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A highlight from "DO NOT Buy Bitcoin Now! Here's WHY..." | Gareth Soloway
"I'm back and we're one day before the FOMC Bitcoin still at 27 ,175 now Gareth says Gareth Soloway He says that Bitcoin can get back to $30 ,000 But then he also says that even though Bitcoin can get back to 30 ,000. He wouldn't actually buy it. Listen to this Now interestingly enough, let's talk about how high can price rally right? So, I mean, let's let's talk about it So if you're someone who's saying wow, do I buy Bitcoin now? Honestly the answer is no now But he does think you can go back to to $30 ,000 So listen, what we're gonna do is we're gonna get Gareth on the show a bit later on He's gonna talk to us about what he meant when he said he thinks Bitcoin can go back to 30 ,000 level But he wouldn't actually be buying Bitcoin right now and that's ahead of the FOMC now. Remember it's a big FOMC why because we haven't heard from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July, so we haven't heard anything from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July and Remember that since the 21st and 26th of July we've had two very big inflation readings So the big question is what is Jerome Powell going to do tomorrow? Is he going to engineer a soft landing that is one thing that he could be doing or or or is he going to Fly the plane like that plane that got lost I think what we need to do is we need to spend some time talking about this because honestly Honestly, honestly, honestly I Mean, how can anyone? Lose an 80 million dollar plane even the Biden administration. Like how can you lose an 80 million dollar plane? No one can lose an 80 million dollar plane. Not even the Biden administration So this we've got a lot to talk about today. We're also gonna talk about finance We're gonna talk about finance in the SEC. They did go to court yesterday There was a little bit of FUD that came out of the court case yesterday Usually as you know, I don't really pay attention to the finance FUD But this time it's coming from the same people that warned me about Celsius and they were right So I took the side of Celsius and they were right So as I said, I don't usually pay attention to finance FUD because I think it's like usually just bat And I think there's too much finance FUD But I do think we need to talk about what came out of the hearing yesterday. So listen, I'm back We've got a huge show today one day before the FOMC. Let's go guys I Mean we have to laugh we have to laugh Not only did they lose a plane But then like to make matters worse they want us to help them Find the plane now. I mean, this is a true story They lost an 80 million dollar plane and they want us to help them find a plane That's the type of discussion that I usually have with James like I lost the soundboard James. Where's the soundboard? I lost it on the way to work. Anyway, we'll talk we'll talk about the plane later. There's a lot to talk about Listen guys, I'm back. I'm back in the studio. We've got a lot to discuss today Got a big show ahead of the the FOMC Also, I want to talk to a little bit about Asia I want to talk to you about Binance I want to talk to you about altcoins because we are getting bounces in the altcoins as you can see right here on the bubbles But it seems like it's stuff going up one day and down the next day Which means that there's no new capital coming in we know that and what that also means is that we're getting Asset money rotation between between one place or another and then also as a city later on gathers Garrett's coming on the show So we've got a lot to talk about we're a lot we're gonna be here together But let's talk about remember if you haven't yet subscribed the channel help us because one of the things that I realized in Singapore Was the bigger our channel the bigger the guests we can get on the channel the more attention they pay their pay to us And so when you guys subscribe to this channel when you like this content And we get the content out there and you subscribe to the channel That helps the channel grow that helps us bring more bigger guests onto the channel. That's why we need you I'll bring you the highest alpha per minute show in the world every single day and You will just like the content and then everything's fine. Everything works. It's a symbiotic relationship. Anyway, let's talk about Where we are right now Let's go to the charts what we can see when we look at the charts is that Bitcoin is above 27 ,200 one day before the FOMC meeting now, I heard rumors earlier That the reason why Bitcoin was actually rising is because the mount gox trustee may be forced to delay the distribution of the mount Bitcoin 2024 till that was actually written up by the blocks I heard the rumors much earlier today and then the block wrote something about it They're saying Bitcoin bounce may be due to mount gox delay rumors, but still targeting 22 ,000. That's a fan manager called QCP bitcoins price is largely due to rumors of delay that mount gox may drag their payments into 2024 that's actually exactly what I heard earlier today. So it could be that we may not be getting the mount gox Bitcoin hit in the market. Now you ask yourself. Why would that happen? So you very simply why would that would happen mount gox was hacked in 2014 this this this story took place in 2014 The liquidator like the FTX liquidator earns money on The longer this drags out the more the liquidator and it's almost like think about it like a lawyer Okay so the more this thing drags out the more money that the liquidator makes and it looks like the liquidator is going to continue to Pressure the side of the year now, let's go back to the charts because I want to show you something back on the chart So then if you remember but Kyle dupes said something very interesting. He said look when we get this death cross What will happen after the death crosses, but Bitcoin will go down But then Bitcoin will go up back to the price of where the death cross happened, which is twenty seven thousand seven hundred so so far Kyle's little I don't know if you want to call it a prediction is is actually playing out and playing out exactly like said Gary says we can actually go even to 30 ,000. I actually think that both of them are wrong I think that we may at some point soon this year this this month this year We will break that 30 ,000 everyone. I've been saying it for a while I don't know if you remember but I did say at the beginning of September when everybody was completely bearish about Bitcoin and everyone said oh September's gonna finish down because it finishes down every single September. I said no guys I think September's gonna finish up so far. I'm up five point five two percent So so far it feels to me like like like like I'm gonna look I'm gonna Get this but you must realize what's actually happening here James. What what's for lunch? Scacra doesn't talk but he's chewing here. I can hear the chewing going in my one ear and out and out over there Anyway, what we are seeing here is you need to look at the open interest on Bitcoin and what you realize is that the open? interest is just Completely tracking the price which means that price goes up open interest goes up price goes down open interest goes down That's what's going on here, which means it's just short term Ups and downs so to speak that are happening in the market and it's not real volume or real buying coming in So we still I'm still not convinced that this is the pump that's gonna take us over 30 ,000 But I am convinced that bitcoins gonna go north of 30 ,000 end of September Maybe even early October and I think shaldino shares the same the same sentiment as me because he's just opening lungs and lungs and Lungs and you should I think today you opened another long on the show. Did you guys did you guys watch Sheldon show today? scarecrows Scarecrows don't talk but the children open along yes or no scarecrows He opened us a line along. Okay, so say he did open a lot the guys got big big big kahunas I think the same thing was happening with alts when I look at the alt coins It looks like we're just getting a shift from one old coin to another old coin So yesterday roll, but was up today roll, but is down yesterday rune was up today rune is down and that's exactly what's happening There's no big moves. Let's just quickly check on the one hour time frame. No big moves. No big moves in all coins it's basically just a rotation of Many the good thing is that the fundamentals of Bitcoin and I said I don't say this likely but the fundamentals of Bitcoin have actually Never ever ever been stronger and what I mean when I say the fundamentals of Bitcoin have never been stronger So there's two parts of the fundamentals. The one part of the fundamental is the research So what does the research say? What are the fundamentals behind it? The other part of the fundamentals is something that is unique to Bitcoin and unique this asset class Which is the on -chain data because if you look at other asset classes, they don't really have on -chain data Bitcoin has on -chain data So, you know like when we say fundamentals we can actually just go to the chain and we can just say look Well, what is it? What does the chain say? What is the the data on chain say and here this is where it gets a little Bit exciting so it gets very exciting. The first thing is long -term The supply held by long -term holders up to the highest that it's ever been so you can see the percentage Supply that is held by long -term holds the Bitcoin never ever ever been higher that is Also evident here where you can see that 80 % of all Bitcoin have not moved in the last six months so what we're seeing here is long -term holders keep growing and then when they lot they hold they They hold for forever because it hasn't moved for more than six months What we also see is we see the short -term holders have been capitulated. They're out of the market. We don't see them anymore They were here. They they were good tourists and then we said bye -bye and they were just sending their money back to exchanges When I look at the unchain The unchain data right now and I said I don't say this lightly the unchain data right now looks the most positive that's ever been because the coins are sitting with the people who ain't gonna sell the Coins and when I say anchor solid coins, they holding the coins for for six months plus The sentiment is also very good. And I saw this tweet by Chris Paniski and he He shares the same sentiment that I shared in Asia He was struck by how incredible and what the buzz is that happened in a token 2049. You can see his his These guys are killing my ears Thanks guys. Thanks for thanks for destroying my eardrums. I used to have eardrums now they're gone Anyway, that's his version of what happened at token 2049, but he's been around for a while He says contrasting token 25 20 49 to the first bear market conference. I went to inside Bitcoin in April 2015 the worlds are completely different and that's true because Even though from a pricing point of view, we're in a bear market I'm gonna show you something very very very interesting about where we are in the market The other thing that's happening now, which we haven't seen in Bitcoin for for for a long time Since I got into Bitcoin people have been promising me that the institutions are coming into Bitcoin. It's always been the narrative It's like look we've got to prepare ourselves got to prepare us off Because you know what the institutions are coming in when the institutions come in The price of it coins gonna go to the moon and every time the institutions never came in They launched a Bitcoin futures and bang the the price collapsed So I've always been hearing since I got you That the institutions are coming into Bitcoin when the institutions come into Bitcoin They're gonna bring all the money with him But it's been this letdown because it like as much as I've been hearing about it The institutions just haven't come but they just didn't arrive now the institutions are undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly here So we have got Citibank. They are now Unveiling their own Separate blockchain which is going to which which they're going to start piloting you got this is old news But you got the LSE looking to tokenize assets in the line the stock exchange As your as you will recall if you saw my video about token 2049 in Singapore I thought hey said big bull market he predicts and if you go watch that video see what he said But he basically how he breaks down why the bull market is gonna happen in 2024 he also breaks down that AI is gonna be the narrative that's gonna lead it and then he says, okay Well, then you need to you need to be buying file coin Then a German banking giant will be able to hold a number of crypto currencies for its clients So you can see what's going on here. You can see exactly what's going on Yeah, this industry is becoming more and more institutional Deutsche Bank one step closer to launching a digital asset custody service You've got Japanese banking giant Nomura launching a Bitcoin adoption fund for institutional investors You see what's going on here the institutionals the institutions are here are finally actually getting here but we are in a very very very unique time now because this is What Michael Saylor described when I interviewed Michael Saylor last time you'll remember it if you watch the Michael Saylor discussion This is what he said about where we are now about the unique time that we are now in In the cycle able to pick up the phone and call your broker and buy 50 million dollars worth of it Right. So we're at that stage where we know it's coming but We really haven't plugged Wall Street into the asset yet We're in this in between period which in my opinion is the best time to be it's like, you know the future No one else can act on it. If you if you have a crypto account with a crypto Exchange to buy Bitcoin right now So so you hear what he's saying he's saying if you we know they're coming they just it's like it's like it's like this Imagine a concert, you know, the concerts gonna start everyone's waiting at the door, but the gates aren't open yet You know when the gates open everyone's gonna come in and go to the car the concert you have the inside information But they can't act because the doors are still closed. That is where we are. Now. The institutions are coming in this morning I saw that blockchain capital Which is one of the original og funds in crypto, these are like, you know, these are two brothers original og og og funds in crypto raised 400 and say five hundred and eighty million dollars for two new funds now if you read where did they get their money from? most of the firm's limited partners are traditional institutional investors including University endowments So they've got five hundred and eighty dollars from all of these sovereign wealth funds and guys I mean if you were here in 2017 and you were here in 2018 and you were here in 2019 and notice it you look You know in next year or in two years time you're gonna get five hundred and eighty million dollars Given to two brothers in the United States Who have got a good track record and the money's gonna be given to them by institutional university By university endowment private foundations the writing's all over the world. All you have to do is You just have to Act because it's inevitable. It's completely completely completely inevitable And I know like a lot of you may may be sitting here and going yeah But you're not crypto is full of scams and you know, you know We spoke about keeping our customers happy and how every time we get the big names in crypto coming into our into our industry We destroy them, etc, etc You need to remember that every single technology goes through the cycle and I want to read you something which I saw earlier today which made me smile and and again affirm that I was in the right direction so Visa seemed like a disaster when it was first launched the kind of people who attack new things would have been all over it from From the Wikipedia article it says listen to it says they're talking about visa However, the program was riddled with problems as Williams who had never worked in a bank's loan department had been too earnest and trusting in His belief in the basic goodness of the bank's customers and he resigned in December 1959 22 % of the accounts were delinquent not the 4 % expected the police departments around the state were confronted by numerous incidents of of a brand new crime called credit card fraud Both politicians and journalists joined the general uproar against Bank of America and its new fangled credit card Especially when it was pointed out that the card holder agreement held customers liable for all charges even those resulting from fraud Bank of America officially lost eight point eight million dollars in on on the launch of Bank of America card But when the full cost of advertising and overheads were included the bank actually lost around 20 million dollars I mean if you change the word credit card there and you replaced it with the word blockchain you'd say hell them This is exactly what's going on here.
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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.
The Breakdown
A highlight from SEC Punts ETF Applications Till October
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 1st, and today we are catching up on crypto, on macro, on all the things. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, the end of the summer, the beginning of the fall is here. We are kicking off the best season of the year with tons of catch up across both macro and crypto. And we're going to start with a follow up on what is obviously the biggest story and theme of the week, which is Grayscale's defeat of the SEC in their lawsuit and the implications for Spot Bitcoin ETF approval. Now, somehow, apparently some people thought that just because they lost in court, the SEC was likely to turn right around and approve an ETF. That of course was not the case, and the SEC have in fact deferred their decisions on approving Spot Bitcoin ETFs until at least October. On Thursday, the agency filed to defer decision making across all seven ETF applications that were filed in June, including applications from BlackRock, VanEck, and Bitwise. Now, even though they didn't make the decision now, that Tuesday publication of the court order delivering victory to Grayscale was widely viewed as moving the needle on the likelihood of an ETF approval. In the wake of the decision, Bloomberg analysts had bumped up their odds of an ETF approval by the end of this year to 75%. Still, they cautioned that their expectation was, of course, that the SEC would defer decision making this week. Markets reacted pretty dramatically to the Grayscale order on Tuesday, with Bitcoin pumping more than 7 .5 % on the news. That move has now been completely retraced on the delays, with Bitcoin back trading at around 26 ,000. One small subpart of this story that some have been interested in is that the dumping began around 11 .40am on the East Coast, but the SEC's first decision wasn't released until 3 .20 in the afternoon. Coincidental, or did someone have advance information? That seems like a great thing to speculate about on Twitter. The next decision point for the SEC will be on the week of October 16th, when all seven ETFs have another chance to be approved or delayed. Remember that the SEC is able to delay each application up to three times before making a final decision. If the SEC drags this out to its conclusion, they will have a total of 240 days to make their call, bringing us to mid -March next year for this cohort of ETF applications. Now, in practical terms, we're likely to have a better idea about how this will all play out by January 10th. That's the final date for the SEC to either approve or deny the ARK and 21 shares application, which was filed two months earlier than the others. The pattern is certainly for the SEC to delay. During the Grayscale application to convert GBTC into an ETF, the SEC took each opportunity it had to delay their decision making. Still, analysts appear convinced that the Grayscale decision leaves little wiggle room for the SEC to deny the current crop of ETFs. Three appellate judges found that the SEC had indeed acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in denying Grayscale. They pointed out the hypocrisy of approving futures -based ETFs while denying spot -based claiming that the two markets had a 99 .9 % correlation. The judges further said that the existing surveillance sharing agreements with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which operates the Bitcoin futures market, quote, are identical and should have the same likelihood of detecting fraudulent or manipulative conduct in the market for Bitcoin and Bitcoin futures. And so now, although the SEC has been ordered to reconsider Grayscale's application, the timeline for that happening is still extremely unclear. Indeed, in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshine said he didn't even know exactly how this process would work. Grayscale isn't even clear on whether it needs to submit a new application. Now after this ruling, the SEC has the next 45 days to appeal the order. And after that time, the court can provide more detail on how Grayscale's application should be dealt with. When it comes to markets, they are showing an increased conviction that GBTC will successfully convert into an ETF. On Tuesday, the GBTC discount closed to 17%, which is the slimmest margin since late 2021. Since then, the gap has widened by a few percentage points, but it's still a long way from the deepest discount of over 48%, which occurred in December of last year. Moving on to catch up on the latest FUD from Binance, yet another senior executive has resigned. Leon Fung, Binance's Asia -Pacific head, has parted ways with the exchange. Fung's resignation was initially leaked to Bloomberg before being publicly disclosed, and a Binance spokesperson declined to elaborate on his departure other than confirming the resignation. Fung had been responsible for Binance's recent push to expand into Asian markets, including Thailand, Japan, and South Korea. But since he maintains no active social media presence, it's unclear when he joined and left the exchange. Now, one thing we haven't mentioned recently as we've talked about Binance's various issues is that they have actually seen a fairly significant decline in market share over the past six months. In February, Binance enjoyed 63 % market share and spot crypto trading volume, but by August that number had slipped to 45%, with the shift mainly being captured by Huobi and Poloniex. Over in the world of BUSD, its days are numbered, with Binance winding down the white -label stablecoin. In a statement released on Thursday, Binance confirmed that support for the token would end in February of next year. BUSD was of course kneecapped by New York regulators at the beginning of this year, when Paxos was ordered to cease and desist, minting the stablecoin. Until now, Binance had not officially commented on the future of BUSD, which was still available on the centralized exchange and Binance Smart Chain. The decision to end support for BUSD in February is in line with Paxos' commitment to end redemptions at that time. In a statement, Binance encouraged users to convert their BUSD into other stablecoins ahead of the sunset date. The exchange promoted conversion to FDUSD at no cost and at a one -to -one peg. FDUSD is a new stablecoin issued by Hong Kong -based trust company First Digital that was launched in June and is featured in other Binance promotions since then. Staying on the theme of markets, Bitfinex launched a perpetual futures contract for Binance's BNB token on Thursday as well. And over the first day of trading, BNB fell by more than 4%. Investor Travis Kling tweeted, BNB has been trading for nearly six years and Paolo and the gang at Bitfinex waited until today to launch a perp on it. Cryptoskeptic CryptoHippo says, Tether is getting ready to obliterate CZ, an unbacked infinite money printing machine versus the biggest wash trading volume crypto exchange in the world. I'm going to put my money on Tether winning this fight. Expect sudden price drops on the Bitfinex BNB perp. Now the biggest mystery of this week was a sealed filing that showed up on the court docket of the SEC's lawsuit against Binance late on Monday night. We have, it should be clear, no information about the contents of the filing. Speculation on Tuesday covered a wide range of theories. Some thought the filing could simply be related to a dull procedural issue regarding discovery. Others thought the filing might involve sensitive material gathered by a criminal investigation conducted by the DOJ. Andrew at AP Abacus says, Update, sources state that the sealed Binance motions this week are riddled with heavy, heavy claims. One source said, Given the natures of the issues here, surprised that we, the SEC, are taking this on, should be in the hands of the DOJ at this point. Andrew adds that he was instructed to go back and look at Bizlato claims and indictments and then add scale. Bizlato was, of course, a tiny unknown exchange that engaged in money laundering for Russia dark web markets. Some evidence revealed ties between Bizlato and Binance. When the indictment was unsealed, the DOJ treated Bizlato as their crowning achievement with a flashy preannounced press conference. This caused, of course, widespread confusion within the crypto community, who basically, without exception, had never heard of the obscure exchange. Now, also on Thursday, the old lawsuit between the New York Department of Financial Services and Tether and Bitfinex also saw some action. This is the case which was brought by the regulator in April 2019, with allegations that Bitfinex had manipulated Bitcoin markets and Tether's reserves were lacking. The matter was settled in February 2021, with Tether agreeing to publish quarterly reserve attestations over the following two years. The court retained jurisdiction in case the matter needed to be reopened at a later date. This week, the regulator filed a heavily redacted motion with sealed evidence attached. Because the filing is secret, we only have a vague idea of what it relates to. Unredacted parts of the motion appear to relate to accounting irregularities and deficiencies, as well as a lack of clarity around loans between the two firms. The regulator has requested that Bitfinex prepare an unknown witness for testimony. Knapp -Jenner tweets, Now, of course, Sam's involvement as a potential witness against Tether, against Binance, are likely going to be part of the rumors surrounding all of these issues, right up until the moment it's either proven true or proven not true. Still, with that, let's shift over for a moment to the macro side of the house. Tuesday's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed cracks beginning to open up in what has been a surprisingly robust labor market. Nick Timaros, the chief economics correspondent at the Wall Street Journal, wrote, This is a JOLTS report the Fed will be pleased to see. Basically, this July, JOLTS report indicated that job openings across the US had decreased to 8 .8 million from 9 .17 million in June. This marks the sixth month of declines in open positions over the past seven months and the lowest level since March of 2021. Compounding the story of a softening labor market, June's job openings number was massively revised. When first reported, the data showed almost 9 .6 million open rolls across the labor market. That means the Fed is now looking at data that shows around 800 ,000 fewer job openings than the data available last month. Importantly, job openings has been frequently referenced as Fed Chair Jerome Powell's favorite metric for gauging the tightness of the labor market. The collapse in job openings over this year and accelerating into the summer should give the Fed some confidence that their policies are beginning to bring supply and demand for workers back into alignment. There are now just 1 .5 job openings for every unemployed worker. That ratio peaked above two during May of last year. This means that by this metric, the labor market is now at its weakest point in almost two years. Now this morning, we also got the non -farm payrolls report for August, and Bloomberg summed it up with an article titled US Jobs Report Signals Smooth Downshift in Labor Market. TLDR, employers in August added 187 ,000 jobs, slightly higher than the 170 ,000 anticipated. In addition to that, hundreds of thousands more joined the labor force, with a growing number unable to find work right away. As Bloomberg puts it, quote, combined with wage growth running at the slowest pace since early last year, the data illustrate why Americans are a little less upbeat about the job market. While hiring and incomes are still firm enough to bolster consumer spending, job openings have retreated and layoffs are picking up. This Bloomberg says gives the Fed room to pause interest rates later this month while keeping their options open for another rate hike before the end of the year. And that's basically what traders are anticipating, at least when it comes to September. Over in GDP land, US GDP for Q2 was revised on Wednesday down to a fairly middling 2 .1%. The second GDP estimate report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis trimmed the forecast down from 2 .4 % in the advanced estimate. Both household spending and gross domestic income rose for the quarter, with GDI reversing a negative trend over the previous two quarters. This metric typically tracks GDP closely, but a pretty significant gap has opened up over the past three quarters. Now, while the GDP number isn't stellar, it's also far from the recessionary conditions that were forecast for this year in late 2022. An almost consensus opinion among economics had the US hurtling towards a recession in the latter half of this year. So far, there are few signs that a recession will actually materialize. One of the most telling data points that indicates the US may be on track to avoid a recession has been the Atlanta Fed's GDP Now forecast. The estimate has Q3 GDP coming in at a blisteringly hot 5 .6 % currently, which is far above the blue chip consensus forecast, which was last reported at 1 .7 % in early August. Now, pretty interestingly, some economists believe that blockbuster entertainment consumption has provided a significant boost to Q3 GDP. Bloomberg economists wrote in a note this week that the combination of tours from Taylor Swift and Beyonce, as well as the dual hit movies Barbie and Oppenheimer, are believed to have added 8 .5 billion to GDP this quarter. Still, the note recognized that the economic strength driven by these cultural phenomenon is short -lived. The note said, A large chunk of the strength comes from temporary factors. These factors create a mirage of resilient consumption when in fact it's running out of steam. So, overall, it feels like the data are showing a leveling off across the board. Nothing is great, but nothing is also dramatically bad. The big question is whether this is moderation into a soft landing or something more of an inflection point. From the Fed's perspective, it certainly doesn't suggest anything alarming that would justify another September hike, but also nothing that would knock them out of the pause stance into actually considering cuts. The bigger questions are what happens in Q4, as things like student loans restart, employer retention credit might get repealed, and of course, Taylor Swift leaves the country. Just some of the things to watch as we move into this fall season, but for now, I am going to send you off into Labor Day weekend, full of brightness, optimism, and all the possibility that September brings.
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A highlight from The Growing Culture War with Konstantin Kisin
"Yes, freedom has trade -offs. Freedom will mean you're less safe, and freedom will mean that some people say things you don't like. I'm okay with that, because I don't want to live in totalitarian China, and I don't want to live in Soviet Russia. If you do, that's fine. Go there and live there. Hello there. How are you all? I am on my final day of my holiday in Ibiza. It's been nice to have a break. It's been very sunny, but it's been eventful. I've lost my passport and it's stolen from my car, which has been an absolute nightmare. I've had to go to the consulate to get a temporary one. Now I've got to head up to Peterborough tomorrow to get an emergency passport ready for me to head out to Australia in a week. Speaking of which, are you coming? Are you in Australia? We've got our event on September the 9th. We've got Nick Bartier, Willy Woo, Checkmate, Russell Russell, and Dan Roberts all on stage. If you want to get a ticket to come to that, please head over to WhatBitcoinDid .com and click on WBD Live. Anyway, welcome to the WhatBitcoinDid podcast, which is brought to you by the legends of Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack, and today I've got a show I've been trying to make for a long time. Konstantin Kissin is a British Russian satirist and one of the best commentators we have over here in England. You may have seen him online. He did a very, very cool speech. I think it was at the Oxford Union. I may have that wrong, but definitely worth checking out. Now, Konstantin likes to challenge narratives and talks a lot about wokeism, climate change, politics, and any kind of societal issue, really, and I've wanted to talk to him. Although this isn't strictly a Bitcoin show, it does cover a number of the topics which I feel are kind of siddle alongside the things that Bitcoins worry or think about. So, yeah, we had this chance to sit down for an hour and shoot the shit, and we got into all kinds of things this interview, and honestly, I feel like we only just scratched the surface, so I will definitely try and sit down with Konstantin again in the future. Now, if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do drop me an email. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Good to see you, Konstantin. Good to be with you. Yeah, thanks for letting us use your studio for this. Oh, it's a pleasure, man. Thanks for coming over. No, beautiful drive. I've been really keen to talk to you for a while, firstly because I mainly talk to Americans. But I'm Russian, so it's a bit different. You've gone to the other end. Yeah, I know you're Russian, but you're basically in the UK. You understand? Yeah, I'm British as well, yeah. But I'm going to praise you a little bit here. You've become kind of one of my favorite commentators in the UK, because I think, one, you recognize the issues. Two, you're not a crazy right wing. Three, I don't feel like you are trying to stoke a culture war to grift people, and I think your observations are excellent. I thought you were great on Rogan. I really enjoyed your interview there at Weinstein recently. And so I've just been keen to talk to you for a while. If we don't bring up Bitcoin, that doesn't matter. OK, well, that's a relief, because I know very little about Bitcoin. I always tell the story whenever people ask me about Bitcoin that I bought, you know, everyone's banging on about Bitcoin. This would have been probably 15 years ago or something. And I was like, you know what, let's put some money into it, see what happens. So I think I bought about $400 worth of Bitcoin. And when the value doubled, you know, with any investment, if like the value doubles on something as volatile as a cryptocurrency, you're going, well, you know, I've done well here. So I sold it 400. I had half a Bitcoin, half a Bitcoin for $400, and I sold it for $800. Well, so the point of that story is I know fuck all about Bitcoin. Well, I sold a lot of Bitcoin for a lot less than that at different times. Yeah, it's everyone's got a Bitcoin storyline. Yeah, we might get into it. But you know, it's interesting you mentioned that I'm not crazy right wing. I actually don't think of myself as right wing at all. And I'll tell you why. Because all of the things that people might now say make you right wing. I don't know how old you are. I suspect we're probably similar age. I think a bit older. I'm 44. I'm 40. So when I was growing up, and in fact, when I was a young man and a young adult, you know, thinking that there's a difference between men and words, or that countries, of course, should welcome immigrants like me, but we should have borders that are enforced. Right? These were all things that Barack Obama and I agreed on, you know what I mean? And so unless Barack Obama has become right wing, I don't really think of myself right wing as right wing. And of course, the issue that I principally started talking about when I used to be a stand up comedian was freedom of expression. And I always thought of that as an extremely liberal value that is what we protect in the West. And that's kind of one of the things that makes the West unique and special. So I don't think of myself as right wing because none of my views are right wing. It's just what's happened is a bunch of crazy people have taken the left off the deep end. Whereas I've stayed exactly where I've been. Do you know what I mean? So I'm very relieved because to hear you say you don't think of me that way, because quite a lot of people would like to think of me as on that side of the political spectrum. And many of them are on that side. Conservatives want, they keep thinking that I am one of them. And look, I've got wonderful conservative friends, but I always kind of have to put that disclaimer in because I really believe in creative destruction quite a lot. Conservatives often want to keep things exactly as they are. I think creative destruction is important. Coming from a comedy background, I think having a sense of humor is important and conservatives can do, but not always. So I'm relieved about that because that's a big frustration of mine, the way that the political climate's changed, where like having some very normal common sense opinions has become controversial. So in many ways, it's not that I'm grifting, it's that the world around me has put me in a position where it's like saying some really obvious and normal things makes you controversial. Well, if that's the situation we're in, fine, I'll say those controversial things. Yeah, but I also think you're framing things in a rational and reasonable way. And I don't think you're trying to inflame situations where some people are discussing the same issues that you're discussing. I think they are trying to inflame the issues and they're being provocative. And I don't think you are being provocative. And I think that's why I've enjoyed following you and regularly just having to look through your feed on Twitter, see what you're, I mean, I look today, I forgot the comedian, the Scottish comedian's name, but in relation to Rosanna? Yeah, Graham Linham, he's Irish, but he's one of the best comedy writers we've had. He wrote The IT Crowd, Father Ted, all sorts of things. And yeah, the show that he was part of has been canceled in Edinburgh, that's what we've been. But you wrote a long and very kind and well -structured response to her. And that's what I think has been missing in the discourse is that I don't think anyone who's done that has actually managed to break through. All that's managed to break through is people who maybe are inflammatory, who are overly provocative, who are trying to stoke a culture war. And you may say it exists, but it's, you go to America law, I go to America law. It's certainly not like it is in America. I would hate that to come here. Well, I think it has come here, unfortunately. I think that we are in a place, I always say this when I'm in America, whatever you guys flush down the toilet in the UK, we get served for breakfast the next day. And I do feel that that's happened. I mean, obviously you mentioned Graham Linham is controversial because of his views about transgender ideology and various things to do with that. And we've had that issue. Now I actually think on that particular issue, we're doing much better now because the Tavistock clinic where a lot of these surgeries were happening has been shut down as a result of various investigations into it. We have an interview with Hannah Barnes coming out, who's a Newsnight journalist who wrote a book about what was happening there. Um, so in, in many ways, I don't think we can avoid the reality that we now live in a kind of almost shared media space with the U S and we inevitably get caught up in many of the conversations. I don't know if you've noticed, but abortion, for example, I think when you and I would have been growing up here, it wasn't really an issue that anyone debated or talked about. It was kind of a settled issue. Um, it's increasingly not. And I think that's partly because we're downloading a lot of our sort of memes from America. Yeah. I don't think people fully understood though that we, we have pretty established abortion laws here in the UK. And so I'm, I've not seen that becoming a, an issue of debate. Am I missing something? Yeah, it will definitely, you will see that coming through increasingly. Yeah, for sure. Interesting. Well, um, well let's like say, I mean, it is great to talk to you. Um, I know you focus a lot on the issues of woke ism, um, and the kind of pervasive effect it has been having on society. Um, but my hope is here in the UK, we can be a bit more civilized, rational, reasonable about dealing with these issues because my, my thoughts on when I see everything in America is everything seems to be a binary argument and that nuance middle ground where issues are discussed tend to be missed. And I think I found that that's where even if you hold a firm position, you are also diving into the nuance a bit and having a rational argument. Yeah. Well, look, I believe in persuading people. I think that's how you change the culture. Um, you, you have to meet people where they are and persuade them. And one of the great things about trigonometry over the last five and a half years, we've had people on the show who've persuaded us and have changed our minds about issues. So I know from personal experience that people when exposed to rational argument that's made without cruelty or without malice, uh, many people, if they give it the time to actually think it through will change their perspective if they're presented with a coherent argument. Um, you know, and so I've always tried to combine that with a bit of humor and a bit of levity, um, and some facts, you know, which I think is important. And that to me is the way that if there is such a thing as a culture war, which in my opinion we are in, uh, then the way that gets one is by persuading most people who've got, you know, people have got families and jobs and sick parents and kids that need to be taken to football or whatever. Most people don't have time to delve deeply into obscure some issue that affects, you know, 1 % of the public. However, I think there are some issues on which it becomes important to win the debate, to win, to win the argument. And in my opinion, the way to do that is by coming across as reasonable and rational. But look, I understand as well, you know, on some of the stuff that we talk about, you know, for me, for example, uh, my family, uh, fled the Soviet Union because they were punished for speaking their mind. I have a bit of a sensitivity when it comes to seeing people shut down for expressing opinions that some people don't like. To me that I, do you see what I mean? That's like a bit of a trauma spot almost for me. Well, I'm in a five year lawsuit for a number of tweets. Oh yeah. Yeah. So, uh, you know, I, I, that's my biggest envy of America is their first amendment protection. I'm the same. So when I see stuff like that, it sends me up the wall. And so I do understand people who are outraged about things. My feeling though, is that that is an unproductive way of being for you as an individual, first and foremost, it doesn't make you feel good. It doesn't make you a constructive person in the world. It doesn't make you a good parent or a good husband or a good anything. And so more than anything, my journey personally has been to kind of, uh, be more, more relaxed and more understanding of different perspectives and whatever. And then I think you're much more able to persuade people who don't already agree with you. So for example, after my, uh, speech at the Oxford union, which did very well, I had, you know, Hollywood love is reaching out to me going, you know what? I really liked what you said about this people that you, you know, no one listening or watching to this, uh, listen to this or watching this would have thought would have anything to do with me or what I'm saying. Um, and that to me is really gratifying because look, sometimes you have to rile up your base and there are people who will do that very well. For me, I think we have to win the argument. We have to remind people how valuable it is that we have what we have in the West and that in our desire to perfect our society, we don't throw the baby away with the bathwater. So when you mentioned early, you've had some people on who've changed your mind on things like what stands out for you? So we had a very controversial, um, women's rights campaigner called Posey Parker, uh, early on in the history of show, this is 2018. Uh, I know it feels like we're banging on about trans all episodes, but since you asked me, I'm just telling you one of the most, it's also one, it's probably the most of one of the most watched into, I think it is the most watched interview on our channel as well, because what you see is Francis and I, my cohost, two comedians wading into an issue, which at the time nobody was really talking about. And we are coming at it with a set of, you know, ideas about being compassionate and not offending people and whatever. And you see this woman come on and be very clear and basically win the argument against us on our own show and change our minds. And what was her argument? What was the competing argument? Well, I think people should go and watch the interview. Uh, but her argument, the title of the episode is trans women aren't women. Okay. Which for us two comedians at the time operating on an extremely progressive comedy circuit was like, I remember we were like strategizing is like, what happens? I mean, I'm guessing that we were thinking, well, you know, this video will probably get taken down. Our channel might get taken down. What are we going to do? And we were thinking about that ahead of time. Cause we knew it was controversial, but we also felt a duty to the truth. And the truth was that she made sense. And most of the arguments that we put forward to her as devil's advocate or counterarguments didn't stack up to the reality of what she was saying. Right. Uh, and I think that is it. And that is probably why it's one of our most, most watched of episodes because you're seeing good faith engagement between people trying to get to the truth in which they actually get closer to the truth, you know, and you don't see a lot of that happening because in most of our public discourse, public conversations, it's like, you've got two people with rigid positions coming together to have a bitch fight. And it wasn't that at all. And, and, you know, for that reason, I think it was very transformative, but then, you know, you, you talked to all sorts of people, um, uh, many of our guests have really opened our eyes to different things. So, uh, that's really one example that I would give. Yeah. And it's interesting because you say there, you were worried about, uh, on the comedy circuit, the, uh, reactions to people you're worried about your channel. And so there's almost that, that, that fear that puts you in a position to, we need to self -censor. Yes. Which itself is a horrible form of censorship, uh, censorship. I self -censor, uh, self -censor all the time on Twitter. I always think I, you know, I think I'll probably just discuss that in private with my friends. There's certain discussions, debates that you want to have that you just aren't willing to have in public because it's not that I don't believe my points of view. It's almost like I don't, I haven't fully formed them. You have to almost debate them to get to the point where you formed them, but if you can't debate them in public, you have to debate them privately. And this is why I think free speech is so important. And I think it's, it's such a, it's so sad that we don't have it here because we're not allowing people to, to find that truth. That is such a profound point. And I'm really glad you made it. I actually have a whole chapter in my, in my book about language. And this is one of the things that people are not willing to recognize quite often, particularly the people who are more on the side of preventing certain conversations from being had, which is you have to speak to think, and therefore not everything you're going to say is going to come out as a fully formed, perfectly phrased, exactly carefully calibrated thing, particularly in text where you miss most of the communication that's happening between human beings, which is visual and your tone of voice and the way your face looks when you say it and all of that. And it's condensed into a very short message for which for any nuanced issue is not enough characters. Um, but I agree with you, man. We have to be able to have conversations, particularly about contentious issues because they're contentious for a reason, which is that people do not agree, right? And so how do you get to a position where everyone's views are properly formed and taken into account when it comes to making government policy or public opinion about things and whatever. The only way that happens really is if you have honest discussion and conversation. Now, social media is not the best platform for it necessarily in the sense that it's conducted in public and that creates a set of perverse incentives for people to look good at the expense of others. Uh, but I, I think we're in the early stages of social media. We as human beings haven't really, it's kind of like cars, but without seat belts yet, you know, uh, I think over time we will hopefully work out ways of communicating online that are more conducive to healthy conversation. And part of that comes from, uh, you know, all of us working out, well, what is it that I really want to say? You know, mentioned it was kind of you to say that reply I had to Rosanna this morning. I have to be honest and say that three years ago, I would have phrased that very differently. I would have just been like, look, how do I make her look stupid? Blah, blah, blah. Cause that's how, that's how you get attention online. And then it's the perverse incentives that it creates. But I think as you will know, as your audience grows and your platform grows, you do feel a sense of, you know, it's important to say the truth, but it's also important to be responsible with what you're saying, which makes it easier for people to hear. Well, I sometimes feel like that, um, making someone look stupid on online, it's a bit like smoking. Yeah. It might feel good instantly, but after you feel that kind of dirtiness afterwards and you know, I'm a hypocrite. I do it sometimes. Yeah. Other times I, you know, try and do a, uh, uh, you know, more like you try and have a constructive discussion with somebody, but just back to that point of fully forming your arguments is it makes me think to my children, right? I mean, mine have been older than yours. I've got a 19 year old and 13 year old, but I still consider the 19 year old a child. And even though he's an adult legally, you know, we don't cancel our children from a very young age. I mean, the first time your child swears is hilarious. And then you teach them not to swear and, you know, they start to form ideas about the world and you help shape them. If you think they're going in the wrong direction, I don't think that should stop when we become an adult. I think that should carry through the entirety of your life is trying to figure these things out. And I think one of my biggest problems we have in the UK is we don't have enough high quality public debate. This can happen. It can happen on your show, but it's still kind of in the shadows. I, you know, I could watch something like question time on newsnight and I still feel like people are holding back. Yeah. Well, they are holding back as someone who's done those shows. I can tell you. Well, look, I also think, you know, um, I'm increasingly moving away from the perspective on this that I had probably for the first three to four years of us doing trigonometry, which was about, look, all the mainstream institutions are corrupt and captured by this worldview, whether you want to call it radical progressivism or whatever. And I'm not saying that as someone as an outsider, I used to go into the BBC and still do. I used to do, and this was before I had any profile, which made it easier. So, you know, I've got dark skin, first -generation immigrant, foreign name, blah, blah, blah. And they would automatically assume that I was one of them. I thought like them, you know, diversity, inclusion, and equity. Right. And when they speak openly behind the scenes about how they see the world, you're going, this institution is completely captured, right? It is riddled with a particular mindset.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Did Ron DeSantis Have A Basket Of Deplorables Moment?
"This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is The Mike Gallagher Show. I can tell you right now, Donald Trump's going to win whether he shows up or not. And on Thursday, any channel you turn on is going to show a reel of what each candidate said about Trump. One person who hasn't been indicted is Zivak Ramaswamy. I keep on scratching my head on why his numbers have improved so much. I think that this is a very weak case that's going to die very quickly, at least as far as being prosecuted in Georgia courts. Now, from the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. So riddle me this, Batman. How does Ron DeSantis go after Donald Trump without attacking Trump supporters? You talk about the fine art of politics. Good luck with that. As Governor DeSantis discovered over the weekend when he gave a fairly innocuous answer to Will Witt, a great young conservative voice now based here in Florida. He's been affiliated with PragerU, and Governor DeSantis sat down with him, I guess, to reach out to young people. And Will is a smart, accomplished young guy. And Governor DeSantis had what many believe to be his basket of deplorables moment. Did he step in it big time, referring to Trump supporters as listless vessels sort of taking marching orders from the latest thing that came out of President Trump's truth social account? Ouch.
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A highlight from From Big Bang to James Webb: Exploring Space with John Mather
"Right now we still have the great mystery of quantum mechanics doesn't seem to describe gravity. Can we find places that are like home? Little Earth's orbiting stars like the Sun. When you look at the history of Earth you see the history of the different forms of life growing. It's taken all of the entire history of the universe for us to turn up. We start off with that can't be done that's impossible. Then somebody invents something and then somebody wants some more and gradually we invest our billions or trillions as it takes because there's a demand for it. Please build us another telescope to look farther back because we've got a big mystery here. Artificial limbs, precision GPS, firefighter suits, insulin pumps, emergency blankets, air purifiers, even the dust buster. Now what do all of these things have in common? Well these were actually all innovations developed through the pursuit of space and I think there's something really profound there. Through our collective deep desire to understand our past and all that we came from we've created technologies that enhance our future. I think it's also an important reminder that history is riddled with people we think they know what is best to build without realizing that there are so many great things that have sprouted from projects that didn't seem immediately useful at the time. And that's why today I am so excited about our guest astrophysicist John Mather. Now John actually won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006 for his work on the Kobe satellite to which by the way Stephen Hawking described the imagery from Kobe and its implications on the Big Bang Theory as the most important discovery of the century if not all time. More recently John was a senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope and that was the feat of science that produced the images of those far -out galaxies that you probably saw as the Biden administration revealed them in the last year. Now this episode came about because I had the pleasure of seeing John speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival and after his talk I had to ask him I had to shoot my shot to see if he'd come on the A16Z podcast and in this complex world of cosmic probabilities John actually said yes. So here we are venturing into the very beginnings of our cosmic history. We also talked about what we've learned in the several decades that John has been working in this space but also the many things that we have yet to understand so things like dark energy and dark matter. Plus we explored the very important question of why space exploration is such a fundamental but also useful human desire in the first place and given that the James Webb Space Telescope that John has been working on recently made its first detection of a new carbon compound methyl cation this conversation is all the more timely.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian and Chris Kohls Review the Cast Of "Conan the Barbarian"
"Let's start talking about the cast. We have William Smith playing the blacksmith who is the father to Conan, and here we have well, it's about steel and it's a riddle. I forgot the secret of steel and nothing on the battlefield. We found it. I just meant that God's a giant. The secret of steel has always carried with a mystery. He was foolish for Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one. No one in this world can you trust? Not men that women have beasts. This you can trust. What an incredible, incredible performance. So hypnotics, the manly man. Do you recognize the actor William Smith and where we saw him most recently, Chris? No, I don't. But the funny thing you mentioned how good this performance is, it's actually a relatively small part of film. Yeah. It's just this little sliver of this film. And it's so epic and it's so well done. Excuse me. Yeah. What do you want to see on? Live radio. That's what you want to see. Okay, just brilliantly done. I mean, this is what you can do with such a small part, right? I mean, this is truly a great act of this man. What has he done recently? Well, this is the interpreter. This is the interrogator, the intelligence officer. In real life, in the Korean War, who was colonel in red dawn. Do you remember the colonel who? Of course. Of course I have another movie. Another buddy of milius. 'cause this was first. Right. He gave him a big wig, massive beard, but just, you know, and that scene on the top of the mountain with the clouds going by. It could have been so cheesy, so fake, but it just works. The connection between the sun and the father. All right, talk to us about the rest of the cars. You mentioned some great performances. I'll give you my input, but tell us about the supporting actors. Yeah, you know, I was really struck by the king. This is played by a man named max von Sydow. And I had actually now really heard of this guy before. I've obviously seen him in many films, and I just haven't heard that name. What an underrated actor. I mean, I don't know all the stuff that he's been and I couldn't list you all of his films, but I know I've seen him in many, many projects. And what a fantastic performance. When he's talking about how he's got all this money, he's built up this massive kingdom, but all he cares now is about his daughter that's all he cares about. It's actually a touching performance weirdly
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Dissect Trump's Bold Statement at CPAC
"Read an article by a friend, a Christian who I think got this totally wrong. A wrote an article about what Trump said, I am your retribution. So here's the whole quote of what Trump said and then John and I can react to it and I can tell you why I think the Christian who wrote about this got it wrong and a lot of other Christians are getting it wrong. And it's very, very, very bad that they're getting this wrong. They need to get this right. Okay, here's the quote, Trump is speaking at cpac. He says, in 2016, I declared I am your voice. Today I add, I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. Not going to let this happen, not going to let it happen. I will totally obliterate the deep state. Those were the most encouraging words I have ever heard. And I just want to say any Christian who thinks that's unhealthy, you have a kind of spiritual cancer. You are riddled with disease. You are everything wrong with the perception of Christianity in the world. You are the slave morality Nietzsche was talking about. You are the disease. Your niche is Christianity. You are a horrible little cartoon caricature of Christianity that Jesus wouldn't spit on and that the apostles wouldn't recognize. That kind of Christianity. Now, I want to explain why, in a very clear way, Donald Trump is not running for gangster. He is not ahead. He is not like the Bloods or the crypts. He is not a hitman, offering himself out to hire. He is running to be the president to work for the government to lead the government. It is the government's job to render justice.
The Officer Tatum Show
Breaking Down the Victim Mentality
"One thing I want to talk about and I wasn't even going to start the show like this, but I just thought about it right before the break ended was that there's a young lady out here that says she wanted to debate me. Now she, I don't know if she claimed to be a conservative or not, I made a video about her on my YouTube channel because she swore that this country has systems in place that deliberately disenfranchised black people. And she's obviously not black. And it's funny how people who are not black fall in this mysterious category of trying to defend a point to find favor amongst black people because they believe we believe what she's saying. There's no systems necessarily in place to try to thwart or disenfranchise black people. It just doesn't exist. Now, could there be things that disproportionately affect X? Disproportionately affect why, yes. You don't have to be black for these things to affect you. If you are in a community where crime is rampant, it don't matter what color you are, you're going to have more police response. Just two plus two is four. It's not like, I'm going to get crazy on the radio, and I just started. It's not like there's a white area in town that's riddled with violence. And then there's a black area in town that's riddled with violence. And police officers, all the way down from the police chief says, about the white community. It's violence. We'll let it slide. We want to go over here with a black people ahead. And make sure all of our resources are projected in one area.
The Officer Tatum Show
Lori Lightfoot's Downfall Is Bigger Than Just Chicago
"Laurie dirty foot is hanging up her slew foot and then big clown shoes because she is no longer the mayor of Chicago. Now it politics do not matter in this case. Meaning that I don't care what your political persuasion is. When your city is riddled with crime, people are fleeing your city because of the mismanagement and policies that have been put into place at the leadership of their, then you gotta just take it. Take the L and she ended up getting beat, she finished third place, there was two individuals, I don't think it's close enough to do a runoff or I think it's Paul villas. I don't know if it's part of valis or virus virus, it could be valid so virus, I don't know. You know, the ales sometimes yeah, I think that's how you say it anyway. Y'all get what I'm saying. Paul. Ended up winning a 172,000 votes, a guy named Brandon Johnson won, I would not want, but he was second place at a 103,000 votes and then Laurie dirty foot clown shoes ended up getting 86,000 votes. She got 17% of the vote. Respectively, Paul got 33% of the vote.
AP News Radio
10 Palestinians killed, scores hurt in Israel West Bank raid
"Israeli troops have entered a major Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank in a rare daytime arrest operation, triggering a fighting that killed at least ten Palestinians and wounded scores of others. The raid, which reduced a building to rubble and left a series of shops riddled with bullets, was one of the bloodiest battles a year of fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Palestinian officials say a 72 year old man is among the dead and over 100 people wounded. The brazen rate coupled with the high death toll raises the prospect of further bloodshed, a similar raid last month was followed by a deadly Palestinian attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue, and the Hamas militant group warning that its patience is running out. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Dan Bongino Show
Lee Smith: Sy Hersh's Careless Claims About the Nord Stream Bombing
"My argument is not that we didn't do it I think that's quite possible I don't know We don't have enough evidence yet But it's certainly quite possible The Biden administration is behind the sabotage of Nord streams one and two pipelines My concern is with Seymour hersh's particular article Which is riddled with obvious holes and some of which I describe in the article and some of which I don't I didn't want to over over detail it I mean we can go through some of them if you like Yeah give us the biggest the biggest issue some of the most triage enforced One of the most troubling components of the article as you see Well I'll tell you everyone I've spoken with you know some of these folks who have Intel or military backgrounds the first thing that the first thing that they've mentioned is yeah the idea that they were using fleet divers rather than naval special warfare teams doesn't make sense And then of course first justifies that by saying they didn't want to brief the gang of 8 because they were scared of leaks And there is no one in the gang of 8 who would be against that on the Republican side You have McConnell and the car seat And you have Marco Rubio and Mike Turner All of those people are Russia hawks So there's nothing to worry about with leaks But more importantly they didn't want to they were worried about leaks for the gang of 8 but they had no problems bringing in Norwegians And then they briefed the Swedes and the Danes It doesn't make sense And the larger thing we're going to hide we're going to hide this really delicate operation behind a public joint exercise all of these things just feel very fishy And I mean I think what's going on is I think that someone well I know that someone lied to see more hirsch that's my reading of the piece
The Charlie Kirk Show
The War on Whiteness With Douglas Murray
"Let's talk about this war on white people. That's a thought crime Douglas. You're not allowed to say you're obviously welcome to say it here. We agree, we believe that all forms of racism are evil and awful. But the one type of racism you're not allowed to talk about, of course, is a war on people that look like you and I. Why is that? Does it have something to do with how they view racism only to be a power struggle if you have more numbers, therefore you can't be racist. And Douglas, you said something, and I've repeated it many times and I give you a credit about half the time, just so you're just so we're clear. When you were on this conversation with Dennis prager and you just said, we have a supply and demand problem with racism in the west. I said, that is one of the smartest things I've ever heard anybody say. Navigate us through that. So, as I say, there's a supply and demand problem. But there's a demand for racists and thankfully small supply in countries like America, very few people are actually white supremacists. Dennis breger said, he said, I haven't been met a white supremacist ever come across one. I mean, there are some out there, but I mean, it's not like American life is riddled with. Among the contrary, most people in America are very decent, very open minded. All the stats show it. And it's a profound smear on this country and its people to pretend that everyone is racist. But here's the thing. As you say, and it's a thought crime in many places, I don't care. I'm committing it anyway. There is a war against white people. The only permissible racism of our time is racism against white people. And if anyone doubts that. If anyone doubts it, try any of the following phrases, these pathologizing phrases used about white people. We've had white fragility. Imagine if we had a New York Times bestselling book called black fragility. We've had white tears imagine if you had black tears. Imagine if instead of laughing at white women's tears, we talked about black women's tears. Imagine if instead of white rage, people said, oh, I think there's a thing called black rage, and imagine if the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark milley testified in Congress and said, I want to look into black rage.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
If Kremlin Use Carlson's Clips, What if China Uses LeBron's Clips?
"Published this big expose that the Kremlin supposedly is issuing a memorandum or has issued a memorandum, advancing Tucker Carlson's commentary from Fox News. In Russia, in other words, mother Jones and David corn alleging if you know anything about David corn, this is not a guy who's in the middle. He's not objective. He's a far left journalist. But the far left narrative is that Tucker Carlson of Fox News channel is an agent or a pawn or a tool of Vladimir Putin. So riddle me this Batman, what are you going to do if we get into a major showdown with China, what are they going to say about the LeBron James of the world? As it applies to China. What are they going to do with the NBA or Major League Baseball or any of these big woke professional sports leagues that are in bed with China? What are they going to do about Facebook and all these big companies and big tech in bed with China? If China assists Russia and according to the what the Biden administration is saying, that will absolutely be a bridge too far. And we'll have to take on China, what's LeBron James going to say about China then? More to the point, what are the same far lefties who are condemning Tucker Carlson going to say? About the lefties like LeBron James. Who are in bed with China. That'll get
Mark Levin
Rich Valdes: One Rule That Stands out From Saul Alinsky
"So much of what we see today it's the radical left It's playing everyone against everyone else playing them against themselves One of alinsky's rules that stood out to me was a rule that I used a lot when I worked with James O'Keefe at project veritas back in 2014 2015 I ran the national field operation for James I was his director of special operations And making left wing radicals live up to their own book of rules was a big part of that work One of the alinsky rules is make the enemy live up to his own book of rules Here's a quote from alinsky Ridicule is man's most potent weapon There is no defense It's almost impossible to counter attack riddle Ridiculous excuse me So when associate justice Sonia Sotomayor from the boogie down Bronx the land of AOC all our crazy When she spreads misinformation to the masses on COVID and she doesn't face any ridicule what are we to what are we to surmise from that That we're not making them live up to their own book of
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Facebook Shields Millions of VIP Users From Standard Moderation Protocols
"Street journal reporting shows that facebook has one set of rules for the famous and powerful and another set for the rest of its users. An internal company program called crosscheck allows posts by high profile users that violate facebook's policies to receive extra layers of review and the potential for special treatment. The program covers pretty much. Anyone who regularly appears in the media or has a substantial online following including actors talk show host academics and online personalities documentation reviewed by the wall street journal shows crosscheck covered at least five eight million users in twenty twenty. The information revealed is part of wsj. Investigative series called the facebook files based on an extensive array of internal facebook communications reviewed by wsj reporters and interviews with dozens of current and former employees. That show facebook is aware it's platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm to users but is often unwilling or unable to address them joining us to discuss how this program works and why facebook set it up is a reporter justin check. He's part of the facebook files. Investigative team high. Justin for having me so justin. Let's start off with how this program works. What happens when one of the accounts. On facebook's cross checklist post something. That violates one of facebook's rules will in theory it's supposed to be subject to special review so if i posted something that was in flagrant violation of the rules it would automatically taken down and if it was in violation of a particularly serious rule like the rule against revenge porn which will come later. My account might be taken down automatically whereas people on the crush checklist go to special review but sometimes the special review appears not to happen. People in the crush. Checklists can just sort of post off and it'll either stay up indefinitely or for some period of time rather than being instantly taken down even if it. Blatantly violates facebook rules.
The Masked Man Show
"riddle" Discussed on The Masked Man Show
"I like what you're saying there but people always assume that they know what's what's best like you know fans out there they they're always booking or feels like everyone's a writer everyone's everyone's a producer but like the wwe knows they know the talent they have. They could put tag team together and have tagging. Maybe if at all nobody attacked the entertain the idea. They might not want that. What if they don't want this this this would've with what they're doing right now is what they would've would've would've best it is in and that's why i kind of agree with what you're saying and riddle noses his role in ordinance appro man. He's in that point of his career. I think he's liking to try different things. I'm telling you looks like he looks like he's having fun though even though he's he's because he because he knows what he's doing he's these deadpan. No cell in riddle and riddles riddling. I'm gonna kill you a kindness. And i'm gonna win you over in like because because in the ring from bell to bell we already know what will represent and i think or an ordinance happen. I think he's having fun man. He's done it all. He's been in evolution. he's been he's been. He's the pecs predator. He's been the legend killer. He's been this guy that does all these things in wrestled. Every single person people forget how long he's been in this game. And i think he likes the spot that he's at so why not a little slapstick every now and again those you make them absolutely. I mean that's what i any. Maybe it doesn't need to be that cut and dry lake make tag division the division but like what you're saying but it seems like they're like of all the things happening on raw that we can complain about they'd like is when they lean into that they actually do a really good job it's hilarious. It's hilarious man. Like i said at the end of the day. It's sports entertainment than the fans are fired up when they come out when that when that when that bro heads the crowd pops listen at the end of the day..
Before Breakfast
Make It a Quest: How to Reconnect With Your Creative Self
"Tip is to make it a quest beginning the day or the week with a goal you want to reach by the end of it can make time feel different memorable and possibly more fun. Today's tip like another. This week comes from jeffrey davis's book tracking wonder which will be published. This fall tracking wonder is all about how to reconnect with your creative self. Much of adult life can go on autopilot after a while you do the same thing day after day an end the day much as you started it there is nothing wrong with routine but when we do the same thing. It's easy to think the same things doing things. A little differently can sometimes spur different thoughts. Enter the quest. When i say this word i think of nights the hero on horseback goes out to slay a dragon find his way through a dark forest and save a princess. It is a pursuit. a search a journey. Think finding three clues so you can solve a riddle while we are not knights on horseback or detectives solving case we can adopt the quest mindset for daily life to just think of a series of different things. You could figure out to find a set period of time. Perhaps you would like to get to know a few more people at work. You might go on a quest to have a conversation with five new people over the course of the work week or maybe it's saying hello to five different neighbors in a similar quantity of time. You could go on a quest to find all the buildings done by a local architect. You could go on a quest to take photos of thirty different depictions of flowers in art at a local art museum. These quests don't have to be profound at all.
We Saw the Devil
"riddle" Discussed on We Saw the Devil
"Riddle me. That is a true crime. Podcast that deals with adult themes. Some episodes explored disturbing topics such as murder abuse. Sexual violence drug abuse suicide and self harm. Please listen at your own. Risk theories discussed in episodes may not be the opinion of the host. Welcome back to the show. I'm jules and this. is that true crime. So today's episode is a special one in. It's an episode. That i invited sunday world journalist. Trish devlin to join me for. I'd spoken to some of my friends from ireland about this case specifically and i didn't think that i could do justice so i brought on trish who has covered noah donohoe's case extensively for the sunday world. Welcome to the show trash. Thanks jobs for having me your so. Welcome trust you wanna tell the listeners. A little bit about you and a little bit about your background. Yes thanks jews bowl. I'm a journalist with the sunday. Newspaper at is an irish. Newspaper was in addition in northern ireland. I cover a lot of harlan will stay crame idea investigations. I've been there from twenty seven. I've been in journalism for fifteen years or last ten years have been mostly focused on crime. So yeah i might work has taken me to different places on believably. Land has Fight of the international gangsters and stuff northern ireland at site a different gun skip from the site the barnum and not we have a lot of parmilitary violence which comes from the troubles unfortunately over twenty years from good freddie agreement which was the pace stay sane to end. The troubles in northern aren't on. There are still horrible. Grips laura's on republican that still exert control communities on they drug bidding. They intelligence earn day. Murder suppressant by workers will stay focused. On hard j kramer unorganized frame. I'm par militaries are effectively just organized crime craftsy Themselves in a union side or an irish and unfortunately for me that said to death threats from my work two years alone. I've had numerous stats. Rats delivered to my home by place. I have also had tracks to my children on. Its but pretty horrendous. I mean you just have to carry on with your work yeah. Initially i was a little bit nervous to ask trish to come on the podcast because i thought it might be dangerous just because i'd spoken about it with a few friends from the uk and ireland and all of them kind of had the same reaction that this is a very fragile piece. Which is something that you and. I have spoken about before we recorded. So let's talk about no donohoe now so trish you've had the pleasure of connecting with fiona donohoe noah's mother as well as his at so. Do your understanding. What type of kid was noah from. What feel now has described to me newell. It was incredibly special boy. He was very intelligent for creative. He loved life and loved learning about life. he played the cello. He had basketball and he was. Just an orion greg kent. He had so many france and hundred grand mode froze momentous tonle on always wanted to batter himself. She said she said that he wanted hermit. Doctor to help other people on had such great care niche brothers. From the moment that i saw pitcher of noah i really captured by the light in his eyes and the innocence about him. He just looked like a little angel. And i really suggest that you all go out. And google the picture of noah because he just shines through. And here's a kid who's really good at music. He's athletic. He plays basketball. He's really intelligent. He wants to be a doctor and he's such a good son. He's just the type of kid that anyone would want in their family and it's always so sad when they're so much unrealized potential and to see noah's life cut short is just gut wrenching because he truly would have gone anywhere in the world that he wanted to go. Absolutely i made has pitcher which has appeared over belfast. On walls on people's front doors amine people's social media provides just lights up a room doesn't it truly does so trish. Can you go a little bit into what knows armies and how it got started. Noah's arm may as basically hundreds of thousands of concerned. Members of the public have rallied behind the donahue foamy for them to get answers over knowle's tragic disappearance dan. It was kinda form i do. Know what height the neom was coined to think point by fiona because she felt like she had an army behind her because anytime that she posted on social media or the her family is. Crashes averted was disappearance.
Chompers
Bugs Week: Morning Riddles
"It's bugs week and today we've got some riddles about crawley critters to puzzle your noggin. Here's your first one. This bug has two big claws and a tale. That can hurt it. Looks like a small lobster that you find in the desert. What type of bug is this scorpion. A scorpion switzer rushing to the other side of the top of your mouth. Don't brush too hard scorpions type of arachne. It that means they have eight legs like spiders. Scorpions have to sharp pincers in the front of their body. That looks sort of like the clause of the lobster or crab and they have a long tail with a stinger at the end. Scorpions used their singers to inject poison into whatever they want to eat. Switzer rushing to the bottom of your mouth and keep on brushing. Here's your next riddle. This bug is like a lamp lighting up the woods at night. They fly around in till there but turns on the light. What bug is this. Fires lies firefly's fireflies or lightning. Bugs are the little bugs that light up the woods at night. Their butts laid up like a light bulb using something called bio blooming essence. What i'll explain after you switch you're brushing to the other side of the bottom of your mouth and brush the molars in the way back. Bioluminescence is how certain animals create light bio means. Life and luminescence means cold. Light like a light that isn't made with fire or heat. Animals who bio luminescence can create light in their bodies using chemical reactions firefly's mixed special chemicals in their butts to make them light up
The Kindle Chronicles
"riddle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"But i've never been a very the reason. I'm became mariah tourism manager of people's ridiculous. Have someone else to manage blue back in your next thing you know. You're you're like when you were running the internet corporations. That's right the reason. I got out of that business. I'm coming full circle a little bit but mean the writing writing. The book is what i really enjoy in what i'm trying to spend more time on and said that's what i've been thinking about is how qanon spend more time doing the stuff that i think i'm good at that. I enjoy But it's becoming harder mean. The pandemic in a strange way has been good for book. Sales people have have really wanted to read. Read this more sort of science fiction. Fantasy stuff that i write And you know unfortunately for bookstore owners and the people who work there those of enclosed and so they have driven them to digital formats online. Where we're much more present than have a bit of a competitive advantage But i think you know some of that will certainly reverse. But i also think some of the behavior from consumers and readers has changed in. What we're i think people you know who wouldn't have tried blokes or wouldn't try bind online. Have done it. And i think they basically you know. That's something that's convenient. I'm gonna stick with that. Audience been surprisingly strong women we saw. We thought with people not commuting. That dawda would go down. But whatever reason audience been fairly robust and continues to grow. That's interesting to me. Because i've always commute anymore so the only time we can listen to audiobooks. Podcasts isn't doing the dishes or a few things or maybe going on a walk But when you think of the the huge difference in the number of people commuting. I guess that just shows people really enjoy hearing a story that way and it's not just killing time when they're on anneli freeway right. Yeah i i think that's true. And i also think People are looking for that escape. You know someone telling them a story and maybe they're they're working from home. They're looking at screens all the time and they liked the audio or whatever something about the voice. It's i've been playing around with that clubhouse no the social app that's all audio and i think it's sort of peaked. I was as usual a huge cheerleader. It how is going to change the world. While i don't think so so much now but but it's still some interesting. Things happened there..
The Kindle Chronicles
"riddle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"Seemed like one of the toughest things to manage was the fact that it could be transmitted by people who weren't showing symptoms. I mean i think with all and some of the others You by the time. Somebody was really really sick. You you knew they had it. There wasn't a period before they got really sick that it was questionable. But is that Always going to be the case with corona viruses or any other pathogens have that similar ability to spread before you even know who's spreading it respiratory viruses natori for a semiautomatic transmission. And so it's like a bullet is viral hemorrhagic fever and so you know your tissues hemorrhaging out blood and it does. I think he gets in saliva and some other bodily fluids. But you've really got to transmit those fluids so it's a lot harder to transmit and so respiratory viruses. Just in general are the toughest thing to contain. They generally will have some degree of a cinematic transmission. Just depends on the virus and how much they can you know amplify before. The host really is impact Even with corona you saw people. I talked to someone Who got an antibody test in. Didn't even know that they had the corona virus and he had the antibodies for right. And there's some people that never become symptomatic and are obviously transmitting likely transmitted the virus if they have some viral load in their body. Yeah that's a real concern. I mean the the worst virus in the world that you could conceive would be one that could be transmitted for you know weeks in very. That's the lookout. That sounds like something somebody might write a novel about. I don't know what sort of person would do that. Well you mentioned in passing that you're working on a new novel as can you say anything about it yet or what. What what what have you been working with. All this time that you've got you be delightfully isolated actually completed two novels and a little bit of another one but i think the publisher the audio book in the uk publisher do a big thing about us..
The Kindle Chronicles
"riddle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"I think I don't know if if you're vaccinated but you live with someone whose liver transplant one month post liver transplant. I would personally still wear them. and stuff like that. I think it's sort of a case by case basis. And i think if you're claustrophobic can. The mass causes you a lot of psychological distress. I think that's a factor too. what about restaurants. I probably the same. There will be individual differences of but it if you've been vaccinated you're in good health Is a safe go in a restaurant if they let you. I mean some restaurants aren't letting people in yet or if you do. You have to have a masks when you're eating. Yeah it's a question. And i'm i'm actually not really sure i think depends on. Frankly i think it depends on where it is and what the local population is doing enough. If you're talking about a restaurant you look at these maps of north carolina and sometimes counties to have just had a control breakthrough bunch of cases. And so if you're driving through and you stop at local diner there were no one's wearing a mask and half these people's families sick pretty dangerous but if you're talking about a high end restaurant and cambridge where people are taking a lot of precautions. You know that's not something. I personally would worry about out. Both my grandson is fifteen. And i think i don't know if there's just massachusetts or nationally but now he's in the age group that can get the the vaccine so hopefully by the end of the summer he'll have it what do you see In the fall is is the school year starts up again. Hopefully we're getting back to normal My perspective on that is a lot like adults. it's enough. This is a young person that has some health issues. I think getting the vaccine presents a lot. More benefits than risks and These vaccines are new. I mean we do need to gather longitudinal data to figure out exactly the you don't know what you don i can't really say all you can do is handicapped the odds but my hope that these young people get to go back to either high school or college. Being there is something i think. We're all learning about being in person that is really valuable in this especially for college. i think. Hopefully that'll be the case. You know it just scares me death when i hear people talk about the next pandemic you know. And it's really just a matter of when and when you think of the sociological aspects that you mentioned that this was really hard to.
The Kindle Chronicles
"riddle" Discussed on The Kindle Chronicles
"This land welcome to the kindle. Chronicles podcast today is friday. May twenty. First twenty twenty one and i am in cambridge massachusetts. My guest this week is a g riddle jerry riddle who returns to the show for a look back and look forward on the petit this pandemic and the most sobering aspect of our conversation. I think is what might the next pandemic look like. based on what. We've seen so far in this year and last year as always good to talk with jerry. Also a news. We'll be talking about amazon publishing which has finally secured a way to make its books available to public libraries and in the tech. Tipple walk you through an app. That is part of that agreement announced by the digital public library of america. Which amazon publishing is working with to get this accomplished. And i'll have some tips on prime day which i guess is coming in june. We don't know exactly. The date but amazon has said it will be sometime in. June and cnn has an article where they highlight the items. That are most likely to be reduced with dramatic discounts on prime day and they even take a guess as to what price range you'll see some of these devices selling four so a if you're in the market for some of amazon gadgets. It would be wise to wait until whenever it is in june. That prime day comes more on that later. Let's.
KPRC 950 AM
"riddle" Discussed on KPRC 950 AM
"Riddle me this Batman. What do you got? Mr. Hatfield? Could've private citizen give the GOP response the way Tim Scott the senator did last night. Has it ever happened before? I don't know. It's why I said riddle me this that I have no idea. That's a great question. The president gives a speech tradition. It's either the address to Congress, which is the first Of his term or state of the state of the union would be what it's called every time every year after that, and I think traditionally, historically, it's always an elected official of the opposing party. It's not always a senator. It necessarily, but it's usually a senator. But what are the rules? Do you have to be a member of Congress to give the response? Well, whatever side it is, whether it's the Democrats or Republicans, because the other side after the speech gets to say what they want to say. I just wondered. If it would've blown anybody's heads open if Trump had been picked to give the response. Oh, man, how good would that have been? But you know who picks the guy? Hello. My name is Mitch McConnell. That guy? Yeah. Mitch McConnell picks the guy in Mitch picked Tim because he knew they call him Chinese. Mitch? Yeah. Or cocaine. Mitch, is that another another one? They? Mitch knew if it was Tim Scott Biden is going to get up there. Give a speech about how racist America is. Was actually pretty bright Move, and then he said, All right, here's a black guy to tell you. America's not as racist as you just heard from this white guy. Did anybody stay tuned? Watch it or did if anybody even watched Biden give his speech, which I bet it was The maddest popular is the Academy Awards. Did anybody stay tuned for the response? Because my brother Tim on South Carolina brought it. He brought it. Well, I will tell you right now he laid it out, and, uh, I know a lot of people out there calling him Uncle Tim. Now there's right, That's racist, he said. Americans not racist, and the Democrats responded by saying, Yes, we are. See, we're going to be racist to you right now. As you know, the Democratic Party is responsible for, you know, trying to keep slavery around as long as possible Fighting against all those civil rights fighting against freedom, you know, bringing up the KKK, bringing up the Jim Crow laws. And the Democrats up tight brother, Tim Scott last night after he gave his response and it wasn't pretty, but it was typical off the racist Democratic Party, Tim said. A lot of very brave things. Obviously not a stupid man. He's South South Carolina Republican senator very good at what he does, and he gives a speech yesterday in which he criticizes critical race theory. Well, how would you describe critical race theory? What is what, Dad? Never heard of it. Okay, So the 16 19 project they They're teaching it in schools now. Yeah, they're teaching kids. They've changed the historical curriculum that curriculum for history in public schools in some public schools. Not all to teach kids that America was founded under racist principles that America didn't start in, You know. The late 17 hundreds. It started in the early 16 hundreds and the reason they say that is because that's when the Brits brought slavery to the colonies. So that's really when it started right now. There's a lot of fax to back that up. But what they're trying to do with those faxes tell you that nothing's changed. And of course, that's untrue that it has to be completely tourney down. Scraped with a bulldozer until the foundation of this country no longer exists and then build black black. Better, I would say black, black, black black, no matter who Babu Here's Senator Tim Scott, criticizing critical race today. Shoes. They're being taught that the color of their skin defines them again. And if you look a certain way, they're an oppressor from colleges to corporations to our culture. People are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all. By doubling down on the divisions. We've worked so hard. The hell you know this stuff is wrong. Hear me? Clearly, America is not Raised this country. Not anymore. Well, no, no. Look, there's always gonna be racist people out there. They're racist people out there. People that doesn't define define the country. The sum total of NBC News tried to dunk on Senator Tim Scott. They played a clip of him, saying that he's been called racist things. By liberals and progressives, and then they played the clip of him, saying America's not a racist country was like it was as if they were saying, See, It is a racist country because we are we're the Democratic Party races to you all the time. So there another reason they're dunking on him is because he is considered a possible candidate for president next time around. Or the Republican side? Yeah, and he is running for re election next year. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, hey, I I hope he gets reelected. Tim Scott is also this guy who wanted to push criminal justice reform. And the Democrats last year were all complaining. There's no Republicans that want criminal justice reform. Tim Scott did he had a bill and it laid out even some of the things that they wanted, and they would not look at it because he's a Republican. I guess you know, it's a tale as old as time, Right? America isn't a racist country, but we are more divided than we've ever been during my lifetime. And guess who's divide nous? And I think you know why. Well, Jo Bama or Colin Kaepernick? Yeah. Colin Cap. LeBron James. Yeah. Ah, lot of people are dividing us. It turns out media, they're playing their part. That's for sure. They're not helping either, are they? You know, at the end of the day, I still say. It's a great country. I don't care what anybody says. Bad President America's so awesome that even with the president is awful is Joe Biden. I'd still rather be here than anywhere else. Well, yeah, Joe's only gonna be around for a few more months, and then we're gonna get something even worse. But, you know, survived eight years of Obama. All right. This is a tough pill to swallow. All right? This is a tough pill to swallow bill yet. Who do you think would make a worse President Jo or Kamala? I hate to say it. I think it's Joe. I actually think America might be better off with Kamala as our president. I mean, how do you figure I don't see how you what? What? What? What do you make in this thought on okay. Joe Biden. Took over the White House and immediately, the Democrats said. Maybe he's not the right guy to handle the nuclear football. Remember, they took it away from took it away from him. Why do you think they did that? Because there's a chance he might fall asleep on it. I mean that they know that that's a that's a real thing. Right? Kamala Harris on the Yeah, she's a you know, I'm not a fan of her, and she slept her way to the top. And I don't agree with their policies, but at least she can remember where she is right now. You know what I mean? Is that good or bad? Well, what are her intentions? I mean, I know Joe's intentions are bad, but he forgets them right away, and she will stay focused and driven, Although Let's not forget neither one of them is actually the power at the top know they have. People who are handling them. Joe actually has people who have animated a corpse. I mean, that's power stuff. It's weekend at Joe's. Yeah, well, it's no, you're not wrong about that. Look, people calling the shots here. They never got elected. It's an oligarchy. We've seen this before. You know, I reminded me of Fargo. I'm calling the shots here, Okay? Why they, you know they're calling the shots there. Okay then. Hey, you know, there is some good news this morning something we did not expect a little asset. A little tiny detail in our economy is being is having a boom right now. Nobody saw this coming. Maybe we could make money off this rented chicken. What you talking about, Willis? Oh, wow. Thank you. Rented chicken services Lend out egg leg. Hmm. Uh, Huh?.
Someone Lived Here
"riddle" Discussed on Someone Lived Here
"Museum, keeping on the entire staff. What seems typical to her character, incredibly fastidious. Said exactly what she wanted about everything. She did leave an amount of money as an endowment. The dividends on that money, though, the endowment only pay about 10% of our operating budget. So I like to tell people she could have imagined the Internet before she would have been able to predict the appreciation of the assets. Particularly the paintings. One of the parts of her will that most people interpret as the most limiting. Is that nothing can leave the collection and nothing can be added to the collection so that it is static. I have studied art and artists long enough to understand. Sometimes your best work happens when facing a limitation. With that unmovable in our landscape. It really forces us to just be more creative. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think it's part of what makes us really, really special. Hilton museum is currently in the final stages of completing a project within the carriage barn. Really, what we're doing, we don't touch the footprint at all. But we are lining it with the skin, an interior skin, so we can put all of the good juicy climate control thermal envelope ADA compliant features into what's already there. So the objective has been to create a space within the historic space, but that will give us options that we've never had from a programming standpoint. A 120 years after theod 8 finished this whole. It continues to be used in so many ways. Concerts on the front porch, historic house tours, a farm with sheep and bees, a poetry festival in the garden. And before we go, I want to look at one more thing in that garden. A large sundial that theodate had studied and created to bring together the space. On its side, it reads the Latin. Ours longer, Vita brevis. In this home where artwork is surrounded by books and pillows and desks and nature, there's always the reminder. Artists.
Someone Lived Here
"riddle" Discussed on Someone Lived Here
"We're now going to head back to hilted and look at one more room before we take the hidden passage to theod 8 suite. And this room is set up today to reflect its use by theta's husband after she and her husband John riddle eventually moved into this house. They were married in the spring of 1916. Exactly 364 days after she survived the sinking of the lusitania. The 8 8 and John had known each other for about a decade before they married. Theater was 49. John was 51. It was a first marriage for both of them. And it was really quite a shock to everybody that theod 8 knew that she was finally going to get married. And in fact, one of the first people that she wrote to to share the news was the family's butler Ernest Bowen, instructing him that on this particular date, please announce my engagement to the rest of the household staff. And so he promptly wrote her a reply. And it was very short and succinct and it was my dear miss Pope. Shocked I was at first, but after a thought, why not? So we can go right through here. So this is our secret tunnel. This is the passageway. In true theater fashion, she reconfigured the closet to connect their rooms. So the master bedroom is befitting the master bedroom, but lights the largest bedroom in the house. The decor in this bedroom is very different than what we've seen in every other room, especially when it comes to the art. Work is definitely different in these rooms. It's got this very familial maternal feel to it. And the needle were the two embroidered needleworks and an embroidery and a cross stitch are just indicative of theta's love of old things and a given how her own house had been furnished in this. Very old time colonial esque manner. The needleworks just make total sense for what the own personal interests were. This needlework is a great way to understand what was going on with the colonial revival. Beverly Gordon, a textile interpreter and professor emeritus in design studies from the university of Wisconsin Madison. Wrote about this in her paper about the paradox of colonial revival needlework. Quote, in its earliest phases, the colonial revival was largely a reactionary response on the part of a white Anglo Saxon Protestant elite that was losing its sense of dominance and control. The rising tide of immigration was changing the country, and many who were alarmed by depressions, labor unrest and the apparent end of the frontier. Sought to set themselves apart by tracing their lineage to ancestors of solid pioneer stock. A lot of Beverly Gordon's piece is discussing the colonial style and needlework that made a comeback in this era, 1875 to 1940. In the designs you see symmetry, flower baskets, swags, teacups, wreaths, and needlework, which was initially seen as something for rural disadvantaged women had become a popular trend. In a generous reading the colonial revival can be seen as romanticism of a non industrial, more rural version of the United States and a reaction to Victorian excess. But it was raising up the art and the architecture, and pushing down the more honest historical past. While distancing itself from the current reality, when I look at this house, I see that theodate had true appreciation for the colonial style, both in architecture and in art. Her library is a testament to how much she studied its form, and tried to understand its context. We're now going to head outside, and I want to talk about the final and largest project. The Avon old farm school. She built this school for boys in memory of her father. The school looks like an English village. Like it could have been Harry Potter's safety school if he didn't get into Hogwarts. Upon its completion, it got her the type of praise that would have made her father so proud. She received accolades from the architecture community that she had long been shut out of. The school was featured in the journal of the American institute of architects, and she was invited to be a fellow there. She received letters from her colleagues, praising her work, even if they were often addressing her as mister or sir. We're now heading to the sunken garden. It had been let go while theater was still in the home. But it has since been revived in a different form. So we're going down like 9 ten steps into a one acre sunken perennial garden. When a team was starting on reconstruction of this garden in the 1980s, they found a plan by beatrix Ferrand. She was a prolific landscape architect in the early 1900s, and was commissioned to design over a hundred gardens. But only a handful of her design still exist. Although this hill stood plan, had never been put in place. They decided to create the garden, how she outlined it. Beatrix, fair and approach, you can tell that the taller plantings are to the back and she was very much in favor of what she referred to these kind of round tall rounded evergreens as bullets. And she favored masses of color and that kind of as the taller plants would sway in the breeze that the movement that would be a part of the garden so this is just a wonderful example, and it's one of the few places to my knowledge that is completely publicly accessible year round. When theater died, her well requested that she be buried at Halstead. But the town of Farmington would not permit a private cemetery. This would be one of the very few things her will would not be able to accomplish. Now we're going to talk with doctor Anna swinbourne, the executive director of hilted museum on how theater's legacy and her will continues to live on. I'm actually after my interview with you, meeting with a probate judge who is so fascinated by its last well and testament that she's taught classes on it. She thinks it's like the Mona Lisa of wills. Could we expect anything less from theater? She also outlined her home continuing on as a.
Someone Lived Here
"riddle" Discussed on Someone Lived Here
"Melanie about the monograms. So that ABP is misses Pope. And so everything she had was monogrammed. Bath towels, bath mats, pillows, pillowcases, sheets, handkerchiefs. Tablecloths, napkins, placemats. Clearly, theater's mother liked monograms. And the ornate letters standing for Ada Brooks Pope are very different than the symbol that theater would choose for herself. It's made up a very straight lines. A backwards L than a vertical line, and another L all underlined. The symbol was created on a camping trip with Mary and Mary's younger brother, John. Meant to symbolize the group of three together. And theater symbol did not just stay in the linen closet. Although it's there, too. That is her symbol that she had on stationary, her automobiles were monogrammed with it. There's a woven little pouch with it cross stitched in pink on it. As an architect, she had these brass plates with her signature and that symbol that got affixed to various of her buildings. She used it for everything. There's even a variation of it on the grave of Mary's younger brother, John, who died of typhoid fever at 26. It was his death that reinforced the iodine's attention to spiritualism. She would sit down for readings and communications with the dead, analyzed scripts and fund research. Mary went on to found and be the first headmistress of westover school, a school for girls in Connecticut. Theodore's father and his friend Harris whitmore. The young man theat had refused to marry. Excitedly funded it. The 8 built the campus, and one evening, the pair drove down to look at the foundations. Mary saw how enormous it all was. Theodate responded, let your spirit fill the buildings. Four years after the opening of west over school. The eight's father died. With his death, she lost her biggest cheerleader..
Find the Path Podcast
"riddle" Discussed on Find the Path Podcast
"Is often used to sues soothe sore throats. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh my gosh third thirty. I know i don't know maybe it's it's masika kinda tilts her head to the side bs. You're a b. He begins to growl before stopping talking to the side for a moment. This frenzy in his eyes. Seems to flicker piece are you all right. I walk in shadow. God in dead of night but i bask in sun at morning light at my sports considered cruel but only by uncultured. Fulls i slink. Along the eaves above never owned but often loft got nothing for that one guy. Maybe we can help and by helping him solve. These riddles are insane. Moffat man no. I think that'll make. Let's start throwing some riddles back at him. What is in my pocket. Kinda made me think of like a cat sinking along routes and stuff but i walk as shadow baskin son morning light would be like they have that whole play with their food thing. Yeah you don't really own a cat. They tolerate you. I think you're right. I think it is like yeah never owned but often loved. That seems like cats. cats are owned. they don't don't feel that way. Cats definitely appreciate on us. So i guess city would chime out a cat a cat. Of course the cat cat cat cat. Cats got one right the first time ever like almost ten years of play. I don't he pauses stares off for a moment there's a look in his face that can only be seen as desperate hope. the third the third part threes. Two sisters are we different ask can be. I chase her overland. She pursues me oversee. I break but never fall scaling mountains tall. She falls but never breaks soaring over darkened links. The sun and moon She falls. I mean day breaks night falls. Yeah i gotta be. It's gotta be the sun and the moon or it's day and night and we're on a roll. Because i think i holy cow. Yeah 'cause daybreak and night falls. It's got it stay in night. I don't think it's actually sun and moon. I think it's day and night. We'll go with day and night. I was on the right track easy day and night tonight. He laughs bringing his hand up literally biting into his hand in glee. He collapses down to his knees can't solve them. Not everyone is good at riddles. Also it depends on the rental. I can see the words. I can hear them. But i can't make them fit. Make the words fit into what fit the puzzles. What is your be name leak. Hosh swift was.
Find the Path Podcast
"riddle" Discussed on Find the Path Podcast
"Really just kind of keeping a lookout for you again. Following the author flying. You doubt very seriously that you can easily make out where they went. Although of course they would have to land to open one of these stores however you approach towards the altar which seems to be the area that has the most footsteps looking over you can see that numerous creatures numerous pawed creatures have stood here like dozens of cat prints although you can easily tell. These are of bipedal cats there's dried but relatively recent blood here and you can see handprints. Drops of the blood have just formed a small trail leading from one of the bloodstain tables towards the door. To the right when you entered the easternmost store you don't think it has anything necessarily to do with. The fleeing muffed went that way not flying but walking on cats feet though when our friends from the other room went toward the eastern door. There's a trail of blood that seems good. Yeah that's follow. That sounds appropriate. Why not we follow. we follow the blood trail. They will you make your way forward following the blood trail towards the door. As you begin to approach again the walls here are covered hieroglyphs and there is a hieroglyphic keystone to the store. As you begin to approach it denoting for any of you fluent and the ancient assyrian tongue which we are obvious that the chamber beyond is the altar of riddles who excite. Heather's least favorite room. Hollis is excite board ready shooter. nate me a perception rule from the party. Hey it's not a five. This time i roll in eighteen thirty perception. And i just don't agree today because i roll another two for twenty four c in eighteen. Which gets her a twenty four twenty five. I can't do math and narmer rolls of five him. Nineteen Citra rolled eighty nine for a twenty-seven so approaching the door. All of you hear mumbling a sound of forces from beyond the doors you approach closer except for sudi the rest of you can determine that this is just one voice a masculine voice seemingly talking talking to someone and not getting a response. There's an odd cadence to his voice. Almost as if he's speaking him or limerick or rhyme. The blood trail goes beneath the door. Yes city oh look at us citra. It shakes her head and gives the thumbs up sutil. Do a countdown real quick. What for some reason cowboy bebop just popped into my head Okay two one. Let's jam next. Yes that's what happens. Yes basically michels a barred man mystic. I missed a call and being a bar. Just doing all these parodies. I'll again slam. Open the door with the assumption that we're going to roll into combat with somebody throwing. Open the door you push through revealing. Beyond what appears to be short hallway past the edge of your light. You can see it seems to open up into a larger room despite the force with which you open the door one. It slides open silently. Nice to the voice isn't interrupted weird. That's the riddle sound. Maybe it is just magic. Repeating the riddle. Imagine mouth spell kind of thing but something was in here with all the blood so we didn't see a trail of blood going out. I assume for those of you who speak sphinx. It sounds like riddles. We person muttering riddles over and over to himself although somewhat disjointed where have no wait worthless hong pain ten below hunching through. Canine teeth screams. No no no. No i guess make our way forward maybe a muffed ted has been driven insane here or we kind of speaks friend. Who knows you press ahead. Yeah we did making your way to the end of the short haul. You find that. The room opens up into a larger chamber beyond as you enter into the chamber. You can see an elaborate mural of moons waxing and waning through their various phases dominates the curved wall of this room at the end of the chamber a pitch black altar decorated with curved black horns sits in an alcove and the center of the mural a figure hunches in front of this not in a semblance of rare but is if dragging his finger through the dust and sand on the floor. It's then you realize that. The floor in here is covered in what appeared to be sphinx. Words forming disjointed or riddles. The figure a moftec his wings unlike the others just dark not blood red his first seemingly unkempt and warn his entire looking somewhat emaciated and underfed looks back over his shoulder as all of you enter he snarls his face becoming much more feline as he stands up to his feet reaching his hands down and laying them atop the hilts of his twins seminars for our emperor show. We were blessed by mother. Nature with sting of death though are might to some is just. Our work suits the trashcans breath. What am i gonna need to see that in writing i was like oh man that's interesting. It'd be fun if we can call by answering riddles. Which i think is what we're gonna try to do. I'm going to point out that. Rachel is gonna logic puzzles riddles. But we're gonna do our best. She's maybe riddles riddles year. Usually better riddles win. Short and tells you you're wrong. Don't listen assume assuming man riddles should be good at riddles with her. Twenty four intelligence ryan's breath which just think of like a mint fees. Somehow i don't think it's b.'s. I mean she might be onto something because honey.
Find the Path Podcast
"riddle" Discussed on Find the Path Podcast
"Look and pathfinders. The find the path podcasts. Actual play of the mummies mask venture path now with more gays attacks. Yeah so many days attacks right. Now they're confined a sarcophagi. They better stay that way. I'm just saying so. Yeah i suppose Jumping back in. We are all back once again. For our continued exploration of the sightless sphinx. Been going on for a couple of minutes. Now i just stick you. When less we left our heroes the doorkeepers having finished their fight against the cultists in the silver ford had put to rest a haunting spirit of a dead painter before making their way out confirmed that the geared to blue had left out of they didn't get out of the sphinx. They just left out of here out of africa. I wouldn't hang about the party then. Returned back inside and made their way to the hall of the dead which they had learned was also the hall of the un dead redid. Whatever you want her. We didn't just wonder about and figured out what was going on very quickly. He yes seriously. I was really. I can't remember what episode that was. I think it was like six or seven episodes back. I was really curious when halls over to that door to look at that. And it's like maybe we go through this way. I would have been really interesting. Bad is when we would have been very surprised into every fight rally. We certainly wouldn't be twelve level sure l. did level up during the events of the last story after dealing with said haunting and so i suppose following her usual tradition. We can do a quick round about and just tell me one cool thing that you got for your character at this level. I got new spells but their secret. Because rick is jamming right now. Also jiming eighty five percent of the time. Tell you my new super cool sleeve tricks things that are at my sleeve for this episode fight. Isn't this point in my constitution. Thirteen con now. That's the reason you didn't go intelligence or it was already even so i was like i'm going to have to buy things to make it go up anyway. Might as well buy the plus ones right so just got a constitution boost. That did not really do much for you. At this level make you one point of constitution drain further away from death. yeah it's off levels kind of for wizard. So it's not like a cool source level. What about jordan okay. So took my next level of living monolith and this gives me the ability to use meld into stone at will for those. You may not be familiar with the ability enables you to meld your body and possessions into a single block of stone. The stone must be large enough to accommodate your body in three dimensions when the casting is complete you and not more than one hundred pounds of living gear merge with the stone and basically you get full and complete cover. You can actually still here. What's going on outside of you although you can't see it. Minor physical damage to the stone doesn't harm you but if it destroys to the extent that you no longer fit within it it expels you deal some damage the stones complete destruction. Expels you in sleighs you instantly unless you make a fort save still damage. So the next pillar we come across Can you just swoop inside like hang out. Why a surprise kitty. Oh do like an ambush or something. No one expects the pillars. No only rachel this reference but it reminds me a little bit of from my hero. Yeah he's awesome so yeah. Heather sika got a new wandering spirit. Ability called automatic writing which is basically a nation spell once a day that she can just sit down and scribble away. And i think it responds with one hundred percent accuracy. I'll have to double check that through. So i don't have to memorize divination anymore because i can just do it. Ask the quill what you should do. Which is like a direct line to the author of this. Which is rick. Basically kind of sort of a more of an interpreter. Really it's ninety percent effective. And i can do it twice in some level. That's pretty cool. Also just realized that number got spell resistance level. He didn't because of his his archetype. He got his dirty trick upgrade feet instead. Tricky boy sugar into the was doing until i got punched like ten times fish shopped. Sugar's been walking around with spell resistance spills roll like water off a sugars back like ducks back. I mean her. Natural armor sucks. Because she treats me like i'm six level for her national armor adjustment better spills. That's a different thing. That's why stay inside of the fortress of solitude which is what i call my carrier carrier. We staying desert the stir. This one's starting to eg dragon egg. Mostly warm in here. I'm sweating and i'm mostly covered of sweating through my skills at this level. Scituate got another rogue talent for this level. And i took one of my favorites opportunist A good stabby del. Basically to make an attack of opportunity when a target is damaged in mainly. I do appreciate you know one of those rare rogues that can actually that actually has minor magic and major magic. I do appreciate you taking familiar. Does i would not. And then he takes a level of wizard and suddenly he's got a familiar and okay but this question posed this to the path folk if sit your hata familiar. What would her familiar be. Because i don't really know raven. I mean you'd have to take a cat to give your extra stealth bonus now raven not really ravens. And yet she calls herself little ripen. Yeah that's my moniker would make sense but the ravens everywhere so pathak what do you think citrus familiar should be when she eventually gets to get real lessons from us and become a true rocchi wizard cayman like a tiny little alligator. Crocodile cuts like slithery and yes. Oh opportunists always a fun road. Talent by fun. I mean devastatingly deadly added. Hopefully it helps this fight. Go down so everyone leveled up guys went in here. You took a look at a dead body. That was laying over to the side went all. Csi lean down sniffed the bones and wet the smells like and then realize the placement of the sarcophagi that like narrowed. I'd clever girl sort of look. It was clever area. Put down or sunglasses. And he's a straight. she would put on her sunglasses. Okay fine all of this non withstanding. The party then decided to walk the narrow tightrope between the two sides of the room. And by that. I mean it's like ten feet wide to make their way deeper into the complex but as they did so. They heard the disdain for of wings as a pair of naf tet warriors had flown out brandishing. Their twin sitars as they flew high into the air cried out to their god arrests goal. And let's go ahead and get some initiative from the party. show okeydokey.
Reverie True Crime
"riddle" Discussed on Reverie True Crime
"Welcome back to reverie true crime. This is part. Two of the rebecca's how case that. I did with dr jewels from riddle. Me that podcast. I hope you enjoy and also a hopi go checkout riddle me that true Riddle me that is a true crime. Podcast that deals with adult themes. Some episodes explored disturbing topics such as murder abuse. Sexual violence drug abuse suicide and self harm. Please listen at your own. Risk theories discussed in episodes may not be the opinion of the host. Welcome back to part two on the mysterious death of rebecca. How let's jump right back in. Adam calls joan at the hospital and tells them that rebecca has killed herself. Dina is present in joan informs. Her of what happened. So dina for her part seems pretty confused. Why would rebecca commit suicide. So she asked jonah why and he makes a strange pantomime gesture of falling on the sword and reportedly saying asian honor. I mean it's just really strange to me that he wouldn't panic or contemplate why she would do this to herself. And he just says it was an asian honor in that as far as he goes with it. He doesn't freak out. It's like who is kind of clued in as to what was going to happen. Yeah i hate to jump to conclusions there but strange. It seems strange to even do that. Gesture and to say asian honor. You'd think that might be a conclusion that you would eventually come to many days or hours later. Yeah not right off the jump and tell somebody else that it seems kind of rash and just strange. I don't know yeah definitely so atom. Due to the fact that he was the one to discover the body of rebecca and was the only person with rebecca on this freckles property that night he needs to be questioned obviously so he agrees and he cooperates fully with investigators even consenting to a polygraph. What are your thoughts on polygraphs page. Well they're definitely not you know completely reliable. Both know that people have passed polygraphs and they were the killer after all so polygram usually mean really very little to me and i take them with a grain of salt because even if someone feels one i don't completely think they're guilty until there's some concrete evidence there And that may be a controversial opinion. But i've seen people failed them and you know they were actually telling the truth. So you know they've tom-tom again been wrong before so i don't immediately think the results are one hundred percent correct. You know i need to know..
Tarot Rebel Podcast
"riddle" Discussed on Tarot Rebel Podcast
"Turkey. Not thanksgiving so somebody would switch those. Do up girl. You cook bacon trainers baby. I'll say i must say that. I mean no. I'm just saying that that she got a big old belly. That that baby's gonna be at least eight pounds of yourself. Listen don't don't be coming at me with the with the cliche old crone. Eating babies bit right now old crone. You i'm talking about you know. Just say us the babies. I know at his job to say that that'd be let's for dinner but anyways rentals i. Let's get to these riddles valley. So we have fifteen minutes. Let's get into riddles. All right it unlocked by itself. Okay thank you so this is by rebook. Retreats is the page and the title is thirteen. Puzzling spritual riddles dow. I bet you can't solve. That title is a tongue twister. Okay let's see. I one poet's sing my praises and yet i can cause untold pain. When i'm president the world becomes a magical place without me. Life is empty. What do you think. I kind of have a in mind. It would be love. love love loves. Is that your final answer. Yes a blocking it in okay so for each one that we get wrong. I'm gonna take a shot because if you are let's see you're going to be so twisted your good with its love so just be be good. Give me all because if we get this wrong before getting hammered by the end of this do my best so your constant roommate. Can i am you yet. I'm just a tiny piece of you can become as large as a mountain yet. I'm as fragile as a bubble ego and fear echo in fear. Do you want me to reread it. Yeah i i'm thinking my mind my okay so here we go again. I m you. I'm just a tiny piece of you are can become as large as a mountain yet. I'm is fragile as a bubble who am i..
Tarot Rebel Podcast
"riddle" Discussed on Tarot Rebel Podcast
"You need to get somewhere ended on clean it get shoveling. Yeah they in new york. They used to shove Days to plow the major roads And then like the back. Streets was stay piled up for weeks sometimes until it melted and And then you know it turns into ice so we're always. It was always a hot mess. You know it was hard but out here. We actually got a big snowstorm. Like i think three years ago we got thirteen inches out here foot and It was so unexpected like nobody thought we were going to get hit that hard it. What was funny was. I was actually visiting family. We were at a family function in new york and we were we. Were driving back from new york down here and there was no snow in new york. I mean it was cold. It was cold in the upper. No snow me. Come back here and we get to the southern border like virginia and we see all the snow. And we're like what the hell is going on here and we didn't know and then funny thing is right in the middle of that. I get a text from one of my friends. At it's video of her and her her fiance jumping in the snow. Like to kids because they you know. She's from california's so she's never really had snow like that. And he's from down here so again they don't get snow so they were just tickled pink. The both of them and they jumping in making snow angels and lie. What and it was just crazy was a foot of snow and we were driving back from new york and we had a drive slow and it was just like what. But but yeah. It's it pretty much disabled the entire city. Like this down here but it was. It was just shut down for at least two weeks because again like you said. They don't really show they don't really plow up here. Only the major highways out here the only do the highways..
Trivia With Budds
"riddle" Discussed on Trivia With Budds
"All right here. It is disneyland attraction riddles for my friend. Matt let's see if you can decode these names of these rides based on the alternate wording. That i give ya number one eight tom. Hanks daryl hannah movie but with more treacherous peaks number one. Tom hanks daryl. Hannah movie but with more treacherous peaks decode that and come up with the name of a disneyland attraction number one and number two famous inspector cartoon character if he had a green light in a bar top beer holder number to think about that one. Got a breakdown. A famous inspector cartoon character if he had a green light and a bar top beer holder number two number three a two thousand sixteen animated film about a bunny and a fox if it were about cars instead what disneyland attraction would that be number three a two thousand sixteen animated film about a bunny in a fox if we're about cars instead and number four doctor. Henry walton jones juniors grand day out number four doctor. Henry walton jones juniors grand day out halfway through this quiz on disneyland attraction riddles years number. Five clown fish you five seven one trek number five clown fish you five seven one track number six famous peanut butter brands takeoff famous peanut butter brands takeoff and number seven angry. Hot water bash. Angry hot water. Three more to go to close out this episode jessica's husbands ride circle number eight jessica's husbands ride circle and number nine excalibur horsey spin around number nine excalibur. I can't even say it excalibur horsey spin around number nine and number ten dilapidated manor number ten dilapidated manor. Those are all of your disney attraction. Riddles hopefully figure all those out. We'll be back in just a sound effect to see how you did. We are back with the answers to disneyland attraction riddles format. Let's see if you could pull off all these answers from the park. We all miss in anaheim california number one tom. Hanks daryl hannah movie but with more treacherous peaks would be splash mountain splash. Was that movie with them. And of course a mountain has treacherous peaks splash mountain number two a famous inspector cartoon character if he had a green light and a bartow beer holder. That's gadgets go coaster so gadget is the inspector gadget there. The go is the green light and coaster is the thing you put your beer on on a bar gadgets. Go coaster number three a two thousand two thousand sixteen animated film about a bunny a fox if it were about cars instead that is auto pia instead of zootopia auto pm sponsored by honda number four doctor. henry walton jones's juniors grand day out that is indiana jones adventure indiana jones adventure. The funchal papa. That right. it's pretty sweet number five clown fish you five seven. One track is finding nemo submarine adventure. Finding nemo submarine in number six famous peanut butter brands takeoff peter pans flight peter pans flight number seven angry. Hot water bash. Is tea party. That's the teacup. Ride the mad tea party and number eight jessica's husbands right circle. That's roger rabbit's cartoon spin roger rabbit's car toon spin number nine excalibur horsey spin around is king arthur's carrousel and number ten dilapidated manner of course is the haunted mansion not to be confused with haunted holiday with nightmare before christmas characters. And there you have it matt. I hope you were able to figure out all those. And i hope all you other listeners get a kick out of reliving some of those titles of disneyland attractions since we all can't go there right now but hey you could drive or fly down to florida and go to disneyworld which is semi open. I think