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Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh update on "rose" discussed on Evening News with Art Sanders
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Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from Sydney Sundance Smith's - God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends, post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, to rate it, to review it, to spread the word on social media and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. Many people are looking for hope these days, especially young people. They wanna be part of something bigger. And here at evangelism on fire ministry, we have big plans to reach them in 2023. Here's where you will not find hope. You won't find hope in the culture. You won't find hope in technology. You won't find hope even in many ways in politics. Now, all of these things have their place, but true hope can only be found in God. The message that we wanna share is that God wants to give hope to the young generation and all generations, that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. And we wanna offer this hope to as many people as possible in 2023 through our outreach ministries, which of course includes our EOF podcast ministry. I'm asking you to join us at EOF ministry and become a partner. A partner is just a friend that makes a regular commitment to us each and every month. They stand by us. That enables us to respond to the opportunities that are coming our way. In many ways, we live in a hopeless world, but through Christ, we have hope. Life without God is a hopeless end. Life with Him is an endless hope. Join us right now and become a part of our team and let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire ministry partner. Are you ready? Well, this is your next step. Go to today's show notes and click on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com. Click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's podcast episode. Man, I've got a big time treat for you guys today. We have on our podcast episode today, Sydney Sundance Smith. She's 31 years old. And let me tell you what, she's on a mission to be one of the world's top female bare knuckle fighters. And listen, she has her eye on the title. And you know what? Something that I love about Sydney is that she is a true spiritual warrior and she carries her faith and her father's memory with her everywhere she goes and into the ring. Sydney Sundance Smith, welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. How are you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. Yeah, I'm doing well. I feel really good. You know, I'm in a really good place in my life, so. That's awesome. I'm so happy for you. So you know what? So my audience, Evangelism on Fire Nation, so they know more about you. I gave you a little introduction, but tell us more about who you are. Oh, wow. I feel like that's such a big question, right? Like the, what does Shrek say? Like an ogre, I have like an onion, I have ears. Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm just like a kid from the middle of nowhere. I grew up on a horse farm. All three of us, my brother and my sister and myself, we were all born at home. We were not born in a hospital. Oh, you were born at home? Not a hospital, at home. Oh, wow. And so for my sister's birth, my dad actually had to deliver her because the midwife was somewhere else. And so she didn't get there. Oh, wow. So my dad had to deliver my sister. That is wild. What was going on with the midwife? It starts wild. She was delivering another baby like across the county. Right. Wow, that's such a cool story to start this podcast off. Hey, it's interesting from starting to talking with that. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just grew up out like in the middle of nowhere in a place called Middlebrook. Doesn't even have enough people to be considered a town and still considered a village to this day. When I first heard about you, I was when I was training at Mixed Martial Arts Institute here in Richmond, Virginia. And I would hear your name mentioned, you know, in my training sessions. Then I got to be good friends with Gigi, who she owned MMA Institute around the area that she lived. In Charlottesville, yeah. Yeah, for a little bit. And through Rick McCoy and Tyus Thomas and David Gladfelter, I got to know more about you because I would just hear your name around, you know, the Institute. So let's get right into it. How did you come to faith in Jesus Christ? So I actually, I grew up in it. I just kind of always believed he was there, that he was and that his son existed. And I didn't really know too much about the Holy Spirit growing up. That wasn't really something, it's not really something that Presbyterians talk about a lot, you know. And so, yeah, I mean, I had a relationship with him for, you know, most of my life, but it really didn't, it was like, you know, like the shockwave kind of hit more when I was like 16, 17. And I was really starting to go through like some really serious suicide and depression. And I got really, you know, just really into the word. And, you know, my mom bought me a study Bible on Easter, the year I turned 17. And I still have it, I still use it every day. And so that really just kind of, cause I just have this insatiable appetite just like to know things. I don't know why I just do. And so, yeah, so giving me a study Bible was a great way. And I just never looked back, you know. And that's, I mean, I've had my ups and downs, right? You know what I mean? I'm not saying, I've walked a perfect path since I was a teenager that is far from true. But, you know, it doesn't mean that I've ever stopped believing in God or loving God or talking to God. You know, I think that I just kind of have this different understanding of who he is and like what he wants to do. Like he's never gonna give up on you, you know? And I think that's something that's really important and not something that I really want to get out there is that I'm not saying go out there and do all these bad things. We shouldn't sin much so that grace can abound much. But what I'm saying is that like, grace covers a multitude of sins. That's what I'm saying. And there's no shame, no condemnation for those that are made new in Christ. And that's what I'm trying to come and talk about is there's a way, we've kind of gotten to this point as a society where if anybody starts saying like, thus sayeth the Lord, or you quote the word in a way that people know that you're quoting the word to them, they just shut down, right? And so I don't know, I just feel like God has written it on my heart in a way that, you know, I just talk about it. I'm not trying to shove it down your throat. I'm not trying to like preach at you, but I just, I feel like God is so enmeshed in everything and every single moment of every single day that I mean, his word is just one more example of that. And speaking it is very powerful and that's something I learned along the way. And so to speak it, you have to know the word. Say that again, Sydney, maybe that one more time. To speak the word, you have to know the word. So yeah, you know, write it on your heart. Yeah, to speak the word, you have to know the word, you know, and I've read some articles about you that you are in the word daily. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Every day. In my study Bible, Josephus, you know, I've got like the concordance, the Hebrew and the Greeks dictionaries. Like I really do, like, I truly go through it all, all the time. I just love it, you know. I think it's really interesting. And I think that when you study the different translations, not that anyone is better or worse than any of the others, but I think that, you know, they all have something to offer. And, you know, that goes for like the Hebrew and the Greek too, because their vocab, like, I don't know how to explain it, but their vocabulary was richer. It was like more dense than ours is. I feel like the words that they chose to communicate what was going on or how they were feeling or what God was saying were chosen for specific reasons. They did a lot of like play on words with, you know, like was it Adam and I can't remember the other one, like that that's similar to his name, but it's like Adan or whatever, you know. And like, so one means Adam and one means something that's like completely opposite and bad that he did or whatever, you know. Hey, you know what, if someone's listening right now, right, so this is mostly a Christian podcast, but a lot of those listeners out there right now, they're not reading the word daily, say like you are or I am. What encouragement would you give to them to pick up the best -selling book of all time, the Bible, right, and get in the word and, you know, taste that a little bit every day. What would you, what encouragement would you give to them? I mean, what do you have to lose, right? Like there's so many places in the Bible where it talks about how we should meditate on God's word. And that's not just sitting there and being like, oh, you know, I'm thinking about your word. But the Hebrew and the Greek actually means to like speak on the utterance, to talk to yourself about it. And honestly, you know, you shouldn't look at it as a chore. I know for a long time, you know, it's not like I've read my Bible every single day for my entire life, right? Like we all go through stages and phases and seasons, but, you know, habits are what you consistently do. So, you know, it's gonna take time to get to that point where, you know, you make it, it's just part of what you do every day. You have your coffee and you sit down and you spend time with God first thing, you know, that's kind of like what I like to do. Just pick a time that works for you. It doesn't have to be like, oh, I'm spending 45 minutes, you know, just literally anything is better than nothing, right? Like God just wants you to say, hey, you're important to me and I'm taking this time out of my day to just spend this time with you. Set yourself up to like read five verses or read a chapter a day or, you know, start with small bits. But I mean, honestly, try not to look at it as a chore. I mean, you're meeting with the creator of the universe and magnificent things happen. Ah, come on. I mean, you know, Jesus is the word, right? Yeah. So, I mean, if you shun the word, you're kind of like shunning Jesus in a way. And he came to give us life more abundantly. So how can you have abundant life if you kind of like refuse the one who's trying to give it to you? Wow, that is, that's deep. That's profound. That is so good. That's the Holy Spirit now. That's the Holy Spirit. Speaking in and through you. Just do the talking. Cause I ramble. People know that. I'll talk forever, especially when it's about God. So I was like, God, please just let the Holy Spirit. Isn't it cool when the Holy Spirit speaks in you and through you and you hear what you just say and you're like, wow, thank you, Holy Spirit. That was totally you. Yeah, that was not me. You're like, whoa, that was good. Yeah, that was fire. That was fire, straight fire. Yeah, I was praying for like tongues of fire to be dropping on people in Albuquerque and stuff. Like it would be so heavy in the arena. Like I pray for that kind of stuff. Like to me, when I walked into church on Sunday, cause I've been doing like a really in -depth study on Joshua. I actually did a pretty in -depth study on judges. And then I went back and did Joshua cause God was like, go read Joshua. And I was like, all right, cool. So that's what I did. And you know, so I walked into church on Sunday and I just, I felt God say, take your shoes off. This is Holy ground, you know? And that was what I prayed over the ring the last time I fought in May, cause they let you go out and check the ring out. And so like, I prayed in the spirit and, you know, people call that speaking in tongues. To me, I call it praying in the spirit. It's personal between me and God. But you know, and I just remember saying like, this is Holy ground. Do you know what I mean? And I like closed the whole circle of it and like, you know, I just, and I pray about it before I go, pray about like his spirit being there, you know, and the Bible says that, that God himself is enthroned on the praises of Israel. And then people want to ask me, like, why do you walk out to Christian rapper, Christian praise music? And I'm like, why wouldn't I, you know, I'm inviting, I'm inviting God to come in and like come into my situation. You know what I mean? And just, and yeah. So to me, it's, it's a lot different, you know? So much of it is spiritually based for me. I mean, even like the hashtag, watch me rise that I use, right? That actually comes from one of my favorite verses in Judges. And it's because it was a woman judge who spoke at Deborah. And you know, I'm always about like the women warriors, like the outcasts that, you know, in society it's like says to be ladylike and they're like, no, I'm going to go fight with the dudes. Like that's who I've always identified with, you know, like Mulan was my favorite Disney movie. Like, yeah. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I lost her. So, you know what you, you mentioned a moment ago, August. So you have an upcoming fight Albuquerque, right? Just trying to trace that one back, but yeah. But you also mentioned that how you went into the ring and prayed at your last fight. Now your last fight, you beat your opponent. You landed 98 punches to her 26. And you know what I'm like that. Yeah. And you only suffered a few bruises. Tell us about that fight. You know, there was a lot of craziness going into that fight that, you know, I just kind of briefly spoke on and that's pretty much, you know, most of like that's like the gist of what I'll say about it just to like, you know, maintain a modicum of respectability, but basically my corners last minute abandoned me for no good reason. And like one of them wasted a promotion flight and all this stuff, like it was insane. And I'm like at the airport, you know, trying to figure this stuff out. My friend drove down from South Carolina with her mom and her four year old son and like to corner me. And man, it was just wild. Like so many God moments happened. You know what I mean? It was like for every curse, there are two blessings. Like that was, that came true. You know what I mean? Like that was just so evident. And it wasn't just for me. It was for so many other people around me too. Like my friend who came down, she had been, you know, kind of like, you know, a rough state, a stagnant place in her faith with God. And, you know, I guess was feeling some type of way. And when she saw like everything that had happened and how God just like made everything just boom, boom, boom, boom, she was like, look, I told my whole family, there's no way I'll ever question again, if that is real, you know? So literally it was just nothing but God. I was just having a blast. Like I had to put all that stuff out of my mind. I didn't feel any emotion. Like, you know what I mean? I felt some, but I just prayed for protection and peace and to stay on point for what we came there to do. You know, like I had, like I have people who like, I have prayer warriors who literally like that is what we do is we pray over these events. It's not just we're praying over my fight. We're praying over the event as a whole, you know, we're praying over all of the millions of live viewers, you know, that's what we're doing. And it, I mean, hey, I couldn't have, I mean, it was other than, you know, just wanting to push the pace a little bit more. I feel like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't a bad start to be KFC, you know what I'm saying? And you know what? BKFC, now, one thing I love about you, okay? You're a different breed, okay? You have martial artists, you have your MMA fighters, but tell my audience, maybe some of them don't, they do not know what BKFC is. You're a whole different beast, okay? All right, you're a whole different human beings. So evangelism on fire nation. If you don't know what BKFC is, listen to this. Tell my audience what type of fighter you are, Sydney Sundance Smith. So I started off in MMA, but I was waiting very patiently for them to open my weight class. And when they did, we fight with no gloves, just a little bit of wrap support around your wrist. And you know, I take down some of that. You're talking bare knuckle. Bare knuckles, yeah. Bare knuckles. 100%. She said 100%. Facts, yes. I'm so like, okay, so they're coming up with this new card. It's one in Thailand. It's like the super fight or whatever. And they're letting them do, it's a special rules, bare knuckle Muay Thai. Ooh. I have been bugging the crap out of them. Like, hey, can we get a bare knuckle Muay Thai? And they're like crickets. And then this happens and I'm like, I see y 'all. I see what's happening. Y 'all keep me in mind at 1 .15, I told them, I told all of them, I've told my manager, I've told Dave Felt, I mean, you know, I've told them all. I said, if you start a bare knuckle Muay Thai, don't even ask me any questions, you just sign me up. Sign you up. Every single time you have a fight for me, don't even ask me, don't ask me no questions, just sign me up. Don't do that until the day I cannot fight for. That appeals to me. So how do you go from MMA to bare knuckle fighting? How does that transition happen? Very carefully, I guess. It's hard not to kick people and knee people. I mean, honestly, I was just waiting for them, like I said, to open my weight class. It's been around for five years now. So you're a straw weight, correct? Yeah, yes. All right. They had 1 .25 for a while and I, you know, I've been offered a couple of different, different promotional bare knuckle, you know, fights at 1 .25. But I just, you know, I had a lot of medical issues and stuff and, you know, even now healthy, I have to, I have to work to be at like 1 .32 walking around, you know, like a healthy 1 .32. So there's no way I could fight at 1 .25. Those girls cut from like an insane amount and yeah, no. I'm good at 1 .15, you know, like I can make the weight. It doesn't bother me. I make 1 .15, like my body just automatically knows like, oh, it's time to cut weight. And it just does it. Like I really, you know, I just have this really good system and as long as I stick to it, then I really don't have any problems. I cut weight and I feel so strong. It's so weird, but it's just, I've gotten it down to that, down to that point, you know. You know, one thing that I've heard about you, tell me if this is true, but I've heard that you're a fighter who likes to get hit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so like, you know, Donald Cerrone, you know, he kind of like a little bit of a slow starter sometimes. He's got to get hit a few times to like kind of wake him up. And then he's just like, you know, like back in the day, that's, that's kind of like me. You know what I mean? It's like, if you don't, if you're not going to exchange with me, it's kind of hard. Like, yeah, I mean, I still fight you, right? But it's not going to be the same level of fight. You know, if you're, if you want to bang with me, you're going to, like, I know people think like, maybe I'm just, you know, exaggerating or whatever, but like, you're going to get a different, a different side of me. Like you're going to bring out something in me that is like, oh, okay, you think that was hard, like my turn. You know what I mean? Like I get to hit you now, right? So I don't know. I just, I love it. I've always loved it. I fought Chelsea McCoy for my first fight, right? Like Rick McCoy's daughter, first ever MMA fight. She hit me so hard, I fought double. I'm not even kidding, right? I didn't know what to do. I had never, like, I was training out of a basement with some, you know, with a guy who had a few amateur fights under his belt. Like, it wasn't like I was Rick McCoy's daughter trained at the MMA Institute, right? I apparently even knew what the MMA Institute was. And I was just like, yeah, I'll fight her. Everybody was like, you're really going to fight her? And I was like, yeah. And then like, I didn't get knocked out or submitted or anything, right? Like we had a good fight, but yeah, she made me see double and I was just kind of like, you know, it was in that moment where it was, it was kind of like, you're either going to do this and you're going to love it. Like, that's going to, that's going to do it for you. You know what I mean? Yeah. Or you're done. You know what I mean? This is not for you. Yeah. And I was just like, I shook my head and I was like, well, then I was like, just pick one, you know? So it kind of solidified that. And you know, so it's not the last time I've seen double in a fight.
Unchained
Fresh update on "rose" discussed on Unchained
"Yeah. And I just want to point out for listeners who aren't aware, I'm going to describe this the way that I know it works on Ethereum. And then you could translate for Bitcoin. But on Ethereum, I'm sure you're aware you have to pay gas. And so it's somewhat similar to driving a car where certain transactions take less gas, meaning a simple transaction would be similar to if I here in New York City want to go across to Jersey City or something. That's like a short distance. Whereas it would cost more gas if I want to go to Philadelphia, even more gas if I want to go to DC. And so creating an NFT takes a lot of gas because you're making a unique object. And so the fact that you were able to do 10,000 of them in a single transaction, I think is what you were talking about there about how that was remarkably efficient. And then one other thing that I wanted to mention about OnChainMonkey was you also introduced this concept of give to earn that I think aligns pretty well with the mission of the collection. So can you just talk about that concept? Yeah. So we have a community currency called the banana that the only way to receive it, or you can say to mine it is you give it to someone else and then you get one yourself. And you can do that a couple of times a day. And that's been going on for nearly two years now. And I think probably about just over a million bananas have been mined in this way. And basically our community has been doing this and it promotes a certain we also define it a set of values from our community from beginning when we watched it rise that our community kind of shares on a daily basis too. We stand for respect, integrity, sustainability, and enrichment.
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Dr. Robert Lustig: "Sugar Is Not a Food"
"Say food drives both illness and wellness is the poison and the antidote so what's happened to our food what what's taken it from my great grandparents had a farm they had chickens garden they ate real food and so in the last what 120 years throughout history we've changed it messed with it it's not food anymore. Exactly so the question is what's the definition of food answer go to the dictionary here's the answer substrate that contributes either to growth or burning of an organism that's a great definition it's a fine definition I am 110 % behind that definition okay growth or burning exactly right okay so let's take burning first turns out fructose actually inhibits burning now people say fructose is four calories per gram yeah that's if you blow it up in a bomb calorimeter if you add it to a mitochondria and it actually inhibits burning and that's how we burn so you actually reduce the amount of burning because you inhibit mitochondrial function and fructose does it three ways it inhibits three separate enzymes involved in how mitochondria burn energy I won't bore your audience with the details right now that's a little too much science a little bit too much inside baseball but you know we have the data and it's the same thing that happens to alcohol it's in fact it's the same reason that aspirin causes rise syndrome and we don't give aspirin to children anymore because you know we don't want them to basically die a fatty liver disease so the bottom line is sugar it actually inhibits burning okay now let's take growth my colleague at Hebrew University Jerusalem Dr. Efrat Monsonigo or none has shown in several papers now that ultra processed food and in particular sugar actually inhibit growth inhibits skeletal growth it inhibits trabecular cortical bone growth inhibits long bone growth and it actually hijacks growth because it actually feeds cancer cells so if a energy substrate does not contribute to growth and does not contribute to burning is it a food well alcohol is an energy substrate 7 calories per gram it does not contribute to growth and it does not contribute to burning is it a food no transplants are 9 calories per gram they inhibit mitochondrial function they inhibit growth are they a food no so just because something's an energy source doesn't make it a food right sugar is not a food it is a food additive when you think of it that way then it turns the whole table on exactly what it is we're eating because ultra processed food is high sugar food and the reason is because the sugars been put in for palatability it's been put in to make you eat it because if you taste it that ultra processed food without the sugar that's been added to it and sugars added to 74 % of the items in the American grocery store on purpose you know for the food industry's purpose is not for yours you would never eat that it would taste like garbage so yeah bottom line sugar is not food
Bloomberg Daybreak
Fresh "Rose" from Bloomberg Daybreak
"On From The the Bloomberg Business Bloomberg Act, Business Bloomberg Week and Business more are App, Broadcasting also and 24 available as hours podcasts. a day at bloomberg Listen From .com today the on and Bloomberg Apple, Interactive the Bloomberg Brokers Studios, this is Bloomberg Day Break for Tuesday, 26th coming up today. The Senate looks to avoid a government shutdown with a bipartisan deal. Biden heads to Michigan President to stand alongside striking auto workers. Jamie Dimon and David Solomon speak about rising interest rates. And a top Fed official expects one more hike this year. A third arrest in connection with the fentanyl death of a toddler in a New York City daycare. Plus Senator Menendez remains defiant against corruption charges. I'm Michael Barr, more ahead. I'm John Stashour and sports the Jets sticking with Zach Wilson Monday Tonight wins for the Eagles and Bengals. The Yankees won their home finale. That's straight all ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak on Bloomberg 11 30 New York Bloomberg 99 1 Washington DC Bloomberg 106 1 Boston Bloomberg 960 San Francisco Sirius XM 119 and around the world on bloombergradio .com Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager And I'm Karen Moscow us doc index futures are lower this morning S &P futures down half percent or 20 Points Dow futures down four tenths of a percent or 133 points and Nasdaq futures down half percent 180 points Nathan Karen will have more on the markets in a minute But first lawmakers in Washington may Be inching closer to a deal to help avoid a government shutdown at the end of this week we get the latest from Amy Morris in the nation's capital sources tell Bloomberg the bipartisan Senate bill would extend funding for four to six Weeks shorter than what Democrats wanted but could get it through the house once it passes the Senate it goes to the house Where speaker Kevin McCarthy will face a tough choice on whether to hold a vote at all so far McCarthy has
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Mystery Meat
"Morning. Ashley wasn't kidding. I am glad to be back. I really, really love this church. It's evident every time we go away, and I absolutely love preaching and teaching the Word of God. I get a little jealous when I'm away, to be honest with you, when I see someone else standing behind my pulpit. Just truthfully, I'm jealous over this. I love doing this. It's the greatest privilege in the world. Well, if you're just visiting us, we go through books of the Bible, and we're going through one of the, as if they can be ranked, right? But John has done some incredible work down through history. This book has been used to convert souls, the most unlikely of souls. And so whenever we have taken a little bit of a break, I've been gone for two weeks, and so some of you may have no idea. Some of you can't remember what you did last night, let alone two weeks ago, right? So whenever I'm away for a little while, I like to do a two -minute review of the purpose of the book so that you know why this book was written. In case some of you are here and are not familiar with the Bible and how it works, it's a library. As a matter of fact, biblio means library, and so there are 66 of these books, and each one of them has a different purpose. And the Gospel of John has its own unique, distinct purpose, and here's the job of every interpreter. Every interpreter's job is not to find clever ways to make it mean something that's relevant for their culture. That's not the job of an interpreter. The job of an interpreter is simple. Get in the head of the original author to the original audience. I have to try to find out what John meant. Who cares what we think it means, right? Give me an amen. We want to know what John says it means, and we want to know what John says it means to the first readers. We're not the first readers. This was written to a unique people group a long time ago in the Middle East. And so let's start up again by reframing our mind according to what the author says he wrote this for. At the very, very end of the book, it's 21 chapters long, and at the very, very end of the book, he tells us flat out why he wrote the book. Here's what he says. He says, Jesus performed many other signs, miraculous signs that is, in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. In other words, you're going to have to go somewhere else for those. These, the contents of this book, these have been written so that, here comes the author's purpose statement, so that you may, say the word, be. So that's purpose number one, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And there's a second purpose, that believing you may have life in his name. This, what you're reading, is a true, historical, eye -witness account of the life and ministry of a man who lived in the Middle East, who rose from the dead. That means, if someone raises from the dead and defeats something that you can't defeat, you should probably listen to what he has to say, don't you think? John says, I'm recording every word that man who rose from the dead had to say, so that you can, two things. One, believe, and two, live. Here's the point of the book. The point of the book is to help people believe an eye -witness account to the life of a man who died, and then three days later, got up and walked around. But it's not just so that you can say, okay, I believe. No more John. No. It's so that as you experience seasons of doubt in your life, you come back to John and say, oh yeah, this is why I should keep on believing. And when I'm struggling to believe, John will help to reaffirm your feet on solid ground, so that you go through your whole life saying, I believe. Tomorrow, I'm going to believe again. The next day, I'm going to believe again. John is for the person sitting here who's not a believer. And they know they're not a believer, and someone drug you here. You're here on purpose, and John is written for you. But John is also for the person who's been a believer for the last 66 years. And you know John, but maybe you're in a season of doubt. Maybe you're struggling because you just lost your spouse. John is a book for you. So, before we go any further and dive back into John, we are in, I started in April. That's about five months ago. We're in the fourth chapter of 21 chapters, and we're about halfway through the fourth chapter. And so, I'm sure that all of you remember exactly where we left off, but just in case there's one person who can't remember, let's repurpose our hearts. Let's go before God, every individual. I'm not going to do this for you. You're here as a worship service. That means there's a part for you. You're going to go before God right now, and you're going to say, Lord, I'm here to hear from you. And you spoke through John, and so speak to me through your servant John. Let's do it together. Father, I'm just a tool to act on behalf of the people who are here to meet with their God. As Craig said, you are a living God. No one else can claim that, but we can because Christ is alive. And so, we put our faith in you. I pray that you would help every person here to commit their heart and mind to not just listening to the word of God, but doing what it says. Lord, speak to us, for we are listening. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Fourth chapter of John, it reads like a movie script. I read it again. It's like the 20th time that I've read it just this month. And this week as I was preparing, I read it, and I'm like, some chapters read like a movie script, and some are not like that. Fourth chapter of John, it literally is set up for a producer and director to just go and put this on film. And I couldn't help but this week as I was reading it, my mind went back to a show that I watched when I was growing up. It was the original Batman show with Burt Ward and Adam West from the 70s. How many of you know what show I'm talking about? Just curious. I had a feeling. I grew up on that show. My mom would put it on for me when I'd come home from school. And there was this thing that they did in the show where whenever they would transition to another part, the narrator would come on and say, meanwhile, back in Gotham City, or meanwhile in the Batcave, and then you'd see the transition. The screen would roll, and you'd hear the doodle -a -doodle -a -doo, remember? It's showing you what's happening at a different part at the same time. John 4 is written like that because the text we're going to start with opens up in a meanwhile in another part of town, and my mind just went back to the old Batman as I was raised on. Here's what you're going to learn. If you've been here for a while, then you know that we're in one of the most beautiful dialogues that really I've ever taken in history. It's between Jesus and a promiscuous Samaritan woman, and he is tender with her. Isn't he tender with her? We're going to get back to that dialogue next week, but the writer, the narrator of the story, interjects. He pauses the story, and he wants you to stop thinking about the woman and Jesus for just a moment because there's an absolutely important lesson that Jesus wants to teach his disciples, and it is a major, major pause. And so this morning, I invite you to turn in your Bibles to John 4. We're going to start in verse 31, and we're going to go down through 38. Not very much, but it's a meanwhile, so you can see the screen roll in your head, and here's what it says. John 4, 31 through 38.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Rose" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Operation Atlantic Resolve
"Well then, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. Bob France sitting in and yeah, you hear the music, you know where I'm coming to you from. Cleveland, Ohio, the home base, therelieffactor .com studios if you will. Our WHK radio, AM1420, the answer here in Cleveland, Ohio. An honor to be sitting in for Dennis once again. And of course today being Yom Kippur, which is why Dennis is off today. As he has of course been celebrating the holy days and starting back with Rosh Hashanah. The Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And it's a wonderful thing. It really is. I kind of have to familiarize myself not being Jewish myself. I have to familiarize myself with some of the days and some of the reasons and the explanations for the calendar. And Yom Kippur is one of the ones that to me is the most solemn. A Day of Atonement, a day of reflection and looking inside and asking for forgiveness for the shortcomings that perhaps we have and so forth. And so to Dennis and to everyone who is commemorating and or celebrating and or taking part in participating in the Yom Kippur day today. This very important Day of Atonement. God's blessings to you all. Seriously, really appreciate that. In the meantime, we've got work to do. We have a lot of very important things to talk about and I want you to be a part of the show. 8 Prager776, that's 877 -243 -7776. I want to know, is it acceptable for me to be concerned with the plight of others but being unwilling to do any more than I have already done? And yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about Ukraine. Yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about the 113 billion dollars we have already sent to Ukraine to help them ward off the invasion of the Soviet, well, the Russians. Who are trying to rebuild the Soviet empire, I suppose, if you think that they are going to not stop in Ukraine and then advance to other European nations and so forth. I don't think so. I don't think they have the ability to do that any longer. I don't think they are the fearsome foe they were when the Soviet bloc was, of course, raining havoc on Eastern Europe and raining havoc on the world. But I want to talk about the Ukrainian situation. Here's two reasons. Two reasons why. The first of which is the fact that in Canada, over the weekend in front of the Canadian Parliament, the Lord Mayor Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, who came to the United States for the second time, hat in hand, saying please drop all you can into the hat here so that we can go back and continue our war with Russia. They came looking for more money, asking for another 25 billion dollars. And again, I'll get to the point about how I feel about spending that money and how I feel about it going forward in a moment, but he came to the United States and then he went up to Canada. And he went up to Canada before the Canadian Parliament and he sat there and he asked for support and financial remunerations from the Canadians as well. And the Canadians, of course, listened happily. And, you know, we're all all for supporting this. But what they did after that is something that is quite simply incomprehensible to me. Canadian organizations Jewish are among those now slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving voice to and a standing ovation to a man who fought for the Nazis during World War II. All because he is Ukrainian. All because he's Ukrainian. Video and photos show the Canadian Parliament erupting into cheers on Friday after President Zelensky's visit to the capital of Ottawa, when Canadian lawmakers also honored Yaroslav Hunka, a 98 -year -old Ukrainian immigrant who fought for the 1st Ukrainian Division, according to the Toronto Star, the division also known as the Waffen -SS Galicia Division, which fought for the Nazis and its paramilitary arm. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement, the fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to... And by the way, this story that I'm starting with, this day, this first hour, this story is not because of today being the Jewish Day of Atonement. This is outrageous. This is when it happened is when it happened. Understand that. The fact that it is occurring, though that we're talking about this and it just happened during these holy days, is another point entirely. The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising anti -Semitism and Holocaust distortion, it's incredibly disturbing to see Canada's Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen -SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others, and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials. Some are calling for full -throated apologies from Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and from Ukrainian President Zelensky. This honor was given to a Ukrainian because everything now has to go Ukraine's way, because Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. We have to come up with untold, unlimited amounts of treasure and time for anything having to do with Ukraine. So they brought a Nazi military fighter, 98 -year -old Nazi fighter in World War II before the Canadian Parliament, and because he's Ukrainian, he got a standing ovation. That's how, beside ourselves, I think we've become with this, we have to do anything and everything we can to help Ukraine. So that's number one. The second reason, by the way, is we continue to try to make some sense out of the, you know, now that we have the actual official figures confirmed by the White House of $113 billion already spent in support of Ukraine. In addition to that, they say that our commitment to helping Ukraine has no end and there is no cost limit. They will do this no matter what the cost for however long it takes. The problem is, of course, there is no end game in sight. There's no end to the commitment that has been identified. When does it end? What standard would it be to say no matter how long it takes to finish the thought? Chuck Schumer? Joe Biden? Mitch McConnell? I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican. If you are giving an unended blank check, an unending blank check to Ukraine, what does that mean? What does that look like? You say for as long as it takes to... fill in the blank. What? Does every Russian in Ukraine have to retreat back across the border or is that not enough? Does every Russian have to leave Crimea, the peninsula that Russia took in 2014 when Obama was president? Or do they just have to stop bombing and stop the fighting? What exactly does it mean to say we're going to give this money until... or I'm sorry, no matter how long it takes to do what? Define the end game. There isn't one.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh update on "rose" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"Bloomberg TV and on the Bloomberg app and Bloomberg .com and download The Circuit companion wherever you get your podcasts. Markets, headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com, on Bloomberg Television and the Bloomberg Business app. This is the time is 9 40. I'm Anna Edwards. We check the markets all day long here at Bloomberg. So let's get straight to a markets conversation. And the stock six hundred is down by three tenths of one percent. The first one hundred is up by two tenths. The cat caron down by six tenths and the Zetradax in Germany down four by tenths. So a mixed performance. London outperforms Germany and France to the downside this morning. Most sectors are in negative territory. Technology leads the way lower. The higher rates environment, even if we've taken a break from Treasury yields rising this morning. The higher rates environment for longer seems to be part of the conversation still, certainly after yesterday Today saw big moves at the long
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin Buying and Ethers Inflation Rate
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Monday, September 25th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about notable Bitcoin buying, Ether's inflation rate, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Bitcoin and Ether have been drifting lower over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin down 1 .6%, as at 10am Eastern Time trading at $26 ,158. Ether is down 1 .2%, trading at $1 ,576. Today's moves notwithstanding, the underperformance of Ether so far this month is notable. In a recent episode, I talked about the ratio between the Bitcoin and the Ether price as a gauge on market sentiment. When it's climbing, Bitcoin is doing better, and when the ratio is falling, Ethereum is outperforming. Late last week, this ratio reached its highest point in over a year, and it is currently more than 25 % higher than at the time of Ethereum's move to proof of stake last September. But rather than suggest that the upgrade has not delivered value, it shows the heavy weight of market sentiment on asset prices. Since the upgrade, the market has had to contend with the implosion of FTX and other key market players, and the regulatory mood in the US has certainly chilled, suppressing Ethereum activity. And the underperformance persists even as the likelihood of approval of the first Ether futures ETF climbs. At a conference last week, a Bloomberg analyst put the chances of this vehicle being approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission at 95%. Not a sure thing yet, but those odds are pretty high. In traditional markets, US stocks look set to continue their light from Friday, which could, if this trend persists over the rest of the week, live up to the market legend of the September effect. Historical market performance shows that September is typically the worst performing month for the S &P 500. The index has been down for just over half of all Septembers since 1928. That's not a glaring majority, but it looks like this month will add to the legend. Earlier this morning, the S &P 500 and the Nasdaq were both flat to slightly down, while the Dow Jones was down over two -tenths of a percent. Crossing the Atlantic, the FTSE 100 and the German DAX were also trending lower earlier today, both down 1 .2 % on Friday's close. The Euro Stoxx 600 index was down slightly less, just over nine -tenths of a percent. Sentiment is weighed down by concerns about China's property sector, the impact of higher US interest rates, and a lot of data last week showing a contracting Eurozone economy. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index rose almost nine -tenths of a percent, as the Bank of Japan's commitment to loose monetary policy, at least for now, is supporting investor sentiment. In China, stocks were weighed down by intensifying property sector concerns as liquidators were appointed to yet another developer and the Evergrande restructuring hit a roadblock. The Shanghai Composite closed over half a percent down on Friday. The Hang Seng got hit even harder, closing down just over 1 .8%, reaching its lowest level since November of last year. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was more or less steady over the weekend. This is despite an announcement today that Russia plans to ease some aspects of its diesel and gasoline export ban, partially relieving, for now anyway, a potential squeeze in those key markets. Earlier today, the benchmark was trading at just under $92 per barrel, still well above where it was a year ago, but down from its recent peak of over $95. The gold price was also stable over the weekend, despite continued US dollar strength. Earlier today, it was trading at $1 ,924 per ounce.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin Buying and Ethers Inflation Rate
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Monday, September 25th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about notable Bitcoin buying, Ether's inflation rate, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Bitcoin and Ether have been drifting lower over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin down 1 .6%, as at 10am Eastern Time trading at $26 ,158. Ether is down 1 .2%, trading at $1 ,576. Today's moves notwithstanding, the underperformance of Ether so far this month is notable. In a recent episode, I talked about the ratio between the Bitcoin and the Ether price as a gauge on market sentiment. When it's climbing, Bitcoin is doing better, and when the ratio is falling, Ethereum is outperforming. Late last week, this ratio reached its highest point in over a year, and it is currently more than 25 % higher than at the time of Ethereum's move to proof of stake last September. But rather than suggest that the upgrade has not delivered value, it shows the heavy weight of market sentiment on asset prices. Since the upgrade, the market has had to contend with the implosion of FTX and other key market players, and the regulatory mood in the US has certainly chilled, suppressing Ethereum activity. And the underperformance persists even as the likelihood of approval of the first Ether futures ETF climbs. At a conference last week, a Bloomberg analyst put the chances of this vehicle being approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission at 95%. Not a sure thing yet, but those odds are pretty high. In traditional markets, US stocks look set to continue their light from Friday, which could, if this trend persists over the rest of the week, live up to the market legend of the September effect. Historical market performance shows that September is typically the worst performing month for the S &P 500. The index has been down for just over half of all Septembers since 1928. That's not a glaring majority, but it looks like this month will add to the legend. Earlier this morning, the S &P 500 and the Nasdaq were both flat to slightly down, while the Dow Jones was down over two -tenths of a percent. Crossing the Atlantic, the FTSE 100 and the German DAX were also trending lower earlier today, both down 1 .2 % on Friday's close. The Euro Stoxx 600 index was down slightly less, just over nine -tenths of a percent. Sentiment is weighed down by concerns about China's property sector, the impact of higher US interest rates, and a lot of data last week showing a contracting Eurozone economy. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index rose almost nine -tenths of a percent, as the Bank of Japan's commitment to loose monetary policy, at least for now, is supporting investor sentiment. In China, stocks were weighed down by intensifying property sector concerns as liquidators were appointed to yet another developer and the Evergrande restructuring hit a roadblock. The Shanghai Composite closed over half a percent down on Friday. The Hang Seng got hit even harder, closing down just over 1 .8%, reaching its lowest level since November of last year. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was more or less steady over the weekend. This is despite an announcement today that Russia plans to ease some aspects of its diesel and gasoline export ban, partially relieving, for now anyway, a potential squeeze in those key markets. Earlier today, the benchmark was trading at just under $92 per barrel, still well above where it was a year ago, but down from its recent peak of over $95. The gold price was also stable over the weekend, despite continued US dollar strength. Earlier today, it was trading at $1 ,924 per ounce.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from The First Edition of Would You Let Joe Biden"
"Good morning America. Good Monday. Some of you are getting up and getting out the door. I'm glad I am with you. I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio North going down to the Beltway this week. Oh, back to the Beltway. Gotta go do my work. Gotta go do my job. I want you to begin this segment with me by reflecting on how bad can the polls actually get for one person. Because John Ellis, now you've heard me mention John. John has been on the show before. Ellis on items the site formerly known as Twitter, now known as X, he produces two sub stacks. News items, which I read every morning before I go on the air. That's where I learned about Amazon investing in AI this morning. And political items, which is a second sub stack. And that just collects all the political data. And for years and years and years, John Ellis was the man behind the curtain at News Corp. And he ran the decision desk when it actually ran well. And he ran many, many other things at News Corp. And he's a very, very smart guy. So Ellis puts out these two news sub stacks that I read. And one of them, political items, carries with it the additional benefit of sparing me from having to figure out which polls to read. Because every couple of weeks or three weeks, he puts out the polls in one place. So John Ellis knows polling. He knows which ones are trash. He does not send you the trash one. So I ignore all polls until I see a poll show up in the news items or political items. So polls in one place rolled in on Saturday morning. And I don't want to get sued for copyright. You should subscribe to polls in one place and political items. But John summarized three of these. Number one, NBC News. Three quarters of voters say they're concerned about President Joe Biden's age and mental fitness. Three quarters. Three quarters. Number two, Washington Post ABC News. A Washington Post ABC News poll finds President Biden struggling to gain approval from a skeptical public. With dissatisfaction growing over his handling of the economy and immigration, a rising share saying the United States is doing too much to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia, and broad concerns about his age as he seeks a second term. More than three in five Democrats say they would prefer a nominee other than Biden. And the Post ABC poll shows Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump by 10 points. Then number three, the New York Times. President Biden is underperforming among nonwhite voters in the New York Times Santa College national polls over the last year. And this result marked a — represent a, quote, marked deterioration in Mr. Biden's support among non -Anglo voters. Those are the three big polls of the weekend, and they're all related to Joe Biden's age. So I've asked Generalissimo to assist me in diagnosing the problem here. And so just a yes or no, are you with me, Generalissimo? No. All right, good. Would you let Joe Biden prepare dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden do the shopping for a dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden make your family's reservations for a week's vacation at Disney World? Oh, hell no. Would you let Joe Biden book the flights for that vacation? No. Would you let Joe Biden drive the youth group van to the beach for Sunday at the beach? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden chaperone the sixth grade astronomy camp overnight trip? Not even with your kids. Would you let Joe Biden invest your 401k? Would you let Joe Biden pick the paint colors for your church or your school remodel? No. Would you let Joe Biden select the menu for your daughter's wedding? No. Would you let Joe Biden lead a group of second graders through the Smithsonian Natural History? Stop, stop. I gotta... No. Just stay in the lane, please. I just want to know. These are just questions. Would you let Joe Biden lead a second grade group through the Smithsonian? Would you let him lead a high school group through the Smithsonian? Would you drop him off in front of an NFL stadium, give him a ticket, and tell him you'll see him in the seats? I don't think so. Would you let him be the president of a state university? Oh, no. Would you let him be the president of a private liberal arts college? No. Would you let him run a large public high school? No. How about a small private high school? How about a junior high school? Nowhere near kids, no. How about an elementary school? Absolutely not. A preschool? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden run a 7 -Eleven? No, he doesn't have the right accent. Would you let Joe Biden run a sporting goods store? No. A multiplex? No. Would you let Joe run the candy and soda counter at the multiplex? It's too confusing, no. Would you let him run a Macy's? A McDonald's? No. A Houston's restaurant? No. Would you let him run an airport? Negative. Would you let him run the parking at the high school football game? No. Would you let him run a high school speech tournament? Too many kids, no. How about a swim meet? No. Would you let Joe Biden run any business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run a business with 100 employees? No. Would you let him do HR for a business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run the gift wrap sales fundraiser for your kids school? No. Would you let him run the thrift shop inventory day? No. Would you let him run a car dealership? Negative. Would you let him run a church fundraiser? No. A church service? No. A service station? No. Would you let him run a piano recital for 20 students under the age of 10? How about 10 students under the age of 10? No kids, no. Would you let him announce graduation at MIT? Would you let him announce graduation for any college? Have you heard him? No. Would you let him run an eighth grade graduation? No. Would you let him run the change of command at any duty station for any branch of the armed services anywhere in the Americas or in the worldwide distribution of our defense facilities? Not unless you wanted to create an incident, no. Would you let him drive a truck? Well, he's already claimed it, no. Would you let him drive a car that you're riding in the passenger seat? Not unless I was heavily insured. Would you let him fire a pistol at a range? Oh, hell no. Would you let him fire a rifle at a range? No. A machine gun? No. Bazooka? No. Would you let him get into a tank and fire a tank? I'm seeing a pattern here, no. Would you let him direct the drone strike? No. Would you let him drive a little tiny boat whaler, you know, a 12 -foot whaler? I would let him pilot your dinghy, no. Would you let him drive a criss -craft with an outboard motor? No. Of a yacht, a big yacht? No. Would you let him command the deck of a freighter? A freighter? No. How about a destroyer? Uh, I'm thinking not. Submarine? No. Aircraft carrier? No. All right. Could you imagine Stav with him on deck? What would you let Joe Biden do? Retire. No, but I mean, really, seriously, is there anything you'd let him do to put him in charge of, because this is my first edition of would you let Joe Biden dot, dot, dot? Nothing complicated because he gets confused easy. Nothing with kids because we kind of know about that. No, there's nothing the guy can do. He has shown no knowledge of market economics, free market economics. He has no idea how supply and demand works. No, but I'm just talking about give me something that he can do because we've got to get a retirement hobby for him. A retirement hobby? Checkers. Do you think he could win at checkers ever? It's yeah, he could he could run he could run an ice cream stand. I we I covered that. You were gonna let him run a 7 -Eleven. I don't know. I covered the gift wrap. 7 -Eleven is more complicated than an ice cream stand because gas is involved. But but I asked you about the the gift wrap fundraising. I want every mom in America ice cream. Well, no, every parent driving to school in America right now knows fall is the season for fundraisers. So we got the call from the granddaughter over the weekend. Hey, Nana, which is the fetching Mrs. Hewitt, right? Would you buy gift wrap? And of course, we're probably gonna have enough gift wrap for the rest of the five seasons. Yeah, yeah. Five seasons of gift wrap. Yes. And and now the flash is probably going to come up with candy bar. You know, it's just fundraising season, right? And so it's better than raffle tickets. I hate raffle tickets. Yeah. Gift wrap you can at least put in the closet and it'll be there when when she has to clean out the house. You are what we call in in in the school trade. You are what we call an easy mark. A mark. Yeah. Yes. And and you wouldn't even let Joe button out. For those of you who are new to the audience, we've added affiliates recently. Dwayne is an ex band parent who keeps getting dragged back in. And when he was a band parent, he ran parking at the at the battle of the band. Do you know what I'm doing now? Do you know what I'm doing this this year? What I'm doing? What? I had to stand up along with my wife, stand up a snack bar outside of girls volleyball. All right. Would you let Joe Biden run that? Not in your wildest dreams, because because one money's involved and two girls are nearby. But I mean, OK, then Paul back a year or two. No, you let him direct parking at the Battle of the Bands. Oh, not unless you wanted a wreck.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from LST2 A Glimpse of Zlie The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Fr. Timothy Gallagher Podcast
"Of the Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction, according to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word Television Network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola and the venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Father Gallagher, it seems to me that the way you've described the wonderful home of St. Therese that she was born into, that this really exemplifies what St. John Paul II called the domestic church, that this is an area where in the heart of the family, faith is nurtured, love is nurtured, hope is nurtured, all these virtues are nurtured in this interaction, and yet they're still very much in the world. I mean, they had to be, did they not, to be able to even sustain their businesses, but also to engage with their family and friends, and yet they made a point of creating this space so that their children could be raised in such a beautiful environment. And I'd say there are two components of that. The most important is what they created within the home, and that was that faith, God, Jesus were very much at the center. The five children saw this evidenced in their parents. For example, they would rise to go to 530 Mass every morning at the beginning of these very busy days, and the way they prayed taught their children the faith, their prayers, their esteem for the church, their fidelity to the various devotions, you know, when Lent would come in the various times of the year. God, Jesus, faith was very much at the center of this home, and without strain because it was so authentic in both parents, and the daughters were very much drawn into that and imbibed it as children growing up with the results that are evident. So the main thing was what they created positively within the home, but as we already saw in one of these quotes from the daughters, they were also very careful to exclude any contrary influence from the home. So they were very, very careful about that, so that the daughters grew up with a kind of appropriate and healthy innocence that was not taken away from them by harmful contacts. So much so that when Therese finally, when they were now in Lisieux, she did begin her formal schooling at the Benedictine Abbey run by the sisters at the school there. For the first time, she encountered things like meanness and selfishness and these sorts of things which were unknown to her because the family was this loving family that it was. So you see, the parents concerned to do both things, put God at the center and with care remove the influences that could undermine that. Probably harder today because those influences are so much more invasive, but a parenting that would attempt to create the space in which the faith can be lived deeply rooted. I think for the example of these two parents would want to be attentive to both of those elements. I can't help but recall in the life of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Teresa of Avila, where she says, watch out just from her own experience to be able to guard your children and watch out who their friends are, see the influences because she saw the ill effect in her own life not being protected from that. It seems to be a general consensus, no matter what era we find ourselves in, that this is a basic staple for raising an environment, ideally a healthy family, one that allows God's grace in the fullest form to be able to anoint the family. Would that be a way of saying that? Yes, and this is just a traditional thing in our whole spirituality. If we move it to another notch, not just harmful influences, but bad influences, then we are always invited to avoid the near occasions of sin in our own lives and so on. And I'd say if we're responsible for others, then we need to have an eye out for that to remove those today. So that would mean decisions that the wise parents would make about the internet and phones and tablets and television and social media, all of these kinds of things, which are pretty important today. What we're doing right now with podcasts indicates the richness of what can be done through these means, but they can also be used in a harmful way. And so, especially children growing up obviously would need to be protected from that. When they are not, children are exposed too soon to too much. God's grace can do anything, so anything can be overcome. Nothing is impossible for God. I can do all things and God who strengthens me, as Paul says, but it's harder. So to, well, let's just take an illustration from Therese again, when she is speaking about the image of the flower, which was so, which she used so widely. Of course, she loved flowers very, very much. And the different flowers in the Garden of Sanctity, you have a Saint Mary Magdalene, who is a beautiful flower because of her repentance and holy life after a life of sinfulness. And she says that's a great love of God that he would bring someone out of that and lead a person to such a life of love of God and holiness. But she said it's an even greater love when the parent, the father, seeing the stumbling block and the path of the person removes it before the person gets there. And that's what she is so grateful to for God in her own life. And that's an image, I think, of what a loving father and mother do. And certainly, Therese's parents did that with great care. They were close to their children, they knew their lives, they were available to them, of course, they had very busy lives themselves with their own businesses and everything else, but the children were always loved, the parents were always available when they needed them. And so, because they were that close to them, they were able to help them in that way. Well, let's pick up again with Celine, Therese's sister, Celine, four years older than Therese, speaking about their parents. Eternal life was the dominant concern of my parents. My mother once wrote to Pauline, the second of the daughters, I wanted to have many children so as to rear them for heaven. That sentence itself already says an awful lot about their mother. Whenever one of my little brothers or sisters died, her spirit of faith gave her such energy and she was so consoled by the thought that these little angels were in heaven, that people around her said, quote, it is not worth commiserating with Madame Martin, she does not grieve over the death of her children, which was certainly not the case. If you read her letters, you see the deep, deep pain and sorrow that she had as she watched child after child die so early in life. But her faith sustained her, these have entered eternal life. Both my parents went to early mass every day and received communion as often as they could, both fasted and abstained throughout the whole of Lent, which was the practice until some years ago, the full 40 days. My father was wonderfully kind to his neighbors and never spoke the least evil of them. He made excuses for all their faults and allowed no criticism of them. Above all, he had a great esteem for priests. Our father loved his children very much. He had an almost maternal love for us. In fact, after the death of their mother, his daughters became almost simultaneously paternal and maternal. We, for our part, had an affectionate reverence for him that almost amounted to worship. He was especially fond of Therese, whom he called his little queen, but we found that quite natural and we're not at all jealous. Besides, we were conscious of the fact that at heart he loved us all equally, nor did Therese take advantage of this affection for her own ends and so forth." So that's just a little word about both parents. Nice start. Well, let's move now to her mother's letters. This particular letter is from two years before Zélie's death, and it's a letter to her sister, who there was a great closeness and love between Zélie and her sister. Her sister entered religious life and was a nun at the visitation convent at Le Mans, which was, oh, maybe 50 miles or so away from Alençon. As I say, there was a deep bond between them. Unfortunately, this is the one letter of Zélie to her sister that has been preserved. It would have been a treasure to have the rest of these. Now, this is two years before her death. Her cancer is not really in the picture at this. She's aware that something's not right, but it's not impeding anything. It's not serious at this point. And she has just been to Lisieux to visit with her daughters, to visit her brother Isidore and her sister -in -law Céline. And she's describing this visit, Sister Marie d 'Ocité, which was the name in religion of Azélie's sister. I was delighted by our trip to Lisieux. Now, see what I mean about ordinary? This is a mother and her daughters who have been taking her daughters to visit their uncle and aunt. I have a sister -in -law who has a kindness and sweetness that are incomparable. And you know, as you read these letters and get to know Thérèse's aunt Céline Guerin, her uncle Isidore's wife, you really, you can't help but really come to appreciate her. She really does seem to have been a very, very warm and loving and good person. And a deep friendship developed between Céline and her sister -in -law Céline. Marie, that's the oldest of the daughters, says that she doesn't know her to have any faults. And neither do I. I find that Isidore, in spite of all his problems and business struggles and so forth, is very happy to have such a wife. It would take a long time to tell you her virtues, but that will be for later. I assure you that I love her as much as a sister. She seems to feel the same way and shows my children an almost maternal affection. As I mentioned, in fact, Céline would ask Céline, her sister -in -law, to take over the maternal role after her own untimely death. She showed them every possible attention and did everything to make our lives pleasant. If I seemed worried, she looked at me with sympathy to seem to hurt her. Marie quickly came over to say to me, Mama, please look more cheerful. My aunt thinks you're sad, and she's hurt over it. I answered her, leave me alone. I can't do better. And I reproached myself for it. One day we were in the countryside, so they take them out into the country outside of Lisieux. I went there reluctantly to accompany the others. Then we settled in a meadow to rest, and during this time my sister -in -law secretly went to prepare a snack for us, secretly because Céline just doesn't want her putting herself out. When she brought it to us, I was so upset at the trouble she went to. You know, every year you see this, her sister -in -law sends these wonderful gifts around Christmas time for the children, and every year Céline responds the same way. She thanks her. She's so grateful, but you shouldn't have done it. It bothers her when people put themselves out for her in any way like this. I was so upset at the trouble she went to that I was far from showing appropriate gratitude. She contented herself with laughing at my apparent coldness because she knows Céline, oh well, I'm truly not very pleasant. So she's very matter -of -fact about herself this way. She never puts herself on a pedestal. Fortunately, I'm still willing to admit it, exclamation point, but if I don't know how to show signs of affection, this is why I chose this letter. I feel the sentiments inside. I believe I wish for my brother's prosperity more than mine. Her brother was a pharmacist, and he had a pharmacy, he had started a drug business, and they were struggling at times. In fact, Céline and Louis would help him even financially. Later things went very well for Isidore.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP140 System Hardening at Google Scale: New Challenges, New Solutions
"Hi there, welcome to Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anton Chevakin, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website cloud .google .com slash podcasts. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button. You can follow the show, argue with us and the rest of the Cloud Security Podcast listeners on LinkedIn. Anton, we are talking about what I think is one of the greatest investments teams can make today, which is preventing issues in the first place. Talk about hardening, which is great. Yes, but it's also, some people would say that this is a take from 2002 and now everybody needs a system that has AI and like big data and scale and good UX and not hardening. And to me, this is a fight that would go on because I feel like you're right, yet this take has become unpopular over the years. And this is, I'm not, what do we do with it? Well, I mean, I've never been afraid of being unpopular. If I was afraid of that, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. I think what's interesting here maybe about our guest is he's been doing it for a very long time at Google scale and his metric, his first metric he cited for whether he knows his team is doing a good job or not, I bet our listeners will not guess what it is. And so with that tease of something that doesn't come until 15 minutes into the episode, let's turn things over to today's guest. I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we are joined by Andrew Huang, senior security engineering manager at Google. Andrew, I'm really excited about talking about hardening today because I spend so much time doing threat detection. It's like I'm where hardening has fallen short and I really think most orgs are probably better served by hardening than trying to catch the bad guys after they're already in. So maybe I want to start with a bit of a step backwards in time and ask, you know, when we think about hardening systems at scale today, hardening cloud systems at scale, what's different and what should people who are leading programs hardening clouds keep in mind that's different today than what they know for say the past 20 years? Yeah, great. Thank you. So if we go back 20 years ago, the early 2000s, that was really the rise of the computer worms. You know, we saw first email worms. We had I love you, Melissa virus. Then we saw sort of direct machine to machine worms, Code Red, Nimda, and then we were really hit by SQL slammer and blaster and so on. But these worms had in common is that they were definitely operationally disruptive. They were occasionally mildly destructive, but they were not anywhere near sort of the capacity or the abilities of the viruses we see today. But what they really did was raise the awareness that, hey, we need to invest in basic hardening or our systems are going to get taken down time and again. We have to have good perimeter controls and protection. We have to invest in vulnerability management and patching. We have to do isolation between different workloads so that we don't see lateral movements. So this was really the starting point of sort of hardening industry. We invested in firewalls. We invested in intrusion detection systems, patch management, as I said, and that was really good groundwork. It was effective against these types of sort of broad worms and the things that we were seeing at the time. But year over year, there's been a steady increase in the sophistication of the attacks we have to defend against. And there's been an increase in the impact of those attacks as the attackers have gotten deeper access to our systems and the data that is really important to our businesses and all of the people who depend on us. And so we have to take that into account and continue to modernize our approach to security. Today the threat landscape is complex and the role of the security defender is critical for businesses of all sizes. At the same time, the amount of technology choice we have is ever expanding, and this is creating a number of new attack surfaces that we all have to understand and stay on top of. Cloud, of course, has brought a whole new dimension to this in terms of our understanding of identity and perimeter and the key areas that those are integrated into our business. So one of the ways that I think we all need to stay ahead is we really need to hold to our software vendors, our platform providers, and others, and across our technology supply chain to take a shared fate model with us, where we're really working together to build systems that are securable, but also secure, secure by default, secure in operation. And so that's sort of one of the key takeaways that I'd have is as a community of defenders, we need to work together to make our systems secure. What you just said, shared fate. That's clearly super different, right? There wasn't even cloud 20 years ago, really. So how does maybe, aside from the shared fate and the fact that there's this different relationship between say a cloud vendor versus a I sold you some servers and now you put them in your own rack, how does that change the picture for hardening as well? It starts from let's make sure that we're not having products that come out of the box and have default ways that an attacker could get into them, like having hardened systems that we rely on, whether that is from a software vendor or from a cloud provider is really key. The next is making sure that we are training our people on how to use the systems in a way that is secure. So when we have examples from vendors or examples from partners, that those examples take the security best practices into account and aren't asking people to do things that are short, that are a little easier, but take shortcuts that leave them vulnerable. And then last is where we have a shared platform investing in the security of that platform so it keeps all customers safe. And we don't have to, like there's never going to be as many security engineers as the industry needs that we need to really scale out our approach to security. I think the scale out part is I wanted to kind of drill into a little bit because I vaguely recall the time when kind of the previous era of people being obsessed about hardening of course, when there was a question about sure, you can give me a bunch of config advice and a bunch of things and I can apply it to a server. But once I have to apply them to 5000 servers, suddenly a lot of things change. Nowadays we're not talking about 5000 servers, we may be talking about the millions or if you talk about cloud instances, probably even larger numbers. So what is the magic in scaling the hardening? Because ultimately I still have this possibly misguided view that hardening is easy, scaling it is hard.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Rate Pause
"Hello and welcome to Ledgercast. My name is Brian Crossguard here, as always, with one and only Josh Olsowich. Hey Josh. Mr. Brian. How you doing? How are you? I'm good. I'm happy to be with you today. You're already cards pulled up, ready to go. I got my best podcast hoodie on, you know. Only the best Ledgercast family. Getting the hoodie season, depending on what part of the country you're in. For sure. My dear Alabama, I mean, this is the weather that you live here for. Like, most of the year is incredibly humid, but September, October, November, that's when it's the good stuff. Well, people didn't come on this podcast to hear about the weather. They came to hear about head and shoulders. We always start with the weather. I know. It's like a podcast faux pas, but we do it anyway. It's the human experience. There's a head and shoulders on like every market on all timeframes. Like, you can't not see it. ETH, Bitcoin, S &P, Qs, any risk market, we'll put it like that, any risk market looks very, very toppy still to me. What are your thoughts on, you know, as we enter our 37th week as macro LARPing traders? Yeah, well, this continues to tell a story, right? Dollar legitimately been up only on a weekly basis for more than two months. Hold on, hold on. Jeff in the chat said. Jeff, were you listening for your show? We were just discussing the accelerated aging of Ryan in the show. I feel like I feel like the bear market is hitting me in every possible way right now. Sorry, continue. Yeah, I'm I'm going to be very gray and old and wrinkly if I make it through another cycle. Anyway, the Dixie is up. Yield. You know what I realized this week? Back to the Dixie for a sec. I realized that the Euro chart, Euro USD is basically the Bitcoin chart. So if you're rooting for Bitcoin, you're basically rooting for the Euro chart. I don't know how that's going to work out. It's not the team I want to be on right now. No, I agree. I don't know how that's going to work out for us because that Euro chart looks bad, quite awful. Yeah, that's bad. So I keep that in mind generally for people, you know, if you see some good news or positive news in Euro land, which I think is rare these days, it should generally signal wellness for Bitcoin. Yeah. Well, it's mostly that dollar strength. It's just not. Yeah, it's all it's all just the same thing. Right. Yeah, exactly. We titled the show Rate Pause because rate hikes were paused. So this is the first time in quite some time that we've gone into FOMC with no change. The result of that was you start to see the 30 year kind of catching up to the two year because they also said that they are planning on staying high for longer. So we're not going to do the thing where we just immediately start going into cuts. And so, yeah, it may not have the desired effect that people might expect by a rate pause. At this point, holding rates at this level is restrictive eventually, right? It gets more and more restrictive as the lower interest rate that like rolls into this new environment, you know? Right. But I think it's honestly, I agree with the Fed. I think keeping it here and doing a wait and see type attitude makes more sense than keep raising and then panic cutting when the time comes. I think you have a potential to break a little less in this regard. I think they should have paused a while back and should have started way before they did. But nevertheless, the idea of pausing but not committing to a cut, I think is reasonable. Well, the markets didn't get angry at pausing. The markets got angry because they hinted at two more hikes still. So if that actually happens, I don't think it will. Look, I'm a chaos agent. I say go all the way, right? Pedal to the metal, no half measures. If you want to kill the economy, go for it. So yeah, let's do two more. Let's do one in November, one in February, whatever. I don't know. I think the consensus, though, is that markets aren't going to last that long. Markets being the economy, I guess. But the economy just isn't going to last and hold up through that. So unemployment is going to tick up considerably. That's the expectation. You're not going to get your soft landing. And Paul basically said as much that that wasn't his base case during the meeting. So you got to keep that in mind when you're looking at risk markets like crypto and alts especially are just still obliterated and continue to look terrible. Two -year looks like it wants more. The three -month yields look like, all the yields look like they want more. Yeah, they're all acting like it. Especially if you take today out of the picture, which I'm not sure I'm going to read too much into what's happening on a Friday. Well, we had, so yesterday we had a negative 1 .6 % day on S &P. And there were already legacy analysts coming out saying, oh man, Paul's going to have to cut this year. It's been one day. You people are so soft, so pathetic. Pillsbury Doughboy over here asking for cuts after a down day. Give me a break. Just absurd. The chart on the S &P does look like it has room for more downside like that. Oh, for sure. Pretty clean breakdown, but it's not in panic mode. It's in the middle. It's in the chop zone. 4200 makes all the sense in the world based on some basic technical analysis. Look at the 200 -day moving average. All this is just meaner version. You have people panicking that the number is going down instead of up and they're pathetic. I mean, that's legacy for you. Even when you look at non -technical analysis, if we were in price discovery for the stock market right now, it would not make sense. It just does not make sense relative to the economy. But ledger, price is in the forward future. It doesn't look at what's happening now. We're not going to get a recession. We're going to get a huge GDP print, man. Forward future looks like we got another year or two of grinding. Like grinding economically, trying to figure out this balance of wage inflation, commodities inflation, cost of goods. There's a balance that has to exist there. Life is more expensive for people. Their homes are more expensive and their business loans are more expensive. are Their wages up, but they're not caught up to that. And so the economy needs to figure itself out. It needs to find its Zen zone. I agree. That could take time. But that's not the S &P. The S &P is eight companies who have billions of dollars, don't need to borrow, don't need debt at this interest level. But now the problem, I think Apple especially, I don't expect their new phone to sell gangbusters because the economy is... It's one of the easiest things to not upgrade. Right. Well, that as well. But USB -C, right? Welcome to the 21st century, everybody. So I'm expecting those numbers to be soft. The Nvidia story seems to be softening, even though it's hard to really know what's going on there. There's still lots of lots of demand for those checking news. Yeah. But I guess the point is, who cares about the rest of the S &P, the 493, right? It's all about the top seven right now. And if those are weak, which they are, just in the charts, the markets are going to turn lower because you're not getting any help from the other 493. All right. I want some of what Andre is drinking in the chat. I'm just going to plop this onto the show. Here we go, Andre. This is your moment. Fed waits another year to lower rates than the BTC happening. The presidential election and lower interest rates are all going to be happening at the same time as we go into the next bull run. Space exclamation point, which is another way of saying triple exclamation point. Where do you put that space in front? Andre, I'm with you. I hope you're right. I think people believe that if they cut, then that will be bullish, but they won't cut until things look terrible. So if they're cutting, then we have a different problem, right? We have a recession if they're cutting, right? It's over if they're cutting. We just have to dodge a recession. You just have to dodge a recession. Around halving, whatever. And then there's this other school of thought, which is kind of what Andre is hinting at. Maybe the halving doesn't matter. Maybe it's just a coincidence that we've been in these four -year business cycles, and it's just lined up perfectly. I've seen that narrative growing recently, which is surprising to me, but it makes sense. Look, if you look at the data and you just don't pay attention to halving, I agree. But I think the halving brings eyeballs. It brings people understanding the asset a little differently because they're like, oh, wait, what do you mean? The supply is going to be cut in half or whatever, the daily emissions. Anyway. And meanwhile, Bitcoin and ETH both basically at their 200 -week moving average. This was okay. So that's the tweet you have up. This was my engagement bait last night. This is if anybody was paying attention. It's comparing the 200 -week and the 200 -day moving averages on Bitcoin. The last time... They're converging. Yeah. So they're converging. And the last time it looked like this was 2015 for a bull cross. It technically didn't cross bearish in 2015. I just want to highlight, though, Josh. We are both getting rejected by that right now, if you look at this weekly. Yeah, but that's okay. It's September. It's key three. I don't care. But yes. They're just winding around in there. They're meandering. It's not good. Also, one other comment. Yeah. Gotta work on this hashtag. 250k or bust. Gotta work on that. Well, that's the target. We need some ideas. That's the 8000 % target from here is 250k. That's where that came from. Yeah, we gotta do better. 250 by 25 is too much of a mouthful. I feel like the phrase millie needs to be in there. Millie? Quarter millie? Quarter millie. Maybe just full millie. Look, I've been on the record. 250k is the target for the next run. Okay. Even before this tweet, the stars are aligning. Yeah. People are saying what's happened to me. I'm using a different camera. I'm in a different place. And I got a haircut today. And everyone says you look old. I look weird and old. I am old. Here, I was I was puffing you up early. You're telling me I look good. And I was telling you how old I felt. And now the whole chat's like, hey, you look old. You look terrible. I think you look fine. But you know, maybe it's the rates, you know, the rates are just killing everybody. It is the rates. I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that I'm affected by that. Sure. So yeah, if we look at if we look at Bitcoin, also, We've also got if you don't like the head and shoulders, at the very least, you have to admit there's some sort of double top there. Yeah, double top, lower, lower low by a smidge. Rejected by the fast and long moving averages potentially. There's a there's reason to be concerned here. If we're above 28, at any point Q4, I think we're good for move higher, which doesn't like logically make sense based on what's going on in the world with rates and everything. So if this then that if we get above 28, we're good. Until then, I expect lower lows, ETH especially. What's going on with ETH, man? You're the ETH fanboy, the ETH cheerleader. What's happening? It's even better than BTC in terms of rejection off the 200. That's clean. It's nice and clean. That's a dump it. Let me translate that for everybody. That means it's even more bearish. I think this tells some of the story like there's not many people in the ecosystem that don't consider pair trades, you know, like opportunity cost or a risk profile of being in one thing versus the other. And a lot of people are dancing on like long tail of altcoins. Like they'll play on those playgrounds. But the people that are in big assets are looking at this where ETH BTC is breaking down further. It looks like it might be escalating. It looks like it might be going from breakdown to a steady progression to the downside. And I don't know, maybe that also looks double toppy to me. Yeah, but maybe another 10 -15 % on ETH is on that relative to BTC and people just don't see the upside as worthwhile. I get it. I understand. I like 05. And if 05 doesn't survive around the ETF stuff, assuming the ETF stuff is going to be bullish, I like 03. I think a 200 week tap at a minimum would make sense. So, you know, you're looking at another 10 % relative in that scenario. And that would probably be a bullish bottom. Bullish, she says. A bullish bottom if it maintains that. I'm sure, I don't know harmonics well enough to just like eyeball it, but I'm sure there's some sort of harmonic. Batwing harmonic, yeah. Yeah, there's something there where you could draw like a crab or something. If this one's a 0 .03, that would be concerning. Well, what's the breakout level of the head and shoulders? Like 0 .035, 0 .036? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I think that would put ETH people, myself included, just in Jordan tier mode. Look, if ETH doesn't get an ETF and Bitcoin does and it actually sees flows. It could happen. It could happen. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Hit your targets, Josh. 0 .053 before 0 .035. That's true. I mean, we need to spot ETF first, which... That's just math, just so you know. And dyslexia. It's just kind of interesting that it has not made a higher high since going proof of stake. Kind of weird, right? The Real Dangles asks, can we do a mini series on learning macro fundamentals? I've only ever looked at crypto, so half of what you guys talk about is foreign to me. No, but there's some people that you can learn from. One of the best, in my opinion, and I was... Jeebus was giving me crap about this, but Ray Dalio is, I think, the greatest macro mind that actually takes their information and then shares it. Big Debt Crises is a book. It's a study of cycles, basically. It's a study of deflationary, inflationary cycles, and they're very good. I would read that. That's a great start. Like, that'll be good. That could teach you more than I ever could. There's many, many other things, in addition to what he talked about, that go into what he talks about. But at the end of the day, it's all about cycles. And that's a terrific book. I would listen to a bunch of podcasts on macro stuff. Blockworks does a billion of them. Yeah, but don't worry. If you listen to those, you'll end up a bear. So you gotta know that going in so that you don't end up a bear. I don't care if you're bullish or bearish, but being able to form your own opinion, that's the end goal. But people that do nothing but talk macro are all bears. They're all dirty bears, Josh. I agree with you. They're doomer macro people. But just knowing the language and knowing what people are looking at definitely helps you understand what the hell is going on. If you listen to them, just know that you need to protect your beautiful, bullish beauty. Don't take their advice, air quotes here. Don't take their advice. Your beautiful, bullish innocence needs to be protected when you listen to the doomer bears. You'll learn all about the SPR and why it's the end of the world. What is it about macro that makes people perma bears? I don't know. I think all this cyclical stuff, the raining down of potential for bad makes you think it's imminent. Yeah, they're very pro -commodity, pro -being anti -market. That's their whole personality and identity. Now I'm thinking of Sven specifically, for those of you who know who that is. But the macro people will be wrong for years and years and years. And then we'll finally get a down move. And they'll be like, yes, I told you so. Now I've lost all my money and the market 10xed at that time. But I told you so. We would get a correction. But I like that about them. The macro people also generally don't like Bitcoin. Some of them do, certainly. But most of them don't. So that tells me we still got time. It's still early. There are very few Lynn Alden's of the world where I simultaneously massively respect their macro analysis. And they don't discount crypto. She does discount everything but Bitcoin. But I'll forgive her for that. Because she's already really good at two things. That most people can't combine their goodness of that. Yeah, she's great. That's another easy listen as far as trying to pick up. She just wrote a book about money, too. I'm sure it's got some good macro stuff in there. There you go. So we'll stop that. Rate's up. Murray, I don't know what we're saying is like Michael Murray. But if he's a doomer bear, then yes. Yeah, this is a doomer bear that he was right at the right time on the right cycle as the media fell in love with such characters. So that carries a lot of weight. Like he can now be wrong for the rest of his life, but he was still right in 2008. But I respect people that have these opinions. I just think it's a lot easier to make money if you're a bull over the long period of time. I agree. Tripsy says he thinks the TA makes a better bear case than macro. I agree. I pay attention to the macro because it's kind of interesting. And having the ability to discuss it is powerful. But if all I do is pay attention to the TA, then I'd be fine. If you see the macro and you make this great bear case and then you see the chart and the chart looks like it wants to explode to the upside, don't make the trade. Not financial advice, but don't sell everything in that scenario. I wouldn't. But if the chart looks like doo -doo and the macro looks like doo -doo, then maybe it's just doo -doo. Well, knowing yields and rates helps you understand the DeFi angle a little bit. Knowing risk premium helps you understand like if I'm not getting paid an insane amount in DeFi right now, it's just not worth participating. You know? Yeah. Assuming a risk -free rate in U .S. government bonds, treasuries, whatever, you're not getting paid that differential in DeFi. Typically, you are seeking yield growth balance, right? There's some combination or you're looking for either or, but there's a balance of yield and growth. If your available yield today is high, so let's say you can earn 5 % in a money market or something like that, then two years ago, you could only earn 1%. Then your need for growth is even higher to make up for your annualized compounding year -on -year returns because when you're seeking growth, you're compounding that growth to make up for the lack of yield. So when the yield is higher, you need even more growth so people get less interested in the growth because the growth needs to be so severe to replace easy yield that's available today. So that's why risk assets that focus on growth look less attractive when yield is high. That's a general concept that can be useful. I always like to think about the extremes. So they used to say, Tina, there is nothing else when you're talking about allocating capital. So if there was no yield before, you get all this crazy VC shit and altcoins and NFTs. Because it's growth at all costs. Because that's it. That's the whole game, right? Now that there's a balance, it'd be much harder to create something like FTX in this environment where you can get a yield, you know? Yeah, there is demand for return on those dollars that's not just growth, that's not just bring it back to me more valuable. Did you hear that NFT story? The NFTs are 95 % worthless thing? Yeah. Yeah, there's some really good replies from NFT people that I thought were worthy. I've retweeted one of them. I don't remember who it was. I think it was the punk person that works, that does the streams all the time. Pink haired punk. You know, most of them always have been worthless is what they mentioned. And I think that they're doing a classic throw the baby out with the bathwater thing. Like the speculation on JPEGs was always going to pop. The underlying technology does have inherent value, it's just who's going to win from that. Like, will all the current market participants, collections, companies, whatever, will they all go away and then somebody will rise from the ashes and win the technology emergence where game the underlying technology can be taken advantage of to create real business value? I think that's what will happen, but which of us will be there to survive it? And then some stuff will get Lindy effects of art, digital art. There was product market fit, there is product market fit for that. But like, you can't just mint 10 ,000 pineapples and expect to make millions of dollars now when there's nothing else. If your denominator is infinity, then yeah, 95 % are useless.
History That Doesn't Suck
143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line - burst 02
"Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end
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A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
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A highlight from 143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
"It's just past 6 a .m. on a cold, misty morning, October 8th, 1918. We're with the doughboys of the U .S. 82nd Division's 328th Infantry as they battle their way westward through the thick trees and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest. And I don't say battle lightly. The Germans are putting up a fierce fight. Right now, the 328th is on Hill 223, a position they managed to take last night. But before them, the triangular -shaped Eyre Valley is filled with death. German shells are dropping like yesterday's rain, while German machine guns seem to be mowing down every brown -clad Yankee in the first platoon. Good God. If these Americans are going to survive, let alone have any success, they're going to have to take out these machine gun nests. The task falls to G Company, and amid the battle's chaos, Sergeant Bernard Early is ordered to slip off on the left and flank these gunners. The sergeant gathers 16 men, 3 corporals and 13 privates, and together they stealthily move through the thick brush. The hope is that they can sneak around the German machine gun nests and capture them from behind. It seems to be working. They make it through the brush and ascend a tree -covered ridge without being noticed. Here, the 17 doughboys begin to debate their next move when they see two Germans passing through the woods. Noting their foes' Red Cross bands, the Yankees hold their fire, instead ordering them to stop. But both refuse. A doughboy then fires, after which the whole detachment pursues. The two terrified Germans get away, but as the Yanks continue down another ridge, they soon stumble upon a small cabin -like structure. It's a command post. Dozens of Germans are here. Stretcher bearers, officers, military men of all stripes. Not one of them is armed. Bernard and his men emerge from hiding, rifles drawn, ready to take the whole group captive. With little choice, the Germans yell out, Comrade! and quickly comply. But just as the Yanks have their prisoners lined up, an observant Bosch machine gun nest opens fire. Six bullets rip through Sergeant Bernard early. Two corporals and six privates go down too, as do several German POWs. The survivors, American and German alike, dash for cover. This includes the lone surviving American corporal. A fair -featured, freckled, lanky Tennessean, Corporal Alvin York. Nothing about Alvin's hiding place is intentional. He dived for safety like everyone else. But by coincidence of where he was standing when the gunners opened fire, the corporal finds himself somewhat removed from the rest of his detachment, on a hill not far from that sad looking command post. His position offers him protection, and better yet, none of those German gunners can fire on him without exposing themselves in the process. And this is when Alvin's childhood days of hunting wild turkeys in the woods of Tennessee pay off. With German machine guns still firing, Alvin lies down in the prone position, aims his rifle, and pulls the trigger. A German gunner drops dead. The Tennessean pulls back the bolt on his rifle, ejects the spent case, and again, takes aim and fires. He does this again, and again, and again, using up several clips and eventually rising to a kneeling position. He doesn't dare let up, knowing that the minute he does, a German bullet will end him. Suddenly, six bayonet -bearing Germans, perhaps 25 yards out, come running down the hill at Alvin. It's here that his hunter instincts truly kick in, leading him to fire at the most distant of his assailants first, as the Tennessean will later write in his diary, and in his own local dialect, no less. I ticked off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third, and so on. That's the way we shoot wild turkeys at home. You see, we don't want the front ones to know that we're getting the back ones, and then they keep on coming until we get them all. Of course, I hadn't time to think of that. I guess I just naturally did it. I know, too, that if the front ones wavered, or if I stopped them, the rear ones would drop down and pump a volley into me and get me. But with his five -round clip half spent before these Germans even began their charge, Alvin has no time to reload as the front few close in. Again, instinct seems to drive him. He drops his empty rifle, grabs his .45 Colt, and manages to shoot every single one of them. He then picks up his rifle and continues shooting machine gunners. One of the German POWs, a lieutenant that Alvin mistakes as a major, and who speaks excellent English thanks to his years working in Chicago before the war, calls out to the Tennessean. English? No, not English. What? American. Good lord. The officer is stunned. The Brits are known for their highly trained sharpshooters, but how is this rookie doughboy such a gifted marksman? No matter. He's deadly. Nothing else matters right now. The lieutenant calls out, If you won't shoot anymore, I will make them give up. Alvin agrees, and the German lieutenant blows a whistle. Nearly a hundred Bosch soldiers come forward dropping their guns. One decides to throw a grenade at Alvin. He misses, but Alvin doesn't. As he'll later recall, I had to tick him off. Point made. No one else tries anything or complains as Alvin makes them carry out the nine American dead and wounded. These hundred or so Germans are now his prisoners. The German lieutenant tells Alvin that the way back to the American line is down a gully. No. Alvin might not know these French woods, but he knows mountains and forests. His sense of direction tells him the man is lying. Thrusting his colt into the lieutenant's back, the Tennessean and his seven fellow healthy doughboys march off with their massive train of captive Germans. They'll pick up yet more prisoners and American escorts as they make their way back to division headquarters in the village of Chateau -Chary. After delivering his prisoners, Alvin York returns to the 328th. The regiment's commanding general greets him, explaining, Well, York, I hear you've captured the whole damn German army. The Tennessean will later recall his answer. I told him I only had 132. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. It's impossible to say how many Germans Alvin York sent to the grave in the Argonne Forest that early October morning. Some say it was 28. Conservative estimates go as low as 15. Regardless of the exact figure, Alvin's guns were the quick and the Germans were the dead. He silenced 35 Bosch machine guns and, as we know, took 132 prisoners. The Tennessean will soon receive the Medal of Honor and become a veritable celebrity back in the States. Quite a curious twist for a God -fearing man who had previously been a conscientious objector to the war. But that's the story of Alvin York. Alvin's is but one of many tales worth telling as we come to our second episode on the Meuse -Argonne Offensive. No one else is going to come across like a Hollywood action hero, but today, as we push almost but not quite to the end of this, the biggest campaign that the U .S. Army has yet fought, we'll see American forces push forward with the same Alvin York spirit and grit as they try to crack the thick, layered, and crucial German fortifications known as the Krimhilde Line. But as the Yanks make this push, their advancements, coupled with those of their allies on other battlefields, will make German leaders realize that this war is not only coming to its end, as the Bosch already know, but that they can't drag this out. It's time to come to the negotiation table. It's a winding path getting to this breaking point. On our way today, we'll again join flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker in the skies, see an enormous reorganization of the American Expeditionary Force, or AEF, witness yet another shouting match between General Blackjack Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, visit General Douglas MacArthur at one of his hardest, most heroic, yet devastating moments in this war, and listen in as some Native American doughboys become the first code talkers. That's right, well before World War II. In the end, we'll see if the Americans can turn last episode's frustrations and failures into victories.
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A highlight from An Introduction to Acts
"So good to be back again on a Wednesday night. Good to see your faces and appreciate your prayers so much. As I was talking to Pastor Nathan, what's on my heart, I'd like to begin a series of studies from the book of Acts with you tonight. The Acts of the Apostles, or more appropriately, the Acts of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ and through the Apostles' labors. We want to remember some things before we try to delve into the text, actual text. We need to remember that Luke, the beloved physician referred to in Colossians 12. We know that he traveled with the Apostle Paul and most commentators that I've read claim that Luke was a Gentile and that as a Gentile grew up in Antioch of Syria. And if you recall in Acts chapter 13, remember the Apostle Paul and Barnabas were members at the church at Antioch. So that's where the relationship actually began. And Brother Luke is a special character in the tapestry of God's witnesses because he in the gospel narrative that is bearing his name chronicled historically the birth and ministry of Christ as well as his death, burial, and resurrection. And I want to go to Luke chapter 24 and show you how Luke ended his gospel message that was written about 60 to 62 A .D. and connected to the first chapter of the book of Acts. Here we find Christ appearing to his disciples and verse 45, he opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, which would relate to the Old Testament. Remember that's all they had at that time. They had the Old Testament Scriptures, the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi. That's the reference here to Scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem, and ye are witnesses of these things. Now I just want to make this note here. It's Brother Luke that mentions that the gospel is to go to all nations. Now that includes the Gentiles.
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A highlight from Preaching in the Valley of the Drum
"Well, standing in my usual place and about 50 hours down there's a group of people with a loud amplifier who are doing karaoke in the town centre. Of course, I'm not going to interfere with that in any sense, but it could make it harder for people to hear the gospel or they might prefer karaoke to the truth. But I commit this to the Lord and the Lord, and it's a good time to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that you have mercy upon this town of Kidderminster. I pray, Father, that conviction of sin would come upon the people. I pray that a hunger for God would come upon the people. I pray that they would gather together to hear the word of God, that this world and its sidelines, its attractions, its music, its karaoke, its songs would mean nothing to them, Lord. That they would have a concern for their souls, that they would be awakened to their lostness, their ruin, their damnation. I pray, Father, that you would use the preaching today for your glory, and I pray, Lord, that you would have mercy upon those who are perishing in their sins. Lord, I pray that they would be awakened. I pray that they would find Jesus Christ. I pray that they would find mercy. I pray that they would seek Him with all their hearts and repent of their sins and believe on Him to the saving of their souls. And Father, I come in weakness, and I can't do this work except by your help and by your Holy Spirit's going on, and ask that your name would be glorified, that your grace would be magnified, and that your gospel would be faithfully, fully, and powerfully preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. And I ask for forgiveness of my own sins. I trust in Jesus Christ alone. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you, Father, for sending your Son into the world to be my Savior from sin. I pray that His name would be glorified now. Amen. Well, good morning. I pray that you would come crucified and to declare that there is salvation in no other name, under heaven, given amongst men, whereby we must be saved. Jesus is the Savior of the world. The Lord Jesus came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost, and that was sinners like you and I. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot deliver ourselves. We cannot by any means cleanse ourselves from sin or redeem our own souls We need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is the Savior of all those who put their trust in Him, the Lord Jesus, who came into the world and died in the place of sinners, loving sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for sinners, and the Bible tells us, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you're saved from your sin and you have everlasting life. If you do not know Jesus Christ, your sins remain upon you. You are lost and damned and ruined and under the wrath of God. Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn from your sins. Seek Him with all your heart. He is not dead. He is risen. Jesus Christ is raised from the dead by the power of Almighty God, and He is seated at the right hand of the throne of God on the throne of heaven, and He will save you from your sin and deliver you from the wrath to come if only you come to Him. Now if you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. You cannot be saved. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot escape the fires of hell. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, then the wrath of God abides upon you, and on the day of His wrath you will be charged with your sins. God knows your heart. He knows everything about you. He knows your sins. He knows your corruptions. He knows your wickedness. And incidentally I should add, in a day when many people are becoming addicted to vapes, He knows your heart where you do not care about addicting people to something which is harmful to them. I say that because a man who owns a vape store opposite was listening. And vapes harm people. They've replaced smoking but they harm people. And they're addictive. Jesus Christ is that Saviour of the world who will save you from your sins, deliver you from the wrath to come, and give you everlasting life. This world will very soon end. Very soon. All the signs are that very soon the clouds of heaven in all that glory and all that majesty that belongs to God alone. God alone is the Saviour of the world and He is the Saviour of all those who put their trust in Jesus Christ. So if Jesus were to return on the clouds of heaven today and you do not know Him, you would be cast into hell for eternity. That is the plain teaching of the Bible. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught us. Hell is a real place, a terrible place of terrifying fiery torment for eternity. Yes, that's right, yes. Well if you listen, if your swear words are foul, why should God allow somebody that swears like you into his heaven? God will never let a swearer like you into his heaven. You must repent and all the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. All the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes, but there we are. Two very small children went into the vape shop. Am I okay? I'm fine. I'm preaching the gospel. What was that boy saying to me then? That's what he said. I'm not going to repeat it because it's foul. I'm not going to repeat that. Was it a bad thing? Oh yes, very bad things. People hate the gospel. They hate Jesus Christ, but if you find Jesus Christ, he is the savior of the world and he will save you. It doesn't matter what he said to me. He didn't like what I was saying and I'm talking about Jesus saving us from our sins. Okay, so say one thing in here. Okay, Jesus said, okay Jesus said unto them, this is in John's gospel in chapter two, he said, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Now there was this huge temple like a great cathedral in Jerusalem and the Jews thought that Jesus was talking about destroying that temple, but actually he was talking about them crucifying him and nailing him to the cross. Yes, of course. Okay, so I believe in God, but Jesus Christ is God, so we must go further and we must believe in Jesus Christ and if we believe in Jesus Christ, then we've found God. Now that there is one God, but there are three persons within the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. You won't find that in Islam. Jesus is God the Son and God's love was so great towards us that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world to die on that cross, to be the savior of the world. Now I've got some gospels here, I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Sorry, my foot's stuck in there. I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Yes, of course. You can keep it. Yes, yes, of course. I give these out to people. So you can share that and that will tell you more about the Lord Jesus and what he did. Thank you very much. The Lord bless you. God bless you. So you'll hear the drums and as they started, those two girls were distracted from the preaching, but I was able to give them the gospel. Father, I pray for those two girls and for the man who swore and I pray, Father, that they would find mercy and I pray that they would find the salvation which comes from Almighty God. And Father, I pray that you would silence the drums because the drums are silencing the word of God. And I pray, Lord, that because you are the Lord of heaven and earth, that you would silence the drums, maybe by the batteries running out or maybe by heavy rain or something, Lord. But I just pray, Father, that you would work and that you would, Father, that this is your word. I pray that you would ensure that it goes forth to the glory and honour of the Lord Jesus Christ. For people are distracted by drums just as they were distracted in the valley of the Son of Him and when they were offering their children to sacrifices, to idols. So I pray, Father, that you would deliver us from the drums and I pray, Father, that the gospel will be faithfully preached because my voice isn't strong enough and my frame isn't strong enough to compete with the drums, Lord. And people are drawn aside. Lord, again, have mercy on those girls and that man. In Jesus' name I ask and pray. Amen.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from How Did I Get Here? (Travis Greene)
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Elevation Church, wow, wow, wow. So, first of all, what we're not going to do is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in this building and all around the globe for the Pastor Steven Furtick, Holly, Eliza Graham, Abs, love you. I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just how we're going to start. We're going to start there. My are roots Pentecostal. Pentecostal is like a fraternity or something. They'd be like, that's my dog. It's not a frat, but I was going to use a headset today so I could dribble with my left hand, but I woke up feeling preachy, so I told them, give me a handheld, because we about to go up Elevation. I love Pastor Steven. He is a songwriter. He is an architect, and he is the greatest communicator in the world. To be on his platform is beyond a blessing, but something funny happened to me. I told myself that I would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. Let me tell you how gracious God is. He refused to allow me to be invited as long as I believed that, because when heaven wants to affirm you, it doesn't use opportunity, it uses opposition. I know you're anointed not by the stages, but by the scars that you got. I need you to high -five your neighbor like you in Ballantyne and tell them, I know I'm anointed. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. We know that the oil on David worked not from the throne he sat on, but by the giant that fell at his feet, and if open doors can make you, then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man to validate you. I'm afraid that in our churches, heaven believes in us, and I'm going to tell you something you never heard before, hell believes in you. This is why the devil and all his imps and wimps have been coming against you, because he know how much you carry. He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat, but if the devil has been trying to come against you and your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give God ten seconds of praise like you know no weapon formed against you. Shall prosper. Come on, praise him like you're an overcomer. Praise him like the battle's already over. I'm not praising him for a victory. I'm praising him from a place of victory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. And so I have a very prophetic word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus. Because they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, you can wear it in here or Orlando or Greenville or wherever you're watching from. I told them to send me a list. It was too long. What y 'all do have is some campuses. My God. We're going to be in Mark, and it's my custom to share the title after I read the scripture, but today I'm going to share it before. I believe God is about to bring your name up. I don't know how it happened for me. I was minding my business, and chumps texted me and said, are you available? And I'm wondering, how did my name get brought up? God's about to bring your name up. Because this is the season, hear me, that God ain't looking for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm going to talk how I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's after hearts. There's so many people that can sing, man. We don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris and hearts like Jen and hearts like John. Man, we need hearts. God's about to bring your name up. Here's the title for today. How did I get here? How did I get here? Let me preach because my wife told me I take too long to transition. I'm not going to show a family picture. They're all on the ground, but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. I love you. Mark 10, 46. Then they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that you can't just read the Bible. Oh, snap, you've got to read the Bible. It's the second read. Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with the large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, which means son of Timaeus, was sitting on the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him. Don't you hate when you're sitting next to the loud one? You're like, okay, I get it. You grateful. I am too, but my God. They told him, be quiet, fam. Jesus. You ever brought your mama to church? I said, mama, I'm preaching at Elevation. Do not come. My mom be tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, be quiet, man. But he shouted all the more. I love that. Son of David, have mercy on me. I really want to preach this next verse, but I got something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. Whoo. There is a DB, if you're into audio. There is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus, a focused Jesus to stop. Oh my God. Are there any praises in the room that know how to get him to stop by? Come on, the only reason I'm in church today is because he stopped by. The only reason I'm in my right mind is because he stopped. The only reason I didn't cut somebody this week is because he stopped by. He stopped by, he stopped by, he stopped by. When he stops, anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you is easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's keep reading. You ready to sit down. He stopped by and said, call him. I like that. So they called the blind man. Cheer up! On your feet, he's calling you. Now the way my imagination works, I wonder if these are the same people who just told him to hush. That's why you can't listen to people. One second they saying hush, next second they saying cheer up! Cuz, what do you want from me, dog? I mean, throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet, came to Jesus. Here's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, hey, what do you want me to do for you? Blind man's like, ah, let me see. He said, Rabbi, I wanna see, man. I like this. Go, Jesus said. has Your faith healed you. Your shout has healed you. Your resilience has healed you. Somebody, it took your last 20 to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you. The fact that you believed in spite of what you were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word, immediately. I feel it coming, all of a sudden. Immediately. This ain't for everybody. This is just for 50 people and a two year old that can give them a praise and say, that thing about to happen quicker than you can even imagine, immediately. Immediately. He received his sight, followed Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, I'm gonna pray a prayer. You ready? How did we get here? Amen. You can take your seats. All right, how did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? This past week, I went to North Myrtle Beach. That's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from. And we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma is 92 years old. Yeah, yeah. Her classmate was Harriet Tubman. My grandma is so old. She's seen many presidents. And I walk in and my grandma, she's like Isaac. Her sight is fell on her because she's up in age. And she's sitting there with her snuff. You're not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. No teeth, but snuff. I say, my grandma had 14 kids, y 'all. After 10, you don't even feel them no more. There's another child. They just, she got 14 over 40 grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like, grandma. And she's like, whoa, who's that? Get over here. And I go over to her and I say, grandma, it's me. And I can't talk, y 'all. I got speech impediment if you laugh. You laughed and that was not a joke. She's like, ah, I thought it was just me. And my speech marks me. So my grandma, she knew it. And she was like, try this. That's you. I spent some time with her. Something about when your sight is felling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting about this text, I learned this from Pastor Furtick. You preach every line in the text. So the first thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means fragrance or to smell. Isn't it interesting that he's blind, but he can still smell the roses? So I want to tell you, don't allow your low place that calls you to miss the beauty of the season you're in. He's in Jericho. This is not a mountaintop message. Because most of the people who are asking, how did I get here, aren't on top. You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking, how did this happen to me? How did I get here? My last great memory was a wedding photo and now I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age of 29 when my dad died on a Sunday morning. I was five years old. How did I get here? How did I get in the back of this police car? How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y 'all, don't look at me in that tone of voice. How did I get here? My life was heading in one direction and then one decision, one thing caused me to get into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How did I get here? And you may think, you may be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation's rough. Listen to me, your situation cannot compare to being blind in the first century.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1410: Bitcoin Will Hit $10,000,000 Per Coin - Binance CEO CZ
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis. And also I'm going to be sharing with you a 48 ,700 Bitcoin price target, pre halving according to a top analyst. Also did you know it was exactly six years ago today, China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time and ever since the Bitcoin price action is up 600 % and the mining hash rate is back at all time highs. Also quitting Max Kaiser, Bukele has restored the human rights to 7 million Salvadorians that have been taken away by murderous runts, the British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story of the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele -nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice preach. Also in today's show, Mt. Gox repayments delayed yet again. Creditors are waiting on Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash and Yen payments until next year in 2024. We'll also be discussing, according to this latest report, Coinbase currently holds 5 % of the entire Bitcoin supply in existence. That's right. While Coinbase holds 25 billion in BTC, the exchange only owns around 200 million in Bitcoin and its wallets. We'll also be discussing the catalyst, which will catapult the Bitcoin price action. According to skybridge capitals, Anthony Scaramucci will also be discussing the latest with the Binance CEO CZ setting the record straight on $250 million loan claims. That's right. The US court had recently denied an inspection plea by the SEC. I'll be breaking down this latest FUD and speaking of CZ, the Binance CEO predicts the Bitcoin price will reach $10 million per coin. In fact, a couple of years back in an interview, he said, if all of the major institutions allocate 1 % Bitcoin, we're going to see 1000 X or more growth of the Bitcoin price. And if you run the math, 1000 times today's price action is 26 to $27 million per BTC. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at crypto news alerts .net. Again, that's crypto news alerts .net and welcome everyone just joining us. This is podcast episode number 1410. I'm your host JV and today is September 23rd, 2023. So welcome to another sat stacking Saturday. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do here each and every day, seven days a week. We can see Bitcoin back in the green trading above 26 .6 and we also have ether back in the green trading at roughly $1 ,600. The market cap is sitting at 1 .06 trillion with roughly 17 billion in volume. In the past 24 hours, we've got Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and the ether dominance at 18 .2 % as Bitcoin continues outpacing Ethereum and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we've got theta lead in the pack up 7 % trading just under 64 cents followed by rocket pool up 4 % trading at $21 .63, followed by chain link up 4 % trading at $7 .18 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, we have WeMix leading this pack up 15%. We have PLS up 8 .2 % and XRD up 11, I mean 7 .4 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 47, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 43 in fear, last week also a 43 and last month a 41 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you have been stacking M -Sats and taking advantage of the recent dip in dollar cost averaging? Let me know. And how many of you are anticipating Bitcoin price action to maybe dip a little further south before packing some new positions? Let me know how you feel with the current status. And also just quick reminder, we're almost at the end of September historically, September is the worst month out of the entire year for the Bitcoin price action, but it's always followed by up tober, which is historically one of the most bullish months for Bitcoin. So we only have another week until we get out of September. So we'll see how this is likely to play out. Let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Bitcoin failed to reclaim 27 ,000, though we came close. It stalled at 26 ,500 as of right now. Meanwhile, the altcoins are in no better shape with minor losses coming from most of the larger cap ones. With Chainlink, the only one with a notable price increase. So last week was expectedly less volatile, aside from the brief spike on Saturday that pushed Bitcoin then to the multi -day peak of 26 ,400. But after failing to continue upwards, Bitcoin retraced at 26 ,000 and spent the rest of the weekend there. Then Monday didn't start all that positively either, but finished the way. Bitcoin went on the offensive and soared above 27 ,000 for the first time in weeks, but then shortly dumped after. But the bulls kept the pressure on and pushed Bitcoin to a new 20 -day peak at 27 ,500 on Tuesday. The next few days were rather calm with Bitcoin maintaining 27 G's, even after the US Fed's decision to stop raising the interest rates. Yet Bitcoin's momentum disappeared by Friday as it fell to 26 ,400. It even tried to bounce off the end of the day, but failed and currently stands at 26 ,500. Its market cap is south of 520 billion, while its dominance over the alts still just inches shy of 49%. So there you have it. And as we mentioned a little earlier, the altcoins, a lot of them are also in the red with the exception of Chainlink, which seems to be outpacing the rest of the major alts. Now for a prediction from Titan of Crypto, here's what he shared on X. Bitcoin 48 ,700 before the halving rocket ship to the moon. You might want to bookmark this one. Fam, never in history the halving occurred without Bitcoin reaching the 78 .6 % Fibonacci retracement level. So first off, first cycle price reached this four months before the halving, and the second cycle it was two months before, and then on the third cycle it was 12 months before. The next halving is now roughly six months away. Bitcoin might reach the 78 .6 % Fibonacci level within this period as it currently lies at 48 ,700, but the million dollar question remains, will this time be different? So as we enter this fourth halving, let me know where you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to hit before we have liftoff. I mean, obviously that would be a bullish scenario setting us up for a perfect price discovery in 2024 post halving. So I cannot wait. I hope the analyst is right. And if you didn't know, it was exactly six years ago. China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time because guess what? You can't ban Bitcoin. You can try. Good luck with that. And ever since the price action on the King Crypto is up 600 % and the mining hash rate continues to hit all time highs. And as you know, hash rate is a good indicator for the strength of the network, meaning the market cap is just north of only $500 billion. And as Max points out here, referring to Bukele, he has restored the human rights of 7 million Salvadorans that have been taken away by murderous runts. The British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story, the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele Nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice. Massive shout out to Najib Bukele and the people of El Salvador. Which country do you feel is likely to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender next? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments below. I feel it's going to be another Latin American country. I'd say a great candidate for that is Argentina, which has hundreds of millions of people. We have Javier Malay, the pro presidential candidate. There is a 70 % chance plus that he is elected as the president. And we already know the likelihood he could make Bitcoin a legal tender, especially being orange -pilled by Max Keiser, who is the senior Bitcoin advisor for President Bukele. As Max has already announced, he can't wait to touch down in Buenos Aires to orange pill Javier Malay. Then we also have Mexico. We have people like Ricardo Salinas, the third richest man in Mexico, very pro Bitcoin, claiming Bitcoin has been his best investment ever because, again, Max orange -pilled him back in 2014. Then we have Brazil and so many other countries that make Bitcoin a potential to become legal tender. And we all know that's going to be a game changer. And that's just another catalyst on top of the Bitcoin halving scheduled in six months in 2024, plus the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. So can you say fireworks lays ahead? Let's go. Now let's discuss the latest more bullish news, meaning Mt. Gox is going to be delaying these payments, which means no crypto is going to be dumped onto the open market anytime soon, which again is good for the hodlers. Check it out. Now we got Nobuaki, the Mt. Gox trustee in charge of the funds owed to the exchange creditors, updated the public on September 21st, two days ago, according to the trustee, because of the lengthy discussions with specific payment providers, he could not make the October 31st deadline. That was the initial deadline, fam. And because of this reason, the repayments will start next year. And so they say, quitting him here. Therefore, with the permission of the Tokyo district court, the rehabilitation trustee changed the deadline of the base repayment, the early lump sum repayment and the intermediate repayment from October 31st, 2023 Japan time to October 31st, 2024 Japan time, respectively. By the letter of the Kobashi details, the Mt. Gox creditors waited nine years for payments. Good Lord. Currently, they're owed one hundred and forty one thousand six hundred and eighty six BTC plus one hundred and forty two thousand eight hundred and forty six Bitcoin cash and sixty nine is that billion yen. Good Lord. I'd love to know what that equates to in dollars anyways, though the delay has been extended. The creditors who have completed their claims might receive the payment by year's end, quoting them again. Rehabilitation creditors who have provided the necessary info to the rehabilitation trustee will see the payments made in a sequence as early as the end of this year, according to the letter. However, this schedule could change. Kobashi also said that due to the high volume of inquiries regarding the process, the rehabilitation team might not respond promptly. Well, that doesn't sound so promising, but I guess it's a good sign that most of this cash is not going to be dumped off any time soon, as there's a lot of FUD that's always circulating. The Mt. Gox, you know, sell off is going to crash the entire market. I think that is very unlikely and is nothing more than FUD. And again, we're gearing up for the most bullish sentiment in the four year cyclical cycle amongst us in twenty twenty four. So versus being in fear, I would be very optimistic about what's to come for the king crypto and the crypto market as a whole. But what are your thoughts, fam? Let me know in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss the largest crypto exchange in the United States. Clearly, it is Coinbase. The CEO is Brian Armstrong. But did you know, according to this latest report, they currently control and own over five percent of the Bitcoin in circulation. That's pretty hefty. And let's break this one down. And how many of you have used the Coinbase crypto exchange before? Let me know in the comments below. Here we go. Blockchain intelligence platform ARKAM recently identified the crypto exchange Coinbase holds almost one million Bitcoin in its wallets like, whoa, the coins are worth more than twenty five billion dollars at the current prices. Now, according to ARKAM, the exchanges holdings amount to almost five percent of all the existing Bitcoin. ARKAM said Coinbase holds a total of nine hundred forty seven thousand seven hundred and fifty five BTC. And at the moment, Bitcoin circulating supply is around nineteen million four hundred ninety three thousand five hundred thirty seven, according to coin info on CoinGecko. And as ARKAM shared here on X, ARKAM now identified twenty five billion of Bitcoin's Coinbase reserves with one million, approximately Bitcoin on chain. This makes Coinbase the largest Bitcoin entity in the world on ARKAM, with almost five percent of all the Bitcoin in existence, almost as much as Satoshi Nakamoto. Crazy, right? Furthermore, ARKAM noted that it has tagged and identified thirty six million Bitcoin deposits and holding addresses used by the exchange. And according to ARKAM, Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around ten thousand BTC. And based on the exchanges financial reports, the intelligence company believes that Coinbase has more Bitcoin than are yet labeled and could not be identified. And while Coinbase holds over twenty five billion worth of Bitcoin in its wallets, the exchange only owns around ten thousand of all the Bitcoin in which it holds, which is roughly two hundred million dollars, according to the recent data. Meanwhile, community members express varying reactions to the news about the amount of Bitcoin on the centralized exchange in which they hold. Some believe it's a sign to withdraw their Bitcoin from the exchanges, warning hodlers not to wait until the exchanges start to halt withdrawals. Others say that since there are legitimate concerns over cold wallets, there is no good way to store your assets. I'd like to chime in real quick. Obviously, if it's not your keys, it's not your coins. So while a custodian such as Coinbase can hold your crypto, you've got to also note that it's not yours. So if something were to happen, hypothetically, like we've seen with FTX and the collapse last year, then not your keys, not your coins, they don't belong to you at the end of the day. So you've got to start to weigh the risk reward with having a custodian such as Coinbase or a centralized exchange hold your coins versus taking the responsibility for yourself and learning how to self custody your own crypto and call storage such as with a Bitcoin cold wallet, such as a treasure. So I just wanted to point that out. There's no right or wrong way to hold your crypto. You've got to do what's in your best interest, of course. So, you know, I mean, just want to keep it real at the end of the day. So check it when it comes to Bitcoin ownership by companies, business intelligence for MicroStrategy still owns most Bitcoin. I believe it's over one hundred and fifty two thousand eight hundred BTC, to be exact, worth over four billion dollars at the time of this recording, making them the largest publicly traded company to have Bitcoin on their balance sheet. Now, another major company that controls over six hundred thousand BTC is Grayscale in their GBTC product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which they just recently had a lawsuit against the SEC with the plan to convert their trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF. So considering they already control the underlying asset in the sum of over six hundred thousand BTC makes them a pretty strong contender. Wouldn't you agree? Let me know your thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the Bitcoin price likely to catapult along with the altcoin to coin to SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci. Let's break this down. Shout out to the Mooch, SkyBridge Capital founder Scaramucci is detailing how one catalyst could have a bullish impact on Bitcoin, as well as the alt. In an interview with the Wolf of Wall Street, Scott Melker Scaramucci says that a spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved in the first quarter of twenty twenty four, which seems to be a ninety five percent likelihood, according to top ETF analyst at Bloomberg, Eric Balchunes. So according to SkyBridge Capital founder, the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF and the Bitcoin halving, which is expected to occur in April of twenty twenty four, could combine to ignite a crypto bull market. No, it's not. It could combine. It will combine. Just saying. Quitting him here as Wall Street or products on Wall Street are sold, they are not bought. And so there is going to be tens of thousands, if not one hundred thousand plus people at these Wall Street firms selling these products to their traditional investors. So people that are in Bitcoin understand the finite supply of Bitcoin, right? We all know there's a finite limited supply, 21 million, and they understand the nature and the quality the Bitcoin has. This will push Bitcoin up. Of course, it will have a dramatically positive effect on the altcoin market because it will lead to more capital into digital properties so people can think whatever they want. They can think short term about the near term volatility of Bitcoin. But these macro positive factors are overwhelming. And according to Scaramucci, the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF filed by giant asset managers such as BlackRock, who controls over 10 trillion in assets under management and Fidelity, that controls over four and a half trillion in assets under management, can see Bitcoin increasing its market cap by roughly 24 times from the current level. We'll send it. Let's go quoting the Mooch here. It is important that now the largest asset manager in the world who started out with some level of skepticism related to digital assets and Bitcoin is now willing to adopt Bitcoin. I mean, I guess they mean BlackRock is willing to adopt Bitcoin, but even more important than that, they're willing to explain to their clients. I think BlackRock now has 13 trillion dollars in assets under management. So for them, seven trillion for Fidelity. While these numbers are higher than I even imagine, while their clients need exposure to digital property like Bitcoin. And so we have a five hundred billion dollar plus market for Bitcoin. So you and I know gold is at 12 trillion ish, depending on where it's trading. But yes, 12 trillion. There is no reason why Bitcoin couldn't get gold. So there you have it. And to watch this video interview he did with Scott Melker entitled 37000 Bitcoin. Can it skyrocket 35 percent? Check the show notes below the video in the description. And I think we all could agree it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin returns to price discovery mode, virtually meaning entering new all time highs. My personal prediction is sometime in 2024, considering the two biggest catalysts, which we just covered, the Bitcoin halving and Bitcoin ETF approval, which we know is going to be a given, especially considering the SEC is not going to be able to push it back and push back that deadline any longer because, you know, they just they have been pushing it back now for 10 years while they continue to approve futures ETFs, which can allow them to spoof and manipulate the market, which is all by design. At the end of the day, there's not new under the sun and three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth. But just saying. Anyways, fam, now let's discuss the ongoing fight against CZ, the finance CEO with this 250 million dollar loan. And then I'll be breaking down his 10 million dollar price prediction and in fact sharing a transcription of him claiming that Bitcoin can thousand X from the current price, which would ultimately mean not 10 million, but we're talking twenty six to twenty seven million dollars per coin. Let's break this down. So here we go. First, with the FUD, the Binance CEO, CZ Shangping Zhao had refuted a recent report alleging that he received the 250 million dollar loan from BAM Management, the company that serves as the holding entity for Binance US. Now, how many of you have used Binance US or Binance before as the exchange? Let me know, fam. The development comes amidst Binance's struggles with plunging trading volume as the world's largest crypto exchange faces mounting lawsuits and increased scrutiny, regulatory which seems to all be by design by the SEC and the regulators. Right. The report published by Decrypt September 19th drew its conclusions from court documents associated with the ongoing lawsuit involving Binance and the United States. SEC, according to the news agency's interpretation, the Binance US legal representatives asserted in the documents that BAM Management US Holdings had issued a quarter billion dollar convertible note to CZ back in December. CZ, however, challenged the accuracy of the report when he tweeted the following. The amount of wrong information is just they got the direction wrong. I loaned 250 million dollars to BAM a while back, not the other way around, and have not taken it back. The Binance CEO clarified that the loan arrangement was, in fact, the opposite of what was reported in the post. The exec explained that he had extended a 250 million dollar loan to BAM Management and asserted that he had not yet received the payment. So there's nothing new under the sun. Just more FUD, it seems like, fam. The legal battle has taken a toll on Binance US, which saw a flurry of employee departures. The US SEC alleged that Binance was not cooperating in the ongoing probe and even claimed that BAM refused to make essential witnesses available for deposition. Concerns were also raised on CEFFU, which happens to be a custody service offered by Binance's international arm, Binance Holdings Ltd. The SEC's filing claimed that the platform appeared to be in violation of a previous agreement designed to prevent the transfer of the assets abroad. And despite the scathing attacks by the financial regulator, Binance scored a small win this week. The SEC's motion to approve an inspection into Binance US was denied by the USDC District Judge, Zia Farokhia. So there you have it. I mean, the ongoing FUD will more than likely continue, as obviously Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world and regulators seem to have a problem with them and want to go after them for whatever apparent reason. So, like I said, hopefully in the end, you know, truth is revealed and the real story versus all the FUD and, you know, the manipulation of the price action and all the shenanigans we continue to witness in the market. And with that being shared, now let's dive into the Binance CEO, CZ and his 10 million dollar price prediction, as well as him predicting that Bitcoin price action could even a thousand X from here, sending the Bitcoin price parabolic to 26 or even 27 million dollars per coin. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Here we go. JV, have you ever heard of him? A crypto YouTube influencer from Crypto News Alerts remembered CZ's prediction. You're damn right I did. The Bitcoin would reach 10 million per coin. JV referred to the statement in a recent video uploaded on YouTube where he analyzes various aspects of the Bitcoin market development. Now, JV looked back at CZ's Bitcoin prediction while analyzing the Bitcoin CEO's recent Twitter comments. And in a Q &A session on July 5th, CZ addressed several issues, including Binance's reaction to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny. He also spoke about the rising interest of institutional investors in crypto currencies, as well as the proposed BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF. CZ made the 10 million dollar price prediction back in 2021. In fact, I have the article already pulled up and I'm going to be reading word for word what he shared. Following MicroStrategy's announcement, allocating Bitcoin for the corporate strategy, CZ based his analysis on the possibility of several corporate companies, major institutions across the world, allocating just one percent of their corporate treasury into Bitcoin. And according to CZ, that would lead to a thousand X growth in the value of BTC. JV highlighted CZ's welcoming approach to institutional investors in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and CZ noted that advantages in traditional finance firms they bring to the crypto industry, despite concerns about their intentions clashing with Bitcoin's decentralized nature. And according to JV, CZ identified two key factors driving Binance's strategy for the next 18 months. They include the upcoming Bitcoin halving event now less than six months out, as well as, you know, we could be seeing a Bitcoin ETF here in the near future. The Bitcoin community expects the next halving to occur in April of 2024. Now quoting CZ word for word from the initial interview he made on Bloomberg Radio predicting a potential 1000 X increase in the Bitcoin price action. So here's what he had to say. Right now, I think only 11 companies again, this is right around the time that MicroStrategy announced putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet. They announced having allocating some talking about Bitcoin, like usually less than one percent of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin. And we think that it is most likely what caused the initial price rise. I think MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor started it first, but there are six hundred and fifty thousand companies in the world, like relatively established companies in the world, and their treasury is huge. Preach. So if all of them talking about these major institutions only allocated just one percent to Bitcoin, we are going to see, I don't know, 1000 X more growth in the Bitcoin price. And if they allocate more than one percent, then it's going to be even bigger. So I think people don't quite get the magnitude of the wave that is about to hit us. Now, let's run that math one more time. Fam, today's price is roughly twenty six thousand five hundred times that by one thousand. He's talking about a twenty six and a half million dollar Bitcoin price action. The potential if they only put one percent of their strategic reserves into Bitcoin, you do the math. If it's five X and five percent, what are we talking? One hundred and twenty million dollar Bitcoin price. Just saying this is coming from CZ, the world's richest man in crypto. So very powerful words indeed. Let's get back to this prediction of what he shared. So the finance CEO estimates that the flagship crypto can go up anywhere from nineteen hundred percent to twenty thousand percent from the current price levels from the time he made the prediction. And he goes on to share with price predictions. It is really, really difficult. I think it can go to, I don't know, one million dollars, ten million dollars. It is very hard to tell. And again, if we literally did a thousand X from today's price, we're talking twenty six and a half million per BTZ. So CZ also reveals that the exchange is onboarding new users as an at an unprecedented sustained rate during the bull run, outpacing its user growth during the twenty seventeen bull run. So again, this was during the twenty twenty one bull run. Here's what he had to share. Just to give people the idea, in twenty seventeen, when Bitcoin hit the peak of about 20 G's, we were seeing three hundred thousand new registered users per day. And that only happened for a couple of days. And that kind of trailed off and became slower. Now we're seeing sustained new user registrations above the peak and sustained like for over two to three months. So could you imagine running the world's largest crypto exchange and having over three hundred thousand new registered users every single day for like 90 days straight? That is insanity. And that's the previous market. I think twenty twenty four is likely going to outpace the previous market as Bitcoin becomes a common household name and as Bitcoin game theory continues in full effect. You have presidential candidates making Bitcoin a big determining factor. We have people like Ron DeSantis, Kennedy Jr., Javier Malay over in Argentina. So naturally, it's just going to create more commotion and positive catalysts for Bitcoin as we move forward into twenty twenty four. So, I mean, fireworks are ahead. Let me know how you feel. We're likely to finish out this year by December of twenty twenty three. Where do you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to be? And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"rose" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"So I wanted to talk a little bit about the idea of celebrity and the fact that this is still so all pervasive. Why are we drawn to celebrity? Why are tabloids always full of gossip? Because two things are happening simultaneously. We're simultaneously trying to drag these people off pedestals down to our sordid level, but we're also attracted to this idea of fame and wealth and glamour. What's going on there? These two different or outwardly contrary attractions? Oh, that's a great question. I don't know. One of the things that we do learn about the Belladonna eventually is that she's actually someone quite like F. We learn that there are more similarities about them than we might have been thinking or that F might have been thinking. It comes as a bit of a surprise. Perhaps what's going on there is I'm trying to complicate this idea of wanting and seeking towards fame and wanting something. Of course, the creation of unobtainable lifestyles and that desiring is a pull that you've identified as society-wide. We're still reckoning with it. The book is trying to complicate that relationship of desire and power only flowing one way. We're trying to look at the, I suppose, the structural admin that goes on underneath a life of wealth and elegance and danger. The work that someone has to do to keep it going, even if it's not you. Someone's working very hard so someone else can be comfortable. Well, it's particularly interesting that you look at this because the cult of celebrity and the celebrity status that we know now actually originates around that time when you had the first opera singers that became proper celebrities and they started making paper dolls to look like them and then selling them. The idea of this celebrity with merchandise and with a cult of personality around them. One of the biggest ones was Byron creating the cult of celebrity around who he was. It was that kind of specific look, the Byronic hero, all this sort of stuff. It was created to sell. It's also interesting to think about why people would want to do that at that point in time. Potentially, again coming back to the power, and again if you look at where Belladonna came from, she's creating something bigger than herself. Creating a story, creating something to make her seem worthwhile or to make her appear more than she is. All of the effort there goes into making it look effortless as well. You know, Byron wasn't letting on that he was actively working to maintain that mystique. Obviously, Oscar Wilde famously put about that he would just scribble off a phrase or a book or a play and it's done. But of course, he's working incredibly hard. He's writing multiple drafts. He's working things up. The whole aesthetic that we get from that time of the bon mot, the epigram, the witticism that feels so easy and therefore feels perhaps a little bit shallow, a little bit cynical and that's it. A piece of language or a piece of decorative frippery or something like an atom of noble gas has nothing to do with the rest of the world around it. It's sort of disconnected. But of course, this work is incredibly political. It's incredibly important. Artists are working really hard to work up that material. You know, when Wilde does an epigram, when he says, for example, work is the curse of the drinking classes. The reason that's funny is it's funny in itself, but it also not only swaps the language, but it makes you re-see the social priorities and the social structures that make the inverse of that the phrase that we know. When you flip the around and you see it newly and you see it again, the phrase art for art's sake was coming from a very...again, it sounds quite self-intuitive. It sounds quite like an argument for art not having anything to do with anything else. But the Fin de Sichle artists knew very, very well that art is not something that exists separately to the world. It's embedded in context. The phrase art for art's sake comes about in direct opposition to the dominant Victorian aesthetic more, which was that good art should provide moral instruction. The better moral instruction art provides, the better art it is. I think Ruskin pretty much said that. I will be paraphrasing. He will have said it much more eloquently and beautifully, but that was sort of the dominant position. Oscar Wilde, of course, had very, very real reasons to not feel that good art is stuff that goes along with the moral mores of the times. So a phrase like that, that feels easy, feels decorative, feels witty, brings pleasure. Therefore, if you don't think about it properly, you might underestimate it a little bit. But these are aesthetic opinions that are really political. They're really to do with the morality of what you're doing. Meg was mentioning continuing the story, the artificial creation of a celebrity. That made me think, well, what is the link between celebrity and immortality? Because it kind of reminds me of the live fast, die young, the dark glamour of that. Terry Pratchett did a really good exploration of this in soul music. He says you will basically live forever. That this is an idea of living forever, that even though you yourself, the entity that was you, may no longer be present in the world, the idea that you created, the idea that you represent the celebrity, as it were, continues to live on. You do touch on this idea, and I'm trying to scare millions of spoilers here, but that celebrity just adopts a new face and continues its work. I just thought that was so it's such a fascinating idea that humans are always striving after immortality, even though none of us would really want it. I felt like this is a very modern incarnation of the desire to continue after we end. Yes, we alluded earlier to the fact that Belladonna is a fundamentally unknowable character in some ways. Indeed, the book is full of characters who are unknowable at the same time as they tell you their deepest secrets. There's a double vision there throughout the novel. I think something that's going on there is the idea of either your art, or if you're thinking in more of a capitalist framework, your brand. Perhaps these are the things that maybe immortal might be a little strong in 2023 to say, but I think the idea that the stories that are bigger than you, the effect you create, the brand, the world that Belladonna creates is bigger than any one individual person. The work goes into upholding that, rather than perhaps she could have potentially gone on for her career as a singer and been a famous singer, but then be forgotten. Actually, she's putting the work into the Belladonna face and business there. I suppose there's a question there. I think I always come up against the kind of structural practicalities and the social pressures that create this feeling of glamour, of immortal power, of the work it takes to make something seem tantalizing and effortless and easy. I think something about desire and fame in that context is, again, trying to not mention a big spoiler. We're in F's perspective all the way through. The idea that you can want something incredibly hard. You can work for it. You can absolutely give your life, everything you have, to a thing. Desire that is that powerful is something that we see in the novel, flowing in various directions. You can want something and work incredibly hard your whole life and get it, but at the same time, you can know that you are replaceable. How shocking to know that you are replaceable, but to want to do it anyway, because the structures are set up so that someone has to be special and you'll do. There's a conflict. There's a paradox there in that sort of desiring versus getting versus wanting. I don't think the novel has an answer to it, but I think those are the textures that I'm playing with. Is there a prison there? This being locked into someone else's story in the sense that... Because I feel that Belladonna's singing, she seems happiest when she is pursuing the lost singing career, the career that never was, the career she threw over in order to maintain her more social-like persona. There are these moments of joy that she has. I feel that she's as much a prisoner of her own artificial world. It's really interesting you say that about Belladonna's backstory in opera because she definitely tells everyone that's what it is. When she throws herself into the performance, she's also looking to escape the prison of halfway through the book. So there's an interesting out of one prison into another perhaps. Well, as Lucy mentioned earlier, there's this wonderful Rebecca vibe with Belladonna. As you just said, is her background in opera? Is it not? There's so many questions. How do you go about creating a character who is just impossible to really know despite the fact she's on every page of the book? MS. Oh, great question. Thank you for mentioning Rebecca. I am delighted by that comparison. I suppose this is a bit like Rebecca if she's also there. Which reminds me of that Owen Wilson line in The Royal Tenenbaums, isn't it? What this novel presupposes is, what if Rebecca was always around? MS. Yeah, it's an interesting question. The whole texture of the book is about that relationship between tantalizing and keeping back. It was definitely a line to walk as part of the writing. I wanted to extend the form and the style of the writing to try to mimic that experience of not knowing something. There are things that the book doesn't tell you. As I just jokingly said, you say she worked in opera, but you only know what she's told you. That's me being a little bit flippant and silly. My point really is that unreliable information is what the novel is built on. Primarily, of course, we're seeing the Belladonna character through the perspective of a character who adores her for whatever reason, or is completely taken in and interested and fascinated by this person. You've already got a sort of distorting gaze. I think gazing, looking, that's probably a theme that pops up through the book. There's this running motif of sort of eyes, the effect of things. Looking at someone, looking through them, seeing someone for what they are. I suppose, because that's such a texture, is the character of the Belladonna. There are things that we don't know, but there's a sense that perhaps someone knows something somewhere. As a reader, you have to have a sense that the character knows, or at least beyond that, the author knows, so there's some sense of certainty because that's a hook you can then kind of hang all of your speculation on. As she says, the effect is what we're after. She's very interested in the effect she has on people. That's the work that she does. It costs her bodily. There's hints at...which again was my way of trying to twist the kind of aestheticism of consumption. Normally, this character equivalent has a terrible cough and is pale. It's sort of so tragic but so beautiful. The Victorian found beauty in the aesthetics of consumption. The equivalent in this novel is that she's regularly taking Belladonna drops in her eyes. That does make you waste away and cough quite a lot. That's sort of literally what's going on. That work that costs her bodily to do in the moment, in the present. It's a book where we're very much in the present, in the moment, I suppose. It's fair to say, I think. That's where she exists. That's what she's doing. There isn't a scene where you learn why she's like this. There's nothing that happens in her childhood. It's a straight line between then and now. All we can say is what's happening in the moment. All that we can say is F desperately wants to be close to this character, but even she isn't fully certain why. It's also a very internal novel. I think it's fair to say we're in and alongside F's thoughts, even as she herself is quite unknowable and is sort of drawing away back from the reader in some ways. At the same time, because I knew that was a texture, I wanted us to feel quite intimate and quite under the skin, quite close to bodily sensation to hopefully offset some of the things that we don't know. I'd like to do a shout out to A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty by Mimi Matthews, which was invaluable in keeping track of what fashions were in and out across the decades. I think Belladonna's got a walk-in wardrobe thing, which I think is a bit of an anachronism. It feels a bit like something out of Sex and the City or something. That's not included for any kind of historical verisimilitude. I don't know if apartments like that in Paris at that time had that, although they had other things that I write that they have. That's more in there for artistic reasons. For that reason, I needed to fill that space with very plausible materials. I wanted to make sure the details were precise, the fabrics, the types of minerals that are in the jewellery, the necklaces that are made of filigree, fine-worked metal. These are all sort of real things. The little tangible details are quite real, which I suppose is a way of how the book's trying to get its effect. If I can get the reader to swallow the specific details there, then the weirder thing of this big TARDIS impossible goth wardrobe will feel intuitively plausible and correct. It's about the combination of tangible detail. If you get your seductive little detail right and place it in an artful way, you might seduce your reader to swallow something that they might otherwise find a little bit strange. This is a perfect place to wrap up the episode because I think you've sold the book beautifully. I really hope that our listeners go and pick up the Bullardonna invitation, which is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. I absolutely loved reading this book because I felt like, in a way, I was back at university doing my fantasy Eclat course. I felt like your book can sit next to this canon with H.G. Wells. We've got Bram Stoker. These books that examine the idea of artificial worlds and the cost of living an aesthetic existence. I really hope that everyone is as intrigued by that idea as I am. Thank you so much for joining us, Rose. Thank you, my pleasure. Thank you.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"rose" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so, we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Lucy Hounsom. And I'm Megan Lee. In the preface to Les Fleurs du Mal, The Flowers of Evil, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, and this idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement of the 1890s, an era of decadence in which artifice masqueraded as, or was even elevated to the status of, art. The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin is a gothic exploration of the cult and cost of celebrity. It looks at the consequences of wealth, the ethical complexity of aestheticism, and ultimately asks the question, is celebrity or the mask of it worth dying for? We are extremely fortunate to have Rose with us on the show today. I loved this book, I devoured it in a couple of days. So I'm really keen to chat to Rose all about it. Would you like to introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, I'm Rose Biggin. I'm a writer and a theatre maker based in London. I work between performance and I do a bit of dance and I do a bit of writing, short fiction and novels, often exploring things like art and artifice. So thank you for having me. As I said, I absolutely adored The Belladonna Invitation, which is out now from Ghost Orchid Press. It's a small press that's putting out some really exciting books at the moment. So I do urge everybody to just go and have a look at their titles. We're hoping to talk to some of their authors, other authors later in the year as well. Since you mentioned art and artifice, and I've mentioned also one of my favourite literary periods, the 1890s for the Fada Siekla, which is, yeah, it produced some really remarkable novels. But what I really liked in your book is this idea of death salons, this exclusive and expensive gathering where guests deliberately poison themselves. And I felt like that suggests that wealth directly enables the taking of absurd risks in pursuit of sensation. And this is horribly topical. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to at the moment, this having money and that leads directly to your doom. I wanted to dig into this idea of extreme wealth leading to a possible disregard for life itself. Yes. Well, the poison salons were something that came right at the start of the conceptualisation of the novel, before the idea was even novel sized. Maybe I could get to that later. But I immediately knew from the beginning about the dark, fin de siekla world that I wanted to set the story in, the main character, Bella Donna, her name, what she would do, the work she would do. This was all part of the texture of that world. I think the poison salon is the exclusive secret thing that she runs at the end of the official salons that just felt like a very interesting way to make those themes a bit tangible and a little bit tasty, I suppose, a sort of texture to the world. But I think something that interests me is that the character Bella Donna works in this world. She runs these salons and she takes on a very ambitious devotee apprentice and that's the perspective character. That's who we see the story, who we see the novel through in her eyes. Quite quickly, they get a little bit used to it. We have this glamorous showpiece thing she does, but what I was quite interested was showing the work that goes on beneath creating that kind of glamorous or that dangerous or that show-stopping event. They actually get a little bit used to it. It's central to what they do, but it's also part of the job. They run these things and the business and the practicalities of running these things, what it takes to uphold that glamorous edifice. We sort of see underneath that. There's a moment when the perspective character first learns about the poison salon because she doesn't walk in on day one. She's led up to experiencing it. She asks Bella Donna, I can't remember the exact quote, but why people come to this, why people do this. Bella Donna says, she words it a lot better than I would say it, but she says something like, she doesn't know why. It's either obvious or she's sure she doesn't want to know. We're at a little bit of distance from why people come to this. It's sort of a texture of that kind of world where we then see the relationship between the Bella Donna, who's this socialite, this mysterious character and her apprentices. They're working it through. I suppose equally, it's interesting to think that people do get blind drunk at parties and die from that. They take drugs. This perspective isn't one I don't have a particularly strong position about people doing high risk things to get a high. I'm quite liberal about that. It's just that I think the extremeness of the sort of poison berries and the way that is a combination of beauty and danger and the temptation of it feels like something. The Bella Donna is selling you that as an idea as well. The novel is kind of selling it to you as a reader. This is something someone's doing, but also her job is to sort of sell that it is particularly dangerous, particularly cool. That's part of her Fin de Sica celebrity and her glamour. Of course, after the apprentice character has done it once, she never wants to do it again. I think there's a relationship between this thing, this glamorous, decadent, dangerous thing, the poison salon, but part of the mystique of that and the upholding and the creation of the mystique of that is sort of where the book's territory really is. I love this exploration of the fact that they're very expensive. They're exclusive. Not anybody can just get into one of these poison salons. It just raises the idea of what I mentioned in the intro, this Baudelaire's saying that it's like the worst thing, the worst misery is boredom. Is that what happens when you have this extreme wealth and privilege that it's kind of horrible because the welfare state wasn't established in that period. There were tons of people who were living in abject poverty, scrabbling at life to try and keep on living. Then you've got this aristocratic class who was so wealthy that they are eating poison to try and get some kind of kick out of them. I think that that juxtaposition is that the whole moral question surrounding those ideas is so fascinating. But also, everyone knows not many people can get in. The exclusivity of it is, they talk about that. They know that's part of, you have to uphold. You have to uphold that. That's part of the fun. There is a huge consequence to, well, not just the poison salons themselves, but to the way that Belladonna behaves towards men who fall in love with her. It does force us to question the moral integrity of the world that she's constructed around herself. Was that something that was central also to you that you wanted to explore? It's a glamorous, beautiful world, but it comes at a huge cost to some people. Yeah, well, it's worth saying that the big, dramatic, jealous lover moment, I don't think it's a spoiler really because he comes in quite early. A guy appears, there's a sort of dramatic, jealous lover moment. The reason that happens, the reason we have that character, his name is Lucien, that is a trope that we have in culture and in these sorts of stories. The novel that is in the DNA of the Belladonna invitation is The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas-Phew, the son of Alexandre Dumas-Phew, who wrote The Three Musketeers and so on. His son wrote a novel, The Lady of the Camellias, which was a big hit at the time. It was adapted for stage and it later turned into the opera. Verdi adapted the story for his opera, La Traviata, and that's where Moulin Rouge gets its plot from. Although The Lady of the Camellias isn't so well known now, it has quite an interesting cultural footprint. Some of the initial skeleton of this Belladonna character and the lover who comes in and how she deals with that is a trope that I was looking to try to rework in a new way. He has his big, dramatic, jealous moment and she deals with that in a way that she doesn't deal with it in the text that I was just referring to. What I wanted was to have the man arise, but the emphasis isn't really on how she navigates that romantic or that pseudo-romantic world, but how she navigates the pressures that she's under and how that impacts on her relationship with Flora, or F, the name of the apprentice that she takes on who's watching all this happen. The relationship with the lover and how that sort of goes and how that ends up is interesting for me because of how it impacts on the central relationship between the two women. I do want to talk about Belladonna a little bit more in a bit because I do feel like there's a Rebecca vibe to her. She's on every page, but I don't feel like we ever really can say that we know who she really is. However, you mentioned F or Flora and I was so intrigued by these two names that she's sometimes Flora and she's sometimes F. There's a mask in there too. Do you have to have a mask to enter this constructed world? Who is Flora? Yeah, it's very interesting. In a way, I tried to make it quite an intimate novel. In a way, although she's F or Flora and there are things we don't know about this mysterious figure, she's also the perspective character of the book and we're sort of under her skin quite literally at times. I tried to really bring bodily sensation and feel and intensity of mental construction into her how she's seeing the world. At the same time, she's sometimes F, sometimes Flora. That's not necessarily an explicit puzzle that can be solved. It's more done through feel. There isn't a secret why she's one or the other. It's more how I felt in the writing, which name it felt like she was the best living up to in the time and in the moment. It does change. I suppose it's how she feels, who she feels she is in that moment. If she's expanded to take that kind of Flora name, which Belladonna gives her as well, or is just a letter, just a kind of ghost making things happen. I think in art, particularly in some forms, songwriting for example, or certain types of writing, certain genres, there's quite a lot of value placed on perceived sincerity or honesty, authenticity we might say. I'd argue it's maybe not necessarily about the world of art or celebrity itself that's all about masks, but particularly it's about a psychological perspective on the layers that we tell ourselves. The narratives we tell ourselves and what we tell other people, multiple selves that exist inside of us. I suppose the point is you don't need to be the top of society, La Dame, Belladonna, to have secrets and to have a sense that there are multiple selves within you and who will you show yourself to be at any one moment to other people depending on. F is a thinker, she's a planner. She's kind of a bit of a schemer, although that sounds a little bit Del Boyish. It's much more like, how can I get what I want? What do I need to do? Who do I need to be to these people in order to get from A to B? I suppose that's sort of the psychological territory that we're in, really. I think it's also, F is on the surface, we think they're going to be an entry character for the reader, I suppose. Of course, they're the perspective character, they're the one we identify with, but she's also hiding from the reader a little bit as well. It's an invite, it's to have fun to enter this world where there is mystery, there are characters who know more than what they tell you. I suppose I've just tried to embody that quality as well as depicting it. I wanted that to be something that hopefully is tantalising to the reader in form as well as in content. It is very tantalising and I was intrigued by both characters, but I'm glad that now you've kind of introduced both of these principal women. I wanted to talk a little bit about the power dynamic between them because they come from different classes. Flora is basically a servant and Belladonna is dripping with diamonds. Why set up this particular power dynamic? Class is a particular issue here and the fact that Flora is a servant to someone who stands at the very top of the social ladder. The power dynamic and the basic power struggle between them was the whole reason to write the novel, to be honest. As I mentioned earlier, I alluded to Lady of the Camellias and I had an idea to do a kind of goth, poison-y version of that. We'll call her Belladonna, she'll wear the blackberries in her hair and that all came quite fully formed. It felt like an idea that could potentially make quite a creepy short story. Fine. The jealous lover arrives, she deals with him, the end. I didn't quite write it because somehow there was something missing. There wasn't quite a reason to write it. It didn't feel like I had everything that I needed. There was a point where I was just puzzling over one of those scenes, maybe her and Lucienne or something. I suddenly thought, wait, who's watching this? Who's seeing this happen? Suddenly, it was one of those rare thunderbolt moments. Well, you know how it is artistically. You have a bolt from the blue that's actually a decade in the making. I'm sure I'd already had this idea, probably. The perspective is that Belladonna has a close assistant. She has a close person or someone, a devotee, who idolises her and she watches this. Suddenly, the muscle of the story is the power dynamic, the power struggle between those two. Then the guy coming in is like, you know, that's just part of the job. What does our shift bring us today? Ah, it's a guy. Then the romantic story isn't the focus, but it's the friendship or the test, the tempestuous combination of dependence and subversion between those two women. In a way, making her a servant or a lower class just makes Belladonna's world even more unobtainable because then that's further that you also do it. Whenever you don't, you do. That's also a handy driver to talk about wanting and desire. The notoriety that Belladonna has and the fame she has makes her far more distant. When we first see her, she's literally on the top of the private box in the balcony and F is staring up at her from below. That's one of the first dynamics between them that we see. I don't think it's a spoiler to say F is looking at Belladonna throughout the entire book. I wanted F to set out to achieve something unobtainable. Having her background be from the printing press in that kind of world was a deliberate decision as well because I wanted the Belladonna. She's got a very famous signature. She signs her name with black purple ink. She's associated with fine art, with calligraphy, with, as you say, dripping with diamonds. There's a liquidity to her as well as beauty and jewelry and so on. Whereas F has come from working in a printing press is all about industrial technologies. It's about replication. It's about mechanical reproduction. We're deliberately putting letters to create a specific thing that you need, which is how F goes about navigating the world. In comparison, what she sees Belladonna doing, and of course this is F's perspective, what she sees Belladonna doing is all about glamour and relationship building and beauty and rehearsal and performance and liveness. F is much more thinking in terms of these little metal blocks.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"rose" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Of the FBI. She was held in custody for a year. During which time, the FBI and the military government under Douglas MacArthur conducted an investigation, interviewing hundreds of people, including the POWs that worked on her show. They also dug up hundreds of documents to see if she had committed any crimes. After a year she was released after the FBI and U.S. counterintelligence service, found no evidence of wrongdoing. However, this wasn't the end of her problems. Back in the U.S., the public led by newspaper columnist Walter Winchell, campaigned to have her tried for treason. In 1948, she was re arrested in Japan and returned to the U.S. to stand trial. And here I need to move the story from Japan to Germany. Because they too had their own version of Tokyo rose, known as axis Sally. Unlike Tokyo rose, which was a name given to many different people, there were not as many access sallies, and in particular, it was a very specific person. Mildred gillars. Gillers was born in 1900 in Maine. She was a vagabond for most of her life, moving around trying to make a go of it as an actor or a model. She eventually left the United States in 1929 to live in Paris for 6 months. In 1933, she left the United States again, going to Algeria to work for a dressmaker, and then landed in Dresden Germany to study music and teach English. In 1940, she got a job with German state radio as an announcer. In 1941, the United States advised all Americans to leave Germany. But by that time she was engaged to a German national who wouldn't marry her if she returned to the U.S.. When war broke out in late 1941, she couldn't go back if she wanted to. In 1941, Gilles was recruited into hosting a show called home sweet home, which had popular music and spent a lot of time telling soldiers how their sweethearts back home were being unfaithful to them. Her.
Rose Buddies
"rose" Discussed on Rose Buddies
"And thanks for your help your eddie. I'd like to hear your thing. It's going to be so quick and you're gonna laugh. Say what it is maybe not tank tops Really also all sleeveless shirts. This is a good con Concept some really wicked overrated. I actually realized that we have done a segment on raglan tease or baseball tease So really i just think that like you said emerge. No i think that stan yes. But i just don't like standard t shirt right wavelength. Yeah long. I want it long or nothing at all. Texas has really made me appreciate a sleeveless t I you know. I think maybe people feel like you know the tease for everyone. That's exactly how. I wanted to start this office. I just i never considered myself a tank top man. Because i thought like that's not that's not for me wasn't half stinking thinking. Yeah the second everyone is. Everyone deserves that. Everyone deserves that magic. Everyone deserves. Can i ask you stinking thinking. Is that going to be a new signature griffin maccarone expression like the mcelroy's have been saying that to some degree on podcast for a little bit. Now this i am. I may not have busted out in front of you before like that. Were there now. Yeah i feel. I finally feel comfortable. Yeah i like there. Is this preconception that you have to have like a particular armor particular lifestyle to where the sleeveless t and i say nay may everyone deserves it in in texas. Let's walk through the argument for a t-shirt okay. It's ninety eight degrees outside right now. Right yes and so you think i'm not gonna wear a long-sleeve shirt that would be too hot. I want more of my arm to be out some aware t shirt and that i would say why. Stop there i keep going. You got halfway there where you're like. It's too hot for sleeves. So i'm going to wear some sleeves. That sucks and the only thing keeping you from reaching out finishing the finishing the fight and going full measure is just is just because you think tank tops aren't for you. Here is the question. This is the ultimate test griffin. Macro would you ever cut the sleeves off of a shirt. And where it. No i but i. That's because i would trust the sort of sartorial expert forming the same way that i wouldn't so a garment for myself I have tut some lounge pants shorts and one time i did a pretty good job of it and the other time. I made what could be described as turbo chubby. That would give me banned from any social media platform. If i did coast picture myself wearing their So i don't think that i would be an expert at it is just like it's too hot for a long sleeve. Yeah so i gotta protect air out my forearm but like what about your by seven your armpit. Yeah i have thought a lot. About why like you. So much a sleeveless t. And i think a lot of it is that just seems like you're going to be a fun time guy that day. I think that the tank top suggests a certain amount of liberation. Like i see you. And i think like us. Can you could time with griffin today. Because you see my you see my pits and you think like if she is like not stressing that yeah then. He's not stressing anything. Because i really do think i mean it could be. Maybe you're not feeling great about the the attendance of your gun. Show right about the number of vendors showed up to your gun show. So that's why you haven't done it. But i really think it's the stigma of the of the pits guy. You just like nobody. Nobody can see these things. I wonder if you're consciously pulling back your short sleeve right now in an effort to i fucking hate de sleeves. I wanna burn every t shirt. Ione yeah maybe. I should cut this leaves off one of these. Let everybody know how it goes. There are different types of sleeveless shirts right. You have the tank top which has a larger head hole and all the holes are sort of reinforced with like a double stitch. That's different from a muscle shirt. Which is basically just a t shirt sleeves got cut. Bright off yeah. Okay sometimes a plunging plunging cut for the number that being challenging as a little kid because the armholes rose is too big guess. And i just felt like like who is this for those are that i'm not ready for that yet. I'm just sort of a tank. Top ten top oil tank tops by the way are named for tank suits which are old like swimsuits. One piece swimsuits from the twins. They're called maya does is the proper french term. I guess But they were called tanks. Because i guess back in the day swimming. Pools recalled swimming tanks. Which is oh. That doesn't work for me but it's like a one piece. You know what we would consider to be a very conservative one piece bathing suit which back then was like look at. Can you believe now. She's wearing tank suit. Who look at the look at those knees. So so that is where i mean. the tank. Top kind of resembles the top of the tank suit. And then you have the the ribbed cotton tank top that has a very offensive name all overseeing but apparently are also called a shirts which i didn't know referring to them without using the very offensive name that we all used for. It's interesting yeah. I just want to call that a tank top or a ribbed tank top I wore quite a bit of asia shirts. Not sort of ryan atwood fashion but underneath my hawaiian and bowling shirts that were set about. I mean they are. They are a standard under shirt for. I mean i remember back. In the day people used to wear undershirts a lot more. And i never really understood why i don't either i don't either. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maybe if you get hot you can dress down to it. Yeah one. I guess the look for a while was like the unbuttoned shirt over something all and that's still that's still poppin in a big way. I'm not going to get into the history of tank tops. Because it's basically the history of every other garment is popular. Now is like we're like this. It's hot less. Wear something different than like fucking marlon. Brando wore it in every movie. He was an regardless of the role. And then i that's all right and then in the seventies people like let's wear these things and in the eighties and nineties people like. Let's only wear these epa now. I feel like it's coming back. Because i feel like it. We people are just like me just realizing like is too fucking hot now. It's too hot to wear a t shirt that i don't like. Yeah what. I could just be free to be me and do what i want so i encourage you to to embrace that and just enjoy you. Yeah maybe you start to. This is actually griffin's introduction was kind of in in the novelty arena nearer. He got a tank top. I was kind of funny trip. It had an american flag design on it and then it said training to be goku. And then there's a picture goku doing push ups and then underneath is or at least crillon. I don't understand the second guy. I know who goku is. He's the big strong spiky hair. Man that does beams. Yeah but i don't anontello sure about mr caroline's body workout. I do understand it. Conceded the shirt but i wore that and i was like hey this is comfy and i wore it the next day and i was like fuck. Like tank tops. Yeah that's the thing like dip. You're telling you sam gonna get kind of an ironic thing and you never. It'll be like and that'll make you feel like you're not really committed. And then maybe maybe you spend more time. Maybe it's maybe. And i got some compliments on a tank top lara's wearing from some friends and that's enough to like that's it signed sealed delivered. I'm a tank top. That explains approach with henry. You were trying to get henry into tank top life and he was hesitant about it and you're like telling me looks good. Yeah no work was so self who really didn't wanna he's four years old like i feel like i don't look good in tank top. I wanted to be like your four your four years old. You can't feel that way about stuff like you're too young to be very early clarified. Why yeah we don't know if it's like an insecurity stigma of the pits like. I'm sure there's kids in his daycare. Whose leg i don't wanna see any pits. Because they get started so young now but the cruelty thanks to bow in august for our theme song. Money won't.
Rose Buddies
"rose" Discussed on Rose Buddies
"So and then. We talk about fashion. We're talking about like adidas with the three stripe pattern yell. Yeah that's been around since one thousand nine hundred twenty eight adidas. Yeah all day. I dream about. Soccer has been around since one thousand nine hundred twenty. Now wild have we is that the real acronym for it no. I don't think so. Think that's like middle school apocrypha. I'll have to google that layer. If that's something that like my friend. John in middle school told me and i thought it was the truth. I may not be and then we're talking about About the stripes. You see tommy hilfiger. Big on all man. I forgot about the red white and blue stripes. You know and i admit something. Yeah game boy. Color when i was young for like a birthday or something. Someone got me a a customizable face plate for it that you could snap on the front of the gameboy and came with like the acrylic paints that you could paint whenever you want it. And i did a red white and blue. Tommy hilfiger stripe pattern on it. Oh it's pretty cool so not patriotism. You're now you're tommy hilfiger. Now it was the only patriotism. I have is for the country of thomas figure and i wanted to talk a little bit about the lack horizontal versus vertical. Yeah you know. People say like vertical stripes are slimming. I put nothing behind. Yeah and it as as right. You shouldn't because it has been disproven Nine hundred twenty-five hermann von helm halts created the helm halts illusion which was two squares containing equally space stripes one vertical one horizontal To kind of identify whether you know the horizontal lines look taller and narrower. Okay and so. In that study it did suggest that the stripes did look no okay taller and thinner. They were i optical illusions sort of objectively. Yeah true for the most part. I was saying that like i have never looked at a shirt exact and looked at the layout of its stripes and gone That will change the shape of me. Yeah someone's eyes and maybe it does or doesn't but i could give a shit. yeah later. Research suggests that when you put stripes on body it does. It does nothing like it doesn't change the like. They did research to figure out whether it changed people's perception. I say that. I don't I don't own. I don't believe. I own any vertically striped shirts. But that's not it's not because of how it makes my body. They don't make sure it's like it's not. It's a strange and if they do sometimes you're in danger of of looking like a Like a barber and there's nothing wrong with that. I don't know how you got there. Trying to think. When i think of a vertical stripe i think of like the red and white the barber pole. Yeah you know. That's not a vertical stripe curly one. That goes that's right. That's okay that's right did. I don't think there is a cost tune. That has a vertical stripe on it necessarily. What about beetlejuice are those those were horizontal. I thought are they. I would have to look the man to find out. And sorry. I gotta google it. I'm not. I mean you could just says name a couple more time. Oh okay oh interesting. So the sleeves are horizontal. But the the torso is vertical. What go through mold breaker. God that beetlejuice too so funny. You do have vertically striped underwear. Now that i'm thinking about it. I do i do i do. And that's fine and it. It makes it makes your business. I mean all of it does look taller is own. Look like wicked tall. Yeah sure fisher fisher. Yes and that's my topic stripes. Hey it's good. Was it worth the wait. It was. I did have a full blown. Twenty four hour periods topic. And i appreciate the legwork. That went into it. I think in the annals of history people are going to look back on this episode is one. We talked about falling water and the design of stripe and a hard hitting episode. No what's it their most momentous. One no was the one that they had exactly about thirty minutes. Between the course of two entire earth days to record yes no. But i do appreciate stripes makes you think I just i think we both were a of stripes. And i think it's great. I think it is too. I think it is to also like a polka dot. But i didn't look into that. Oh then i that. I don't know what about a floral pattern. Afford to talk about our favorite patterns on clothes Thank you for listening. Thank you to bow in augusta's for us right theme song..
Rose Buddies
"rose" Discussed on Rose Buddies
"Hi this is rachel mcelroy hello this is griffin mcelroy and this is wonderful and right now we are traveling through the airwaves and a pretty unusual ads which is to say by the seat of our pants. We were just sitting downstairs. Just got little sun down for a nap. Big star daycare again today. Now little sun fun thing about him only sleeps in about twenty minute. Increments talked about this but that is to say we now know that we live our lives twenty minutes at a time and so we're going to be recording this episode probably into chunks for the rest of fast and the furious fast and furious. I have my topic prepared. Rachel does not not. Have you considered the possibility that this is going to be a freakishly long nap. And then we're just going to be sitting here and you're going to be like having a free style topic for the first i m wondering so there there's a real sliding doors situation where there's the topic i would have prepared starting goodness. Yeah now. there's the topic that. I will repair in response to around at shit in the room. Know whatever your topic is. I got a lot of great stuff in my office. So if you see you know Brugh brugh name tags. Nintendo three s charger. That i have out for some ceiling fans ceiling fan. We love him. Then if that's what we do this episode. That's what we do. This episode people are getting down thirty stuff from wonderful this month and they know what they signed up for. This is wonderful show. We're talking about things that we like things that we are into and we literally just ran up the stairs. I'm a little gassed as they say. Do you any small i do. Oh i was going to make sure that we we did that. Segment okay has been wanting to bring this for weeks. And i keep forgetting and it is and this is something that only people that have been around. Small infants will. Yeah it's getting that fuzz out from in between the fingers in my god. It's i mean if okay if you don't have children. I'm gonna get nasty here but sometimes you get some stuff out of your belly button. And it's like whoa. That was a lot of stuff in there. I don't know maybe this is just a me thing. But it's the same thing except child has what eight eight of those crevices in their hands alone. All that's good. So little babies keep their fists clench very often especially when they're full of rage and hatred like are small and so sometimes when they stretch their fingers out. You can get some wolf close out. Can there is the most satisfying 'cause it's a lot man. It's a lie and it regenerates. Every day instantly i don't know it's like he's grabbing garments and squeezing into some raking his thing fingers across the. Wow and all that time. I really should have had something. But i didn't this fair you got excited about the finger fuzz. There was an indian restaurant we used to eat at here all the time in austin and it was very reliable very fast everything was pretty tasty and then i think that we both give food poisoning like or just you mean as i remember it was just me you got some of the worst food poisoning from you and we said no never again we've been burned and i was not a joke three four years ago. I just like i couldn't i couldn't get excited about it. Yeah because you've seen it from both sides now. Jim mitchell says and favorite favorite song. Yeah about getting sick with indian food but you know what this week took a look in the mirror. We said you know what maybe it's time to open our horseback dietary restrictions that rotate around dairy. And soy you start looking at cuisines. That are more accessible to you and indian. Food is a great option at right now so We both went. Wow we both got two entrees each to over the course of like a whole week. I just finished mine. And i think if that is like a travis mcelroy tip that i did not exercise until very recently married into our family. Yeah do you. Want to know what i've prepared for you. My for this episode is he's waterfalls just the song although i could do a whole thing about the song it is Your favorite tlc song griffin has performance. I have it used to be one of my. It was a karaoke go to for a while. I did it a couple times at an open mic. yes i am. Yeah like a very spirited performance you give. Yeah one of those like winky like. Can you believe i'm singing this song. It's like no. I gotta butte like the look of it is great and the versus goes some very interesting and dark places. Might i add fair. But no i wanna talk about the actual water the thing the water thing this water feature that makes it sound like a thing you have in your front yard. I couldn't find like the classification of it's not a body of water. it is. it's a it's just when water kind of falls and that can mean a lot of different things because there's a lot of different types of waterfalls but it's just like i think we can all agree a nice big mountain. Love it a big canyon. I've never been to the grand canyon. But i've seen some canyons. Before i love good kenyon or a gulch with a river running through it falls. I've not even been to the big boy. Now that's the biggest boy. I know you've been there right. It's kind of place that your parents would just kind of spirit you'll for sure. Yeah no. I've never been to. I would say the most majestic waterfall. i've seen probably ruby falls in chattanooga Which is an indoor cavernous waterfall. That best beginning to a country song ruby falls chattanooga just the word chattanooga at her new is fantastic. It was fine. It was a fine trip. I remember. I took home a lot of fake gemstones from that trip. My nani took me is a great time at ruby false but there are far more majestic if you live in chattanooga this your beloved waterfall but there's better ones out there but any waterfall. I love and the segment wasn't inspired by some profound waterfall childhood. Memory that i have although living in west. Virginia one of my great regrets is that i was not more nature because there's a lot of great hiking in west virginia obviously and a lot of great water false that i found while looking looking up this segment we'll say at some point in our relationship griffin expressed his shock to me that i had never been whitewater rafting expressed to me that it was a very easy thing to come by where you lived. Yeah i mean. I only did it a few times. But every time it left an indelible impression on me just like i need to be more outdoorsy because this fucking rules and dies. Why whitewater rafting is kind of like going over. A bunch of really small waterfalls. If you think about it sometimes you go for a big waterfall. But i was never good enough to do that anyway..
Other People's Shoes
"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"And let me tell you maybe twenty twenty one needs to be your blooming moments. Let that be your challenge. This week is how can you bloom. And how can you grow where you're planning to let me know how that goes you. You can reach out to us. Of course it oh. Ps podcast dot com right. There just hit that connection. Let me know what you do. Hit me up on. Instagram hit me up on facebook twitter. I don't care. I want to know if you took this challenge seriously. And if you're really gonna blossom and grow into the rose that you were created to be because we all have this fragrant see about us. It's up to us whether we want a stink. We want to smell. So i'm just saying let them be your lesson this week and again. Just remember this when you walk in other people's shoes you really do get a different perspective on life. One rain again one more time guys stay tuned till next week when we walk in other people's shoes you so much for joining us in other people's shoes as you know i'm your host hosting matthews. Wanna thank bring one more time for coming on. Isn't she just amazing. And if you're wondering more about her book please right now. Go checkout folks that i love. Podcast dot com. You can't miss it and telling you cover gonna grab you. It's going to entice you might even caused you to pick it up and maybe read it so if you want to know more about that of course checkout our show notes we've course list olive rina's information in our show notes of how you can get in touch with her and how you can get yourself a copy of her book and if you want to hear more about what she's doing please jump over to youtube and just search raina rose tv. You can find her there over on youtube. Pretty cool stuff speaking of cool stuff. I wanted to give you a little sneak. Peek of next week's episode. In fact here it is now and we printed money. You know we did well but then we lost everything when the market crashed. Because i did not listen to my mentors. And i was squatting in a household literally homeless house with my dog and then i get a call that my little brother stuck a gun can kill themselves so i lost a lot with my life in my thought process and whatnot and fill abandoned and luckily somebody handed me a book by andy andrews travelers gift and kids the business parallel the andrews christian comedian fantastic book and it just really started applying those principles so that is right next week. We're going to be sitting down with the one. The only scott ferguson. And let me tell you next week is going to be your time to shine. You're going to hear more about that next week. What that means until you right now. You think will scott ferguson. Long enough you're going to just shine. It's just going to happen. I know guarantee may pending but but anyway join us next week as we sit down as i said with scott ferguson but until then just know this. I really want to connect with you. So how can you do that. There's really two best ways to do that if you wanna drop us a line in on our connections. Ups podcasts dot com. Click on connections. Drop me a little note in there. If you don't like to write things which. I get it from time to time. We don't want to write things. Doubt me little voice memo or voice message you can do that also straight from west website oprah's podcast dot com an until then remember this. Remember when you walk in other people's shoes you really do get a different perspective on life. Join me right back here next week as we walk in other people's shoes..
Other People's Shoes
"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"So do you want to offer to. Please go on my youtube. Raina rose tv There are one minute meditations as well as guide into contempt of prayer. That's about one's about ten minutes. But he you can often us a one minute meditation. That can just kind of guides you towards listening One minute before you go into the house after a long day at work where you're frustrated and you don't wanna take that allowed on your wife and kids or husband kids you can use at one minute as you're transitioning into the office one minute as you just before you go into prayer so that you're praying with the heart of god into there's a few one minute meditations on their kids to look or if you're interested in what contempt prayer looks like which is more of a listening to god been the testing of god. That's there as a resource. Because i think god wants us to listen to amazon wishlist. Like here you go. God like to say i still. My prayers used to be a laundry list of my problems to god and then telling him how to fix them and now it's a lot more listening that okay. This is the desires of my heart. This is what. I'm feeling seeing hearing right now. Where do i go with this. Well i'm not trying to make fun of your name by any means but put being queen right you have to be royalty. You're listening. God the queen. You're the king. Let me just go ahead and do this. Free knock yourself out so anyway. So serena how can people get the book because we're going to link it. You don't know this is a you. We're gonna leak in on books that we love right on our website. So right now go there right now opium. Podcasts dot com. Click on books. That i love and it's going to be right towards the top right underneath that amazing book called carolina way. Just down a little ways. You'll see rain his book there. You can't miss it because the book cover by the way begs for somebody. That's what intrigued me about it. Too by the way talking about looking at the outside cover in the book by its cover. I did that fully. But how competing going through that. If they don't want to go to our website for some weird reason what touch on one thing is the queen got causes to reign in life and christ calls errors co heirs with him so we are truly all called to be Kings and queens in christ right and again that's not a lord over people kind of king and queen that is a god's kingdom in this is the section of his kingdom that he's called me to serve and show ver- and beat the shepherd of frightened. We don't have to be passwords to be a shepherd. We're we're sheep. End shepherd all at the same time and so again we are. And that's something i think has gone. lifted me to hear. Be this clean. It's also show other people how to be kings because that's what called them. Stu what we're reign in life and that means all the days of our lives and so yeah you can go to amazon. Get the book but make sure you go to a podcast website. Because i'm really excited to just be on this list of books that you love and yeah the cover. I'd love to you if you want to. Just reach out to me on instagram or on my website websites. Raina dash rose dot com and instagram is rain arose. Tv that's my across all the social platforms. But he know. What did you think of the book cover. What did you think as he started going through the book. Because i love hearing that feedback because the book was really designed to attract the lever non-believer right someone who wouldn't necessarily read a book that says develop a new heart. Jesus asked tougher questions than that. So i really excited to hear your feedback. Because i knew that if you listen to a show like this that you haven't a deep part for the real things of life and life abundantly well at least that's our hope right. I think so. Listen to a couple of eps. We strive for that. Well i say we. It's it's really just me and my little friend leaning over here. My my green garden gnome somewhere in greece. Exactly green exactly right leave. Make sure i have some green. I needed green north carolina shirt. That's on amazon wishlist. So if anyone out with that let me know. All right so serena your fantastic came on love that you gave us a moment. Say it would not be a great episode without playing. Are amazing game called senseless so here we go five senses. You're aware of that. I hope right okay. You know that we have those five senses okay. So you're that fitness space. You've done some nutrition stuff so really hope that so five senses and then sixth die in here and you can see the die because we're zooming is the wildcard. So let's see what you get in the famous north. Carolina cup has a lot of carolina. Step in here. All right here we go. I love it when this happens. So i'm not cheating. What numbers that. When casey she. I didn't even tell her like your guys are like you melt to her what to say not cheating at my own game. Stop emailing me dummy. That i'm jeanie and my own game so hero senseless question number one. Is this how. And i think you've answered this but but maybe more succinctly how do you want others to see you maybe your legacy or you know when all things are said and done what would be said about you. That people would be able to see about you. She loved. and why is that so important. It may sound cliche. That jesus when you know the greatest commandment to love. God love others. That really does some up again like you said. Sometimes we're christian and christianity get so watered down and even honestly when i was making my journey back to christ at prodigal point in my life i couldn't use the word jesus because it was just so cliche people like jesus loves you. I don't hear the pamphlet you know. What would jesus do. Jesus christ so you know. But if i have loved that is christ that is god that that is what god is love and so you know not necessarily that they were say. She's a christian that she loved. Jesus that just that she loved. She loved People and the and the that inspired others to love to. I think that's i like lifelong goal is to him him being god And to make him known yeah. And i think if i do those two things i feel like i've i feel like there's a sense of purpose in my life. And i think there's a sense of fulfillment and doing those things. Yeah and the only way to do that is through being love and being you know as we think about that. Breath breathed into us. That is where we get to be the love of christ because we are breathed into by that very breath. I love that a lot so arena. Thanks so much for coming on of course really appreciate it. Thank you so much for. Having me has been just a joy in an honor and i'm looking forward to listening to more episodes. Well thank you. I do appreciate that just word. Remind you of this as close out today. Guys and gals alike is. Ask yourself this question. I know i've been seeing it a lot this this season. But but how do you see yourself and how do you see others around you and really dig into that question. Really ask yourself. Who am i and who do i wanna be. We just sat with an amazing young woman. Who says you know what. I've not going to allow that old me to to continue to be defeated to continue to be broken. No in fact not only. Am i going to rise like a butterfly and i know that sounds weird and you probably got lost a little bit there but but hang with me but there's a power in when the rose finally comes into bloom.
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"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"A change of heart which i think. Last time i checked. You can't buy that on amazon or ebay on that. Maybe there's another website that i'm not aware of that. You could buy the book on amazon. So while you're there shop stop on over to buy a new heart the shopping cart so i'm curious about this because you've talked about got a couple of times right you've talked about know. It sounds like your kind of pretty rooted in maybe the bible. I don't want to say christianity. By the way my least favorite word i think is kind of starting to turn into christianity agree. I'll tell you. What the book because christianity. Actually if you're bible scholar so if you're not let me help you out three times. It only appears three times in the entire bible. Now i want to challenge you not you but those listening and maybe you. I don't know if you wanna take the challenge. It's up to you. But how many times is word disciple appear in the. that's great. i'll give you a hint. It's way more than three. Just saying so if i was gonna ask you that like who do you say jesus is to you and i wanna i wanna follow up with just one last question to you so you know. It's so funny because every question you asked me like there is one answer for this is just. It's even more than the shoes you know. It's funny because i i keep a journal. And that's the thing. I encourage people to do. And you'll see. I mean father obviously for god but like for jesus you know you'll see lord lover of my soul you know my good good father for god and of course like this triune god. I feel like separating father son holy spirit because sometimes feed very a little bit of a challenge. But so it's like maybe the easiest answer. If i could give one answer very breath i breathe and i've heard a lot amongst described in holy spirit in spearation is inspiring is breathing into and that as long as we still greet breath and you think about that original clay figure. God breathed his breath into that. Would probably if i had to say one thing. He's my make very breath. The every breath that i could breathe in may in the spearation for everything i do. I love asking that question. Because i never know the answer. That someone's going to give like. I have my own answer. But these aren't my serious you know and so So what's mine so mine is. I tr- i'm trying to make it sink because i could go all day right. Jesus is my everything. He's my lord. He's my savior would say my lord and my god so savior same thing. I think jesus i don't think i know jesus and god they're one in the same right like jesus is god. I heard this said years ago. When i was in youth group god in a bod earth right. So that's that's that's jesus. Jesus in god one in the same now we can get into the trinity and all that and that gets complicated and we don't have time for all that but i will. I will say this that a friend of mine. Recently he is in texas and he has a podcast called. Come to the table. He's doing some other pockets now but he turned me onto this word. And i never heard it before this way and it was messiah messiah. It's a and it is the breath and it's talking about. And i have another friend who has a podcast called the air that i breathe and she talks about this spiritual breath that she has taken away her secular breath and giving her this new spiritual breath and to me. That's awesome because i think there's a lot of us out there especially with covert quarantine probably pretty stanky just saying so that new spiritual breath that i think you're talking about so last question and then i wanna give you an opportunity to tell us where we can get the book. I mean i have some ideas but you probably have better ideas so now i know you're in that flagstaff area and so we're going to just pretend that we're kind of in arizona. Because i i love arizona never been there but back in two thousand seventeen this little arena. It's not so little. Maybe you've heard of it state farm stadium. You've heard of that maybe okay. So do you know the capacity of state farm arena by chance. Not a clue. So i googled it. Just so we're safe so it's the doctor google says. Are you know jeeves. Ask jeeves back in the day. But google says capacity is at seventy eight thousand six hundred people a lot of people. Yeah back in two thousand seventeen kitchen. Wondering carolina won a national championship. There begins ida great gangs and watch it on youtube. But but i'm curious like if we put you fifty yard line because the cardinals play there to on colonels. If we put you fifty yard line and i hand you this. Microphone that i'm talking into right now and i say rain. A you've got the stage you got all these people here like i said sixty eight thousand six hundred people fifty yard line. What do you tell them You know. I think our take a moment of silence and not a moment of silence to more than anything or anything sincerely but a moment of silence to allow the creator of all things to speak to your heart to stop all the incoming information for just a few minutes and allow the one that created your breath that created your thoughts that created your body to speak to you because i believe and i would say this on the fifty yard line. I believe that. That being god jesus all in one in up in the sky now up in heaven is always speaking to us yet. We have so much noise. I'd been actually an because. I am in la the moment commuting the ambulances and things going by outside either. There's so much noise though What we have to do what we wanted to do. Everything that we're striving for that we don't silence and listen to that still small voice that has so much to tell us and that gives us gifts we didn't have to strive for and when we listen to that voice. That's where all the joy comes from. And so i wouldn't be quiet. Allow people to listen to that voice. So let's do something. Let's put your your. Let's put your principle into practice right now. So i'm gonna. I'm gonna go ten seconds and you and i are just going to sit here for ten seconds quietly and i'm gonna leave this into the episode but let's let's see if we can do it ready here. We go believe it or not. That was ten seconds. And i bet for some of you. You fast forwarded. Pass that you're like what what just happened. Just quit talking. The renegades is good talking what happened there like the. Did you have a malfunction. No that was just ten seconds. Now imagine if you took that ten seconds and you times it continued to build on that and every day for weeks straight. You said okay. I'm going to minute would just silence. I'm going to do two minutes five minutes. I mean do ten minutes and then maybe you work up to an hour of silence. I can't imagine being my my the way my mom would think it would be a miracle from god if i could be quiet and stay for an hour not sleeping but.
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"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"Mean tiny brain a means queen. And sometimes i wanted to retreat back into being melissa. But it's like god called me to be this clean and not in like over people kind of quaint the servant clean. That is like okay. I have a responsibility for the community. God's called me to an. I need to take that responsibility seriously. Because this is the kingdom this is his kingdom and he's entrusted me with this part of the kingdom and so it's been challenging and it's mostly challenging right now and i've seen the rewards coming in. I see like sometimes when people will say. Hey you know. I read your book and all this guilt and shame. Lifted off of me. And i. I was feeling guilty and shameful to walk in purpose. Got has given me but now that this lifted i'm walking mic purpose again. Thank you so much for reading this book and exert. It's it's not coming through in dollars at this woman. But i have to see the fruit where it is and god i know you continue to provide is still have savings still in walking called me to. We would have gone back. Save asian because that's always been like my cash cow I did it once during this time twice but the second time he was god almost audibly said. If you don't go where i've called you going to end up in the belly of the whale keep walking what it calls you too. Okay got it. Did you lose your job when he when you turn up losing your job to me. That's at good time. And that's a reality still for a lot of jobs like private flight attendant. You know where you're my my actual boss. He didn't have to do with the company. Like letting me go instead of the a little bit. But major loss was fabulous in them but in general that kind of job hostesses and whatnot. They deal with this. Like i just have to put up with this or i'll be out of job right and there's an i report it shirt. I could say the right thing but it's not going to benefit me to do that. Notation should guy girl denman so you talk about the name change which by the way neal means champion. Those you know. My daughter's name is avia aid. Eia and her name comes from swat healy and also the sarah mclachlan's song this hour. We got it stopped writing about that but but her name in swahili means gift from god. So there you go. And i don't know my wife's name is elizabeth. I don't i don't know what elizabeth means but in my mind means queen because she is my queen. So was that really like your biggest aha moment for. You was the name change. Was recognizing that you know you're walking into kind of royalty this again not the lording over royalty but your royal princess queen like you've been bestowed upon this. I think of esther. Like when i was reading over your stuff and it was very brief by the way on the website. I love that you more of an explanation. But when i was reading over that i kept hearing. Esther like the story of esther. She's called to save the people from genocide. Her name even gets changed then and so when i was reading over that i was just thinking about that so it was that your aha moment or was there another one Just touching on esther. It's funny you say that. Because i actually one of the things i like to do to stay. Grounded is go to benedictine monasteries. And just hang out in silence and maybe mentor with amongst one of the days in one of the fathers isaiah in the new camaldoli hermitage in big services. One of my favorites. That was what. I actually was there when i came down. This last time was right. Lockdown hit in california and it was like as soon as i came down the hill My flown started blowing up that were locked down and he had said you know. I think all that you're doing right now is for such a time as this and you know he was quitting this from esther and but you have to remember a lot of these bible stories. They really scary in the middle. We all know the end and so it's like. Oh yeah you know esther people you have to remember esther could have been killed for simply coming in and the nouns. She's literally putting her life on the line to she's asking people to pray and fast for her and it all turns out good in. That's one thing that As i go through this tiny but now where what we rely on as capitalistic members of society. No money grit again. I don't wanna go through all that savings. I like god. You know like when's the this could start coming in But trusting that every time through about my story he has come in in an exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all i can hope or imagine kind of fashion and so right now as far as i'm working on projects that i believe will be fruitful. I know that if it's not this it will be something beyond this that it had ever imagined and it will be painful until that heads but it will comment. I will be faithful to complete it. And i know that and just like the israeli would sing about how guide you know. Free them from the egyptians in he part of the red season to give him out in the desert and how he provided through throughout that whole exodus time. I encourage people that i coached a couple of people. In thi i do myself. I encouraged myself to sing. And repeat you know god brought me to chile and taught me spanish and god brought me. You know to houston. Give me this amazing job of my dreams and end. Bless me beyond hope. Imagine finally sponsor that orphans. i had always wanted to sponsor. And god did this for me in reminding myself that right before. He gave me not job that i was living as billionaire. Lifestyle sponsoring worship. Doing all this stuff. I loved. I was like disney princess throwing myself on a bed weeping that how in the world that i moved houston. I've never never been here. Had no money left you know. It was just literally weeping among friends. Met ahead a towel. So i wouldn't get wet and that was the moment before the miracle and so i want to encourage anyone out there listening. Who maybe is in that moment before the miracle or even feeling like they're just done and they're not even going to hope for a miracle anymore that that's normal. We the darkest before dawn is often true and those miracles really do com And it's it's okay to be in distress. you know. i kind of mentioned the other data a friend. It's like you know if you were the israelites. leaving egypt. Add your the red sea and it has not parted yet and those chariots are getting closer. And you're like you would be the what i am sometimes to god. What the heck knows did bring us out here to be killed by the by egyptians instead and is that last minute. The seas parted in. If it wasn't at the last minute then the egyptians would have been consumed by because they would have seen it closing up and so like god uses all things and we can rest in that and know that he's always faithful and the you know it's in it's also okay.
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"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"The only person who are up to me at my identity was me me trying to fit that mold that i wasn't created to fit when you say you weren't created if it what do you mean by that i think you know we're we're also unique and so one of the things i talk about in my book is that i don't rap. The answer is a nice in a box. Pretty bo for people. Because i can't answer your spiritual questions. You can give some basics but it's mostly questions how people to ask themselves a question really gets to their own bedrock of fate and finding god in a way that's meaningful and in its very template And so i really do believe like guys we all have different. Fingerprints are the are all different even if they look similar. We're we are all unique and we have all been knit together in a very different mold and so when we're trying to be like someone else or look like someone else or take someone else's identity that's mold we're not created to fit in so even you know when i was singing and someone say you know you're going to be the next celine dion or win. I'm you know doing tv. You're next oprah's now. I'm wanting to be the first rose you know i'm the only rain arose it because this was the mold i was created for the things that are a my heart. Those purposes are unique. Or gunman have made me placed me on this planet. I think that's the stereotype right. Is we immediately see somebody. Whoever it may be. We think i'm going to go be that person. I'm going to be the next in my case growing up. It was michael jordan right. I'm gonna. I'm gonna put on those air jordans i'm going to be the next michael jordan or maybe in a ladies case perhaps they see cinderella all i need to do is find that glass slipper and the principal show up. And i'll get all this stuff. And and i'll be taken care of and it's like but that's not who you are and i again going back to it and maybe you're saying this is that we have to we you made me. We'll just stick with us. You and i have to identify the fact that we are not somebody else. We have to be right. And i know for you. I read on your your website. You had something unique happen to you your name. If we're being truthful wasn't always rain withholding that you're lying by any means because you're not the way i said that was like i'm not lying. She'd really his rain rosie's legally rose but didn't always identify and that even sounds like weird whole nother. A whole 'nother topic right right for you. You aren't always renew. Rose your parents when you came out of the womb and they wrote on your birth certificate. What did they right right. So i'm talking about situation so it actually. It's a longer story than i. Even put on the website and i'll share with your audience a little bit so when i was in my late twenties they started delving a little bit into contemporary prayer. And i was and just being more thoughtful Just a little bit. But it's still very honestly selfish. I was You know just greedy broke all the time and just looking to grasp onto whatever i could and you know really self conscious. I just hadn't developed Human and so i remember was driving back from somewhere at one point end god placed on my hurt really strong. I'm making you a queen and everything you're about to go through is to make you kind Generous humble and gentle queen. And i remember you know twenty six or something and my god. That's weird. that's the thing that's weird. Like what do you mean. You're making me a queen. You know like i said it was all these things that were not kind gentle humble generous and so that was you know ten plus years prior to my name change and so after that my brother died after that winter a lot of things that really did. Give me a busy Made me generous. You know kinder gentler to myself and other people always such a hustler pusher. I was going to get these things done. And it's still in a sense. But i'm gentler with myself and others now i can accomplish things in grace without striving and i still have to keep myself in check but go down the line on that job just traveling around the world having this amazing lifestyle and there was one of the pilots that worked on the plane who i knew going into the job but i didn't have enough self respect to be honest to even You know saying anything. And so i knew that the last girl got fired for standing up to the sky and so when he was abusive to me when he'd say hey you're a s is hungry. It's eating those pants at work right at work or you better hurry up and get married and have kids because you turned thirty five year. Ovaries shrivel up and die. And i'm like thirty three all this constantly providers all the time. Just you're eating me. You know and i just. I would go to my room cry but it wouldn't say anything because melissa plates mom elicited when eliza job melissa didn't want to make waves but finally five years later after been singing under raina for a long time i had been writing on travel articles under raina I finally stood up so of course like it finally reported him to the company knowing that i would probably get fired because it's easier to replace a flight attendant is a pilot and so But i said you know what melissa paint small but right now stands for justice even in the face of loss. And if i can't stand up for justice in the face of losing a job how stand up for justice in the face of nations or whatever god calls me to the future and so there was no choice but to go in do what was right. Say what had been going on and and take the loss because of it you know and honestly i have been doing some of my own business things that thank god. I save less me a lot of money in that job but for almost two years. Now i haven't been working in that industry. I've taken just a couple of fights here and there and been working on a book and stuff which isn't really a big money maker but it's definitely fruitful in other ways that god has blessed to be fruitful You know it was a huge hit and it really hit my identity of being someone who is i have to be radically generous in other ways than money right now and it was just so easy when i was making tons of money you to sponsor the orphanage and to bring people in their kids disneyland. Because i knew they couldn't afford it but i could. You know like it was really easy to be generous with money and now in having to find other ways to be radically generous whether that's like having people on my show in promoting their business or i created this summit cove with eighty five speakers and people could come in to learn how to get their business online or cope with Tragedy in hard times and so on. It's really been a challenge to be raina like to step into that. Queen is melissa..
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"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
"Know them now and pay more attention. But i wasn't paying attention to that as a kid. I was always paying attention to how they made me feel what they said. What we talked about. I think the reason why asked that question is because right. Now i'm in the series of you. See me now. The flip side of that right is somebody's like well. Are we talking about you. Neil are we talking about how we see you know. No we're talking about your of my guess. Hopefully this idea like again if we were to to bump into each other maybe on first class plane ride or you know maybe in this private jet. I don't know how i got on the private jet. Maybe because it's awesome. Because i can't even imagine being on a private jet and like i don't even have a concept of that. I couldn't either when i i. I actually put this on a vision board like five five years before i got the job had and i was just like you know this stuff works. I'm going to go back and look private jets and yachts and all this stuff on the vision board like whatever if this works. I'm going to put it all up there. And you know i didn't own the things like i was kinda thinking in my mind but i got to be paid to flam private jets all the time and go to chose all the stuff that i like. Got to live vicariously this billionaire life. And so you know it's funny you say how would i get on it and it's like we never know how god works even the most. We might consider shallow dreams. Like god's i care about the things you care about and i'm going to have a packaging experience that it's be awesome. Well i keep hoping you know. North season tickets to show up in my mailbox. Or maybe even fedex to me but you know as of yet maybe there's facility. Who knows but. I go box seats to go. Tommy my numbers on the website. I see that. Because i think so. Many times as people write music people or me as a person us a person we see somebody would look at them and we immediately do usually in my mind one of two things we start judging or we start trying to figure out who they are like who they are really like this person like you were talking about their energy as some even say. I don't know if you but but this this kind of how they are their countenance their body language. All the stuff. Like i spend most of my days on a telephone and so i'm hearing somebody's voice and based on their voice based on what they're telling me i'm making judgments and assessments on what they're telling me and so that's why for me being actually visually being able to see somebody and of course in this pandemic post pre whatever we are who knows i think to me finally seeing somebody for who they really are is been such a value to me in trying to learn that and discern that and figure that out. So that's why asset questions so interesting you say that because you know as i talked about you could really think many different things to me based on my clothing and shoes and things i have a friend who is she does all the cooling for tv shows and she also a style consultant and she says that statistically people will some new up in four seconds before even looking at your face so they will look at your shoes. Your close your jewelry. Whatever you have on before they've even got in your face four seconds. They made an assumption about you. Know how much money you make what you do in life. How competent you are all kinds of which may or may not be true on some people you know. There's a reason we God's given us a a mind that can process analyze but it is interesting that because within four seconds before even looking at someone's face and we made some sort of a judgment and it doesn't mean we can't go back and say maybe my judgments wrong but we do. We make those judgments this just human so. Have you ever see yourself doing that. Because i'm wondering about this like for me when i meet people for the first time. This is what i noticed. I noticed two things. First thing on notices is so you hit as you said you know you. Don sure is second thing i was look at. Actually it's usually flip-flopped. I look at your shoes. I get your eyes. And i don't know why do that and i think well before your show. Yeah i did. And i think part of it so let me restate that. I think part of the reason why started doing that. I was obsessed and still am. I think everyone on the planet pricey in this movie but shawshank redemption towards the end of the movie. If you haven't seen that many record for you. I don't know how you haven't seen it but you're probably under iraq summer but towards the end of the movie the main character andy to frame is walking through. You know the prison as he's getting ready escape and he's wearing the warden shoes and he showed him up real nice and polish them all nice and pretty and nobody notices his shoes. Morgan freeman is actually narrating that scene. And he goes. I mean really. How often do you pay attention to a man shoes the minute i heard that i'm like you know what life declaration. I'm gonna pay attention to people's shoes. And that was way before the podcast like way before i even know was inspired by my wife to start the podcast and sue me. There's value in seeing somebody shoes. Little did i know what it was gonna obviously blossom into so i was wondering if you've ever really noticed anyone shoes that's all you notice people's shoes you got shoes or shoes i again. I like fashion. So i noticed a little bit of everything particularly particularly there somewhere. I grew up in a british school. So there's somewhere still like trump say in american lists. Yeah like literally. I usually say literally like just not thinking but anyway it particularly if someone has really really cares about their like he can tell them put it together and they didn't just throw on sweats in the house. That's when i'm probably more prone to really look at shoes. you know they. They spent time putting this together. And i want to recognize the art which they made in their health. I think that's fun and at the same time sometimes. I like to go out in the house in some tennis shoes and a hat. Yeah i we could talk shoes all day. So i'm curious about this for you and i don't know i don't know if this is a true statement or not because i don't know i don't know you. We don't know each other but i'm just curious about this from a standpoint who or what has robbed you of your identity robbed me. Yes correct rob you of your identity. Well you know. I'd say probably the only person who could truly rob me by my identity would be me myself. You know so growing up in brunei so my my dad was a pilot on these private jets when i was a kid and he flew for the sultan of brunei which before bill gates. This sultan of brunei was the richest man in the world. And so i actually went to the international school on the other side of the world princesses and the cool thing was Although the princesses traveled with two bodyguards at peace there wasn't this huge distinction between like she was a princess and this person is indian persons asian in that percents white in their muslim christian. In there it was all very celebrated in this international school. Your differences and had kind of outdated late eighties clothes and it had like my pink skirt with black polka dots and leggings and socks. Like probably two pairs three pairs of socks and so nobody else had that but it was cool because that was me and i was from where i was from it and then i moved back to orange county california. And if you've ever seen that show like orange county housewives or anything like that is you fit into this tiny mold that everybody else. We all look the same. We listened to say music. And it was actually. It was shoes. If you're not wearing congress. He can't senate arledge table for the first time in my life differences were not celebrated. They were actually ostracized for having any differences. And i had never experienced that in trying to fit into that. You know when i was a kid and the molded had were these chemicals in these kind of shoes. You know actually did go out and get those like those blue fans with the on your show with stripe utah and because there was a lot of surfers skaters in the school. And i think.
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"rose" Discussed on Other People's Shoes
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"rose" Discussed on The Radio Show
"I don't have to make eye contact as it ever happened to you. Were you made eye contact with the person while you were closing you and be like. Oh no sorry this. Just pretend you can't figure out which is pretty much the next one. There's like four elevators on this hallway. The elevators to six elevators yet but it was the only elevator in the awful. Because there's always the slow elevator came minutes again. I'm like oh well shooting quicker than that. So for me elevator. Somebody come in I would actually break my hand hitting in the close button. I'm trying to kill that thing. As fast i can pre rhone opposed ronan during the rhone on president thing is fast fuck glow and i might do thing that she's thereof. Sorry my bad. I m close but is we're not a bad person but don't add me on that when i'm closing that door. People like their space. I get it. Yeah they they take the stairs assault. Maybe they need to exa locally later. Maybe they might not know maybe new. I used to take the stairs. Incorporate eleven flights every day and then what if people used to kind of make fun of me about it like oh there she does say stairs right in the we literally had a bomb threat at work everybody had to leave on the stairs gifts. Who could go down the stairs and guess how many people were like the there. We were walking for. Is there pausing on the stairs. They breathing head going down the stairs. Only down the stairs people's did not go down the stairs. Thousand oaks is down. it should be easy. Excuse me excuse me. Because they were just like out of breath and everything in distance. Fast any and everything he didn't matter. These people were struggling. That was my service to society by closing elevator door. I was hoping somebody shaved to get ready for that. Fire drill so in that case our hero another horrible jersey to put on the back of the wall. Not that off right now. I'd say you somebody who is a hero for african got.
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"rose" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Saw in concert. It was completely insane. Beautiful constant set. Before i forget. I gotta say one for us. Three yup great. So let's talk a bit my bet the video because it's incredible. You had some great friends help you with that other than john angles of a you had your whole me Brandon primer. Your best friend. Rinaldo narrow and callie crossley Part do they have in getting this to fruition. Shelter brandon primer. He's he's been helping us since day. One that guy him. And i used to work at pizza. Hut believe it or not and he went outside somewhere. You went to niagara college. The for video production. He eventually called me back wednesday. Asking the music video for for his project in that arisons dan. We've always got him to videos. And he's just we just help each other grow in the bill each other's portfolio and whatnot. So grimmer really great friend of ours. He's awesome rinaldo. Might my house best friends since they pretty much awhile now Lifetime the always comes in hangs out and he comes to the shows parties that is just a slayer just a great guy so we said listen. How 'bout you. How will you come to the video at the boys. It was all in for it with the girl. The beginning of the video that sets renaldo thought so yup our our grandparents our next door neighbors on so i've known my whole life While you turned out a great video and a great track and you also told me that you're working on a couple of releases. I've heard really good things about you. Guys live show like a full of energy and you got a lot of feedback that you know. It's really positive. I heard a lot of great things. Are you anxious to get back into life gets yes definitely people like the live. So that's great to hear we really drive that. So why do you think they like like what do you do. Energy is fun it's We feel free up there you know. He's taking over the world onstage. Turn the show and we have a lot of fun stage. Let your favorite local venue to get out personally. I like moose like us one of my faves because it's It's pretty big passing like good stage. It's got vintage vibes in their vintage. Like a good lights. Yeah i think we all livers g usually do beaten with fans after the show. We're always we're always around. Yeah you can come up and say. Hi we're approachable. We always just do it early. Bertie what channel about active on the most active on facebook. Twitter instagram facebook. Instagram fit with facebook's really good forgetting events known to be able instagram's good just for like you know or gross analogy. I guess to show off on their shenanigans. You don't do those instagram stories and stuff. So it's imbalance between both and you guys have any merch coming out with his new single. No not really we. We have a few doing like merged drops just over the entirety of twenty twenty one this because we can't to emerge so we kind of drop in preorder it and Gets it you know we don't. We're not away. We just did some hoodies recently and it was fun because in the hoodie. Orders if ordered one we included a floppy disk with a with a secret code on it and you can hear. Our news are our other new single. That's coming though. I'll actually amazement to the vans. Guys you should keep me abreast. Stop sign up by five merch of indie bands. All the died on real. Yeah yeah i just thought to two vinyls. Carbon to me in the post chasse. Just give me wear by having to my bud show on gannett for as the best way to support a bam. I think especially at this time this time. So do you see your music challenging abbott. Like his name mall working with john angus or pretty much revived the row sound. It's always evolving. I'd say i don't know what he goes. Yeah we're still growing. Yeah it's great to have such a knowledgeable onboard to kinda help you some stuff in just a little bit of guidance What i yeah no. Uh three we're learning a lot on how to navigate the studio in herreid songs and stuff so in good has affected your approach larussa or you pretty much inside. The reason i'm saying is that your last release was in two thousand and nineteen but you guys seem to have a really busy era happening like his class year. Didn't happen pandemic for you to be pretty busy. I kinda wanna know why we. We've been very lucky in twenty nineteen. We were really busy. Playing live shows that we got off a lot of great opportunities. I think we capitalized on them. Really well and really took an extra effort to get to know our fans a lot and be interacted with them. And i think that's carried over during the pandemic of always keeping them in the loop and up in the they've been supported us throughout everything in sharing our stuff so it's always Inspiring us to keep writing. All the time in you know will will write songs on our own will come together right soppe together. We came riding in this pandemic. Our berry inspired. Because fans like they've they've gone above and beyond for us. You know the infant bantu the world out there so last managing i actually anti i gotta tell you. I absolutely loved the cut. The drug coverage should give on facebook. I love i love it. Might my heart. My heart and soul is with drums face at i. I love listening to any quite you do quite well wrong. Got it again. Because i stopped for a long time because i used to be the time live drummer for this. That we went to five piece. Formation psychedelic just stopped doing drum stuff. But then i realized how big of a part of my life it is. 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"rose" Discussed on thebuzzr pod
"Tell me bit about the bam's did you got together. It is kind of in different parts The first part was about six years ago. Now I knew from high school in welland here at notre dame and we jammed one time and then we didn't jam ever again a year later when we were when i was in college with this guy matt lee jammed another time and we form the ban. Optima original demos. I had laying around at some song covers. But dan and that matt in one of my my josh program schools at mohawk college and we kinda just both came to conclusion. We were really boards jamming jazz. So i asked him if you want to jam rock and roll in one of the practice rooms at school and then yeah we plans zeppelin and a bunch of other stuff. They just drops the is from niagara as well. He was from saint catherine's so that's pretty close to And i invited him to come jam because we jammed every weekend. I believe it was And then we finished Writing a song with him he came down here. We are now today. Rockland raines studied college. Music theory what. yup those. It was jazz contemporary jazz pacific jazz program. Jalen as jack to andy. Thomas bit more about your background. Like how did you happen upon Interest in music studying at university at college. I've grown. i've grown up with music whole life like my parents are heavily involved music. Do like my barons of a wedding cover band and my dad was music. Teacher author of the high school here in welland other ones. And my mom. A lot of theater broadway with her two sisters as well. I would attend a lot of these shows. And i play piano since i was like four And my brother played guitar. And then i started playing drums around Chinese old and kind of been my collie. He's got a pretty obvious. Go back as well in. My old man was musician in cover bands. Not and actually. I was supposed to be a drummer. But and i went to. The music store from a first drum teacher was sick. So he's like he's like guitar or bass Definitely not picking base. So i says yeah. Give me a guitar. i'll try this out. So yeah the rest is history. That took me a while to get good but once Put some years into it. Starts day off. Yeah in manhattan. Mad was playing for two years when i met him but he was better than half the guitar players. I knew his ear. Quick you had a late introduction into music. Yeah yeah a lot of his younger. I i play hoppy year. Gave it up for like. I don't now eight years picking up again when i was a teenager and then dropped out so you started with gaz to view. What made you move to rock like. What about rock. Shawna either rock program. So is there a rock program. Always iraq tra is just said that she said that. We'll what puts you in the rocks face. Like why do you. Why the rock sharma What it draws you a lot hong. Yeah i liked the vibe of it just speaks to us. I guess I don't really know just Free to i dunno it just nice to create in that realm in hit hard. I guess i don't really. I don't really know why just naturally gravitated that way. Nothing be pulling up to gibson's bias and having a good night in greg. It's rocker e-ever champ. I just grew up all around it. Like when i was a little kid. Everywhere i go in the car the rock and roll on my house rock and roll on the radio or whatever i just love i started to love to play and created. Saw always around it. I i wasn't around. But i i hadn't introduction at a very strict a bergen donoso was allowed in country in our big But i remember. I was based in apartment at basement party and they put on led zeppelin and i was in. Was it gonna put this you at the drummer if you were to choose to mentor under jonah neil perch. Our teeth knew who would you pack. Gregoire if i was to get a thought by any them. Yeah know i got to go with neil bedroom just insane. It's ninety recipe selected. That guy really inspired me as well as drummer just because he put a lot of color to drums like. It's not just with him. It's beyond just like a drum beat leg peace with that guy's crazy that can really open might by brain without a to construct drum lines. I got the guys in animal lies drum solar. Like they're like i. Have you ever seen a picture of the drum kit. He had a oriole pitcher like from on top. It's insane. Three sixty is insane What musical influences bands you guys follow of get a feel trauma. It turns up in revived the rose music. Is there any chance at significantly. Stand out for you. I have my favorites service of billy. Talent skinner psalm. Forty one by the choices man. I I definitely think we all agree on april one comment. I was gonna say that. I can see that new music man. The glorious signs are one of our new bands that we like a lot like phenomenal. Live to the great show in their. Songwriting is amazing. Yeah i think for me personally. I really like green bay a lot to say people. Will you started up on the classic chaplain in venezuelan. But then. I'm on a huge nineties. Kick right now so love soundgarden in and stuff like that so.
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"Must be of matthew. Were wasn't interesting whoa Insane Ooh.