a minute ago. So both of them kind of indicating that obviously ETH in a very bullish case, also Solana in a very bullish case. So another thing that is happening within VanEck, which is kind of interesting, is this right here. So they announced, let me kind of zoom in on this for you guys, that they intend to donate 10 % of our ETF profits into Protocol Guild for at least 10 years. So Protocol Guild obviously designed to help the ETH ecosystem develop, prosper, build on new Ethereum projects that are really kind of growing the ecosystem. So that is a pretty big statement, but it's also kind of investing in the infrastructure. It's interesting because you didn't really see that happen during the evolution of Silicon Valley, which is kind of where I case what's is we're in that kind of zone. They talked a little bit more about it. I'm not going to buy ETH Futures ETFs, but if I was, I would buy VanEcks mainly because they're doing what they should be doing, and that is supporting the industry and supporting where the growth is going to come from. So that's always benefited. I think the interesting thing there is that the space likes it. Here's Eric Balshunis, and they're off. ETH Futures Derby underway. VanEck is in slight early lead. Although it looks like a few of them are not necessarily out of the gate. We'll post updates as we go. VanEck, of course, leading the way right there and you've got Valkyrie coming in with a little bit of activity as well. VanEck with their low fees and what they're doing as an overall strategy might be the winner here. Remember, they were the first one. So it goes back to first mover. If you look at the current ETH Fut, of course, it's very early trading, but you can kind of see the big boom and then a little bit of a slight down where they are holding right around $16 .91. So interesting stuff. Let's go over to this next clip. This will break down a couple of things, I think, when you really consider what the store of value argument is around Ethereum. Let's just play this next clip. You'll get what I'm saying. So the whole exercise of the store value discussion is a little bit, you know, I really have to put a big caveat in there because what I'm really doing is mind reading. I can't point to a statistic and say, people, there was no poll that says I bought Bitcoin because it's a store of value. Things could be built on top of Bitcoin as well. And maybe they're just saying, oh, no, actually, I think Bitcoin's the best smart contract software. So I'm not a mind reader. So these are kind of generalizations and best guesses based on the narrative. And if you look at the transactions, on -chain Bitcoin transactions are about $400 ,000 a day. And that hasn't changed a lot over the last several years, which I think is interesting. But if you look at Ethereum, the Ethereum transactions, the total amount of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain is in the trillions annually now. That's a big number. Ethereum is the most famous. Solana has performed really well this year. I actually think that will continue next year. That category of digital asset tokens has been the best performing this year. We think that's kind of accessing the blockchain and that's the space that we're most interested as a firm. All right. Well, it's good to know. I mean, because I think they hit on both the tokens that we like, which is Solana and ETH. And if you do look at Bitcoin's transactions that it was mentioning there, and I meant to say Bitcoin transactions, but this is the one year and if you just go out to the three year, there has been a little bit of an uptick here. But I think some of this has been the idea of where all of this is going, because just in the essence of what is happening in crypto in general, it's starting to accelerate in a big way. And what he mentioned there, meaning Van Eck mentioned, is that the explosion has been happening around Ethereum. Of course, if you look at Ethereum's transactions, almost same period of time, you see the kind of movement that we're talking about here all the way back from 2019 right there into 2020, all the way to where we are right now, which is in the depth of a bear market. We are in the depth of a bear market when all this is happening. And when NFTs are dead and all those kind of things that really cause pain in the ETH that's ecosystem, the kind of transaction levels that we're continuing to see. Now, other things that are driving this, there's been a couple of projects that have launched here recently. One, of course, is Pudgy Penguins. We did a full report on this, but Pudgy Penguins ran a live shopping experience on TechTok. And there are some interesting things within this that is going on. And what I want you to think about is just forget that it's Pudgy Penguin, I just want to think about retail in general, because retail in general is going to start to implicate. Now, obviously, a Pudgy Penguins project, they're very native to what's happening in crypto. But the cool thing is, is direct sales, they have some key insights. Let me zoom in on this for you. Direct sales showcase products, increase discoverability, audience engagement, global reach. Any retailer out there, especially direct consumer, etc., would love those kinds of insights coming out of something in terms of a digital campaign. So, big deal. A couple of things that came, they did a pin appeared, allowing viewers to add the featured toy to their cart and then check out directly within the app. Remember, this is the digital version of the NFT. And then Pudgy Penguins received over 33 ,000 likes. TechTok Shop recently launched in the U .S. It was available through parts of Asia and the United Kingdom. And then live shopping is expected to reach around $235 billion in sales this year in China. That's insane. And then Pudgy Penguins obviously is a unique position to leverage TikTok Shop to expand their brand. This will grow globally for them, but I think what you're going to see is more retail and also more projects that understand how to leverage all of this. Remember, this is all riding on Ethereum. So, it plays right into the hands of think of what's happening here. So, it's not all friendly Penguins. Now, we've got the Swiss bank UBS launching tokenized money market fund on ETH. And I think this is just one of those things. They're doing an exploratory initiative, but they are going to go through traditional financial institutions, fintech providers, etc. Further into this, you get Ethereum applications from the New York Stock Exchange to the SEC. All of this riding on Ethereum. This is the point that I talk about often, and that is this whole adoption curve. Many people think it's that slow curve, and then all of a sudden it's just straight up. I don't know if we're there yet, but what I am thinking is that there's so much activity in this space and the timing through this bear market has been so suppressive of some of these digital assets that we could be right there on the cusp of an explosion. Now, obviously, there's a lot of other things that have to happen. Some of the things that could happen to cause that kind of explosion are things like this. Is BlackRock's next to file for a spot ETF? That would be huge. If BlackRock said, we're going to go the Ethereum route as well, absolutely massive for the ETH ecosystem. So, for sure. Now, this was an interesting statement. Ripple effect of grayscale decisions is massive. SEC would have faced similar legal challenges for denying ETH futures and ETFs. By approving ETH futures, ETF, now the SEC is effectively conceding that ETH is not a security. This will no doubt impact the Coinbase and Binance litigation. All of that starts to play into this. You start to get a picture of this global reaction that is going to happen within this ETH ecosystem. And I think this is the kind of thing that starts to put you in a position where you can really start to leverage against these. Now, it's not all beautiful, but this was Dave Levine. He talks about this whole ETF futures thing as a scam. I want to play a clip for you. Listen to what he had to say. Do not be fooled by the news that there is an Ethereum ETF. There is an Ethereum ETF, but it's not buying Ethereum. In other words, Bitcoin went up 35%. It's a pretty big game. But if you bought the fake ETF that is not buying Bitcoin, you only went up 14%. So where did that other, where did 50 % of your gains go? They're lying in the pockets of the bankers. Again, it's supposed to be protecting investors. You know, that's why I call these ETFs a scam and they use the name Bitcoin to say what you're buying and it's not what you're buying and it's guaranteed to underperform. I mean, what is the definition of a scam, right? He is a hired gun to do that stuff, right? And the, and the court ruled on it. They said that the SEC loses on all counts because its case and its, and its, uh, its arguments are capricious and incoherent. And there is this risk that, you know, ETH goes up so much, so fast. The Wall Street bank that is trying to track the price because they don't actually own ETH can't actually track it because whatever they're holding doesn't go up anything close as much. And then they go bankrupt because they can't meet the obligations. Believe me, if some Wall Street bank goes bankrupt because ETH goes up or Bitcoin goes up so much because they were playing games and they got exposed, they're going to blame crypto, not their shenanigans. So the whole thing stinks. Coinbase has a thing, it's called stand with crypto click. It tells you who your Congress person is, gives you a little script. I went off script and gave them an air full. Do it. All right. So he hits on a few things with point with these future ETFs is it happens in all markets. This is, this is just one of many out there that are non crypto related. It's obviously being crypto related. So I would dispel the fact that these are scam. These are yes, they're high fee scenarios. There are other ways to invest in these assets, but people look at this in a different way. Mainly this is mainstream investors wanting to go in on these assets and they're not ready to open an account with Coinbase or other things like that. But he did mention something at the end and that is stand with crypto. Listen, this, if you're not already doing it, you should be doing it. Go out and just hit stand with crypto. You can call your Congressman, email your Congressman and it helps you kind of go through the process of letting people know where you stand on all of the 16 ,000 contacts right now at the Congress. So huge, huge movement here. 150 ,000 crypto advocates. This is going to be a big part of next year because next year we are talking about an election year. So it's going to be huge. So definitely. Now if you are interested in buying ETH directly, you can actually do this in a traditional finance way right through the Fidelity app. So check it out if you're not a Fidelity customer. They're not a sponsor, but we've used it, we've tested it and it's fantastic. So that's another way to go. All right guys, we're going to wrap that one up from here. One thing to remember, and I'll leave you with this, this is Mr. Patrick McHenry hitting it in right there home. And that is SEC Chair Gensler refuses scheduled commission vote to provide Congress with requested documents. They are talking about the first subpoena to the SEC ever. That would be huge in the way of who knows what they'll find. What would we see in the way of bipartisan, you know, enforcement that we've seen the FCC pretty much put at will to go out. This may play its course right now with Patrick McHenry. He's not playing around anymore. We'll see how it all plays out. But you guys know what to do and that is join the diamond circle so you can follow what's playing it out. Not only the legislative side but also taking a look at some of the projects that we break down and of course some of our additional content including our Web3 podcast over there with Kyle. We do a We'll leave a link down below if you guys want to catch me on Twitter. It's out there at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "r. kelly" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"From his uh... speakership now several questions are looming not the least of which what happens when the stopgap funding measure runs out november eighteen bloomberg's here's kelly lines the government funding that was agreed to in the continuing resolution of last weekend that led to mccarthy's downfall in the first place only extends to that date and the issue is right now we have really the only thing that pro temp Patrick McHenry can preside over is a speaker vote he preside over usual business that is bloomberg's kelly lines by the way the house is intending to vote on a new speaker on october eleventh sold next wednesday u s boy a lot of volatility in u s treasuries that's to be sure yields ended down but at one point in the london session the ten -year reached a high of four point eight eight percent we heard earlier from the former bond guru bill gross at pimco they've been booked over the last uh... week or so by declines of two three four five percent in their ETFs and so i think they're joining the crowd in terms of selling and you know what we're seeing a little bit of an oversold market here headed to five percent that is a bill gross obviously the co -founder of pimco he went on to the yield on the u s ten -year would be at uh... at five percent and that would provide a decent but not great value of as inflation does remain high well general motor saying today the historic strike by the u a w has already cost the automaker two hundred million dollars in the first two weeks and today g m announced it setting up a six billion dollar credit line to shore up liquidity it's a nine that it's buckling in for what could be a prolonged work stoppage g m is the only one of detroit's big three that's been targeted by the union for expanded walkouts in each of the past two weeks and barclays dismissing roughly fifty senior your bankers investment that story from bloomberg's and kate's the cuts are part of the plan to trim the headcount of across the corporate investment bank amounting to three percent of the work force in the unit barclays and its rivals have been contending with a prolonged slump in deal making and capital markets activity barclays investment banking fees dropped fifteen percent sent in the second quarter goldman sachs has been planning to begin its annual reduction of underperforming workers and city has group also laid off hundreds of employees in washington and kate's bloomberg radio let's get to global news next and we begin in the u s senate where leaders are talking about beginning work on funding for train ed baxter with more from the bloomberg newsroom eddie that's exactly right that president by now saying keeping the eight going is imperative bloomberg's nancy lions reports president biden is urging members of congress to work together to address the needs of ukraine the majority of the american people still support ukraine and the majority of the members the of congress both democrat republicans supported so i don't think we should let them gamesmanship with concerns mounting over the reliability of u s funding leaders from almost fifty european countries will try try to show unity in support of ukraine when they gather later this week in spain in washington nancy lions bloomberg radio thank you nancy and senate minority leader chuck schumer following says he feels a spirit of cooperation in his chamber they're strong bipartisan majorities in both the house and senate for a to ukraine i've spoken to leader mcconnell will work together to get a big package done meanwhile mcconnell also focused on the house speakership today i hope whoever emerges insist jumped in the water in the man who seems to hold a lot of power in that arena mad gates exclusively on bloomberg's balance of power today said he could support either but uh... he's looking at issues so here's what we need no matter who's the speaker we need a top -line budget that at least the house of representatives returns to pre -covid spending levels and then we need to be able to have single -subject spending bills with open amendments to have programmatic review of agency spending yeah the edge of for a week from today donald trump left the courtroom of his civil suit for fraud today after a gag order was slapped on him and that for social media posts and things that he said regarding attorney general latisha james she calls him racist and dangerous and i will not sit idly by and allow anyone to subvert the
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from How To Turn Your STRESS Into SUCCESS!
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about how to turn your stress into success. Here's a simple fact. All of us, no matter how organized you are, no matter how drilled down your schedule was, no matter how perfect you think you got things going for you, you're going to experience stress. It's normal, but how you react to the stress that you're experiencing, that is something that you can actually control to a great extent, not 100%. So what we're going to do today is we're going to go through, it's going to be a two -part podcast. We're going to go through a system where you can essentially acknowledge your stress. I'm not going to say manage your stress or manage your time, because those things are often unmanageable, and the very prospect of trying to manage either actually causes you more stress. That's true. Which is ironic. But what we're going to do is take you through a process so that you can really turn what mostly is an unconscious reaction to something external into something that you will find that you can derive power from and focus. So get ready to take notes, and as always, all of our notes are available down below in the show description. If you're on iTunes or YouTube or, hey, we're now on, what's that new video platform called? I forget. Anyway. Something new. Something new where videos actually are also living. And all the other, Spotify, Amazon, everywhere. We're on Google Listen and everywhere. So yes, everywhere that the podcast is listened to, you can also find the notes for our show. We oftentimes will put all of the notes that we're using. Notes are all copywritten, of course, but at the end of the day, we want you to feel free to use these when training your own agents or maybe your small brokerage, whatever. This content is designed to help you first, and then hopefully you're going to help others with this information as well. And while there also, there's a lot of links in the show description below, and you can join the premier coaching program. There's information about our eXp Real Estate Group, which you might want to consider joining all kinds of good stuff. So just scroll down and it's all there waiting for you. So Julie, let's roll into your points. Yes. And it is true that one of the most common questions we get from podcast listeners and coaching clients when you guys text us or reach out, it sounds, you know, it comes in different flavors, but it usually sounds something like this. I feel out of control with my time. I'm spending a lot of time chasing after scarce listings from my buyers, negotiating multiple offers on my own listings, and then putting out fires on my pending deals. So how can I get back into control? You're wondering what's okay to stop doing, or you should be wondering what's okay to stop doing, and what must you never drop when you're feeling out of control. There's an old saying that goes like this. If you're not controlling your time, someone or something else always will. So we're going to give you a multiple step plan. It's a little bit of this is mindset, how to control your, how you're thinking about it, and some action steps. So here are things what to get rid of and what to keep. Well, I mean, just reading your description there gave me a little bit of stress, I have to say. Did you do that on purpose, Julie? No. You'll feel better by the end, I promise. I wanted to share with them something, because the thing that actually drove my stress up a little bit when you were talking about not enough listings, guys, in the next few days, we're doing a podcast that is, I think Julie is now, what, 30 different sources? Yes. I'm actually excited. And in a couple of days, we're going to do a one -part podcast, which is all of the different online sources, resources, other than your MLS, to find listings. And there's quite a variety. We're going to talk about farms, land, ranch, commercial, normal residential, vacation properties, foreclosure, everything. But what we're doing is we're actually giving you guys links of where you can go to find homes that are for sale that are not in the MLS. That's the main thing. So the notes already have, I think it's like 25 or 30 different websites, mostly, well, I mean, they're all websites, where you can click on the link and then you can be taken to a list of a source of homes for sale. Again, these are not in the MLS. And these are almost all nationwide, by the way. Right. And we're going to be doing this the next couple of days. So yes, if you are feeling stressed from not having enough inventory, we're going to cure that in the next couple of days, listen to the podcast. All right, Julie. So part one. You got it. All right. So let's see. What to let go of versus what to keep. So let's see part one. Number one, mindset check. Are you really that busy or are you just disorganized? Take a day to get real about what you're actually managing. Sometimes just dedicating a day or even two days to getting a grip is all you actually need. So don't keep telling yourself you're overwhelmed. Instead, your affirmation is that you are surrounded by opportunity. Isn't that more accurate? This is why this is the first step. When you do that first, you'll realize that your state of overwhelm is actually temporary versus allowing it to become a lifestyle. So I don't, I didn't scan your notes, but did you talk to them at all about the brain dump? I didn't. Yes. You can add it right in here. I was thinking this would be a perfect spot. Bonus point. One and a half. That's right. Bonus point. One and a half. So one of the systems that we've used for decades, especially with coaching clients, is when they're feeling overwhelmed. Take a tablet of paper and I don't know why tablets of paper where you're writing it out is more effective than if you're typing it out. Typing it out almost, I don't know, it doesn't stick in your brain as much. So take a tablet of paper. Take like maybe one of those long yellow legal tabs or tablets and then write down everything that's in your brain. Don't stop writing until essentially everything that's in your mind that you think you should be thinking about is completely cleared out and you can do personal and business and go through every single thing. So that's the first cure because what you're going to find out oftentimes is that you're going to start, like you'll write down maybe 10 or 20 different things and then you're writing them down in different versions. Like you're going to say, take in the dry cleaning and then you're going to realize that you wrote that down as the fourth thing and now you're seeing that you write it down as the 18th thing. In other words, what you'll discover is a lot of thoughts that you're having that are feeling like they're, you know, bogging down your ability to think clearly are the same thoughts. In other words, you don't really have that many things that you think you have more going on in your head than you actually do. So when you write all this down, then you're going to look at this list and there's three filters that you run all these things through and it's called do it, delegate it or ditch it. So the things that you absolutely positively must always be doing are going to be the things that fall into the five categories of the things that make you money in real estate, which is proactively generation, you know, obviously prequalifying, presenting a lead follow up, negotiating, those types of things that we teach in premier coaching. Those are the things that you should not be delegating and you have to do it. So the do it category are the things that you absolutely positively should leave on your list. The delegated category are, there's lots of things you could be delegating, lots of things you don't have to be doing. Lots of things that may be frankly under the delegation category are things that maybe not only not don't have to do yourself, but maybe don't need done at all. In other words, you put them on your list, you thought they were important. Somebody told you they were important, maybe even, and guess what? They aren't important. So get rid of them. And then the last one is ditch it and that's where essentially the lot of the things in your second, you know, the delegated part, they're going to go to the ditch it category and just completely remove them from your list. Or another thing to do is if there's longer term projects or things you wanted to be doing, write them on a completely separate list and then segment your list. But the most important thing is if you want to really get control, and this is a good, this is a really, at the end of the day, this is a mindset point, but if you really want to clear your brain and start feeling a resemblance of control, I did, did this just the other day. Honestly, I had a big, uh, to do list and it was, um, I keep lists. I'm a list guy. I know a lot of people have different systems for it, but lists work for me because I derive immense pleasure crossing them out. Yes, it is very satisfying. That's why it's very cathartic to take a damn thing is bought in that damn list and getting rid of it. Bye bye. That's right. I enjoy that. So that's my payoff. But there's a system. So do a delegated or ditch it, but start out by doing what we call a brain dump and write everything down and then go through it. And then you'll start seeing after you actually write everything on a piece of paper, you will feel better. You will feel some sort of a cloud will lift. It will. It really will. Then you look at all the things are floating around your head and like I said, remove the duplicates first because a lot of them will be duplicates and then go for a do it delegated or ditch it and then you know, move forward. That's a simple system. Well, that's a perfect 0 .1 and a half because remember we started by saying, are you really that busy? Are you just a bit disorganized? Maybe your mind is feeling disorganized because you haven't written it down and done the brain dump, right? So that goes hand in hand. And speaking of the do it part of the do it, ditch it or delegate it. Point number two, proactively generation cannot stop. This is the first thing that agents drop when they get even a tiny bit busy. You must actively pursue new qualified appointments every single work day. And it is the most important action that you take daily, whether you have a, whether you have pending transactions or not, whether you have active listings or not, always on every call, whether it's a home inspector or lender, a past client or a pending ask, you guys should know it by now, whom do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate or Tim's version, which I like even better. What two or three people do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate? So make the commitment to a minimum standard of contacts every work day, even when you're feeling busy, refer to our previous podcasts about how to list and sell the homes that you need to sell your magic number as well as lead generation from best to worst. We've done so much work on this with you guys on previous podcasts and in premier coaching. So I'm going to actually, I'm going to reinforce all your points, but I'm also going to give these guys a bit of a relief valve. I have coached people who are just for some reason wired to be disorganized. They're wired to basically be Liberty Gibbets bouncing here, bouncing there. That's just how they are. But then yet they're very successful. And why are they very successful? Because they always lean back into the things that are going to make them money. And oftentimes they have really vibrant personalities and people like them, despite the fact that they're wearing shoes that don't match and you know, things like that. All right. So how do, what's the solution when you're coaching somebody like that? The solution is not trying to find them a solution. The solution is just making sure they do to the three to five things every single day that they should be doing at a high level and then holding them accountable as three to five things and then giving them permission to be whatever the hell they want to do with their time the rest of the day. In other words, they can't, it's too much emotional stress for them to be held to a schedule for more than maybe two or three hours a day at, you know, in other words, they can only really, let's air quote here, time block two or three hours a day. So what are the things they should be doing in those two or three hours? And Julie and I talk about this on the podcast all the time, but obviously Julie's pointing about proactive lead generation. We want to talk about, you know, if you had a listing appointment, presenting, negotiating, all those types of things we teach in the coaching program. But really guys, if you really want to know how to really feel long -term control of your day, your day should come down to having mastered the art and science of really doing only three to five things every day. And those things are, in our opinion, now you can modify, but this is sort of a holistic approach to this, right? You need to be making your self -determined number of contacts per day as determined by your real estate treasure map, which we give you in the first level of Premier Coaching. So whatever your number of contacts per day, you need to be making those per day. You need to be having done all your lead follow up by the end of the day. I'm giving you a whole bunch and you guys choose which ones. Ideally, when you are very, you know, essentially advanced as a proactive lead generator, you should be setting one pre -qualified listing appointment per day. Julie and I are huge advocates of doing some sort of physical workout routine every single day, taking some kind of supplements every single day, showing overt gratitude. You know, I love you Julie, I love you Tim. You know, showing overt gratitude to the people that mean the most to you every single day. If you just basically write down the things that you have to do every single day, the accumulative effect of doing those things every single day will pay off in ways that you can't even understand. It's a multiplication effect. There's a compounding of duplicating those efforts. The obvious one being is that if you're working out and you're, you know, hopefully taking care of what you eat, you're going to see, not right away, but over time, your energy level increases, your physicality increases, same goes with making contacts. But the key to making this work is do those same things every single day and then often will come down to doing what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it at the highest level, which by the way, is the founding principle of our coaching program, but also of anyone I've ever met in life who's successful at any level. They knew that they had to do what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it at the highest level over long periods of time. And that's what we're prescribing to all of you guys as well, because it does pay off. So really, if you're wanting to get in control, but you're absolutely one of these people that can't be in control as your coach, I give you permission not to be in control for anything other than those two or three hours, ideally in the morning, because when you get those three to five things done every single day, even if the rest of the day is like a, you know, high speed roller coaster, it does not matter because you did the most important things. Well, that's right. That's the most important thing that you said is what you do with those two to three hours is what's critical. What you're not doing is giving them permission to just say, well, I'm just a disorganized person or go on Instagram or make a bunch of TikTok videos or do a bunch of passive lead generation or go on Facebook and take a bunch of surveys. All this silliness that doesn't lead to anything. That stuff doesn't count. Okay. So we're talking about what to keep and what to ditch. Point number three, deadlines cannot be ignored or procrastinated. You can lose a deal by losing track of time or having misunderstandings with the other side. So remember that people scan through DocuSign without really realizing what they're signing or remembering it or being able to even find it again. You can't be part of that. So use a transaction coordinator if that's getting out of control or if you're your transaction coordinator, you have to be careful with your earnest money deposits, contingency releases, inspection dates. Don't let those fall behind just because you're behind. Get clarity and or get help. And I'll tell you what one of my coaching clients does is when she does new transactions. Yes, of course, that's all in DocuSign and transaction management and transaction coordinators and all that. But in also her alarms, in her phone, she gives herself two or three day warnings. There's a contingency coming up. You've got to release that so that even if she's really super busy showing houses, maybe she's got somebody coming into town and it's a really intense appointment weekend. The alarm is going to save her butt. So that's just a backup plan. There's lots of different things that you can do. But this is one thing that you really can't blow off because it could cost you a deal. Well, I'll give you some exciting news. I know because you and I are investing some frankly, some money and time into developing some A .I. bots and apps for our different businesses, that there are absolutely people that are developing A .I. right now to work directly with the major CRM or transaction management platforms. So agents are going to be able to have an A .I. bot that's essentially going to act as a real live admin who's going to oversee the entire process. It's amazing. And ChatGPT4 and Bard and all these others, this week, ChatGPT4 is releasing a version for their paid users where essentially it's going to start using voice. So remember we were talking about on the podcast yesterday about all this? Well, the technology is here. So you're going to start having a voice. In other words, it's a real human voice. It does not sound like an old fashioned answering machine. That's good. And you know, I just laughed at myself because how many people? They don't know what an answering machine is. Right. Anyway, so back to 2023 or 2024 when you're listening. So the moral of the story is that there are going to be massive advancements in this A .I. technology that's going to make your lives a lot easier, which will give you a lot more room and time to spend on the things that matter most. That's assuming that you know what those things are and you actually know how to do them. That's what coaching is all about. And yeah, a lot of this technology is going to be coming through. I shouldn't maybe necessarily say this, but I know eXp Realty is working on developing a lot of these A .I. bots. Glenn Sanford is unbelievably intelligent about creating these technologies that streamline a lot of agent processes. And really, there's no downside. The experience is better from the customer's perspective, the agent's perspective, the broker's perspective. So all that's coming to a brokerage near you, assuming you're with Juli and I at eXp Realty. There you are. All right, now our final point for today is maybe one of my favorite points in terms of getting agents and brokers really organized and giving you peace. And that is point number four today, keeping your visual accountability, your whiteboards updated. You can't ignore that. You can't put it off, update it every day. In order to know if you are on track ahead or behind, keep that updated. Don't ignore your boards just because you feel like you're currently on track or ahead or hide out from them if you feel like you're behind. Not tracking your business is what will make you behind in a matter of days or weeks. Now, there's a rule in aviation called the one in 60 rule. When a plane veers off its course by just one degree, it misses its target destination by one mile for every 60 miles it's flown. Isn't that interesting, right? It is. You think it's just one degree. What's the big deal? I can find the airport, but maybe it's not the airport you were looking for. You're the plane. Stay on course. Visual is accountability the dashboard of your business. I have to say, Tim, I know you've had this experience too. Once agents start really embracing the visual accountability, and yes, we know you've got all this kept track of in a spreadsheet or your broker tracks it or whatever. We're talking about in your office on whiteboards in front of you. It works because it is visual. They'll say, oh, my gosh, I just feel so much more peaceful knowing and seeing I've got this many listing leads. I've got this many active listings. I've got this many pending, and I've got that many closed, which means I'm exactly three deals ahead of where I should be based on my treasure map. A lot of the stress in real estate really in life is just not knowing stuff, right? Not knowing about your finances, not knowing about what's going on inside your contracts, not knowing whether you're on track ahead or behind. It will give you peace to know. Well, the dry erase boards are the reason that obviously we know about all the technologies and all the widgets that give you creative dashboards that show you all your key performance indicators and all those things. We use those things in our business as well, but it's what Julie just said. The problem with all that technology is that you can hide from it, and it hides from you. A dry erase board, especially a large dominant one, and I was thinking when you were talking how when somebody, we get Premier Coaching clients, they'll post pictures of these big -ass dry erase boards, and they'll put them up on their walls. I'm talking about the monster ones, and that's the only way to do it because it doesn't leave any typically room for anything else on the wall. Tell them what the dry erase board should be because not everybody is a coaching client. Yes, well, they should be, and we'll tell them about that in a minute. What should you track? I like to think of it chronologically, right? Every transaction that becomes a closing starts as a lead, so you track your especially listing leads. Right. I'm looking at my wall. I want to know what the dry erase boards are. That's what I'm saying. I want to know which of them are. Okay. The first dry erase board is? Leads because everything starts as a lead. Okay. Then it becomes a listing. That's the second board is active listings. Okay. Then the last one is closings. You have one in between, pendings, and then you have closed. If your goal is to close 24 transactions, your closed board will be one through 24. As they travel through your boards, they land on the closed board, and you can see, are you on deal number three? Are you on deal number five? Where are you versus where you should be? On the closed board, sellers are in red, buyers are in blue. The other thing you can also do, and this is really fine tuning all of the accountability you have for yourself, is write down on the closed board what the price was and what the commission was, and then also really drill down on what the source of the lead was. We've talked for literally thousands of hours on this podcast of the importance of never just going by how the lead actually showed up in your life. You're going to need to ask secondary and sometimes third. What would be it? Cursary? Tertiary. Tertiary. That's right. That same question more than once. You need to ask them, who originally referred you to me? Where did you originally find me? How do we connect it? The story that Julie and I tell that seems to work is we were in our office when we were selling real estate, and one of our chief transaction coordinators was this gal named Kelly. Kelly was using a prequalification seller form, so she had at her desk buyer prequalification for him and seller prequalification for him. So Julie and I were in our office, and she was doing the seller prequalification, and one of the questions was halfway through the script was basically, so why did you decide to call Tim and Julie out for the job of selling your home? I think that was the question. And she wrote down the answer, but she didn't listen to herself ask the question, and she didn't watch herself write down the answer. So she asked the question two times in a row, and the first way that they answered it was like a sign or whatever. And then she asked the same exact question, and then they answered it, and we watched as they wrote down that it was a referral from so -and -so. And so that was the real tip -off that if you don't ask for what like drill down and really dig into where they're or why they're contacting you, you're going to make the mistake of assuming that they basically are contacting you because of Facebook. Because what happens is that you're at Orange Theory, somebody asked you for a referral for a roofer. You're going to say, Jack's roofing, I don't necessarily have his phone number, my phone's in my car, whatever it is. But the person you're going to talk to remembers Jack's roofing in, say, Georgetown, Texas. So they're going to go and they're going to drop into Google, Jack's roofing, Georgetown, Texas. So the first thing that's going to come up is Jack's Facebook business page, let's say, or Instagram or whatever the hell it's going to be. And then you're going to message them through that app, and then Jack's going to get the message from Facebook that you are interested in having your roof fixed. All the while, Jack's going to then assume, hey, my Facebook campaign is working, you know? Of course. Look, I'm going to post more pictures of my lunch every single day, evidently that's generating business for me. Right. All the while, the real reason that Jack got that lead was because it was a referral from somebody you knew at the gym. You guys get the point? So if you're not asking those real drill down questions, you're really going to lose contact with the source of your business. You're not going to realize how much of your business comes from the things that don't cost any money, signs, for example, centers of influence and past clients, for example. People you maybe like, they could be somebody that an old neighbor, oh, you don't even know. You're going to have to ask. And that's what you'll self -discover, what Julie and I have been coaching all you guys for decades, is the percent of business comes from any kind of marketing and advertising is typically less than 10 % because most everyone chooses who they're going to use as a real estate professional, like 90 % based on the things we coach you guys to do, which cost you no money, which aren't anything to do with marketing, branding, and advertising. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Back to the roofing example, had Jack the roofer not had a business Facebook page and that person had gone to Google and tried to search for him, he may not have ever found Jack's phone number to actually make the, you know, to get in contact, right? So it's important that you have a presence online, but you've got to see it for what it is.
Simply Bitcoin
Fresh update on "r. kelly" discussed on Simply Bitcoin
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market Will Start When (THIS) Happens!
"Good morning, everybody. It's time to discover crypto. It's Tuesday, September 26. It's 11 .31am. Probably just a minute late, guys. You know what? I had to button up the top. I wanted to try a little bit professional. Actually, I'll tell you what the real deal is. I was going to wear a button -up, and I didn't have any zip -up jackets. And I said, why not just wear a jacket? Quit being a DJ and dress like a man for once. So I'm wearing the jacket today. We got Drew and Tim on the ones and twos. And then there's me in my normal hoodie. Ain't nothing wrong with the Federman gear. I rock the Federman gear, too. True. Yeah. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it, guys. We're going to talk about why we think Bitcoin bull run is going to start, when it's going to start. Kelly's going to break that down. Also, we got some big, big news. The government shutdown. We're going to break down exactly what happens if the government shuts down. What gets turned off? What doesn't get turned off? Guys, this is less than a week ago. We don't think it's going to happen, but it's good to be prepared just in case. Also, we're going to talk about NASA. Do you know the NASA story? What is the NASA story? They're going to hire blockchain and then pair them with Hollywood to create the second landing on the moon coming your way very, very soon. All right. All right. Stanley Kubrick, you know, rising up like Skeletor. All right. That ought to be a good one. Also, we're going to talk some XRP news, some Microsoft stuff with Xbox and crypto. That could be potentially gigantic and also just some world global stuff. It's going to be interesting. All right. Let's, guys, make sure you are subbed to the channel if you're not already. Hey, maybe even hit that like button on that one video. If you want to check out our other channels, please do. We're always putting out great, great content. Frankie around the blockchain, BitLab Academy, The Basement, NFT alpha, last but not least. All right. Let's look at the crypto market cap here. What is going on with the crypto prices? We're going to go ahead and refresh. I want that freshest Chainlink oracle data. Looks like we're up 0 .3%. So we're up a third of a percent. The market cap is coming in above 1 trillion. We're 1 .08 trillion for the market cap. 24 -hour volume is slightly muted at $28 billion. Bitcoin dominance coming in at 47 .1. Gas is low again. Isn't as low as 11, what we saw, I believe, on Friday, but down to 23 gwei. Pretty low right there. So if you want to get in and out of some alts, now is potentially a good time. Bitcoin is down right in line with the market. The market's down 0 .3%. Bitcoin is down 0 .3%. Ethereum down 0 .1%, down 0 .2 % just for the past hour. However, BNB moving up however slightly. Also, XRP. XRP community in the chat hit that like button. You were up 0 .6%. It's time to celebrate. Also, we have, hey, Cardano's flat when Bitcoin's down. I'm just going to take that as a victory. I'm going to go ahead pat myself on the back for that one. But we are below 25 cents. Cardano coming in at 24 .4. What is up with Cardano at this 25 -cent level? Tim, you're Mr. TA. It loves being right out of quarter. Yeah, well, and before it loved being at 30 cents and then... Hey, don't remind me. And before that, it loved being at I think 50. Before that, it loved being at a dollar. I love Cardano. It's my largest altcoin bag still, and I'm not giving up that conviction of it. Now, it's setting lower highs and lower lows. What do we call that? A bear trend. I'm going to continue to hold to the call that I've made now for over a month. I believe, oh, actually, it's been like two months now. I think we're going to be seeing an 18 -cent Cardano. I called that back even as we were pumping up to 38 cents here not too long ago. I still believed that 18 cents was coming in. And if you're looking at this bear trend, lower highs, lower lows, I think it's going to happen. All right. Speaking of lower lows, a lot of people talking about the truck and how they want to back up the truck and then just buy a lot of these cheap alts. That's what I would do. That's the positive side of this. I wouldn't do weird things with it. People hear bearish price predictions or bearish prices being talked about. And their first thought is to be like, oh, no, that's not going to happen. I can't lose the money. I was like, well, you don't lose unless you sell. And also, if it goes that far, you had an amazing opportunity to buy again. So stay positive. It's a great idea. It's it. I'm rooting for Cardano to get 18 cents and Bitcoin down to 19, 900, 700. You stop that blasphemy. That's yeah. Well, we got right the blockchain. 24 cents is the floor, guys. Just be careful because it is until it isn't. And then it will be, you know, we got that little spike off 21 cents. So I expect a little bit of pressure. And then the psychological level of 20 cents if we fall below this. But I believe we would need to see Bitcoin at 2322 for that to happen. Alright, in the rest of the alt realm here, we have Dogecoin down 1%, Solana down almost 2%. Tron moving on up. Good job, Justin Sun. We have Polkadot down 1 .4%. So nothing really is moving too hard. Even Chainlink's barely moving here. Wait a minute. Did we see some in the 3 %? Law enforcement officer? No, no, no. Why is Leo token down? Hey, you know what we're talking about here. Let's talk about the big gainers though, folks. Looks like Maker is leading the way. It's not much of a pump, folks. 4 .3%. We have FRAC shares up 3 .2%. And then after that, very, very muted. It is right at 1 % for Optimism, Avalanche, and then BNB. So we're really not seeing anything jump too much here. Do you have any of these coins in the top? You have any FRACs? What is up with FRACs? Always moving. Crazy. Avalanche is the first one on that list that I have. I don't have any BNB. I have some XRP, obviously.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "r. kelly" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Can't I believe that there's a tunnel in Florida. Is there not supposed to be, like, a basement or tunnel in Florida because of the water table and everything? I don't know. You retweeted Jon Favreau who said, agree I couldn't with this more. The don't amplify him argument is disastrous. We need to amplify Trump's vile rhetoric more because it will turn persuadable voters off to his cruel message. And you said, I've been screaming against the don't amplify him nonsense for years. If the Republicans stopped talking about Biden or Clinton or Pelosi because they didn't want to amplify them, would that be good news or bad news for Democrats? No, I'm as sick of him as we're probably more sick of him. Everyone else does. We marinate in this every day. But you're right. Just when I think there's no new level, I can you tell me there's a human that really thinks him saying his husband like really? For the most normal people, is that going to be a turn on to for vote him? Well, that's a good word to use normal because what happens is I think and I understand, first of all, I got to say, I understand the repulsion that we experience when see we Donald Trump. We don't want to hear about him anymore. We don't want to see him anymore. But, you know we know, have to we kind of have to because as soon as we start ignoring him and just make just having him recede into the background, that's when he becomes normalized. That's when we let our guard down. And then compared to this, if the Republicans stopped talking about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, would that be good news or bad news for the Democrats? It would be good news, of course, to answer my own question. We would love it if the Republicans stopped attacking our people and just said, hey, you know what, let's not amplify Hillary Clinton anymore. Let's not amplify Rachel Maddow anymore. And of course, then what we would all do is celebrate because then we could actually start doing things and winning elections and so forth. Yeah. It's reverse that. for Here's us. today. Yeah. Same Yeah. Here's today's exhibit A for why we have to, because it's not just him. It's his like this every day. Treason is treason. There's only one cure for treason. And what is that being put to death treason, treason, and we used execute imprison or people for and all the treasonous actions in age is just throw it underneath the rug. I know Trump's feelings about Mark Milley and I agree. Why was he not in on before a firing squad within a month? Wow. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. That's the reason for gag orders and or prison because you know, by the way, did you call him Frank Milley? Okay. Whatever. At least he's too dumb to know his real name. So, well, was, this this is part of John Kelly's remarks to CNN in that statement the other day, uh, that Donald Trump is so unpatriotic that he's calling for the execution of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. You know, that's how far the Republican party has fallen. Cause I remember after, especially after nine 11 how branded Republicans the idea of supporting the troops. They branded American patriotism. They branded the American flag. I mean, buzz and I were talking about on the show yesterday, how, you know, as Democrats to put an American flag outside of our house and suddenly like, well, are people going to think we're Republicans now? But yeah, I mean that that was, was kind of the thinking in those days and weeks after nine 11, one of our first drops. Remember, Chris, 20 years ago was taking back the flag, taking back God, taking back America. I mean, you're right. That's a horrible thing that you reflexively go, Oh, that must be Trump's support. Oh yes. Thank you, Chris. Taking back God, taking back the flag, taking back America and all before breakfast. It's taken 20 years. We're still working on it, but, uh, by the way, Oh, and by the way, I will, I will hunt you down, but but for posting that old DJ footage of me for my birthday, I love that so much. Yeah, that is one of my favorite videos in the world because that was my original nose original hair, Bob. I will 20 pounds ago. I will kill you. I just, I love it so much. I I love love the delivery of it. I love the banter. I just, that whole atmosphere. When I was growing up, I wanted to do that kind of radio so desperately.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 681:Shutdown, SEC Woes, Bitboys Scandal & Binances Regulatory Ballet
"Good evening and welcome to The Crypto Overnight -er. I'm Nick Ademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight -er where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. But before we get started, I'm going to apologize in advance. Autumn is my absolute favorite season and the weather is just turning where I live. So while I'm recording this, I have the windows open to listen to the rain outside. If the sounds of the rain leak into the podcast, sorry not sorry. It's my favorite weather. Tonight we delve into the high -stakes game of regulatory chess. From a looming U .S. government shutdown that puts crypto legislation on ice, to Binance's game of international regulatory hopscotch, it's clear that the battle lines are being redrawn. And let's not forget the personal dramas that sometimes spill over into the crypto world. Tighten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. One thing that's causing ripples across the crypto landscape? The looming U .S. government shutdown. The clock is ticking, and the shutdown could have far -reaching implications for the industry. First off, the shutdown is a result of a congressional budget impasse. This deadlock could freeze an array of federal services, including those that directly impact the crypto industry. We're talking about delayed crypto bills, folks. Bills focused on crypto regulation, market structure, and stablecoins could all be put on hold. The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act and the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, and the Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act are all in jeopardy. Now let's talk about the SEC. Chair Gensler warned that the agency will operate with a skeletal staff during the shutdown. This is bad news for companies waiting for decisions on bitcoin spot ETF applications. It's also a headache for companies like Binance that are in the middle of corp disputes with the regulator. More about Binance later. But it's not all doom and gloom. Anne Kelly is a former SEC official. She mentioned that the SEC has some budgetary flexibility. In past shutdowns, the SEC has stayed open for extended periods, so there is a glimmer of hope. But what about the courts? Federal courtrooms are likely to continue operating for a few weeks until they, too, run out of cash. So legal battles like the one between the SEC and Binance could remain in motion for now. Let's not forget Congress. According to Sheila Warren, CEO of Crypto Council for Innovation, a shutdown would mean, quote, forward progress on bills will be stalled. The focus of lawmakers could shift, and crypto might not be at the top of the priority list post shutdown. Which would be a shame, because crypto has been making strides with bills moving forward in the house. A shutdown could bring all that momentum to a grinding halt. This is a freeze on innovation and regulatory clarity that the crypto industry desperately needs. The SEC's role in this is particularly concerning. With a skeletal staff, the SEC's ability to make timely decisions on crucial matters like crypto ETFs is severely compromised. This could lead to delays that ripple through the crypto markets, affecting investor sentiment and possibly leading to market volatility. It's a situation that highlights the crypto industry's vulnerability to bureaucratic inefficiencies. As for the federal courts, while they may continue to operate in the short term, any extended shutdown could further slow down legal proceedings involving crypto companies. This is problematic for an industry seeking legal clarity and could result in a backlog of cases that take even longer to resolve. A government shutdown could act as a significant roadblock for the crypto industry, stalling legislative progress, affecting SEC operations, and slowing down legal proceedings. The looming shutdown is a ticking time bomb for crypto. But remember, we've weathered storms before, and we'll weather this one too. While the US plays a risky game with its shutdown clock, Binance is playing its own strategic game overseas. Ready for this? Let's dive in. And hey, if you're finding these insights valuable, don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Fresh update on "r. kelly" discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"Close your eyes. Who do you see doing that? Drew, I'm kidding. Drew Drew's that you don't do that, do you? You do it, don't you? Allegedly. Huh? Allegedly. Only allegedly. Guys, if you're camping, it's fine. If you're at the workplace lunchroom, it's a little weird. He doesn't do that, folks. He doesn't do that. But yeah, camping, it's cool. Camping, it's encouraged. Lunch room, you have to go see HR. All right, well, we had someone in the chat where they say here, are we moving SBF trial today? No, we just the shows. We just want to get it out earlier. We found that we kind of got the news and then we kind of sit on our hands for an hour. So, yeah, we move that up and we also move ATB up as well, partly because I'm getting in super early. This way I can leave a little bit earlier. To catch them all, the SBF trial is today. We don't know what they're going to uncover. Well, we have your guide to the Sam Bankman Free trial starting today, but you're right. Most of the news is actually going to be tomorrow and I'm going to tell you why here. So here is your guide. Here is the silhouette of Deezy in a bozo the clown wig, I think, because that's the telltale hoodie, right? Oh, no, wait, that might be Sam Bankman Free. All right, so from charges to testimony to strategy, here's everything you need to know to follow the biggest fraud trial, I would say, of the millennium. Oh, yeah, the entire millennium. Yeah, OJ was 90s. That was the court of that century. That was the trial of that century. Glove didn't fit. What are we going to do, huh? Not saying he did it, but the glove didn't fit, you know what I mean? You must have quit, right? You must have quit. All right, so why did we bring up, you know, the alleged head chopper of Nicole Brown? Geez, that's so bad. Anyways, back to the courtroom here, not Cato Kaelin. The trial is scheduled to last six weeks with court incessant on average four days a week. So we're going to be looking at four days a week. We got some pretty fun things happening. They take a day off. Judge Luz Kaplan is a 78-year-old Harvard Law School graduate pointing to the bench by all slick Willy himself, Bill Clinton here. And then here we go. So here's why really nothing is going to happen today, folks. This is the breaking news. You're going to hear first, you're going to see some, oh my God, I want to tell you what's really happening here. Here's what's really going to happen. The first day at least we'll be taken up with the jury selection. So big moments likely like the opening statements won't come until Wednesday at the earliest. So don't expect any big bombshells. And as far as the witnesses, well, first before we get into the witnesses, just what are your broad thoughts on Sam Bankman-Fried? Great haircut. Great haircut. Yeah. He really put out a cucumber. Really drives a Toyota Corolla, but lives in a $33 million mansion. So, you know, yeah, that beanbag was probably cheap. Oh yeah. So that's an interesting, it's an interesting case, but what's crazy is that October historically has been good for cryptocurrency, but what kind of bombshells are we going to get with this whole case? I wish this was like an Amber Heard, Johnny Depp situation where we could just watch. So, you know, it would be cool if we had cameras, but similar to the Johnny Depp Amber Heard thing, this is going to last weeks. This is going to be, you know, two day thing. This is scheduled to last until November, I believe November 9th. Bob from accounting. I have not forgotten Bernie Madoff. I say this is bigger than Bernie. Oh, way bigger. You know, a lot of it, even if it doesn't hit the dollar amount, the political implications here, I think is a little bit more damning and telling here. All right, well, let's talk about the witnesses and we'll break that down for a bit. Me and Rod here, Caroline Ellison. She's the former Alameda CEO and Bankman's on again, off again girlfriend. And she was among the former associates who accepted plea deals, agreeing to testify against their former boss in exchange for shorter sentences. Let me click, just get that, get off, move. It doesn't want to move folks. All right. Also expected to take the stand is Nishad Singh. He's a former FTX director of engineers. He played a role in the ledger scheme of political straw donors. He also may testify to be being aware that they're misusing customer funds. Gary Wang, co-founder of Alameda and FTX also going to be there. Hey, they met in high school math camp and they're roommates at MIT. But this guy was serious because he was a former Google staffer and he also helped oversee their charitable efforts guided by the ethos of effective altruism. Other major figures won't testify, including two that have been very pled guilty. The CEO, Ryan Solomay and Dan Freeburg, who held various top legal roles. The first person to roll was the other Sam, nor will the other major figure who hasn't been charged, Sam Trabuco. He was the co-CEO for a time with Caroline Ellison, but left the firm before its collapse and the revelation of fraud. He set sail on a yacht paid for by FTX and his current location seems to be unknown. Also, he was the first one, I believe in that book, first one to roll over. First one to roll over there. So what are your thoughts on the rogues gallery of characters we're going to be seeing? Yeah, very interesting. Cause the other Sam guy, you could tell he knew the writing was on the walls. Like he knew that a lot of the internal stuff that was going on is pretty shady and he got out. Well, the game was good. What are your thoughts on that? Is it a rat fleeing a sinking ship or is this a smart guy just saying, hey, you know, writing on the wall. So do you think he was a party? I mean, this guy's, we're just saying what it appears like. We're not saying we know or have any kind of inside information, but would you say it appears like he knew what was happening and then maybe just turned a blind eye or is it, he didn't know what was happening. And as soon as he saw, he turned to the authorities. I think he knew what was going on. And I think that the only, obviously the only reason why FTX collapsed was their balance sheet was exposed. And then of course, you know, CZ making a tweet saying he's selling all those FTT. So those two things I think brought it down, but I think he knew, I think everybody working there knew it was kind of like, there's no way this could go on forever. And Caroline, man, I mean, she's not going to be pulling any punches because SBF did go to the New York times with her personal diary, which is petty. And so they rolled over on him first. They went missing. She was seen in what, New York, you know, near the FBI headquarters or something like that in that area, some sort of law enforcement department, but man, they all rolled over on him quick, which is, was insane to me, but it makes sense. They're a bunch of like, you know, nerdy people, you know, they're not like gangster or mafia. They're going to roll over quick to get a lesser sentence and plead guilty and stuff like that. Yeah. They rolled over faster than a cucumber. Like, like you said, yeah, they're not going to have, you know, the Sopranos vibes going on, like, you know, sleep with the fishes before I even tell them buddy who did a misdemeanor. No, they're, they're like, ah, I didn't do it. I didn't know it wasn't me. Do you think Sam is doing pushups to get ready for prison? No, no. Um, it's my understanding like they're, they're the inside information. Martin Shkreli has been posting a lot of like rumors and we don't know what's real and stuff, but I said, no, there's zero exercising happening in the jail cell, uh, was not taking this seriously at all. And for someone who's really, really, really smart, you would think, uh, physical capability would be high on the list of things you should take care of before you're going there. But apparently that that wasn't an issue to him. Maybe he was just like, you know, pressure gets well, I'll give you some Bitcoin when you're released. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's his plan. Maybe. Well, he was going up to everybody offering him easily. He was talking to the Bahamian government. I'll give you $10 billion a pay after debt. Like I'm sure he's talking to people in prison. Okay. I'll give you money when I leave and stuff like that. You know, even mafia members snitch, especially today. I felt like that was less the case in the sixties and seventies and the eighties. Uh, so what changed? I don't know. Maybe we just got softer folks. He was part of it. Uh, probably talking about Sam Trabuco. He left early before things could really be pinned on him. I can't imagine you're that high level and you don't see something, uh, suspicious, or at least if it's not crossing the line, it is against the line and towing the line and, you know, hovering over the line and, you know, like, Oh, I'm not over the line. You know, I'm just kinda, you know, in the middle of it there. All right, well, let's talk about their defense here. Uh, there's, uh, so they got the defense or signs that the, the broader argument for letting them go rest on shaky grounds. I don't think they're going to let them go. Uh, you know, he does have a lot of money. Plus in crypto, you can keep a seed phrase in your brain. Seems like it'd be a little bit of a flight risk there. Uh, but, uh, here we have, uh, talking about their parents here, uh, Barbara and Joseph, uh, pressured their own son for a million dollar annual salary for Papa. Papa got paid a 80 K a month. Hey, what's, what's 20 K a week amongst friends. She's that, that whole situation was insane. Cause we saw the emails and it looks like Sam Bankman freed was only paying him with 200 K a year. That was his initial salary. And his dad's like, Sam got to pay me a little more. Yeah. Oh yeah. He did need a little more, about $10 million here. Uh, he also got the gift of 10 million, uh, for his parents. A lot of that, I think it was, uh, for the mansion, uh, that I think is the snow knows the Bahamas mansion, not the one that he's currently living in right now, or it was, uh, uh, leading up to the trial here. Uh, the sentence he's facing seven specific charges, uh, wire fraud, securities, conspiracy to commit them, but even convicted, he tastes, uh, it's only a potential total only 115 years. So, uh, I don't know if you'll live that long, you know, subsiding on, uh, cucumbers and I, you know, I'm not even going to say what he might be eating in jail, but, uh, you know, who knows, who knows? Uh, but yeah, so he's facing over a century folks of 115 years. But the upshot, even in the worst case, he's more likely to be sentenced to between 10 and 20. What do you feel about between 10 and 20? I want to, I want to hear from both you here. Yeah, I think that's reasonable. Here's the main reason. I think that if he was another guy that wasn't connected, like the way he's connected, he probably would get, he get the full force of the law. But you know, the fact that Congress has to maybe subpoena sending a subpoena to Gary Genzer. So for those FTX, you know, private conversations, he, maybe he knows more than we think he knows and maybe more become uncovered during this whole trial. But I definitely think he's going to get a slap on the wrist compared to a hundred years. Definitely not going to. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Uh, we got some, uh, red meat for the XRP community. So there are people who are, you know, running ops against, uh, you know, the detractors here. There's basically people championing and cheerleading Sam Bankman freed. I think anyone who saw the 60 minutes interview felt a little bit, well, why are we like kind of celebrating this guy? Why are we, why are we really just saying what he did? You know, Hey, there's $8 billion of missing funds. And if you watch that 60 minutes interview, they, they use a lot of weird language and it's like, Oh, he just reallocated 8 billion to his other company. That's all he did. And they, they make it seem like the 8 billion is still there. Like, Oh yeah, he just reallocated the 8 billion. No, he reallocated it for mansions, Tom Brady, Steph Curry. He didn't just reallocate into a new company. They did that and then spent all the money. Uh, so XRP lawyer, we're talking to John Deaton here. He destroyed an expert who blamed Binance and the FTX crash. Uh, CZ ended up, uh, responding, uh, this clown literally blamed CZ saying, if no one had cast aspersions on the business, calling it bank run, he would be making tons of money today. He can't be that stupid. Here's what the, the comedy is talking about by toughie. You should just know the last name like toughie. Come on. Uh, right. Yeah. I mean, what's a big, you know, I'm calling out toughie. He's in the chat. I'm dropping the bomb on this guy because here's the thing about cryptocurrency exchange. They don't, they don't have the same luxuries banks do where banks don't have to hold all your money in the bank, right? Technically they don't have to, but cryptocurrency exchanges need to have your, the reserves one to one. Like if they have a hundred billion dollars with the cryptocurrency in there, you better have a hundred billion dollars ready to get the customers. So to say CZ was the one who's, he helped the bank run because he said he was, you know, selling his shares. And when the number one exchange in the world says they're going to sell their shares of a company, it's like, we don't like that company anymore. Everyone else is going to do it, but still shouldn't have been a pause in withdrawals. You know, it's, it's, it's an operation and then a day you're not supposed to commingle customer funds. So like, even if we all wanted to withdraw in a day, sure. It might be some issues as you have to move from cold wallets to hot wallets, but CZ has had a severe runs and he's like, yeah, you know, like removing some transactions. And then you see whale wires, like CZ, you know, Binance move a thousand Bitcoin 10 times. And you're like, oh, so he's actually doing what he's saying. Yeah. Uh, I agree with that. All right. FTX customers who lost millions maintain faith in crypto because despite major losses, fundamental reason why we buy Bitcoin has not changed. Uh, but I will say probably a fundamental way in which they hold Bitcoin has changed. So Evan Luthra lost 2 million. Uh, the fundamental reason why we buy Bitcoin, why we use Bitcoin has not changed. Uh, this person lost 60% of their portfolio sold his bankruptcy claim for a fraction of his worth to reimburse. I want to get a reinvest. I mean, he wanted to get the cash from bankruptcy claim primarily to invest in crypto. And ongoing faith in industry amongst these investors comes under the shadow of the collapse here, but yeah, we're here for the longterm. A lot of these people, I think, uh, here's a good question. Drew, you know, I want to know answered Rodney chat. 10 people get burnt by an FTX. Let's just say 80% to a hundred percent. How many people stay? How many people leave forever? 10 people. Well, the, the, the heinous thing about FTX and centralized exchanges is that they're the gap between us or as weirdos and crypto and the normies. So you have Tom Brady, Steph Curry, all of these people promoting FTX, you think it's safe. You lose, you know, whatever, a significant amount of your net worth or whatever, maybe a large portion of money. You don't trust crypto forever, but you don't understand that it's a centralization issue. It's not a Bitcoin issue. Right? So I think that this may scare the people who are just kind of like investing the crypto, just, you know, casually and don't really know about the DeFi space. So if you understand the DeFi space, you understand that I'm not your keys, not your crypto cliche, that all of us like talk about, but it's true because when these guys go bankrupt, it goes to crypto. So centralization issue for sure. Yep. All right. Let's, let's get into three reasons. And then we're going to look at charts with Kelly here. Three reasons. This is according to John Reed Stark also, you know, XRP community, probably no stranger to this name. Three reasons why he will be convicted according to an SEC lawyer, not DZ is not legal advice, everybody. All right. So you took the social media and let's see the three reasons. Number one, many high profile executives have already turned. They've already pled guilty to reduce their criminal sentences. So that's a, that's sign number one. All right. So you got, well, everybody else in the company, they have been, you know, essentially convicted of a crime by pleading to some lesser charges here. Number two, we have a powerful lineup of cooperating witnesses. It's arguably unprecedented for a financial fraud crime. So including his ex-girlfriend and John J. Ray, handlings of the exchange will likely weigh against its founder. And then last but not least, he believes that they, they likely handed the government most of its finding. So lastly here already incriminated himself through his post FTX public relations campaign. So we got a lot of people stacking against him. So star studded lineup of witnesses, other people already guilty. And then last but not least his, his Twitter rants. Some said it was fueled by amphetamines. I I'm not making that allegation. Just is what it appeared like to me though, but Oh, definitely the, the method up tweet binges is what people are saying here. I mean, like if you're a lawyer for SBF in this situation and watched him go on this crazy, like I'm innocent campaign, like while incriminating himself is insane to me. But I mean, he's like, he's, he's just, he didn't know what to do. So his, his form of like getting through this was just going on everybody's show in crypto and like even talking to coffee's ill on the phone, I believe. Right. And then saying, I'm not guilty. This is what's going on, but at the same time kind of incriminating himself. So the crazy, like a Fox theory, the best one I've heard, I think I heard it from all in pockets. I can't remember if it was Chamath or Jason, uh, the, the crazy, like a Fox. All right. So is there like some 3d chess move happening here? The 3d chess potentially, I guess we'll find out over the next couple of weeks, the 3d chess move could be, he's portraying himself as someone who was not in his right mind due to outside influences. Some could say it's chemical, you know, so, uh, due to the chemical solution that he's ingesting, he wasn't making his right mind. And then you can kind of, you know, lean on that as like, see, clearly he's like out of his mind. Yeah. And so you can't be responsible for the actions he committed while he was out of his mind to me. Yeah. He's got to be responsible. Oh yeah. There's no way like what he, he didn't, he didn't seem like, I don't know, like when you look at like, you may be typical situations where someone pleads guilty or it's not, you know, convicted because of like insanity. That's not it. He's just, he's just feel sorry for what he did. And this is how he's trying to, you know, kind of get over it and get through it. And I think, uh, Jeremiah, uh, keeps her different times. Hey, don't worry. We're sticking here. 10 30. All right. Uh, Kelly, he's waiting in the wings. He's pacing. He, hopefully he's not on a, any kind of a FTX cocktail here. Kelly, what is going on? What do we got? Hey man, everybody's getting so excited cause we pushed up a thousand dollars and they think we're going straight to the moon. We got to, uh, we got to, we got to be a little patient and talk is off the edge. Well now we're down 3%. And so I think we're going to a 10 K.
Cryptocurrency for Beginners: with Crypto Casey
A highlight from Wall St Calls Fed Bluff! Interest Rates DROPPING to 0% Sooner? (Historical Data Says YES! )
"The Federal Reserve, in their latest FOMC or Federal Open Market Committee meeting this past Wednesday, decided to not increase interest rates and rather take a pause, keeping the current rate of 5 .25 -55 % in play. And Jerome Powell signaled to the market that the Fed intends to keep interest rates higher for longer with potentially one or two more rate hikes in the coming months and tighter restrictive monetary policy than previously anticipated through 2024. Following that, all across media we have different experts and talking heads in the financial industry talking about, yeah once the Fed reaches its goals they will start decreasing interest rates by a quarter point here, a quarter point there, over a stretched out multi -year period of time. So everyone should brace themselves for potentially 5 plus years of a high interest rate environment. And as crypto investors, as people on our journeys building wealth to achieve financial freedom, in this extremely crazy unprecedented macro environment, what are all these experts and talking heads basing these predictions on? And more importantly, what is the Federal Reserve basing this roadmap off of? You'd think off of at least one single part of its 110 years of existence, you'd think they would reference at least one part of its century span of history, you would think it was based on some piece of past data for instance, but it's not. Everyone is making some random wild guess based on their imagination and Wall Street is calling their bluff. Check it out. When rates drop, they usually plunge. The Fed thinks different. History suggests central banks expected scenario isn't likely to happen. The Federal Reserve is hoping for something it has never managed before, not merely the softest of soft landings for the economy, but the slowest rate cutting cycle in its history. Up the stairs, down the elevator. When the Fed cuts rates, it usually slashes them. It expects to be different next time? Is it though? Is it going to be different? Let me know what you think in the comments below. Since COVID, the this time is different narrative has been a popular one, so will it pan out? You tell me. In the meantime, let's take a look at this chart that shows interest rate changes over the past several decades. The most recent instance is almost a perfect stairs looking hike and elevator crash. Then back in 2005, we've got another longer period of hikes followed by a drop in rates and zooming out a third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh instance of similar activity ranging back to around 1975. But here from the precipice of the pause here, this elongated gold line here is the Fed's forecast that all these talking heads in the mainstream media are also forecasting. There has never been a drawn out series of rate hikes ever, and smart money knows it. They seem to think they can just coast down slowly, said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JP Morgan asset management. It never happens that way. So who's your money? The Fed and the talking heads or Wall Street? Let me know in the comments below. Either way, we need to be prepared for any and all scenarios as crypto investors speculating on new innovative technology that still doesn't have a play. What should we be mindful of? What other scenarios could play out in the next six to 12 months, we should consider in order to increase our chances of potentially experiencing financial relief in this insane, unprecedented market. Hello, I'm crypto Casey and welcome to another episode of crypto this week. Let's take a look at the global news stories and state of the current macro environment.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "r. kelly" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Morning three twenty five sports time thirsty we're in october and that can only mean the baseball playoffs are now in full bloom national league wild card bellies top the marlins four to one miami's only scored one run in their last three post -season games elsewhere diamond backs down the brewers six to three american league action twins beat the blue jays three to one minnesota puts an end to their eighteen game playoff losing streak and the rangers shut out the rays forward to nothing over to the nhl preseason action from boston where the camps topped the bruins five to four in overtime matthew phillips coming up with a winner in the extra period caps improving to two one and one it's on to columbus coming on up thursday into the nfl where jets quarterback aaron roger says his recovery from a torn kelly's is going way ahead of schedule and there is a chance he could return to the playing field later this season and steve drusner w t o p sports life's better when we do things together like sharing the ride work to even if you're commuting just a few days a week commuter connections can match you with others who live work and near or with you
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market: What No Ones Telling You!
"Anytime you start making paper Bitcoin, or paper silver, or paper gold, and what do I mean by that? Futures, ETFs, stuff like that, that creates paper version. That's not actual spot, right? So anytime you do that, yes, the same money that comes in to buy it, so that they can actually short it, and they could keep it down with unlimited money and unlimited leverage, they could keep it down indefinitely, or until they scoop up as much as they want, when everyone loses interest, and then it takes off. What's up, everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, and good night wherever you're tuned in from. Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to the show. If this is your first time, and I hope to guarantee that it's not going to be your last time, we've got an excellent guest lined up for you today. Mr. Jesse Olson is going to be breaking down what it means to cut the noise out of all these narratives from FUD and HOPE. Look at the chart, let the chart do the talking for you. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in right to our guest. And I want to ask him a question right up front. Jesse, first off, thank you for being here, but do you think we're still going to get another bull run, bull runs like we've seen in the past, or do you think all these new institutions coming in and big money players coming into the market are going to change the dynamic of what a bull run is in Bitcoin? What's your thoughts? What's up, Kelly? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And we should have some fun here. Coming from a trading standpoint, right? I'm going to come from a trading standpoint and a point of view. When I first got the first bull run, right, 2020, 2021, I was still learning. And yes, I was doing pretty good 2021, really good. But the whole time I was saying this, I was like, please give me one more bull run after this, right? Please give me one more. I'm not 100 % certain that we get another bull run like we did on the last one. And I'm not as optimistic with the big institutions coming in. And I wasn't back in 2020 and I wasn't in 2021. Because coming from options, I know that manipulation is in there because they want to make money. They have billions, if not trillions of dollars. They've had algorithms for, I don't know, 12, 15 years or longer that are probably where us retail folk are at now, right? And they have the money behind it, right? So when futures were created end of 2017, I think Bitcoin started to become more correlated. Then there's trusts like GBTC. And if there's ETFs and stuff like that, I think it will become more correlated. I think it's amazing for traders, right? I just don't think that if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong because I will do much better, right? I will do much better if we get a massive bull run. But if we don't, it's because it will become more of a trading thing than it will be a long -term great. I just, you know, it can't be that easy. And if it is great, we'll all be there, right? I'm trading Bitcoin. I'm trading it with leverage. I welcome that. I make way more money on a long position with leverage than I do on a short position because, A, the leverage you're gaining profit and the coin value is going up. But on the short side, the coin value isn't going up, it's going down. So I collect more coins, but the coin value isn't going up. So first and foremost, I do want another bull run and I beg for another bull run so all my snipers can participate and they can make money as well and change their lives. But I'm not certain that it's going to happen. And I would be surprised if they allow it to happen. If big companies are coming in, you know, I don't know. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see. But we'll be there if it does and we won't be surprised if it doesn't. Put it that way. Now, Jesse, I have to say how much I appreciate people that are in this space that bring a balanced view because everybody thinks it's just going to go up, up and away, especially considering the fact that we have the halving right around the corner. Do you think the halving is going to be the primary driver of if we do get a bull run? Do you think the halving really truly is going to have an impact on price action? What's your thoughts on this? I have a couple of thoughts on it. So one, I think the halving will still play a factor, right? If all things are the same, if the same, you know, if the one there's a couple of things that could hurt it. Right. So Bitcoin has never Bitcoin came out after the 2008 crash. Right. So it's never experienced a dot com bubble crash. It never experienced 2008 crash. I have. I went back to zero. I lost everything. So for me, the up only left me a long time ago. Right. Like, I know it's not up only when I thought it was up only in my mid 20s. Right. So for me, a couple of those things. I do have hope for Bitcoin. I do believe on some level they'll be able to manipulate it and suppress it. If you look at gold and silver. Right. Gold and silver should probably be $30 ,000 an ounce by now for gold. And silver should probably be $1 ,000 per ounce by now. And because of paper, silver and gold should probably suppress it. Right. So I believe those are probably should be worth a lot more. The one positive with Bitcoin is anyone can go buy spot Bitcoin much easier than silver and gold. Right. I've bought silver and gold and they deliver it to you in a weird package and it's heavy. Right. It's not easily transportable and all that stuff. So there are some positive about Bitcoin. Right. So, you know, who knows what the agendas are? I don't. That's why I stick hyper focus to the charts, because I don't know what the backroom deals are happening. I don't know the narratives. I don't know any of that stuff. I'm not a top point one percenter making those decisions. So the only thing I can do is trade the charts. But, you know, going back, if we do get this bull run, I do have some reasons why, you know, like you said, you brought up one hundred fifty thousand. I do have a couple of reasons why that I could see Bitcoin hit one hundred and ten, one twenty five and maybe even top would be like one hundred forty thousand dollars. But that's a lot of what ifs. So, you know, we will take it level by level and swing trade the heck out of it all the way all the way up in the bull run. If we get another bull run, that's kind of like the topping that I would see price it. So now I appreciate that answer. And I'd like to shift gears here for a second, because you've been trading for years, years before Bitcoin was even around. And I'd like to dive into that experience a little bit and throw it back to the beginners out there, because we do have beginners that are out there still right now. But disproportionately, as we get new bullish impulses, especially in Bitcoin or the rest of the altcoin markets, we're going to have a huge number, a huge influx of new people into the space. So what would you say if you had that? Maybe not a secret sauce, but a beginner's pack, a beginner's sort of encouragement and the need to knows and the need to uses for people that are starting from scratch. Maybe they don't have a pro trading view account. Maybe they're not buying one of our indicators of one of your indicators or some of the many paid indicators out there. There's a lot of free tools. So what would you say for beginners getting started today or at any point in the future? Where do they start? How do they dive into this? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, first and foremost, like before this, I would say salvage as much capital at first as possible. I feel like the faster you want to jump in to make money, the faster you are going to lose money. So it sounds generic that, you know, learn first. Right. But say you already passed, you're going down discovery road and you're trying to learn and develop your own strategy. Right. Well, if you're on trading view, for example, you can get a relative strength indicator for free. If you're on trading view, free platform, you can get the MACD indicator. I think that's the most commonly used for beginners is the MACD indicator. And just before you do anything else, just study it and study it some more and then back test it and develop a strategy based off of your back test. There's an amazing replay button on trading view that you can go back and kind of after you develop a strategy, you can easily go back and hit the replay video and see what that, you know, how that kind of plays out in the past. It doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future, but you can get an idea over time of back testing with the replay button. That's probably number one. And then paper trade. I know it's not exciting. I know I didn't do it. I jumped head head first. I would have five digit wins followed by five digit losses. And it was brutal. Right. And I've never had a six digit loss, but I've had six digit wins. But I've had five digit losses and it wasn't until the five digit losses that made me like I made five digit wins with basically hardly any strategy whatsoever. And that was probably the worst thing that could happen. The best thing that could happen is that I had the five digit win loss and it made me go back to the drawing board. It made me reevaluate my whole life. What am I doing in trading type of thing? That aha moment. And that's when I really went obsessive on the charts and developing my own strategy. I saw other people's strategies out there. And when I would back test it, I went through a phase where I back tested so many other people's strategies. I would just say, didn't work. This doesn't work for me. This doesn't work for me. And every strategy could work differently for different people, especially on different timeframes. So develop something that works for you. Find a timeframe that works for you and your lifestyle. Some of our snipers, they can't do swing trading on the daily chart. They don't have the patience for it. They're scalpers. They're day traders. So you got to know yourself too. And then at that point, as you're graduating from paper trading and back testing, the next level is maybe risk some lunch money. The amount of money you and I would go off for like a nice lunch. And if I were to buy your lunch, I don't even think twice about it. Like something that I'm not even going to lose sleep over. Then I talk about doing lunch money. Then maybe you do lunch money with leverage or blah, blah, blah, or a little bit more money with spot, right? So you got to take it in levels and kind of make it a systematic approach. And if you treat it like a business in those levels, that's when you're going to have a better chance of making it. Otherwise, if you jump straight in and you want to go 50 X leverage, no strategy, no experience, no back testing. I guarantee you blow up account. I guarantee it. One of the things I say is like, if you're, if you're trying to double down, like you were doing well, right? So a couple of things that I've talked about in coaching is that, and by the way, I don't do live coaching anymore. I have recorded coaching, but I don't do live coaching. It's just too much time and energy. But when I was doing those live coaching calls, we talked about this and we talked about that. You know, every time you win a trade, if you're treating it like a business, you pull out, for example, I pull out my personal strategies. I pull out 50 % out of that trading kill and I take it out of the digital world and then go maybe put it in the physical world or diversify in some other way. Right? So you're always taking a piece off, always taking a piece off. And one of them, one of the students is like extremely young. Right. And, uh, I, I said, Hey, what are you gonna do with your winnings? Right. He crushed it. And I was actually jealous of his trade. He, he actually nailed it on high leverage. And I'm like, I'm like, go buy your mom something nice. Right. So not only take like money off the table, but it's the whole mindset. If you're not taking money off the table on each trade, what happens is you're up. Like you were say, you know, $50 ,000, $100 ,000, $10 ,000, $1 ,000. Maybe you're brand new. You're up $1 ,000. And that's the most you've ever had. You want to flip that into $10 ,000, right? Then you want to flip that into a million dollars. And that's, and that's what you just fell into that same example you just gave you fell into that mindset. And you only can do that by learning the hard way. So what you have to do is be more systematic about it. And after a win, fighting the urge of going back in and instead of going all back in, you're, you're pulling some out and then you're, you're, you're going at the new, every trade you have to treat as brand new and instead of jumping in and out is everything lining up on the charts, just like it did the first one, you nailed the first trade. And a lot of times this happens when you're, I talk about it, you'll have like nine winning trades in a row and we're human. We're not robots. I'm not a robot. I know I'm most likely to have a bad trade after I've had nine in a row. Why? Because my confidence is so high. I've skipped steps, right? So if you skip steps because your confidence is so high, that's when you're most likely going to have your next loss. And if you forget to put, and if you make a mistake on that, you forget to put in a stop loss. You do too high of leverage. Next thing you know, you're having a major setback and a change. It sets you back not only on financially, but mentally. So be cautious. Once you are making the wins and you are winning like nine times in a row, you're going to have a loss. And usually it's because your confidence is so high, not because you're, you've been on a losing streak, right? So just want to point that out. And it was based off what you're kind of talking about. You're winning. It was the bull run. And then all of a sudden you went all in with more leverage and took a $70 ,000 loss. So you learn from your mistakes, right? Yeah. Well, I got to say, I couldn't agree more with you on all those great places to start for beginners and how utilizing a lot of those free tools that are available to you to get started, to understand the mechanisms of all these tools that you're going to be utilizing when you're doing price analysis and trying to figure out when to buy and when to sell. It's not just about looking at price action. It's about looking at those underlying data sets that can give you an edge as to when trends are going to shift. So with that being said, I have to say, Jesse, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with us and your lens on this market. And everybody, if you want to see more of Jesse, throw one in chat, comment down below, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, ding the bell. And if you would make sure you head over to Jesse J -E -S -S -E -O -L -S -O -N, find out so much more about him here, all kinds of different content he shares on a daily basis, really breaking down charts. He even has his own Market Sniper Academy right here at MarketSniper .Pro. You can also find out more information on BitLab Academy right here at Academy BitLab. Follow me, of course, at Kelly Kellum, K -E -L -L -Y, K -E -L -L -A -M. Make sure you check out bitlabacademy .com. We have all the tools and courses and strategies and the community that can really help you dive into this space and understand what is going on. Self -custody, trading fundamentals, psychology of trading, on -chain analysis, candles, candle patterns, indicators. There's so much in here as a point. Join us here in BitLab Academy. You can still use our coupon code GIVEME30 for an additional 30 % off your first month. I hope to see you in there in the Discord and over on the BitLab Academy daily YouTube stream right here at youtube .com forward slash at BitLab Academy. I'll see you there. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. Get out of the charts and we'll see you in the next video. Adios.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from MAJOR Mt. Gox Update! (Bitcoin Sell Date Delayed)
"Let's discover some crypto news today. September 21st, it's 1130 AM because we always start on time here, and we got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos. How are you two doing? I'm doing great. Nice white tee, DZ. Nice white tee. Yeah, thank you. Well, I got the V. You got the regular, right? Yeah, you got the regular. Alright, so tomorrow, I'm going to have a deeper V, okay? We were just talking before the show. I want such a deep V that Salt Bae would be embarrassed. He would turn beet red from wearing the deep V, so maybe we have to get it that cut. Drew, your wife actually makes clothing. Will she make a custom deep V for you so we can match? This is absolutely going to happen. Top D with the deep V. Yours has to be in camo. Alright, guys, we're going to talk about Jerome Powell, some of the remarks after. They didn't change the rate hikes, what they mean. Also, we got Bitcoin at Mt. Gox has been moved. What's going on with that? When are these coins going to hit the market? When is this Mt. Gox Bitcoin going to hit the market? Is it going to dump Bitcoin's prices? Is it going down 10K, 1K? So we're going to talk about that as well. We got to talk about Maxine Waters and X potentially turn into a payments platform. Linda Yaccarino, the CEO, tweeted out something last night. We're going to look at that as well. And we got some XRP news. It's going to be a great episode, so please hit that like button, everybody. Are you all feeling good? Are we feeling red? You know, the market's down, but I still feel pretty good. You feeling good? I'm feeling good. Alright. Let's go to blue. Alright, alright. We're also going to have charts with Kelly at the end, too, so it's towards the beginning. Alright, well, let's talk about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. He spoke at a critical press conference after the interest rates decision. Here are the details. We're just going to break down some of the key takeaways. As expected, they did not increase the interest rate, kept it constant between 5 .25 and 5 .5. And here are the important excerpts from Powell's statement, everybody. We cannot have strong employment market without price stability, so we got to get the price stability in line. Consumer spending is quite strong still. Rebalancing in the labor market is expected to continue. We keep scrolling here. There's a long road ahead for reducing inflation to 2%. And the fact that we decided to keep the policy rate constant does not mean that we reach the policy stance we wanted or not, so they're still leaving themselves open for an interest rate hike. A lot of people think there is going to be an interest rate hike, not the next one, maybe the one after that, maybe in the beginning of the year. And last but not least, we're pretty close to where we need to be. I wouldn't attach greater importance to an interest rate increase. So they're trying to minimize any market impact. I wouldn't attach greater importance to an interest rate increase. I wouldn't care that much if we increase rates. Does that signal that they are going to increase maybe one or two pauses from now? I think that's signaling a strong maybe with a capital M. Yeah, I think a big takeaway from this is where it says the full effects of the Fed's tightening have yet to be felt. And that is definitely the sentiment here. Like this isn't the first time we paused on the interest hikes and the markets have fallen. You know, the past two days on the live stream, everything's going up. Everyone's saying, oh, the price is going up. I'm sitting here saying, I think this is a bull trap. I think the price is coming down because I was looking at the stock market charts, looking at the DXY charts, DXY still going up because of the previous interest hikes coming into play, stock market coming down. But crypto is pumping. I'm thinking to myself, oh, this isn't this isn't going to hold up at all. We're going to come back down the reality. And that has started to happen today. So there you go. Right. All right. Well, let's talk about Japan's economy as well. Japan's economy on the brink as the end stumbles to 148 year low bond yields. So that's a decade or almost 15 decades right there. As Japan contends with depreciating in and rising 10 year bonds, its economy stands at a unique crossroads. The yen's fall to a nearly 150 year to date low against the U .S. dollar brings with it a mixed bag of economic implications. I'm surprised they had the yen that long, you know, throughout all the world wars and everything. Yeah, true. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's I mean, but still 150 year low, 150. The Bank of Japan now faces the intricate task of maintaining currency stability and keeping yields low amidst a high public debt environment. Complicating the test further is the yen dollar carry trade, which could intensify the pressure on the yen as the interest rate difference between Japan and the U .S. widens. So we're going to be keeping an eye out on that. We did lose the Internet, but it looks like we got it back. All right, Russia. Let's talk about Russia here. Let's rush into this next area. Russian Central Bank replenishes gold reserves to 2023 highs amid economic sanctions, according to a report by Kitco. That's where I use all my silver pricing data. Data from the IMF's international financial statistics reveals that Russia's central bank increased its gold reserves in August, apparently returned to the initial levels at the start of the year. Twenty three hundred tons. It was later confirmed by the World Gold Council. That just sounds like a shadowy group right there. The World Gold Council sounds like a bunch of bond villains. Kitco also reports that Russia is bolstering its reserves to mitigate the impact of Western economic sanctions, particularly those related to its invasion of Ukraine in February. Often we see Ray Dalio made this big, bold prediction as we see an empire on the decline. Debt is relative. And so, yeah, America's debt's terrible, but Japan's is worse. China's is worse. You know, everyone else is worse. So a lot of people use that data point, say America's debt can just get as bad as it wants to be, as long as it's not that bad relative to the rest of the globe. We're in no worry whatsoever. The other side of that coin would be, well, people will eventually stop buying debt and what are they going to start buying? They're going to buy gold, maybe some digital gold as well. So I'm expecting gold to go up. But silver silver price still lags gold. Have you ever done a deep dive on gold versus silver? I wonder if people even want that. Just would you want gold, silver data or you just want only crypto? I remember like a year ago, we were talking about doing a video that was I think we did a video that was like Bitcoin compared to gold and then Bitcoin compared to silver and then silver compared to gold. And it was it wasn't the most interesting video, in my opinion.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A 2023 NFL Re-Draft, Deions Next School, the 76ers Soap Opera, and Week 3 Picks With Danny Kelly, Van Lathan, and Howard Beck
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Animal Radio
A highlight from 1242. Turning Your Pet Into A Social Media Influencer. Wise Words From An Expert.
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team, veterinarian, Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. If you're like Judy, you spend a lot of time online, social media, going through videos. You'll spend like an hour a day maybe just watching. I just get down a rabbit hole, you watch one and then another one pops up, oh, I got to see that. And it's like, oh, look at this one. And they're all animal or pet related. Is that mostly it? Yeah, I won't watch. I don't know if I'm not interested in the other ones. Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah. So in your life, who would you say is the biggest social media influencer for you? What animal do you maybe even follow? You know what? I'm not a follower. In fact, no. And I like watching both cat and dog videos. So I don't really hone in on a certain animal and like follow that particular animal. I'm kind of like, I watch them all. Have you ever seen, I'm going to hold up a picture here. Have you ever seen this animal here? This is, this is Loki. I hadn't seen Loki. Again, I don't follow any certain animals if I happen to come across a video, but I don't, I don't, I, yeah. He's beautiful. Loki is, what kind of dog is Loki? He's like some kind of a Malamute wolf hybrid. Like a wolf. I'm not quite sure. He's a big dog. This particular picture that I'm holding up to the microphone is Loki and his guardian, Kelly. They're sitting in a hammock. You may have seen this picture. It's a picture that he just casually posted on his Instagram page. And then, uh, the people over at Bored Panda saw it, wanted to do an interview with him. Buzzfeed picked it up. Eventually he realized that his dog was becoming extremely popular online. And he decided after about a year after this picture went out to quit his job and focus on promoting his animal online to become a social media sensation. We're going to find out how he's doing on that and whether or not we should quit our jobs to become ladybugs. Yeah. Well, she has a Facebook page. It's not very popular. Maybe she needs to post more. Well, I just, you know, everybody go to her Facebook page and like her right now. So we're going to talk to this Kelly Lund coming up here. He's the guardian of Loki and we're going to find out what his secret is to becoming a viral sensation. Also on the show today. And in this hour, we're going to talk to Fiona Gilbert. Fiona, do you need to get that? I'm expecting a call from my pharmacist. Can we, can you just make sure? Cause I'm, I have to pick something up and I'm just waiting for them to call and say it's ready. So can you just check that? Thank you. Coming up this hour, Fiona Gilbert will be joining us. She has MS unfortunately, and she has a service dog to help her with her MS. What kind of dog is that there? It's a pit bull. It is a, it is a pit bull. Surprise, surprise. Well now how can that be? I mean a pit bull service dog? Is there such a thing as a pit bull service dog? Why not? Well, I guess not. Why not? I do know that Delta or American Airlines just banned service animals that happened to be pit bulls. I do know that in Denver it is illegal to have a pit bull. That's just wrong. That is wrong. I bet Fiona has a bone to pick with Delta Airlines. I'm guessing that. Or her dog does. Okay, we're going to find out about her service dog, her pit bull coming up here on Animal Radio. Lori, what are you working on for this hour? You were just a minute ago Hal talking about social media and Loki and everything. Well, I have for you a new list from Forbes. They did, I love this word influencers because I had never really heard of it before. I just thought, you're famous on social media. If you're famous on social media, you're an influencer. So Forbes had this edition where they had the top 10 people influencers, the top 10 chef influencers and on and on with everything. And they did a list on pets. So pets on social media. So I will tell you the most famous pets or influencers on social media. When Forbes is involved, there must be money involved. Of course. Okay. That list on the way. First year calls. Let's go to Wanda. Hi Wanda. Hi. How are you doing? Very good. I have the whole dream team here to answer your questions. What's going on with your pets? Okay. I have Dachshund miniature pincher mix. She's having skin problems. I switched vets like four times and they always said that it's yeast, airborne yeast. And they give her shots and she goes okay for two weeks. But then they give her prednisone. That makes her eat a lot. She still eating and she still have the yeast and she still have the smell. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what to do. So has she had any money in the beds? Okay. And have we used any medicine that specifically geared towards the yeast, either by a pill form or by a shampoo or a topical form? Well, they give me Mariset. Okay. And I have to bathe her every other day, but sometimes I can tell you the truth. I don't have time and it's cold and she gets very cold. I'll give her a bath every other day. Okay. And is that it or are they using any pills for that other than the prednisone? No. They give me Apoquel. Apoquel, she still eating and then the doctor say I will then give her Benadryl. Okay. So I'm going to kind of make some interpretations of what you've said and what I think may be the direction that your veterinarian is going here. So if your pet has yeast on the skin, the important thing to know about that is that yeast is generally not the primary problem. It's a secondary problem. So there's usually something else that's making that skin barrier unhealthy where the yeast can really grow and proliferate. So if they're using things like prednisone and Apoquel, it sounds like they're suspicious that she has an underlying allergy. So those medicines are geared towards the allergy. But the sad thing is if we use that and don't address infection and treat it with the medications for those conditions, we're really not going to get anywhere. So we're going to think that, you know, the medicine isn't working for allergies when we're really just not treating a bacterial infection or say a yeast infection that could be present. So what my consideration, and I'd ask you to talk to your veterinarian if this seems fair and like a direction that they would agree with, is that if we have yeast in the skin and it's chronic, especially if it creates some of the different symptoms I see with yeast, and I should mention those, yeast in the skin will often cause a really stinky foot odor. It smells like old man foot. I have to wash my bed and everything every day. Yeah. So it's a real strong smell. The dogs will often have kind of a greasy feel to them in those areas. And in some cases when it's present for chronic long -term periods of time, we'll actually get a thickening of the skin and it'll become kind of darkly pigmented and what almost I describe as elephantinized. So it kind of becomes like elephant skin. She had that in her tail, but then I gave her and gave and went away. Okay. So yeah, so that definitely, if those kinds of things are going on, then yeast is very suspicious. We usually confirm that by taking a sample from the skin and looking and you know, yeast show up pretty easy on an impression smear. So the thing I would ask you to talk to your veterinarian about is, can we use something systemic for her, for this yeast? And that might mean a couple different possible medicines, but they basically all fall under the category of an antifungal medicine, such as ketoconazole or itraconazole, or even one called terbenafene. Any of those are used with yeast infections, whether it be in the ears or say in the skin. So that would be something, and it does take a long period of time. We might get some improvement after maybe a week or two, but many times this is something that we have to treat for many weeks to months. So that would be something where, you know, I would definitely talk to them about that. The other thing is, you know, definitely the maliceb that you're using is certainly an appropriate one if we're suspicious of yeast, but there can be even some other things that we can use topically as well, as far as different types of mousses or sprays that we can use that contain either say chlorhexidine, which is a type of an antiseptic, or miconazole, which is an anti -yeast topical. So those can be things that we can add into the regimen. But I think the good thing in your situation is there is some things that I can suggest for you to try, and the big thing is sticking with it, because it really does take, I had just like a bald, kind of darkly skinned, very little hair. It only had hair on the tip of its tail and around its head, and it took four months of yeast therapy that we treated, and it finally got most of its hair back. It never did get all of it back, because it was so scarred, but it can really be very rewarding. You just kind of have to trek through it. So yeah, with her, she's black. When people see her and they tell me, why are you taking it? Because her top hair of her body is black, shiny, so pretty. It's just under the legs, on her stomach, at her four paws, and under the tail. You know, they don't have it, she doesn't have it anyplace else. And I bathe her, I bathe her, she's my baby. Yeah, well, and yeast is horribly itchy. Any human knows that. So it's a miserable thing. So definitely, and even some other kind of anti -itch remedies, you know, that we can use. I am using a lot of the canine atopic dermatitis immunoglobulin called CADI, and that helps a lot just to kind of stop the itch, to give pets relief while we're dealing with all the other things. Yes, I don't want to bite. I know that the steroids, they're going to hurt her a long time. And I say, what I'm giving to her is she's not going to be improving. That's why I hear you every morning. And I say on Sundays, and I say, I'm going to call because maybe I can go to the vet with some knowledge and say, hey, give me the yeast infection medication, take her away from the prednisone. Absolutely. And that makes it harder. The prednisone definitely makes it harder for her to fight these infections. So if we use it sparingly, just to kind of help relieve it, and then yeah, get her off that. I agree totally. So she needs to go to the vet and ask for something systematic. Is that right? Systemic. Systemic. A systemic and a yeast medicine. Yes, a yeast medicine. I will do that. Hopefully we can get her some good help and I wish you guys the best. Let us know how things turn out and hopefully we'll get her feeling and looking better and smelling better too. Thanks Wanda. Well, this portion of Animal Radio is underwritten by Fear Free Happy Homes. Don't forget you can get your fix of Animal Radio anytime you want with the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it now. It's made possible by Fear Free Happy Homes. Helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home, at the vet, and everywhere in between. Visit them at fearfreehappyhomes .com. And thanks, Fear Free, for underwriting Animal Radio.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Democrat Party Hates America with Mark Levin and Julie Kelly
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Joining us now is the great one, Mark Levin. Mark, thank you for taking the time. I have to say your book right here, The Democrat Party Hates America, is a noteworthy, remarkable, and impressive accomplishment, Mark. The footnotes alone could be its own book. Mark, congratulations, and please introduce the book to our audience. First of all, thank you, Charlie, for all your support all the time. You're a beacon of liberty out there, my brother. Thank you. Well, I decided to put the title in this book when I finished it. Let's look around today, even before we get into any history background on The Democrat Party Hates America. You look at the border. You look at our value of our currency. You look at what's going on in our classrooms. You look what's going on in our courtrooms. You look what's going on with the price of fuel, and soon to be the elimination of the combustion engine. You look at what's going on in the streets, particularly in our inner cities, where people are being mugged, raped, and brutalized, and murdered with very little consequence. And I can go on and on and on. This is the news that we're faced with almost every day. This is what you, Charlie, and I have to deal with almost every day when we talk about it. This is what the American people see every day. Well, these aren't natural disasters. Somebody's causing all these things to happen. So who's causing all these things to happen? It's man -made. Who are these men? What's the Democrat Party behind every single one of these? And when you go back in history, the Democrat Party has never accepted America and Americanism. It's never accepted the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't even accept it today. Never accepts the Constitution. It is rewriting our history about our founding. It's done this before. So we have a party that was the party of the Confederacy, the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of eugenics, the party of the Klan, the party of lynching. And all of a sudden it keeps attacking the American history. That's their history. It's not America's history. It's their history. And then today, of course, they are also attacking America. But like good chameleons, they've shifted the way they do it. So whereas they used to be the party of anti -black racism, now they're the party of anti -white racism. Why? Because they don't like white people. Well, many of these are white people. Because they're Marxists. So in order to attack the race founding of the nation, which was founded largely by white people and Europeans, you need to attack that. So you have the 1690 project, you have critical race theory, you have monuments being pulled down, you have all these things going on. Because the goal now is to destroy the connection of the American people with their history, the destruction of the American culture, and so forth and so on. So you got to look at the Democrat Party through the lens of power, their power. Because the Democrat Party, Charlie, is not a typical political party. It's an autocratic entity that doesn't seek to win elections. It seeks to control elections, control the outcome of elections, to diminish the viability of any opposition parties or any opposition of any kind. And so this book gets very deep into the history, as you know. It's very hard to do an interview or answer an interview on this book because it is so comprehensive. It is comprehensive. It is. Yeah. And I've spent a lot of time, Mark, flipping through it. I want to just isolate one sentence that I think is super powerful. Page 23 of the Democrat Party Hates America. The Democrat Party has evolved into an anti -American political and cultural entity. It's an institutional home for the Marxist ideology in its Americanized forms. Mark, part of the challenge I have with people that have a muscle memory of a past that no longer exists, 1980s, 1990s, it's hard, Mark, for some people I talk to for them to believe that the leading American political party that controls the White House and the United States Senate and all the bureaucracies has contempt for the country they govern. That's why I think your book is so important, Mark. It really challenges limiting beliefs. You do it in a fabulous way. But I want to just isolate. This is a party that has bitterness towards what you and I love. This is no longer a policy debate. We want different things. Mark Levin. 100 percent. I'd always amazes when people say to me, well, can't we get something going here? The bipartisan. I don't know. Should we have done something bipartisan with the Confederacy? Some things are right and some things are wrong. When people are, as they say, they use the phrase fundamentally transforming America. Shouldn't we believe them? When one of the leading Democrat lights in the Democrat Party is a Marxist by the name of Bernie Sanders, shouldn't we understand that? When 10 to 15 percent of the Democrat caucus in the House of Representatives are Marxists, shouldn't we accept that and have to deal with it? So what I've tried to do in this book is rather than deal with the ephemeral or the ambiguous, it's to put a label on it. American Marxism sort of set the stage. But the fact of the matter is we have a political entity, which is more than a party. It's your typical autocratic party that wants to do what? That wants to devour this society. That wants to replace the country. They want allegiance to the party, not to the country. They don't give a damn about the country. Your fuel prices, the open border, elections. They have a fourth branch of government that they've created with some help of Republicans, but it's their government, which issues more regulations and laws than Congress ever could. We don't even have a representative republic anymore. You and I, we're not asking members of Congress to eliminate the incandescent light bulb because apparently it kills people. They're going through our homes. They're eliminating all kinds of appliances. Any government that has the power to eliminate a light bulb has no limits on its power. And so what this party does is every waking hour of its leadership is to try and destroy the status quo, destroy our traditions, destroy our customs, destroy real law and order, particularly in our communities, as they empower and centralize the police state. If people want to really understand... Let me just say this to you, Charlie. There was a great review done by Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker, founder of the American Thinker.
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 43: Week 2 Recap
"Welcome to the Ultraflex Football Podcast. Move over Pat McAfee. There's no denying that we are here to spice up your life and never forget about the good times. I'm your host, Anthony Sutton. With me, as always, is Rob Green. Man, I wasn't prepared for that change. What's up? What's going on? And Viva Forever, Ryan Wheeler. I feel so much pressure. Now we got to be better than Pat McAfee. All right. Oh, we got the... Go ahead. No, he's actually like swearing on ESPN now, and he's got like Mike Greenberg, he swore on ESPN now because of McAfee. He's actually... A little more laid back now, huh? Yeah, he wears a tank top. He's very good for ESPN, in my opinion. Go ahead. He's spicing up Disney, huh? I think I saw, didn't they have to put him on like an extra delay versus normal? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. He has to cut out the F words a little bit, I heard. Someone's got to tell him to stop the cursing. No. Why? That's what makes it fun. I'm like eight song titles through my album here, so. Oh, he's like, damn, you're doing song titles already? Yeah, I thought you had to say him first. Holy moly. All right, well, we're about to find out what your song titles were. So Tony messed up two weeks ago. He didn't get all the song titles in, so now he has an album to himself, but because this is a team sport, a team podcast, Rob and I now have to split apart, or a album between ourselves. So Rob and I have Good Charlotte, The Young and the Hopeless. My songs are A New Beginning, Lifestyle of the Rich and the Famous, Wondering, The Story of My Old Man, Girls and Boys, and My Bloody Valentine. Rob? I don't know, man. I'm not feeling good about this week. This is a lot. Seven songs and a half hour show. All right, I got Hold On, Riot Girl, Say Anything, The Day That I Die, The Young and the Hopeless, Emotionless, and Movin' On. Tony, we're all wondering, what do you have? You have the Spice Girls, my man. And I already, I've gotten already into the pod. I've already gotten Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Never Give Up on Good Times, Move Over, Denying, and Viva Forever. I still need to get in Too Much, Saturday Night Divas, Do It, and The Lady is a Vamp, which will probably be a difficult one. Hold on, can you say that one more time? What was that? The Lady is a Vamp. Like a vampire, assuming? What's a vamp? It's a vampire. And that's from the Spice World album. 1997 made me feel old AF. 97, wow. I remember watching the Spice World movie, the Spice Girls movie. I do not remember. Oh, you guys didn't have older sisters, that's why. No. All right, anyway. Movin' On. All right, speaking of Movin' On, the NFL schedule moved on. We are now in week two, so let's get to Football Talk. And I guess technically we're in week three, so we're going to recap week two. As always, we're going to start with the Bills game, go to the Titans game, and then kind of what else is going on. So, Rob, you were at the Bills Raiders game. What were your biggest takeaways? It was a fun home opener. The Bills got back to their winning ways with a nice, easy, I'd even want to say I was worried at the beginning. It was a little annoying that they fell behind 7 -0, but I was confident they would still pull it out. They did. Josh Allen ended up AFC Offensive Player of the Week, I think the 11th time in his career now, which is pretty impressive. Wow, the franchise record. Oh, I didn't know that. Nice stat. You beat Jim Kelly, it was 10 times. Well, pretty nice. Feels like a new beginning for the Bills, for sure. Nice, Ryan. Where was I going with that? I told you guys a stat yesterday, actually, that surprised me, but Josh Allen is number one in completion percentage so far this year. I know it's only two games in, but fun little tidbit there. It's crazy how much can change week by week in the NFL, and it's going to happen again this week. If the Bills were to lose to Washington and go 1 -2, then it almost feels like the game, I know it wouldn't be a must -win, but it feels like the game against the Dolphins the following week would feel like a must -win. That way, they're not 1 -3 and that far behind the Dolphins, but yeah, it's crazy how much can change in one week in the NFL. Oh, show. My biggest takeaway, and I said it last week, kind of a similar takeaway for me was last year it felt like we never got pressure on the quarterback. This year, it feels like we're constantly getting the opposing quarterback pressure, and it feels like our offensive line is playing well, so big task, which is we're physical, we can run the ball, we can block, we can get pressure. It's a good change of pace. I don't know, honestly, I'm not smart enough to tell you if McDermott's play calling is a factor in that, or if it's just Leonard Floyd, hopefully his ankle's okay, is better, and Ed Oliver's having a better year, so on and so forth. Yes, I saw his average depth of tackle is negative yards right now, which is impressive. So his average tackle is a tackle for a loss. That's awesome. That's literally the definition of blowing up a play. So yeah, it's exciting. Obviously, this win means something, but it doesn't really if you go and lose to Washington, so got to two and one. Two and one, by the way. Oh, yeah. I think everyone does the thing where you kind of... Did we just lose our host? It kind of looks like a frozen face there. Okay. Hey, frozen face. Oh, Rob, it's you and I. Let's do this thing. All right. So I didn't get to talk about the Titans at all. Can we say anything now, because he's gone? Yeah, we can say anything. Say anything, say anything. Sorry, I can't sneak any of these. Good Charlotte. Anywho, girls and boys, my takeaway is that the Titans are who I thought they were. The team that... I guess who a lot of Titans fans thought they were. The team that's probably... You are who we thought you were. Welcome back, Anthony. Thanks. They're the team that's going to beat the good teams and lose to the teams they should beat. And that's how it feels like the Titans have always been. They keep every game close. They have a shot. They have a chance in every game. So they're not quite the young and the hopeless, but they're just maybe like the mediocre. No, they're not the young and the hopeless. Oh, I thought that was one of my song titles. That's the... Oh, no. Oh, no. Clearly. Well, okay. I guess I can cross that one off my list then. Anywho, you know who else I was impressed with was the Falcons. They play a certain brand of football. It's the NFC Titans. I think I have to be a fan of the Falcons now. But just ground and pound, they came back. They were able to pull that one out in Green Bay. So... Yeah. The Falcons. To your point, there's not many teams, I feel like, in the NFL that have an identity, like a true identity. The Falcons are one that you know exactly what you're getting every week. And that could be really good or it could be really bad. Oh, for sure. One of my week two takeaways is prior to the season, it was always... And I was the one on this podcast kind of leading the charge is how good the AFC is gonna be. And then if like through two weeks, which is, again, a small sample size, it feels like the 49ers, Eagles, and Cowboys are playing just as well as anybody. And they're all in the NFC. Now, the NFC doesn't have much else to offer, but those three teams are gonna be very formidable to whoever comes out of the AFC come Super Bowl time. Yeah. At this point, their high -end talent almost seems better than the AFC with a lot of the top teams in the AFC struggling. So... Do you guys think that three of the top five teams in the NFL are NFC teams? Maybe even three of the top four teams in the NFL? I think that's fair right now. Yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Because before the season, it was like, the AFC is so strong, so good. They have all the good quarterbacks and two weeks is a pretty small sample size, but I think... I think at this point, yeah, it's safe to say those three teams are top five. I don't even know who you would put... I mean, I guess the Dolphins are probably the best team in the AFC at the moment. I mean, the Chiefs scored 17 points against the Jaguars. And I mean, the Bills looked very good last week, but you can't ignore how poorly they looked the first week on offense. So... And then obviously, the Bengals Chargers being 0 -2 hurts the AFC's, I guess, power rankings or however you want to look at it. And then Rogers being hurt. Those are three teams that I thought were going to have a very good season. They still might. Maybe not the Jets, but the Chargers and the Bengals.
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Ray Epps Should've Have Faced Multiple Charges, Felonies
"It is highly unusual Dan and as soon as that information so an information is the misdemeanor version of an indictment that's a criminal indictment that has felonies this has a single misdemeanor count Went back quickly to the DOJ's January 6 website. I pulled up as many Could with a single count Dan roughly 15 out of more than a thousand now Now cases really 1 ,100 defendants only about 15 have a single misdemeanor charge It is a single count of When you dig even further this is so highly Unusual that ray Epps was not apparently not arrested that this information was filed against And he's already pleading guilty today. I I can find no comparison in the Almost three -year criminal investigation into January 6 where this ray Epps matter has A comparison there just simply isn't one. So we don't there's no there's no statement of facts. There's no affidavit which is contained in nearly every single case, so we don't even have The details about what DOJ Matthew Graves's office is basing this single misdemeanor count on But they didn't stop the corporate media Adam Kinzinger and others from jumping again to ray This is a defense when we have like I said all this video evidence look Dan he should be if we We were applying the law equally. He should have been charged with multiple offenses including felony Obstruction of an official proceeding which has been slapped against more than 300 January Sixers And Trump President he was at the first breach point the second breach point. He was in a restricted area For for over an hour and a half. He was interfering with law enforcement.
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Making Sense of the J6 Case Against Ray Epps
"To check it out, but only if you want honest journalism you want She's not your gal so Julie you know a lot about this case, and I I'm I kind I of mean that me I know I was being sarcastic in that open, but you know every and every bit of sarcasm is a little element The truth of that makes it. I think a little humorous is I don't know where we are, but Ray apps I mean we were told again that January 6 was the Pearl Harbor of our time We've got a guy you know literally not figuratively on tape talking about we Need to go into the Capitol conservatives like you and I start asking questions like hey You know it wasn't a good idea to Disguised incentivize him to do it and all of a sudden ray apps is a hero in the media, but can you Make any sense to you um it does not but to answer your According to the corporate media and people like Adam Kinzinger who to your point everyone involved Even remotely involved even people who weren't there like Henry gay Tario the ex Of -leader the Proud Boys everyone is an insurrectionist a domestic terrorist. They should be thrown in jail, But the key you know tossed for good except for ray apps, so If you listen to how they portray ray apps he is the victim of right -wing Theorists including us and Tucker Carlson that he just wandered there. He was To trying help police he wasn't instigating anything except and we have all the video evidence to the contrary. You know it was fascinating there's a hearing going on right now House Judiciary Committee and General Merrick Garland is there one of the Democrats is playing this video montage of January 6 and pops who up at the very first exterior breach point ray apps, but we're supposed to believe That he's only guilty
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Phone Booth (2002) (Thriller/Psychological Thriller) Movie Review
"What's everyone? happening It's Kira and Ben back again. Today, we're doing a user suggestion phone booth from 2003 starring Colin Farrell. So I saw this movie when it first came out and then I had not seen it again, and re -watching it for this podcast was an absolute wild ride. Ben, let's talk a little bit about your history with the film before we get in it. So I never watched it. Naziru Wanda from Ghana suggested it, and this is my first time actually watching it too. This is your first? Okay. So I knew going in, I had remembered the main plot points of this movie. I had forgotten a lot of the other plot points of this movie, and I forgot what big of a cast this has. So our main man, Stu, is played by Colin Farrell. Our main police detective is played by Forest Whitaker. Colin Farrell's wife is played by Rahata Mitchell, and then his wannabe mistress is played by Katie Holmes, and then the voice over the phone is Keither Sutherland. So a wildly large cast for this film. Obviously, this movie has come out post 9 -11, which I think you can see a lot in the blue tint of the film. If you guys look at color theory, and we're not going to talk about color theory too much about this because the movie is so wild, but if you look at movies that come out directly after 9 -11, there is this very odd bluish tint to a lot of them. I think in my heart, like when I've done research about this and what I've viewed from it as well, is when you're watching films like this, I think it's because it kind of portrays this surreal sadness that everyone was feeling. Kind of like when you look at films made in that time that are set in the Middle East, they film everything with this yellowish tint to make it seem more like third world. So I thought the bluish tint of this movie was so insane, especially having it be set in New York. Then when I was doing some research about the film, this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2002, but it didn't get released until 2003 because there were actual sniper attacks in DC that delayed the release of this film because this movie is about a sniper terrorizing a man in a phone booth. Like I said, first time seeing it and the character of Colin Farrell reminded me of the character from Fast Timer at Ridgemont High that was selling the tickets. They mimicked each other. I was sitting there going, wait, I'm expecting Spicoli to walk out any second. I mean, they were just to the T, the exact same character. I was like, whoa, what's going on here? Yeah. I think that character is such a classic archetype of asshole. I think that was the point. Colin Farrell is this publicist. He's a liar, he's a slick talker, he's a fast talker, he dresses well, he uses people, he manipulates people, he doesn't care, he's all about himself. We see this in the way that he treats his assistant. We see this in the way that he treats one of his clients, which was an uncredited Ben Foster. I was losing my mind when I saw that. I was like, Ben Foster, what are you doing here? Then he manipulates the owner of a restaurant. He smooth talks this client that he has that wants to be an actress. It's Katie Holmes, she's a waitress. Then he even smooth talks his wife into being like in the beginning when he's not confessing his crimes. So this movie is so insane and I do not want to rag too hard on this movie because it was a user suggestion. But the plot points made to me legitimately no sense. So the pacing of this movie is incredibly fast. It's only an hour 20 and I swear to God, if this movie was longer, I would be like, Keith or Sutherland, shoot me because I can't handle it. So obviously, Stu goes into the phone booth to call his mistress because his wife tracks the phone calls that he makes on his cell phone. Which I was like, first of all, if you're keeping tabs on like your, you don't do that unless you don't trust your husband automatically. Then it comes out later in the film that they've only been together for three years married for one. So they're very new in their relationship. So Colin Farrell goes in to make a phone call to Katie Holmes. You can see he's trying to be slimy and she's rebuffing him. She's like, no, I have work, I have this. He's like, well, let's do this. He takes his wedding ring off. Very just much not a nice guy. Then that phone call ends and the phone starts ringing so he picks it up and on the phone, dun, dun, dun, is Keith or Sutherland's voice. He starts terrorizing him and being like, you can't leave this phone booth. If you leave this phone booth, you're going to die. A pizza man comes up to him and tries to deliver a pizza to him and he's like, you're a dick, I didn't order a pizza. Who orders a pizza to a phone booth? We have this other sub -storyline of sex workers, which to me was the most pointless storyline. I get the point of the storyline. So we have to have him have this interaction with these sex workers to then get their bouncer involved, to then have Keith or Sutherland kill the bouncer and frame Colin Farrell for it. Which first of all, makes no sense because you can see the bullet marks on the outside of the phone booth. So how is he shooting? How is he shooting? How could he shoot? That makes no sense. Then everyone's like, he killed him. It's like, no, he didn't. So this sub -storyline is so insane because first of all, it's like 2003, so you either have a beeper or a cell phone or you're using this phone booth. If all these girls work in this club, that's right across the street where this bouncer is, that Leon, that they get involved, why can't they just use the phone in the club? Why are they terrorizing Colin Farrell? He's just like, let me use the phone and then they're all screaming. I thought it was such a weak portrayal too, such a cop -out portrayal of sex workers. Like very, I don't know, just like what you would think of when you think of a man -written sex worker. Just loud, brash, unkempt, very, do you know what I'm trying to say? Yes, I'm a street kid. So yeah, I hung around with the prostitutes and drug addicts and drug dealers. So I totally got it. I mean, I saw people that did act like that, but those are the ones that were really hooked on drugs and were just like, half the time when they were acting like that, they were on something. It wasn't like a normal way for them to behave. Most people don't want to draw attention to themselves because they don't want the cops on their ass. Exactly. So this dude dies and Kether Sutherland is like, look what you made me do. Actually, he's like, you had me kill him. The guy was like, no, I just want this to end. So Kether Sutherland is, in his own mind, a pioneer of justice. Entrapping these men that he watches somehow, he watches and listens and convinces them that they're either going to die or confess to their crimes. So the two examples of the people that he has done this to before, I view are actual bad people. We have a director of adult films who actually directs child pornography and is a pedophile. So I'm like, okay, deserves to die. Then we have another man who's an insider trader on Wall Street. I mean, you don't have to die for that, but it is like a real crime. Then we get to Colin Farrell, whose crime is wanting to cheat on his wife and being an asshole. So to me, none of these make sense. The first two, kind of get. The third, Colin Farrell, not at all. I get it because they're trying to make him more likable. We have to be on Colin Farrell's side, right? So if he's a real criminal, we're not going to be on his side. I wasn't on his side. But you know what I'm saying? He's our protagonist. So we can't have our protagonist be as awful. But at the same point, it's like, well, then maybe you should have just had him kill adulterers because this makes no sense. So he, in his mind, Keither Sutherland, is this vigilante that is cleaning up the streets in New York because he wants people to atone and commit their crimes. So he's holding Colin Farrell hostage. Forest Whitaker comes in. He's trying to negotiate with Colin Farrell. He thinks he killed this guy. He's like, let me help you, let me help you. Up until this point, they think he's armed and dangerous. It is not until Colin Farrell's wife, Kelly Rahada Mitchell, comes in, which for some reason in 2003, you can just run through police barricades and just be like, I'm his wife, run through police barricades, and then be on the front line with the cops. I'm sorry, that never happened. No, not at all. No, they would have her pushed to the side. She would not be in a hostage negotiation. It wouldn't happen. She would not be front and center to the point where he can put a mark on her. So then we see that Forest Whitaker kind of actually comes around to see that Colin Farrell is being terrorized. He is not doing this of his own free volition. He sees the little target on Rahada Mitchell and he's like, oh, OK, maybe this guy is like real. So then they start looking for him. They're like, OK, we're going to find him. We're going to find him. Colin Farrell's delaying him. And the guys and then obviously Colin Farrell comes clean. He's like, OK, I'll come clean. Like, I don't want to die. I don't want my wife to die. I don't want this girl who I want to be my mistress to die. So he confesses all his sins of being an asshole, which everyone's like, OK, you're a dick, whatever you're holding up the street. We got half the police force here. What? And then obviously when they think that they kill the killer, when they think that they kill Keither Sutherland because they go up to the apartment where they trace the call from, it is actually, plot twist, the pizza boy. And it's like, OK, so he's killed Keither Sutherland for this one person. Two people just sacrifice them for no reason to get this guy to confess that he's a slimeball. Feel like we could have done this a different way. And then so then another so we're going to get to all the insane points. But this is the end of the story. And this is the last insane point. Or one of them is that Colin Farrell is now alone in the ambulance. They put something in to make him fall asleep. So he's all loopy. He's all daisy. And then active crime scene in an ambulance. Keither Sutherland walks up and just starts talking to him just like, oh, like you passed the test. You did it right. Like what happens? Like and OK, so he's like talking to him like, oh, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. And Colin Farrell is like, what the fuck? I thought we killed you. And then he walks away. And the last thing he says, which I think is legitimately the stupidest thing. And if this is the point of the movie, it is the dumbest point when he goes, well, if a phone rings, do you have to answer it? I would say no. I would say no. And that is the last line of the film. And then it goes into this like ringing sound, goes all the way out into the satellite shot, goes to black, and then you hear another person pick up and say hello. So it's like obviously this is like a cycle for him. But the way that he picks his victims is makes no sense to me. Yeah, no. And if a phone rings, you don't have to answer. You don't have to answer it. Look at all the things like when a stranger calls bad. They picked up the phone, bad tidings, scream, scream, picked up the phone. Bad tidings. No, you don't have to pick up the phone, especially like if you don't know who the person is. Hang up, hang up. And I did think at some points the voice that Keith or Sutherland used did sound like the ghost face voice, like to the point where I was like, do they have the same voice actor? Is this even even Kiefer Sutherland? Like I was like, this movie is so bad. So I thought a lot. So let's talk about Keith or Sutherland's character. And I obviously am not a fan of this movie, but I thought the way that he was poorly written was like they were trying to make him like John Doe from seven, kind of this vigilante who lives by his own rules, has his own code of justice and kind of is enacting on that code of justice and terrorizing these people. I think in seven it is done much better with an actual point, with an. We have fully fledged characters. We have reasons that make sense in this. We have no back story. We don't know what he why or why he's doing this now. And you think you think they're given a back story when he when he's talking to about Nam and stuff and he's like, are you stupid? I'd be 70. Like and like I'm like, so who are you? Why are you doing this? Well, what is your point? I mean, did you just one day wake up and say, hey, you know what? I'm just going to execute people I feel are bad. I mean, and that's your concept of bad. And your concept of bad is another person's concept of good. I mean, it's like when people go to war. Yeah. The countries fight, but each country thinks they're right. Of course, there's a right and a wrong. But both countries think that they are the right ones. Of course. And the only one that actually like comes out to be the right one is the one that wins, is the one that wins. And I would say in this movie, no one wins now because everyone's motivations make absolutely no sense. I would say the only motivations that make sense is Forest Whitaker's, because he's literally just trying to do his job. Yeah. And then like I was watching when he's his his rapper talent comes on and I was like, what the hell is this, Malibu's Most Wanted? Oh, my God, I thought the same thing. I was like, why are we watching Malibu's Most Wanted? I was like, this is this is this. And then it looked really bad because they get these two big black guys and this little tiny white guy. And he looked terrified to be around the black. And I was like, this is so stereotyping. This is awful right here. It is awful. It was so stereotypical. It was like someone just kind of grabbed at archetypes that they see in pop culture and was like, yeah, we'll throw this in the film. So I also thought the film was shot horrendously. There is it felt like it wanted to be a Tony Scott film, which RIP Tony Scott, I love your films. But it had this kind of like shaky camera. We're switching in and out of views of like like digital versus like these split screens versus like this like granule kind of like VHS effect. And I was like we're like fast paced moving through the city. And I was like, this movie makes no sense at any point. Did this movie make any sense? It does not. No. Like I said, I thought the character was the guy from a fast time at Ridgemont High.
Dear Chiefs Podcast
Firefighter Cancer: Diane Cotter Describes Her Husband's Harrowing Diagnosis
"Diane Carter is a self -taught citizen activist who's upright focused and determined efforts in support of her husband fire lieutenant Paul Carter during and after their battle against Paul's occupational cancer served as the inspiration for the documentary Burned protecting the protectors by filmmaker Elijah Yetter Bowman and award -winning actor Mark Ruffalo executive producer. Diane is the ultimate standard bearer a smart outspoken and fearless woman who continues to march at the head of her six -year campaign to remove PFAS forever chemicals from the gear worn by today's firefighters. No less an authority that Ed Kelly general president of the IAFF has properly called Diane Carter the firefighter's hero. The firefighters hero that's uh some big big shoes to fill so Diane tell us your story first of all welcome thanks for being with us I actually watched a movie yesterday that you sent us and I had to pause several times because I was so overwhelmed and so pissed off a couple times good um yeah so we'll talk about the movie but first tell us your story can you give us your background a little bit sure thank you I'm glad to meet you ladies finally in person big follower of the show I love it I love what you do I love that spouses and significant others are involved because um that's what I am that's all that I am it's a it's a fire wife I have no formal education I did get my hairdressers license some years ago and I was the worst hairdresser in the world so I didn't go far but I stayed at home and raised our children until they were about 10 and 11. Paul got on the fire department in 1988 when our son was two months old and our daughter was 18 months old our son is now a firefighter in the same department my husband served at now works in the same station in Worcester they had a beautiful beautiful life we embraced everything that we loved about the fire service his friends became my friends their wives became my my best friends we vacation with them etc. Paul had spent 25 years on the rescue in Worcester he had a 28 -year career at age 55 he decided it was time to climb the ladder so he took the lieutenant's exam and he made lieutenant and he was pretty disappointed because that meant that he'd leave his crew and he had worked with this crew you know on the same shift for 25 years they'd gone through a lot together the Worcester warehouse fire they've gone through so much together at any event we went on vacation with our firefighter families to moosehead lake up in maine and we came back to a beautiful ceremony in Worcester city hall when my husband was promoted to lieutenant along with one of his best buddies and the rescue saw him off and it was wonderful Paul was getting ready getting prepared to go back on to a new rig and he had an appointment to see a doctor because he was going in for cataract surgery his pre -exam showed that he had just a very slightly elevated number in his psa for prostate he had that check regularly as he did a lot of checks for his health because he was a very fitness aware person at any event he did get the call to come in they wanted a biopsy and i thought nothing about a biopsy because to look at him he literally looked like a 45 -year -old at 55 he was very fit very very strong and the picture of health we went to the doctor's office and i can remember that day because i was just so adamant to get this over with this appointment because i had things to do and we were making small talk with the doctor and we were in the tiny doctor's office room the exam room and out of nowhere the doctor said yep it's cancer and in that moment that moment i can remember because i remember i screamed and i fell into the chair and Paul who's almost six feet tall he broke out in this sweat all over his body i could just see the beads of sweat come out from everywhere on him and he sunk into a chair he tore his shirt off and he sunk into a chair and i can remember the doctor talking for 45 minutes and i'm crying and Paul's looking at me looking at the doctor looking at me looking at the doctor and we didn't hear a word he said
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Are Millionaires Buying Bitcoin? (Time Is Running Out)
"Seven out of 22 private families have already deployed some of their money into Bitcoin or crypto that is seven out of 22 Call it a third tiny tiny bits two and a half million dollar allocation 397 ,000 families requires 37 million What's up everybody welcome to another Saturday edition of the alpha series with myself Kelly Kellum director the bit lab Academy I'm so excited to have an incredible guest on today. Another one. Mr Gary Cardone and we're gonna be diving into that here in a few moments And if you want to watch the full length of this interview The link is in the description down below and you also see a link at the end of this video Stick around because we have a lot that we're gonna be digging into about Bitcoin and aetherium and this digital asset ecosystem So without any further ado, it's mr. Gary Cardone. How are you doing my friend? I'm so happy to have you here Doing good, man doing good. It feels like it's the end of a week and it's only what thirsty So I've been to three states already and I think eight podcasts or some crazy number so it just keeps getting more interesting and I Think it's becoming very clear what the real opportunity is. So I'm doing good Well before we really dive into this I have to just express my gratitude for you being here I've had the opportunity to be on a number of different podcasts and spaces with you and You even kind of pulled me aside at one point we got on about our zoom call and just talking life and markets and so many people get so focused on the dollar and the you know, What is the thing that makes money and you did something that I absolutely commend in business in life? Which is who's the person who's the person underneath this? How can we how can I help you? How can you help me and I just want to say I thank you for that and I appreciate you and As we're diving into this before we even get into it What if somebody were to walk up to you on the street and pose the question or even the resistance about Bitcoin an? Opportunity that is or isn't there underlying What would be your brief sort of you know few minute? This is why whether your retail or institution? Why is Bitcoin? Despite the price action that's been going on. It might feel frustrating zoomed in on a one -hour chart Why is this something that is an absolute? Necessity for people's attention to at least pay attention to if not yet get involved in how many green lights do we need? Okay Now this is the math two and a half million dollars I have far more than two and a half million dollars and I am NOT a super hotnet war player Okay, which like I'm probably at the very bottom of the food chain Seven out of 22 private families have already deployed some of their money into Bitcoin or crypto that is seven out of 22 Call it a third tiny tiny bits two and a half million dollar allocation 397 ,000 families requires 37 million Bitcoin 37 million Bitcoin will allow a extremely wealthy guy like me to buy 92 Bitcoin. That's it So you guys consider and do the math all you want but like no everybody's thinking about the under bank We should think about the over bank. The over bank will drive this market I've been saying this forever The under bank are going to come along when this when the value of a Satoshi is somewhere between a penny and half a penny Then we'll see Satoshi's working But that means bitcoins price actually has to move so Satoshi's become something that can be exchanged In the meantime, you're gonna have a lot of tokens make up the little payment rails, right? Whether they're fake tokens or CD DC tokens or whatever tokens they are. They're gonna fill that gap until we're there So that that's my best explanation and by the way, that's before 62 millionaires across planet Earth deploy $2 ,500 So just Just $2 ,500 each for these millionaires Okay for the multi wealth the super well it's You can do it over ten years $25 ,000 a pop or you can do it all at one time. Okay, they need 5 .7 million Shit, the millionaires can't even buy $2 ,500 worth of crypto do without moving this market substantially Okay, there's not five million Bitcoin floating around So that is my thesis. Okay. I don't know any rich people that have ever found a product that They can beat their neighbor to bind like guys like us love doing that. Well, I can buy something you can't have that is awesome So I think we forget I can I think actually most high net worth players Have are already at max consumption That they look literally no more planes. They don't need anything else. I don't need anything else now. It's all just investment It's all the future so You can do that math any way you want. You can take those three hundred ninety seven thousand dollars and factor that down to 10 % I am wrong by 90 % It's still four million Bitcoin Okay, any way you work this number you can also back into it and say well The high net worth players are actually moving into an eight hundred trillion dollar market, you know I have assumed that no one even changes their allocation to eight hundred trillion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Ask Charlie Anything 160: Will AI Kill Us All? CIA Covid Disinfo? Down Goes Rodgers?
"We talk about Donald Trump's interview with Megyn Kelly. Is there a move to remove Joe Biden? Senator Kennedy reads a porn textbook to a Democrat and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. I take your questions in this episode. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com at Turning Point USA. We are leading the charge every single day, tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Starting a high school or college chapter today. And come to Amfest, amfest .com, or catch us on tour at tpusa .com slash live free. Our tours are starting soon. Would love to see you on the road, tpusa .com slash live free. As always, you can email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks.
Mark Levin
Greg Kelly: 2005 Video Show Joe, Hunter Biden Conducting Business
"As soon as it turns to business. Watch and listen here. Maybe he'll work something out, man. Well, Hunter was got his firm in Washington. I do. I don't, but I'll give it my... Let me give you my call. I gave it my all away. Well, that was a wonderful speech. So then Joe goes right back to schmoozing and watch the men step away to conduct business separately. You see it right there. That's how it worked. Kudos to Greg Kelly for exposing that. I mean really great job, but Joe sounds like a totally different person than he does today. So how's it gonna sound in a year? Badly. Gavin Newsom's chomping at the bit. They're all chomping at the bit to run for Biden Biden. is, I think, done. And the problem they have right now, the Democrats have problem. a It's Kamala Harris, first black woman vice president. For the left, it's all about what boxes you check and diversity, equity and inclusion. So how do they just push her aside? Nobody thinks that on the ticket, certainly nobody. Everybody understands two things. Number one, people think Joe Biden has lost mind. his Number two, they don't think Joe Biden's gonna serve a full term if he's reelected. And they have no confidence in Kamala Harris. So she doesn't help. It's not like people think, well, I'll vote for Joe
Bloomberg Radio New York
"r. kelly" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Amtrak is canceling all of its long distance routes starting tomorrow as a potential railroad worker strike looms. The cancellations are not expected to impact the northeast corridor as it's mainly owned by Amtrak. A Chicago federal jury is convicting disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly on child pornography charges. The jury found Kelly guilty on three counts of his indictment, including the sexual exploitation of Jane Doe when she was a minor. Jane Doe testified for the first time and told the court, Kelly had sexually abused her innumerable times when she was a minor. Three Iranian nationals are being charged in ransomware attacks, James Denny of the FBI says they tried to hack into hundreds of computers nationally and around the world. Regardless of whether they were located, were targets of opportunity for the cyber actors themselves as a way of just making money. In addition, authorities said they would demand and sometimes get a ransom. I'm Brian shook. And I Brian Curtis in Hong Kong. Let's check this hour's top business stories and the markets. Asian stocks are edging higher earlier U.S. equities rebounded. The modest rallies come as data showed U.S. producer prices fell for a second month. That provided some relief as investors weigh up the prospect of big rate hikes by the fed. Ray dalio, the founder of Bridgewater associates, says interest rates will have to rise a lot as a result of soaring inflation. He said a fed fund rate of four and a half percent could lead to a 20% drop in equity prices. Earlier, we spoke with Nancy tingler, CEO of laffer tingler investments. So we think we will get to four probably or close three 7 5, but there are a lot of cross currents that affect this and raise a smart guy. I'm not going to disagree with him. He may be right if we get to four and a half. I'm just not convinced we're going to get there. In the meantime, Japan's trade deficit expanded to a record in August as a week in inflated the value of commodity imports. The trade deficit grew to $19.7 billion imports rose 49.9% in value from a year ago, reaching the record. Exports increased 22.1%, crude oil, a big part of those inbound shipments. And New Zealand's economy grew more than expected in the second quarter of GDP, rose 1.7% from the first quarter. Australia's employment in the month of August rose 33,500 month on month. Let's check the markets, the hanxi index is up about a half a percent the nikkei advancing four tenths of 1%. The CSI 300 in China is trading down about a tenth of 1%. Dollar again, one 43, 34 in the yield on the ten year treasury, 3.41%. Global news 24 hours a day live in a Bloomberg quick take brought to you by 2700 journalists and analysts in a 120 countries. In Hong Kong, I'm Brian Curtis. This is Bloomberg
Daily Pop
"r. kelly" Discussed on Daily Pop
"Manager, let me just pick up the phone and call the spoon. Yeah. You set the intention. You know what? I'm gonna be in this movie with my song. You can just have it. Yeah, get it done. Oh, it gets done. Right. Reese apparently texting everybody. Where the crawdads sing hits theaters this Friday. Now Jesse James decker's husband, Eric just found himself in a compromising position. Their four year old son did the lord's work and posted a photo on Instagram of his dad, naked in the shower. Yes, sir. Eric delayed the evidence, then wrote time to change the code so much for letting forests watch his Avengers videos during my shower. Lucky for us, Jesse found it hilarious and reposted the photo which a messy ass friend screen grabs. Yeah. So this is a refreshing photo. We have so many elements. Let's break it down. We have funny text, adorable child, and then just a reminder that leg day is always a good day to do. Yes. This is a beautiful composite of a window into their household and frankly, to be a fly on that wall. Okay, where can I see this photo? Because I missed the whole thing. I can't wait. We're not putting it up right now. I know we know that sweet grab that. We was happening. Yeah, we gonna get it to you. What I need to do is I need to get forest phone number and send this kid some college money, honey, 'cause you just, you just woke my ass up. Well, I will say though, look, she's got a good sense of humor about it. Kids, kids get into stuff all the time. You know, I mean, I don't have any kids, but I'm just saying, I've heard they do. But here's my jam. Yeah. And I tell this to my friends all the time. Go. Even if I'm having the best sex with a man, even if this man is so rich, even if this man treats me, right? I'm still gonna say that he is broke. We have no sexual chemistry. He is a dud. 'cause you don't want anyone else. Never want anyone else to know what I have. And I even tell dudes. When we first see each other, I'm like, I'm not being shady with posting on Instagram because I do want to be able to share that I'm with someone. Yes. I'm just not going to do it for a very long time because I don't want people. Do you know what his DMs look like right now after this picture? Keep it on care. They get so messy. I mean, they would literally go to her page, find his account, then DM him be like, saw that shower pick. Boy, do I want to be your loofah? I mean, come on up here. Thank you. Get your flowers. Thank you. Yeah, I'm sure she's real worried about that. That's right. After his prison sentence, did R. Kelly get engaged, the shocking details, plus everything
Bloomberg Radio New York
"r. kelly" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"95th street. The suspect is described as a male dressed in a hoodie, sweatpants, and a baseball cap, all in black, mayor Eric Adams says his administration is working hard to combat gun violence, but the city needs help. We're going to find this person to guilty of this horrific crime. We're going to find him and bring him to justice. We just need to justice system to make sure this innocent person received that justice that we're asking for. Mayor Adams says the victim was shot by the suspect in the head at point blank range. Today is the last day the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions. The court will decide how much authority the EPA has to regulate emissions from power plants, another opinion will impact immigration. Also today, justice Stephen Breyer retires and will formally pass the torch to catan G Brown Jackson, becoming the first black woman on the high court. New Jersey lawmakers have passed a record $50.6 billion budget, sending it to governor Phil Murphy's desk. The budget is 9% bigger than last year's and comes after better than expected tax returns and bigger state coffers. The death toll from the deadliest smuggling case in U.S. history rose to 53. The victims were found Monday in the back of a sweltering truck in San Antonio, four men face charges. R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The 55 year old singer was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year. Lizette Martinez and R. Kelly accuser and author of the book Jane Doe number 9 described how she finally got away. I looked in the mirror and I didn't recognize myself and I didn't like myself anymore. And I knew that if I didn't get out, either he was going to kill me or I was going to kill myself. Like you got that dark. Liz Martinez spoke to ABC. Israel's parliament voted today to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the 5th time in less than four years. Jar lapid, Israel's foreign minister will become the country's
Pop Culture Junkie
"r. kelly" Discussed on Pop Culture Junkie
"Right. Everybody welcome back to the pop. Culture junkie podcast. We're gonna jump right in to entertainment news for this week. What's in the headlines. What do people need to know what's been going on this week. What's that got says. Well there's one thing so technically having been drinking recently. But i had to drink to r kelly being convicted for transects trafficking and racketeering. I've i was a win for society. Yes yeah i've just think the whole thing for some reason. I mention that i was like about it because to me is just like he tried so hard to feel like he was the victim or like he was innocent and all this and then i saw earlier today. I got some notification. I didn't like clicked on it or anything because when i saw it and i was like i'm not even going to entertain this but it was something about like bill cosby saying that are. Kelly was being railroaded. Well of course spilka it. I'm ignoring that. I had to had to celebrate some way members. Because because i haven't been drinking. There's been this alcohol in my fridge. That i've been ignoring and i was like i'm gonna celebrate to that it's been decades and like it's been a long time coming and amen. He faces life in prison which is going to be well. I mean he hasn't been sentenced yet. yeah he could. He could face up to life in prison. Which has gray. It's crazy and i have been. I haven't been following it. But i've been hearing like in other news outlets although the victims and other people that have been testifying and all the crazies just gross stuff like he's been like doing to these to these people like he would like force them to call him daddy and like we had specific rules to how to like interact with him and the people around them if allowed them to like interact with anybody else but him like he was really demanding really controlling and this is disgusting every time and i would like to hear about it. I'm just. I'm just really happy That this is happening. I i hate that. He'd made good music. And i mentioned this before. Like i had this like bump-and-grind playlist. And i just had a switch that up. Call it the nicest low platelets thank you for. Also we'll get b. But yeah i'm this is just something i've been waiting for. My favorite part of the story was that r kelly had collected a bunch of letters from his victims that he basically forced them to write things that he didn't do anything and then the prosecutors actually use those letters to find his victims contact them and then they testified against him. And i'm like that is so like that's something you would see law and order food. We're like this guy. Convicted himself Like yeah i mean thankfully..
Real Ass Affirmations
"r. kelly" Discussed on Real Ass Affirmations
"On my kelly price. Y'all ready breath in one. Two three hold one two three breath out three to one. Do not disturb. Because i'm on my kelly price breathing. Do not disturb because. I'm on my kelly products breath again. Do not disturb. Because i'm on my kelly price and for the people in the backhoe didn't hear.
TSACP
"r. kelly" Discussed on TSACP
"Need them. I couldn't. I couldn't wait for a couple of days. I went and i was like. I cannot like a half way to speak about this and i saw appropriate. It's on yes. There was such an appropriate thing to do so the next day i was like i clearly cannot speak to her about it. I knew that because you're not even aware what you're saying is racist right. And the way she communicated to you she was entrenched in it she was entrenched in it and she communicated into to like i should trust what she's telling me on her experience working in a school for so long right so talking to her directly about it would be challenging all of her authority that she tried to lean. In to give you this message fragility would have been. I sure roof. Oh my god through the roof. I just do you know the to you dare you. You recognize the patterns. You know based on how the way she the black child. Yeah you dare you you so you know the way. She communicated that that would happen. I'm like i have to talk the principal about this. So i go to the principal. I said look. I the principal. And they're like yeah. Sure i went first thing. In the morning i drove her. I made sure she didn't even take the bus to get. I wanted to. You know. Get there as early as possible and i said look i know usually like i haven't made an appointment with this. This is really important. She's like sure. Come in like nice. And so i can't even remember how i started by basically started the conversation that i said that lady's for i really love this school. This is i say to my daughters all the time that i wish i would have gone to a school like this. I've never in my life as vir- ever had never seen a teacher that looked like me and school. Not only my daughters get to see teachers that looked like them but so many teachers of of different cultures and different beliefs which is awesome. Yup yeah and i love their school for that. Because i never had a black teacher in my life dorota. I didn't see that to her. But i was basically saying. I always tell my my daughters how much i wish i would if i was their age to go to school here because of the diversity and what you guys teach in the conversations have you know you you have all this kind of thing and i give you a few examples of stuff that i really love about what they what she does. Because in a lot of it's coming from the principals. It's her ideas. Were right she. She's the leader right. So she sets the tone for the school and so it's not just her ideas but what she approves writers. So i said that and i said one of the things that i do. I said i don't know if you know what i do. I'm a podcast. I am a curator of information and one of the things. I talk a lot too. Not just my kids but in my podcast. I'm an anti-racist. I said anti-racism is very important to me and i know and i could see based on the the things that you have had at your school. Rain dance during national indigenous day. All that kind of thing that. I could see that you also at your school have these conversations anti-racism as well your value anti-racists. Right so i can recognize that you you do things to confronted. Have conversation all that kind of thing right so i said so. I said something happened yesterday. Made me super uncomfortable that you need to know. And i went into it and then so i told her and she said who said that and i sit there. I don't know her name. I know she's not a teacher and i explained to her where her classes because i knew where her classes. And she's like madam. So and so. And i said yes right because i couldn't yes until she said her name and because our our daughter told me her name before i was like yes. That's her and she was like. Oh my god. She's like what she's she's got. A big took a binder. She's like okay. Wait unacceptable what she said and she's like took out her pen and started writing down what i was saying. She's like you know now how we went after. I have no idea. And i didn't wanna pursuade but at least i'm like i'm hoping she's writing it down for real. I'm hoping she's actually going to have a conversation all that stuff. Let's just say that by the following year. I have not seen that teacher ever again. Ever looks good right. And i said to her like they've learned something and hopefully they've learn a position where they're not going to allow their biases to affect their environment. And i told her. I remember after the story. I said you have to understand how dangerous what she's saying because as black girls. We are over sexualize right. This is something that happened to us where we lose our like. By the time we're nine were not afforded to be looked at children anymore here. You have this prejudicial person who's now normalizing it yes yeah and it's comments like this that perpetuates this idea agree. I said to her. You're right so to continue with the conversation. What jesse is a talking about with. Trevor noah. betcha when you look at the story of r kelly when you look at the story of these girls when you look at how even people in the black community have react to to. It's what do you think missing. What do you think we could be doing better. And what do you think what have you learned. And what do you think we should learn from the entire story. I think one of the things that we should learn from the story is that celebrity is a colt dislike any other cult and so the the the leeway we have given our kelly ins in part due to the fact that we think celebrities exists above and beyond all of our social norms and that in fact to be excessive to excessively violate the social norms. Mates more creative right so that we have a long history of that across all forms of music of celebrities throughout time who have dated in preyed upon young women and it was seen as part of their creative as is right One thing. I think the other thing is precisely that that we are comfortable with black. Girls always being perceived as responsible for people's desire for them right when people desire desire to him and other context. We say that person has an issue. Yes when the object is black girls we say the other people's desire for us our personal responsibility right and so one of the things that i think we owe black girls and what i would hope we would appoint. We would get you is to give them the agency that allows them to be black girls and that is to say. I am not responsible for how people perceive me to hold adults responsible for adult behavior until allow black girls to girls. It's wild yeah. You feel that when you're young when you and your mind is not that you feel that when your mind is like you're still a child and let's say you're eleven years old and you notice older men looking at you. You know you leering. If there's.
The Takeaway
"r. kelly" Discussed on The Takeaway
"Very significant earlier in the show. We were talking about r kelly who is often seen as and i think rightly as a musical genius. And we've talked a little bit about how that framework of being great can also cover over paper over and allow people to turn away from bad actions and so an actions that hurt others. So i'm wondering how you think about That responsibility of of carrying something like activists or civil rights activists or genius and how that reflects on the responsibility. We have that goes along with the title like that. Were you know. I fully embrace Whatever comes with named the genius and that responsibility especially at the person like i said Where i've come from being homeless addicted to drugs and contemplating suicide and so i took on that responsibility long before Macarthur awarded me. This honor Because i believe that you know that i was chosen that god chose me to work And that work was really number one Just so people. There's so many folks in our society who are facing obstacles and who you know looking seeming lee. You know feeling like they. There's no light at the end of the tunnel. And what. I do my body of work and who i am. Individual is a message to them that no matter what obstacles are in front of them that they could overcome those obstacles and avenue impact in their community in addition to that and equally as important. You know if body of work that i that. I'm engaging also shows people who may not have walked a mile in my shoes that cannot foreclose. On the drug addict they can't automatically foreclose on returning citizens informed car serrated individuals and that they could see what happens when we're giving people like me given second chances knowing that we have the potential to be a great asset to our communities and so this was something that i took on many years Before getting the recognition and so i fully embraced the responsibility that comes with being named the genus today. Talking about that that opportunity to use your talents your gifts your abilities your second. You know a law degree or your second. The one that you earn hum in these much more tough circumstances i think you and i have talked about my older brother before. Nine years older than me and i hadn't seen him at about Not i have not seen him face to face or touched his hand in more than twenty years and we recently lost Family member and he did not know that he'd been released and he showed up at the graveside. And i i saw my brother for the first time in twenty years. The first time that we've all been together all the siblings and on you know whatever. I see my brother. I thank god. He's he's so tall his good-looking. He's funny he's smart. But i know that's not what so. Many employers see. I know that sounds so many landlords. See you know what the work gets you off the track that i mean the track in front of that train. How do you see yourself so so. Let me tell you so. This is so amazing that you you share that story in about your brother. Because here's the deal you know. I remember Just a couple of years ago. I was one of the one hundred most influential people with time magazine. Right and i remember telling One of the negative there that they missed the mark because they put the rock on the cover of time right and i told them that they should have put me on the cover. Because you know. I think folks need to know that you don't have to be a movie star. A celebrity athlete or billionaire or politician have impact on this world right that if they could see a a a a drug addi a convicted person convicted of multiple felonies can homeless could overcome those obstacles and have an impact not only in this but on the world itself that they can do it that we all have what it takes to actually do something great while we're here on this planet but the other part of that is also showing and speaking of what you're saying. Is that that employer right today. That employer who headed the higher person with a criminal pass right could look at me and say man. We're not be denied desmond a job working for my establishment or the landlord. You know that that hesitant or these. Cities municipalities and police departments have these crime-free housing policies data so inherently A racist and discriminatory right. Would they now rethink that. Because they see someone who their policies would say. You're not you're not allowed to live here. You're not allowed to work here. You're not allowed to go to school here. You're not even allowed to vote to have your voice heard right and so i- diff- moment i think is a moment to really elevate that platform to help start shifting some narratives right because what you saw on. Your brother is what everybody says. Senior brother i and that is his humanity right. Not if the mistake that he made but his humanity and when we're able to connect with each other along the lines of humanity we treat each other mold humanely and we understand that that some live and not more valuable than other that we're all deserving of being treated with dignity and respect. Have you thought about what you're gonna do with the money you know at the end of the day you know i think Where my blessing come from is when i take the blessings as god gives me and use it to help others. I've done it before in the past Would find him. Fees fund where. We're helping people pay off fines and fees so they'll have to choose between putting food on the table voting and i will continue to do so because god always blesses me. When i put people first desmond. Meade is a civil rights. Activists and executive director of the florida rights restoration coalition. He's also author of the new book. Let my people vote. And a certified genius desmond..
Democracy Now! Audio
"r. kelly" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"I have to be honest when charges began being announced in february just a month. After documentary aired islands gobsmacked. I did not think that it would lead to this. What hoped that it would lead to was recognizing that the public that my community might reconsider. You know they're supportive him and might look more deeply at rape culture overall on our communities. I said the song. I the film of i meant the song but also if you could talk about for the first time young men coming forward who were abused as boys. I mean Can't say that. I was surprised giving the reporting research that we did. For surviving r kelly. I i would hope that. The gender of his victims r kelly was our young male victim himself of sexual abuse and rate. I would hope that the gender of the victims wouldn't have an effect on whether or not r kelly supporters and fans continue to support him. I would want to believe that black girls matter that black women matter. But i know that you know sometimes homophobia trump's our care for our children and this isn't just a black issue. I just happened to be a black woman who lives in black community. Burks abroad community riding about genre artists. Performs arm be mostly for black people. So that is who i'm caring about. Do this work dream. They're still a trials that he must face in illinois and minnesota as well and his sentencing will be of on the on this of federal case conviction won't be until may what what do you expect will happen in illinois. Minnesota are the charges. They're a different from the ones. He's faced that he just recently faced been keeping with trial and the procedures of course for clothes to new york. I didn't travel to new york witness. But when i think about the reporting that we did for surviving kelly i think about someone like susan log an attorney in chicago who you settled. Case after case or I don't wanna say for our kelly but had victim after victim black women in chicago mostly signing nondisclosure agreements in receiving a pittance for restitution. I wanna call it Restitution is owed These women were going to need the kind of support that only money can can begin to solve. And how with But i look at you know the people who weren't at the stand who enabled him these people who are part of this ecosystem of reviews. And i'm hoping that in chicago. They'll be some consequences for the neighbors dream hampton. Thank you so much For your.
AP News
"r. kelly" Discussed on AP News
"Some eight million people have already voted in the effort to recall California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom want to support Gavin Newsome and I voted. No, I was happy to find elder Newsom has to get 50% plus one no votes to block the recall if we don't turn out And vote. No. Larry Elder is the next governor of the state of California. Those voting yes to recall. Newsom then select one of nearly four dozen names on the ballot, and elder, a conservative radio host is leading in the polls of those wanting to oust Newsome. So please Vote to recall this man vote Yes, on the recall. Yeah. Shouldn't assume not overcome the recall. Then the top vote getter in the huge field of candidates would become governor. Many elections experts say that person could win with fewer than 25% of the votes. I'm Tim Maguire, a long time assistant to R. Kelly is the latest to testify at his sex trafficking trial. Dina Copeland served as an H R. Kelly for 15 years, And she says, while she never saw any of the alleged sex abuse that the R and B star is accused of, she did witness some odd stuff. Once, she says, he asked to change into a robe to prove that she wasn't secretly recording him. And she says Kelly even had her writer letter falsely confessing to stealing from him, she testified also about how Kelly relied on his inner circle. For example, Copeland says the singer's struggles to read and write and had no control over his own bank account, or Where his royalties were going. She also says R. Kelly didn't even know his own Social Security number. I'm Oscar Bells Gabriel.
AP News
"r. kelly" Discussed on AP News
"Blaming the unvaccinated for the sharp rise in covid cases. But his new vaccine requirements plan for as many as 100 Million Americans is drawing fire from some union leaders and some Republicans. Los Angeles school District says kids 12 and older must be vaccinated before they can return to classrooms next year. AP correspondent Jackie Quinn. Board member Jackie Goldberg says this isn't about her family or Any other. I see this as a community. Necessity to protect the Children under 12 who cannot be vaccinated. The student population in Los Angeles is nearly three quarters Latino, a group more susceptible to severe covid illness. But an attorney already suing over California's mask mandate expects there will be many legal challenges. I'm Jacki Quinn and I'm Rita Foley after a nearly weeklong break testimony resuming in the R Kelly case. One of the latest witnesses against R. Kelly, a radio station intern who tried to land an interview with the R and B star to make her bones in the industry. She was invited to travel from Salt Lake City to Kelly's compound in Chicago. But instead of a one on one, she ended up locked in a darkened room, she says when she was offered food after two days there she send moments after eating some, she passed out. And during that time that she was unconscious, she said, R. Kelly raped her. She is the latest to take the stand to testify without using her real name against the singer. Kelly has denied allegations by federal prosecutors that he ran a criminal enterprise to exploit women, girls and boys for sex. I'm Oscar Welles Gabriel. Some of the nation's governors are taking issue with President Biden's plan to force large companies to either mandate vaccines or require weekly testing. Montana Republican governor Greg Gianforte is calling a new vaccination mandate unlawful and un American he's made it illegal in his state for private employers to require that workers get vaccinated. Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves, calling the plan unconstitutional and terrifying, suggesting that President Biden was a tyrant. The president in his speech on his new covid plan, criticized elected officials who are working to undermine the fight against Covid 19. Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated, a mask up there, ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from covid in their communities. Jackie Quinn Washington President Biden is announcing new steps to vaccinate more Americans against Covid 19 while sharply criticizing those who have not gotten shots. The president says most Americans have done the right thing by getting vaccinated. He and they are frustrated by the 80 million who have not been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us. Among other steps. He's rolling out sweeping federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans, including mandating that all employers with more than 100 workers require vaccinations or weekly tests. The moves come as the U. S. Sees a sharp rise in cases about 300% more each day. But at this time last year Saga or Megane at the White House This.
AP News
"r. kelly" Discussed on AP News
"Break testimony resuming in the R Kelly case. One of the latest witnesses against R. Kelly, a radio station intern who tried to land an interview with the R and B star to make her bones in the industry. She was invited to travel from Salt Lake City to Kelly's compound in Chicago. But instead of a one on one, she ended up locked in a darkened room, she says when she was offered food after two days there she send moments after eating some, she passed out. And during that time that she was unconscious, she said, R. Kelly raped her. She is the latest to take the stand to testify without using her real name against the singer. Kelly has denied allegations by federal prosecutors that he ran a criminal enterprise to exploit women, girls and boys for sex. I'm Oscar Welles Gabriel. Some of the nation's governors are taking issue with President Biden's plan to force large companies to either mandate vaccines or require weekly testing. Montana Republican governor Greg Gianforte is calling a new vaccination mandate unlawful and un American he's made it illegal in his state for private employers to require that workers get vaccinated. Mississippi Republican Governor Tate Reeves, calling the plan unconstitutional and terrifying, suggesting that President Biden was a tyrant. The president in his speech on his new covid plan, criticized elected officials who are working to undermine the fight against Covid 19. Instead of encouraging people to get vaccinated, a mask up there, ordering mobile morgues for the unvaccinated dying from covid in their communities. Jackie Quinn Washington President Biden is announcing new steps to vaccinate more Americans against Covid 19 while sharply criticizing those who have not gotten shots. The president says most Americans have done the right thing by getting vaccinated. He and they are frustrated by the 80 million who have not been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us. Among other steps. He's rolling out sweeping federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans, including mandating that all employers with more than 100 workers require vaccinations or weekly tests. The moves come as the U. S. Sees a sharp rise in cases about 300% more each day. But at this time last year Saga or Megane at the White House Thank you for listening to the AP Radio.
AP News
"r. kelly" Discussed on AP News
"Is available in English and Spanish and can be found on Iowa s and Android. Another accuser is taking the standard R Kelly sex trafficking trial in New York. The woman, identified in court only as Jane Doe says she was a high school student and aspiring singer when she first met R. Kelly. But before long, she says he was sexually abusing her on his tour bus and in hotel rooms when she was just 17. The woman also testifies that Kelly infected her with herpes and never told her he had it. She also says Kelly impose rules on how they would dress who they can speak to, and even when they could use the bathroom, she says, when she texted someone once about Kelly without permission, he grabbed the size. 12 shoe from a closet and beat her with it. I'm Oscar Welles Gabriel. More than 20 people are known dead. Others are missing since flash floods touched off by a record rain roared through a rule. Tennessee County. The slow moving storms seemingly parked over Humphreys County, Tennessee, the 17 inch Day lose Saturday, a record for the state. Resulting in flash floods rolling through the small towns of Waverly and McEwen. Anna Mae's held onto the door frame of her home and Waverly Water up to her chin. I thought I was blown. I was screaming, and Harlan for Jodi Stakhovsky from the same neighborhood says the flood killed people in homes across the street from hers. We could see these people on their porches. And I think in my mind that they thought they were safe that the water was not going to get that high meteorologists and climate scientists say such 100 year or even 1000 year, floods are becoming more common because of climate change. I'm Tim Maguire. AP News I'm Tim Maguire. The Taliban warns any attempt by US troops to delay their withdrawal from Afghanistan past August 31st to give people more time to get out would.
AP News
"r. kelly" Discussed on AP News
"Is available in English and Spanish and can be found on Iowa s and Android. Another accuser is taking the standard R Kelly sex trafficking trial in New York. The woman, identified in court only as Jane Doe says she was a high school student and aspiring singer when she first met R. Kelly. But before long, she says he was sexually abusing her on his tour bus and in hotel rooms when she was just 17. The woman also testifies that Kelly infected her with herpes and never told her he had it. She also says Kelly impose rules on how they would dress who they can speak to, and even when they could use the bathroom, she says, when she texted someone once about Kelly without permission, he grabbed the size. 12 shoe from a closet and beat her with it. I'm Oscar Welles Gabriel. More than 20 people are known dead. Others are missing since flash floods touched off by a record rain roared through a rule. Tennessee County. The slow moving storms seemingly parked over Humphreys County, Tennessee, the 17 inch Day lose Saturday, a record for the state. Resulting in flash floods rolling through the small towns of Waverly and McEwen. Anna Mae's held onto the door frame of her home and Waverly water up to her chin. I thought I was alone. I was screaming and hollering for him. Jody Stakhovsky from the same neighborhood says the flood killed people in homes across the street from hers. We could see these people on their porches. And I think in my mind that they thought they were safe that the water was not going to get that high meteorologists and climate scientists say such 100 years or even 1000 year, floods are becoming more common because of climate change. I'm Tim Maguire. AP News I'm Tim Maguire. The Taliban warns any attempt by US troops to delay their withdrawal from Afghanistan past August 31st to give people more time to get out would.
The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"r. kelly" Discussed on The Shawn Harvey Morning Show Podcast
"Pure facts that he did what he did guilty. Joe s soon chat room. Put a number one if you could be objective about this with our kelly. So they probably. The godfather told us that they pick the jury. I ready seven men. Five women but okay. Obviously they did of course like we need to know. We're not gonna know until it's over overweight but it would be very interesting to see what he says. Seven men and five women looking for you. King sound looking good for you because the men men alike you know especially if they not barbecue especially if they not art kelly supporters or they don't know anything about r kelly middle age babylonian and maybe some. Dekalb put a black man. it's gotta be. I will be shocked if there's not a black man within no seven. You're going to have some babylonian women and maybe one progressive african-american to african american soul sisters from the age of thirty two fifty off kelly. This is now looking good for you. the feds are going to come down on you at all the evidence. They said that There will be no public allowed in the courtroom during his trial. Only the jury see tastes. He's trying to box this dude in he can't even sway juror or you know like and you're right if you committed these crimes and they can prove not prove all this. You need to go to for the twenty years. But i believe he only needs one or two to go nine now. Can't so who's a defense attorneys. How much he's paying for. It is because this is serious with r kelly. And hey i'm like you bobby first when it all went down like listen to music. Are you doing it then went. That did a comedy show and saucers the dj sources dj and never forget it sauce. And we did. The after party source started playing all that kellyanne was on the dancefloor and like oh my god so i did so i i so from that point. I've been liberated with his music or kelly. Bro there's no defense get on spanish. There's no public. Nobody from the public. the recording secretary barbie. The defense prosecution an artist. Do you know the dude. At the pitches. Artists artists courtroom out. That's it so so started yesterday. How long spectacle a month. And then they're gonna they're gonna put the hammer down on new bra- a few weeks. Yeah let's a few weeks. I and and r kelly If you are convicted of these crimes Providers faces about feds. You've done and you gotta go to jail. And that's it and there's no sympathy coming this way and in your community and just like comedian mimi. Simpson said And linnet roy off from chicago. They openly set it on this show. We knew he was a dirtbag renews knew. We saw him walking around everybody everybody in the neighborhood of chicago. Note that he's dirtbag so you got to go. I will you guys can find sydney sydney j on facebook. Cine underscored jail instagram. Jd's three your snapchat. And i believe it's sydney sydney j on ticked up. That's me find me barbie right barbie clones or facebook. I barbeque loan on instagram. Barbie cologne styles on instagram designed. To be and tic tac and designed the bay. Three eight four. Does anybody three. Don't take four one snatch sean harvey on facebook Comedian show harvey facebook. When you're she'll take. I'll take tucker county got open. They're never on time. Get you famous. Yeah no doubt. I guess we definitely do that. So everyone god bless you guys. We appreciate you..
Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"r. kelly" Discussed on Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"He said yeah but that was right to give it to women yup but li- eater to someone else but for them. I wasn't expecting that. I feel like he's not a good fit for them. I don't if you get my point. Or whatever i understand what you're saying. I agree okay. I liked it. Like jay z in an interview recently On the shop. He said that your when i ruled still dray for dr dre and snoop like. I made sure that. When i was spitting shit i was doing it with snoop cadence invoice and dr dre cadence invoice lay dust. This oh so. That's what i feel by. That's what i mean by that. Like it would have been a r kelly track or someone else in that lane of r. Kelly like joe or whatever. Yeah that's that's that's awful about that trick but it's a good track but i feel like it's not my cup of tea. That's fair that's fair. I thought i thought it was good for this week. And that's that's a that's how that's how you fell when the when you took their pig stopping let's get into our next segment man. What are we doing. The lowdown down to the.
Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"r. kelly" Discussed on Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"He said yeah but that was right to give it to women yup but li- eater to someone else but for them. I wasn't expecting that. I feel like he's not a good fit for them. I don't if you get my point. Or whatever i understand what you're saying. I agree okay. I liked it. Like jay z in an interview recently On the shop. He said that your when i ruled still dray for dr dre and snoop like. I made sure that. When i was spitting shit i was doing it with snoop cadence invoice and dr dre cadence invoice lay dust. This oh so. That's what i feel by. That's what i mean by that. Like it would have been a r kelly track or someone else in that lane of r. Kelly like joe or whatever. Yeah that's that's that's awful about that trick but it's a good track but i feel like it's not my cup of tea. That's fair that's fair. I thought i thought it was good for this week. And that's that's a that's how that's how you fell when the when you took their pig stopping let's get into our next segment man. What are we doing. The lowdown down to the.
The Cave - A DC Universe Podcast
"r. kelly" Discussed on The Cave - A DC Universe Podcast
"My dream was to be like mothra girl. One of the most through twitter. Yes but but but you know. I'm learning more now in adulthood about all these comic book characters. But every time i get one of these characters. It's it's fun. It's fun for me to to learn about them and and And be able to to bring them to life But oftentimes. I have to admit when i when i get on dishes and stuff i have to call my comic book. Nerd friends for the background stories on these characters and and sometimes i get fooled because i remember going in for for X. men and playing Doing the audition. Of course they didn't tell me that i was playing lady strike in the audition. They told us they had us. Read some sides for the audition which had nothing to do with the character I thought i was auditioning for the role of some red headed Reporter and i'm asking my friends. Do you know who this character is. And they gave me the whole rundown the whole everything about it and then you know come to find out. I was playing a whole other character. So there's like who is this strike. I had no idea but But yeah these. These rules are always super funds to research and and and read about then and I've always got these These comic book Friends who are like total comic book nerds. You're always far more excited than when i get the news. I think you had like one line at dialogue. Is you know his strike. And and she's and she's certainly need a manicure to. That's for sure that when the challenge your fingernails they were. They were glued. They were crazy glued under my actual fingernails. Once they were on. That was it. You couldn't you couldn't scratch your nose you couldn't you know. Open a door. If i was when they would call me. I like out of my dressing room. They would have to open the door for me. Because i couldn't unlatch the door with my colleagues and go to the bathroom. Yes kelly a pleasure. I mean you just totally killed it in his role and i was senior. I wanna see more this group again. It was it was a dynamite movie. I love that. let's do it. You look for batman solar the dragon wherever you get your dvd's. I always say. Get the blu ray with digital damn until next time on the gave this. Is tony toe on..