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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Who Is Deezy?
"What's up everybody, and welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. I'm excited to sit down with Deezy, Mr. Nick Valdez, and talk about who he is, where he comes from, what he's all about, because I have no idea, and I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, why the hell is he hosting Discover Crypto? What's he all about? Does he even know anything about crypto? Well, let's dig into it. Deezy, how are you feeling? Thank you for being here. And what's your story, man? How are you in this position? Well, how are you talking on my shoulder? Who the hell are you talking to over there? What is going on? Is there hidden cameras in the wall? I don't know what's up. Talking to all of you out there. My name is Deezy, also known Nick Valdez. I'm a former professional Magic the Gathering streamer, whatever that means, not much in my opinion. And I've been in crypto. I've been making crypto content since 2020 briefly, and then I started working for the channel here back early 2021. And so I've been working in crypto full -time a little over two years at this point. I've been in content creation full -time a little over four years at this point. So you got into content creation for crypto in 2020, you said? Well, I started out with Magic the Gathering, but then I made my first piece of crypto content, which is Gods Unchained back in 2020. So does that mean you just got into crypto the day before that, or did you have a little bit of a pathway that got you there? I had a little bit of a pathway. I first discovered crypto from 4chan, actually, from the B board. So this was Bitcoin maybe a year or two old at this point. So fairly soon, I remember seeing some pretty low prices for Bitcoin. I remember my buddy trying to convince me. We worked together at ADT, the home security thing. So you ride around in a van, you leave headquarters, you might have to go to town an hour away. This is early days of smartphone. The web traffic was pretty low back then. The web pages were pretty low. There wasn't really social media networks like there is today. So I remember the text board on B, that's where I started discovering Bitcoin. And my buddy was like, man, we got to start buying some of this. But 4chan was nothing but scammers. And I thought, for sure, if I try to make Bitcoin, I'm going to get scammed. They're going to hack me. They're going to see my driver's license number somehow, my social security number. And it freaked me out being that it was related to that, and so I stayed away. Fast forward about two years, a buddy from high school was telling me about Silk Road and how he bought some ecstasy on it, full disclosure. And he was like, yeah, man, you got to get Bitcoin. I love this website. You can buy anything. And I was like, man, you're crazy. I don't know. This seems nuts. And then shortly thereafter, he lost, or maybe even during that time, he's like, yeah, I had to buy more Bitcoin because I lost Bitcoin on that computer. I remember him just pointing at his computer, and I was like, what do you mean you lost Bitcoin? I kind of had an idea of what it was. He's like, yeah, like I lost the password to my wallet or something. I just remember thinking like, wow, so you can have money in it, and you just lose it super easy, and it's associated with hackers? And so it kept me away from Bitcoin, even though I knew about it early, knew the proposition value of it early, it freaked me out. So that's a great spot to pivot there. That whole time, I'm investing in traditional stocks. And so I'm like, well, my Amazon's doing pretty good, guy. Right. No, but you bring up a great point because it's not just you as an individual. We see right now with all these Bitcoin spot ETFs, we see institutions on the horizon. And that's only because there's some proof of concept that's actually endured over a good period of time now, over a decade, in fact, for Bitcoin. But the question here, it kind of lies in, or the hesitation, I should say, lies in the lack of awareness broadly in both retail and institution. Because let's be honest, the people that are running institutions are people, too. And they are a part of retail. So the awareness factor of Bitcoin over the last 10 years has grown so exponentially. The question is, really, how do we get people from A to B, the genesis of first having the seed planted of hearing about Bitcoin, maybe seeing it on The Simpsons or in all the different media we watch, and then taking the leap to investigate it a little bit, and then taking that third step to actually get involved. So to get there, we need awareness. So I'm curious with you, where you came from, how old were you? What was your process like? At what point in life did you understand that there was a different value to money or currency than you were brought up, that change? When did that change happen? I learned that I was poor in second grade. I remember learning that. I grew up real poor. I grew up with a single mother. I could get into how, I don't want to say bad, it truly was, but things weren't easy. There's a period my mother was locked up. My father was put in jail, put under the concrete months after I was born. I never saw him. I saw him two, three times when I was 13. I haven't seen him since, and I never saw him before that. I haven't talked to him since, really. And so I grew up just very, very poor. But when you're five, you don't know you're poor. When you're six, you don't know you're poor. It takes a certain level. And I remember my mother dating Robbie Cumberland. He was a big jerk, man, really, really big jerk, abusive, not a fun time. But his daughter, I remember saying, oh, well, there's other people, they're more poor than us. And I learned the term middle -class. I didn't know what middle -class was. That's when I started seeing, as a seven -year -old, oh, there's hierarchies. There's social strata. There's social strata, and I'm down here. And then I don't know when it was, but at a certain point, you realize, I don't want to be down here. I want to be up here. So I remember pretty early, single digits age, you know, you're blowing the birthday cake. You're not supposed to say your wish is not going to come true. I remember just wishing, I want to be a millionaire. I want to be a millionaire. I was tired of being poor. And so I pretty quickly learned the value of money scrounging for lunch money in middle school. You know, like, maybe I would have an issue trying to get lunch money from my mother. I'm scrounging the quarters and the dimes and the couch cushions. While in high school, you know, I was pushed to work pretty early to help, to help. You know, a lot of people, they don't have that experience. You know, it's the opposite. Their parents encourage them to work at the same time, giving them money, paying for their car, paying for their cell phone, and then having them, oh, yeah, you need to learn the value of a dollar and make extra money on top of that. I was working and paying for my own school clothes. I was working, paying for my own school lunch. And so I learned the value of hard work and I learned the value of a dollar while being a high school student. And so that definitely gave me an advantage. Being poor, you know, statistically speaking, probably not an advantage. Your education is probably not going to be as good. Your influences are probably not going to be as good. Your home life is probably not going to be as good. But you do get an advantage with some aspects of mentality. And, you know, I just try to focus, you know, let's hone the positives from that and let's sharpen it and let's use it as a weapon to create financial independence. Yeah, I mean, what an interesting story there. And that's one of those things that all of us need to remember when we're talking to anybody, whether you're sitting in line at the bank or maybe not the bank because maybe you're walking down the street talking to a homeless person or a friend that you've never went deep with. Everybody has a story. Everybody comes from somewhere and there's depth there that we can truly connect on if we understand, even if somebody is being difficult to deal with or there's compassion and love there that we can engage with, right? And we can understand people better if we know that we all have a story. So you mentioned all this about your understanding of the lack of value proposition of the dollar and what it means to have money and the true value of money, I should say. But where did that value proposition that you mentioned of Bitcoin, when did that flip the switch in you that rather than you were just aware of it, that you actively said you pulled the trigger to do the first action transaction or purchase or something engaging with it? So it was almost going to be 2017. You know, that's when Bitcoin really started to go on its first major mainstream tear where, you know, started really getting people's attention. And I remember pretty early in the year. So, you know, well before December, well before October. So I don't know what level we're at, well below 10K. I remember it hitting headlines. And then that's when I decided to, you know what, it's time to do some education here. I, you know, probably like a lot of people in crypto, once you become fascinated about something, you want a deep dive on it. You want to go full blown, artisanal on it. And so that's a little bit of an aspect of what I did for Bitcoin there. And I remember looking into it and it was Reddit. It was Reddit of all places that I learned about the four -year cycle. So I saw about the four -year cycle pretty early because at that point, we did have a little bit of a spike in 2011 and then a spike in 2013. And then we're starting to spike in 2017. And then once we hit a new all -time high, then that four -year cycle really starts to look pretty clear. And you're like, oh, wow, we're setting up for a repeat of history here. And a lot of smart people were saying, oh, the having Bitcoin will go down. And I remember they're saying, guys, you idiots, 2K is the top. Guys, I know we hit 3K, but surely 4K is the top. And so pretty early in 2017, I just remember thinking, oh, this thing is going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse anytime now. It's going to reverse, it's going to reverse, reverse, reverse, because, you know, you see you're like, oh, I could buy this at 3K, should I? No, man, it's going to reverse. And then you go forward a few weeks and it's 5K and you feel like an idiot. You're like, well, I'm definitely not going to buy it now. So during this period, I'm watching it climb and I start doing some research. And pretty early, I got the mentality where I have to wait for it to retrace. It will have what they call a crypto winter. I start learning more about the four -year cycle, and that's exactly what I did. I didn't buy any Bitcoin or any crypto in 2017, I waited till 2018, and then I started buying. I looked, I think the first Bitcoin I bought was from the retracement down to 10, and I think I bought as soon as it got near 10. I remember thinking, oh, it's near 10. Now is when I start buying, and then it went to five, then it went to three, you know, so it kept going lower and lower and lower. But at the time, I didn't really care. I was like, OK, I finally have exposure. Of course, the first coin I bought when I downloaded Coinbase, oh, I'm going to buy that 10K Bitcoin. Whoa, XRP is how much? I could buy so much for $100 versus Bitcoin and I bought XRP. So that was the journey. That was the journey right there. I mean, I can honestly say that that journey is probably echoed by so many different people. You know, a lot of people and I say this, you know, on BitLab Academy, we're talking about these cycles. Everybody, everybody that's ever traded or invested ever has bought a top of an asset and gotten scared and sold at some point. Also, we've all bought a top and sold a bottom. And at the end of the day, it's all about how do you dive in, be ambitiously curious, dive into, OK, how can I fix my broken strategy? Because clearly that's not how people that made money made money. They figured out, OK, there's other data points I can look at rather than just looking at price. And then similarly, the XRP story, whether it's XRP, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Cardano, it doesn't matter. So many people come in and it's going to happen even more this next cycle. We're going to have the most onboarding of new adopters coming into the markets than we've ever had in this next cycle because institutions are coming in, because that aware the price breaking past 70, whatever that happens, that's when the hype cycle, the free press for crypto goes out and people are going to say, I can't afford a $70 ,000 Bitcoin. I'm going to go buy a dollar Cardano. And I'm not saying at all Cardano is a bad project, but people need to be curious about the assets they're investing. And so what would you say, knowing the journey you've had and the different sticking points or hurdles or failures, we've all had failures in this space, what we've learned from it. What would you say to somebody that's just coming in there on the fence about coming in or somebody that's watching as a family member that's asking about it? What's the advice for somebody that's stepping in this space? Very basic. Well, first, let me say coin price does matter per coin, separate from market cap. And this sounds dumb. No, the only thing that counts is market cap. No, there is a thing called like retail adoption rate. And if you download an app and all things being equal, same social, same token, same everything, except one has a million supply, one has a billion supply. People are more likely to buy the coin for a dollar than buy one or a hundred of that coin at a dollar rather than buy 10 % of the thousand dollar coin. Even all things being equal, it's just visually, I don't know if it's a visual thing, I don't know if it's just an ego thing like, yeah, I have a thousand of that thing versus I have 10 % of that thing. It just sounds better. So one, coin price does actually matter when it comes to whether or not retail is going to buy it. Might not matter so much for institutional investors, but yeah, that definitely does matter. As far as advice, new people coming in, I don't really like to give people advice of coins outside of top 20, maybe top 30. I'm not not not advice for coins, but more like you're stepping in. Oh, you're stepping in. The first thing you can do is go ahead and sub to Discover Crypto. The second thing you can do is maybe ask yourself, well, why, why am I just trying to get rich? All right, we'll have that be your investment thesis. Do I hate the government printing money? Oh, well, buckle up. You're stuck. You're going to be with us for the rest of your life. I'm sorry. You're a weirdo now. You know, there's going to be different angles. Are you just super into tech? All right, we'll start learning about smart contracts and solidity. So maybe, you know, find out why you would be interested and then that will describe the how or the what.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 96 - Token2049 Highlights, Binance's SEC Showdown, Yuga Labs Update & Friend.tech on roids!!
"One of the big questions is - What is money? For practical purposes, it exists in a series of heterogeneous databases, very different databases. Do you believe in crypto? Digital currency may be an answer, but it is a highly respectable disaster. I'd go on Bitcoin. There is no second best. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week, we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus, we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to crypto, we recommend starting in our early episodes, where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever -evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll give you a complete rundown on the token 2049 event that Blake and I attended in Singapore last week. Sneak peek, it was pretty amazing. Then we'll get into a number of big stories over the past few weeks, including Yuga Labs producing a movie, Binance are in hot water again, the Friend Tech field day, and we can't miss out on more FTX shenanigans. So stay tuned. My name's Tracey, and I'm joined by my pals, Blake and Craig, as we catch up on the crypto news. Hey guys, how are you going? Very well, Trace. Back in the swing of things this week. How are you? Yeah, good. After a week off. Did you miss us, Craig? Yeah, sure. No. That convincing. was I got an extreme FOMO from the group chat photos that you were sending and the talks that you guys went to that looked like a lot of fun, and I wish I went, but maybe next year. Yeah, definitely. Definitely next year. Maybe we should just dive straight in then and talk all about the token 2049 conference, which is the largest annual digital asset events in Asia and Europe. And this year it was bringing together the leading voices and the most sensational projects in Web3. And we did. We had an awesome time. Singapore is amazing. It was my first trip to Singapore. And Blake, give us your initial impressions and what you loved about the event. Yeah, so this is probably the biggest crypto conference in Asia, really. And I think about 10 ,000 people came to the main event itself, but then there were also about 400 side events, more than you could pick, or even too many, too many, really. And really, I think it's an industry focused event. You know, there weren't that many retail investors coming along. Tickets were priced accordingly. And yeah, it was an incredible event. They brought the who's who of the crypto industry to speak, talk about where the other projects are at and what the future looks like, the state of regulation and where we are in the market cycle. And it was fascinating to be there learning and hearing about how everyone else in the industry is thinking. And there was certainly no indication of us being in a bear market. My God, no, it was money, wasn't it? It was out of control. You know, the big exchanges were, were splashing cash around. The Formula One was on at the same time. So lots of people added a bit of excitement, didn't it? Yeah, we're coming over for that. And yeah, we could probably, you know, maybe give us your high level thoughts, Trace, and then we can get into a couple of the interesting things that we learned. Yeah, look, I think it was a really vibrant atmosphere. There were some excellent speakers. I was impressed with the setup. And the event ran really smoothly trying to get 10 ,000 people in over two days. You know, you'd expect a few hiccups, but there wasn't. I thought it was pretty, it was pretty well done. You know, there was a real big emphasis on, on building. And like you said, you certainly didn't feel like you were in a bear market at all. There was just money being splashed everywhere. Lots of giveaways, you know, certainly went trying to get a bit of merch to make Craig feel jealous. Definitely got a few to pop into the chat. What about the talks, guys? Like, which one was your most impressive project, most impressive person that you saw? Yeah, there's a couple that really stood out for me. Firstly, there was a talk on stablecoins, looking at the data and the adoption rate. What was really interesting is that you're even through this bear market, the stablecoin adoption rate has is increasing as you know, the crypto prices go down and less activity happens on chain and on exchanges. And this is really pointing towards the utility of stablecoins and what they're going to mean for the future. And importantly, what was recognised in that talk was that in the US, US -based stablecoins are being used less and less and offshore and algorithmic stablecoins are being used more and more. And this is really because of the regulatory pressure in the US market. People don't want to interact with US businesses, essentially. And, you know, probably the second most interesting talk that I saw was, you know, the founders Yeah, that was my favourite. Yeah, that was interesting. I didn't think I'd love it as much as I did. But I think me and you both sat there and was like, this is really interesting. Yeah, we had the founder of Polygon, the founder of Arbitrum and the founder of ZK Sync. You can see that the ZK Sync group, probably the most technologically advanced and that's a scaling solution that uses zero knowledge protocols on top of Ethereum. And yeah, definitely the most advanced, you know, scaling solution on top of Ethereum. Secondly, your Arbitrum is very focused on research and creating a really great product that anybody could use. And of course, Polygon's focus is on business development and getting adoption from web two companies. So coming at it from three very different angles there, but all for the same purpose of increasing adoption and scalability of the layer ones. I really like that layer two talk, but much like a music festival, you had to pick who you wanted to see because they're all overlapping. There was, you know, there was a main stage upstairs, another one downstairs. There's a few different talks. I ended up stumbling into the Neo founder, do his chat, which was really interesting. I quite liked that one. And for everyone's information, Neo is a layer one blockchain that was founded in China, very much focused on, you know, being an Eastern kind of competitor to Ethereum or so on. You guys remember the Chinese Ethereum narrative and it pumped Neo like 200X? Been around for a long time. Yeah. So you just kind of, but there was a lot of stans, a lot of people, you know, shilling a lot of different things and, you know, you could kind of get lost there for a while. There was a strong push for mainstream adoption through Web3 and gaming. And I think that was on a lot of panel discussions and a lot of side events were also pushing that. I know Animoca Brands had a lot of big events as well. So I think that was a big focus also. I think we didn't get to see him, but Robbie from Immutable was over there speaking as well. Now, was there one project that you didn't hear of that sort of came across a token at the conference? Like, was there a project that you put into your watch list? Not really. Just the big dogs just reinforcing there. Yeah. Just talking about where the innovation is moving, you know. And one thing that really stood out to me is that, you know, the regulation conversation just isn't that prominent in Asia because the regulation in Asia, the regulation in Asia, there's no issues. And, you know, I think that we can easily have a US -centric point of view sometimes. But in Asia, they're ready to do business there. You know, there's lots of investment happening. There's lots of deals happening. There's lots of growth happening. And some of those stories we'll talk about in today's episode. All in all, the event was memorable one for us and worth attending for our team. And it really did reinforce, you know, our love for the industry and just how far we have all come. And so if anyone's referenced token 2049, the next event will happen in Dubai in early 2024, in April, I believe. So you can check that one out. In April? That's only like six months away. I know. I did say to Blake that I thought that was quite soon. I think they have multiple events. You know, they have them in different regions. There you go. Well, I'll go to that one for the crypto curious community. I'll fly the flag. Cheers. Now, folks, we're going to mix it up a little bit this week, and we're going to cut out our short, sharp news bites at the end, and we're going to go to a few biggest stories because, as you know, we missed our show last week. So we're going to cover off a few biggest stories, starting with Franklin Templeton, a large asset manager who has joined the race for the holy grail, the Spot Bitcoin ETF. As we've previously reported, the aim of many of these leading institutions applying for ETF is to attract large institutional investors, which could potentially bring trillions of dollars into the crypto industry. So Franklin Templeton's ETF will be based on a mix of crypto exchange Bitcoin prices to deter price manipulation. So just another big boy entering the space and solidifying the general thesis that it is inevitable that this Bitcoin Spot ETF will happen. There you go, boys. What else are we going to catch on that's happened in the last few weeks, Craig? Yeah. So last week Vitalik, the Ethereum founder, he had his Twitter or X account hacked, and he shared a malicious link, and it actually led to just under $700 ,000 that was drained from people's wallet. So it was just a scam. People connected their wallet, got drained. But it was coming from his official Twitter. Right. Okay. This was due to a SimSwap attack. Right. These big dogs, even they get hacked. So stay on it. Stay safe, everybody. Yeah, we had that story a couple of weeks ago where your people's private keys were being stolen from their password manager, which had a vulnerability. So even when you're doing best practice activities, you know, sometimes you're still not safe. Can't trust anything. All right. Next up, we have a story that came out on the 13th of September. So received FTX approval from the US bankruptcy court to sell and hedge its crypto holdings valued at $3 .4 billion. That's a lot of bloody crypto. This is when everyone was freaking out about where they were going to drop their salon. Yep. Yeah. So we talked about Galaxy Digital was engaged to help, which is a big crypto focused asset manager to help the liquidators or the administrators sell down these assets. So what they have is $1 .16 billion worth of Solana and they have $560 million in Bitcoin and the rest in other tokens. So, you know, this is a little bit concerning. I think the Bitcoin market could probably absorb, you know, the sell down of $560 million of Bitcoin over, you know, a period of time. But what's the market cap, Craig, of Solana? Well, Solana is still, you know, in the billions. Let me just fact check. They can't sell all the Solana at once or it's going to be $9 .2 million of Solana released for them to sell every month, which I think is fine. So not all the Solana will be dumped in the market, but they have an $8 billion market cap. Yeah. And Solana did take a bit of a dump. I think it dumped around 5 % off this news. It's about 20 % of 15 to 20 % of Solana's market cap. But if they're smart, they're going to do this strategically over time anyway. Yeah, well, the three biggest holdings are Solana, Bitcoin and Ethereum. And then the other ones I've got is APT, Updos, Doge, Tron, Matic, Ripple and BNB. Very minuscule amount of BNB. So, yeah, this caused a bit of a shakeout, didn't it guys? Yeah. But, you know, I'm sure that they'll work on a strategy to release those tokens back into the market over time. I will potentially suppress price, but, you know, hopefully not for too long. Next one. This has happened over the last four or five days. The SEC has gone after the Stoner Cats project. I remember this one from a few years ago and mainly for its connection with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher because it was, you could buy the rights to, it was a TV show, a cartoon Stoner Cats show. I think they only produced a couple of episodes and Mila and Ashton were the voices of the Cats. I think Jane Fonda was also one of the voices. So the SEC has charged a project for conducting an unregistered NFT offering that raised $8 million and one of the arguments the SEC used was that the entire, the entity promoted the potential for its NFT prices to increase in the secondary market, similar to all NFTs. So Stoner Cats agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and to destroy all NFTs in its possession, but they did not have to admit that it was guilty of the charges. So setting precedent there, so I'm not sure if that was the best way to go for them. And the SEC, you know, are really going for different projects at the moment. This wasn't the first one in recent weeks. So one to watch here, I know Elliot from our marketing team, who you guys see sometimes on our Instagram page, sent an article around talking about the SEC going after NFT projects and Guy from the Coin Bureau also made a big statement about it recently that he's slightly concerned. What are your thoughts, Blake? Well, I think there's a big lesson here. Don't sell cryptographic assets to Americans. Stay the hell away and you'll be fine.
Epicenter
A highlight from Robbie Ferguson: Immutable - The Web3 Gaming one-stop-shop
"Yeah, absolutely. We support everything out of the box. You know, Passport is just the offering that we have. I think the last thing, nice thing with Passport is because it integrates in a vertically integrated manner with our control of say like the ZK technology and the order book and the wallet, we can do things like say, you know, shared sequencing or cross wallet liquidity in really seamless ways. But other platforms can't because they only have one layer of the stack. And so our vision is no matter what asset you're trading on any marketplace, on any game, on any rollout, using any wallet, you can do so atomically and seamlessly with no loss in security or sort of custody with anyone else. And this is this vision of this sort of universal liquidity for digital value. Yeah. Talk a little bit more about, we talked about this before the show, the enforceable royalties. What's that about? Yeah. So this is obviously pretty topical. You have the marketplace wars over the last couple of years. First, as you had the blurs and the X2Y2s of the world basically say, hey, we're not going to respect royalties. And suddenly soak up huge chunk of pro -trading volume. Then you have an oversea card with some solutions and sort of contracts people use to make sure that they can only be traded these collections on royalty respecting marketplaces and smart contracts. I think this is all indicative of the fact that this really has to be sold as a product layer. Just to kind of understand the problem here. The problem is that when you have assets that are tied to royalty, so like I create like some suite of assets, I put those out on say OpenSea. Unless that contract has royalties built into it at the contract level, you're sort of trusting the platform to extract and deliver the royalties. And that's sort of the issue where if you take those assets somewhere else, if you like just send them to someone, those royalties are not being perceived by the creator. Precisely. So basically it's really hard to enforce royalties with traditional NFT smart contracts and NFT marketplaces. There have been various attempts at solving this, but ultimately it appears as though the game theory, particularly on Ethereum layer one, is to converge toward a zero or no royalties world, because that's the world in which you have to be in order to have any meaningful market share as a marketplace. All these pro traders who are doing the vast majority volume today. Our approach has kind of been from day one, make this enforceable at the protocol level, which we can do due to sort of a couple of things we've designed on immutable exits because we have a single sequencer, we can kind of enforce these royalties from day one. With immutable CKDM, it's going to be more of a decentralized solution where we're actually sort of engineering the ways that smart contracts respect royalties and people can opt in. But I think both the principles are, we firmly believe that enforceable royalties have to be available protocol wide in order for marketplaces to be able to fairly compete and gain their market share and game developers to be rewarded. And the thesis is quite simple, which is, you know, if you have Counter Strike Go or Magic the Gathering, Magic the Gathering has an estimated secondary market cap of 10 to $20 billion of cards. But every year they've got to make new, more impressive cards than everything else in existence, making them less value. I guess I sell my old Magic cards. Yeah, like they're tremendously valuable, right? But MTD, the company, has no way of tapping into the value of what they've created. That's why they have to basically dump on everyone else every year by creating this new, more powerful stuff. And so suddenly we can have a business model that doesn't rely on that. That's like, hey, Magic just gets 5 % of every trade. Magic's only incentive would be increased volume, which might mean make new cards that make the game better and grow the player base. It might mean throwing more tournaments, might mean creating an esports league, whatever they can do to increase the value to players of that economy. And so you have complete incentive alignment, even though it can be an incredibly profitable system. So that's why I've been so passionate about it, is it actually enables a much better, more incentive aligned business model that we must protect in order to, you know, essentially have adverse selection or this kind of, you know, tragedy where we do a short -term benefit to players by giving them cheaper trades, and then there's no incentive for game developers to build or to build based on this much better business model. So why is it that this is not enforceable at the smart contract level? I mean, couldn't we just build like a better ERC721 kind of contract or enforce royalties? Is that possible? It is, but it's just very hard to enforce if the collections themselves aren't originally A, sort of written to be, to be opt into those smart contracts. And so a lot of the volumes say in NFTs has been the legacy collections, which weren't incorporated into this. So I think that's partially what has driven this decision with OpenSea. But B, the kind of more simple solution is if it's relying on individual, say marketplaces or individual collections to make this decision, it's just going to be an incredibly fraught debate. The answer just has to be sort of protocol -wide. This is an available standard that can be enforced. Okay. So you guys enforce this by having a sequencer include the sort of the royalty or like extract the royalty when building the block? Precisely. So that's on ImmutableX, on StarkX, an absolutist rollout, but we can do that on ImmutableZKDM. We're going to have a side of an approach. I think we'll be sharing more details soon. Okay, cool. So I want to talk a little bit about the token. So this IMX token, which is actually like, yeah, trading today. And yeah, I checked, there's like $13 million of trading volume somewhere around that. And, you know, actually I found the token price, like, you know, over time has stayed, I guess, like pretty consistent except for, you know, one peak where I guess probably during the bull market, but hasn't lost a lot of its value compared to, I guess like when it was initially launched. So I guess that's a good thing, I guess. How much do you think of that volume as speculators and how much is tied to actual platform activity? I guess maybe a precursor to that question is what's the token use? What's the token's utility is basically Immutable operates very differently to most of the blockchains in terms of our business model. Rather than having say, sort of this L1 chain thesis around value accruing to the token, the chains. And we will obviously, IMX is going to be the core gas currency of ImmutableZKDM. I think we're now, you know, capturing a lot of that narrative, which is really interesting. But our philosophy has always been, we think a much better and much more aligned business model is to make the most liquid value add platform possible for web3 games and take 2 % of every trade. And this way we can build something that has completely aligned incentives for developers when they make money or when users trades when making money. And every single time those assets are traded, 20 % of the fees must be paid for an IMX. And so IMX actually has sort of, you know, clear fundamental utility, which I think is, you know, people can sort of look at that and sort of build their utility models around rather than sort of alternatives in market. So that's our utility. That's been the clear goal since day one is to really have this integral into the protocol and how we add value to every single trade. And then yeah, the volume, you know, how much of the volume you think is, or do you have a sense of, is that something you're tracking somehow? I mean, like how much of that is tied to actual activity on the platform and how much of it is speculative? Well, the vast majority would be people trading based on, you know, what they sort of perceive the utility to be. I wouldn't necessarily call that speculative, but, you know, I can, up to the reader's interpretation, I think the most important thing is this thing has a clear, right, kind of that we've set in stone since day one. And our vision is to construct really just some of the most sensible tokenomics in the world. So the few things that really excite me about the token, obviously Immutable, you know, doesn't generate this. This is run by the Digital Worlds Foundation, but is one, every single person who trades on Immutable can own part of the protocol. And that's because, you know, every single time of trade you're earning IMX tokens. And the vision of this is really cool because you have 3 .1 billion gamers. If this takes off, everyone can own a part of this open ecosystem of what the future of digital property ownership is going to be. And that's probably my favorite thing. And the second thing, you know, you talked about how the price has been quite stable. Obviously, you know, not here to comment on prices, but the circulating supply is much higher than most alternatives. It's sort of used a lot more. And we've been able to maintain that ranking or improve that ranking from 150 to 50 over the last year in circulating supply, even despite everything unlocking. I think that's because of sort of the, you know, the utility and the long -term alignment we have from Haulers today. And then the final thing I'd say is that obviously the vast majority of IMX allocated to ecosystem grants, the vast majority of these grants, all of which are issued by the Foundation, are almost completely underwritten. So, we don't just give them out to games in exchange for grants. The games actually have to deliver volume to the protocol in order to earn those grants. And right now, in order for roughly 180 million of tokens which have been allocated, over $12 billion in protocol volume has to be achieved in order for them to even be given out. So, in terms of ecosystem allocations, we run, you know, the recommendations here are incredibly efficient in terms of how they're structured for grants versus returns. And game developers love it because they know that ultimately, you know, that there's no supply just going out there, no value being brought. Everyone has to contribute to the ecosystem in order to sort of end up owning part of the protocol, which I think is really important. Very cool. Yeah, I mean, maybe to wrap up here, what is the, yeah, what's the roadmap and what should people be looking into when it comes to Immutable? How can people follow the protocol also in the project? And yeah, any final thoughts? Yeah, look, Testnet just went live two weeks ago. We have pretty much every game on the platform signed up to Passport. We've just done our biggest quarter of onboarding games ever in the company's history off the back of this Polygon announcement, basically, you know, increasing our win rate by 75%. We've got over four years of runway way over the long term, whether it takes a year to get to that hit or four, and we're here to change digital ownership for good. And the thing I would say is, look, coming up, we have Mainnet in quarter four, we've got God's Sunshine going mobile end of this year, Build of Guardians, Shardbound, Infinite Victory, all Immutable titles being published this year. And we've got a ton of our biggest games on the platform on the rise. Yeah, Across the Ages, number one in France, strategy game in Australia. You have Alluvium going out of their open beta, Imminently, probably one of the most hyped games in Web3 right now. We're really just excited by the continued raise of the caliber of quality of games right now. And, you know, as I said, you can't wave the magic wand on the timelines, but it's pretty clear that a single hit is going to pull gasoline on everything and catalyze what has already been a very heavily invested in category. So personally, we're actually thrilled with the pace and progress of things. I think it's just continued to build through despair and help people get to these hits faster, more profitably, and more sustainably. Great. Robbie, thanks for coming on and telling us all about Immutable. And also, I mean, I've learned a ton about Web3 Gaming so this has been great. Thank you. Thanks, Deb. Thanks for having me. Pleasure. your inbox as they're released. If you want to interact with us, guests, or other podcast listeners, you can follow us on Twitter. And please leave us a review on iTunes. It helps people find the show and we're always happy to read them. So thanks so much. 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What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Orange Pilling Through Sport with Steven Nelkovski & Patrick O'Sullivan
"The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is if it works with baseball, it works with anything. If you think about value for value, the model, it changes everything. Right. Hello. How are you all? Hello from Lebanon. What a cool country this place is. It's really strange. As I travel around the world, sometimes I go to these places where you worry about the economic situation, you end up meeting the most amazing, incredible people, most amazing resilient people, and Lebanon is exactly that. So I cannot wait to get this film out. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today we have Perth Heat on the show. We've got CEO Stephen and chief Bitcoin officer Patrick, Patrick O 'Sullivan. I was going to try and say Stephen's name. I think it's Nelkowski, Nelkowski, I think Stephen Nelkowski. Danny, what is it? Nelkowski. We've never had Danny on an intro before. Nelkowski. Yes. CEO Stephen Nelkowski. Now I've known Stephen for quite some time. When we announced Rael Bedford, he'd already announced his Perth Heat Bitcoin project, and then I met him out in Miami. He gave me a jersey, and we've kind of been knocking back DMs on Twitter for this whole time sharing ideas, talking about what they're up to, what we're up to. There is so much alignment between the Perth Heat baseball team and what they're doing in Australia and what we're doing with Rael Bedford over in the UK. And so yeah, I've been keeping an eye on their progress, been impressed with everything they're doing. They're definitely a little bit ahead of us, but there's so much alignment between us and them. And I know not everybody loves the football side of things, but this Bitcoin and sports thing, I'm telling you, it's so important. It's important on so many levels, there's so many chances to orange pill people by meeting them where they're at. And I'm telling you, Bitcoin and sports is going to be big. So give me your feedback. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy the show. Absolutely loved it. Steve is a legend. Patrick is absolutely beavering away like a legend trying to get all the Bitcoin stuff going for them. I'm going to be nicking some of their ideas. Hopefully, we will have some cool ideas. They can nick as well. But yes, let me know your feedback. Let me know what you think. It's hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Welcome, brother. Good to be on. Who's your friend? This is the chief Bitcoin officer of the Perth Heat. You actually the chief Bitcoin officer? That's it. That's the title. Chief Bitcoin officer. That's all I do. That's what I'm trying to get Ben Ark to do for us. You know Ben Ark? Yes. He doesn't even like football. But he comes along. He gets the whole thing. Great role to have. Emerging role. Yeah. You saw that job ad for that Bulgarian team. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. We've got a call with them. Joe Hall's trying to get me to talk to them. But there's two upcoming Bitcoin football teams, young whippersnappers. The league is expanding quickly. We've had a couple of recent inquiries from teams in Europe wanting to speak about what we've done with the baseball team. But as we've said so many times on Twitter and in comments that the Bitcoin sports league is a lot closer than what most people think. There's a lot of interest. Yeah. You beat us to it. I think you beat us to it. We had a couple of weeks between us, I think. Was it that close? It was. There was a nose between, I think, the two announcements. We were early November. I think you were late November, early December, something like that. We're talking 21, aren't we? 21? 20 said? Yeah. It was 21. Because I think I announced - November 21? Yeah. I think I announced December 21. Yeah. And we took over the team in April 22. Yes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just beat us. Justin. So many things have changed since then as well in so many ways. What we thought we'd be doing in two years has just dramatically changed so quickly. It's awesome. There's loads we can get into and we're going to. But let's just do a bit of background stuff just for people listening so we can build the picture of what we're doing. So, like, introduce yourself, what you do, and yourself. I know we know you're the Bitcoin officer, but like, and then just tell people about Perth Heat, who they are, and then we'll build from there. Yeah, easy. So my name's Steven. I'm the chief executive of the Perth Heat, who are Australia's most successful baseball team. We've won 15 national titles. We've had 34 players who have played Major League Baseball. We've got an exceptional relationship with the Tampa Bay Rays, who send us out six to each eight players Australian summer. And these are top end draft picks. So one of the players they sent us last season, Junior Caminero, is on the verge of playing in the big leagues right now. So they send us the best of the best in terms of their young talent. And we build a squad and we play a season in the Australian summer. We've got a history of winning. We've got a history of producing great players. We're also the Bitcoin baseball team. And it's been, yeah, it's been an incredible ride. How big is baseball in Australia? It's big. It's look, it's obviously we've got the big sports in terms of Aussie rules. You've got rugby. You've got strong national teams with the Australian cricket team. You've got the Socceroos, you've got the Matildas. So it's not a tier one sport. But in terms of the quality of the competition, if you look at the fact that Perth Heat have had 34 players who have played for the Heat and then gone on to play Major League Baseball, there's no other team or competition that could produce that sort of statistics. So if you looked at one of the football teams like the Perth Glory, they haven't had 34 players who have played in the Premier League. So it's the competition is extremely tough and would be one of the best winter leagues in the world, especially with our association with Major League Baseball. So they send players out to you to get game time. And they also scout players that you have got of your own. There's a bit of scouting. There's international scouts in every city. But the idea of sending them out to us is they will see how the players will react in a foreign environment, a different style of baseball, different time of year. How do these players go in an environment over Christmas, New Year? Some of them are coming back from injury. Some of them have had interrupted seasons. That's a good chance for some of them to also build game time. But it's a program now with Tampa. Then in the last five years, we've had five players already play Major League Baseball. Jacob Lopez was the last just a couple of weeks ago. And as I said, Junior Caminero is knocking the house down, his 27 home runs this year. It's just a phenomenal generational athlete. And what kind of crowds do you get? Yeah, they vary across the weekend. We play a series. So we'll play Friday night. We'll play two games on a Saturday. Two? Two games on a Saturday. And then we'll play another one on a Sunday. So there's four games in the space of 72 hours. And the crowd's roughly between 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 over the weekend. OK, wow. So two in a day. What kind of demands are put on the players? Well, it's different. So baseball, if you're a pitcher, the demands are extreme. Every time you throw the ball, it is logged. It is monitored. It is counted. If you're an outfield player or an infielder, one of the batters, then that's what you're built for. You're built to play every game. So all the pressure's on the pitcher? Pitchers, yeah. Good pitching will win you championships. You need a really strong pitching lineup to bring in the different times of the game. And that's the part of your lineup which you really have to monitor so carefully. Because you could start a series with a pitcher. And if he doesn't perform well, when you bring him out of the game, when you introduce someone else. And then if they don't perform well, how quickly do you run through your rotation knowing that you've got four games to get through? So there's a lot of analytics that we look at, we monitor. And as we said, that pitch count is very, very closely watched. I've been to a few baseball games. I've been to see the A's. I've been to see the Dodgers a few times. I've been to see probably your team. Yes. We went to the Yankees. Yeah, we went to the Yankees. It was too hot, wasn't it? Yeah, it was so hot. It was so hot. Our knees were burning. There's not many roofs on the stadiums, yeah? So you're sitting out in the sun, yeah, baking. But there's heat, but it was too hot. Our legs were in shorts, our legs were burning, so we just went and stood at the back and drunk beer. Then the Yankees get absolutely back. I think they were 10 down within two innings. It was like insane. Yeah, but it's a crazy game. It can be 10 down, and you can still win. My wife has now accepted that no matter how far in front we are in a game, she won't relax until that last out. You can be 6 -0 up, 8 -0 up, and you can still lose a game just like that. It's very, very different of football. In football, if you're 3 -0 up, it's effectively game over, yeah? But in baseball, a three -run lead, a four -run lead, it can change with just one pitch if a batter walks, and then suddenly things just change. It's taken a while to understand and to even get comfortable with it. When I first started in the role five years ago, baseball traditionalists would say, well, that's baseball. It's like, no, it's not. It's bad game management. But yeah, it's baseball. It happens in the big leagues. It happens in Australia, and sometimes it happens with Perth Heat. And so your wife, is that because she's got into the baseball, or she's planning for what your move's going to be like? Bit of both. She has to be into it, but I'm not a good loser at all. Yeah, I'm not probably the best person to speak to if we lose a game for a good 24 hours. After we lost the championship series, that 24 hours was probably four months. Mate, honestly, I know exactly how you feel. We lost three games last season in the league. We lost one cup game, and then we got thrown out of a cup because we played an illegible player should have been suspended, administrative error. Every single one of those, I was not good for 24 hours. I spent the next 24 hours saying, what did I do wrong to contribute to that? Even though it's the team and the manager, it's like, what could I have done more? Could we have prepared the team better? Did we not provide the right resources, or did we not get the balance of the roster correct? There's so many things that go through your mind, but yeah, I'm certainly not a good loser. Were you a Perth Heat fan before? No, with a surname like Neil Kobski, you grew up with a round ball in my household. I was a football fan from an early age. This is a true story. Before I took the role with Heat, I had not watched a baseball game from start to finish. I had not watched a full nine innings. I'd watched parts of a game, but I hadn't watched a whole game. That first year in charge was challenging because you'd be with corporate partners, and I didn't know all the rules, and something would happen during a game, and they'd ask, why did that happen? I'd scratch my head and say, I'd have to find out for you. I'm obsessed with it now. My wife loves watching players steal bases, just running from base to base or trying to steal. Then I look at my family, Grey Caritage, and they're all into it and enjoy coming to the ballpark. Most people I introduce do enjoy it because, again, it's a different sport in terms of the pace of the game. You can relax a little bit more and then sit back and enjoy the menu of the hot dogs or the crackerjack and see some home runs in the background. Well, you don't understand the sport. It's a bit like cricket, right? Most Americans, almost every American does not understand cricket. Are you trying to explain test cricket, that it's five days, two innings each, it could rain and end in a draw? Nobody understands it, but when you understand the game, you understand what brilliant test cricket is. Like my son, he watched the Ashes with me, and I had the first two tests, I was explaining how this works, why they might declare, what the follower knows, which never got used. Trying to explain the strategy of it all. And then once he understood, he got into it, and I was mentioning going to watch baseball. I said to you before we started recording, I was dating that girl in LA, so we were going to watch the Dodgers. It was a playoff season, and I must have gone to maybe five games. I went to the game, I don't know if you know the one where Justin Turner hit a walk -off home run in the playoffs. I think it was against, it might have been the Cubs, but by the way, that itself was an unreal moment. The great finish there. Unbelievable. But I had a guy who was sat with me each game explaining it to me. And one of the things I'd never known about is the whole pitcher strategy. My from assumption the little I'd watched here or there, it was just one guy all game. And if somebody came on and it was injury, I didn't realize you're strategically placing different pitchers in the game, especially towards the end of the seventh, eighth, ninth innings. I didn't know any of that. And so once you understood that, you understood the strategy. And then there's huge strategy, whether you're bringing in a left -handed pitcher to pitch to a right -handed batter, left -handed batter, or someone that can face up to a curveball better than a slider, et cetera. Explaining the game to someone in baseball is a lot easier in the ballpark. If you're watching it off the screen, it's a bit harder to pick up. If you sit in the ballpark and you've got someone that can explain the rules, you will understand it a lot quicker than watching it at home. But the strategy behind pitching is nuts. The movie Moneyball and the strategy behind the analytics is spot on. There's so much you can gain out of the numbers. And that's a big part of our relationship, even with Tampa, is the Tampa front office and what they have in terms of identifying talent and how they use it is something that is a great benefit to an organization like the Perth Heat as well. There's a whole Moneyball thing that started coming to football as well. I know specifically teams like Brentford and Brighton have used it. But they're using it in a different way. They're trying to identify talent, which they sell out. I mean, Brighton. Can you look up their sales of players? I mean, Brighton. They have a profit of 130 million pounds, was it, this summer? I mean, historically, they weren't ever a Premier League team. No. It's only in the last, what, five, six years did they become Premier League? They're now established. But the volume of players they sell and the rates they sell their players for, have they got recent sales? Yeah. Let me pull it up. It was the same with Southampton. They kind of had that strategy as well. So there we go. Okay. Caicido, 160 million euros. McAllister, you went to Liverpool, 42 million. Sanchez, 23 million. But there's more in the previous. I mean, is that just this season? Yeah, that's this season. Did you have last season as well? I don't think it was on him. What was up at the top when you scrolled to the top? That was people who had come in. Right. Okay. But this is their whole strategy. I mean, they're now talking, this guy just got a hat -trick. The other Ferguson got the hat -trick against Newcastle the other day. People are starting to talk about him. And they've managed to have this rotation of players. Even though they're selling their best players, they've got these new ones coming through and they've got like an identity, which means it's a profitable business. Luton were the same. So Luton Town managed to get back in the Premier League from going into non -league, which itself is incredible. But they had a whole strategy of bringing players through and it's part of their revenue model. Does that perform part of your actual revenue model to develop players? For Perth Heat, it's a little bit different because if we have players that we continue to develop, they'll get drafted. And the draft system works a little bit differently to football where the club doesn't take the profit. The actual transfer fee goes direct to the player. Oh, wow. It's one of the first questions our board of management asked when they took the license over. How can we develop players and on -sell them? But it doesn't work like that in baseball, unfortunately. So, yeah, we've got a great farm system of producing young Aussie talent to go and pick up minor league contracts. But there's no return there to the club, unfortunately. Were you a baseball fan before you joined? I mean, I played when I was a kid. But not much of a fan. No. No, it was strictly because of the opportunity that came up that I joined. And when did you join? When? Same time. So about a year before, when the talks happened about, well, maybe this is something that we might be able to do. And then what the details look like for making it a possibility for a team to embrace Bitcoin as much as the team has. And then suddenly realizing that it's going to be significantly more work than what it first appeared to be. Because I didn't really have a role there to begin with. I didn't have a job. I wasn't working there at all. But then sort of trying to orange pill the board after Steve got it and to show them what we could do with it. It was very much, this is the idea. This is what we think we can do with it. And their attitude was, OK, go out and prove it and show them exactly what we could do to kick things off. And then from there, it was just small win after small win. And then realizing, well, if we're going to actually do it and announce things in November about just how far down the rabbit hole we were going to go, that we couldn't just, you know, Bitcoin is not at the point now where you can just launch and say, OK, everything worked perfectly. I mean, you know, it's so hit and miss with things that will work and things that won't work. And that's integration with systems that are already in place, especially when you're talking about a business of this size. You know, it's not your micro strategy. We don't have teams and teams of lawyers or people that can look after all of the various elements. And to go all in on Bitcoin means really restructuring how you do everything. And eventually that came back to me as my sort of ability to transition and see what will work, what's going to work now, what will work in 90 days from now and what it's going to look like in 180 days from now. All of that has changed and just somewhat to stay on top of that and to help integrate it into the systems that Steve is already looking after. Yeah. So I'm going to be interested to compare and contrast what you've done to what we've done, because like we're tiny. You know, our crowds are tiny. When we take, if you want to pay with Bitcoin on a match day, we're talking a handful of transactions. You got up to 7000 people there. So that's that's an entirely different beast. What were you, sorry Steve, what were you doing before you joined? My background is media marketing, so I used to be a sports reporter on one of the commercial networks here in Australia with Channel 7. I was there 14 years as a broadcaster, used to commentate to football games. But after being a reporter for the best part of 15 years and seeing how sports organisations run, that's where the real appetite for running a sports organisation came in and wanting to win championships. So I went and worked for a local football team, which is the Perth Glory, who play in the A -League. I was in a media marketing role there for a few years. Is that where Robbie Fowler played? He did the great man. God. Yeah. He used to come over to Mum's house every week for dinner. Shut up. Yeah. Are you serious? A gentleman. One of the most beautiful men. Yeah. We're always on the text to each other. He's a... You're friends with Robbie Fowler? Yeah. There we go. You're in. I want an interview with him. He's one of my childhood heroes. Oh wow. Yeah. And you know what? He's just a lad. He's just brilliant. He came and played for the organisation. And yeah, it was Monday night's dinner at Mum's house. He loved the Greek food, so we kept to a winning formula. That's unbelievable. Do you know the song the Liverpool fans sing about him? About we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Do you know about this? I don't know. So Robbie Fowler is one of the footballers who was very smart with his money. He just bought just properties all over Liverpool constantly. And see, he's got this huge property portfolio in Liverpool. And so the Liverpool fans sing, we all live in a Robbie Fowler house. Yeah. He's a... He's God. He's God. He's just an awesome guy. Good fun to hang out with. And yeah, made so much time for the people of Perth. We had a great year together. And he's also very cheeky as well. There was a time where we weren't performing too well. We'd lost, I think, five games on the trot. And it was the time that Wayne Rooney was having a whole heap of issues with Manchester United. And we were about to do this live TV cross for Channel 7. And we knew the chairman wasn't too happy at the time. So I said, we've just got to try and deflect here. And Robbie had been in the UK for a week. And the presenter said, so Robbie, what was the trip to the UK all about? And he said, it was to chat to Wayne. And my phone had been, the media marketing guy just blew up, Fleet Street just went mad with this. It was just an off -the -cuff joke that we were trying to sign Wayne Rooney. And it was just everywhere within hours and we had to put out a press release and it was great because it deflected off the five losses that we'd had, but it was just a bit of a piss take. What was his scoring record like at Perth? Look, it wasn't as good as what it was at Liverpool. We would have been nice for him to score a few more goals, but the team struggled a little bit that year. And I think he ended up maybe with a dozen goals from memory somewhere around there. But it was a good year. And then again, I remember him taking out a little urn when England won the Ashes out before a game. And he put it up on his head and there was photos of it. He's just a great prankster in a lot of ways. He's an awesome person to have in your change room. And yeah, I'm really happy to call him a friend. So I went down the Robbie Fowler rabbit hole with my son the other week because, did you watch the Liverpool Newcastle game the other week? No, I missed it. Right. So I said to my son that there were two games when I was a kid when Liverpool played Newcastle. There were four, three consecutive years. The first one was a back and forth. I think Liverpool went 1 -0 up, then Newcastle went 2 -1 up, then Liverpool got it back to 2. Then they went 3 -2 up, then 3 -0. Liverpool went 4 -3. Stan Collimore in the 90th minute. It's an unreal game. And then a year later, Liverpool went 3 -0 up, Newcastle got it back to 3 -0. And then in the last minute, Robbie Fowler scores ahead of this flying header to go 4 -3. And so I then just had to explain Robbie Fowler to my son, why everyone said he was God. And we went down this kind of rabbit hole of Robbie Fowler goals. I was always really sad, though, because when he left Liverpool, I'm trying to remember, was it Leeds and Man City he went to? Did play both, yeah. Yeah, and I just couldn't accept him, not in a Liverpool shirt. Not in a Liverpool shirt, yeah. It didn't make sense to me. No, iconic to that club, and yeah. Absolute legend. Sorry, there's a bit of a tangent. OK, so going from commentator to chief exec, that's quite a jump. Did you have to kind of prove yourself you were capable? Did you have to pitch yourself for it? Look, I did the four years at Perth Glory in a media marketing role. I then stepped outside of sport for the first time in my career and just did some sales, what they called home and land packages here in Australia, selling some land in the house with it, and quickly went into a management role there with one of the companies. And then the opportunity came with the heat, and I was given the chance to run my first club, which was good because at the time I'd just started as president of a football club as well. So the management position was quite similar. I've run both roles now for the last five years, which has been brilliant. What is the mandate for the chief exec? How does it compare to, say, a chairman in a football team? Just look, every club's structure can be a little bit different, so yeah, a chairman for us is one of the shareholders, majority shareholder of our club, so he's who I report to. I've got the day -to -day running of the organisation, and I report to our chairman. What are the main things that you're responsible for the team in ensuring they've got the resources they need? Everything, yeah. Everything, yeah. I run the organisation. So it's basically probably almost identical to my role. Correct. Yeah, absolutely. Bigger numbers. Yeah, there's bigger numbers, but I don't think it really matters, and there's probably a good contrast with a football club. Whether you've got 10 members, 100 members, 1 ,000 members, a million members, the communication is still the same. You still treat your members the same way, regardless of how many zeros are involved. It's the same if you do a social media post, whether your club's only got 50 members or 50 ,000, you're still putting out information. So in some ways, don't get scared by the numbers. It's treat the position with respect and your members and partners, et cetera. Again, corporate partners, regardless of what the partnership value is, they're a corporate partner.
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"Since September 11th, 2011, there's been 31 ,000 suicides, veteran suicides. So 7 ,100 of us have perished in combat. 31 ,000 have taken their lives, and part of that, I'm not an expert, I'm not a psychologist, this is just my personal feeling, part of that is lack of purpose. They've transitioned out, this 20 -year war that never ended that really didn't mean anything to anybody now, and they've lost purpose. Welcome, everybody, for our special release podcast. I'm Glenn Wilko here with Mike Lomas. We have a special guest in studio, and this is gonna kinda be a tease. This podcast, we're gonna be releasing now, but we're also gonna release this podcast again in the future as part of a series that we're gonna launch. And this is gonna be like a podcast miniseries, so it's not gonna be a forever podcast. We've got enough of those going already, right? This new series is gonna be a series will be just a probably 10 or 12 -episode series where we're interviewing different business owners, and we're gonna call it something along the lines of you built this. That's still in the works, so by the time this is the actual series release, it might be different. But back in 08, 09, one of the things I found extraordinarily offensive was when the Democrat Party, which really started with Elizabeth Warren, by the way, Obama actually ripped it off. He's not even, he even plagiarized that, the guy. But Obama was the one with the power to really resonate it. Move this thing, yep. And he came out, and he's, you know, everyone remembers famously saying in his speech, he said, well, you didn't build that. You got a factory. Somebody else made that happen, you know? And the whole idea was, and the whole concept, and their little tiny brains, was that somebody else built the road to that factory for you to be able to move their goods. That's right. What these folks didn't realize was that back in the days when some of these factories were built, there was no federal government interstate road system. It was oftentimes the business owner themselves that were indeed building the factory and the road to get things to the market. And they're still doing that because the revenue from that factory is what actually affords the road. Not some liberal in their mom and dad's basement that is on TikTok for the day. Right, but nevertheless, as business owners ourselves, and Mike and I have owned 12 businesses over the years. I think we currently own nine and have sold three. But we've also been extraordinarily fortunate to work with a lot of business owners that have sold businesses, are running businesses, and as I was telling our guests, who I'm gonna introduce in a second, before, I don't wanna tease it here, I'm gonna keep the suspense, before we started the podcast, it's amazing to hear the different stories and be fortunate of the people that have started their business, and how they built it, how they started it, what they had to go through, some of the sacrifices they made, some of the difficulties. I think a lot of people that have never owned a business have no idea what it means. And so this was, this I had an opportunity to bring you in, and I wanted to start with you, Robbie. So Robbie DeNiro is our very first guest here, and we're happy to have you in. Robbie, you obviously have been in the news a lot. You're famous in Western New York, of course, for standing up to the face masks and the garbage when you owned the gym. And I know we're gonna talk about the new business, which I'm excited to hear about, but just start me from the get -go of that business, how hard was it, some of the regulatory stuff. Remember, you started a gym, it's hard enough to start a gym, and then you had to go through COVID when they were trying to shut things down. How hard as a business owner is it to pay bills when you have no income and no revenue? I mean, it's crazy. They were so worried about people's health that they shut the gyms down to help their health. So Robbie, you built it, and I wanna hear how you did it. Well, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me come on. So I had just got done with about 14 years in the Marine Corps. I transitioned out. God bless you, by the way. Thank you. You got it. Greatest 14 years of my life. It's an amazing experience to serve the country, especially as a Marine.
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"And I know you also have, you have a special guest guitarist who really makes these songs cook. So if you could just tell us a little, and I'm gonna be writing up the first single, I believe on Monday, I have that. So I'll be writing that for the balcony, but yeah, if you just want to, before we go, I want you to tell us about it to Wet People's Appetite and then we'll do a full pod when it's released in February. Oh, absolutely. And thank you so much for this opportunity to dance in a dead man's grave with my own achievements. Yes, no, no, no. We do have our new record coming out in February, 2024. It's called The Interrogator. And our first single is called, I Love the Sound of Structured Class, which was based off of Nick Lowe's, amazing. I love the sound of broken glass. But any who, yes, actually, and if you hate 80s production, then you might not be a candidate for this because it's actually inspired by ZZ Top's Eliminator, which is basically Billy Gibbons going deep into his Depeche mode and orchestral maneuvers in the dark mode. That record whips ass, I'm sorry. Give me all your love and can come on any time. I don't care if the drum is a sequence or whatever. Sorry, sounds good. And so, yes, so there's a lot of 80s touches and light synthesizers and definitely that was the inspiration for it. But it's very, very much like an affectionate tribute to all of that stuff and then just being a great record. And we have Peter Holzapfel, who is, you know, one of the founding members of the DBs. And if you're not into the DBs, he also played in REM and also in Hootie's band. I think just so there is record, but maybe he also played in Hootie. I can't remember, but whatever. He's an amazing guitarist and he is playing lead on this and it's so great. And I'm very, very proud of it. I'm really excited about it. And it's definitely a big sonic palette that we get to play with. And so, yes, it doesn't sound like the band. And I don't know what it sounds like 1987 solo Robbie. Maybe, I have no idea, but I'm super duper proud of it. And it's nice just to get to plug it a little bit. I'm hoping the pod comes out. You guys can check it out or not. That's why as last time I checked, we're still in America and it's free country. So you do or do not have to listen to it. So yes, thank you for that opportunity. Well, I'm excited that, you know. No, it's absolutely not okay. It's not okay if people don't listen to it. Don't tell people something is okay when it's not okay. But you have to listen to it. And frankly, I found that, I mean, you're obviously coming from different directions and you're borrowing what you want and what you don't want, right? I mean, when you listen to 1987, it'll be like, wow, everything about this is just like, you know, booming. But no, I loved, I loved the new record and I loved how the sound is so much more expansive and the new guitar is absolutely fantastic. And, you know, I love it. It has all of the good things that have been in all of your albums, but it also has these wonderful new things, which as you say, just sort of really open up. And Robert, just really quickly, you got to experience the whole thing live. So you actually got to see Peter Hole's Apple in action, which I hope was a rewarding experience rather than a punishment. Yeah, I really regret that I have not, if Robert regrets not having seen the last waltz, I've not gotten the paranoid style live experience. So we need to, if the West Coast is not in the cards, I will need to find a way to get out there and find a show to see, Roman. Lexington is centrally, Lexington is centrally. So what I need, so our next podcast is going to, or one of our next two podcasts is going to be about the college alignment, which affects both of our teams. So I want Elizabeth to listen to the Robbie 1987 album and then write a song called Showdown at Big 12. I think that would be the, that would tie it all together. That's what we, I think that's what we did. That's my free idea there. Oh yes. Okay, good to know. Write it down and absolutely. I'll listen to the Robbie record, then I'll write the song and then we'll meet back in a year. Awesome. Yeah, cool. Well, anyway, I'm sorry I have to, Elizabeth, this was wonderful. I'm so happy you could join us and add to the canon of Robbie apologism. So I'll have to get a post up when this comes out. And congratulations, the new record is phenomenal. I'm really looking forward to being able to listen to it more and talk about it more. It must be really fun for Tim to be able to play that additional guitar dynamic. It's just, yeah, it sounds great. And I think it's going to get a lot of attention, but thanks for this discussion. I really enjoyed it. Thanks, Rob, for coming along and as always adding your technical expertise and showing that it's not just Canadians who have an affection for the Brown Geffen album. And thanks to all our listeners. I hope you enjoyed this as much as we did. And keep in mind, these podcasts are very difficult and expensive to produce and time-consuming. I'm not the one who does that, but Dr. Farley does. And so, and Elizabeth should be very rich and famous and she's definitely not rich for reasons, that the distribution of publishing is moot when there are no publishing royalties. So Elizabeth is one of the people who benefits if you donate to our Patreon. And we hope that you will consider dropping a few dollars into the tip jar because that helps all of us and helps us to bring in this content. So have a great weekend, everybody. Thank you so much. 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"So I also, Rob just really want to talk about this. And Elizabeth has said, and I say, you know, I really stopped following his solo work after, you know, when that, the New Orleans, the Storyville came out, you know, I tried to listen to that. It got really good reviews, like kind of eh, you know, but I, as a Canadian, I have to have a certain amount of affection for the, the Brown Deafened album from, is it 87? Whenever that's, whatever, yeah. I should say that that's one of my parents' favorite albums ever. Like just one that they always listen to. And it's one of those, you know, people who don't know Canadian radio has fairly strict rules about Canadian, you know, that 40% of the music has to be Canadian content. So the Canadian equivalent of MTV, like just had those like Neil Young videos in the mid eighties, where he has like incredible acne scars of like, like 1910 sideburns, you know, like touch the night and like, you know, the videos from, you know, the, the rockabilly album, like all caught, full rotation. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah. But, but also like that, that Robbie album is just a staple of Canadian radio. And so, you know, I listen to it and, and, you know, can Robbie sing? Absolutely not. That is a problem. But you know, like the songs on the first half that like, you know, Fallen Angels, Richard Manuel's a great song, Shout Out A Big Sigh, Broken, and Broken Arrow has kind of become a standard, you know, and I'm actually an apologist for the cringy Somewhere Down the Crazy River, which I still kind of like. Somewhere Down the Crazy River. And, and I know Mary McKee, who started the famous video, who was, I believe in a romantic relationship with Robbie at the time, had some really lovely tributes on, on Instagram. But, you know, the, you know, I, I, I kind of have an, I have an affection for that album that really, you know, I can't really defend it as, as any kind of major work aesthetically, or that it stands up with any, you know, non-outtakes band album. But, but I kind of like, I have to admit, I, I, that affection for it did come back a little bit, I have to admit. I mean, I used to, there was a period in the nineties, and this extended into graduate school. So probably when I knew you, Scott, where, you know, I just happened to have a cassette of that album and I listened to it at least once a week, right? So it was, and then, you know, I had not listened to it since 2000. And I, you know, I, I, I put it on while I walked to work. And, you know, on the, on the one hand, right, just sort of reading about it, I did not know that Danko was on the album. I did not know that Garth was on the, obviously it's impossible to hide U2 on the album or Peter Gabriel. But, you know, I mean, I think my feelings about it were just, wow, I mean, this really is awfully 1987, right? It's also awfully ambitious, right? And I think that that's, that's something that can be said, you know, ambition is a strange thing to have, right? Because when you, when you don't produce something that's quite timeless, and this is not a time, this may have a couple of timeless songs. Broken Arrow is my favorite, right? But it's not a timeless album, right? And so, like, it's a, it's an interesting thing where, where, especially with the, sort of the separation of decades, a lot of it is very hard to listen to, right? It can be, especially on the second half, it can be very cringy and very hard to, very hard to listen to. But I still, I still kind of enjoyed not only the memory of having listened to it back then, but also some of the better songs on the first half, so. So are you familiar with the album at all, or is that just a, are you too tasteful to have ever been that? Yeah, I must say, like, I haven't dipped into Robbie's solo work, and I will after this podcast, because now I feel bad that I don't have that knowledge. And I mean, like, it's interesting to me, Robert, that you said that it's not a timeless record, because I, again, I think that was a word I invoked earlier on about Robbie himself, just feeling timeless. And there's something about those band records, and I think that this comes up in the movie too, where Robbie says that, like, Dylan heard, I can't remember which sign out, it's like the weight, I think, and he's like, who wrote that? You know, as if to say, like, this is a song that has existed always. And you feel it to be public domain arranged by, like, yeah. Well, and then we can put it on the, on the website, and we wouldn't even charge the copyright trolls. Yes, exactly. A totally another conversation that nobody wants. But seriously, like, it's like so many of, like, and I think this was part of the man's appeal. You like, look at those photos. I mean, they look like, you know, old timey, you know, war veterans or miners or something like, and like, so I'm curious to know about how your guys' experiences are of either just the iconic band records, which I would assume are the first two, maybe basement tapes you can throw in there or something in their work with Dylan or whatever. Like the timelessness of the band, I think is a very important thing is to their longevity. And I mean, obviously it has to do a lot with the songwriting skills, but also the musicianship. But I think this, and I don't mean to keep on saying, like, I saw this in a movie, but like, I feel like this came up in the movie as well, where like Springsteen was kind of like, we're at the height of psychedelia. And there's this record now that comes out in 1969 that doesn't sound like any of this. Like it's totally just, you know, this kind of different experience of more old timey stuff. But the records endure, I think because of their timelessness. So the idea that Robbie's 1987 solo output doesn't sound timeless, probably as a production decision, again, I'll listen to it and have thoughts, but how do you guys experience these records? Like when you first heard them, do you remember? Like, were you like, wow, when did this record come out? Like, or were you already so like music savvy that you knew like, oh, this was Dylan's band. And so I'm going to go listen to their initial output and see how I feel. Well, yeah. I mean, I was not, I came to the main two band records pretty late. And so I was familiar with a lot of the songs on them. I was familiar with the story of them. But that timelessness very, very clearly comes through, right? That and, you know, the influence that it sort of later has on Americana and on different directions that some country music is going, but then also some, you know, some things in the rock world. You know, when I finally started listening to their import was evident, right? It was self-evident, right? I didn't have to say, it didn't have to. I actually know exactly the first, I don't know why I still remember this, but I went to, I believe the Sam the record man in Montreal when I was a freshman. And I bought that double CD with the blue cover, that best of, I forget, it was a musical history, something like that. But like a pretty well selected, like double best of CD. And they have like millions of them. So actually before I listened to Big Pink or the band, I actually had that and just played it obsessively. And yeah, it's just like, and really all the records, and again, towards, the last couple albums definitely have more synth flourishes a little more. But the interesting thing is that the first two records, they're traditionalist, but they're not trying to ape any tradition. They just sound like themselves. And I think that's why the album transcends time. And the comparison with the 1987 record is good. I mean, obviously, the songs aren't as good, they don't have as distinctive a band, or they have some distinctive musicians, but it's also that, there's a lot of that 80s stuff that just has that extremely 80s feel. And so when I'm trying to defend something like the Rolling Stones dirty work, the first thing you have to get through is, yeah, the drum mix is very annoying. It's like, it's like that's just, you have to learn to hear past that. And that has that, whereas the first two albums, but there's just that fine line where they're traditionalist without trying to imitate anything. And that's, I think, what makes them hold up, but also are very well produced too, that they're not deliberately lo-fi either. They're just, they are what they are. And yeah, and it just must have been just, I can't even imagine how that would have sounded in 1969. And obviously the influence that, the sort of mutual influence with Dylan is really obvious in terms of people who had a great respect for musical tradition, but didn't necessarily want to sound like their influences. I think that's sort of really what comes. And it's just, it's miraculous. That's those, I have my wife bought me this gorgeous vinyl remaster of music for Big Pink, which is actually mastered at 45. So it's like four sides on one album. And it just, yeah, I mean, just sounds absolutely incredible. Like it's just, it's amazing that that album was recorded when it was. And that really is what is going to cause that music to adores, just that it's always been its own thing and it just sounds wonderful and it just sounds fresh. And again, I do hope, and again, I think I don't deny the consensus that the first two albums are the best. I'm not perverse. I'm not going to be contrarian, but I do think that people who dip into the other albums are going to be rewarded too. Starting with Stage Fright, but Kahoot! especially in terms of the band. And again, I'm going to do a post and I should find Darcy's thread, but sort of an, I don't know how you feel about this Elizabeth, or if you've listened to the album, but Kahoot! is a real, this Robbie songwriting started to dip a little, those good songs on it, but man, it's some of its best guitar playing and the entire band sounds phenomenal. Like that's a record if you just really want to hear them like as music and as musicians, that's a really fun album to revisit. For sure. I mean, yeah, definitely you feel the gears grinding with lyrics, but yeah, I mean, these are all great sounding records and anybody who wants to dip a tone, obviously go with classics, go with the album. But you can't deny that listening to Stage Fright isn't fun and it sounds like they're having fun and that's always really important. You can read the room and sometimes you can feel tension and sometimes you can just feel that they're still having fun. And I mean, that was one of the things that appealed to me so much about Stage Fright was that that was like the last moment where I was like, they're having fun. This is important and it's joyful and they're NRBQ or whatever. It's peak NRBQ. And that's something that I really appreciate. But I mean, I think that this is something that where I know that since we're doing a Robertson podcast I'll center us again. Something that's really important about Robbie that I don't think he gets enough credit for because I think it's equally weird and off-putting about him is that end of the day he's like really good at marketing. And there's no reason for the band to succeed in 1969 with the music they were making. This is not popular music. It's trad, but it's not what was the spirit of the zeitgeist or however y'all want to put it. But he clearly knew how to talk about it in a way that made it compelling and made it succeed. And I think this is something that it's so cynical maybe but I think it's really important to acknowledge that as a band leader, he knew exactly how to talk about the music that they were making in a way that made it compelling, in a way that made everybody want to listen to it. They were so fetishized, they became beloved in the UK and everything else because I think he knew how to talk about it. And I think that that's, and again, we dislike it about him as well. So it's sort of this tension of the two sides of Robbie where it's like, he's arrogant for sure but I definitely think he just knew how to say like, this is really great. And like, you guys, you're totally, your mind's gonna be blown by this. I just think that he knew how to market it. And I don't necessarily know that the other members of the band would have been able to pull that off. The Jagger comparison again, comes off. Almost everybody likes Keith Moore, but it's not a perfect comparison because there are Stones albums on which Keith is sort of the dominant compositional force and the dominant, although not on, there are also albums where Jagger was including Sticky Fingers. And by the way, Mick Taylor is somebody who is genuinely screwed by songwriting. We're going to like, that's somebody who got like, yeah, no, there's somebody who has a legitimate complaint I think, but I think that, yeah, like in some ways it's just not very rock and roll to sort of be the mom, to be the person who can talk to the press, who can say, okay boys, like maybe let's limit the smack today and try to record something. But it's neat, that's ultimately, again, what helps to make a band successful and that's just the way it is. And I think people are kind of in denial about that. To bring our threads together, we should also mention, you had one of the greatest Twitter moments of all time when someone was like, well, I could listen to the band or I could just listen to like some people in old suits sit on an accordion. And then Robbie responded, oh, I'd much rather be a writer for the Cleveland Show. It's just like perfect for Robbie, but it's like, yeah, it's sort of arrogant, but not wrong. Again, it's like, and again, it's very interesting because he has that where he's, yeah, he's definitely, he could be arrogant and self-putting and somebody who kind of likes to hang out with celebrities. But again, that arrogance does not come through in his music and in his soundtrack work. And I think that's the really crucial thing is that he was definitely the unofficial leader of the band and became more so over time. But that's, he knew the talent he was working with too. And that's the crucial thing is that he was always sort of modest enough and tuneful enough to know that he didn't need to be the dominant musical presence. And he certainly shouldn't be the dominant vocal presence on those records. He's willing to let other people, I'm reminded one time of like, I read an interview with Paul Simon when he was like really resented when like Art was saying Grinch Over Troubled Water. Like, that was my song and I should have sang it. Like, I've heard Paul singing on like, I'm like Paul, no, you shouldn't have. Like, sorry, you know. Like, sorry if the audience doesn't like, can't figure out like songwriting and say, you know, but you know what? Like, your instincts when you gave that to Art to sing were correct, like, you know, and that's, you know, and that's, you know, part of it. And that part of it is that even sort of an arrogant, talented person have to, also has to realize how to work with other talented people. And for many years, Robbie was able to do that. And I think that's, you know, and again, I, you know, I don't blame anyone who can find him annoying and off-putting. And again, that memoir, again, I strongly recommend it, but it is, you know, the name dropping is great. There's no other way around it, there's no question. But, you know, you just have to, once you make your piece, you know, if you don't make your piece with that, you're denying yourself a lot of great music as well as, and a great film as well as a great memoir.
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"What's that, back in that brief period when Dennis Miller was funny, he has that line about how like, what do you have to do to get fired from Guns N' Roses about Steve Adler? Hey Izzy, quit shooting heroin into your cock, we have to fire Izzy. So, but it's, in a way that's still true, that there's still a limit, right? Steven Adler literally could not play his instrument while high, whereas Slash could play his, right? And that was fundamentally the difference. By the way, I'm seeing Guns N' Roses in two weeks with the girls, so. So is that now with Slash, but not Izzy? Is that the idea? Slash and Duff, Slash, excellent. Oh, Duff, okay, that's tough. You have the Seattle component, so that's good. That's three out of five. I think that's acceptable. I think if you have, I think that's, as much as I miss Izzy, that's acceptable. Well, the last time they were in the area, actually, Steven Adler, who apparently lives in Cincinnati, he came out and he played like four songs with them, so yeah. I would not necessarily bet on him being alive. It's good, good. Yeah, that's actually bad. Everybody has survived. That's, you know, that's actually kind of bad. I would not necessarily have won that bet. So there you go. Shows you that not being on the road constantly can have its advantages, but yeah. And I think we should also talk about the, you know, that, and again, despite this idea that Robbie had to be front and center and everything, his biggest second career was being like, you know, Scorsese's behind the scene music guy and really playing a critical role. You know, movies like Casino and Goodfellas, The King of Comedy, in which, you know, the color of money in the soundtrack plays a huge role. And he was a, you know, major, you know, part of that, you know, often barely credited, but, you know, that's, you know, any Scorsese fan knows that that's, you know, the music is a hugely important part of those films and Robbie is his main music guy. By the way, we should put on the record here that Farley, despite being a Scorsese fan, that I think a fan of the band, has never seen The Last Waltz, which is just, that needs to be, I mean, Van Morrison in a purple jumpsuit, Farley. You know, and you know from A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life, my favorite Elizabeth song, you know, the coke under Neil's nose, which you can't see in the remastered versions, but no monsters. It's fun to picture it there anyway. And anyway, and it's not, you know, the evidence that Neil has coked out is, it was superfluous, let me put it that way, but he sounds great on Elvis anyway. But yeah, it's, you know, it's really spectacular. Ronnie Hawkins sounds great. Yeah, it's, yeah. It's such a good movie, Robert. You're doing yourself a disservice not watching it. It's a Thanksgiving tradition in my house. I think, you know, probably, I mean, it's just worth watching for Joni Mitchell. Ronnie Hawkins, as Scott mentioned, is amazing. The Clapton strap situation is a lot of it. Dylan's incredible. And I know that there's a huge, like, critique that it's just Scorsese doing his Scorsese gaze on Robbie the whole time. But I would like actually, and maybe this already exists, but I would like some content analyst to go through the whole movie and actually give me the amount of seconds that Robbie gets versus everybody else. Because I think end of the day, like, it's not going to be as bad as we think. And not only that, but I feel like in, and again, Robertson's memoir might be not the best testimonial to go by with this, but I feel like just setting up the Winterland ballroom with cameras was a real challenge. So they couldn't necessarily always get the right angle to be focused on the right performer at the right time. But I feel like this critique that it's like, oh, you know, it's basically just, you know, two hours worth of Robbie. And I don't know, like evidently Ronnie Hawkins was at the screening of it and said some kind of snarky thing about, oh, it's really nice to see Robbie in his movie. But I mean, like, yeah, it's a lot of Robbie, but Robbie is freaking center stage. Because again, he's the band leader, but there is all this stuff happening. And Van Morrison's kicks alone, just watch it for the kicks. I mean, just watch Caravan and, you know, you'll want to watch it. I can't believe you haven't watched the movie. Yeah, and we should also mention one of the absolute highlights is it makes no difference with, you know, Robbie's kind of last great song, but, you know, Rick Danko is going up against Muddy Waters and Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison, Staples sisters, some of the most titanic vocalists in the history of American pop music and stands right alongside them. Phenomenal, just gorgeous vocal performance. And Rick is actually all over it. And again, he's not, like people miss it. He's not a particularly articulate person, even when sober, but a gorgeous singer. And that's really one of the highlights. And again, he can stand up next to anybody. And that's really the showcase that is provided. And as can Levon, of course, starting with up on Cripple Creek, sounds incredible. And Levon is all over that movie and all of the soundtracks. And I just think that people are basically, and again, Levon's memoir is great. It's a lot of fun, but people are letting his, like, obviously extremely non-partial view of the documentary just cause him to ignore what's on the screen. I'm sorry. It's just not. And I understand why Levon resented that project. It was about the band breaking up. He was not going to, you know, and it was about basically Robbie breaking up with him for Martin Scorsese. I completely, I don't expect Levon to like it, but people just have to like, you know, people have to stop treating Levon as an impartial critic in this. And like watch what's on the screen because they're really depriving themselves of a wonderful movie that is, again, a phenomenal showcase for Levon and Rick Danko. And again, it's not a showcase for Richard just because he was in, you know, if you've heard the Jason Dispel song, that's it, you know? Sorry. And it's too bad, but it really is for the band members who are still performing in peak shape. It's a phenomenal showcase. So yeah, it's, I hope that that's, and I do get the sense that the tide is turning a little bit on that, you know, that everything's giving. And I think people are no longer adhering to that old narrative about the last waltz. So, but anyway, Rob, you'll have to, you can, you'll be able to look at it fresh. So you can decide who's right. On the list. Yeah, absolutely.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
A highlight from LGM Podcast: Remembering Robbie Robertson
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Mark Levin
Robert Reich: 'The Economy Is Great' Despite Your High Bills
"Matter if you eat or not. doesn't It matter if you have any air conditioning or not. It doesn't matter if you can afford your bills. It doesn't matter. What matters is that you believe crap party and binomics. And don't step out of line. What matters is They don't want you to think for yourself. And so, one Marxist goes to the next. What do you think about this? Rather than the drag queens trying to distract us. Isn't the economy great? It's great, isn't it Robbie? It's great. The economy's great. What does he have to say? Go. You read it. I think that's exactly right, Joy. They are trying to deflect attention from the fact that the economy is great. It's a Goldilocks economy, I'll tell you. The economy is great. Listen, America, especially Democrats out there, especially those of you who have to work with your hands and break your ass every damn day and actions and follow the rules. The economy is great. It's great. According to Robert Reich, according to Joy Reid, two radical left Democrats. The economy is great. Repeat after me. The economy is great. The economy is great. Louder. The economy is great. Repeat after me. The economy is great. Repeat after me. Binomics. Binomics. Binomics. It's great. Binomics is great. Binomics is great. NBC. Go ahead. And participating in economic policy for at least 30 years, and I don't recall an economy that is this good. But the American He's been working with think tanks. He's top crowd. He's been working on these
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Chris Christie on 2024, Gov. Kim Reynolds on her endorsement, and WSJ's David Rivkin
"The U .S. Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at CBP .gov slash careers slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale, Hillsdale dot edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there and of course listen to the Hillsdale dialogues. All of them at Q for Hillsdale dot com or just Google Apple, iTunes and Hillsdale. Welcome back America. Robbie Robertson is dead at the age of 80. Of course this song covered by Bruce Springsteen, my guest, Governor Chris Christie, former Governor of New Jersey loves Bruce. I don't know if you're a fan of the band. Are you Governor? Absolutely.
AP News Radio
Corey Seagar hits grand slam in 8-run 4th, Rangers beat Orioles 12-2
"The rangers exploded for an 8 run fourth inning and went on to beat the Orioles 12 to two. Corey Seager hit his third career Grand Slam in the inning and Robbie Grossman added a two run shot. John gray went 7 innings to earn his 5th win. He says he could relax after the fourth inning. It makes it easy. The whole field of the game changed after that. So I feel like there really really flipped the flip the switch and made almost on our side after that. You know, we just got to go plug baseball. Jason and Rodriguez gave up 6 earned runs and fell to two and two, adley rushman homered for the Orioles. Craig heist Baltimore
AP News Radio
Seager's hitting and Gray's pitching lead Rangers to 11-5 win over Rockies
"Texas Rangers defeated the Colorado Rockies 11 to 5 red out rangers tenth win in their last 14 games. Rangers built up an 8 zero lead against loser Kyle friedland after two innings for in the first four in the second and never looked back. Texas manager Bruce bochy continues to be impressed with his offense. It's a deep lineup and just gets contagious with these guys and early, you know, they just kept applying the pressure and we have some great at bats, some clutch hitting. Corey Seager and Ezekiel Durant homered for Texas, Robbie Grossman at three RBIs, John gray got the win 5 innings one run ball against his former team. Bob Stephens, Arlington, Texas
The Charlie Kirk Show
Robby Starbuck Describes the Failures of the Republican Party
"Welcome back to the program. Your thoughts, RNC, the failure of the Republican Party, I see so much good happening in the conservative movement. Robbie, I see your voice being amplified. I see great people like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, Dan bongino, big podcasts that are growing and that are strengthening I see rumble. I see the media space actually healthier, almost than any other time. I've been doing this in ten years. But I see the party sicker and weaker than ever before your thoughts. You're absolutely right, Charlie. And it's really this gulf between the reality of the base of our party versus the people in control of our party. It honestly seems kind of like the people in charge, professionally want to lose. I don't know another way to describe it because some of the things going on are just entirely nonsensical. When you look at the results of recent history, you know, just look at Wisconsin this week. We're not even close to winning that Supreme Court race, okay? We got obliterated there. And it's a byproduct of really just having no activation on the ground. When you have a Twitter account, beating you, it ground game, literally. I saw Scott pressler one guy on a Twitter account doing more to flip that race than I saw the national GOP app. And just so we're clear, Ronald Romney and the RNC. They wouldn't even call Scott back. That's a fact, Scott said, I call them. I try to do stuff. They want nothing to do with them. How's that possible, Robbie? It's ludicrous. And it look backwards, okay? Who was registering voters for 2020? Who went out there gas stations and got people out all over the country to go to their own gas stations to activating these people at the grassroots to go and register voters to vote Republican. It was Scott. I wasn't the GOP. The GOP did a tiny version of this later on after Scott already proved it successful,
AP News Radio
Rangers rally after deGrom struggles to beat Phillies 11-7
"The Texas Rangers overcame a 5 nothing deficit to rally past the Philadelphia Phillies 11 to 7 in a matchup of the rangers debut of Jacob de rohm and the Phil's Aaron nola, who both allowed 5 runs and three and two thirds innings. Texas manager Bruce bochy says the rangers 9 one fourth was special. What an ending just had some great at bats and that big inning there and that's great when, especially on the open air, so exciting out there. Robbie Grossman and Brad Miller homered for the rangers Grossman at three one shot while Alex Bowen led the Phil's attack with a Homer and three RBIs. Bob Stephens, Arlington, Texas
The Doug Collins Podcast
When the Dead Show up at Your Doorstep...
"Off this sort of off the wall Friday. I had to start off with this story, and it was returned, their headline was returned, earned to sender. And what has happened here is a special liberty of something, but a Brooklyn based indie rocker got a package of it had to be an indie rocker, okay? Of course. I love how they threw this in here. Is a package of cremated human remains belonging to a stranger in the mail and was stun when the funeral home that sent them initially told them it wasn't their problem. This guy named Hamilton let Hauser 44 frontman for the popular indie punk band, the waltman, was gosp activity when he opened the cardboard container and found the ashes inside in another playing cardboard box. It would just kind of shocking. The remains were Martin. Now get this, giants. The remainings were October 7th, 2017. So those have been floating around. Well, it's interesting. 7 years. It had been shipped to the current resident of the studio apartment. Out in east Williamsburg or wherever this app. Anyway, he tried to call the funeral home and straighten things out. The owner was extremely unhelpful. He said something like, it's your problem now. And actually hung up on me. The story hung up. Asshole, I love how they did this. Let it slip that after no one came to claim the remains. He tried to ship them to a man named Robbie, or possibly Ronnie, who may have lived a teacher in 2017.
The Dan Bongino Show
Kash Patel: Robby Mook Testified Early Because of a Vacation to Spain
"Cash there was a lot more in that answer I know you caught it He wrote in Jake Sullivan into that too Jake Sullivan who is now the national security adviser at The White House into the decision to disseminate the hoax and you got to be thinking to yourself how the hell does Jake Sullivan still have his job at The White House This is crazy No you look you're totally right And Jake Sullivan is another guy that I interrogated under oath And that's why I think Robbie mook was boxed in because look all of these transcripts are we put them up for free at Durham Ross dot com We want the whole world to see everything that's been out there on Russia gate So go read them Your audience should go educate themselves Jake's all done I think lied to Congress about his involvement in the Russia gate hoax And the reason I think Robbie mook has to say what he said was because we boxed them in four years ago and his lawyers were like listen you can't really lie on the witness stand here because there's a transcript review basically already copied to it But here's the kicker that no one's talking about And Robbie mook was not a witness for the government John Durham had not finished the government's case the defense asked the judge to let Robbie move testify early because he had a vacation in Spain He had to get to Now Dan you and I both know when it comes to federal court In what universe does the government's case stop for a defense witness who's going to be the Spain And it could not have backfired more superbly for them The defense put this guy up and now he's taken out Clinton world and the Durham prosecution is going to continue It's amazing what's unraveling here
The Dan Bongino Show
Kash Patel: Robby Mook's Testimony Just Destroyed Clinton
"I know you were a humble guy but you guys really exposed this thing from the start and it's kind of interesting isn't it to see media people now recognize basic facts in the case that we knew a while ago like Robbie mook the campaign manager just blurting out in court on Friday shocking everyone saying hey the whole pee pee tape collusion oaks Yeah yeah Hillary knew about it I mean so Anthony climactic right I mean I was expecting some big splashy moment and now it all finally comes out No you're totally right And look remember I interrogated Robbie mook four years under oath just like I did with Susan and those transcripts are available for the world to see And even I as a former federal prosecutor you as a former law enforcement agent no witness is usually prepared But when they give you a gem like that and they blurt out something like that that basically is Clinton's number one person is saying that Hillary Clinton has been lying for 5 years and not only did she know about the operation for disinformation but she authorized it and sent her team to go leak it to the media I don't know how much more of a damning statement you can make under oath about Hillary Clinton That is And that's nothing to do with the indictment which is even crazier part to me It's just like he just destroyed Clinton
Mark Levin
Robby Mook: Clinton Agreed to Feed Trump-Russia Material to Reporter
"People are saying oh my the lawyers were shocked During testimony today by the campaign chairman for the Hillary Clinton decide this campaign Robbie mook and my okay As reported by the Washington examiner Hillary Clinton personally signed off on sharing since debunked Trump Russia allegations related to alpha bank With the media during the 2016 election according to our campaign manager Robbie moved testified today he was briefed about the alpha issue first by Clinton campaign general council Mark Elias There's another reprobate In this summary 2016 you said the campaign leadership quickly had a meeting about whether the share the information with the media which they decided to do Now they had to know the information was false Do you know how They concocted it They're also present in the meeting where campaign chairman John Podesta A longtime scud Communications director Jennifer palmieri policy adviser Jake Sullivan who is now President Biden's national security adviser according to mook So they all get together and they're trying to figure out how to put this false information out In October as an October surprise to ruin the Trump campaign
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How Congressional Candidate Robby Starbuck Is Fighting Corruption
"Welcome back from the break. We are still with Robbie starbuck the congressional candidate from Tennessee that's experiencing quite the corrupt situation there. He was explaining in the last segment. But Robbie, I want to focus this section on solutions, both at a micro and a macro level. So first of all, what are you doing right now? What are you guys doing as candidates? Are you working with Morgan to coordinate against this corrupt situation or what's the latest update in this? No, you know, we're very focused on our fight so we've kind of looked at every legal option that we can deploy here and I think that we're sort of near the finish line in terms of what we're going to go and deploy but we're going to use every option that we have to ensure that we're going to be on the ballot for people because the people have fought too hard for us. And we've just put way too much in. I mean, we've been running for about a year. And this is on American. So I think that we have a duty, especially given that I've been blessed to have a large following and everything like that. I have a duty to stand up for all the people who are going to come down in the future that may have this corrupt sort of backroom deal used against them being able to run because this isn't just happening congressional races. They're picking winners and losers in all kinds of races up and down the ballot. And that's not how this is supposed to work in America. So we're going to take a stand against it and try to set a new precedent in terms of giving people the right to be able to run and let voters decide. I mean, really, at the end of the day, what they're saying is we don't trust voters. We think they're either stupid or dangerous. And that's a horrible message to say. We don't trust you enough to decide for yourselves. So
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"robbie" Discussed on Cheine On
"To monthly Go interview our trust account to make sure that those are good. And i like to do that. Ma operating account to as well and And i think more than anything else even getting the entity setup the operating agreements in place. The You know the tax filings correct meeting with accountants interviewing people to me more than anything else. It's the amount of time that you devote that the business aspect that takes away from the practice that's the thing that You know you're not even working here will you are but you know in a very different context. You're not doing the work the otherwise do so. I think that's the thing. And i think that was mostly true. Initially actually think that once you start to get in a groove a little bit. Make sure that you take adequate time to do that. It's not really as much of a problem. But i would say that's that's the biggest thing right away was realizing how much time the stuff took. Yeah i i kind of found the same as i went through this and then Kind of i guess with that time is all of those small tasks that suddenly pop up that you really didn't consider were part of a business whether it's the the planning then you've got the okay changing insurance going from working from somebody to myself You know this bill. Accounting software email software. What am i gonna use. How do i gave these people..
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"robbie" Discussed on Cheine On
"Based on the things that they're posting it doesn't seem to me because they're like warmongering and they want to be there in on the stuff. I think there's people that have legitimate expertise in this area. That are pretty upset by the way that we we left this and the way that we handled this situation. I mean look if i was in that spot to and i had been in the military or had been over there and i had really done a lot put my life on the line. Guys lives on the line. The people that work with them their lives online to try to make that better place. I'll be pretty pissed that this is the way that they're that we're leaving. And i actually am more from what i know. I am more pro getting out of afghanistan. Getting out of iraq. I mean i. It's just kind of baffles me. That we're still you know there at all but this to me. This was not the way to go. And that's i agree. And i and i think that's how the soldiers fill about. I don't think they're warmongers. Just like my arguments about where we have troops. I don't i don't i don't like war either. Like we talked about that with with world war one and anything like that. I think the biggest problem looking forward is if you leave an area like that who fills the void and there are. There are geopolitical players. And it's like was the cost of twenty five hundred troops. Let's say we had to bump ten thousand. I don't know was that maybe that's not that expensive considering the alternative and you know you think about china and russia being in that area you think about the casino there. Apparently there's mineral resources in those mountains there that might actually play a huge part in the coming decades and centuries might actually be important now. I know the united states. We may not take them and we might go over there and start mining that area But that doesn't mean china won't it doesn't mean russia wall right well and you know what i mean. Wouldn't that we would neither. It doesn't mean that's that's fair to and it doesn't mean you can look at it from different ways but ultimately i think you're right but i think a lot of it what's the what most people unified on. Is the way that it happened. Terrible and i. And i think that as a fundamental thing i just cannot understand how you could even think for a second that it's okay to leave american civilians there and then i have you know one of the questions that i keep thinking about. Is they keep saying well. I said if an american citizen wants to come home they will come home. And i'm over on what's your definition of wants to come home like for example. Do you call everyone. And if i don't know they don't answer their phone. They didn't they didn't want to come home or they didn't reach out to you or they didn't send you an email like what does that. What does that mean. I mean. I just wanna know because you're talking about afghanistan and a lot of the focus seems to be around kabul but there are people in various pockets in afghanistan that have been taken over by the taliban all time ago. Like how do you know they can even have the telecommunication ability to get out and reach out to you..
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"robbie" Discussed on Cheine On
"To see the the lengths of time that this goes and skips seventeen hundred years and then somebody finds it later and reads it but it is. It is interesting to see where these things like. You said. open the door for future generations. You know future groups of oppressed people that take these same ideas and kinda flip it back on the group that yes thomas jefferson owned slaves and and then there was this entire power structure. But if you look at a martin. Luther king's speech. He actually quotes part of the constitution which jefferson wrote like a majority of that but he takes those same ideals that help these people get free and turns it around and points it back at them i think. Hey you gotta live up to this same standard that you said that you were creating for all people and i think that's where you get. I'm speaking at a school here. But i think that's where you get a movement like the civil rights movement to say like y- you know what that is true. We are equal. Were like where regular people. We shouldn't be treated less than this. What do you have to say about our challenge. Asking you the same questions that your forefathers asked of absolutely ish and i think i think dr cool the see all of those end years like flow through time and and you really do get to see the end result of it. I know we do. Have i think in america right now. We have a lot less people to people racism than we used to forty fifty sixty years ago. I think for sure the systemic stuff is still in place you know to what extent is for a second. Yeah sure i'm sorry. My wife's called me like a bunch of times. Yeah go ahead. But i'm sorry to interrupt or everything like that. But i saw my phone ring a couple. That's all right. That is an important call though. Do when my wife calls twice back to back in you just like wait a second because you never know what might have happened because the house on fires dies everything. Okay got it. Yeah dude. I would do the same so so i think you were talking about dr king there and i think he used the term something like america re wrote a promissory note that it hasn't delivered on yet or something like that and he's absolutely right. Yeah and civil and the civil rights movement is a great movement because it was based on the same principles that are fa- our founding was based on those principles are good. They are good. Yeah and that's what. I was talking about before like when we look at certain things that happened in our society. Were able to look at it and say that. It's bad the reason we're able to say it's bad is because we have standards. Those standards are oftentimes reflected in the declaration of independence and the constitution and in the constitutional amendments. Have come after that. What it's not in is a lot of the stuff that we have. Now where people want silence everyone else and they basically to wanna they wanna go backwards on things like race and gender and like just generally equality of the individual of and. That's the biggest thing it's not just equality it's equality of the individual person. Okay evaluating somebody through the lens of the individual. That's something that the west did better than any other society and its weber productive. Because we we didn't hold the sense of your father against you group against her. We tried not to understand that racism exists. And and you know i. It's you know it'd be difficult to imagine that if If the chinese marching army over here in slaughtered half the country for us to any chinese person if we went through something like that without suspicion okay..
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"robbie" Discussed on Cheine On
"Okay and the left comes after them because they they said something when they were fourteen years old on twitter. It's just crazy to me and it's just like this is. This is insane. There's no there's no perspective and we have a lot of people in our country that somehow think that right now they just have it all figured out that they don't make any mistakes and that they're they're like the elect and they know everything about everyone and anyone that doesn't conform to that is just wrong. Anyone that's ever done anything bad in their entire pass. That doesn't conform to present day. Standards is awful. And that's why we tear down statues of thomas jefferson even though without the declaration of independence. We don't have freedom to the slaves that were currently that later came. I mean one thing leads into another into another over over history and people don't have any perspective over that it's like yes you know. For example thomas jefferson owned slaves. But yes do you know. The declaration of independence led to the declaration of the rights of man. Which is what i don't know. Haiti base their initial I shouldn't even say haiti. That led to the declaration of the rights in france which During the french revolution is what led to the freedom of slaves in haiti. And you want to know why. Because it's people identify something like the declaration of independence and the idea that man in and of itself and women but man in of itself has something valuable. That's an eight in them. Such an equality of man means necessarily that. You can't have slavery that at the time that you're writing something like this. Slavery has existed forever not for one hundred years forever and every civilization that's ever existed. And you take something like that and you have to realize that that not only in that context. It was the most liberal position on that issue that you could theoretically have had right and to to go back and not not see. The stepping stones is something that takes to change. Something that was man did not exist without in in iteration in any civilization without the idea of slavery or surf or something that was virtually the equivalent of something like that. it didn't really exist. Maybe you could find bits and pieces of it somewhere and places that maybe that wasn't even an acceptable. Maybe it wasn't a what's the word. I'm looking for It wasn't something that made sense within the context of that society. Sure of course it's gonna stepping to get rid of that but that only happens when you value the individual and understand the equality that each individual has and we are getting away from that so fast now so many different levels that everything that we built is crumbling. And it's you know and and there's you know well and if you look at those like ideals right if you look where they stem from actually A book about where the founding fathers got their philosophy from in green lafayette..
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"robbie" Discussed on Cheine On
"Where when when i meet with the client. I don't want that child to sit in there and it it's not merely that it Say this the person that's protected in that situation would be the client not necessarily simply because they're doing know the let's say their daughters doing anything wrong but florida law certain badges of for example. Something called undue influence and if for example Let's say that a you know you have a will like i talked about before and It left everything equally to son and the daughter. And then let's say there's a new will say it's not on the deathbed or anything like that. Okay now let's say that. I got a call from the daughter and the daughter's like hey you know i wanna bring my my dad and you know to see you and you know maybe the intake staff goes okay. Well you know i. They're instructed right away to say okay. Well when your dad comes into see as we can make the appointment but just understand the fact that if your dad can drive himself he should drive himself. And you know either way you know attorney is going to want to meet with your dad alone and number one if they seem to have an issue with that and the answers ninety nine percent of the time unless there's a compelling reason sure now it's like you know maybe the only child okay which is a different thing but in this context. It's like okay. Well then they can call someone else. Because i don't want to get involved with something like that And the reason for that is like i was saying before they're certain situations or certain badges of undue influence. So if you are the one that calls the attorney to set the appointment if you are particularly if you're there when they expressed desire to make a will or you're there on the will is executed and you have knowledge of what's in the bill. There's all these things that are factors that a court considers nevada undue influence. I wanna cut as many of those out as possible right not to mention also want to make sure the client. You know understands what's happening. Look most of the time. This isn't an issue. And most of the time. Even if i get a call from someone related to the client. They're like. oh yeah that's fine. No no big deal. you know. it's not a thing but when you see that stuff happen again and again I mean you know mal litigation cases there's always generally something kind of like that going on or depending on the case and everything but if it's a will contest case there's something going on and in those cases and and most of the will contest cases are based on undue influence. Released undue influences is probably a cause of action or a claim. That's being brought. In those cases i would say gaga so jews extracting that from the process or cutting it out as much as possible again. We're not..
SRB Media Podcasts
"robbie" Discussed on SRB Media Podcasts
"The appetites therefore we'd love to do it and i think it's it's a story which you know will will not just resonate with with old people. It's just it's really more more life than football on a bite. You know overcoming chinese overcome adversity which everyone can sort of to and rafi fallen elouise solved eat. Kuzak owes the young lady doing. She's obviously just training here. A cow cowbell work so walk choosing a cow bell workout here from the campus. What what's that making your coffee actually joint. Y'all out bring right here. And she cannot supercell. Okay rafi paul wants by higher finding things you need i well yeah what cease kiddle bell work that you do as well. I have to do it on such a hot day. That there you go so should. I are really interesting to play this time around. Especially because i think with delved deeper into her backstory and this amazing kind link between her and george and the way they end up in this flat together this weekend the sort of stakes and so both of them and i- gaff story of parallels his kind of action tab the different way you consider when high pressure that have happens then the flies really bad but she said of shoes. Check it one way but george being the person that he was sort of can't help himself take it even worse place in his life really and i'm guessing you found it really easy working working with rob as well as those two only spent the weekend in the flat. You always at all all the talk in flats aren't actually and him. He's so capable unruly generous action. So i do think people say us often alter arrow. Don't you quarrel if you're walking together all the time but i really think if you in something creative and you have that not to do that with people close that that is not quite like on stage with them absolutely new co wrote. That is With with robert didn't new so it's it's your work as much as it's robbie's yeah. Hope that he hits the george best. He's looks georgia's well. Do you like sinead. And she's younger. Not not as much as robert looks like joe. He's a ring. Thank you better go back to your bell ringing or whatever what actually easy what what what. He's you know like like the weight. Rosa okay yeah l. Wearing guy fade. Sounds like fantastic fun but not as much fun as the stage. Hello georgia bar best. Thank you would raffray. Could you just point robbie back on your side. Toronto robbie as well thank thank you. Hypo i might. She really same. Nevada breath there denture. You're working odd. The hate killed you. Donate it absolutely kills you. So rubber cannot thank you so much all the very very best rb retweeting and sharing and this podcast will be up shortly finally. Is that anything else that you have to add as always a robbery or george and no i think we we more or less covered all these m. holland absolutely but yeah it's like Yeah any anyone with any sort of mild interest. Trust in and football or anything you know they'll be under the there. There are a few sort of surprises. But i don't think even the most fanatic george basketball will not expect to come up and this performance misplace so yeah on to say we'll be able to hopefully as well sort of who fear i met. August will have a strained version of the play. So will be able to get get tear wider. A wider audience brilliant. Can i wish you and rafferty all the very best going forward. And thank you so much time again. Robbery for your time served and good luck with everything that you do not just these ply everything because the futures while employees coping torch have said. We'll podcast to help and support you guys going forward operating. Yeah it's been a pleasure time. Just pow thanks for having me.
The Faith Experiment
"robbie" Discussed on The Faith Experiment
"Twins back bright here on faith. Welcome back to the faith experiment. I'm your host will be bugging and this episode thirty three of the show. And i'm calling this episode yields and peace and coming up shortly is the co if what. Today's great free offer. It's a wonderful book. It is an excellent book. Coal real peace real answers. I have this book. I love this booking your going to want to get this book so stick around with the code word on today's show. I am answering your questions about guilt and peace and before the break. We've looked at naomi's question. Which was what does jesus saves from. What's the big deal about. It looked at brad's question. Which is how does jesus dying on the cross. Save me and up next to similar questions. So let's take a look at them. And i'm going to answer them together. The first question comes from christopher. Who writes i am a sinner. I tell god that i will totally surrendered to him. And i won't make kim said anymore. Bond my thoughts and actions by god's same silent yet again why. Christopher the second question comes from james who asks hi robbie. I cinna no matter how i try. Keep sending i feel like a useless human being. I mean i wanna be a follower of jesus but i just feel lost. How do i get peace james. Well thank you. Christopher and james for your very very honest questions and i'm sure it was very tough even sending those questions in but i won too late. You know straight off the bat that you are not alone. I hear from people all the time all over australia. Over the world. Who feel the same way that you're describing so you guys are not aligned but listen listen they is hope there is help sir. Let's stop by looking at a passage in the book of romans. Chapter three twenty three. And you probably have read these passages before. But i want to start with looking at this text and sitting as sort of a foundation to my answer to both of you guys to your questions. The passage says this it says all have sinned and full and short of the glory of god. Now james christopher do you know what this passage means. It means we have all sinned. We've all come short and we've come short of glory which is according to the book of isaiah. It's his character. We were created. For god's glory bob was very clear on that we would design for a purpose but not all of us are fulfilling that purpose with sin in our lives because sin has made us full short of that glory that purpose. Now you know what happens when you know you were meant to be doing something and you file it. We feel bad. We feel useless. We feel like failures. We feel to press. We feel anxious. We feel we feel. We feel now what most of us do when we feel normal. Is we try and fix now. Both of you guys are describing that you sense and you feel that there is something wrong in your lives you you feeling the guilt. The shame the pain the frustration of sin. And you wanna fix makes good sense. But the problem is that we can't fix. It affects feelings these kinds of feelings. These feelings are designed to tell us that something wrong they like little allom that tell us that we need to go to the manufacturer for a service. It's kind of like your car right like when there's something wrong with your car. A little light comes on the dashboard. And why is that light there. Well that light. There is to tell you that something's not right. Something is wrong and we need to return the car to the manufacturer for service. Now we can act on the warning or we can ignore the warning. We can even try and suppress the warning. We can find the wire that makes the light come on and cut so the light goes out but guess what but the problem is still there and if we don't fix it it's going to cause more problems at some point sir james christopher the fact that you guys are feeling like this. It's actually a good thing you say. Remember adam and eve when they sinned. The first thing the bible tells us is that they feel guilt. That guilt was to be like a warning. Light returned to make a return to make something's malfunctioning. But what did they do with the warning light. They ran and hid themselves. They tried to deal with their feelings. They didn't like the way they felt so they tried to suppress it. They tried to dismiss and if they've today that probably go take some midst for get some drugs for it'll would try and do something to distract themselves range. Watch some net netflix's something so the feeling that you go as a describing which is sort of this. Shame guilt wi this fear. All of this is good in a sense because these feelings acting like those little lights on the dash telling you you need to return the dealership you need to return to the manufacturer for service. But the question is where is the solution. Where is the dealership. Well let me let me share with you. The story from the greek new testament manuscript cold the book of acts chapter sixteen. We find a story about poll polls in prison again. Because he's preaching about jesus and he's been placed under the god of a prison officer and in the middle of the night they comes a great earthquake it breaks down the prison walls a loosens. The chain of poll and jelly comes in sees situation pulls out his he sold or is knife or something in. He's about to himself in because he figures better to himself in than to be publicly humiliated and executed by the governor. poll sees. What's about to happen and says hey stop do you sophian. We're all here and said the prisoner was a full tweet. Sneeze insists to pull what must either to be saved now. Paul turns around him and gives him the simplest absolute simplest study. you could possibly give. He says this. Believe on the lord. Jesus christ and you and your house will be saved. Well he goes away. From the end gets baptize. He finally gets baptized and they become pillars in the christian community. Now why am. I sharing this story in light of your question. Christopher and your question james both your questions indicate that you have overwhelming sense of your need over savior. You'll warning lights are on but the problem is is that you're not seeing any effect. You're not seeing any change the dealerships not seem to be doing any any work on the situation what i wanna do. Is i want to illustrate this number. One salvation is very very simple. It's based on belief. But i'm gonna give you four key ingredients that are going to help you. Experience a transformation in your life here. They are number one. The first ingredient believe it or not is belief. And i wanna give you this text. I shared this on olea question on this episode from john. Jaffna's reverse extend. What did the bible say at said for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. That who so ever believes so the key ingredient for this transformation. This this This experience of a new life is based on belief. That's the first thing. The second key ingredient is confess. And i john chapter one verse nine. It tells us that if we confess al sins he is faithful and just to forgive.
The Faith Experiment
"robbie" Discussed on The Faith Experiment
"Did. That was it. There was no great persuasive essay. There was no compelling reasoning. There was no logic it was simply his a man. That's changed my live. Come and see. That was it that that's what the sharing was about. And other example is the one we just looked at back in matthew chapter at lipa. The account has also recorded in mark chapter one verse forty five and this is what it says after. Jesus heals the leper. And he's cleansed. It says that he went out. And those forty. Five chapter one mock. He went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the map. Now that's a fancy way of saying that. He went in and told everybody that he had been healed by person. Called jesus another example. A blind man is healed by jesus. And his asked by the pharisees who healed you and in response to this question in john chapter nine verse. Twenty-five the let the blind man says one thing i know i was blind and now i see and it was. Jesus that did it for me. That was it you see the sharing. The preaching is really just sharing. What has happened your own life. It's when we get into these dilemmas where people will start preaching and teaching and sharing things that they have no experience with that we end up with problems. One last example a man who was possessed of a devil. He was delivered by jesus and read. The whole story mocked up to five but after he is healed. The healed man goes to jesus as jesus. I wanna tag along with you. I wanna go go. But jesus turns this man and he says in mark chapter five us nineteen he says no. Go home to your friends and tell them what great things the lord has done for you and how. He had compassion on you. And then the text says and he departed and begin to proclaim all that jesus had done for him and everyone marvelled you see that's sharing is sharing is just simply telling people what you discovered in your faith experiment. You tried it you had a result and then you share the results. That's all the sharing part is and as as very clear that in the bible study framework. There's the preparing of the hot. That's the personal preparation. Then as the seeking of the lure of the lord. That's the bible study pot the observation the interpretation and then there's the doing it putting it into practice applying it to your own life and then the last and final result is you can't help but share with somebody the results of your faith experiment. You see all these examples. The person who encountered jesus had an experience a firsthand encounter with jesus and it was that experience that enabled them to share. What they encounter had been like and sharing that encourages new people. People who don't even know the power of god and the power is would it compels them to join the great faith experiment you see. Sharing is nothing more than telling people what's happened to you and your wife experiment that's it. There's no formula. There's no right way. There's no way yanni condition is is that you put into practice what you have now. I would love to hear from you. What your life was like before you started your faith experiment and then how did you come to start your faith experiment and then third question is your life like now audio faith. Experiment has begun. Text me or email me your story. I would love to hear your story. You can email me a story on ruby had faith in him dot com to or you can text me on oath. Four triple eight four five three double one. That's triple eight four five three double one. There is nothing more exciting than hearing and seeing how god has would how into individual lives to bring transformation and that is the entire purpose of studying the bible. Well this brings an end to al bible. Study topics that we've done philosophy episodes. I really hope that you found something they can help you. In your faith experiment that can help. Row your faith and and develop you as you as you put into practice. The teachings of these old ancient texts that still have power and life. Today now mentioned the top of the show that i have. This great book called bible readings all thousand questions. This book has and it has four thousand answers all coming directly from the bible. You get this book. It is an absolute. Must if you want to get a free copy of this book oil to do. Today is to text the codeword two. Oh four triple eight four five. Three two one and here is the code. Word codeword is hash. The hash symbol. If e faith experiment and be are for bible readings. That's all one word hash f. e. hash efi beyond text that two. Oh four triple eight four five three number one and the fate of giveaway bought reply to you asking for your details and we will get that to you as soon as possible so i hope you have enjoyed our little sub series and on the fake experiment about bible study themes. Let me know what you think. Text me through or email me. I would love to hear your thoughts. 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X96
"robbie" Discussed on X96
"You make of that Robbie Nevil song. You know what I was so that's so That's Carl Weathers. Huh? He's pretty good. I thought he was just a washed up back, but that's it. That's interesting. I want to hear more of that band now to see what they're all about. Well, that's the thing with that song. It's like, you know, I wanted to come on and say so. Here's the song. It reminds me of this in this, but it doesn't I can't pinpoint a simple like Oh, it sounds like this. Just it's its own deal. So pretty fun stuff there from Some weather's weathers. All right, so I asked for by name will go to your local record store? Yes, on Gina. Thanks for the Robbie Nevil reference that that meant the world to be checking out out later on Bob FM. Gina has a bone to pick with you two about blow monkeys. Oh, yeah. We couldn't find the blow monkeys this morning. No blow. I looked all over for him. We couldn't find them r r h D to channel our classic alternative channel should at least have digging your scene in my contract that I have it on my hard drive here, so oh, Get that in their forties. Gino. Thank you. Uh oh, I like that. The weather sailor V. We're gonna be hearing that regular on X 96 here, I guess right? Yeah, Yeah. Good. Good. I like it. Thank you. Thank you, Todd. Tuesday tunes. We'll see if the meeting turned three time 36 years from now I'll see you at the meeting later. All right. Oh, I can't wait, wait..
KTTH 770AM
"robbie" Discussed on KTTH 770AM
"Robbie Pruetts Mountain bike was stolen in the fall, and he was mad, but he decided to do something about it by helping others while searching for a new bike. During the pandemic, Robbie realized there was a shortage. Many people wanted bikes as an assistant director at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Leesburg, Virginia. He came up with a plan and posted it to a local face. Book group. He offered to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would repair for free and then donate to folks who could truly use them, but didn't have the means to buy one. The bikes came in. And by the end of the year, Robbie refurbished more than 144 donation or to be returned to their owners Keep those wheels turning Robby Pruitt and thanks for helping others you made the Dean's list. Janice Dean Fox News. On the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's inauguration were too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We honor America's beloved 40th president. This like the first footstep on the moon would be a giant step for mankind celebrate his everlasting legacy with the speeches that began his presidential career, If not us, who, if not now? When Ronald Reagan the first year speeches streaming now and we live more of his most historic moments with exclusive shows you won't see anywhere else Vaccination America is streaming Mm hmm. Homestretch Glad you're here. I'm guy dancing. It's National Pizza Day. Which has my mouth watering a little bit. We had pizza here.
Christoph Trappe: Business Storytelling Podcast
"robbie" Discussed on Christoph Trappe: Business Storytelling Podcast
"Podcast brought to you by swisher trap. One gets you one month off. Give it a try. That's what i used to produce the show. And i'm telling you it's a lot of work but it's getting easier the more you do the better you get right. That's not an uncommon practice but today or thing so today we want to talk about subscription models and the book that caught my is the forever transaction that's written by robbie kelman baxter and she's joining us on the show today to talk about how to go about doing that doing the subscription model roddy. How's it going good. Thanks thanks for having me on the show. You bet and i heard you on. I think it was maybe nick. West regard show is that does that sound right. That's why i hurt you. And i thought well i have to steal her for mike show so tell us about the book tell us about subscriptions and you of course you get your own podcast on the topic as well. Why is this an important topic in how people think about it. Yeah so. I've been interested in subscriptions for about twenty years. I had netflix's a client twenty years ago and fell in love with that business model. Because if you're aligning your goals with the goals of the customer and you're building trust with them by solving their ongoing problems or helping them achieve their ongoing goals you get recurring revenue which is kind of a holy grail for most businesses so started focusing on it twenty years ago and continue to find new ways to strengthen business models and new industries and and business models to apply subscription to and of course. We're all familiar with netflix. Hulu all those different channels. I have more subscriptions than i probably ever want to admit on the flip side. You know on the flip side. I've been in companies where they said you don't even know how many software subscriptions we have signed up for that we don't even use so that's of course on the flip side as well. I use some subscriptions as well. I mean especially buffer canada. Some of those and very very happy with them but what companies can actually follow this model. I mean who can who can who can sell subscriptions. Yeah well. I'm sure as as as you have probably seen almost any what i what i always say. Anybody who cares about the customer relationship probably is right for subscription so since most of this audience since most you guys are coming in the marketing world if if your business pays for marketing if they value marketing subscription probably has its place because the whole idea of subscription is optimizing an ongoing offering around an important customer segment. And so if you are helping your customer achieve an ongoing goal you can probably enjoy the power of subscriptions. Everyone wants to move.
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"robbie" Discussed on The Faith Experiment
"Send an email to robbie at faith. Fm dot com dot. How do you don. It's made Jesus also hall. Aw skidding Tena is new torch a off.