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Crypto Banter
A highlight from The Biggest Bitcoin Selling Event Of 2023! (BEWARE)
"But a few urgent pressing situations that we have to deal with quite urgently. I think the first situation that we have to deal with is, hold on a second, James, it won't let me share screen so you could share the screen. So the first situation that we have to deal with is we have to deal with the looming US government shutdown because now the odds of a government shutdown are 90 % and if we do get a government shutdown, Goldman Sachs actually says that this shutdown could last as long as two to three weeks. I think we actually for now need to start preparing for this US government shutdown. The next thing that we have to start preparing for is a massive seller in the market. So this is not a joke. We do have a seller in the market. This seller owns 10 % of all the Bitcoin in circulation and 1 .8 million Bitcoin and they are going to start selling. In fact, what you can see from this chart over here is that they have already started selling a whole lot of their Bitcoin. So we're going to be talking about the seller when they're going to hit the market and why that's going to impact the Bitcoin price and how much that's going to impact the Bitcoin price. Then what we need to talk about is we need to talk about this little price move that we had yesterday in Bitcoin and what it actually means because we seem to be in a position where every time that we get a pump, we get the pump, but then the pump dies and that's exactly what happened yesterday. So we could understand what actually happened yesterday. What took us to 26 ,800 and brought us back down and is this thing going to continue to bring us down every single time we have a pump. Then I want to go through a knock -by -knock account of how Gary Gensler was taken down in Congress yesterday. Regarding your interactions with FTX and Sandbank and Freed, that's the investigation we started last Congress. Finally, your lack of responsiveness to this committee's legitimate oversight continues to be unacceptable. And I want to finish here. In February, the committee made multiple requests for documents to the Securities Exchange Commission. This is normal congressional oversight. Yet seven months later, the committee has not received a single non -public document that was not part of a FOIA production. As I said, our patience is wearing thin. The SEC is not above the law, nor is it unique. Other financial regulators have routinely complied with congressional oversight. So let me be clear. I do not want to be the first chairman of this committee to issue a subpoena to the Securities Exchange Commission. And you should not want to be the first SEC chair to receive a congressional subpoena. Either we find a path forward where the SEC recognizes Congress as a co -equal branch of government and is responsive to our oversight duties, or my option is to issue a subpoena. All right, so we're going to go for a blow -by -blow account of exactly what happened yesterday. Gary Gensler was absolutely, absolutely, absolutely destroyed in Congress. And then, and then, and then, I've got a massive, massive story for you, but I'm going to keep that story until the very end of the show. So let's go, guys. Big show. All right, we are back and we've got a massive, massive, massive show for you guys today. And I think the best part of the show today is going to be the show, the part where we discuss how Gary Gensler was annihilated yesterday in Congress, because this guy yesterday was absolutely, absolutely, absolutely annihilated. It's actually not, that's actually not Gary Gensler, believe it or not. So this is actually a true story. Gary Gensler has an identical twin brother. His name is Robert Gensler. I thought that this was an absolute joke, but I actually looked it up and it's true. Gary Gensler does have an identical twin brother. His name is Robert Gensler. No, no jokes. Anyway, Gary was the one that was destroyed yesterday in Congress. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't Robert. It was actually Gary. But crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy that we actually see these things. All right, listen, welcome back, guys. Huge show today. I want to just thank you all. I see we're very, very, very, very, very close to 650 ,000 subscribers. We are 9, 10 subscribers away from 650 ,000 subscribers. When we get to 650 ,000 subscribers, our next move is to catch up to George from Crypto's Ice, because he's like our next target. We've got him in our sights. He was 100 ,000 subscribers ahead of us before the beginning, in the beginning of the year. What is your now? 17 ,000? 17 ,000 in the banter fam, the banter fam are definitely going. We're going to go after him now. He's our next target. We're going to try and catch up to him. All right, let's go. We've got a big show today. If you haven't subscribed, subscribe to channel, like this content. If we get to what is the number of likes we had yesterday? 1 ,500. If you get to 1 ,600 likes, I'm going to show you the biggest Bitcoin seller in the market. I'm going to show you why this seller is actually going to be selling. I'm going to, we're going to decide together whether or not we should be panicking about this seller selling. And it's a serious seller. The seller has 18, 1 .8 million Bitcoin, which is 10 % of the circulating supply on Bitcoin and they are going to be selling. So yeah, if we get to 1 ,500 likes and we beat yesterday, then we're going to get into that story. In the interim though, let's look at the bubbles. Let's see what's happening on the bubbles. So I see Rune is up. Let's just see how Rune is doing. Rune up at 187. I'm actually, I actually have got quite a big Rune position. I see Rollbit at 12 cents. You would be 20 % up if you actually took our trade. You got Ape moving. Remember that you got the whole banter newsroom here on the side. So everything that we, all the places where we get our news from are actually available to you right here. And if you want to follow any of our researchers, there's 44 of them. You can just click and you can just follow them directly from the newsroom. We're also improving banter bubbles. I reckon in about a month, it's going to be the fastest bubble app in the whole market. I'm also watching the Dixie and I think the reason why we should be watching the Dixie today is because we had the GDP numbers. The numbers GDP came in at 2 .1%. They expected was 2 .1%. So nothing, no surprises when it comes to GDP. And I think that when we talk about, when we talk about GDP, we need to talk about it in context of the looming government shutdown because we've got this, this looming government shutdown. It's a real thing now, you know, we were first saying that the shutdown wouldn't happen. But now Goldman Sachs is saying, look, if the White House don't resolve their differences by the end of tomorrow, that would make it the end of Friday. And by Sunday, they would have a government shutdown. Now, that would be, I think, the fourth government shutdown in the last decade. And it would be, it would have a whole lot of effects. I think what we need to do today is actually just look at the effects of a government shutdown. And, you know, do we need to prepare for it? Like, do we need to start stocking up on toilet paper, like we did in COVID? Do we need to start stocking up on food, on rice and oil? We need to, we need to make sure that we understand exactly what's happening. But before we get there, I want to talk about yesterday's little Bitcoin pump. So we had the pump yesterday and then we had a little bit of a dump and it keeps happening every single time. We keep losing momentum. Now, I think the pump is probably expected and I do think we're going to start getting a whole lot more pumps. And I'll tell you why I think we're going to start getting a whole lot more pumps because there is more money coming into the Chinese economy. So remember that China's in big trouble now and the way they're going to get themselves out of trouble is they're going to start stimulating the economy and getting more money into the economy. Well, you can see that liquidity in China is starting to go up because of all these things that China is doing. So I am expecting the price of Bitcoin to start moving upwards because of this liquidity.
What Bitcoin Did
Fresh update on "rice" discussed on What Bitcoin Did
"And I think that... So what I tell people is like, why do you love LA? Why do you like LA better than... And I love New York, too. I'm not one of these people who's like, LA rules, New York sucks, or vice versa. I think LA is great because it doesn't take itself too seriously. And what I mean by that is, I mean, you go to a place like San Francisco or you go to a place like New York, people have this really strong inbuilt conception of like, what New York is or what San Francisco is and what it should be. And I think that's at the nexus of a lot of the things that are wrong in a place like San Francisco, because people are really obsessed with this conception of like the authentic San Francisco. And that's why you... And that's used to justify nimbyism, not building housing, which leads to the housing crisis that exists there. Whereas you look at a place like LA, we've been relatively more successful at pursuing things like upzoning strategies to increase the housing supply here. It's not enough, right? Like we should be doing a lot more. But because the city doesn't really have this sort of inbuilt conception of like, this is what LA looks like, this is what LA feels like, this is what LA culture is. And those are things that San Franciscans or New Yorkers have really, really strong conceptions of. And I think that's very limiting. Whereas here, it's just sort of like just pure creativity, everyone just like making shit up. And there's like something invigorating about that. Like being... And this is the cultural capital of the world, like literally, like the entertainment industry, the music industry, even like most influencers of Node on Instagram and TikTok are like, they live here. Like this is where people come to be on the world stage. And there's something exciting about that. And I think LA gets a really bad rap. I love it. Well, I think it's more than that to me, though. The geography is brilliant, because you can be in Venice, you can be all Santa Monica by the beach, you can go up to Topanga, go up to the canyon, go hiking. I love painting country. Yeah. It's amazing. If you want an hour and a half from San Diego, then just a little bit further from Mexico, but you can go up to wine country if you want. You can cut east and you can go across to Yosemite. There's a lot in the small area that's quite diverse in terms of geography. Then I prefer... It's weird, because I also like Texas, and I really like Nashville. But I like the progressive side here as well. I like to have the mix. The music scene is brilliant. There's art everywhere. You see it visually everywhere. I love LA. LA is still a very liberal leaning city, but relatively speaking, it's more politically diverse than San Francisco or New York, relatively speaking. You can definitely feel that. I definitely think that, like I said, LA is not Hollywood. Hollywood is the biggest representative thing in the media that portrays LA, but LA is not that. You don't see it really when you're here unless you choose to go and see it. Exactly. Have you seen a big degradation over the last five plus years? Here in LA? Yeah. I think LA has actually bounced back mostly from the pre-pandemic era. It feels mostly the same as it was before. I definitely have noticed the effects of the writer's strike here. You can see that, and businesses are complaining a little bit. This is the other side of LA, because the biggest industry is the entertainment industry. A huge percentage of that is gig work. People are not on salaries. They're going from project to project. They're joining a gig to work on a TV show for a season or to shoot a commercial or to shoot a movie. Those people rely on a constant rotation of that work coming in. We've had a five-month writer's strike, and that has essentially left a large portion of the working population here unemployed. There's definitely a lot of discussion. Restaurants have seen a decrease in reservations because people are clearly saving their money. They're having to work on strike pay. Now that that looks like the writer's strike is over, I think hopefully it'll get back to normal. It's going to keep the robots out of the films. Yes. It's going to keep the AI out of the films. Yeah. Wow. Anyway, Mike, always good to see you. Always good to see you. The anti-contrarian. The anti-contrarian. Someone described that as you today, and I'm not going to tell you who till afterwards. I don't know who that is. Yeah. You want to tell me? Steven Lubka. Oh, he called me the anti-contrarian? Not as an insult. It's interesting because someone was trying to argue with me the other day that I am a contrarian. You're a contrarian contrarian. I don't even know what that really means, right? I think... Let me frame it better. I think all of us in Bitcoin are contrarians. And there's different groups. There are perhaps right contrarians, left contrarians, libertarian contrarians. And you and I talk a lot. We message each other because I think we share similar skepticism to the worldviews that some Bitcoiners have. And these things should be discussed. Do you know what I'm contrarian about? The thing that I think really bothers me, and this has always sort of been an aspect of my personality going all the way back to like when I can kind of even remember having an intellectual life, which is probably, you know, the last few years of high school when I kind of first started really forming what I would count as like a worldview, right? And obviously my politics and my worldview have shifted dramatically since that time. But one thing I've always felt really uncomfortable about, and this has kind of been a through line in my life, no matter what kind of policy choices or what I believed about the trajectory of the world, was I really don't like when everyone's agreeing. I really don't like that. I mean, there have been so many times where like I get really bored. Like I'll be at a dinner with like a bunch of friends and we're all just agreeing about some political issue, and I kind of like feel that tension of like, maybe I should represent the other side of this argument. Like maybe I should like dig in a little bit and try to steel man, or at least add some nuance at the very least. I'm very uncomfortable with this idea of certainty. And I've changed my mind a lot. I have like a pretty deep background in epistemology, which is like the study of what can be known to know that like we're really fallible, right? Like we walk around, I walk around the world, I have a very, very narrow view onto the universe. Like I can only see what I see like directly in front of me right now, I've only read what I read, I've only seen what I've seen, I only have the memories that I have. There is like the vast, vast majority of available information in the world is not in my brain, right? And so like what I'm really doing is prioritizing what to pay attention to. That's like ultimately like what I'm doing. And so the real skill about being, I think, an intelligent person who can make reasonably good predictions about the future of the things to avoid, the things to double down on, you know, the things to question, I mean, is really just about managing your attention and being really smart about that, right? Like, you know, we live in a world now where like we're always connected. I can go on Wikipedia, we have chatgpt right now, like to, you know, to try and like augment ourselves. And I think those tools are interesting. Like I spend probably way too much time arguing with chatgpt because it's like, I love to argue. And there's always someone there willing to argue with me and it's in the form of an AI. No, it's great because like, I'll start a chatgpt conversation and I'll prompt it at the very beginning and I'll say, I want you, I'm going to like start. Hold on, can we do this? Yeah. Oh. Let's do a live argument because I had an argument with, what is Google's? Bard, right? Yeah. It told me something, I was like, no, you're wrong. It said, oh, I'm really sorry. I was like, did you do that on purpose? And they said, yes. Right, go on, let's have an argument. I've only got GPT-3. Well, so what I would typically do is I would tell chatgpt, like, I'm going to like start an argument. I'm going to make an argument to you. And I want you to argue the opposite to me, just like reflexively. And then I will just sort of continue to have these arguments. And I think that's really interesting because, and actually there's been so many times where it's pointed out that there's some book that was written or there was some philosopher or there's some political scientist who had like a really good counter argument to that. And actually, there was a few times where it like it sent me down a rabbit hole being like, wait a second. My argument isn't that strong. And this is a great tool for sharpening your tools. Yeah, it's really great job. I mean, I love it. I love this. OK, let's do a Bitcoin one. Let's do a Bitcoin one. OK, my argument is, sorry, I'm going to hijack. My argument is that Bitcoin is the best money in the world and will fix all the world's problems. Then we'll do one of your probably more intellectual. This is great. Actually, I like this one. Like, actually, I think we should, this is, I like that you asked this because I think we should talk about some of these things. So, you know, you get like, you know, it mentions the volatility, the price volatility, like, like relative to people's like, you know, the, like the currency that they that they use in their daily. Like in their daily life. That's like a real problem. Scalability challenges. We all know about that. We can talk about lightning. But like, well, this is, these are all real. Like, these are all real things. So let me just, just for people listening. So it's come back to Bitcoin is not the best money in the world and it cannot fix all the world's problems while it's gained popularity, has some unique fixtures. And so it does the typical ones. Volatility, well, we can make future arguments. Scalability, we can make arguments about second layers. Regulatory challenges, we can talk about how that's a shifted environment. Environmental concerns, we can say, well, you know, there's counter arguments to that lack of privacy again. But I think the most interesting ones, that last one, number seven. Yeah, number seven. That's great. Economic and social problem. Bitcoin alone cannot solve complex global issues like poverty, inequality and geopolitical conflicts. These problems are deeply rooted and require multifaceted solutions beyond the scope of any single currency. Do you know why this is interesting? It's very, to me, why is that interesting? So, so I've just been out to Lebanon. And very quickly, you know, you spend a week there, you realize Bitcoin can't fix this because Bitcoin is like an individual solution to you, to the things you want it to solve. For me, it solves long term savings and some transfers of money. And and it's a moonshot to a better life. But and so when you look at the problems of Lebanon, where they've got no effective government and the money's collapsed and everyone's moved to the dollar, to fix Lebanon, you need more than a better currency. OK, firstly, you actually need dollars. Yeah. OK. You need security put in place because they don't have effective security. There's all these things that it needs. And Bitcoin is one of those things. But to say Bitcoin fixes Lebanon, I think is an arrogant and misinformed statement from somebody who hasn't really spent any time probably outside of their hometown. And also, I mean, this this gets at like probably I think I think this is number seven, too. And what you just said is like the nature, I think, of what my message has been in the Bitcoin community this whole time. Right. Which is I'm working on Bitcoin like I've like, you know, I've decided to make it my full time job because I see like the potential to improve the world. But, you know, to use a philosophical term, like I take like an instrumentalist view of Bitcoin in the same way that I take an instrumentalist view of smartphone technology or an instrumentalist view of the Internet, which is to say that like it is a tool that I can use to affect real change towards a more positive future. But that is it is one component of what the broad tapestry of complex modern civilization is made up of. Right. One of the things that I try really, really hard to get people to think about is the fact that one like this back up one a little bit here, like the one sentiment that really annoyed me like earlier this year. That I saw that was like very like like and you saw this as well, which was like the the kind of the attitude that Bitcoin has already won. There was this kind of this kind of moment in time, if you remember when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, you know, signature bank collapse. And there was kind of this like attitude in the Bitcoin community. It's like, well, this is it, guys, like this is it. Like U.S. dollar is going to be done by the end of this year. So we're getting to Bitcoin. And and I was maybe like one of the few Bitcoiners that was like tweeting and tweeting people and saying, no, this is like crazy, like not like that's obviously not going to happen. Like you need to think about the entire incentive structure around the U.S. dollar. And of course, the U.S., the the the the Federal Reserve and the government and businesses and banks and even U.S. trading partners are going to close ranks to try and stabilize the situation. I think there's one more thing you can add into that. It's like I don't think you want it to win at this point unless you're a greedy psychopath. Well, maybe like I'm trying to leave the normative aside for a second. We can get to that. But like the like what I think I try to do as before you kind of like I mean, there's there's two ways you can like approach these things. You can construct a narrative in your head of like what you want the world to be. And then you can rationalize like what are the things I need to change about the world to adjust reality to that narrative? I think that's a dead end way of trying to change the world. I think it's it's terrible. It's how you get ideologues. It's how you get close minded people. It's it's how you create like echo chambers. And I think the way that you really move the world forward is by first taking stock of how the world really is and like what is really going on. And the biggest mistake I think a lot of Bitcoiners make, quite frankly, is they overprivileged the role of money in society. Not that money isn't an important part of society. Like who would say that? Obviously, it's a very important part of society. Like, you know, it like it informs everything we do. Like they're like the economy, our modern economy would not function without money. Right. We'd be back at barter. Like there's no doubt that it's it's significant and a prodigious part of the superstructure that makes up the complexity of the world. But like so are a lot of other things, right? Like so is just like raw culture. So is technology itself. And some philosophers might argue that technology and culture aren't really different things, really. Like Mark Marshall McLuhan, like being an example, a famous example of that, which I'm sympathetic to. I'm sympathetic to that argument. And I obviously the political economy of the way in which states are organized and the connections between industry and government, the thing, the economic incentives that governments create and the economic disincentives governments create, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. These are really, really important factors to understand, like how the world is. I'll give you another example of of, you know, one of the things that was completely not unexpected to me. Like I started tweeting two or three years ago about how I really thought that like that that China was in a lot of trouble, like economically. And I and I have sort of poo-pooed this idea that they're going to eclipse the United States, that they're going to create a sinocentric world order, that the yuan is going to overtake the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, that there's going to be petro-yuans instead of petro-dollars. And this was like almost like very like what everyone was sort of in a state of like, well, of course, that's going to happen. Like and my my view on this was is that like, first of all, you might you can construct a case that that's the future of the world if you if you rely on very narrow economic assumptions. But you can't just rely on narrow economic assumptions because people don't simply act on narrow economic assumptions. There's this this this this concept, well, this this idiom idiomatic thing in economics where called, you know, homo economic this, which is this idea that that in order to understand the the the world and economics, you treat every human being as like a rational economic actor. And that I, you know, homo economic this and that each person will make rational economic choices. And those rational economic choices are all about, like, you know, the maximization of economic value, you know, and like obviously like people come together and they form economies and there's price discovery and that leads to efficient investments. And this is like kind of the basis for the efficient market hypothesis that Ludwig von Mises is famous for framing. And I think it's that's a completely bullshit conception of like how the world works. Like humans act against their economic interests all the time. They're they're lazy. They could like put in a few more hours. Right. Like, you know, and make some overtime or they could, you know, they could go and get a harder job. I mean, there's a lot of people out there that are just completely happy. I mean, I meet them all the time. They're like, hey, like, you know, like, no, I'm completely happy. I took a pay cut, but I'm working the job of my life. Or or, you know, people there were farmers in during the years that Trump was president that were being hit really, really hard by the tariffs that that that Trump had put on China or the countervailing tariffs that China had put on in response to the U.S. and rice. And a lot of these farmers were like, I don't care that I'm losing all this business because like I believe that the president is doing this thing to like protect the the good of the country. And so like this this idea that I think a lot of Bitcoiners have that economic incentives are sort of at the center of what will predict the future of the world is just completely wrong. And I predicted that China was up against a real problem for one very simple reason.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: 09/26 UPDATE
"Welcome to The SBF Trial, a Coindesk Podcast Network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried has traded his palatial Bahamas bunker for a bunk bed as he transitions from lux to lockup. Bankman -Fried is staying at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, one of the nation's most notorious correctional facilities. Conditions at the jailhouse where Bankman -Fried has resided for six weeks since losing his bail are a far cry from the former billionaire's old Caribbean stomping grounds. The internet is slow, the living quarters dirty and the cafeteria offering slim, his lawyers have argued. He is subsisting on bread and water, sometimes peanut butter, the defense told a federal judge last month. Former residents of the famous facility and their lawyers, however, have said there's much more to tell about the notorious lockup. They've likened conditions at the jailhouse to those faced by prisoners of war and Hannibal Lecter in the horror movie The Silence of the Lambs. But what's MDC really like on the inside? Here's what we know about the infamous detention center. MDC Brooklyn is a large prison complex encompassing two buildings and housing more than 1 ,600 male and female prisoners, many of whom still await trial. As a mixed security facility, the MDC houses inmates with a variety of criminal histories, including terrorism, organized crime and drug smuggling. A report from the Bureau of Prisons shows current inmates include Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras, who has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, and Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman who has pleaded not guilty to fraud charges. Others who have previously served short stints at the jailhouse include Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and pharma bro Martin Shkreli. Bankman -Fried likely has a rigid schedule at MDC. Inmates wake up at 6 a .m. and must make their beds, mop the floor and tend to their trash. An orientation handbook from the facility shows. From there, inmates like Bankman -Fried might go to work around the facility, serving as prep cooks in the jail's kitchen, providing janitorial services throughout the complex, or assisting at the facility's maintenance shop. At 11 a .m., they eat lunch. Dinner is served at 4 p .m. Meals are supposed to consist of a meat such as turkey, a starch like rice and a vegetable or fruit, but prisoners are actually served cold cuts, sandwich bread, moldy pound cakes and other unidentifiable foods from the kitchen, according to a petition on Change .org. If Bankman -Fried, a vegan, doesn't like what's offered at the cafeteria, he can use his $150 weekly commissary allowance to buy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, worth $3 .65 each. He can buy up to two of those per day, according to the complex's rules. In between meals and work, inmates are allowed breaks. However, there's no prison yard for recreational activities at MDC. Instead, Bankman -Fried will have to hang out with his fellow inmates in indoor community rooms, where they can play cards, talk and watch television. Bankman -Fried can also take showers during his downtime in one of five separate individual shower stalls, according to former inmates. However, lines to use the showers are often long. At the end of each day, Bankman -Fried may retire to a communal dorm with rows of bunk beds, according to former prisoners' accounts. However, it's also possible he has been put in protective custody and has his own cell. Either way, getting some shut eye may not be easy. Fluorescent lights keep the dorm and other rooms across the jailhouse semi -lit 24 hours a day. Inmates' writings show. In addition, inmates can often be heard shouting across cell blocks at all hours of the night, former prisoners have said. Uncomfortable heat and cold is another potential issue Bankman -Fried may encounter during his stay at MDC Bankman -Fried in Brooklyn. According to several local news reports, many parts of the MDC lack heating and air conditioning units are sparse throughout much of the facility. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Has A New Super Whale! (2024 Bringing Explosive Gains)
"Good morning, everybody! It's time to discover crypto. It is September 25th. It's 1133 A .M. Eastern Standard Time. It took us a few minutes to get ready today, Tim. Was it your fault? Probably, yes. It's probably his fault. We got Drew on the ones and twos. And, Tim, how are you doing today, Drew? Oh, I'm doing great. Couldn't be better, honestly. Alright, me and Drew were talking. We might try to get that MRV video out today. Folks, I might also put out my cold plunge footage. I got to upload that and everything. So, it's going to be a good, good show. Today, we're talking about MicroStrategy. Just bought more Bitcoin. We're talking about how much Bitcoin does Coinbase hold. It's a whole lot and it's a lot more than you thought. Also, we're talking about the Expiry on Friday, Tim. Yeah. Now, what are your thoughts on the Expiry? I mean, it's going to be a little... It's a lot larger than the last one. I think it's about 4X the amount of money that's in this week's. Yeah, it's a very large one and it's going to tell us a lot. There's two things I really take away from it. First of all, it kind of gives us a good indication of what price is going to do this week. And then we got to wait to see what happens on Friday, but we'll talk about that level later, I think. If we don't get to that level, we could see that move below $25 ,000 we've been talking about for a while. And also, we're going to talk about Chainlink, everybody, and some fake Aptos floating around. So, that's going to be a pretty fun story there. Alright, let's refresh. Make sure we got the freshest crypto pricing available. And it looks like the market cap is down, folks. We are down 0 .8%. We're coming in at $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume, $32 billion. And Bitcoin dominance coming in at $47 .2. Gas is almost triple what it was Friday when we were doing this. It was 29 Gwei today. It was 11 Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is bouncing a little bit on the hourly. Same for Ethereum. They're up 0 .5 and 0 .3. But down for the 24 hours, you see Bitcoin down 1 .4%. Any levels you're looking at, Tim? We got Mr. T .A. Tim here. For Bitcoin specifically or for anything? Yeah, for Bitcoin. So, again, we'll talk more about those levels. But there's something about that options expiry and that level being $26 ,500. I'm not expecting price to go too much away from that. I think there's even a point where in the week we could get a little over that, then come back down. This happens a lot when there's a big number for options expiry. Price doesn't get that far away from it because the traders want to keep it right there. But then watch right before the expiry happens. My suspicion, Deezy, is it's going to be below. It's going to be bad. And I think we might have a good little fall on Friday. And, well, depends where we're at because a lot of times it acts as a magnet. It wants to pull the price to $26 ,500. Right now, we're at $26 ,200. So I expected to end up getting pulled to that price like a magnet towards the end of the week there. We have Rice hanging out. Hey, what is going on, Rice? Rice in the chat. Hey, make sure you go follow. If you see him in the chat, go click on it. You see his channel. Make sure you're subbed if you're not already. We have ETH down 0 .6%. We have BNB down 0 .8%. XRP leading the losers of the top 10. It is down 2 .3%. And Cardano, in a weird way, besides Solana, performing pretty decently here. It is only down 0 .2%. Solana is actually up 0 .3 % while Ethereum is down 0 .6 % and Bitcoin down 1 .4%. But let's look at the top gainers here. Oh, I see a good juicy Chainlink pump. What is going on, Drew? Yeah. You're feeling good about it. I'm feeling good about it. I've been telling people to buy Chainlink. My 3 .2 should have been 4 .2, man. I'm missing out on that one Chainlink pump. I know. My heart goes out to everyone distracted by drama because Chainlink is crushing it. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm focusing on crypto prices. I'm focusing on crypto news. And I'm focusing on bettering my situation as we get closer and closer to the halving and then beyond. I think the next 12 months after halving will look pretty good for Bitcoin. All right. Well, let's look at the top gainers. We have Aptos leading the way. Aptos is up 3 .7%. There were some counterfeit Aptos tokens. Is this, you know, maybe the team, the community pumping the token? That way, if you see, oh, a bunch of bad Aptos news, let me look into it. Oh, it's the best gainer of the day. Oh, it must not have been anything. Maybe there's a little element of that going on. Number two, though, we have Chainlink. Chainlink pumping up 3 .2%, up 8 .2 % for the week. Frac shares up 2 .9%, and ImmutableX is up 2 .2%. Was 3 .7 % just an hour ago. I actually have two of the top four coins here. I can't believe it. I'm assuming I'm going to have zero losers in the biggest losers of the day. Can I get any thoughts on SEI from JA? Get forward. Well, one, you got to get a Chevy or a Honda. That's your first problem. SEI, I don't really have any. We'll look at it as the top losers and the top gainers. All right. After that, though, we're seeing ImmutableX, then ThorChain, then Law Enforcement Officer token, then we have Bitcoin Cash up 1 .7%. But after that, it's going below 1 .5%. Really not seeing anything too crazy. Now we're going to the losers. We want to make sure your coin is not in the biggest losers of the day, and the best way to make that happen is to hit the like button. That's what I've heard. I don't know if it's true or not. Whoo! Radix is down, and it is down heavy, folks. It is down 11 .9%, and WeMix is up 65 % for the week, but it is down 8 % for the day. You can see it just cracking in the top 100. That's why we haven't really been used to seeing WeMix. It looks like it's just now getting in the top 100. Then we have Render, then we have Optimism, then we have EOS, then we have XRP. I have a small bag of XRP, but I have nothing in the top 5 there. Radix, have you been ever trying to trade? Radix get in and out. You always see it in the losers and gainers. No. So one of the problems with trading altcoins, especially when you're using TA, is some of those altcoins, they can move very quickly without TA helping them. So those ones, you definitely have to get in, be aware of what's happening with adoption, be aware of what's happening with stories. The charts still help, but the charts can't give you the complete picture. And I don't do a lot of digging on little altcoins like that. Yeah, Radix down 12%, but up 6 % for the day. So people got in a week ago. They're still looking good, even though they're down almost 12 % right now. Let's see. So what was that? The Super Chat coin there again. SEI. SEI. I don't know how to pronounce it. I always see it up there. Well, it's a newer coin, correct? Yeah, it's a newer coin. I mean, it's a new coin. It's going to be too soon to kind of give it any real data if we click. I just want to get that spike off the axis there. I mean, it looks like it's bouncing off that level. I mean, very, very limited TA. Looks like market buyers are buying it when it hits that level. So maybe they'll continue to buy it, but maybe they'll quit buying it. Maybe it falls through that support. Yeah, the charts. There technically actually is a little bit of bullishness about it going on. Definitely hitting in a place flashing oversold.
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"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
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A highlight from Adulthood: Na Scam
"If you are experiencing adulthood like I am currently, I'm very sure that once in a while you'd sit up in the middle of the night and ask yourself, what did I do wrong? No bibondi -bondi and it's so crazy because nobody wants you and we want to grow up so fast. We want to grow up so fast. We want to grow up so fast but we don't know that we are growing into a scam. A scam that is probably bigger than Money Heist. This podcast is going to be around about adulthood and I'll share tips on how I've been managing myself. I hope it helps. Follow me on adulthood not scam. Make I follow you and to enjoy. Hi guys, you're welcome to another episode of the Follow Me Yandt podcasts. My name is Jubal Adeoye and I am your host. If you're a new listener, thank you for tuning in, returning listeners. Thank you so much for your support on the last episode. If you're new here, please check out our last episode. It is very, very, very insightful and let's not forget to share this till we make this podcast a global thing. Yes. So today we'll be talking about how adulthood is a scam and yeah, that's not a joke. Adulthood is probably the biggest scam since Money Heist but we're looking at this from an angle of solutions. So we won't be talking much about all the shit you have seen while, you know, being an adult. So I am going to be talking about how I've been able to navigate through that and how I have been able to manage it to make it as painless as possible. It's practically impossible to make it painless, but we're trying. So number one is have a few good friends. I my call friends my village, they are my people, they are those people who I run to whenever I need help, whenever I need help with anything basically. So have your village, have people who genuinely look out for you, who genuinely care about you, who want to know, you know, if you're doing good. This doesn't just mean friends who you guys, you know, party together. You can have party friends, but please make sure that you have friends who look at you from a state of, I'm concerned about you, have a few good friends, then please be close to your family as much as possible. The eugenium relationships, I'm not saying you should be on the phone all the time with them. I hate calls too, but just try to make sure that when you call them, when you guys talk, you're asking about things that actually matter to them. Make sure that you know their interests. Don't be that person who wants to buy them a birthday gift that you don't know what they want. Please be as close to your family as much as possible. Stay away from toxicity, please. And don't forget this particular point, a lot of people will be waiting for it, but then you might be the toxic one that you don't know. So introspection is also one of the gifts that you should probably pray for, or you should probably, what's it called, develop. Try to see things from an objective point of view, always. Don't look at it from your biases. It's not easy, but you can do it. You can do it. You can do it. If you can write and tailor your scripts according to what your lecturer wants, definitely you can introspect. So please introspect. And then this leads us to the next point, which is be ready to learn, unlearn, and relearn. And I think there's one more to make it four of the learning process, but please, you're not too old to find out that you've been wrong about something. You're not too old to find out that you're not too old to start learning something new. That's it. So please don't be stagnant. That's a never ending cycle. And I know that you can be a witness because our parents do this a lot. Don't tell them I said so, but they do. And I mean, when they're wrong, they rarely ever admit it and that's wrong in itself. So when you're wrong, please admit it, let's change the cycle. Let's make it better. Let's not be, you know, the adults that we know now. So let's be the new kind of adults. Okay. So be ready to learn, to unlearn and relearn, and then make sure that you see this part that I'm about to say is the most important part of this podcast. And I'm not even kidding right now. If you've not been listening to the other four points, please, this is very important. Always have still, have some still in your house, have some with your pastor, have some at church, have some with your neighbors, have still everywhere. And I'm not even kidding. I don't mean this in a proverbial way. This is literal, like obey at a day. See always have it because it goes with bread, with rice, with you can even make jollof rice with steel. I'm telling you it will fried steel will make a very good jollof. Let's not go into that. That's not why I'm doing this. I'm just telling you that please, it is very important that you have steel because it will save your life in a way that you never thought it was possible. Please make sure you have steel. Protein is not necessary. Just have this steel first. Have steel. You can buy egg to this steel, you can buy some egg, but please have steel. And I've been saying this for like one minute now, so I'm very sure that it has registered in your subconscious to always fry steel, especially if you're staying alone. Fry a lot of steel and keep it somewhere. Keep it with your enemies, keep it with your friends, keep it with your parents, keep it every week. Just make sure that you are fortified, you are steely, fortified. Thank you. And don't forget to have fun. I don't do it as a way of sucking out the fun in everything. Have your own ritual. My ritual now is I make sure that every week I keep up with a couple of series. Bob had a visualizer part of it. It's a very, very funny rom -com that I enjoy. I watch All Americans, I watch The Blacklist, I watch, what's the other one, Bel Air. So please, and I know that these, they come out and I strictly, I have All American on my system now and once I end this recording, I'm going to see it. So have your own routine of fun. Have something that makes sense to you as an adult. Don't just be the boring adult who just wakes up, leaves, and then just dies. And then be close to God in any way you know you can. There's no man. Wow. Be close to God. The closer you get to him, I think that's the closer you'd get to him. So that's the only hack, be close to God. Don't rule him out. Yeah. So I think that's all. Yeah. I'm so proud. I think that's all. I'm such an adult. I'm sharing advice. Mommy, I made you proud. Yes. So that's all for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys. See you on the next episode, which is going to be deep. So prepare your mind guys. We are going, we're cutting in deep into the layers of your hearts. So have a fun time guys. Don't forget to share this to someone who is growing to the adulthood face like me. Love you. Bye. Hi, sweet listener. You've gotten to the end of the episode. Thank you so much for listening. Always have still, always have still, always have still, always have still, always have still. And remember to share this episode to your friends, your family who are going through the adulthood face. I love you so much. And I don't know what I'll do without you. Yes. Baby. Bye.
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Adulthood: Na Scam - burst 1
"If you are experiencing adulthood like I am currently, I'm very sure that once in a while you'd sit up in the middle of the night and ask yourself, what did I do wrong? No bibondi -bondi and it's so crazy because nobody wants you and we want to grow up so fast. We want to grow up so fast. We want to grow up so fast but we don't know that we are growing into a scam. A scam that is probably bigger than Money Heist. This podcast is going to be around about adulthood and I'll share tips on how I've been managing myself. I hope it helps. Follow me on adulthood not scam. Make I follow you and to enjoy. Hi guys, you're welcome to another episode of the Follow Me Yandt podcasts. My name is Jubal Adeoye and I am your host. If you're a new listener, thank you for tuning in, returning listeners. Thank you so much for your support on the last episode. If you're new here, please check out our last episode. It is very, very, very insightful and let's not forget to share this till we make this podcast a global thing. Yes. So today we'll be talking about how adulthood is a scam and yeah, that's not a joke. Adulthood is probably the biggest scam since Money Heist but we're looking at this from an angle of solutions. So we won't be talking much about all the shit you have seen while, you know, being an adult. So I am going to be talking about how I've been able to navigate through that and how I have been able to manage it to make it as painless as possible. It's practically impossible to make it painless, but we're trying. So number one is have a few good friends. I my call friends my village, they are my people, they are those people who I run to whenever I need help, whenever I need help with anything basically. So have your village, have people who genuinely look out for you, who genuinely care about you, who want to know, you know, if you're doing good. This doesn't just mean friends who you guys, you know, party together. You can have party friends, but please make sure that you have friends who look at you from a state of, I'm concerned about you, have a few good friends, then please be close to your family as much as possible. The eugenium relationships, I'm not saying you should be on the phone all the time with them. I hate calls too, but just try to make sure that when you call them, when you guys talk, you're asking about things that actually matter to them. Make sure that you know their interests. Don't be that person who wants to buy them a birthday gift that you don't know what they want. Please be as close to your family as much as possible. Stay away from toxicity, please. And don't forget this particular point, a lot of people will be waiting for it, but then you might be the toxic one that you don't know. So introspection is also one of the gifts that you should probably pray for, or you should probably, what's it called, develop. Try to see things from an objective point of view, always. Don't look at it from your biases. It's not easy, but you can do it. You can do it. You can do it. If you can write and tailor your scripts according to what your lecturer wants, definitely you can introspect. So please introspect. And then this leads us to the next point, which is be ready to learn, unlearn, and relearn. And I think there's one more to make it four of the learning process, but please, you're not too old to find out that you've been wrong about something. You're not too old to find out that you're not too old to start learning something new. That's it. So please don't be stagnant. That's a never ending cycle. And I know that you can be a witness because our parents do this a lot. Don't tell them I said so, but they do. And I mean, when they're wrong, they rarely ever admit it and that's wrong in itself. So when you're wrong, please admit it, let's change the cycle. Let's make it better. Let's not be, you know, the adults that we know now. So let's be the new kind of adults. Okay. So be ready to learn, to unlearn and relearn, and then make sure that you see this part that I'm about to say is the most important part of this podcast. And I'm not even kidding right now. If you've not been listening to the other four points, please, this is very important. Always have still, have some still in your house, have some with your pastor, have some at church, have some with your neighbors, have still everywhere. And I'm not even kidding. I don't mean this in a proverbial way. This is literal, like obey at a day. See always have it because it goes with bread, with rice, with you can even make jollof rice with steel. I'm telling you it will fried steel will make a very good jollof. Let's not go into that. That's not why I'm doing this. I'm just telling you that please, it is very important that you have steel because it will save your life in a way that you never thought it was possible. Please make sure you have steel. Protein is not necessary. Just have this steel first. Have steel. You can buy egg to this steel, you can buy some egg, but please have steel. And I've been saying this for like one minute now, so I'm very sure that it has registered in your subconscious to always fry steel, especially if you're staying alone. Fry a lot of steel and keep it somewhere. Keep it with your enemies, keep it with your friends, keep it with your parents, keep it every week. Just make sure that you are fortified, you are steely, fortified. Thank you. And don't forget to have fun. I don't do it as a way of sucking out the fun in everything. Have your own ritual. My ritual now is I make sure that every week I keep up with a couple of series. Bob had a visualizer part of it. It's a very, very funny rom -com that I enjoy. I watch All Americans, I watch The Blacklist, I watch, what's the other one, Bel Air. So please, and I know that these, they come out and I strictly, I have All American on my system now and once I end this recording, I'm going to see it. So have your own routine of fun. Have something that makes sense to you as an adult. Don't just be the boring adult who just wakes up, leaves, and then just dies. And then be close to God in any way you know you can. There's no man. Wow. Be close to God. The closer you get to him, I think that's the closer you'd get to him. So that's the only hack, be close to God. Don't rule him out. Yeah. So I think that's all. Yeah. I'm so proud. I think that's all. I'm such an adult. I'm sharing advice. Mommy, I made you proud. Yes. So that's all for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys. See you on the next episode, which is going to be deep. So prepare your mind guys. We are going, we're cutting in deep into the layers of your hearts. So have a fun time guys. Don't forget to share this to someone who is growing to the adulthood face like me. Love you. Bye. Hi, sweet listener. You've gotten to the end of the episode. Thank you so much for listening. Always have still, always have still, always have still, always have still, always have still. And remember to share this episode to your friends, your family who are going through the adulthood face. I love you so much. And I don't know what I'll do without you. Yes. Baby. Bye.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep.118 - Rewind to 1967: The Year That Changed Music Forever
"Well here we are episode 118 I think I think I forgot to list a few this might be like episode 120 or 121 I don't know I guess that's a good thing when you do so many you lose count anyway on this episode we're gonna be talking about the year in music 1967 and as usual I have the wrecking two in the house Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio of the music relish show very interesting yeah a lot happened sit back relax it's gonna be another two and a half hour podcast but we love it enjoy the show the KLFB studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show yes let's talk music thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends welcome to the podcast you know the name I'm not gonna say it was streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube X formerly known as Twitter twitch D live and again I always I don't know how many other things and this podcast will be heard on every podcast platform yeah yeah 1967 so it was quite a year think you're in for a little little ride tonight yeah and you know who wasn't born in night oh he was three in 1967 marksmen from the music relish show good evening I was two years from being on this earth so you weren't even really thought of no you thought of it 67 think of that think of that yeah you weren't even thought of you weren't even like a sparkle in as they say in your father's eye there might have been the beginning of a sparkle who knows so let me see I'm looking at my is my screen still fuzzy on my end but I'm not even seeing it on YouTube right now I'm seeing it's live but I just got the image of the vinyl really yeah what the hell wait wait wait wait yeah no it's on it's on I see it I see it but my screen looks fuzzy right yeah that's how I'm seeing you from my end yeah what the hell let me check something here hold on okay let's do a little in show my you know that smooth little March of colors next to you when you open up the show yeah happy it's all like gone really weird I'm looking at this right let's go back to this see what happens I'm supposed to be in 1080 and I'm looking at it right now now you're sharp you just got sharp it goes back and forth it's a strange see like hearing yourself huh I guess I don't know what do a refresh here I'm playing it right Tom Benwald says it looks good patty says it's blurry that was in the beginning and it looks like it's sharp now so it goes back and forth you're starting to get blurry again it's strange got any storms down there no this this would this will drive me crazy now this is it's not supposed to be like this come on it's like a Grateful Dead show warts and all rice we're talking about 1967 there's no digital so it was still waiting for Luda come on so you know I'm going to do I hate doing this but I'm going to do it to you buddy what's that no don't cut me I'm not cutting you I'm gonna I'm gonna hit a refresh which might take me off the screen so the show is yours for about I don't know 60 seconds let's see what happens here let's see reload I'm gonna reload it so I'm going off the screen I guess it's time to advertise the music roll show with my friend Perry and my friend Lou we discuss opera we have fun how am I now you look better look yeah yeah looks better yep and I just advertised my podcast is that the opera I'll pay you I'll give you the money later on then I lose my this is like okay here we go you look better though all right good yeah good you know me I the technical stuff drives me crazy especially you know it's not only sound it has to be oh it's this is a live stream so it has to look yeah good and you don't want to drop out in the middle of the show no like me and Lou do once in a while race right let's see is the chat working let's see now I'm not seeing any I'm not seeing any comments so let me try this well sorry for the podcast listeners but I gotta get this shit right hey it's okay I should be seeing I should be seeing comments because people have already made three comments you over here maybe they're bored and they don't want to comment anymore no it's there it should be showing up on my screen over here right we know that my boss you busting balls only Bono does that let's see public so it should be getting huh this is crazy seven minutes in and I'm here we haven't done anything yet let me see send comment test I just sent a text to message I see I see you as I see mine okay good we're good we're good let me switch over to my other account and do the same thing I just want to make sure yes just our audience is bored they don't want to comment actually this is all Lou's fault yeah yeah always the you know I would probably lost the other comments is because I rebooted so hmm all right well you know what we're gonna start without Lou right as I say that as I say that does he have what does he what do you let's get the full screen nose is that why you were late you had to clean your nose and he's back in Paris again you brown nose er I've been a bad dog my laptop and he's back in pair you left here in Paris you must have left it back in the United States I did I left on the plane how you doing Lou I'm doing alright how are you guys doing well I just had a little technical difficulty and we blamed you because you weren't here so you left me alone and I had to talk opera with myself talked opera yeah rigoletto did you talk about rigoletto this time I'm just really boring you know I'm like all right this is why this is a two and a half hour podcast some of us have to work tomorrow all right here we go let's jump right into 1967 musical events in 1967 and the year kicks off right away with a bomb a bomb on January 4th the doors release can arguably one of the greatest debut records ever arguably if you had a top 25 greatest debut that albums would have to be in the top 10 it would have to be yeah you know if you had a top 50 that would have to be in the top 10 right even if you don't like them you have to say that was so ahead of its time oh it's so different nothing out there was like the needle and all you hear it kicks I mean fucking what a way to start an album it's a heavy song it with a bossa nova beat yeah I mean that's pretty clever yeah 67 so you know bossa nova was pretty hip again John Densmore over underrated underrated underappreciated I think you are you are so correct you know never gets the the the consideration that I I don't know you can't put him in greatest of all time but could he be okay if there's a top there's a top 25 drummer top 25 drummers is he in it good question and in rock we'll just say in rock I think he could be I could see him making so I don't know if he's a universal pick but I could see him on some list I mean he's something you'd have to think about like you said like it doesn't get noticed so much you know yeah yeah or it I mean although his drumming wasn't shy I mean he's jazzy as hell I heard um writers on the storm yesterday and his adjustment playing is great in his adjustments during the shows just for that yeah yeah the unpredictability of you know how the how the song was gonna go right because they could rehearse it all they want once Morrison got into that zone well in the drama keeps the beat right yeah yeah the drummer has to stay up with that yeah and played to the clown so to speak right you know and my my problem is if some of the clowns don't have the beat you know at one point they've got to give in like I said Morrison or even Dylan they'll set the tone but they've got to be steady themselves you know it's yeah otherwise it's just erratic but you know yeah guy like Dan's more I mean I had skill I had a lot of a lot of technical ability right feel yes cool so obviously his drums always sounded good yeah on the earlier on the other records even you know three years worth of music whatever I guess I would be who produced some Jack Holtzman was the producer did a good job Jekyll or now wait so no what was it Paul Rothchild yes yes yes I'm sorry Holtzman was he on the record company yeah yeah was that it was that chrysalis or chrysalis I think or just like yes that's a lecture a lecture weren't they on chrysalis though also I thought they were yeah maybe maybe chrysalis was a subsidiary but uh yeah Jack Holtzman's son is Adam Holtzman he's a keyboardist right now he plays with here we go Stephen Wilson but he does a little blog on Facebook and he talks about growing up and he was like six years old and his father brought him to a club to see the tour Wow at six years old he just talks about like yeah it's a great little blog Wow all right and four days later on January 8th Elvis Presley turned 32 on January 14th the human be in right the human be e -i -n human being takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo fields with spoken words from Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder in others live music was provided by Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Big Brother in the holding company and Quicksilver Messenger Service speeches from Jerry Rubin and others were also given at the event although it's one band there I liked yeah Quicksilver Messenger Service who was it on January 15th 1967 who is your favorite poet of all them I know you're not asking me Arthur Rimbaud who influenced Jim Morrison good answer good answer way to bring that first opening segment rough full circle we're getting better Scott we're good now you guys get a lot of good trust me I'm getting a lot of good feedback so let's keep it at that I don't want you son ask for more money and on January 15th 1967 the Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show at Ed Sullivan's request finish it he asked them to let's spend sing let's spend some time together is that the one there you go yeah and then he told him a really big shoe I hate to do this I mean I come back on penalty box I don't say just he beat my record okay look he just got on the show after late and these are either he's stuck he's frozen put the dog nose back on where'd it go are you throw it at the camera like your headphones on January 16th 1967 the monkeys begin work on headquarters the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material and it was fucking horrible fucking horrible what were they thinking they know they were thinking the egos got too big they thought they were the music well the argument can be made that you know Mike Nesmith did write different drum yeah so he could write songs but I don't think he was a pop songwriter you know headquarters and they try to be all fucking like 60 ish and shit they weren't looking for pop were they they're trying to be like more psychedelic yeah I think so there were their channel on the Beatles with those quirky little yeah with anti -grizzelles on that I don't know some weird shit I'll tell you what though I don't care about it myself but it was surely a harpsichord on it because that's what all those records had they had to have a harpsichord and I have the book this the 100 best -selling records of the 60s the monkeys got a they've had quite a few albums on there oh they do yeah they were they were but I mean I thought it was just a condensed period of the show which it probably was but it's still I mean they've got I mean most of their albums sold really well yeah yeah ah you like the show what's it is like the show I did I still like it I still love it I love that that that's so that humor is great like dumbed down brilliantly done though humor yeah way was what they were supposed to act like that yeah you know what I mean there was no like these guys are bad actors they knew exactly how to do that they pulled it off great it was campy it was great for its time it's still great to watch now yeah I do think that banana splits were a better band yeah that's I'll give you the banana splits were a kick -ass band yeah yeah kick -ass man did you see the movie recently came out it's a horror movie with the banana splits the banana splits movie it's a horror movie yeah yeah it takes place in an amusement park and they're they're robotic and in Dyson and slicing baby Dyson and slicing I have to say oh man that's yeah okay yeah Dyson and slicing it's good it's kids again campy movie but I couldn't not watch it yeah I have to say I'm sure Fleagle is a total psychopath well I'm not gonna give you any and no no no spoilers here those was it just Dyson and slicing on January 17 1967 the daily mail newspaper reports four thousand potholes in Blackburn Lancashire and Guinness air Tara Brown is killed in a car wreck these articles inspire lyrics for a day in the life a day in the life yes on January 22nd 1967 Simon and Garfunkel give live can't give a live concert at Phil harmonic Phil harmonic call in New York City some of this concert is released on October 4th 1997 on their box set old friends but most is not released until July 2002 that's some more okay January 29th mantra rock dance the quote ultimate high of the hippie era is organized at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring Janis Joplin grateful dead big brother in the holding company for three Moby grape quirky that would've been interesting that's the best man that's the best as though for they're almost like the MC five kind of I think they were just kind of but they're they're a San Francisco band and beat poet once again Allen Ginsberg shows up to do his spoken word I heard he was a member of NAMBLA I wouldn't the National Association of Marlon Brando look -alikes I heard I'd someone I remember he actually he was a sponsor of NAMBLA but anyway on January 30th 1967 the Beatles shoot a promotional film for the forthcoming single strawberry fields forever at Noel Park in Seven Oaks have you seen it I have seen it I haven't seen it in a long time it's really cool yeah yeah it's kind of dark speaking of dark on February 3rd 1967 UK record producer Joe Meek murders is it his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head in Holloway North in London it's kind of dark didn't he produce sleepwalk yes letter Telstar some early we talked we did it bit of a genius really yeah let's see February 7th Mickey Dolan's no let me stop February 6th Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolan's of the monkeys fly into London Dolan sees till death do us part on British TV and uses the term Randy's scouse grit from the program for the title of the monkeys next single release Randy's scouse grit not releasing it is an offensive term Britain's British census forced the title to be changed to alternate title and then the next day Mickey Dolan's meets Paul McCartney at his home in st.
The Mason Minute
The End Is Near (MM #4563)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason Growing up a kid of the 60s and 70s, my mornings were spent with a big bowl of cereal. Now, some of the lucky kids, they got the frosted stuff, the frosted flakes, the Frootloops, the Apple Jacks. I didn't get sugar -coated cereals, but I ended up loving Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex and Rice Chex and Corn Chex and Puffed Wheat and had no problem with Wheaties or Cheerios. Well, it looks like the end is near for breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has been declining in sales since the 1990s. Today's family is more on the go in the mornings, so things like granola bars, they're more in. Kellogg's is spinning off their cereal division into a separate company. I'm going to try to sell it. I can't even imagine life without cereal. My wife has some kind of Cheerios in the cabinet right now. She enjoys breakfast cereal every now and again. I don't eat it as much as I would like to. My problem is, I really like to eat it. It's kind of weird to be nostalgic about breakfast cereal, but you never think it's not going to be here. Because literally, every morning growing up as a kid, a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV. I know the world changes, but it's still very shocking to me.
The Mason Minute
The End Is Near (MM #4563)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason Growing up a kid of the 60s and 70s, my mornings were spent with a big bowl of cereal. Now, some of the lucky kids, they got the frosted stuff, the frosted flakes, the Frootloops, the Apple Jacks. I didn't get sugar -coated cereals, but I ended up loving Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex and Rice Chex and Corn Chex and Puffed Wheat and had no problem with Wheaties or Cheerios. Well, it looks like the end is near for breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has been declining in sales since the 1990s. Today's family is more on the go in the mornings, so things like granola bars, they're more in. Kellogg's is spinning off their cereal division into a separate company. I'm going to try to sell it. I can't even imagine life without cereal. My wife has some kind of Cheerios in the cabinet right now. She enjoys breakfast cereal every now and again. I don't eat it as much as I would like to. My problem is, I really like to eat it. It's kind of weird to be nostalgic about breakfast cereal, but you never think it's not going to be here. Because literally, every morning growing up as a kid, a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV. I know the world changes, but it's still very shocking to me.
The Mason Minute
The End Is Near (MM #4563)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason Growing up a kid of the 60s and 70s, my mornings were spent with a big bowl of cereal. Now, some of the lucky kids, they got the frosted stuff, the frosted flakes, the Frootloops, the Apple Jacks. I didn't get sugar -coated cereals, but I ended up loving Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex and Rice Chex and Corn Chex and Puffed Wheat and had no problem with Wheaties or Cheerios. Well, it looks like the end is near for breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has been declining in sales since the 1990s. Today's family is more on the go in the mornings, so things like granola bars, they're more in. Kellogg's is spinning off their cereal division into a separate company. I'm going to try to sell it. I can't even imagine life without cereal. My wife has some kind of Cheerios in the cabinet right now. She enjoys breakfast cereal every now and again. I don't eat it as much as I would like to. My problem is, I really like to eat it. It's kind of weird to be nostalgic about breakfast cereal, but you never think it's not going to be here. Because literally, every morning growing up as a kid, a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV. I know the world changes, but it's still very shocking to me.
The Mason Minute
The End Is Near (MM #4563)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason Growing up a kid of the 60s and 70s, my mornings were spent with a big bowl of cereal. Now, some of the lucky kids, they got the frosted stuff, the frosted flakes, the Frootloops, the Apple Jacks. I didn't get sugar -coated cereals, but I ended up loving Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex and Rice Chex and Corn Chex and Puffed Wheat and had no problem with Wheaties or Cheerios. Well, it looks like the end is near for breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has been declining in sales since the 1990s. Today's family is more on the go in the mornings, so things like granola bars, they're more in. Kellogg's is spinning off their cereal division into a separate company. I'm going to try to sell it. I can't even imagine life without cereal. My wife has some kind of Cheerios in the cabinet right now. She enjoys breakfast cereal every now and again. I don't eat it as much as I would like to. My problem is, I really like to eat it. It's kind of weird to be nostalgic about breakfast cereal, but you never think it's not going to be here. Because literally, every morning growing up as a kid, a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV. I know the world changes, but it's still very shocking to me.
The Mason Minute
The End Is Near (MM #4563)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason Growing up a kid of the 60s and 70s, my mornings were spent with a big bowl of cereal. Now, some of the lucky kids, they got the frosted stuff, the frosted flakes, the Frootloops, the Apple Jacks. I didn't get sugar -coated cereals, but I ended up loving Grape Nuts and Wheat Chex and Rice Chex and Corn Chex and Puffed Wheat and had no problem with Wheaties or Cheerios. Well, it looks like the end is near for breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has been declining in sales since the 1990s. Today's family is more on the go in the mornings, so things like granola bars, they're more in. Kellogg's is spinning off their cereal division into a separate company. I'm going to try to sell it. I can't even imagine life without cereal. My wife has some kind of Cheerios in the cabinet right now. She enjoys breakfast cereal every now and again. I don't eat it as much as I would like to. My problem is, I really like to eat it. It's kind of weird to be nostalgic about breakfast cereal, but you never think it's not going to be here. Because literally, every morning growing up as a kid, a big bowl of cereal in front of the TV. I know the world changes, but it's still very shocking to me.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Pauls & Barnabas Accountability to the Local Church_10
"Amen. Thank you for tuning us in. I'm Darryl Bailey, servants for Christ as we continue on in the life of the Apostle Paul. And so here we deal with the 10th in our series of the life of the Apostle Paul. Acts chapter 14 verses 21 through 28. This closes out the first missionary journey of Paul as we continue on to get to the second and the third missionary journeys. Here, September the 13th, 20023, the 27th of Elul, 5783 of the Hebrew calendar. Now, we talk about Paul and Barnabas' accountability to the local church. Unfortunately, community ignorance is the way that many churches operate. They think that within their own selves as whatever they come up with, they can just do what they want to and not be attentive to God's Holy Spirit. But God's work is accomplished by God's power, working with God's people. And the church is not to be run by the congregation instead by God's clear standards and plan that he has. And there's a lot of churches, they're just doing their own thing and they're not taking any wisdom and leadership from the Holy Spirit of God. They say, maybe we'll get a bunch of people this way. Maybe we'll get a bunch of people that way. Maybe we'll get this and we'll get that, you know. But they're doing it in their own power and strength instead of the power of God's might. And they will never be successful. Paul and Barnabas, their accountability to the local church says volumes in this particular message of this ending of the first missionary journey of Paul. And so, I want to invite everyone to come and be with us at Theffal Crossroads Baptist Church. Our pastor, Keith Dempsey and First Lady Amy. Sunday schools 10 a .m. Sunday morning worship at 11 and Wednesday nights. Kids for Christ. Boy, did we have a bunch of kids this past Wednesday night. Bunch of, man, kids love kids. And 7 p .m. Wednesday night, come and be with us at 450 Iron Hill Road, Taylorsville, Georgia 30178. Boy, I tell you, the kids had a wonderful time. And so I hope and pray that you begin to bring your family back into the house of God you're before missing out on the greatest blessings that you could ever have. Come and be with us at Theffal Crossroads Baptist Church. Now, AD 47 to 49, if we continue on with Acts chapter 14, verses 21 through 28 of the first missionary journey that we give. And we look at Paul's Acts travels because on land, Iconium, back in Acts chapter 13, the land on Lystra, he started up in Acts chapter 14 on that last part of running and then on land to Derby in Acts chapter 14, verses six to 20 on land and Lystra in verse 21 on land, Iconium in verse 21 and on land, Antioch of Pisidia in verse 21, then on to Perga and verse 25 of Acts chapter 14 on Attila, verse 25. And then from there, he started back from where he started out from the beginning of the first missionary journey all the way back to Antioch of Syria on the Mediterranean Sea, headed back because he had completed his first missionary journey that God had sent him and Barnabas upon to go on. And so. As these sections here really tells of what we're talking about tonight in verses 21 down to verse 28. And I'm glad Charles Rice said how incredible that Christ should be kept outside of his own church, how gracious that he would still seek entry unquote. You know, here we talked about in the past, we talked about Paul's pattern for preaching and how that in chapter 14, it gives a clear picture of God's pattern for bearing a witness to his name. We saw Paul and Barnabas, all the things they experienced and how they had difficulties. They were expelled from Antioch in Pisidia. They took the dust and knocked it off their feet. And they went on to Iconium and then they went to the people where they tried to stone them. And it went on to Lystra where they were treated like gods. The crowds are different in every area of place throughout the world. And when the crowd changed their minds and began to stone Paul, he just got up and went to Derby. That wouldn't all. Paul and Barnabas had the courage to retrace their steps so that they could help encourage the new Christians when they returned home. And they told the church what the Lord had done, not what they had suffered. Paul and Barnabas put Christ first and others second and themselves last. They had a job to do and they were determined by God's grace to do it. And so every one of us, that was God's pattern. It was of seven steps that we talked about and how God expects his servant to be able to preach the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we talked about Paul's distractions in Lystra, how there was a lot of things that distract us from Jesus. We talked about how we spelled the acrostic of Lystra, lost in thought, the Y in yourself, S for sports, the T for television and internet, R for radio and music, A for alcohol and drugs. Who here can get distracted? Everybody. All Christians get distracted and they need to maintain our focus on the Lord. And I'm glad that every one of us, that Jesus is the offer and finisher of all of our faith, amen. And so we can have distractions in these new cars because there's so many buttons and gadgets and everything that we could go down the road. These millennials think their telephone is more important than their own driving ability to drive down the road safely. That they want to text somebody and they want a conversation with somebody they can't see. And it's a sad thing because Paul and Barnas was preaching on the city streets of Lystra and they ended up healing a crippled man that had never heard the gospel message of salvation. And it stirred the crowds and the streets that got such an attention for the miracle healing that was misconstrued as they were gods. And they were a distraction and they ended up being called Mercury and Jupiter, which thought to be the gods of that first area. I believe that if we're honest and we'll look deep into our hearts with all the spiritual distractions that surprise us, we get distracted sometimes by the choir. Oh my goodness. We get caught up. Where's the ensemble today? Oh my goodness. We ain't got enough people to have the choir. And I get all distracted by all of these things. That's got to happen a certain way in the church because it's always happened that way in the church. And they've got to continue to do that that way. What a distraction. Why not just follow the Holy Spirit of God? Man, I'm going to tell you, maybe the preacher might come in one Sunday said, why don't y 'all go shut up and sit down? I got to preach. Hallelujah. Amen. And so let's get to it. Amen. And so in our own imagination, we get to pay attention to all the things except listening to God us communicate through the gospel message of the minister behind the pulpit. Then we get up and all of a sudden we got somebody that's spirit fed, but we don't want to be spirit led. And so all of a sudden we begin to overlook the message. Oh my goodness. That preacher could have preached a little bit longer. He could have preached shorter. Oh my goodness. He could have used this. He could have used that. We begin to critique the message that God is sending to the church and we get up there and get distracted by all of these things. God help us today. And so I'm glad that the life of the apostle Paul here is that message of the last part that he's talking to us about. And he's telling us that there are two great ministries when you come to church. Amen. Two great ministries in the church. Listen, I want you to look for this and remember this pastors, the two great ministries in the church is the preaching of the gospel and number two, making disciples. Did you hear me? It's preaching the gospel and then it's making disciples. We preach the gospels and some folks get saved and they don't never come back and we can't even disciple them. They all of a sudden they thought they got saved that one time and they don't need to come back. They join the church. I've had them join the church and never saw them again ever. They never came back. But how can you disciple somebody when they don't let you disciple them? And everybody's got all the answers that we can do it this way and that way. But then there's a third thing. Let me say it this way. The third most important thing in the ministry and the church is not only the preaching of the gospel, not only making disciples listen to me, the strengthening of the church, the unity of that church. It has to stay strong. It has to stay unified and there can nothing come between anything in politics or cliques or all of this or this deacon or deaconess or that that thinks they're going to run the whole picture. And this family name of the Smiths and the Joneses and the justice and all of these other last names. That's a prominent somebody in the community that they say we got to run the church because we're a prominent family name. No, that's not how God wants it. God don't want it that way. And so there's a terrible neglect in both evangelism and strengthening the church. Just how are churches made strong? That's what we're talking about. Paul and Barnabas had an accountability to the local church in this series. And in doing so, we see again.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from SBF Deserves Human Rights
"Welcome back everyone. I am Cass P. Ancy. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. We're both good today. We have already recorded an episode, so we're dumping in... dumping in? That's probably the wrong way to put it. Get him out! What happened to the other? Can't even stop it! The episode's just sliding through its walls! We're pouring trash out of our mouths! We're vomiting and spewing all over you. Hey, works are all in! Not the way I wanted to start this episode, but there you go. Welcome back everyone. We're going to be talking about a subject that I wrote an op -ed about, and Bennett wrote a piece about as well in the newsletter for Protos. Something we both seem to care about that the reaction to was pretty mixed. Honestly, I expected more vitriol for my statement, but yeah, it was pretty mixed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. We're both making the argument that while it is pretty funny, in a sense, to see SPF struggling and in pain, I think everybody gets some real value out of that in terms of they're like, yes! A guy who's hurt so many people, and legitimately, right? This guy has damaged thousands of people, probably ruined dozens if not hundreds of people's lives for a significant, if not forever, amount of time. So seeing him in pain, people are enjoying a lot. But I think that it's a more important point that's being stated by him. And basically, he went to court and said that he's not getting his medications on time. He's on, as far as we know, I don't know how many medications he's on, but we know for sure that he's on NSAAM, and he's on Adderall. Now, Adderall, I'm sure most people are familiar with. It's for treatment of ADHD and some other mental disorders. NSAAM is a pretty serious drug, as far as I can tell, in terms of its effects on you. And it seems like he's taking a lot of it, for both of them. For both the, I guess I don't know, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know what a lot is. Basically, he's not getting his drugs, and he's not getting the vegan meals he wants. He wants vegan meals, and he's not getting those vegan meals, because I guess the prison system is basically like, why should he? He's not special. But therein lies the problem, which is, don't you think prisoners should be getting the medical treatment they need? And don't you think they should be getting basic food given to them, even if it's something demanded like vegan food or vegetarian food? Yeah, why don't you get us started off on that? No, I think this issue is kind of multifactorial and multifaceted, and I understand why a lot of people are having the feelings they're having. And so first I want to acknowledge that Sam Bankman -Fried's experience with the justice system has been one very much shaped by his privilege, right? Like he was able to find the people to put up his massive bond, and even after like repeated bail violations connecting with the VPN, doing all these other things, he remained free until he started doing what I'm not going to say is legally witness tampering, because I'm not a prosecutor, but that feels a lot like witness intimidation. As soon as he started doing that, now he has to go back to prison. In case anyone is unfamiliar, let me stop you right there. In case anyone is unfamiliar, just so you understand, Sam Bankman -Fried released Caroline Ellison's personal diaries. Now Caroline Ellison was the head of trading over at Alameda Research at the time of the collapse, and he released these very personal kind of sensational diaries to the New York Times, which is just wild, as you said, like he had been reprimanded before for his bail violations and kind of pulled to, he was skating on thin ice already. And I do get why people are like, well, if you didn't want to go back to jail and get treated like crap, maybe you should have thought about that. Understood. But anyway, sorry, I just wanted to give, paint a little color there. Like that's absolutely true. Sam Bankman -Fried was lucky to get the bail conditions he did and should not have been violating them. And repeated violation of bail means he should be in pretrial detention. And like one of the other things that's come up is Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, wrote a motion, wrote a letter to the court describing Sam Bankman -Fried's treatment and like insisted that if Sam Bankman -Fried were to be detained, where he was talking about being detained, not having access to a computer would make preparing his defense much more difficult and that represented like a potential constitutional issue. And I think there's a bit of merit there. But, and this gets into like the bigger problem here, that these problems are so much bigger than Sam Bankman -Fried, right? Like not just Sam Bankman -Fried should be able to get their medications and like a diet in accordance with their moral wishes. Everyone being held in pretrial detention is presumed innocent until proven guilty. These are people who deserve to be, like, to have reasonable standards while they're being detained, should have access to things that help them prepare their defenses, should be able to receive medications they need, and the United States justice system fails to provide that for such a vast number of inmates, including, because he is there right now, Sam Bankman -Fried. Yeah, I mean, I think actually part of this for me calls into attention how serious the issues are in the justice and penal systems of the United States of America, right? Because here we have possibly one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time, not just of the past year or two, of all time. He's up there with Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. Like this guy is going to go down in history as one of the biggest financial scammers and possibly, allegedly, maybe he'll get off and no crimes were committed in fucking La La Land. But anyway, my point here being that this guy is as big as it gets. And the fact he's still being mistreated in prison or in, sorry, excuse me, in pretrial detention in jail speaks to how broken the system because imagine how the people with no voice are doing right now. Imagine how the people who don't have money to pay for bail even, so end up in prison or in jail for weeks, if not months before they go to trial. Like these are real issues that are happening every day to millions of people, not just SBF. And that's the important part of this. That's why I'm glad there's some attention being brought to it, whether or not people agree with whether SBF should be given these basic human rights. I think he should. Whether other people think so, I guess is just how angry they are with him. Yeah, I especially understand why like other people who have had experiences with the criminal justice system might end up feeling particularly frustrated themselves because they'll be, they may see it as, I had it even worse than that and I didn't even steal $9 billion from my customers, you know? And so I certainly understand there's lots of reasons for lots of people to be lashing out, but like you said, fundamentally the thing is people deserve rights. They deserve to have access to these things that help them form their defenses and they deserve a strenuous defense on their behalf in the justice system. And those things are important, those things, we should strive to provide those to everyone. And everyone happens to include him. Yes, and a lot of these issues are totally fixable as far as I'm concerned. Like vegan meals, there's a lot of people pushing back on my statements about that. I was like, oh, give him his vegan meals, just give it to him. Everyone's like, well, he doesn't necessarily deserve to have, it's not like it's covered by the Constitution. And i .e. there are prisoners who are Jewish or Muslim in prison who are given kosher meals and halal meals, right? To meet their religious needs. The pushback for the veganism that I heard was, well, this isn't a religious thing. I want to push back on that and just say one, vegan meals are incredibly easy to cook. We're talking about rice, bread and vegetables. Like if you're not already, if you don't already have those things available for prisoners, there's a problem. All of those ingredients should be actively there for you to be able to make this thing. I know that they make vegetarian meals for vegetarian, probably because there's Hindu prisoners, and some of them need to follow strict vegetarian meals and guidelines, right? But we are equipped to handle this. We have the money, we have the rules and regulations in place that this should not be an issue. It's crazy to me to push back on the idea that this guy can eat vegan food in prison. The thing I want to highlight there is there often are legal protections for people with sincerely held religious beliefs to get access to certain things, like you're talking about kosher halal and things like that, and often our prison system fails to do what it's legally supposed to in many of those cases as well. Again, this is just an example of the pattern and history of human rights abuses across the U .S. penal system. There's a reason international human rights organizations regularly raise alarms about the U .S. prison system, and it's because there are regular and massive human rights abuses in our prison system. Yep, and that brings up another point that I brought up, which is people I think like to assume like, oh, well, this guy's a big fucking scammer. He deserves to rot in jail and get shivved and get treated like shit. I hope that's what happens. And I go, okay, just for some perspective here, 5 % of the entire U .S. population is going to spend some time behind bars. So if you're not the one who ends up in jail at some point or in prison at some point, someone you know absolutely will, 100 % sure, 100 % sure, right? If you go outside and meet people, someone you know will go to jail or prison. Do you want them to be treated respectfully and with dignity, or do you not give a shit? Do you really think like anyone who's in jail, anyone who's in prison deserves the worst kind of treatment? It's time to reflect on these things, you know? We live in a society. It's true, though. Like we shouldn't be, the fact that it's such punitive measures, right, instead of worrying about recidivism, instead of worrying about rehabilitation, instead of worrying about making sure that these people don't repeat their fucking problems when they go back into society, we're focused on hurting people as much as possible. And the reality is, if Sam Bankman Freed gets 15 years in prison or something, 10, 15, 20, and is treated like horseshit the entire time, like no human rights, do you think he's going to come out a like capable and reasonable human being? At least if you try to rehabilitate him, he's not necessarily going to be as bad. At least you can say you tried. Like just damaging someone repeatedly, we know what that does to people. So I just don't understand this at all. And I think people need to reevaluate their, like vengeance is just so easy. And I think people really need to reevaluate where their morals and ethics lie when it comes to this. I get it. It's easy to hate SPF. He is a total scammer. He lies constantly. The dude cannot open his mouth and speak any honest truth for years on end. He's like, his behavior is disgusting. He's as despicable as it gets without getting into like murder and other horrifying crimes. Right. He's disgusting. Fine. He's also a human being. Like, I don't know, man. It just the reaction was just so it was kind of like, man, I don't understand how so many people think this is acceptable. Yeah. And like that's what you're up with. Ed was about. And there was definitely a lot of people who agree that human beings deserve treatment as human beings, which is good. The other thing I want to talk about besides this, which is also something we talked about a little bit in our Reggie Fowler episode, if people want to go back and listen to that. There's been still conspiracy theories about Sam Bankman Fried and his ongoing criminal prosecution, including the fact that as part of our extradition treaty with the Bahamas, we have certain responsibilities about when charges are introduced and when people are extradited. And those were not necessarily followed with Sam Bankman Fried, which has since required certain charges to be removed from the current trial date. And the allegations either incorporated in to other existing charges or other charges are pending reintroduction for months down the line. Yes. And so those charges are not really going away. And as we've talked about before in the case of Sam Bankman Fried, if prosecutors really wanted, they could go through and add one wire fraud charge for like every single person who sent money to Alameda Research under like the false pretenses that it was going to FTX or something. Right. And so prosecutors can and potentially will still scale up his prosecution in the future if that's what they think is justified and appropriate. So I've just been a little bit frustrated with some of the conspiracy theories around those dropping of charges. And like the other thing I want to emphasize, just to kind of make sure people understand this, just because Sam Bankman Fried is pleading not guilty right now does not mean he will continue to plead not guilty. Often you are required to plead not guilty initially, even if you think you are guilty, just because like the system's not ready for you to plead guilty yet. And like that's an actual thing that exists. And I want to be clear here, too. If you have a capable legal team behind you, which as far as I know he does, you're generally not going to plead guilty right away. Why? Well, you're not going to get anything in return, right? If they don't offer you anything and you go, I plead guilty. Well, they're going to accept your guilty plea and they are going to hang you from the gallows. You've got to get something in return. And to get something in return, you're going to play a little bit of a game. And that, unfortunately, whether we like it or not, is a part of the legal system. Right. So you have to have something for them, for you to plead guilty, give them something and them to be like, OK, well, then we'll cut you a deal. And that's what SPF is hoping will happen. That doesn't mean that's what happens. That doesn't mean he gets only five years or only 10 years or who knows. But that's what SPF wants to happen. And we don't know if it will. Yeah. Sam Bankman Fried's goal, as far as I can tell right now, is basically to muddy the waters, cast doubt on key witnesses and the evidence they're introducing. Try to place the blame like his mens rea, his head state for many of these decisions. Say that that state was induced by legal counsel and other things to make it so that prosecutors don't want to add more charges. That'll be hard to prove. So that, like you're saying, he can eventually come up with some deal where he shares whatever information he does have in exchange for a reduced sentence. Yada, yada, yada. That's the meta probably of what his team is planning to do. The other thing I want to emphasize to people is from where I'm sitting, and again, we're not lawyers, we're definitely not prosecutors, we're not experts. But it seems quite likely to me that Sam Bankman Fried is going to prison for much longer than Sam Bankman Fried would want to go to prison. Any time is more than he wants. Yeah, but there are already guilty pleas from almost all the rest of like the top executives at FTX. They have full cooperation, access to all the communications, like all the text messages, all the records, all the logs. They have such an over what, four million pages or something was the initial like discovery they're sending over to him. There are massive quantities of evidence, powerful cooperating witnesses, like he's in a really bad place. And that's just for evidence. I want people to understand that. This is just, we're just saying like, oh shit, there's a lot of evidence against this guy. So he's in trouble on that front. But I want to point people to a recent guilty white collar criminal, Elizabeth Holmes, okay? She is going to be doing nine years in a federal prison, okay? She just had her second baby. She was pregnant during the trial. If that isn't going to win you some, you know, benefit of the doubt and some, oh my gosh, well at least, you know, she's a mother now. We got to make sure that she's able to spend time with her kids and they don't grow up without a mom and blah, blah, blah. She's doing nine years behind bars for her crimes. She didn't hurt nearly as many people as Sam Bankman Fried. She only hurt mostly just very wealthy people. So like in terms of that, just reflect on that, right? That's nine years for someone who did essentially a smaller fraud that hurt less people and is a more sympathetic character. You think SPF is going to get off? Fucking wake up, dude. There's not a chance in the world. I'll bet anyone. If you think he's not going to, if you think he's genuinely going to do no time, I'll bet anybody. I'll bet anyone. But Cass, Cass, he donated to President Biden and was part of some vague conspiracy involving Zelinski. And he met up with Gary Gersler, right? Whatever. I just don't, it's so, it's so, I'm so past it. And then, and for me, the one thing I also want to emphasize here is how obviously failed the cash bail bond mechanism is in general, right? And I think proof of this is SPF. SPF gets $250 million bail bond. Obviously, the way it works, in case anyone's unfamiliar, is you pay roughly 10 % of that and you can get out. If you don't have the money to pay for it yourself or the collateral to pay for it yourself, you can usually get a bail bondsman to take on that, that collateral obligation for you partially, and then you have to pay back a loan on that obligation. What did this accomplish, right? We have to reflect on this. What did it accomplish? He put up, they put up $250 million to get Sam Bankenfried out of detention. Then he goes out, he starts spreading rumors, getting in touch with journalists he's not supposed to, breaking all the rules of the bail that he was given with this money and this collateral, and now he's back in detention again. So it accomplished nothing. It allowed him to break some rules and, as you said, muddy the waters and make things more complex and weird. Another individual who just got a big, gigantic, I think the largest in history in terms of actually being paid for, Joe Lewis, who is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur and the Albany, which is where SPF was living when he got in trouble. This guy just got in trouble, too, for insider trading and fraud, and he put up a $300 million bail with his yacht and private jet. So what do we think this is going to do? I mean, this guy's a billionaire. He can buy a new jet tomorrow. He can buy a new yacht tomorrow. It doesn't matter. He can go run away if he needs to. Nothing is going to stop him from doing that, right? Unless you put an ankle monitor around him. You ensure that you're tracking him with GPS and satellite tracking, that you ensure that he isn't leaving the country. You take his passport. There are protocols to ensure it, and none of it has to do with money. We need to get rid of this cash bail bond system, like, immediately. It doesn't make any sense at all. I strongly agree. I think the cash bail bond system is, like, one of the clearest examples in our criminal justice system of how we have codified a certain privilege for the most privileged, right? That once you have money, you can avoid these things that others can't. And as you're saying, the only real differentiator between these cases is whether or not you have money when you're accused of a crime. That shouldn't be the goal of our system. The platonic ideal of our legal system is one that treats, like, the most downtrodden and the most, like, wealthy and powerful as equal as you possibly can. And, like, there's limits within reason of how far you can take that, perhaps, but, like, that's the ideal, and cash bail bond is just one example of where we don't even try to do that. Yeah, that's right. It's just an obvious advantage for rich people, and really no advantage for anyone who doesn't have the income to deal with this kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a very gross, gross, broken system that needs fixing. Well, and if you listen to, like, testimony of certain convicts and stuff, like, when you are destitute prosecutors and DAs have been accused of using that as leverage, basically, because they know you're going back into whatever horrible detention facility you're in, they know you're more desperate to strike a deal or to say whatever to do whatever because you don't want to go back. Right. And to be clear, like, it's one of the founding principles of our country is kind of this innocent until proven guilty, right, that you aren't going to be treated like you are guilty, even if everyone, like, watched you do the crime. Like, until we prove it in a court of law, you are innocent, and so, like, reasonable bail without having to pay an arm and a leg just seems like the right thing to do here as a country to follow our guiding principles. Like, maybe I'm shouting into the void here, but like this, it's just something I think is necessary for us to talk about, and something I really do think can be fixed within our lifetime. Like, I don't expect the entire penal system to get overturned. I hate the idea that private prisons do what they do in our country. Yeah, that they exist. Like, that they aren't more heavily regulated. Like, that's why there's so many people in prison in our country. I have no doubt about that. But, like, if we're not going to change that anytime soon, and we're not, then the least we can do is ensure that bail bond is working properly, that prisoners are getting their medicine, that prisoners are getting the food that they need. Like, obviously within reason, right? If somebody says, I'm on an only Wagyu steak diet or something, I understand being like, go fuck yourself. Who's going to be the first indicted Bitcoiner to argue that they have a moral conviction that requires them to have only red meat? I would think they would already be in there, right? There's got to be a few dudes who are already in prison trying to argue that already. That I don't fucking buy. There's a limit to even how far I will go in terms of my sympathy. But yes, I do think we need to reform this stuff. SPF is a good jumping off point for that, so we thought it was worth talking about. I understand some people are just going to be like, SPF isn't going to change this. But we can make this a point of retention of this information for everyone in crypto. To be like, we need to change this. A lot of people do focus on this stuff and they understand the corruptness of it in cryptocurrency, and that's good. But a lot of people also don't care about criminal reform and the justice system. And I think it's probably time to think about it. Because some of you are definitely going to go to prison.
Cinemavino
A highlight from Legend
"And welcome back to cinema vino. We've got a two man game going. It's me and Sean Jordan. Just one little handshake over here. Coming at you. We're like a garage band, two members just coming at you with some hard rock. Tenacious D. Yeah, exactly. Or the black keys, the white stripes. Yeah. Yeah. Both of those. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Summer Chaos is now, this is the home stretch. Mine Meg. If this is the white stripes. Yeah. I think you're going to have to be. All right. Yeah. You're holding down, you're playing. Lying down the ones and the twos. Yeah. You're playing the quarter notes. That's about it. Yup. No fills. Which is how I like my drums anyway. She made the notes in the vamp up to the chorus. A little bit. That was one of the first songs I learned. There was a little bit of flavor. It was like a rice cake with a little bit of salt on it. Not a lot of salt, but a little bit of salt. Yup. So, this is a penultimate episode of Summer of Chaos. We're going to talk about legend. No, it's not penultimate. We've got this and then we've got Battle Royale. Oh, and then Dread. You're right. Dread. So, this is. And Robocop. This is penultimate to the penultimate. Yeah. Penultimate recording. And then I think Robocop's a gap. It's just kind of in between. Right. We just toss it in just because it sounds. Gap here. Yeah. Just a little bit of something to fill in. It's like a caulk that we used in between some tiles. Don't like that. But that's the metaphor I went for and there you go. It's a grout, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Drinking that imagery, won't you? So, we're going to talk about legend with Tom Cruise and we're drinking some white board dough. For those of you who are coming in late to this series, basically, we do a random wheel. We spin a wheel. We put a bunch of varietals on the wheel and also like beer and cocktails. Whatever the wheel picks, that's what we do for the Summer of Chaos. These movies were all picked out at random. We put random movies in the hat, drew them out. So, pretty much anything goes for this entire summer. And so, same thing with wine. Anything goes. So, for this one, we got white Bordeaux. This is Chateau La Fresnel. This is a 2022 white Bordeaux. Little bit of background for those who may not know. We were actually talking about this before the podcast that Bordeaux is now known as a red wine region. But up until about 50, 60 years ago, it was a white wine region. It was known for its white grapes. Bordeaux are going to be... White Bordeaux are primarily Sauvignon Blanc with some Simeon and some Muscadel. There's a few other grapes they mix in there, but those are the main three that you're going to see. Then they're mainly Sauvignon Blancs. Is this kind of like how like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party kind of switched identities somewhere in the like 40s, 50s? Around the New Deal? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically. Now, it's like five, six to one red wines to white. It used to be the opposite. You'll also see a type of wine made from these same grapes called a Sauternes, which is going to be... It's made completely differently. It's going to be a lot sweeter, a lot more sugary. Those are very fancy, high -end, expensive white wines. So, basically, just from the price tag alone, you'll never confuse a Sauternes with a white Bordeaux. These are going to be more affordable, you know, $15, $20 range. Not super sweet. It's a little more tart, a little peachy? Dry. And the first thing I think of is Sauvignon Blanc. And these will have some characteristics of the same characteristics of other Sauvignon Blancs in the world. They're going to be a little bit grassy, a little bit citrusy, grapefruity. They're going to have some of those same kind of flavors to them. The main thing that's going to distinguish these wines is going to be... I've heard it referred to as minerality. I've heard it referred to as wet concrete. I've heard it referred to as chalk. Tasty. Yeah, limestone. But kind of that dry, refreshing edge that you don't necessarily find in other parts of the world. Kind of like what brings the harshness of mineral water versus the softness of tap. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way to put that. Yeah. It's got like a bite to it. It's got kind of like a... Little edge. Yeah. And you don't find that... Like for example, New Zealand's often been known as grapefruit bombs. Big fruit bombs. And you don't see that as much. This is my favorite region for Sauvignon Blanc. They're balanced. That's why I love French wines in general. They don't go out of the way in any one direction. They're nice and balanced. And so it's great for that. This one has that nice... It's got some grassiness to it. It's got some fruit. But it's dry. And so this would be great. I mean, people say seafood. I'm not a big seafood fan, but kind of a lighter seafood meal is perfect for that. You're not a big seafood fan? Not a big seafood fan. Period? Not really. Shrimp? I mean, I don't mind shrimp. It's not my first thing I go to. Lobster. Yeah, same. Bass. Catfish. I don't mind catfish. I've had some catfish. That's garbage. Catfish is garbage. But I remember when we went to Barcelona, we took a cooking class. It was on our honeymoon. My wife and I, we did a... It was all seafood. We had some paella. We made some paella. We did octopus. We did squid. I mean, we tried the gamut of seafood stuff that they had in the Mediterranean. It was like... That was a good indication. It's like, I don't like this. This is not for me. Yeah, not my taste. It's fair. It's fair. But I will say that we did a wine kind of similar to this, a Spanish white. And yeah, this would be perfect with a wide variety of seafood. Some of the stuff that's bigger and more buttery, you might want to go for a white burgundy, like a chard. But this is a good hot weather, outdoor type of wine. It's nice and refreshing. I like it a lot. Yeah, 25 bucks, not a whole lot of money. But yeah, any good wine store, you should be able to find a nice white Bordeaux section. So look for those while the weather's still warm. But now, legend. Talk about this movie a bit. This was released in the United States April 18th, 1986. So... You say in the United States. Where did it come out before? It was released in Europe the year before. This had a very difficult production. This was a difficult movie to realize. It has a lot going on. So this grossed worldwide $23 million against a $25 million budget. In 86? That's a big budget. Huge. And for several reasons. A big reason for that is that when they started filming, a fire broke out and burned down the 007 studios where they were filming at Leaves in England. So pretty much had to build new sets. That's probably all the magic. Exactly. Yeah, some of the Sprite costumes caught fire. Or the unicorn hair. I can imagine, yeah. It's one wrong look, that unicorn horn. Yeah, it's gone. But they had to build new sets. And Ridley Scott's original cut of the movie ran for between two and a half, three hours. So... Jeez. And the final cut was like, what, hour and a half? Yeah. The version that I watched, I don't know if you saw the original 89 -minute version or if you watched the director's cut. I think I watched the 89 version. Okay, I looked around. I had trouble finding it. That's the version I know the best, so I went back to that one. The director's cut? No, the original. Oh, the original. Yeah. There's a director's cut out there. Is it like two to three hours? No. So basically, when the final cut of this print was released, Ridley Scott watched this cut and freaked out and thought that basically American audience couldn't grasp this much plot. And so he cut the film basically in half, down to 89 minutes. And when it came out, it got mediocre reviews. Obviously, he didn't do well at the box office. He just watered it down too much? Yeah. Gene Siskel put this as one of his worst movies of that year. And the international cut that came out the year before was 93 minutes. And it got a little bit better reviews, but still not great. And then in 2002, somebody found a full work print of the movie in a can somewhere. And so they took that out and restored it, remastered it, and really Scott added about 25 minutes to the cut that the director's cut. So it comes in at like 115 minutes, give or take. And he and Tom Cruise have gone on the record saying that's the version to see. I was going to say, I was reading that Tom Cruise saw the movie in theaters and was like, that's not the movie we filmed. Yeah. That's not it. I mean, you could imagine with that much cut out, it's going to be almost incoherent. It's like a whole other act. Yeah. Yeah. And so basically, the director's cut, yeah, it's a whole other fleshed out thing. And I have seen that once. I saw it when it came out. I think I've got that on DVD somewhere. And the one thing I would say is it does, it adds a few scenes. It makes the motivations a little bit deeper, especially for the character of the darkness and his relationship with the princess, Lily, and the stuff there. It's kind of just, not to cut to the chase, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere. He's just like obsessed with her. He's just like, oh, I must have her. It feels very rushed. It feels like a plot of necessity, not like a plot of, you know, any reason. They're just like, we need to stall him. How do we do it? Love interest. Yeah. And it's like, it's like I'm telling a story to my three -year -old and it's like, I got to kind of get something else in here. You got to kind of yada, yada, yada over motivations. We're coming in for a landing too quick. We got to just shoot. Pull up. Yeah. But so basically, this is a fairly straightforward fantasy story. Tom Cruise plays Jack, who is a protector of the forest. I was a little vague on what exactly he is. Is he a bard? Is he a ranger? I mean, he'd be more druid than anything. Is he a druid? Yeah, I couldn't place what he was supposed to be. It's like, this is where we need Travis. Yeah, he would be. And if Travis had an answer to that, I would be impressed. Because to me, they don't spell that out at all. I guess he would be more of a ranger. Yeah. Because he didn't really have any sort of like shape -shifting ability or had any ability to talk with trees. Really, his only thing was he had like one -on -one connection with the sprites, right? That's about it. Yeah, he had good buddies. A working relationship. And he wore a loincloth. Yes. So there was that. Dude, he was showing that thing off. He was. And that's what I, you know, in that situation, it's like, check out my hairless legs. My supine body. Yeah, check out these smooth legs. But, so Mia Sarah plays Lily. Now, this is her starring debut. Next year, she would go on to play in Ferris Bueller, amongst other things. Her hair when she transforms into a dark version. Awesome. Now, this great production value is great. Everything, costumes, hair. For 25 million, it better be. Yeah. Yeah. And those are real unicorns. Yeah, they better be. Yeah, I mean, now it's like, that'd be 100 million plus to make this thing. Easy. Easy. Easy. So yeah, Lord of Darkness, played by Tim Curry, who is unrecognizable in the mountain of makeup. Honestly, but might be one of my favorite representations of the devil. Yeah. Like, this makeup job is incredible. And in theory, we'll get to this later, that should be great casting to have Tim Curry. Yeah. I almost want to see more of Tim Curry in the face. Like, see more of him, you know. Almost, you know, Faustian devil and Daniel Webster kind of thing, where it's like, you can see like him being rascally or whatever. But yeah, so Lord of Darkness seeks to cover the world in darkness. Plot out the sun. Conveniently, yeah. Typical plot device. For that, he needs the horn of a unicorn, which is the most sacred and majestic of all fantastic creatures. Basically, he wants to take the unicorns out of the world, take the horns out of the world, and the world. The representation of purity. The horn of the unicorn. Yes. The world goes dark. Everything turns into kind of a barren, frigid tundra of darkness. He just has goblins that work for him inexplicably? Yeah, incompetent goblins. Yeah. It's nice. But they rhyme. They talk in riddles. They do. They do rhyme. But you know, he kind of has the James Bond villain of incompetent people working under him, you know. If anything, that's the thing that slows him down as much as, you know, these James Bond villains. Like, you hired a bunch of idiots. He also has, like, the Bond villain thing of, like, doing a lot of monologuing? Yes. Let me vamp for five minutes while you prepare your thing to destroy me. Yeah, let's me blather.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 2 Evangelism
"Today we start with evangelism defined. We need a what is evangelism and the slide is just here to help. Everything that's up here on the screen is also on your sheet. By the way, the word evangelism itself doesn't appear in the KJV, it doesn't appear there at all. But the word euangelia, euangelixo, I think I have that down here, the word evangelist appears three times and that's Acts 21 .8 where it speaks of the house of Philip, the evangelist. And in Ephesians 4 .11 where he says he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastor teachers. And then 2 Timothy 4 verse 5 where he says, do the work of an evangelist, recommending that to Timothy the pastor. So the word evangelist appears there but the word evangelize as such is not in the King James but it appears there in various forms. Many times the word euangelixo or any of the declension of that, euangelixo, it is related to the word euangelion which is the gospel and euangelixo, I bear the good news, I bear the gospel, I bring the gospel. And I've listed some ways it's used here. Matthew 11 .15, one word, have the gospel preached. One word for those five words, a form of that word. Luke 4 .18, to preach the gospel, that appears in Acts 16 .10, Romans 1 .15, Romans 15 .20, 1 Corinthians 1 .17, 2 Corinthians 10 .20, there you have the word, one word translated to preach the gospel. Luke 7 .22 and again in 2 Peter 1 .25, the gospel is preached. One word, euangelion or euangelixo, I should say. Luke 8 .1, showing the glad tidings. Luke 9 .6, preaching the gospel, one word for all three words. Luke 20, verse 1, preached the gospel. Acts 8 .25, 14 .7, 14 .21, Romans 10 .15, preach the gospel and again in that same verse bring glad tidings. Same word, 1 Corinthians 9 .16, I preach the gospel, Galatians 4 .13, Galatians 1 .8, preach any other gospel. And so it has the word in King James, any other, but the word, preach the gospel, is one word in the Greek there, euangelixo, 1 Thessalonians 3 .6, brought good tidings, Hebrews 4 .2, 1 Peter 1 .12, those that have preached the gospel unto you. And 1 Peter 4 .6, the gospel preached. So that word appears many, many times, let's look at it some more here. I better keep the computer up to date with me here. Whoops, what am I doing wrong here? I thought I just punched here, what do I do? I'm going to have to have Chris come back and tell me what to do, something's froze up here. What did I punch that time? Alright, I'm rushing it too fast, alright, we'll catch up with that in a bit. Luke 3 .18, 4 .43, 16 .16, and all of those references there, I'll go through all of them. Every one of them I've listed down here from the above references we find 48 times the word euangelixo appears in the New Testament. Other references which I've not listed where the word is translated declared and showed. The frequent use of this word in the Greek New Testament tells us how important the Lord considers this matter of evangelism. The word preached the gospel or related phrases as a translation of the one word translated into English, evangelized. And though it doesn't appear in our King James Version, it does appear in the Greek New Testament. So, let's note that next paragraph. In addition to these 48 references involving that word, there are an additional 56 references in the New Testament that have the word gospel, a translation of euangelion. This makes a total of 114 verses in the original that speak of the gospel and the proclamation of the gospel. And so, it is an important word. I want to see where I am. Where do you find the word on this, the frequent use of this word? That's way back at the first point, isn't it? Ah, right where I am. I'm right there. Now, let me figure out what I punched a minute ago. I think I did. I've got it going now. Alright. The meaning of evangelism. The meaning of evangelism. John Stott stated, the deep Bible doesn't, wow, something happened there. Does not just contain the gospel, it is the gospel. He was commenting on Galatians 3 .8, the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. Now, of course, John Stott would not be in our camp, and I'd agree with his statement, though he might not agree with us stating that we ought to preach the whole counsel of God. And we're going to need to keep that in mind all the way through. We need to preach the whole counsel of God. Yes, sir? Some of the reading for Dr. Rice, he said that if so many or evangelism was the main business of the Christian, do you think that's an accurate statement? The question he asked was this, and the reason I'm repeating the question is so it gets on the tape. The question he asked was this, in the reading from Dr. Rice, he said that the main business is the business of evangelism. Am I giving it right? And he said, what is my appraisal of that? I would believe that statement is very true. Our preaching ought not be totally evangelism and evangelistic. In fact, our business, he asked the question, the way he phrased it, the main business is solely, I'm going down the road here a ways, I'm going to give you an article that appeared, I'm trying to remember who it was, I think it was written by Dr. Gordon, I'm not sure. Anyway, I've got one in the notes here. Keeping to the main issue, keeping to the main business, and it's quite an article. It wasn't Dr. Gordon. I can't even remember who wrote it now, but I've got it to hand out and I want you to take it. I believe the main business of all our churches is the matter of winning souls and missions, outreach, winning, evangelizing. Now that doesn't mean in doing that, that all of my preaching ought to be evangelistic and everything about my church should be evangelism. I need to be building up the Christians and we're going to come to that. I need to be building up the Christians and evangelism doesn't involve just winning the soul. The evangelism involves discipling that person after he's born again. I think we'll cover much of that, but I'm not saying that I disagree with Dr. Rice. I'm saying I may be adding to him, adding some things to what he would say, but I believe the one thing we neglect an awful lot in our churches and look for excuses to neglect is this matter of evangelism. We come along with the idea there are other things more important and we get sidetracked. Up in Marshalltown, Iowa, there is the Fellowship Baptist Church up there. The pastor at one time was Dr. Glenn Jaspers and David Jaspers pastored the church. He's now president of Maranatha. David Jaspers pastored the church for a time. And you walk in their building, in the foyer, right there in the foyer is a great big sign I've never forgotten. It says, let's keep the main business the main business. And what they're saying is the emphasis around here needs to be on evangelism, keeping the main business the main business. And fellas, that's exactly what I fail to do a lot of the time. I let other things crowd in and push me and I have to check up on myself all the time. And too often, I'm not keeping the main business the main business. And so I'm saying to you, I believe evangelism is desperately important. Alright, now when you ask a question, I'll answer your question. I will give you opportunity, now feel free to raise your hand, unless you've got a real long question, then I want you to be up here sitting, give you an opportunity to come up here and be seated so you can get right up to a microphone. They're supposed to have a microphone standing, we will have one, for long winded questions. But than other that, I'm going to answer, I'll re -state the question here. He needs a coffee, who handed these out, do you have two of them? Okay, alright, he's got one, thank you. So I believe the statement by Dr. Rice is true and however, let me go back, you'll make a mistake if you say, well it's a main business so every sermon is going to be evangelistic. I believe every sermon should contain evangelism. There should be the gospel in every message I bring, enough gospel to challenge a person to get saved. But my business, let's go to Ephesians 4 .11, he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry. Now we'll come to this later, we might as well get to it now. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, the second word for there is E -I -S, unto. That could be translated, that we are perfecting the saints, who is that? The evangelist and the pastor teacher, to perfect or mature the saints, the word perfect there is the idea of maturing the saints, maturing the saints unto the work of the ministry. So what should it be? We should understand that it shouldn't be that we are in the pastorate and we're standing in the pulpit to develop others so they'll go out and give out the word of God. That we're maturing the believers unto the work of the ministry, unto the edifying of the body of Christ. Now I think that's an important verse to have as a key in your philosophy, Ephesians 4 .11 -13. I think it's vital that you have those and that you memorize them and keep that in mind. When we do that, it says the evangelist and the pastor teacher, for the perfecting of the saints, for the maturing of the saints, unto the work of the ministry. What am I saying? Evangelism is the main thing and I ought to be developing Christians so they can go out and be evangelists. So they can go out and do the work of evangelism. And that means that my messages, and I think this is the way I operate, my messages are primarily to Christians. And nearly every message I bring, I could probably say this wasn't a thoroughly evangelistic message. My messages are to bring a message to the Christians to help develop them so they can go out and be better soul winners. But all the time I have in mind, we need to develop soul winners around this church and evangelism is a major thrust. Did I answer your question? Yes sir. Alright, thank you. Okay, let's come on to Roman numeral II, the meaning of evangelism. And we'll come on down to a second quote by John Stott. Oh, I went a little past that, no here we go again. It went on beyond that. Second quote, through the Bible, God is Himself actually evangelizing, that is communicating the good news to the world. All scripture preaches the gospel, God evangelizes through it. However, again I'd say that all of us fellas need to remember we're called to preach the whole counsel of God. And you see guys like John Stott and those men do not believe that separation is a doctrine. That's the problem with the new evangelical crowd. They do not believe separation is a doctrine. I believe you've got a doctrine of inspiration and you've got a doctrine of the virgin birth and the resurrection and a doctrine of separation. And we should respect it as a doctrine and preach and teach it just like we do other doctrine and realize that separation is a vital issue. But the main business of a church is to evangelize and win souls. Alright, let's go on. Capital letter A, the Bible is really the best sourcebook, capital letter A, the proclamation of the gospel. Now, we see from these notes given above, it means to give the gospel the good news of salvation, to get out the message.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from AJ Got HACKED! (Here's What Happened)
"Hey what's up, I'm AJ Rice Crypto and I want to be honest with you, this video, pretty embarrassing to make. So I kind of got stuck and then I got hacked and I want to explain what happened to me so it doesn't happen to you. To be fair it wasn't for all of my crypto but it was a good amount of money and I do have a ledger in crypto you know on different places and stuff like that. I've already pretty much have been made whole from what happened luckily like I have friends that help me out and one of them has a pretty loud mouth, I'm sure you get the joke but thanks to Loud for helping me out and I'm trading it back. But basically what happened is I wanted to use a trading bot that a couple of my friends were talking about that was on the Binance Smart Chain. The minimum buy -in was $5 ,000 so I put $5 ,000 and change from Ethereum to Binance using a cross -chain bridge called Seabridge. The transaction Seabridge worked just fine and my money was on Binance. Naturally the same day I moved that money to Binance the trading bot was migrating to like another thing and it was down for a couple of days so I kind of had to sit on the money and just wait for it to you know come back up. At the end of the day I had never actually used the trading bot because I was going to trade in my old car for a better car and I still did that but I wanted to use some of that money that I sent there for my vehicle. So when I went to move my funds back from Binance to Ethereum the same bridge that I used before Seabridge wouldn't let me do that for whatever reason. So I had to find a different bridge to go back to Ethereum and in the past I remember I used this bridge called AnySwap and it worked just fine and then I learned that AnySwap got rebranded to Multichain and I clicked on their Twitter I should have read the tweets underneath I did not you know they had almost 300 ,000 followers a hundred people I follow also follow that page and I just oh they just rebranded everything will be fine. One of the biggest mistakes here is that I didn't even send a test transaction. You know to be honest with you guys I'll keep it real with you like I've been in crypto for a number of years at this point I've personally have written over 300 videos for this company I'm in the game I know what's up I'm well researched I know what I'm talking about and because of that you know I kind of have an ego that gets a little bit too big sometimes and I really think this whole thing was a lesson in disguise because you know it definitely humbled me a lot because if you don't do that due diligence and you don't do your homework this is the kind of things that happen to you and you know it's just a fair reminder that crypto is a treacherous treacherous place and it can be a scary place for your money if you're not careful and if you don't do that homework and don't do your due diligence so lesson learned in that behalf. I did not send a test transaction and I also didn't know that the multi -chain bridge was just kind of not really working anymore but I just assumed because any swap rebranded that it would be fine but this isn't the worst part I sent that $5 ,000 back to ethereum and you know three hours went by and I looked at my metamask and I was like dude it's still not there like what's what's going on here you know what I mean so I went back to the twitter and I clicked on the telegram link that's in their twitter page on multi -chain's twitter page you know and like I said you know 300 ,000 followers 100 people I follow follow this page like I kind of thought that it was legit so I get into the telegram and I say what happened and someone messages me and they say hey like can I call you and I was like yeah sure so I got on the phone and there was this woman on the phone and she was like hey like what happened and I was like well I you know send $5 ,000 on the crosschain bridge and it didn't hit my ethereum yet and she was like can you prove it so I sent her the transaction on bsc scan and she was like oh okay so we just got to get you to claim that money and you'll be able to get it back and I was like oh yeah totally perfect and but then the conversation started to get a little weird she wanted me to download this other app which was just the crypto .com defi app so that's fine because I know that's a real app from crypto .com and then once I imported my metamask she said that she wanted me to change the language to vietnamese and at that point I realized that I was just dealing with a scam like this is already a scam like this this is bad and I panicked while I was on the phone with her and out of just habit I just bought a sappy seal and I moved my sappy seal from my ethereum wallet to a different ethereum wallet and then I just started kind of backpedaling out of the conversation like hey there's no reason I should change my language to vietnamese it was all because the claim button that does not exist on multichain wouldn't so she wanted me to use the browser on the crypto .com defi wallet because apparently it would show up on that browser so I followed her that far but when she wanted me to change my language to vietnamese I knew that something was up and I was just like why won't this claim button show up on this website and then you know we talked for a couple more minutes and then out of nowhere she hung up the phone and I refreshed my metamask and all of the crypto left in my metamask gone disappeared just like that I never gave her my seed phrase I never gave him my passport I never shared my screen I never did anything like that and I still for the life of me don't know how they drainbotted my metamask and you know I talked to Justin Williams about this and he obviously has you know somewhere down the line he's been hacked before too and he told me that you know whatsapp has like an encryption where telegram doesn't have the same encryption that whatsapp has and because of that just because she was on the phone with me that connection is all they needed to get into my metamask and that does not make sense to me I don't know how that works in my mind they need my seed phrase or my passport or something they didn't have any of those things and they still drained the rest of my metamask you know it was a notable amount of money Justin has told me in the past that drainbots have hit him and they took the stablecoins but have not but didn't take the ethereum in my case they took both the stablecoins and the ethereum and the bnb and everything else in my metamask but they did not take my nfts which is very strange but now I'm scared to put you know money back into that metamask to use for gas to get my nfts out so I'm not really sure what to do there but the lesson here at the end of the day is one never go into anything thinking you know everything don't like have that ego like oh like I'm AJ writes crypto I know everything that that mentality is stupid and immature of me to think that way like crypto is still a dangerous place I don't know how to code like I'm not a computer programmer there's a lot of things about crypto I don't know you know this reminded me of that like AJ like yeah you're a smart guy you've written a lot of videos you know what you're talking about but there is a degree that I don't know and because of that I still have to do that due diligence I still have to do my homework I still have to read everything carefully if I would have done 10 more minutes on multi -chain or sent a test transaction like none of this would have happened but you know I was in a big hurry I was just trying to get the money back I wasn't thinking I was not thinking and this is normally how this stuff happens and on also don't click any links that you don't know about apparently just getting on that telegram phone call with that woman without her knowing my password without her knowing my seed phrase they can wipe your metamask just like that from a phone call connection from telegram that is news to me it might be news to you and if you don't believe me well it happened and they stole my money I just don't want to see anyone else out there make the same mistake I did uh you know luckily like I said I have friends I've I've you know I've been made whole and I'm trading it back and I will I will pay them back but you know it is nice that like I'm not completely drowning and like I said it wasn't all of my crypto but it was a lot of money and it does really really sting but hey it's a bear market we still have plenty of time to accumulate leading up and really I think this is the challenge that I needed uh you know I had a pretty good head start and I was like kind of doing the moon math in my head I'm like well where I would be if this goes into this by 25 or the next bull run or whatever and and all that's out the window and that was a lot of work and that was a lot of effort and it's embarrassing it's embarrassing but at the same time this is a teaching moment and there's a silver lining for for you guys that to not make the same mistakes I did and as much as it pains me to come on camera and talk about how I was hacked for you know as much money as I was hacked for it's very embarrassing but the the point is is that I don't want it to happen to you so with that being said I mean I love you guys and be careful out there and at least I get to report that loss to the police and it'll help with taxes I guess so you know there's a win there and with all that said my name is AJ writes crypto and I hope you have yourself a great day.
Over the Next Hill Fitness
Andi Swan of Destiny Rescue Is Confronting Child Trafficking on a Global Scale
"Name is Andi Swann. I am the director of strategic partnerships for an organization called Destiny Rescue USA and we are a global anti - trafficking Christian organization. We exist to rescue children from human trafficking and sexual exploitation and help them stay free. So we are a both and organization. We do both the rescue and the recovery efforts to make sure that whatever vulnerability led to them being trafficked and entrapped that they don't fall into that same area again. Wow that is such such a wonderful thing. When I first heard about the organization I said I have got to find out about this and reach out and I was so pleased when you answered my email and said yes I'd love to come on the podcast. Now how did you get started with the organization? So I'm coming up on my one -year anniversary with Destiny Rescue. I have been in the nonprofit sector my entire career so coming up on 20 years and I just always cared about vulnerable kids but this is the fulfillment of a calling that the Lord placed in my heart 15 years ago. I went on a short -term mission trip with my church to northern Thailand in 2007 and again in 2008 and we were assisting full -time missionaries that were in that in that area and we would work with them during the day with children and then we'd go out into the night markets at night but we spent a couple of days in the hill villages and I grew up in the deep south. There's not a tremendous amount of diversity in the community that I grew up in so it was really eye -opening for me just the deep levels of generational poverty. I mean just barely their basic needs being met food, clothing, shelter especially food and shelter and so to see children playing without shoes without food and so the missionaries that served in that area talked about how grim the outcome was for these children especially if they were little girls that at the age of seven or eight that that's old enough to where parents say we can't provide for you anymore you're going to have to earn an income yourself so at that age they would either start picking rice or picking tea leaves and if they couldn't work fast enough they would be replaced and then sent to the city to get work and if a little girl at age eight is sent to the city for work she has no marketable skills most children in that area don't even speak the main language because they are a tribe so they don't speak Thai they don't speak English they speak a tribal dialect so they are taken advantage of and a lot of times forced into the commercial sex industry where they will never escape and I had recently graduated from college I had just bought my first home and so I had a secondary education and I owned property which was something that those little girls had no hope of ever accomplishing unless somebody intervened and it broke my heart broke my heart in a million pieces and I just told the Lord however you want to use me to affect change on this I will leave me I'll go
The Down and Dirty Show
"rice" Discussed on The Down and Dirty Show
"You and i think you actually won an award that night and that was early on. That was five six years ago. Because it's been a little bit so it's it's fun to watch people come into this sport. Whether they're drivers are media people and grow into their roles. I remember meeting. Jeff gluck for the first time. Here's this awkward kid and he's talking about twitter. What is that you know. And i told him this. He i feel like is probably responsible for nascar having that social media presence because he will person that drugged them along saying this is important. Yeah watch this. And i feel like it's one one of the reasons nascar i feel like is most predominant in the twitter sphere. Yeah i agree with that and your dug when it comes to prn so thanks for the time. Arrow cleared up. You're you're not a novelist. You're not a photographer. You are in the transportation transportation business all right. Thank you doug right my pleasure all right back to wrap this up my thanks again to doug for being on the podcast and welcoming me down at the prn studios. Which i've gotten quite comfortable and familiar with over the years whether it's doing pit reporters on tuesday nights every so often. When i'm lucky enough to be asked or co hosting sirius. Xm nascar radio. That's one of the locations that you can do that at so appreciate getting to do this interview in person and just get to see doug. I can't say enough just wore a great guy. He is so thank you again the doug. I hope everybody enjoyed you can hear him on. Prn they've got a race this weekend coming up at bristol. That'll be exciting so tune in if you can't catch it on television. Prn is great when they call races. Doug rice mark. Garo steve richards everybody over. There does a fantastic job again. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Of course you can let me know what you think on social media. If you want to engage with me that way you can find me on twitter. My handle is at kelly crandall you can find me on facebook. Make.
The Down and Dirty Show
"rice" Discussed on The Down and Dirty Show
"Expand and he could also be very draconian if he didn't like what you were doing and would tell you that way. Most of my interaction with him was when i was head of advertising for the speedway held that job for about six years placed all the advertising was in charge of the creative oversaw the process of making the tv spots the radio. And even the newspapers stuff. Which i didn't know anything about but i learned on the fly on that and i had to work with him. Because you didn't put an ad out that humpty didn't listen to an approve and learned a lot because learn small things came in and we had this adam had these pictures laid out and i thought it was pretty good and he looks at it. Needs no no marked it all up and he goes never bring at ham picture back in here. That shows me empty grandstands. And i went like yeah. That's helped me he goes. We have enough pictures that have people in the background. He goes that elicits excitement he goes. I want to show people that. There's a reason that they need to buy tickets. And then when. I when i thought about the thought well that's simple and would beat you up for cliches. He did not like cliches. Take the time to be original in your thought. And i've tried to apply that to my broadcasting. He didn't instruct. Lebron's got that but this commercial stuff you need to learn more about that and occasionally he would bring you in and just talk about the one thing. I really liked about hoppy if something was bothering. You may be politically or whatever i could go in. Ask him about it. And i felt like he give me the straight answer about what was going on in the world because he was pretty worldly guy and most of my interaction with him especially as time went on was a lot. Better when i got here. And i'm just green Working around him was a little bit intimidating. As i got to know him better. I went on a junk at one. Time to europe with a bunch of drivers and lamb reynolds was there. A brendan gone. Some other folks. And we went over and i was going over to act. It's the mc and introduce these guys at these military bases we went to bosnia. And hoppy was on the thing because hump. He was bit of folk hero so he was there and on the way back. I don't know how this happened but i. There was one table on this big cargo plane and everybody else asleep it on the floor and stuff and i'm sitting at the table. Hoppy invited me over with him. And richard childress. Richard childress had bought two cases of wine and italy because this was before he built but he was going to bring it back. Try it out and see which ones he liked and talk to his winemaker about. Can we do something like this. They opened up. The first bottle were all reds smelled. Goes through the plane to adverb. You could just see people like puppy sniffing. The air like what's that. What's that well the next thing. You know twenty four bottles late. They're all gone like one hundred people on the plane so really. That's not that much that richard didn't get off that plane with a single bottle..
The Best Advice Show
"rice" Discussed on The Best Advice Show
"I often have a lot of leftover rice. That's one thing that I can do to enhance, you know, day old or 2 day-old rice to make to make a lunch out of it, 100% fried rice. Q, Amano is a chicago-based chef and cookbook. Author has written a bunch of good books, including the adventures of fat rice. He's going to help to demystify fried rice today. Good Friday. One of the keys to good fried rice says Q, is that you're using this old kind of languishing rice. You don't want it to be fresh a couple of days old as ideal. So, you know, you're frying, like whatever you're putting in a Chevy. Yeah, like shrimp or chicken, or, or various vegetables, and your kind of cooking each component, taking it out of the pan or the lock, setting it to the side. And and then kind of finishing with, you know, wipe the pan out. Put some fresh oil in and and then fry that rice and it's truly fried rice, you know, crumble it into the, into the pan toss it around. And let each individual grain of rice, cook and add, add the other stuff and seasoning back in, and it's just nice white fluffy. Each. Each grain should be relatively distinct. It's just such a clean, a better way to do it. And let me say clean. I mean, like, each flavor in there is is distinct versus versus. Like we just Hammer the hell out of a bunch of Gloppy Raja. Import a bunch of soy sauce. Now, here's this weird kind of brown brown Mass after I quote unquote, fried rice. So that was my advice. For leftover rice. What kind of oil do you use? Like, I, I would start with canola oil if I didn't have that laying around peanut oil, is great to grapeseed. Oil is great to all of the Unfaithful on scented oils. But look, I've made fried rice with with olive oil, cuz that's what I have sitting around and I'm perfectly okay, with that. If I had my druthers, just, like a peanut oil or Canola or just plain vegetable oil, and are you finishing it with any sauces or vinegars or anything? Yeah. So I always, I mean, kind of depends on the mood or whatever your kind of flavoring it to a degree with some soy sauce. Perhaps, maybe not be really seasoning it with salt. So it's cleaner, you know, you're not adding wage. Lot of moisture back into the dish, always use a bit of like rice rice vinegar or whatever I have around. And maybe it's such a sesame oil to to sent it off. Maybe some fish sauce. That's the, that's the way I'm going. And again, like, maybe soy sauce, but it's not soy sauce isn't really, the crutch, you know, to make it salty and flavorful in order to the other day. I took a tin of smoked mackerel. I like keeping tons of fish around sardines and anchovies trout Pub or whatever. And I put that on, two-day-old fried rice. We it was so good. Thank you Mano. His latest comic book cookbook in collaboration with Sarah Beacon, is called to make dumplings. I put a link to it in our show notes. Thank you for listening.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"rice" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Was a democratic senator from the state of missouri. He served in the senate for twelve years from eighteen. Forty three to eighteen fifty five. He had a reputation for being extremely pro. Slavery he owned. Slaves supported all of the slave state issues in the run up to the civil war and when the war finally commenced he served in the confederate army as a brigadier general commanding missouri troops. So he's not the finest of people to sit in the upper chamber of congress. Quite frankly if it wasn't for the events that i'll be discussing this episode david. Rice atchison would probably be mostly forgotten to history i. I came across his name years ago and children's book of fun facts which said that he was the president of the united states for one day. This fact has been repeated on and off for over one hundred and fifty years in fact the words president of the united states for one day are on his tombstone in missouri as sort of a testament to his greatest achievement. So is this true. Was david rice. Atchison really the president of the united states for a single day to answer the question. We need to understand exactly what happened in the election of eighteen. Forty eight week party. Candidate zachary taylor comfortably. Defeated democrat lewis. Cass and free soil candidate. Martin van buren incoming president. James polka made a pledge to seek a single term in office and he honored that pledge by not. Running taylor was a career military man who had never expressed any political opinions prior to the election. And in fact he had never voted. He had a great deal of success as a general during the mexican american war which led to his popularity in calls for him to run for president. He wasn't fact recruited by both the whigs and the democrats. The two major political parties at the time to seek office prior to the passage of the twentieth amendment to the constitution the president and all members of congress would take office at noon on march fourth. This lengthy lame duck period made more sense when everyone had to travel by horseback. And that's why was eventually changed. Nonetheless march fourth was the date everyone took office in eighteen forty nine march fourth landed on a sunday. Zachary taylor being a devout man..
The Worldshapers
"rice" Discussed on The Worldshapers
"I can go back to and then i'll go back to it and i'll reread it now. I hope my answer. I know truthful. I might. I'm i'm not so self aware when i'm going through this process. I know that once. I finish it. I i probably don't completely weaver walkaway. I probably i go through and read it again. Because what i tend to do because i write quickly as i do the broad strokes of scenes so i have a lot of What do you call alaikum. Philip not filler moments but placeholder sometimes dialogue placeholder descriptions of the characters facial expressions reactions and stuff. And 'cause when i'm first writing the scene especially charged seen it is a lot of acting. I've feeling those emotions. And i'm just trying to get those out and then i need to come through and add some of the finer details to painting the story and That's when i really start getting into the nitty gritty and then inevitably I have to start challenging myself. I found There's a couple pieces of software out there. Now that i found really helpful in my writing that will flag overuse of words or expressions or passive voice. And that's been really helpful to me. Because i do. You know we get blind. Get brain blind to our own mistakes. Our own patterns and So it's really nice to have that pointed out to me would you turn loose those softer items The one i'm using right now is called pro writing aid and i think there's a free version you can use code or like you copy and paste onto their website. But i i paid for it to be a incorporated into my microsoft word. It does bog down..
The Worldshapers
"rice" Discussed on The Worldshapers
"Where do your your ideas come from the seeds from which your stories grow in specifically this one. Well think now so this was actually the. I want to say fourth novel that i wrote even though it wasn't the fourth that i've published because the first book that i wrote is unpublished and i wrote two of those. I'm waiting until i finish the series of before released that and that was inspired by a dream so it had what was the end of a story as a dream and I wrote to discover how the characters got to that place. Then the second one dark ling was also inspired by dream that most people call nightmare and just the emotions of the drink clung to new like carrying on a skeleton. And i feel it's an appropriate metaphor for that book. And i just really wanted to explore that so both both those novels. I wrote very quickly. 'cause i don't outline i write to entertain myself so that's why i right and kind of manic bursts and i have since tested that and then relieved to find out that i can also right as a more sane individual and You know in chunks. Of time when i have them and from the feedback i've received so far my work hasn't suffered for its. That was a great relief to me. 'cause like i said the first seven that i wrote including oh feely i wrote in these kind of of just walk myself in my room and talk type but so affiliate did not come from a dream In fact it came from a very roundabout place that this description is going to urge explanations gonna have nothing to do with what you just heard of the summer of the book but i always had this fascination with the first world war and with irish history. In general the higher struggle for freedom especially as an american Really captures the imagination. So i love this. Blend of history and fantastical especially if it's almost magical realism..
Bitcoin Radio
"rice" Discussed on Bitcoin Radio
"Answer crypto app right and so the two new features in protocol fifteen or what enabled at tappan. So it's definitely going to be a game changer. For at building on seller in the. That's that's i think to highlight that. If i'm not mistaken is you don't have to continue to to put up assets right right. You don't will you have your spots. You can leverage leverage your your your main account and not continue to have to a not state but yeah pull put up assets for other types of applications right. We'll counts it. Basically if i have an account if you know if you set up an account stellar and you wanna hold a us in you don't actually want to touch moments. You're not interested in crypto. You just want to make payments from. Usda eras the way that stellar works there are looming reserve requirements. You have to have a certain amount of women's and your account in order for it to exist on the ledger and those are basically just an anti spam counterweight. They keep the ledger from filling up with accounts that serve no purpose which is harder on the network. It's harder for people who validated at. If the database that keeps track of all the accounts just blooms. So there's just a minimum requirement of luminous. Which are the native network currency that you have to hold with these new changes like you. Don't actually have to hold those limits. I can spot. I can actually just say. I'm gonna like i'm going to hold the limits to support adams account. That's great and so that way you can just be like. I open an account i got. Us dollars. i never touched lumens. But also it prevents you not you but was on the the evil adam from from basically doing some some box scraping to farm out like if if i just sent those account those limits to you instead of me holding them in reserve for it then you could basically close the account can keep them yourself and if you do that you know hundred thousand times a year you can. Firmness can't do that right so now. I can sponsor. I can put saloon. I could basically uphold the limits for you for your account on behalf of your account so that you all of your reserve requirements are covered. And you never had to think about limits. Yep yeah definitely think it's true mine's a process as you said he has never really you know. Allow it scales scale. And i know we've got a couple of two minutes here to of close finalize our discussion which has been great to discussion from justin. Rice there What do you see in the next. What are some what's on the roadmap. For the next six to.
Bitcoin Radio
"rice" Discussed on Bitcoin Radio
"For the future without further ado excited to have a justin rice head of ecosystem from stellar Super interesting conversation. The first time around back in may feel free to go to reimagine twenty twenty youtube channel. Look up justin. Rice super cool So again justin. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for taking time out of your data to come here. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Yeah so. I mean we've had you on before her so i don't really need to go down that path but i do want to highlight kind of the concept that you brought up during that discussion back in may just about kind of the independent artists in like blockchain right and i think that's kind of a cool concept of of doing yourself really. Diy in figuring out the past And there's a lot of similarities of blockchain and be big being a independent artists which that's kind of where you came from right and i think it's important to note that washington is still trying to figure itself out trying to instead of getting Maybe listeners now we're trying to get users right. It ended up in adoption in in same kind of marketing guerrilla tactics of of pushing out instead of out of the back of your trunk. A cd were pushing a software technology right to kind of leverage and build upon site. I think those are those are kind of some cool some cool ideas and i don't wanna go on too much longer but you know can you give us some updates. I guess in the last. I don't know six months. There's been a lot going on. But i think to kind of narrow down here. Give me one second here. Sorry about that. Yes just some feedback. I know there's been an explosion of partnerships you guys have a stellar community fund in in all kind of go down this path throughout the throughout the discussion. But first and foremost like yeah..
Business Wars Daily
"rice" Discussed on Business Wars Daily
"A question for you what's a burrito bowl without rice. Well one fast casual chain wants you to find out this month chipotle. They rolled out a new item at all of their. Us and canadian locations salon tra- lime cauliflower rice it's essentially shredded cauliflower with a little salt and lime juice it looks a bit like rice and the chain is hoping you think it tastes like rice two or something like rice anyway. It's january and that means one thing for the fast casual record industry. A focus on healthy eating right if you've made a new year's resolution eat fewer carbs to go vegan to start the paleo diet. Well this is the month where you see if you can actually stick with it. Japodlay says customers wanted healthier options that align with quote the latest health trends those trends less starch more plants. Sorry rice you've been eighty-six on tripoli's menu are four new bowls made with their cauliflower rice. One is certified ho thirty compliant and another is totally vegan. But if you want cauliflower rice in your regular burrito bowl it'll cost you and up charge of two dollars about as much as dollop guac cipolla just the latest chain to hop on the cruciferous geoghegan. Rival cuba rolled out cauliflower mash last month. It's roasted mashed and mixed with sour cream and pico de guy. Oh definitely not rice like in any way. But yoga says their mash is more innovative than regular cauliflower rice. Ouch take that chipotle innovative. That seems to be the word of the month for fast casual chains mexican chicken chain el pollo loco said recently they would be adding a quote culinary innovation to their menu as well <hes>. Any guesses yup. It's cilantro lime cauliflower rice in their announcement last month. The chain took a more direct approach in explaining why they're offering healthier options. They say the pandemic has made too many of us replace the gym for the couch with undesirable consequences. Okay that one's things a little bit so is cauliflower rice in it for the long haul that remains to be seen. The forecast certainly looks bright. At least on twitter one user said she was pleasantly surprised by coil locos option and other said shapur as was good but the two dollar up charge makes it a one time thing so perhaps the fate of cauliflower rice comes down to how much green customers are willing to spend to go greet
Can We Health You?
"rice" Discussed on Can We Health You?
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"No no thank you but it was said to give them the samurai courage and to calm the nerves. There they hit a kamikaze. Yeah would how gay before of course there was. I believe a ritual ahead of that with before they get into their face. So i didn't mention sushi at all right because it wasn't really it didn't really evolve until what we know a to be today until later in the eighteen hundreds so it towards the end of the yeah right era. Yeah i gotcha N sushi anyway originated in ancient southern china around the second century. A d and it slowly evolved into what it is today so anyway just thought. I mentioned that little. She's amo china. That i know i personally would not associated with china associated with japan. Yeah i think it came to japan and then japan maybe just like and they had closed to to the world until the say anti-israeli yeah Or at least two us. Maybe when the whole world. But i know that they were when i was at school that we shared to you. Know how you would have your two weeks where you would do. You would basically learn about another culture classes. Yeah different classes. You can take remember that one. Yeah we did china okay. Cool and so. I kind of learned about how they were very Close closed to world. Yes isolated during that time. And i think it wasn't really until the twentieth century communism that they started to Open themselves up over the even as much as they interesting. Yeah we'll have to do something. Yeah maybe a little more about china. Yeah we could do another episode onto. Yeah yeah so long. History an interest. Yeah after surprising. I know right and my kids love sushi the sushi to ya. I think it's that like Mummy your yeah yeah that that's not in our cuisine relating salty seaweed fishy. Yeah but like that soy sauce. Nanna like yeah. It's it's a rich kind of flavor it is more so the various office. I kind of all tastes the same You know to me So they'll eat like funky roles. Mealy yeah yeah mine likes sushi mindset tend to eat not with the fish My daughter eats avocado roll. She loves dishing. Yeah i mean. It's a good way to eat veggies. And yeah all all see vegetables are so so good for us. Yeah so many minerals that we don't really get otherwise otherwise. Yeah yeah my My daughter dot c. Chips the other day the r. a. I eight one. And i'm like yes discussing writing i the texture of it i liked but yeah it was just too fishy. Yeah this girl does not eat fish and like how are you wanting a salty. She likes all her. Dad's big salt perseus. Well says she inherited that from. Yeah but I was like this is gross. Yeah well. I buy those little packets of seaweed sheets. Make your own sushi now will not know as a snack packet oak of strips. All right have you ever seen the I thought you but they're not the kind of you make sushi with no different just like swear. Yeah i got an i. My daughter takes them when she did go to school in her lot of the other kids would like what is that at first..
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"Served on small fancy plates plates. Were a special deal to okay. Yeah they were also served sake and to them. The number three was good luck so they were served sake in three cups to bid them farewell for the battle. I just have to say as far as three. I had her yet. But then i think about it when i teach yoga. I will often do things in threes william. Yes and it's a picked it up from another teacher. So i feel who's older lady. She's very much in the world and it's always three and actually own any classic taken three three repetitions Three like i'm gonna do three of this if you're gonna do any movements. Oftentimes it's in groups of three. That's weird. I never noticed that and it seems uneven to me. Yes you would think you would want to do it. It's not like you're not going to do it three times. Like if you're doing alternating cy. Okay then you would do that either but if drank some sort of like breath will do. I'll do three big breath okay. You know i'll do. Three of one batman's that's not necessarily dedicated to once our alcohol. Yeah finally just made me think of that. You have something to it to the number three. I don't know i wonder. I wonder why three good luck because the gatt feels like uneven and then we know thirteen is bad right in our culture young an injury and who says there's a reason. Yeah so sacchi. Was the most popular drink. Among the samurai other than t- made from rice sake was normally made during the winter months and called it's been cultivated for around two thousand years. The drink can be very potent and often. it was brewed. If you did not get drunk while drinking up because you're insinuating this week zag and there's been all different levels of There's all different levels of strength of sake. I i don't like the taste of ood..
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"Burgess sal know jello is. It improves your salad jello. Yeah yeah venus. So yeah i. I can relate i. It was weird. My kids don't like the texture. Its bones gross. Oh god yeah there you go us. Alison johnson Up at scoops of jellison. Everything make good for you. I guess yeah. Yeah everything everything. Anything that i can like sweet put meal a smoothie. Anything that like said you have just gel goes in your cabinet. The unflavored can do your kids now. Hell no be like going on camera crush that bodes in our food. They have no idea. That's the way you in the dark. Okay so white. Rice another like weird thing about iran's so because the huskies removed the nutrients also kind of taken away like so and then through manufacturing in the us put back in b one and b to learn and that's called enrich strays again and use. That good is that bad as think putting in a synthetic vitamin is good as good right natural staff so to in order for the rights to be called enrich drives. It has to apply or excuse me. It must comply with the fda and the rules and regulations macrobiotic enthusiasts consider rice the most perfect grain in which the yin and yang energies are in equilibrium. Okay but this does not mean. Rice is perfect for all everybody. So asians have larger pancreases..
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"Studies to prove that there is indeed our snack in summarize. But right it's such small levels that you just take it upon yourself to decide right whether you want to eat it or not but i think the health benefits seemed to outweigh. You mean the brown and brown not white right. Yeah because white. Rice spikes your the glycemic level. I it does not great. No not no not audio. They did say though that babies shouldn't have rice cereal When i found out and of course my firstborn had eaten some rice cereal mainly Yariel for but yeah. And you're like oh i know i think in being a yeah i think i think Maybe something that i saw. Nobody under the age of five. Should he rice because smack. Yeah good lord the pretty sure. I fed it to all my kids. Oh i think under the age of five. Yeah it's like. I would be such a better parent now. An older person right so hard. When you're young yeah. I'm glad i waited. I was in my early thirties. When i started having kids had started my twentieth it would have been disastrous. Gone okay so when white. Rice has the stuff removed from the flavor texture and appearance of the race changes in addition to preventing spoilage extending. Its storage life. So white races is longevity diplomat longer. More color glutinous to owner. If that's the correct word but it seems more. It is a little. Bit more gummy. I think that has to do with well. Those pieces being removed but also maybe it absorbed swatter easier cooking out so it becomes or hover. You harbor you do. Cook becomes more like sticky. But there's different tons of different kinds of.
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"Many peasants samurai eight husked rice or brown rice which is different kind of from the race. The brown rice that we know today. Today's brown rice has been selectively bred to have the taste and texture. We now making it easier to work with. The rights of the samurai time was different from today in the had a grainy texture and foul tastes. So hey so so the research you know so. The research said that. I found by emi. I don't know maybe they didn't. I doubt that they didn't know how to cook it or something. Maybe it was like in the water or the you know so white. Rice fan was considered far too valuable among genres usually only eaten by the emperor of the day so they they did have white right. Yeah it was just was reserved for the wealthy for the wealthy race was then prepared. Many different ways boiled cooked to a paste fermented into sake mixed with vegetables or cooked into rice cakes which were sweetened with honey and topped with fruit. When i saw that. I instantly remember this childhood memory of mine that like my my mom would turn. I think eric trump thus my mom would turn leftover rice like from the chinese leftover. Yeah nice box into like a sweet breakfast worth milk and like like maybe up. Thank i was just like this bowl of delicious like milky rice Rice what did you ask him well. I didn't yeah. But i'm going to listen to this. She's one of her fan. I listen it'd be like. I don't think i didn't i never buy or the catch. You forget the memory for all about. Yeah so that just sounds good. It does you're making me want. Yeah so i love making race. So i thought i'd just take a minute and talk about the difference between brown and white right okay. I have a question for you after you're done. Yeah okay so brown. Rice is a whole grain rice with the inedible outer hull removed. White rice is the same grain without without the hall. The brand layer and the cereal germ. You're all parts of what make the grain so white. Rice is milled. Rice that has had at tusk bran and germ removed so the same starts off. The same can is my question. Yeah gaza relates. So i had read a while ago. That rice contains snack. Yes we're going to talk about that. I was and then i took it all away because i thought let's not be so depressing here right so you might. My question is because. I stopped eating brown rice to that. Because they said of course it's only it called whereas cultivated in in america. Yeah our they used to treat the fields with arson. He i it's not like it's a widespread room. Yeah as long as you're not getting it from some of these southern states like you have to just see whether races coming. It's coming from the water supply that the race grows up because arsenic naturally occurring in a lot of our water around in america. Yeah and is that because we treated the field sia and it got into the waters. Yeah okay so. I don't eat for race anymore. Because they said that if you white rice because they've removed powder layers talking about that. It's removing some of that poison as well. Yeah i mean. I think that held i know it is. I think the arsenic levels are so small. Everything that i saw when i was researching for us episode. It's there have been lots of.
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"The word patty is derived from the indonesian word. Patty p. a. d. I okay meaning rice plant. Oh yeah so. Paddy fields are flooded areas of land. That are still able to be ploughed. And used for growing semi aquatic crops. Mostly rice in tarot. Tara is a tropical root vegetable plan. I love tara chips. Yeah i do too. This plan is like leafy kind of spooky looking. Would they together or not. Necessarily a separately like fields. I see of. Japan has a particularly acidic soil from long past volcanic eruptions that make the paddy fields particularly productive. So they they like the acidity do okay. Yeah that's interesting so of course It seems that a certain amount of superstition arose around the planting of rice. A women planted the race. Typically and it was believed that their fertility encouraged the growth of the race field can yeah however famines were common as a result of lack luster harvest. Maybe maybe women that couldn't have babies. They have really about painting. The lakers caused fan on because they couldn't have always the women's fall. Yeah as always also wealth was measured in terms of rice so one kokou of rice was how much rice it took to feed one man for one year and one kokou is one hundred eighty kilograms or three hundred ninety six pounds us. Wow isn't that a lot in a year but today yeah to eat that to either saying that one man can eat three hundred pounds of right. Yeah today that's not as much as big on that much but they still allowed as eating name. i know. well it's at every meal like all day okay. so today. The japanese consume over one hundred pounds of rice per person per year while americans typically eat less than ten pounds. Just for like you know comparis- compares okay. Son eats a ton of race. I feel. Does he really happening. Well he ain't much. So here's a rise. So you're well was determined by what kind of race eight like..
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"I should have come up with some better writing there. But it's not in the like dictionary invest. Yeah florida but at the source to that. We don't know what did you mean commie. Another word for county okay. So they also use meditation to train their minds for battle the samurai so we're back to the samurai Specifically so this is where that zen buddhism on so in the late thirteenth century set a samurai began to practice zen. Meditation and this is a style marked by intense concentration and was practiced with ridden ridi- masters so this Style of meditation aided in enhancing their martial arts skills and reduced the fear of death on the battlefield total Yeah i could see where kind of like it would increase your concentration. Get all the clutter out of the mind interesting until like be meditating. While you're battling well they would in a way that guests admitted for the battle. The kind that means. Yeah i mean. I guess it's possible to you like that. Will king the viking. Getting the answer is yes. Yeah they're museum there. Anna practiced zen meditation. Yeah or maybe not then. They wouldn't have been so crazy. Yeah or hot right. Yeah loves her. I was not to love right all right. So how did these samurai train so. Their training began in childhood where they would steady poetry spiritual disciplines and chinese studies and it was during childhood that they began to learn to live by the bushido code This training was available to girls as well though they did not usually fight on the battlefield. The main purpose of their training was to fight against home invaders. So you know they would also be trained alongside The boys and they would have their own weapons as well and yet so they would if there was home invaders then be trained like ready to kick their butts. That's also right that's great. It's kind of like a police force in my mind. Yeah samarai yes. Let's do what you say her. Like all fight our wars but also protect Manage local manage. what's happening. Yeah so. I thought did find a story of a female samurai that i will also. It's pretty bad pretty brief. Yeah pretty crazy. Yeah so So she her name was mcconnell tag. Keiko kiko tuck keiko. I think it's a non. I yes So she was a nineteenth century samurai warrior. So that's towards the end of a crime and she fought for her clan against the japanese imperial army as they attempted to weaken the power of the land Holding warlords Keiko fought alongside male samurai at the siege of is zoo wakamatsu castle okay and that was an eighteen. Sixty eight really towards the really at the end And afterwards led forces of hundreds of women warriors called josh. You going j. o. S. h. i. g. u. n. A native charged at the imperial army with guns swords and vowed to fight to the death so in that final battle in her final battle and deadly. She was said to have killed several men with her sword before being shot and killed. Oh not the ending. I.