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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-22-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. No facial recognition. I think turn and run is going to be the answer for me. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. Big thanks to Rick Davis and Jeannie Shanzano. Hour two of Sound On starts right now. The auto strikes are getting bigger. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the United Auto Workers expands strikes against GM and Stellantis, but not Ford. We're going to get the latest from Bloomberg Auto reporter Keith Naughton coming up, and we'll dive into the details of the negotiations and what might come next with Arthur Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is indicted in a federal corruption probe. We're going to look at the case against Senator Bob Menendez with Bloomberg Politics reporter Ryan Teague Beckwith.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "ryan" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Programming dc native kim davis was raised going to parks in the area but had never been on the anacostia river until she hopped aboard the boat i didn't think i could even feel more connected i hope more people come down and enjoy it kate ryan wtop you are listening to 103 .5 fm and wtop .com teachers the future right now in a classroom somewhere in the united states there's a teacher inspiring a future scientist who make preventing pandemics their life's work sharpening the mind of an aspiring environmentalist who'll help combat climate change and generating possibilities for a student who'll be first in their family to graduate college explore a career that leaves a legacy you can be proud of teach learn more and receive free support at teach .org it's saturday the weekend's here everybody we finally made it september 23rd welcome in thanks for starting the early part of your day with us where the time sports at 25
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: Ethereum Absorbs Alt-L1s | SEC vs. Stoner Cats | Mark Cuban's -$870k Wallet Hack
"Layer two summer is getting hotter and hotter. Three new roll -up ecosystems have joined Ethereum just this last week. This isn't just another OP stack. It's not just another Arbitrum or ZKSync. These are brand new ecosystems coming into the Ethereum layer two roll -up fold. Bankless Nation. It is the fourth Friday of September. David, what time is it? Ryan, it's the Bankless Friday weekly roll -up where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor. This week, no exception, yet we persevere into the frontier nonetheless. How are you doing this week, Ryan? I'm good, man. Back from permissionless, feeling energized. It was great to meet the community last week in person, get some proof of humanity. One time a year that Ryan manifests. Yeah, some hugs. Well, handshakes, high fives, stuff like that, fist bumps. Yeah, it was great. Anyway, okay, we got some topics of the week, David. The SEC, they're coming after the celebs, man. Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher. Gary Gensler does not like what they did with their NFT project. We're going to talk about that. What else we got? But why this NFT project? Is it because of the celebrities? We'll talk about that. Coming up after that, Ethereum collects three new roll -ups this week. Two of them previous layer ones, now layer twos on Ethereum. And the third, based on Solana. Solana on Ethereum as an L2. What is going on with that? We're going to cover that. And then Ryan, what's after that? We got Coinbase. Apparently, they have a 570 ETH work of Alchemix's money. How in the world did that happen? And should they give it back? This is kind of an MEV question. Legal question, moral question, some big questions. It's a quandary. It's a real quandary we got on today's episode. And then speaking of quandaries, Mark Cuban, he lost almost a million dollars in a wallet hack. Not good news. We'll tell you a bit more about that. David, before we get in, we got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Bridging Protocol, Platform, Layer Zero. What do they want people to know? Layer Zero and Google Cloud have partnered up and they are ready to bring the interoperable cross -chain apps of the future to you. This is what they want to do. So, of course, what is Layer Zero? It's a simple modular framework for applications to use the Layer Zero smart contracts that exist on 15 different chains. And then Google Cloud as the default Oracle between these different smart contracts are the service provider for passing messages so that apps on different chains can start to be woven together. So Google Cloud is the latest option of Oracle's for Layer Zero is served as the default. But, of course, Layer Zero, if you want to pick your own Oracle, that is something that you can apparently do. So visit LayerZero .network for more information if you are working in the world of cross -chain interoperability. Cross -chain, we're moving from this world of cross -chain to a multi -chain, which is different. You deploy once and you got to cross many different chains. So very cool stuff there. David, let's get to the markets though. Speaking of cool stuff, how are we looking on Bitcoin price? Is that cool? No, it's not cool. Not cool stuff. Bitcoin lost $100 in the week, which isn't that crazy. No, that's not that crazy at all. I mean, it's not cool, but it's not like bad. It's definitely not cool. Yeah, it's something in the middle. How about ETH? It's worse. Definitely not cool. Down 3%. Started the week at $1640 currently at $1590. I think I saw a low of $1575. Not, not cool. It's not cool. Thanks to Kraken for these charts though. And if I press reload, does the price go up at all? You should try that a few more times. How many times do you do that per day? Just like, you know, if you don't like the price, you just reload.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Ryan" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"From bag fees to boat rides one way Washingtonians reconnect with the Costee River I'm Kate Ryan and a wet weekend forecast the rain becoming more steady and we're gonna have areas of moderate to heavy rain pretty much all day long this Saturday all impacts from tropical storm Ophelia set to bring one upwards three inches of rain to our area and wind gusts 30 upwards 40 miles hour per that could lead to some isolated power outages and we could see some isolated flooding even some shoreline flooding temperatures in the 50s this morning will top out only at about 64 to 65 degrees I'm 70s chief Veronica Johnson in the first alert weather center 56 in Rockville 58th district Heights 55 Ashburn 60 straight up and holding in our nation's capital where the time now is 4 20 good morning my dad he's a double amputee and with one of my favorite
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 43: Week 2 Recap
"Welcome to the Ultraflex Football Podcast. Move over Pat McAfee. There's no denying that we are here to spice up your life and never forget about the good times. I'm your host, Anthony Sutton. With me, as always, is Rob Green. Man, I wasn't prepared for that change. What's up? What's going on? And Viva Forever, Ryan Wheeler. I feel so much pressure. Now we got to be better than Pat McAfee. All right. Oh, we got the... Go ahead. No, he's actually like swearing on ESPN now, and he's got like Mike Greenberg, he swore on ESPN now because of McAfee. He's actually... A little more laid back now, huh? Yeah, he wears a tank top. He's very good for ESPN, in my opinion. Go ahead. He's spicing up Disney, huh? I think I saw, didn't they have to put him on like an extra delay versus normal? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. He has to cut out the F words a little bit, I heard. Someone's got to tell him to stop the cursing. No. Why? That's what makes it fun. I'm like eight song titles through my album here, so. Oh, he's like, damn, you're doing song titles already? Yeah, I thought you had to say him first. Holy moly. All right, well, we're about to find out what your song titles were. So Tony messed up two weeks ago. He didn't get all the song titles in, so now he has an album to himself, but because this is a team sport, a team podcast, Rob and I now have to split apart, or a album between ourselves. So Rob and I have Good Charlotte, The Young and the Hopeless. My songs are A New Beginning, Lifestyle of the Rich and the Famous, Wondering, The Story of My Old Man, Girls and Boys, and My Bloody Valentine. Rob? I don't know, man. I'm not feeling good about this week. This is a lot. Seven songs and a half hour show. All right, I got Hold On, Riot Girl, Say Anything, The Day That I Die, The Young and the Hopeless, Emotionless, and Movin' On. Tony, we're all wondering, what do you have? You have the Spice Girls, my man. And I already, I've gotten already into the pod. I've already gotten Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Never Give Up on Good Times, Move Over, Denying, and Viva Forever. I still need to get in Too Much, Saturday Night Divas, Do It, and The Lady is a Vamp, which will probably be a difficult one. Hold on, can you say that one more time? What was that? The Lady is a Vamp. Like a vampire, assuming? What's a vamp? It's a vampire. And that's from the Spice World album. 1997 made me feel old AF. 97, wow. I remember watching the Spice World movie, the Spice Girls movie. I do not remember. Oh, you guys didn't have older sisters, that's why. No. All right, anyway. Movin' On. All right, speaking of Movin' On, the NFL schedule moved on. We are now in week two, so let's get to Football Talk. And I guess technically we're in week three, so we're going to recap week two. As always, we're going to start with the Bills game, go to the Titans game, and then kind of what else is going on. So, Rob, you were at the Bills Raiders game. What were your biggest takeaways? It was a fun home opener. The Bills got back to their winning ways with a nice, easy, I'd even want to say I was worried at the beginning. It was a little annoying that they fell behind 7 -0, but I was confident they would still pull it out. They did. Josh Allen ended up AFC Offensive Player of the Week, I think the 11th time in his career now, which is pretty impressive. Wow, the franchise record. Oh, I didn't know that. Nice stat. You beat Jim Kelly, it was 10 times. Well, pretty nice. Feels like a new beginning for the Bills, for sure. Nice, Ryan. Where was I going with that? I told you guys a stat yesterday, actually, that surprised me, but Josh Allen is number one in completion percentage so far this year. I know it's only two games in, but fun little tidbit there. It's crazy how much can change week by week in the NFL, and it's going to happen again this week. If the Bills were to lose to Washington and go 1 -2, then it almost feels like the game, I know it wouldn't be a must -win, but it feels like the game against the Dolphins the following week would feel like a must -win. That way, they're not 1 -3 and that far behind the Dolphins, but yeah, it's crazy how much can change in one week in the NFL. Oh, show. My biggest takeaway, and I said it last week, kind of a similar takeaway for me was last year it felt like we never got pressure on the quarterback. This year, it feels like we're constantly getting the opposing quarterback pressure, and it feels like our offensive line is playing well, so big task, which is we're physical, we can run the ball, we can block, we can get pressure. It's a good change of pace. I don't know, honestly, I'm not smart enough to tell you if McDermott's play calling is a factor in that, or if it's just Leonard Floyd, hopefully his ankle's okay, is better, and Ed Oliver's having a better year, so on and so forth. Yes, I saw his average depth of tackle is negative yards right now, which is impressive. So his average tackle is a tackle for a loss. That's awesome. That's literally the definition of blowing up a play. So yeah, it's exciting. Obviously, this win means something, but it doesn't really if you go and lose to Washington, so got to two and one. Two and one, by the way. Oh, yeah. I think everyone does the thing where you kind of... Did we just lose our host? It kind of looks like a frozen face there. Okay. Hey, frozen face. Oh, Rob, it's you and I. Let's do this thing. All right. So I didn't get to talk about the Titans at all. Can we say anything now, because he's gone? Yeah, we can say anything. Say anything, say anything. Sorry, I can't sneak any of these. Good Charlotte. Anywho, girls and boys, my takeaway is that the Titans are who I thought they were. The team that... I guess who a lot of Titans fans thought they were. The team that's probably... You are who we thought you were. Welcome back, Anthony. Thanks. They're the team that's going to beat the good teams and lose to the teams they should beat. And that's how it feels like the Titans have always been. They keep every game close. They have a shot. They have a chance in every game. So they're not quite the young and the hopeless, but they're just maybe like the mediocre. No, they're not the young and the hopeless. Oh, I thought that was one of my song titles. That's the... Oh, no. Oh, no. Clearly. Well, okay. I guess I can cross that one off my list then. Anywho, you know who else I was impressed with was the Falcons. They play a certain brand of football. It's the NFC Titans. I think I have to be a fan of the Falcons now. But just ground and pound, they came back. They were able to pull that one out in Green Bay. So... Yeah. The Falcons. To your point, there's not many teams, I feel like, in the NFL that have an identity, like a true identity. The Falcons are one that you know exactly what you're getting every week. And that could be really good or it could be really bad. Oh, for sure. One of my week two takeaways is prior to the season, it was always... And I was the one on this podcast kind of leading the charge is how good the AFC is gonna be. And then if like through two weeks, which is, again, a small sample size, it feels like the 49ers, Eagles, and Cowboys are playing just as well as anybody. And they're all in the NFC. Now, the NFC doesn't have much else to offer, but those three teams are gonna be very formidable to whoever comes out of the AFC come Super Bowl time. Yeah. At this point, their high -end talent almost seems better than the AFC with a lot of the top teams in the AFC struggling. So... Do you guys think that three of the top five teams in the NFL are NFC teams? Maybe even three of the top four teams in the NFL? I think that's fair right now. Yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Because before the season, it was like, the AFC is so strong, so good. They have all the good quarterbacks and two weeks is a pretty small sample size, but I think... I think at this point, yeah, it's safe to say those three teams are top five. I don't even know who you would put... I mean, I guess the Dolphins are probably the best team in the AFC at the moment. I mean, the Chiefs scored 17 points against the Jaguars. And I mean, the Bills looked very good last week, but you can't ignore how poorly they looked the first week on offense. So... And then obviously, the Bengals Chargers being 0 -2 hurts the AFC's, I guess, power rankings or however you want to look at it. And then Rogers being hurt. Those are three teams that I thought were going to have a very good season. They still might. Maybe not the Jets, but the Chargers and the Bengals.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Ryan" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"September 23rd, 1 .25 sports time indeed and Frankie's turn once again this early hour. Tough loss for Virginia football came all the way back and forced what looked like was going to go to time but couple tough penalties laid costly for the Wahoos who fall at home to NC State 24 21 Virginia drops to 0 and 4 on the season. National's struggles continue against the Braves as lose they their second straight to the ATL 9 -6 Patrick Corbin got off to a slow start allowed two homers in the top half the first including one to brave star Ronald Acuna jr. becomes a fifth player in baseball history to have 40 homers and 40 stolen bases in a season the two teams will not play on Saturday because of the impending weather game has been postponed if you had tickets to Saturday's game you can go at 635 on Sunday part of a split will header to wrap up that series on Sunday Baltimore loses in a walk off to Cleveland 9 -8 back to college football coming up on Saturday it is Maryland first big test on the road in play Big Ten visiting Michigan State that kickoff is at 3 30 high noon Virginia Tech visits Marshall Franky and Ryan WTOP sports. Alright, thanks Franky as always 126 on WTOP good morning. At a time when you need it most Diamonds Direct is doing something that seems impossible they're rolling back finance rates to zero 0 % you heard it right now through October 1st you can get 0 .0 for five years so that $10 dollar engagement ring is around 167 dollars a month rings earrings bands bracelets make any purchase divide price by 60 and that's your payment no interest for five years the only time this year you can do this details showroom hours and more at
Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Shadows of a Silhouette - Fortune Favours The Fortunate
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritize mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Guys, welcome back to Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. Today, we have got a brilliant rock and roll quarter in the house that go by the name of Shadows of a Silhouette. And the sound is a fusion of alternative, rebellious and personal vibes. Coming from the heart of England, this band has released over 25 original tracks on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon. We're joined by Nathan Tyler, who, along with friend Greece, have been creating music for four years, turning out more than 50 songs on SoundCloud and major platforms. Drawing inspiration from legends like Arctic Monkeys, Bowie and Nirvana, the music has even graced BBC introduces for the East Midlands. And they've rocked the Metrodome in Nottingham. They've also played the Quarry Stage during the Wyandotte Festival in front of 2000 fans, an experience that fueled their passion for music. This year, they have hit the main stage at Wyandotte Festival, producing an unforgettable show. So guys, girls, stay tuned as we dive into the guys world and discover what drives this band's unstoppable journey. But as always, let's check in with resident host Mr Ryan Smith. How are you doing, mate? What an introduction that was, eh? I'll tell you what the hell's going on. This is like the big time now, isn't it? This is just like, I'm going to say so rock and roll, but that's like, I think that's more like 60s rather than the 90s, I don't know. Anyway, I just know I'm older than most of this band put together. So, yeah, no, absolutely brilliant to get these guys on. I'm feeling good. Started watching the ice hockey today, you know, a little bit late jumping on with you just because of the ice hockey. But do you know what? I'm in a good place. So, yeah, guys, welcome to the show. How are you all doing? Well, thank you. Thank you for having us on. You say you're a lot older than us all put together, but we all know, mate, you're still 21 in that. Hard to show if it was, but we break through and still look like a one year old messing about. Bless you, bless you, bless you. Panthers or Steelers? Don't mention that second one. No, if you mention that second one, you mention that second one and we'll just stop this right now. All right. No, no, no. I didn't realise. That's all right then. That's all right then. Yeah, yeah, Panthers, Panthers through and through. No, but guys, honestly, welcome to the show. We've been throwing a couple of conversations back and forth for a bit now and it's finally here. So, you know what? Guys, introduce yourselves. Well, we're Shadows of a Silhouette and, of course, we're a four piece band from Derby. We just, Derbyshire, we try and focus on sounds that are a bit more like authentic, like through and through. Even all of us playing our own instruments on songs like you wouldn't think that to be something that you'd be lacking in the music industry. But actually, nowadays it's more dominated by electronic simulated sounds. I'm Nathan Brown, the lead singer. I've got Rhys Carter, lead guitarist. And Ferg's in Corfu at the minute, but we've also got Tyler Anderson, our drummer. Fantastic. So, yeah, guys, I managed to listen to your latest track that's going to be released, I think, later this month. You know, well, later in September. We're recording this at the beginning of September. But, you know, you're going to be releasing that one. I'll tell you what, I was listening to my car on the way back from Mansfield earlier and it's catchy and I get it. You know, it's I think it speaks. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to that being released. It's my personal favourite song that we've written for a long time. Yeah, it's fun to play in all life. Yeah, it's quite political. It's a banger. But, you know, it's really like a partial political. It doesn't really speak to supplement anybody else, any political party or belief system. It's more for the common man, isn't it? Yeah, it's just more for the common good side of politics. The politics doesn't actually get spoken about in politics. No, no. And, you know, I actually thought, you know, it actually reminded me of sort of Age of the Shadow puppets. Like Shadow puppets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's that sort of... You're sorry? It's funnily enough the first band I ever saw live, actually. Yeah, that's why it's had that sort of beat to it, that sort of rhythm to it. And it just, yeah, you know, it was good, it was good. Well, I'll take that. Anyway, no, absolutely. What was the whole process behind writing that song? So, what was your thinking behind it and kind of how long has it taken you to... Well, I had a riff kicking about from the start of lockdown, really. Obviously, we couldn't practice, so... We were writing other songs. Got me loop pedal, yeah, and got the riff down. But we didn't really touch it until about, when was it? Like January? It started kicking it about, didn't we? We got some drums on it, and then Nathan wrote, as he does with most of our tracks, wrote all the lyrics for it. And, yeah, it's... It came quite quick, though, didn't it? It was just one of them, like, kick your fingers movement when you and us rehearsing. And then it just, we just all looked at each other and just thought, this is awesome, this. And then Nathan's writing side to it. It just... Put the structure together. Put the structure together, and then, like I say, it was just about... The words just came straight out. It's this one. Yeah, it's what we opened up the main stage with one or two as well. Yeah, it's brilliant. It's quite... Yeah, like, straight in your face, isn't it? Tempo, it's got tempo, it's got attitude. It's like hitting a knockout punch in the first round. It is a cracker, it is truly a cracker. It is really a cracker. Yeah, the lyrics, the lyrics. And it was, as you say, it... It's just the whole idea of that track. Straight in your face. Yeah, that's what we wanted. It's a song to get people's attention, really. And then it's... You know, who are these? And then it's... We've got you in the palm of his hand then. Crick up your ears. Also, it's an expression of that... Those little thoughts we all have about, you know, on a daily basis, when we're considering what's going on in the world around us. It's just a... No. With our ability to create media, to add into the great ocean of it, we think certain songs come out in principle, or because of principle, that something to have been spoken like that, or in a way, just for some... It can be heard from somewhere by someone. It's just about the rich going rich and the poor going poor early on, isn't it? Well, it's about the trap. We're all trapped. It seems like we're... The fucking mouse trap's already come down over us, and we're all stuck, you know. But life keeps going by for everyone as an individual. But there's a stranglehold on a lot of us, personally, as people trying to get through this world, but it's so slow for some people who don't have to suffer it. So, looking at kind of that... You know, looking at the song, are you speaking from your own sort of backgrounds and stuff as well, your own experiences? I think it's kind of impossible not to, of course. Like, when you are writing Straight From the Heart, not all of our songs are, right? Because sometimes it's nice to write a song about an idea that doesn't paint a memory. It's just... But then again, on the other hand of that, a lot of our tunes are personal anyway. Especially over the last couple of years, with what's gone off with Reece and Nathan and stuff like that. So, it's a way that I sort of... I'm sure Nathan's probably the same as to get these thoughts that are in your head. I have to get them out on paper and write them down about lyrics or poetry and then channel that into some of that music, which then becomes something tangible. The thoughts that you've got in your head, for me, it's the perfect way to sort of... Say what you want over it. Yeah, get it out and... To make room. Then it becomes relatable, because although it's personal to you, other people can then relate to that and hear what you're saying. Like, yeah, I know what you're on about here. Well, certainly we want to know what it feels like when they can hear the fact that we're getting something off our chest in these songs. Yeah, yeah. Because it's not whitewashed at all, really. We all work full -time, full -time jobs. We didn't go to uni or study music or anything. We came together because we all... Look like rockin' art. Look like rockin' art. We think it's one of the best things in the world. It's a freedom from life. That's good the thing about music, where it doesn't matter what race you are, doesn't matter what religion you are, everybody can come together and just be in the same field or at a venue and enjoy the same thing. Everything goes out the window. It's a universal language. And there's a lot of culture where we come from, a lot of working culture of people working really hard, raising families, but not really making enough time for themselves. We come from an area in the East Midlands where lot a of insufferable mental health is right there on the surface, but people don't even talk about it. They all know what's going on with each other. I know Jack's got a question for you, but obviously we've just jumped on beforehand and where I live, it's actually, what, five, ten minutes from... Not even ten minutes, is it, from where a couple of you guys live? So I get what you're saying. You're looking at the smaller sort of outlying villages that are ex -coal mining places. It's a similar sort of state in Wales. It's a similar sort of state in Lancashire, Yorkshire and things like this. And it's these forgotten roots. And listening to that track that you've shared with us, you can really hear what you guys are trying to achieve. So it's more of an observation rather than a question. But I know Jack's got a question for you. Before we come, because obviously we're going to look at your personal journeys and kind of delve into there and prod around a little bit, but while we're on the subject of why not, I want to ask you guys, how was that experience going main stage? It didn't even seem like that much of... There was a feeling of being out of place, but also at the same time being exactly where we're going. Yeah, it wasn't imposter syndrome, but you feel like... The best thing is if you feel like you've earned it, but then you also feel that if you're not getting nervous for a gig like that, I think you've got to get nervous to some degree, because at the end of the day, you're entertaining people and everyone's around on you to put a good show out. And then we just hope we deliver. And that's like, it doesn't matter how much of a buzz we've got to have to play. And the first thing I said to people closest to me was, did you like enjoy it? It's not about us, it's about the fans. Yeah. But the experience is just... What was that feedback like? Oh, brilliant, yeah. Absolutely awesome.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Ryan" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Top Out only at about 64 to 65 degrees. I'm 70s chief meteorologist Veronica Johnson in the first alert weather center We're at 60 degrees straight up in our nation's capital right now coming up on TLP and the minutes ahead this half -hour from bag fees to boat rides one -way Washingtonians reconnect with the The Anacostia River, I'm Kate Ryan. Here's Amy Knight the president of Children's Hospital Association on the discussion a better tomorrow tackling the crisis of mental health in American children sponsored by Children's Hospital Association from a children's hospital perspective. We see the biggest opportunity is to build infrastructure in communities just like we do for physical health. So, you know if a child has asthma they don't need to see a specialist every time. They can see a primary care physician their parents and their teachers are educated to take care of it so we we need to create that same appreciation for mental health that we have for physical health. Watch the entire discussion on wtop .com search Children's Hospital Association. Children are experiencing a significant and growing mental health crisis. Urgent support is needed to bolster capacity and infrastructure for pediatric mental health. To learn more visit childrenshospitals .org. You're with WTOP and Dean Lane. The Mid -Atlantic winter is coming. Thompson Creek Window Company's energy -efficient windows are built right here for our unique climate to save you money on your utility bills. Call today for their biggest sale of the year. For a limited time get 25 % off all Thompson Creek windows and doors plus no interest until 2025. Get new windows and doors before the old weather hits. Call 855 57 Creek now. Home sweet home, call 855 57 Creek. It's out any morning September 23rd. Glad you're with us 1222 WTOP welcome in. This is WTOP news. page they've done it again surgeons at the university of maryland school of medicine have successfully planted a genetically modified pig's
Bankless
A highlight from SVM on Ethereum?! Bullish or Bearish $SOL? with Neel Somani, Founder, Eclipse
"Solana on Ethereum? That is the question we explore on today's episode with a new product release as well. This is an opportunity to pick into a topic we haven't yet touched on on Ethereum, which is a virtual machine that Solana has called the SVM. That's the Solana virtual machine. Proponents have said for a long time that it's much better than the Ethereum EVM multi -threaded execution, lots of bells and whistles that Ethereum doesn't have. Now on today's episode, we're finding out that it is coming to Ethereum in the form of a layer 2. The Eclipse Mainnet is what it's called. That is the layer 2 that is launching today with the SVM embedded. Eclipse is not only a new layer 2 on the scene, but it's an entire framework similar to the Optimism Superchain network as well. This poses a lot of interesting questions as you might imagine that we're going to dig into today, including who wins? Is this a W for Ethereum? Is this an L for Solana or maybe the reverse? What does this mean for the future of our industry? A lot to unpack on today's episode. I would even say that a lot of Ethereum people will say that the SVM is a fantastic piece of technology and it is better than the EVM, especially when it comes to the things that virtual machines do, which is execution. There are some massive questions that this brings to the table and I'm about to ask them. But first, I want to talk about our friends and sponsors over at Layer Zero who have a brand new announcement on the scene. This came out of Permissionless. Google Cloud and Layer Zero are partnering together to help thread together 15 different chains across the Web3 ecosystem. So what does Layer Zero do? It passes messages across from chain to chain. What does Google Cloud do? Well, it is the service provider, the Oracle that does that message passing. It is the default Oracle for Layer Zero. But if you don't want Google, you are free to also pick your own Oracle. You could just like Google, how Google is the default search browser for many browsers, Google is the default Oracle for Layer Zero. There's a link in the show notes if you want to find out more, layer0 .network. And so that is a call to action there. There's a link in the show notes. There are some big questions on today's episodes. And so we have the founder of the Eclipse Layer 2. His name is Neil Samani. And he's going to be jumping on the podcast in a minute here. But David, we're going to be unpacking four different protocols. All right. So it's not just Ethereum and Solana. There are a few others as well that are woven into this Layer 2. So what are listeners in for? What are the big questions to prepare us? Yeah, the question doesn't stop at is this Ethereum versus Solana, Ethereum or Solana? Celestia and risk zero are also relevant here. And I think one of the questions is like the big question, if we are investors in this space trying to invest in the future, we want to ask the question, who wins? What are these components doing together? And does some of these components win more than others? What does it mean to win? Or am I just using this lens of winning versus losing because that's my lens for all blockchain systems? And is that even the right lens? So the first question I think we're going to get at is does the Solana VM as an Ethereum Layer 2, is that a bigger win for Ether than it is for Sol? The Solana fanboys in my mentions are convinced that this is the Ethereum protocol moving closer to Solana. But the Layer 2 centric take is that all good execution tech will eventually settle on Ethereum liquidity and security. But then what the hell does Celestia have to do with this equation? And what's risk zero doing there? So this is not just a question about like the tug of war between these two cooperating competing protocols, but what does this mean for the modular thesis at large? So some very big questions. And I think I listened to Neil Samani over at the Modular Summit back in ECC and some of his talks around this base, and I think he's got some of the answers. So we're going to ask all of these questions to Neil here in a second. But first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible, especially Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. If you've not had an account with Kraken, consider clicking the link in the show notes to check them out right now. Kraken Pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry, the place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices, even when I'm not looking to place a trade. 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Bankless Nation, I would love to introduce you to Neil Samani, the founder of Eclipse, a project working to bring the Solana virtual machine, the SVM, to Ethereum. Today, Eclipse has announced their SVM mainnet, the first Eclipse layer 2 on Ethereum that uses the SVM as its execution engine, but Ethereum for settlement and liquidity. Is that a curveball? Well, it doesn't stop there because Eclipse is also using Celestia for data availability and RISC -0 for fraud proofs. So Solana's execution environment, settling on Ethereum with ETH as gas using Celestia for data availability and then security offered by RISC -0 fraud proofs. My first big question to you, Neil, is what the hell is that? What is this? Who even allowed you to put all these forms? What did you create? What is this? I love this image. This is amazing. What the hell is this family guy meme for the people listening on the podcast? It's like Noah on the ark and there's some kind of hybrid animal, like a giraffe, elephant, like I don't know what that tail that is, but some kind of hybrid animal that's been created, like the platypus. That is awesome. David, Ryan, thank you for having me. Yeah. So Neil, where did this idea to put four different networks together come about and maybe talk about some of the motivations here? So the original idea was just to put Solana Ethereum and that was the motivation behind the concepts. And what we ran into was just a ton of constraints and things that you'd expect to be true for a virtual machine because that's how it is in the Ethereum world. So an example is like a chain ID. When you switch your MetaMask wallet to another Ethereum chain or another EVM chain, then they actually have like a well -defined mechanism for doing that. Another example is there's no global miracle tree for Solana. So the lack of these primitives means that that initial idea was not so easy to implement. So we basically implement, we had to add in Celestia or risk zero out of necessity in order to make this possible. Wait, so you had to add Celestia and risk zero, like it wasn't an option to just do a layer two. Just pure Ethereum. So it depends on the amount of transaction volume that we end up running, but at our projected amount of transactions, Ethereum DA would just prove to be very expensive. And it would also lack a lot of the benefits of the Solana VM, which is that you're going for scale, meaning that you want the transactions to be really cheap. So right now it's like the base cost for writing 200 bytes to Ethereum is about 15 cents. So that would be like much more expensive transactions. And that opens us up to account from the Solana community, which is like, oh, we're much cheaper than you. But if you're doing it this way, then we can actually be competitive on price too. I want to get back to why Solana, because that's the big question. Why the SVM, right? But before we do, just really quick, yes, data availability is very expensive in today's world. However, there is some hope. We just did release an episode earlier this week with Dom from Eth Research on Blob Space, an EIP 4844, where the cost of data availability for rollups is going to drop quite significantly. Or maybe let me just rephrase that and say the availability of data availability is going to be increased massively in the form of these blobs. Does that change the calculus at all for you or is it kind of the same? It's still more expensive than something like Celestia. It definitely changes the calculus. Given that it's a fee market, we have to see where that fee ends up landing. So I want it to be live. But yeah, there's great research going on in the Ethereum community for scaling DA. We're watching it closely and we have ambitions to eventually just be fully on Ethereum and just use that for DA as well. Okay, well, let's talk about the big thing here. So the Solana virtual machine, the SVM. We've not done an episode comparing the SVM versus the EVM. We've been thinking about doing one. This maybe gives us a little taste of that. Can you tell us what is so great about the SVM? Why do some people sing its praises and seem to prefer it for certain things? The way to think about it is by starting with the EVM and just understanding the failures of the EVM so far in scaling Ethereum. And I think that if you asked a lot of the researchers in Ethereum community, scale is pretty much the biggest issue. But it feels kind of redundant for me to be saying that because everyone's talking about it. Yet, the way that they've tried to bring scale to Ethereum is just by taking the EVM and turning it into a roll up, effectively. But what's nice about a roll up is that once you've decoupled the execution, consensus, settlement, and DA, is that you can make that execution layer whatever you want. So the issue with the EVM is that it's single -threaded as it exists right now, meaning that all the transactions get in a single file line, they're executed one at a time. And that means that if there's a big NFT drop, for example, then that's going to really spam the network. And there's no way to get your DeFi transaction in unless you're competing with all those other transactions that are in line. But what's nice about a parallelized virtual machine is that you can execute those transactions concurrently, given that they're not touching the same piece of the state. So that's what the Solana virtual machine primarily brings. And it's the most battle -tested VM in the sense that Solana has been around, as opposed to Moov or some other parallelized virtual machines, which are much newer. And that means that you also get the benefits of the existing Solana code base, any existing libraries that are written for the SVM, and we can take all those and immediately port it to Eclipse. So that's the main reason to use the SVM, which is just scale. And scale is inherently maximalistic for a roll up to claim, because we're basically saying that if you have one SVM, you don't need all these other single -threaded VMs around it. Yeah. So one of the reasonings I've heard around the EVM is that while the EVM does execute, because that's what virtual machines do, it was not built for execution. It was built for the Ethereum layer one, and that has prioritized other properties. And while the EVM has had a ton of just network effects, the open source network effects around the EVM are super, super strong. I think in this day and age, in the year 2023, one of the things we're seeing is that the around the SVM are growing sufficient tailwinds that, Neil, I think what you're saying is that, well, I can feel safe that there is sufficient momentum in the network effects of the SVM code base that is going to be an alive code base moving forward into the future. And so it is going to be the execution virtual machine that we can deploy to Ethereum, because if we have a roll -up centric roadmap, we aren't beholden to the EVM on layer twos. This is my interpretation. Is this about right? Yeah, that's right. And what's cool is that it actually goes beyond just the existence of the SVM per se. It's a bit of a misnomer because the SVM is actually the Berkeley packet filter virtual machine. And that's been in the Linux kernel for like decades. So this is a very old virtual machine and it has raw support, raw can compile to the byte code. And there's a few surrounding extensions that are pretty battle tested as well. So we're taking all this existing wealth of open source code and just repurposing it as an Ethereum ML too. How much better is it, Neil? How can you quantify that? I would argue if it's like orders of magnitude, like a hundred times or something, some ridiculous magnitude or faster. Yeah. Okay. So like if we take a roll -up with the exact same stack you're talking about, but rather than the SVM, we have the EVM versus what you're doing with the SVM, how much better is yours? You're saying an order of magnitude, like 10X, 100X? Yeah. It's always tough to talk about throughput because the reality is it depends on what are the state access patterns. Like if everything, let's say every transaction the SVM was accessing the same piece of state, then you actually can't beat sequential because that's just like the fact about databases, right? You'd have to impose, if it was sequential rights, let's say. So then you have to lock that piece of state to execute the transaction, then do the next one, then do the next one. So you're not saving anything in the sequential case, but assuming they're all touching different pieces of state, which if the crypto thesis is right, we're gonna have all kinds of applications doing all sorts of different things. And that's effectively what these EVM roll -ups are mimicking. If you look at OPStack, the reason why people are deploying these is a lot of time they cite dedicated block space, but that's exactly what the SVM already solves for them. So our thinking is why fragment liquidity, fragment the user experience, make them switch networks. It's looking like a mess already, but you can prevent all that by just keeping it all in the same chain. Okay. So one of the, I guess the bull case for the EVM is basically, I don't think anyone really prefers it for its execution prowess and capabilities. They all prefer it because of network effect. It's because we started with the EVM, a whole bunch of apps were built, and now we could just very easily port those apps to roll -ups. That's kind of why. And I guess with SVM, you're making the case that it is much better for just the execution layer type thing, and you're still taking advantage of some of the network effect that Solana has built as well. I want to ask a question here because I'm not sure I fully understand this, but about different fee markets and resourcing, how does that work? So is it the case inside of your roll -up that if there is a big NFT drop or some sort of app that is consuming a large quantity of the block space inside of Eclipse, is that somehow isolated or segmented, or is there some kind of bifurcation of resources between another layer? Localized fee market is - This is a term that I've not fully understood, but I know our friends on the Solana side really purport this as one of the main virtue of actually Solana is these localized fee markets. Tell us about that. Yeah, it's critical. And if you've looked at Arbitrum lately, fees still spike substantially on roll -ups if they're single -threaded. And that's because of that exact reason that you're mentioning, the global fee market. If GMX gets a bunch of activity, then everyone suffers as a result. But economically, that's not actually really the way that it should be because there's this negative externality to GMX being imposed on all of the other apps, but really it should be constrained to that one app. So it's as if you took all these global fees and you just concentrated it on the one app that's actually causing on the hotspot or a state hotspot, as some of the folks on the Solana side will describe it as. And everyone else can just keep merrily happily walking along and they can execute on other cores. So it's really a property of the scheduler within the validator because in every validator, they have to somehow decide what order am I going to process transactions. And they're saying everything that's accessing this piece of state is going to all go on a single core and everyone else can use the other cores. And there's no contention on those. So Neil, this is really just a statement. The design philosophy of Eclipse is just a statement that it's a bullish statement on the growth of the SVM network effects. So maybe in this day and age, if you are like optimist or Arbitrum, you're going for this thing called Ethereum equivalents. And they are making a statement that, hey, we are bullish on the growth of the EVM network effects. And I mean, network effects of different virtual machines can grow independently. It's not an either or. But the philosophy of Eclipse is saying like, hey, there's the SVM network effects are going to grow. They're going to grow a lot. We want to take that and couple it into whatever the value is of being a part of the Ethereum ecosystem. That's my like synopsis of this. Yeah, I'd even argue that EVM network effects have proven to be not so important. And I think it made a lot of sense initially a few years ago when you had Polygon and BSC launching. But if you look at the types of apps that were deployed there, you get like SushiSwap, which is effectively a fork of Uniswap. And now I recognize they deployed even to like Ethereum. But those are the types of apps you often get. And it's rare that those apps are actually net new. Whereas by bringing the SVM to Ethereum, I think we're going to see net new applications in the Ethereum ecosystem, just given that there's a lot of apps that just couldn't exist without parallelism, central limit order bugs being a great example. We've seen a lot of decentralized physical infrastructure networks on Solana, so we can bring those to Ethereum as well. Apps like that, I think, are going to be more interesting to me rather than porting apps that already exist.
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"Praise on researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where she spoke on her own experiences. Northwest News Radio's Ryan Harris was there for the visit. Dr Biden says just about all of us have been touched by cancer in some way or another. In her case, it was not only losing a son to brain cancer, but the number of her friends who she says developed breast cancer 30 years ago, which is why she says in 1991 she started the Biden Breast Cancer Initiative. And we went into high school, so we talked to young girls about how to do breast health exam, so that they take the message home to their mothers and their grandmoms, and so that they would be conscious of their health. The research here funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department Defense of includes ways to make treatment for cancer, especially in young people, less harmful. Dr.
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A highlight from Austin Rivers on NBA Vet Life, QB Arguments With Steven Ruiz, and Canceling 'Winning Time' With Chris Ryan
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from New All Time High Coming? (Polkadot Price Prediction)
"Hey what's up everyone, my name is AJ writes crypto and this is the price prediction department. Every week in the comments, there are about 5 -10 people out there asking for a Polkadot price prediction. This one is for you, let's dive in and discover crypto. I'm going to start off by saying that Polkadot is a deep, deep dive. While some projects are relatively cut and dry, DOT is as complicated as it gets. If you really want to jump into the Polkadot rabbit hole, just a heads up, it's going to take weeks for you to get a well -rounded understanding of its complexities. I will link it down below in the description, but I have read the Polkadot whitepaper on two separate occasions now, and when you start seeing science class diagrams like this one here, understand that to do a full -fledged coin review on Polkadot would take at least three hours minimum. With that said, I'm going to give a brief overview and stick with the price prediction. Here is a quick explanation of Polkadot directly from that whitepaper. Polkadot provides the bedrock relay chain upon which a large number of validatable, globally coherent, dynamic data structures may be hosted side by side. We call these data structures parallelized, or parachains, though there is no specific need for them to be blockchained in nature. Understand that Polkadot's main focus is interoperability, or communication between blockchains who otherwise wouldn't be able to communicate. With that network of parachains and the XCM, or the cross -consensus message format, Polkadot has grown an ecosystem of over 600 projects who have the ability to communicate with each other. Another thing I really like about Polkadot is how they utilize their side canary chain Kusama. Kusama acts as a live testnet for Polkadot that is pretty much used as their science experiment to see what will and what won't work on the main chain. Without getting too far into the weeds, I want to point out that I know some people who are really big on Polkadot, and I also know some people who are completely against it. For those people who are completely against it, the complaints I've heard are either about Gavin Wood's personal life, which I will not get into, and I've also heard that the parachains were somewhat of a flop. When they started the original 41 parachain auctions back in November of 21, there were some projects that came out swinging, like Acala, Moonbeam, Astar, Clover Finance, but as the parachain auctions continued into 2022, there were less and less funds raised and less contributors to the projects as we ventured further into the bear market. I remember it used to be a really big deal when a project landed a parachain spot, but unfortunately as time went on, the more and more projects that landed them, the less and less it mattered. To be fair, the timing of the bear market really, really hurt their cause. But on the bright side, according to key insights from the Masari State of Polkadot Q2 update, OpenGov, their new decentralized governance model, launched back in June. This is significant because since Polkadot is a proof of stake blockchain, improving their governance is a big step forward for decentralization. Also, like I mentioned before, V3 of XCM recently launched, which is their cross consensus messaging format. This is basically like the key to the door of interoperability. The most bullish observation for Polkadot is earlier this year when the SEC was going hard in the pain against Binance and Coinbase, Polkadot was a lucky project that was not flagged by the SEC as the security. I mean, Gary Gensler has called every project under the sun a security, but not Polkadot. Let's give him a call and find out why. What's his number again? Oh yeah, six, six, six. Okay. Gary, how you doing, man? Yeah, I know that hearing was pretty rough, but hey, quick question. Why is Polkadot not a security? Wait, they paid you how much? And once again, he hung up on me. I will link that Masari update down below in the description. It is an excellent tool for those needs to know facts. I use Masari every day to keep track of all my favorite coins. Shout out to Ryan Selkis and Masari, not a paid advertisement. With all that said, let's get into the price prediction. Remember, the equation for price predictions is price equals market cap divided by circulating supply. Polkadot put in its all -time high of $55 on November 4th, 2021. At the time, its market cap was $56 .5 billion and its supply was north of $987 million. Today, DOT is 92 % down from its all -time high and it sets just over $4. Its market cap currently sits around $5 .15 billion and its supply is a little over $1 .27 billion, a 29 % increase from its previous all -time high. For perspective, if DOT put in its all -time high market cap with today's supply, that $55 Polkadot would now be a $44 Polkadot. As you can see, when the supply goes up, the market cap has so much extra work to do. The problem with this, though, is that DOT is inherently inflationary and it increases about 10 % every year. With that said, according to this chart here from TokenDOTUnlocks, its supply is projected to be $1 .688 billion by November of 2025, which is the projected top of the next bull run based off the Bitcoin halving cycle. For even more perspective, if we ran that supply against the previous all -time high market cap, that $55 DOT becomes a $33 .5 DOT. So for Polkadot to reach its previous all -time high with this new heightened supply, it would require a $92 .8 billion market cap, which is 64 % higher than its previous all -time high market cap. In other words, like I said, Polkadot has a lot of work to do. But to be fair, 46 % of the total supply was staked at the end of Q2 this year. So there is obviously a dedicated community and Polkadot has more active developers than any project in crypto. So my question is, what can that really do for the market cap? Of course, you probably know that I really like to use dominance as a gauge to see what's possible. For those of you that don't know, at the top of the last bull run, the total crypto market cap sat right around $3 trillion. When I use dominance for a gauge, it piggybacks off the idea that the total crypto market cap for the top of the next bull run is likely to range somewhere between $7 to $10 trillion. That is just an estimation. As you can see here, DOT has a relative support resistance line on its dominance chart at 0 .93%. The idea here is that if the total crypto market cap went to $7 to $10 trillion and Polkadot could get that 0 .93%, just less than one full percent, this would give us a range for its market cap. So when we pair that dominance level with the $7 trillion total cap, that would lead to a $65 .1 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, you're looking at about a $38 .70 DOT. If you pair the same dominance level against the $10 trillion total market cap, that would be a $93 billion market cap for Polkadot. When you pair that with the new heightened supply, ironically, we would have a $55 .09 Polkadot, which is only a few pennies higher than its previous all -time high. It is pretty funny how those numbers lined up like that, but I do want to point out that dominance is a guideline and it's not a law. I do like to use it as a tool to get an idea of the range to see what's possible, but to be honest, I do not think DOT is going to be able to put up a $93 billion market cap. So to be honest with you, this is one of those coins in my book that will not surpass its previous all -time high. Personally, for my price prediction, I see DOT probably landing somewhere between $25 to $37, where $37 is an 8 .4x and would require a $62 .5 billion market cap. Boom, there you go. There's my price prediction for Polkadot. Let me know down below in the comments what you thought. Am I too bearish? Am I too bullish? Let me know what you think. Also, I have the next two videos planned out, but after that, I want to know down below in the comments what coins you want to see me cover. I do read the comments, I do hear what you're saying, and I want to cover what you want to learn about. With all that being said, my name is A .J. Rights Crypto. Have yourself a great day.
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A highlight from 188 - The Next Ethereum Upgrade: Blobspace 101 with Domothy
"Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, how to front run the opportunity. This is Ryan Sean Adams and I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here to help you become more bankless. You know how we say blockchains sell blocks? Well soon, Ethereum is going to be selling more than just blocks. It's going to be selling blobs, too. That's right, blobs. So we're just a few months out from the biggest Ethereum release since the merge and I think no one has fully mapped out the implications of this, but it's going to be huge. So Ethereum is getting a new product to sell. It's called Blob Space, that is in addition to Block Space. The cost of transactions on layer twos is about to drop towards zero. The economics of ETH gas and the burn are about to change forever. We're calling this upgrade the Blob Space upgrade, EIP 4844, proto -dank sharding. That's what the geeks are calling this new Ethereum feature upgrade. And we want to cover today everything that you need to know about Blob Space and this coming Ethereum upgrade with Ethereum researcher Domothy. And this is an absolute banger of an episode. I couldn't be more proud to present this to the bankless nation. A few takeaways here. Number one, we go through what is Blob Space? Number two, we go through the history, how we actually got here, this roll -up centric roadmap. And number three, we go through the economics. What does this mean for Ethereum's economics, for ETH value accrual, for ETH the asset? David, why was this episode significant to you? I think if there's any sector of conversation that you and I really just love, it is the intersection of cryptography and economics, like numbers and economic manifestations on top of these protocols. Yeah, that's our love language. This episode is that. So I mean, we've talked about EIP 4844, we've talked about proto -dank sharding, those are the same things. We've defined it a handful of times in a number of different capacities. We've never done the aggressive headfirst dive down the rabbit hole and come out the other side of economics. So like we have technically scaled data availability at a technical level, that is a protocol improvement. But how does that connect to the markets side of Ethereum? The two marketplaces, the one marketplace that are now being fractured into two, Block Space and Blob Space are now two different independent markets that are being contained each inside of an Ethereum block. What does that mean for Ether? What does that mean for the marketplaces that arise around these things? How does the equilibrium of the supply and demand of each push and pull on each other? What does this do for layer two scalability? What does this do for economic use cases on top of layer twos? How does demand for layer one change the demand for layer two? There's so many good stuff at the bottom of this conversation. We're going to start with the basics, the ones that, you know, bank listeners probably know all about 4844 just to lay the groundwork. But then we're going to poke out the other end of the rabbit hole into the economic side of this conversation, which I don't know if many people have even had before. I don't think so. Other than back channels and Harvard DMS and speculation. Yeah. There's going through the implications is perhaps my favorite part. And this is one of my favorite types of episodes that we do because it's both frontier and imminent. I mean, we're just talking months away from this upgrade. So it's right around the corner. It's very relevant to our here and now lives. This is not sci -fi, actually, this is not sci -fi Ethereum stuff. This is the near term stuff. Yeah. This is the stuff we get to look forward to. So guys, we're going to get right to the episode with Domothy. But first we disclose nothing big to disclose today. Both David and I hold ether. You already know that. We are long term investors. We're not journalists. We don't do paid content. There's always a link to all bankless disclosures in the show notes. All right. We're going to get right to the episode with Domothy. But before we do, we want to thank our friend and sponsor Kraken, which is our number one recommended exchange for 2023. Go check him out. Kraken Pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry. The place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices, even when I'm not looking to place a trade. On Kraken Pro, you'll have access to advanced charting tools, real time market data and lightning fast trade execution all inside their spiffy new modular interface. Kraken's new customizable modular layout lets you tailor your trading experience to suit your needs. 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"Investment Advisors. Switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. And 130 Industries. And remember, you can access Bloomberg Intelligence through BI Go and the Terminal. I'm Alex Steele. And I'm Paul Sweeney. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg dot com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Talks aimed at ending a united autoworker strike are underway for a second straight day with no breakthroughs reported. Appearing on MSNBC, UAW President Sean Fain said that progress has been slow as the two sides continue to meet. Nearly 13000 autoworkers remain on strike, demanding better pay and pension benefits. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says President Biden will get what he wants if members of the GOP caucus remove him from the speakership. If you did a motion to vacate, you would have to a handful of Republicans work with Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Ehan Omar to remove the speaker. And it would be exactly what the president wants. During an interview on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures, the California Republican said ousting him would shut down the house and stop the impeachment inquiry against President Biden. McCarthy also brought up what it took for him to secure the speaker's gavel in January. He was elected after a historic 15th ballot. McCarthy's comments come after Florida Republican Matt Gaetz vowed to bring forward a motion to remove the speaker unless he meets conservative demands on spending cuts and policy reforms. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Klinkenbroomer was killed in an ambush -style attack Saturday night near the Palmdale Sheriff's Station. Sheriff Robert Luna says they're searching for answers.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Is There a Correlation Between Losing Faith and Moving? | An Interview with Ryan Gottfredson
"So you're checking us out as maybe a potential podcast you could start listening to. I know many of you have been listening for a long time, but let me just talk to the newbies for a minute. What is Leading Saints? What are we trying to do here with this podcast? Let me explain. Leading Saints is a nonprofit organization, a 501c3 is what they call it, and we have a mission to help Latter -day Saints be better prepared to lead. Now, of course, often means in the context of a calling. It may mean in your local community, your work assignments. We've heard about our content influencing all sorts of leaders in all sorts of different contexts. We invite you to listen to this episode and maybe a few others of our 500 plus episodes that we have out there, jump in and begin to learn and begin to consider some of these principles we talk about on the Leading Saints podcast. Here we go. Well, you're always in for a treat when Ryan Gottfordsen is on the podcast. I've forgotten how many times we've been on the podcast, but if you go to Google and type in Leading Saints and then Ryan Gottfordsen and look at all the episodes that come up, by the way, that's the easiest way to search for content on Leading Saints. Just go to Google, type in Leading Saints, then whatever keyword, and you'll usually find what you're looking for. Now, Ryan, if you're not familiar with Ryan, he's a Ph .D., really smart fellow. He's a mindset author, researcher and consultant. He's written some phenomenal books. Here's another Leading Saints tip. If you go to LeadingSaints .org slash books, you will find a list of our top most recommended books for church leaders in the context of, in various contexts, depending on what issue you're dealing with. Then Ryan's books are on that list and they're so helpful and awesome. Ryan's also currently a leadership and management professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton. He holds a Ph .D. in organizational behavior and human resources from Indiana University and a bachelor's from Brigham Young University. He basically has the career path, the education path. If I was a better student, I probably would have gone the path of Ryan, and it's going to be obvious why in this discussion. We talk about this dynamic that happens, maybe you haven't noticed, maybe you have, but when people leave the church or step away from their faith, they often do it in conjunction with a move. Right? That they'll think, I'm not sure about this gospel and it's kind of hard to sort of stop going to church, so why don't we move? And then we have a big reset and continue on a different path within a new neighborhood, around new people. And our board will just think, hey, we moved, and hopefully they'll forget about us and not worry about us. And so we want to dissect that, why that is, and it leads to a great discussion about community, about building culture, about how do we find those individuals earlier on in the process rather than going to their home and begging them to come to the word barbecue because they've been inactive for a year, how do we find them earlier on so that we can establish connection and relationship and find, help them see that they have a home here and believe it or not, that'll actually stimulate faith and develop faith in our gospel tenants and whatnot. So it's a phenomenal discussion. We both get on soap boxes at various times, especially me, and this isn't like an interview as much as a discussion. We want to model a discussion about this topic and we hope that you take this discussion to what I frame as the revelation machine to your word council or to your word altogether and talk about this. How can we anticipate those who are stepping away and create a culture in our word where they feel like they can stick around a little bit longer? So here's my discussion with Ryan Gottfredson.
The Corporate Shadow
A highlight from 54. Navigating Conflict: Turning Disagreements into Opportunities for Growth
"This is the corporate shadow. I'm Dr. Ryan Giffen, a professor and people operations expert helping employees and bosses build stronger, meaningful, productive relationships. Conflict is like a constant companion in the realm of human interaction, and it's never more apparent than in the bustling corridors of our workplaces. It's a natural consequence of diverse perspectives, personalities, and ideas converging under one roof. But here's the catch. Conflict, if handled effectively, can actually be a catalyst for growth, innovation, and stronger relationships. However, when it's mismanaged, it can leave behind a trail of broken connections and irreparable damage. So buckle up and get ready to explore the transformative power of conflict resolution. By the end of this episode, you'll be armed with practical tools and stories of success that will help you harmonize your workplace and make conflicts work for you, not against you. Conflict is an inherent part of human interaction, especially in the workplace where those diverse perspectives and personalities converge. And so let's explore some of these techniques and provide real world examples of organizations that have successfully turned conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration. First, one of the techniques we can use is active listening, or I call this listen to learn. It's really one of the fundamental aspects of effective conflict resolution. Leaders and employees need to strive to understand the other party's perspective thoroughly. Encouraging opened and honest communication is vital. By active listening, individuals can gain insights into the underlying causes of conflict, identify common ground, and build empathy. If you want to take it a step further, Brene Brown tells us to have courage over comfort. And to do that, we need to be vulnerable. To be vulnerable is being able to get in the arena with the individual and wrestle with the conflict together. Here's a real world example, and it's at Microsoft. At Microsoft, CEO Satya Nadella has actively promoted a culture of listening and empathy. When faced with internal conflicts and disagreements, he encourages his team to engage in active listening sessions. That approach is what helped Microsoft resolve disputes and foster a more inclusive work environment. Another way in which we could tackle conflict is through empathy and perspective taking. Empathy and perspective taking. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by putting themselves in the shoes of the other party and considering their feelings and motivations. Doing this is going to help leaders and employees bridge the gap between conflicting viewpoints. This will then lead to more constructive, empathetic conversations that help resolve disagreements. The online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos is known for its empathetic approach to conflict resolution. Employees are encouraged to take the perspective of customers when resolving issues. This is what resulted in improved customer satisfaction and loyalty. So apply that to your internal customer. Take an empathetic approach. Look through the perspective of the other individual. This will help you increase that relationship and perhaps even more productivity. Third is quite simple, and that is effective communication. Effective communication is really the key to resolving conflicts. And so leaders and employees need to express themselves clearly and assertively, focusing on the issues at hand rather than resorting to personal attacks. Additionally, by setting ground rules, setting ground rules allows you to come from a place of care for respective communication as this will create a safe space for resolving conflict. IBM has a long history of effective conflict resolution techniques. At IBM, the company encourages employees to use the I language rather than you language. For example, I would say, I feel instead of you always, or I would say I've noticed XYZ behavior rather than you're doing this behavior. By using the I language, this will be a more effective way to communicate that doesn't attack the other person. It fosters a more constructive conversation and minimizes defensiveness. Collaborative problem solving. Collaborative problem solving is the next technique we could use. And so rather than viewing conflict as a win lose situation, leaders and employees should approach them as opportunities for collaborative problem solving. Working together to find mutual beneficial solutions can lead to stronger relationships and innovative outcomes. Google is renowned for its approach to conflict resolution through collaboration. In fact, the company promotes a culture of experimentation and encourages employees to view conflicts as opportunities to brainstorm new ideas and solutions. This has really led to the development of many groundbreaking products and services in which Google has provided to the marketplace. And lastly, mediation and third party involvement can often be an effective technique. In some cases, conflicts can escalate to the point where an intervention of that neutral third party is necessary. And a mediator can help facilitate such conversations, ensuring that both parties have a chance to express their views and work toward a resolution. It doesn't have to be a fancy mediator that you spend thousands of dollars on. In fact, look inwards, look towards your human resources department. When all else fails between a manager and a coworker, perhaps HR could help act as a mediator so that all sides are heard. The United Nations regularly employs mediation techniques to address international conflicts. Skilled diplomats and mediators help conflicting parties find common ground and negotiate peace agreements, preventing further escalation. And so at the end of the day, you all, conflict is an inevitable part of life. Embrace it. Don't run away from it. It's how it's handled that can make or break relationships both in your personal and professional lives. Effective conflict resolution techniques such as what we discussed today, active listening, empathy, effective communication, collaborative problem solving, and third party mediation are the essential tools for both leaders and employees alike. By embracing these techniques, organizations can transform conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration, ultimately fostering a more harmonious and productive work environment. The real world examples provided today demonstrate that successful conflict resolution can in fact lead to innovation, improved customer satisfaction, and heck even global peace. That's a wrap for today's episode. Remember embrace conflict. This will be a catalyst for personal and collective growth. When you can transform disagreements into powerful opportunities for understanding, collaboration, and positive change in your life. The Corporate Shadow is produced by InnoSpire Inc. The views expressed in the Corporate Shadow does not reflect the opinions or views of Hyatt Hotels Corporation or any of its brands. Thank you for watching.
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 42: Week 1 Recap
"Welcome to the Ultra Flex football podcast where we have fun with our friends while we talk about football. I'm your host, Anthony Sutton. With me is Rob Green. Hello, hello. And Wheeler. Ryan Howdy, howdy. Tony, you do COVID well. Man, you sound really good, actually. I just realized it. Help my radio voice. Yeah, all right, cool. We got the album thing that we always do. Like I said, we're gonna go over our song title so that you guys know what to listen for. The audience knows what to listen for. We are doing Astro Lounge. The album is called Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth. Because Steve Harwell died. And apparently we're just gonna do an album of everyone who dies. So if you want to get your name on the show, just create an album, become a hit and... There's a pattern forming here. Yeah. Anyway, so my song titles are Who's There, Digging Your Scene, I Just Wanna See, Waste and All Star. Rob. I Satellite, got Radio, Stone, Then the Morning Comes, and Road Man. I've got Fallen Horses, Defeat You, Come On, Come On, Home, and Can't Get Enough of You, Baby. So we'll work those in here. This is gonna be a relatively shorter version of what we've usually been doing last year in this off season. So try to keep this around 30 minutes. We're gonna talk about football talk, which will be recapping week one. We're gonna pick games like we always do. And then we're gonna play Who Am I? So let's talk some football. Let's go to football talk. Dude, I was in my own world there. Let's try that again. Say it again. Let's go to football talk. Sometimes we're good, sometimes we're not, it's fine. I was honestly trying to think of how I could nail like three song titles in one sentence. Right, just on the road, man. We're like Josh Allen, sometimes we're good, sometimes we're not. Week one, interesting week. It always is an interesting week. We had some Fallen Horses, even at home. We had some pretty big upsets in some minds. I guess maybe not upsets, but surprises with the Bengals putting up three points. The Bills not being able to beat a backup quarterback. So let's dig in. If you've listened to this before, you know we're probably gonna start with the Bills and the Titans. I think the Bills game had the biggest news of the season by far with a future Hall of Hamer tearing achilles his four plays into the game. Four plays, man, brutal. So Rob, what happened to the Bills? They sucked. I don't even wanna talk about the Bills this week. Can we talk about another team? Let's talk about the Titans, guys. I'm on to the Raiders this week. The frustrating part for me, which we will talk about the Titans here in a second, is the thing that I've been asking for for what felt like a long time now is for their offensive line and defensive line to play better. And they kind of did. Like the defensive line was in the backfield all game. The offensive line played well enough to win the game. I mean, the Jets have a very good defensive line and they held their own. And our superstar quote unquote quarterback that got paid a boatload of money literally lost the game for us, which is frustrating. So I don't wanna waste too much time talking about the Bills. I just wanna see who your guys' all -star would have been for the Jets on offense. Who would you say, or defense, I guess.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Shockingly, Gary Gensler Doesn't Like Stoner Cats
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, September 14th, and today we are talking about stoner cats. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or, if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breaker's Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Alright, friends, well, I have to tell you, at this point we really have about four archetypes of breakdown shows. There's number one, oh god, more cleanup from 2022. There's number two, hey look, a new TradFi player is getting in the game. There's number three, hey look, a judge or elected official is smacking a regulator down. And then there's number four, hey look, an unelected bureaucrat is trying to expand their power again. And today's show is indeed an example of the fourth, and the reason it matters is not just because it's another SEC enforcement action, but because I do really think that this represents and is a great example of that impulse to authority expansion. So what am I referring to? Well, of course, I am referring to the SEC bringing its second enforcement action ever against an NFT project. This time, the regulator targeted Stoner Cats, a profile picture NFT collection that was sold to finance a web series. The SEC alleged that the sale of collectible NFTs constituted the sale of unregistered securities. The production company behind the project settled the allegations without admitting to the SEC's findings. So the details. Stoner Cats sold out their collection in around 35 minutes at the height of the NFT bull market in July 2021. The project raised $8 million from the sale. Marketing highlighted materials Hollywood producers and big -name celebrities attached to the web series, and suggested that the success of the show would increase the value of the NFTs in secondary markets. The company received 2 .5 % of royalties from secondary market sales, which produced $20 million in volume. In the settlement, Stoner Cats agreed to a cease -and -desist order and a $1 million penalty. In addition, a fund will be established to refund investors and all NFTs held by the company will be destroyed. Gurbir Gural, the director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement, Regardless of whether your offering involves beavers, chinchillas, or animal -based NFTs, under the federal securities laws, it's the economic reality of the offering, not the label you put on it or the underlying objects, that guides the determination of what's an investment contract and therefore a security. As an aside, I wonder sometime if they find their own writing as clever as they seem to. Beavers, chinchillas, or animal -based NFTs, wah. Moving on, the statement reads, Here the SEC's order finds that Stoner Cats marketed its knowledge of crypto projects, touted that the price of their NFTs could increase, and took other steps that led investors to believe they would profit from selling the NFTs in the secondary market. It's therefore hardly surprising, as the order finds, that Stoner Cats sold its entire supply of NFTs in just 35 minutes, generating proceeds of over $8 million, most of which were then resold, not held as collectibles, in the secondary market within months. Carolyn Welschans, the associate director of the SEC's home office, added, Stoner Cats wanted all the benefits of offering and selling a security to the public, but ignored the legal responsibilities that come with doing so. Now, Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Ueda offered what has become their customary dissent against the SEC's actions. They claimed the enforcement represented a perverse extension of the SEC's jurisdiction and the borders of the Howey Test into the realm of art and collectibles. In a statement they wrote, The application of the Howey Investment Contract Analysis in this matter lacks any meaningful limiting principle. It carries implications for creators of all kinds. Were we to apply the securities laws to physical collectibles in the same way we apply them to NFTs, artists' creativity would wither in the shadow of legal ambiguity. Rather than arbitrarily bringing enforcement actions against NFT projects, we ought to lay out some clear guidelines for artists and other creators who want to experiment with NFTs as a way to support their creative efforts and build their fan communities. The Commissioners claimed the NFT project was more properly characterized as a fan crowdfunding. More broadly, they expressed concern that, through this enforcement, the SEC were attempting to exert jurisdiction over collectibles in a way they had never previously done with physical objects. The Commissioners likened stoner cats to a scheme surrounding the launch of Star Wars toys in Christmas of 1977. The toy maker sold early bird certificate packages in lieu of actual toys due to problems with production. These certificates were redeemable for toys in due course, but could also be resold for a profit in secondary markets at the time. The Commissioners asserted that, Using the analysis of today's enforcement action, the SEC should have parachuted in to save those kids from Star Wars mania. The main point of the dissent was that the SEC should not use its enforcement to stifle innovation in creative industries through the use of NFTs. The Commissioners said that, They argued that the SEC's More generally, it contributes to the legal ambiguity facing artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, and others seeking to build a loyal, engaged following. There are a few different categories of reactions from people in the crypto community. Some honestly said that the stoner cats were not necessarily the best example to be a standard bearer for the industry. Gabriel Shapiro, General Counsel at Delphi Labs said, NFT trader, ex -lawyer, NFTs said, And the natural extension of that is any collectible that has a robust resale market — Jordans, baseball cards, comics, rare whiskey and wine, etc. — is potentially sold as a security. That is not the law, but it seems that the SEC is using essentially dicta in an order to creep its jurisdiction. Crypto criminal lawyer Carlos says injecting language like this into settlement seems to be a recurring pattern. To which ex -lawyer again responded, Obviously to us that's not true, but the SEC doesn't play fair and will take advantage of it. And indeed, this take that the SEC was overreaching here was by, in a way, the most common take. Marissa Tashman -Koppel, the Senior Counsel at Blockchain Association said, So now the SEC is in the business of regulating creatives and artists? Creating opportunities for ownership in the creative process is one way crypto and Web3 transforms how we interact online. The SEC shouldn't interrupt this process. Crypto lawyer Ujin writes, Hester Peirce emphasized in her dissent that the SEC's position limits legitimate ways for artists to make a living and she is right. Speculative sales of art are the basis for many sales of art, and that doesn't make those sales a security offering. Now still one more take was that we are seeing something of a positive pattern of dissent. Framework Ventures' Vance Spencer said, Peirce was on her own for a long time. Important to remember for something like an ETF approval, which requires three of five. Now staying on the theme of Gensler for a moment, it's like after the Senate hearing where he had to take some punches earlier this week, he had to go out and find a venue to get his own shots in. Appearing at a conference hosted by lobbyist group Better Markets on Wednesday, Gensler said, Millions of investors have been hurt in this field. It's an area that can hurt investors, but it can also hurt the broader economy because it can hurt investor confidence and finances ultimately built on trust. The conference was of course being held to mark the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, giving Gensler plenty of opportunity for histrionics about financial risk. Gensler trotted out his usual talking points, although adjusted to consider recent criticisms raised in court. Still, there was one kind of awkward and sweet moment where the host suggested that the crypto do seem to be finding some sympathetic judges recently, to which Gensler was uncharacteristically silent in response. Now, Jason Franek from Alliance Dow really sums it up. He wrote, Now, somewhat related, while presenting a speech at a conference hosted by the Practicing Law Institute, CFTC Enforcement Director Ian McGinley pressed home his agency's antipathy towards DeFi. McGinley said, McGinley presented the complete list of CFTC victories in DeFi cases, including a settlement with prediction market PolyMarket and derivatives exchange operator UkiDao. He said, All of this is to say, the CFTC has brought groundbreaking actions in the DeFi space, standing for the proposition that when offering core derivatives products based on digital assets to the public, whether in a centralized or decentralized manner, you must comply with the law. The comments came just a week after the CFTC announced settlements with DeFi trading platforms Open, 0x, and Derridex for offering quote illegal digital asset derivatives trading. The enforcement actions were widely viewed as the regulator taking on easy targets in an attempt to send a message. Indeed, the attack on DeFi was so brazen that one dissenting commissioner even openly suggested that the CFTC was quote, creating an impossible environment for those who want to comply with the law. Bankless co -host Ryan Schott Adams tweeted, The IRS is attacking crypto, FinCEN is attacking crypto, the SEC is attacking crypto, the CFTC is attacking crypto, OFAC is attacking crypto. This is what the now they fight you phase looks like. Now speaking of the fight and not going down without one, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has called for DeFi protocols to take the fight to the CFTC and defend enforcement actions in court. He said in a tweet on Wednesday, The CFTC should not be creating enforcement actions against DeFi protocols. These are not financial services business and it's highly unlikely the Commodity Exchange Act even applies to them. My hope is these DeFi protocols take these cases to court to establish precedent. The courts have proven to be very willing to uphold rule of law. The only thing this is accomplishing is to push an important industry offshore. Now following last week's enforcement action against that trio of DeFi platforms, many commented that the order was a stretch of existing law. And while their cases may have been defensible, the diminutive DeFi platforms were unlikely to have had the resources to take on the US regulator, which is of course why many believe they were targeted in the first place. Now while Brian Armstrong stopped short of offering funding, many others in the space urged collective defense. Crypto law US founder John Deaton said, The industry needs to create a legal fund of some sort to help defend these winnable cases. LEO Trades amplified that, saying, Brian, if you really want to affect policy change, you and Coinbase should help create a fund for projects facing enforcement. Let's be real. Everyone is worried about the financial burden of litigation. This would honestly be a better use of resources than vague political campaigns. Now a different take was summed up by Jamison Lop, who wrote, My hope is that DeFi protocols be so decentralized that the notion of them going to court is absurd. Lawyer Jason Gottlieb wrote a thread about this as well, saying, I agree with Brian Armstrong that DeFi protocols should challenge the CFTC and SEC in court on overreaching settlement demands. The sad reality is that the agencies first attack smaller outfits for whom it makes vastly more economic sense to settle rather than litigate. We see what happens when well -funded projects go to court to fight shaky theories of DeFi liability. Cases or causes of action are dismissed, partial liability can be dropped, the dynamics are greatly changed. But the regulators start with huge advantages. They have typically worn down projects with an expensive investigation first. Even just satisfying the overbearing demands for document production in these investigations can cost six figures easily. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Every single subpoena a regulator sends to a blockchain project is one less engineering job in America and more money for lawyers. Even the lawyers who benefit from that, hi there, think that is a terrible trade -off for America. One problem is funding. The regulators can wear projects down and then offer deals that, while expensive and onerous, are better than more years of continued litigation where even if the project wins, it has massively lost time, funding runway, and momentum. Another problem is that these are people's lives. An investigation is obtrusive enough. Litigation is personally highly disruptive. For us litigators, it's just what we do, it doesn't feel bad. But for founders, devs, people just trying to build, it can feel terrible. So I would love for more DeFi projects to take the CFTC and SEC to court. And is this attorney advertising? I'd love to be the lawyer who represents them. But it costs a lot of money and it's emotionally hard. Companies that have taken on the fight have done great work protecting the space, sometimes behind the scenes in ways people won't widely know about. We need more. But not everyone is well financed and in a fighting mood. So we need to support the smaller projects financially and otherwise. Everyone who believes in the efficiency, privacy, and self -control advantages of digital assets is in this fight together. The battle over the future of crypto is the battle over the future of all digital assets. And since more and more of our lives are digital, that's more and more of our lives. This fight is far more important than when moon antics. It is literally the battle for the future of your digital life. The legal battles over digital assets are the battles over the direction of our collective future. Here, here. I think I will let Jason have the last word on that one because I can't do any better. I appreciate all you guys listening. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Are Altcoins Still In Trouble? (Gary Gensler Not Giving Up)
"Dark AI agents, you know, giving us just answers that, you know, that they get access to, the government gets access to, the tech companies get access to those answers. Why can't we ask the crazy questions? We have Gary Gensler. He just had some comments. He just was speaking in front of the House Financial Subcommittee, I believe here in the SEC. Gary Gensler demonstrates an unbowed will to stand down from his stance towards crypto ahead of the Senate hearing. Here was the Senate, following the Commission's partial loss in the SEC versus Ripple lawsuit, and an even more clear -cut setback in the ETF contention. Gensler is seemingly poised to stand by his gambit, claiming he is out to protect both crypto users and issuers and investors. And in written testimony ahead of the Senate Banking Committee hearing, Gensler stuck to a consistent theme, lying. No, no, no, no, no. He's reiterating that nearly all transaction qualifies as an investment contract, subject to US securities laws. As I previously said, without prejudicing any one token, the vast majority of tokens likely meet the test. Given that most tokens are subject to the securities laws, it follows that most intermediaries have to comply with securities laws as well, hiding behind vague terminology like most and a vast majority. So, and then also likely meet. So he's staying away from anything where he could point to and say, hey, you, you issued us, you know, a clear -cut yes or no. No, he's doing the opposite. He's being vague. He's being obtuse. He's being gray and murky and swirly. And it's all smoke and mirrors, as they say. Likely, you know, likely meet. It's most crypto tokens, most intermediaries. All right. Keep scrolling here. Is he blinking back? Is that pollen? That's just pollen, right? Is that pollen? It's something. Maybe, maybe it's like the, the, the final act of a Pixar movie, you know, maybe, maybe that's maybe he's looking at DZ's portfolio. He's looking at the ape coin. He's just looking at another security, whatever it is, he's looking at it. He's so I actually watched like, you know, 40 some minutes of the oversight hearing this morning. And I mean, he's just like a broken record. Like, you know, crypto is just rife with, blah, it's just so terrible. It's non -compliant. You know, everything's a security. Like, I like really, I made a video, like, ironically, like, you don't even need to watch this video because we know what he's going to say. And then I watched it anyway. And he said everything I thought he was going to say. And it's so funny because you can obviously see, like, obviously the Democrats give him like the soft, the softball answers and agree with everything he says, and then the Republicans push back. And no matter what hearing it is, it's just such a clear divide on who's on his side, who's already like prepared the questions they're going to talk to, you know, and then the other side is clearly like, you're not helping anyone, you're not protecting investors, like you're saying one thing and doing another just classic, classic Gary. And I'm so sick of talking about him. Classic Gary is like an 80s sitcom character, the rascal neighbor kid that's like next door. And guys, I have a new strategy with the combatants against crypto. I'm gonna say their name one time, might be the last time you ever hear me say their name. I'm talking about Elizabeth Warren's tactics and the tactics used by people like her. There's going to be a new strategy we're all going to employ together, and it's going to help out the crypto industry. Thank Ryan Selkis for this one, giving me that idea. All right, let's talk about the wide ranging non -compliance here. This is what he's saying is the main issue with crypto. He also raised concern about non -compliance in the industry, which he termed, guys, it's wide ranging. Given this industry's wide ranging non -compliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen so many problems in these markets. Gensler will be grilled about recent enforcement actions by the commission, which according to many observers have been nothing short of a witch hunt and an overreach of their mandate. I think we would all be in agreeance with that, right? Well, let's go from the SEC to the CFTC. CFTC commissioner plans to modernize investor protection with technology, with technology to minimize the danger. I'm sorry, God, God, that was terrible. That was my JTTI impression. That was top notch. It was an okay song, but I butchered it. All right, to minimize damages caused by financial fraud, Romero proposed the formation of the national financial fraud registry, a centralized record of all crimes and fines related to financial fraud. Isn't there like a website that does that already? I feel like we don't need to create more committees. And what was the word that they use here? We don't need a registry. To me, that just seems a little big brother ask. How about we just have a fun website where, you know, let's just detail all the things. We have the entire US debt. We have the GDP up. We have all these websites. They have all this information up. So why couldn't we do it with just companies that have been fined by the federal government and state governments are then one that has everything combined there. That's genius. Genius. All right. You know what? They're going to do it. They would. That's the thing is that they probably would. That's hilarious. All right. A spearheading this effort to amp up investor protections and guard rails. Romero appointed technology experts in FinTech, AI, crypto, blockchain, and cybersecurity to their advisory committee. Let's see here. We have Christy Goldsmith. Romero's the chairperson there. The commissioner revealed that the TAC experts are tasked with identifying ways to instill KYC, which stands for know your customer and AML processes, which stand for anti money laundering and to defy in crypto invest in avenues. We're also tasked with promoting responsible AI development because we can have those dark, dark AI agents, you know, giving us just answers that, you know, that they get access to, the government gets access to, the tech companies get access to those answers. Why can't we ask the crazy questions? Uh, you ever see some of those crazy prompts? I'm actually kind of for a little bit. We don't, we don't need a first grader to be able to, I don't even want to say them out loud. There's some dark prompts where you can find out ways to do a lot of harmful things that doesn't surprise me at all. I remember when chat GBT first came out, there was like this really long prompt where it would give you like chat GBT's answer. And then it would, it was like some name like Kevin Dan. Yeah. And it was, it would give you like the, the far right wing sort of answer. It was hilarious, but I don't, well, where is that prompt? Someone sent it to me, please. Well, yeah, they, they fix a lot of it, but yeah, we don't want someone to say, what's the most harm I can create on humanity with household chemicals. And then all of a sudden, you know, like mustard gas and you know, the, you know, we don't want anarchy cookbook version of chat, TPT on steroids. Yeah. Let's, let's, let's reel it in here. It's really didn't reel it in. Yeah. This basement talk, right? Yeah. Sorry, Drew. All right. Investigations have shifted away from primarily backtracking trade activities to monitoring social media platforms, such as X Reddit and Facebook. However, they also recommend the use of tools to aid such investigations. The registry would help investors do background checks for any investigations or fines for fraud imposed on the companies. Yeah. I just, I just don't want a whole agency. I don't want a whole registry. I don't want a whole entity of government spun up for this. Just make a little website. It's not that hard. We don't have to have a overseers and, you know, people in trench coats and briefcases knocking on your door in the middle of the night.
Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Bailey Greetham-Clark: BeGreatFitness & Pandemic Resilience
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritise mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Guys, welcome back to Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. I'm your host Jack Coward, and alongside me, as always, Mr Ryan Smith. Today, we have an extraordinary guest who truly embodies the spirit of resilience and empowerment. Joining us is Bailey, a true beacon of inspiration and change. Bailey took on an incredible challenge at the age of just 17, right in the midst of a global pandemic. Fuelled by a remarkable vision, he founded Be Great Fitness, an initiative aimed at bridging the gap between fitness and vulnerability. During humbling his experiences, he has had fights of his own demons that we will be jumping into tonight, so stay tuned. But as always, Mr Ryan Smith, how are you tonight, mate? Do you know what? I'm not actually too bad, apart from a little technical error. My internet is, well, I think it's more brick that I've got as a laptop. We're all good, honestly. No, this chap tonight, I tell you what, he's got a couple of impressive sort of things that's been going on in the past. We've touched a bit briefly on it just before we come on, but for me, I've just got to commend the man for it. One is money, and two is tash. I just love him. I just love him. And that's probably because I can't actually grow a tash or a beard or anything. He's more jealous, that's why I rip everyone. You slate me for my ginger beard, mate, all the time, and now we've got a chap on who is, and you know what, I've, I've known this guy for a while now, and I would never say it to his face after this podcast, I will never say it again. But he is genuinely one of the nicest blokes I've met. And you know me as a person, Ryan, you know what he does actually see me. Yeah, he does. You know me that the fact that I don't, I don't, I'm not one that's very open. I'm not one that chats all the time. I'm not one that if you see me in public, I'm kind of like approachable. But Bailey's got this aura about him. That is so genuine, so authentic. He has the real passion in just the way he says hello to you is honestly a real top guy. And again, I'm not gonna say this outside of the podcast or during the coffee, so no one will ever know. But Bailey, welcome to the show, mate. How are you buddy? Thank you so much. I'm really good. It's, do you know what, that's probably one of the best introductions I've had for an interview or a show. That was that was kind I'm gonna I need to get that recorded and keep it because I feel like I'll never hear that again. I like that. Thank you. Which bit which bit is it? But the ribbon? I just feel like I can pull them all in the tash off and I'm a nice guy called the jack which is great. So no, I'll take I'll print the intro off man. I'll sign it for you and I'll send it to the post. There you go, mate. Frame it.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Ripple's Fortress Acquisition Shows the Brittleness of Crypto Infrastructure
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 12th, and today we are talking about all of this dust up with fortress and the Ripple acquisition and what it means and who you should be mad at. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Well, today we are talking about one of the biggest discussion points for the last week or so on Twitter, which has been the issues surrounding fortress trust. Let's begin our particular slice of the story on Friday when Ripple announced that they had acquired fortress trust. Now, the deal was pitched as an expansion of Ripple's regulated crypto offering as they built out a vertically integrated blockchain services product suite. And Monica Long, the president of Ripple, said in a statement, licenses are a powerful enabler to build and deliver best in class customer experiences for enterprises using Ripple's crypto infrastructure across our payments and liquidity solutions, which she was referring to as the fact that fortress trust holds a Nevada state trust license, which allows it to custody crypto and act as a financial intermediary with the traditional financial system. This would add then to Ripple's existing strategy of accumulating licenses. Between Ripple and its subsidiaries, the corporate group now holds 30 state money transmitter licenses, a New York state bit license and a major payment institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. So commentary over the weekend on this fell into two camps. On the one hand, this could have simply been Ripple buying a company to add a custody service to its one stop shop approach to crypto. On the other hand, many viewed this as a quiet bailout of fortress. And indeed, the Friday acquisition announcement was slightly strange in tone. Executives asserted that fortress could add a key piece to Ripple's vertically integrated crypto offering. However, the deal announcement was a little bit out of sync with previous announcements from Ripple. Specifically, the acquisition valuation was not mentioned, which was out of character for Ripple who had brashly announced a 250 million dollar deal to acquire crypto custodian Medeco in May. And of course, we have to put it in the context into which it happened. Fortress itself was already viewed with skepticism. The licensed crypto custodian had been founded by former prime trust CEO Scott Purcell in December of 2021. Purcell had left prime trust in January of that year. That was around the same time that prime trust mishandled wallet storing customer funds, leading to an 83 million dollar shortfall. Several key executives left prime trust to follow Purcell into his new venture. The firm was also aggressive in hiring former banking regulators to their team. The rift between companies was so acrimonious that there were even allegations of IP theft in taking software systems built at prime trust across to fortress. In June of this year, the shortfall in customer funds at prime trust came to light. Around this, the company was first placed into receivership by the Nevada regulator and later declared bankruptcy. Now prior to prime trust acknowledging their insolvency, numerous high profile customers fled for other custodians. It was already widely suspected that prime trust was insolvent at the time. The most impactful departure from prime trust was swan bitcoin. In June, swan announced that they would be transferring all customer funds held in custody to fortress. The transfer took over a week and involved a shutdown of automated transactions with swan. To many, it felt like an emergency operation more than a normal business decision, although throughout the process, swan executives assured customers that funds were safe. So this is where we were over the weekend. Lots of speculation, lots of questions around fortress, lots of questions around ripple. And on Monday, new information came to light around the circumstances surrounding the fortress acquisition. The day before the acquisition, my birthday, September 7th, fortress had posted a disclosure about a security incident which they tried to make seem relatively innocuous. On that day, they tweeted, Thankfully, there is no breach within fortress technology or systems, impacted accounts were fully restored. And most importantly, of course, there is no loss of funds. We immediately terminated the vendor integration and out of an abundance of caution paused all accounts to assess and ensure system wide security. We are taking all necessary measures to make sure the vendor is held accountable. Although this has been resolved, transparency and security are of the utmost important to us and our customers. We also have some big company news we are excited to share later this week. Now, Ryan Weeks, a reporter at the block received a tip that the incident had been far more impactful than it was made out to be. Indeed, he was told that 450 Bitcoin worth around 11 .3 million had been stolen from fortress trust, although that specific amount has been unable to be verified. What has been verified is that the ripple deal was much more of a bailout of fortress than it initially seemed. A ripple spokesperson said, Conversations accelerated last week following the security incident via a third party analytics vendor, but this opportunity makes sense for Ripple in the long term. Luckily, Ripple was in a position to act quickly to step in and make customers whole, and there have been no breaches to fortress technology or systems. Fortress notified customers immediately of the incident when it happened, as they mentioned in their tweets. Now, for those of you eagle eyed observers out there, or I guess eagle eared as the case may be, owl eared, whatever, you'll notice that fortress's Thursday statement said, This technically is consistent with Ripple swooping in to make customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if in fact Ripple had had to bail fortress out to make those customers whole, but also somewhat misleading if ripple indeed had to come in to make sure that those customers didn't actually lose their funds. Now what was also made clear on Monday is that the ripple deal is still pending regulatory and due diligence approvals. Given that we already saw the Bitco acquisition of prime trust fall apart during the due diligence process earlier this year, there is certainly no guarantee that it actually goes through. Now, of course, as you've already heard, there are numerous other companies tangled up in this mess. Swan Bitcoin is, of course, one of fortress's most well known customers. They have been in an absolute narrative battle and have claimed throughout that they were completely unaffected by the issue and the client funds remain safe. The other companies impacted are the custodian services subcontracted by fortress. Their role in the industry is mainly as the holder of a relevant trust license rather than as a tech provider. We know, for example, that hot wallet services are provided by fire blocks, while cold storage is provided by Bitco. And indeed, with the behind the scenes detail now made public, Bitco CEO Mike Belshi wrote a Twitter thread outlining his disappointment with how the entire debacle was handled. On Monday, Mike wrote, they are still at risk and whether Bitco was somehow involved. Spoiler alert, we were not. When fortress lost funds, they chose to omit facts about what happened, downplay the event and conclude, quote, most importantly, no funds were lost. Obviously, we now know this was not true. I guess what they meant to say is we believe we fixed the problem and we have taken steps to make sure clients are made whole. But those two statements are not even close to being the same. Ripple has done the right thing and disclosed that a breach did occur. But fortress still has not made a real statement about what actually happened. So, summarizing what is publicly known, along with what we know from Bitco, one, fortress suffered a breach through some third party integration, not Bitco, two, via fortress's platform and some third party integration, the attacker was able to drain funds from fortress's hot wallet system, three, fortress used fire blocks for its hot wallet system, four, fortress noticed the failure and says they have fixed the problem with the third party, five, although fortress did use Bitco to custody some of its Bitcoin and digital assets, Bitco was not affected. None of the fortress assets held at Bitco were at risk from this third party integration or taken. After the breach, fortress reached out to Bitco. Bitco strongly advised fortress to disclose what happened immediately. Fortress did not do that. Eventually fortress decided to sell to Ripple. This is a great outcome because Ripple was able to make all clients whole and will hopefully help fortress with resources to correct the security weaknesses which led to this event. Ripple is a good actor here and should be applauded. The real victims here are fortress's clients who deserve enough respect to get the whole truth. They are not to be blamed. The whole situation is exactly why we need decentralization. We can't continue to be dependent on the honesty of custodians, bankers or trusted third parties acting with integrity when bad things happen. Bad things will happen and most humans don't have enough courage to be honest through it. So there are a lot of things that people are upset about here. One of the biggest strands of conversation has been around Swan. On September 11th, the company tweeted, Swan client coins are in insured cold wallets at Bitco and did not move during the reported incident at fortress. The coins are protected by video calls and physical access and are not subject to any incidents at fortress. Swan set up this agreement with fortress to use Bitco as a cold storage sub -custodian precisely to prevent such a scenario. Swan has direct on -chain visibility to funds at Bitco. When someone asked what kind of insurance Swan was referring to, Corey Clifton the CEO said, It's $250 million per wallet, with no wallet holding more than $250 million, provided by Lloyd's of London. It's the best setup we've seen. As always, take self -custody if you're willing and able. Now, responding to the critique in general of Swan being associated with these companies, which now have a less -than -stellar record handling customer assets and are now owned by a company that is anathema to many Bitcoiners, Corey wrote, Separation of brokerage and custody is the model for traditional assets for good reason, and there's a good probability it becomes law for digital assets in the U .S. I am not a fan of the trust -me -bro model of brokerage and custody under the same roof, like Mt. Gox and FTX. The goal is to have no single company able to unilaterally move user funds. We very intentionally set up Fortress and BitGo with that model. Now, I understand the narrative frustration here, but at the end of the day, the reason that Swan had to work with these companies is that there just wasn't anyone else. This is why as much as some Bitcoiners are worried about the entrance of traditional financial actors into the space, many others view it as necessary to just have more market options for crypto -native brokerage companies like Swan to actually work with. Anyways, the whole thing is a mess, reflective of how bad the infrastructure is for crypto and Bitcoin right now in the U .S., and a reminder of just how challenging digital assets are, even for companies that have big history in the space. The one other big story from yesterday that I want to cover was the FTX creditor update. The FTX bankruptcy team reports that they have marshaled around $7 billion in assets. Using updated valuations from the end of August, the estate holds $3 .4 billion in major crypto tokens. This includes $560 million in Bitcoin, $192 million in ETH, and $1 .1 billion in Solana. Now, of that, it appears that only $137 million worth of Solana is listed as vesting, meaning a much larger portion of the tokens may be eligible for sale than previously thought. The non -crypto assets include 38 properties in the Bahamas worth around $200 million, as well as $529 million worth of securities primarily made up of grayscale Bitcoin trust shares, $2 .6 billion in cash, and $4 .5 billion in venture investments, although no current valuation of those investments was provided. The firm's liabilities show $65 billion in non -customer claims. That figure is massively inflated by a $43 .5 billion claim from the IRS, which is presumed to be subordinated to customer claims. The IRS generally submits the largest possible tax claim during bankruptcy proceedings, but often negotiates down significantly or differs entirely to a creditor distribution. Of the remaining liabilities, a $9 .2 billion claim from FTX Digital Markets is assumed to be invalid or redundant, which leaves $4 .1 billion claim by Genesis and $2 billion claim by Celsius as the major non -customer claims to deal with. So far, a little over 36 ,000 customers have filed claims totaling $16 billion. Of the claims that have been scheduled so far, around 10 % of customers have agreed to their scheduled claims, while 18 % have disputed their claims and 72 % have yet to respond with either an agreement or a dispute. Now, easily the most discussed part of the news dealt with the firm's clawback strategy. Transactions done within a 90 -day window of the bankruptcy filing can be eligible for a clawback, but in practice, not all claims are pursued. The estate has successfully pursued $588 million in claims so far, and they identify an additional $16 .6 billion in clawbacks that could be pursued. The estate is currently considering how to deal with customer clawbacks where users withdrew from the exchange close to the bankruptcy being filed. Several options being looked at included the full 90 -day window for clawbacks as well as a shorter 15 -day window which captures the major public news surrounding the FTX collapse. Travis Kling tweeted about this saying, This brings up a big question of executability. How feasible is it for the estate to go sue people in every corner of earth? This is a really surprising turn in this deal. Everyone was thinking this outcome was quite unlikely the entire time. If the estate ends up doing what it looks like they want to, it will change the nature of this bankruptcy process. We'll learn more at the 9 -13 hearing. Indeed, the estate is due in court tomorrow Wednesday for an omnibus hearing which will cover numerous aspects of the case including the potential liquidation of crypto holdings as well. You might remember that three weeks ago FTX asked for permission to appoint Galaxy Digital as a selling agent. Selling would initially have a limit of $100 million per week which could increase to $200 million if creditors agree. The market has obviously begun to price in significant fear of this FTX liquidation. Sunday for example saw a liquidity breakdown in Solana as rumors of imminent dumping spread. And yet many think that the market is overreacting. Jeff Dorman, the CIO at ARCA said, The way crypto market makers and traders are front -running the FTX supply shows a complete misunderstanding of how a syndicated sale process works. This isn't an every -man -for -himself VC unlock. This is a court -ordered process that Galaxy will sell very slowly and opportunistically. Lastly, the potential reboot of the exchange remains a possibility. According to the report, 75 bidders have been contacted. The report stated that Proposals are being evaluated. Transaction timing will depend on nature of transactions, readiness of bidder, and other considerations. So, friends, if there are currently two archetypes of breakdown episodes, with one being legal battles that are increasingly poking towards a positive direction for this industry, and the other being cleanup from the excesses of years past, this unfortunately was one of the latter. But, as they say, the only way out is through, and so until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Jets in Despair, a Wide-Open AFC East, and the Big UFC-WWE Merger With Sean Fennessey, Ben Solak, and Nick Khan
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That's why every car from CarMax has upfront pricing and an unbeatable love it or return it. 30 -day money back guarantee up to 1 ,500 miles. Shop at Nationwide Inventory on your terms. That's car buying reimagined. Start shopping now to find a car you'll love at carmax .com. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. It is an all -time one for us. We did Black Cat, Me and Chris Ryan, Michael Mann movie. We were running out of Michael Mann movies. We don't care. We love this movie. We're probably in the minority. I also went on the big picture with Sean Fennesey. They did a Denzel Washington movie draft and I was on there with Sean and Amanda Dobbins and Chris Ryan and Van Lathan. That was really fun. I got over competitive. I'm sorry. I apologize to everybody in the room. Coming up on this podcast, well, the Jets, that happened. We're gonna talk about what happens now at the AFC East with Benjamin Solak. We're gonna bring in our guy, Sean Fennesey, diehard Jets fan to walk through his emotions the last 12 hours. And then last but not least, Nick Khan, who was running WWE, but today they merged with UFC. And we're gonna talk about that merger, what it means, what it means for the business, what's Vince McMahon's role in the whole thing. And then we're gonna talk a lot of sports media stuff as well. ESPN versus Charter, what the NBA rights are gonna be. So this is an action -packed podcast. Dare I say it's a TKO for you, the listener. Let's bring in Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this on Tuesday morning, we got the words that Aaron Rodgers, out for the year, torn Achilles, Sean Fennesey, who I've worked with for 11 plus years at this point, diehard Jets Mets fan, Knicks, been a rough ride, rocky road. After Rodgers went down five minutes into the game, you just tweeted goodbye and it didn't respond to texts. We didn't know. I was saying it was like, Marcuson's gone. There is no Marcuson. It's like, Sean's gone. There is no Sean. How are we feeling today? Thanks for having me on the show, Bill. Really kind of you to have me on. I feel justified in all of my melodramatic curse talk. I'm sure I feel similar to how you felt in 2002, 2003, you know, with the socks and feeling anxiety. I feel bad. I feel even worse, actually, because they won for a variety of reasons. But we got a chance to see, like, this is a really cool, fun, exciting team. And they, I don't know if they were Super Bowl bound, but it's easy to imagine a world in which they could have been Super Bowl bound. So yeah, I feel I feel very bad. Very bad. Well, I think the revelation from last night was that Breese looked like 95 percent of where he was last year, which I was not expecting. He was a weird fantasy football guy. It was people like, when's he going to be 100 percent, is it going to happen? So the fact that he looked like that almost made the Rogers thing worse as the game was going on, if it was even possible to feel worse about it, because it's like, oh, this guy is like a guy again. Yeah, even at the very beginning of the game, it's stupid to nitpick the first four play calls. But I was like, wow, they're really throwing a lot coming out of this game. I thought the whole point of this season was to actually use the running game to power Rogers. Obviously, the injury is a freak injury. Nothing could have prevented it. He's an older player. That O -line is obviously problematic, but it was painful actually watching Breese play so well because that could have been really the focal point of the offense. And then Aaron Rodgers just needed to be competent and then this would have been a really competitive team. So it's like I'm legitimately depressed about it. On the other hand, I tell you what I really don't like about it.
Bankless
A highlight from Surveillance Finance 101 with Seth Hertlein and Michael Mosier
"Hey, Bankless Nation. I put out a tweet last week that said this, who can come on bank lists and explain the modern financial surveillance apparatus? FADF, FinCEN, AMLKYC, OFAC, the Blacklist, the Graylist. How does it all work? Who makes the rules? But in the space for years, I still don't understand these dark corners. That's very much how I felt coming to this episode, needing the financial surveillance 101. I knew it was an octopus, knew it was this multi -headed hydra. I had no idea how deep its roots actually go, and today we unpack this with legal experts. Seth Hirtline, he's the VP of Global Policy at Ledger, and also Michael Mosier. He actually has spent some time in the belly of the beast at both FinCEN and OFAC. Now he's on our team. He's the guy inside the house. Yeah, and now he's on Team Crypto, so he's got some insider baseball that he's going to tell us as we make sense of this. This was a really fantastic episode. I know I want to get your comments on this episode, but before we do, we've got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Ave. David, what does Ave want bankless listeners to know? Ave wants you to know that Ave V3 is here. I mean, it's been here. It's been here for six months. So why does Ave want you to know that V3 is here? Well, because apparently over a billion dollars of capital doesn't know that because it's still in Ave V2. Not only that, but there is a button for migrating your capital to Ave V3. So Ave, if you are an Ave V2 enjoyer, which you are free to because it is permissionless open source technology, they still want you. Everything gets better if all of the liquidity goes to the same place. So if you are using Ave but you are using Ave, an old version of Ave, perhaps consider joining the rest of the crew in Ave V3. It has more liquidity than Ave V2, but also some extra features as well. So power asset isolation mode and compartmentalize your risks. It's got some gas optimizations. It's got some extra bells and whistles. It's just a better version of Ave. App .Ave .com. But then also there is Ave Grants. If you are a builder building on Ave, especially their brand new stablecoin Go, there are grants available to you. So overall, there's a bunch of things to do in the Ave ecosystem, and there's a link in the show notes to get started with all of them. Yeah. My favorite, I would say both of our favorites, lending and borrowing protocol and crypto. They've been around since the very beginning. Ave is just fantastic. David, I know this episode was my idea. It's kind of like geeky, wonkish stuff, but I felt like it was so important, especially on the back of developers getting arrested in tornado cash. Like what is going on? I just realized one day I don't even understand what all of these are institutions and what gives the financial surveillance system their apparatus. What did you think of this episode? Yeah, I definitely would categorize this one as a Ryan episode. I was definitely in listening mode for the majority of this podcast. I mean, I guess that's what it's like to be a listener. You're in listening mode, so I guess telling listeners to enter listening mode, I guess doesn't help them. I learned a lot. It felt like story time, a little bit about American history. One of these episodes that we frequently do on Bankless every now and then about just like, hey, how did just the state of laws come to be in the way that they are and how are they downstream from the original American values that this country was founded on? What about the current settling of the dust around this new player in the world of, in this universe called cryptography? How is that disturbing the equilibrium and how do we need to extend American values into this new world? Because if we don't do that, then non -American values will take over. I think that's kind of the through line that I would, that will anchor Bankless listeners is that there's this new field in territory. We can have freedom enter and establish itself legally, or we can have authoritarian interests enter in that same field. And I mean, I think everyone knows which side that we want to win. We need to actually fight for that and fighting for that starts with understanding. And so I think that's why I enjoyed this episode is it helps tell that story. Yeah. And anytime David says American values, if you're outside the U S and you're like American values, just, just think of liberal values, like lowercase L values, right? Civil liberties you know, freedoms of citizens to, to express themselves and to transact without the surveillance of the government. That's really what we're talking here. And that's what's at stake more than anything. I think this episode impressed upon me that unchecked, this is just an octopus. This is just like a tree structure that will, I don't know, it's not an octopus slime mold. It will grow. Exactly. And, and it is growing and it has grown since like the 1970s. Anyway, absolutely fantastic episode guys. Stay tuned for this. But before we do, we want to tell you about our friends over at Kraken, which is our number one recommended exchange. Go check them out. Kraken pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry. The place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices. Even when I'm not looking to place a trade on Kraken pro, you'll have access to advanced charting tools, real time market data, and lightning fast trade execution, all inside their spiffy new modular interface. Kraken's new customizable modular layout lets you tailor your trading experience to suit your needs, pick and choose your favorite modules and place them anywhere you want in your screen with Kraken pro. 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I feel like this is an episode. Um, maybe for me, it's, it's kind of a selfish episode because I feel like here I am in crypto and I've heard all of these, you know, four or five letter agencies. Uh, and it's recently started to impact my life with like tornado cash. I'm not entirely sure what these agencies are. I'm not entirely sure what's legal and what's not. I'm not entirely sure what powers each of these agencies actually have over my financial life. And I'm looking for like the one Oh one, I'm looking for like the, the explainer when we call it, talk about fat if, uh, and we're talking about OFAC, we're talking about whitelists and gray lists and we're talking about, you know, can I use tornado cash or not? And I can't because I'm an American. I just don't know what, uh, what every like what's going on here. So I feel like we need the one Oh one episode. So if you guys are game to do that, that's what, uh, this we're going to try to accomplish today. So I'm good. Great. Absolutely. Well, let's, um, let's kind of start domestic, uh, from sort of the U S perspective if we will, and then, then go international to kind of the rest of the world. But I want to start with maybe a working definition. So I'm thinking of this episode as like a financial surveillance one Oh one episode. And I'm wondering if you guys could sort of describe financial surveillance when I use that term, what does it mean to you? What is kind of happening behind the scenes? Who are some of the main agencies that hold the power? I'll throw this one to you first, Seth. Okay. Um, well, I, you know, I think, you know, for the purposes of this episode, let's, uh, you know, sort of carve out, you know, private sector or sort of corporate surveillance. Um, uh, let's, let's sort of limit the scope of today's conversation to, uh, to government surveillance. But I, you know, I think the, uh, you know, a good working definition could be, um, you know, information that is, uh, collected by, uh, or, uh, required to be reported to, uh, the, uh, the federal government or an agency thereof, uh, either by individuals or, um, uh, by, by service providers, intermediaries, uh, that they use for, uh, their everyday financial lives. So just to check that definition, Seth, I hear hearing two parts. One is the legally mandated reporting requirements, which if you don't do it, you get like something like fines and jail. And then there's additional information, which it would seem that the powers that be are able to just collect by their own visual, uh, mechanisms as in like it's information that's out there and they collect that information because it's available for them to collect. So that's two types of data. I mean, you know, Mike, I'd be curious your, your thoughts on this. I think it sort of converges effectively into, uh, more or less the same thing. Um, so, so maybe not a need to draw that particular distinction. Um, yeah, I think, I think it's a, I think it's a collective approach. It sort of, um, I think for two reasons, one is, you know, some of that will come into play, David, as we're, as we think about challenges, including constitutional challenges, uh, as courts have, have made a distinction between, uh, when you put your trash out, um, have you relinquished control of it? And if somebody goes through it, they just go through that through it, um, versus, uh, somebody coming in your house and going through your papers, which is the sort of genesis of the fourth amendment. Um, and I think as Seth's pointing out, we're, we're in a space here with, with web one, two, and now three, where there's tremendous amount that's, that's in this gray area between what's public and what isn't. I think even, even the concept of like what's public information at this point, um, is, is a lot more of a fine tuned, uh, fine nuanced issue, uh, including, I should say, like in a way that, that also these same government agencies that are, that are collecting it for various reasons. I mean, the, the mission of all of this, uh, and I think this is important is something when, when I was at FinCEN, we would say to the people on the Hill, making the laws too, sometimes without asking us first, uh, was that the primary mission is countering exploitation here. And so you have to factor into that, that the fact that this information out there and being collected in any form is also subject to creating greater exploitation. Uh, and that, that includes people's, you know, honeypots of people's data that gets hacked. Um, some of this recently coming up in FTX and Kroll, um, coming out of the bankruptcy. Uh, and that's something that, that I think there's the policymakers and the politicians, and then there's also the, operators out there, including at FinCEN and DOJ are saying, actually we don't need more cases and more victims. Uh, so can we protect some of this too? It's partly why we brought in privacy experts and did initiatives on zero knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption at FinCEN. So I do think it's really important that we're, that we're talking about that very holistically. There's a lot out there. So already we're talking about FinCEN and DOJ and treasury and all these kinds of institutions. I want to get some working definitions on, but, but while we're, while we're talking about, um, this, this term, financial surveillance, all right, let's just get a grasp of what sort of data is generally being collected. And like, when is this primarily like, uh, intermediaries that are required to submit this? Because, um, as a, you know, a citizen of the US, I don't often have to, I guess I'm not like conscious of times that I'm like filing paperwork with treasury or FinCEN, but maybe I am through an intermediary and I, I just don't know it. So what sort of things are being tracked and, uh, surveilled and why? I'm happy to take that first. Yeah, I think, I mean, so it's true. You're not, although I will say there's, there's, uh, there's legislation out there, particularly in the tax space that could make you a reporter, Ryan, whether you like it or not, and whether everyone around you likes it or not. Uh, speaking of honeypots, like you may be collecting and reporting on others, but I think as, as in a traditional stand from the, from a FinCEN perspective in the Bank Secrecy Act, um, you're absolutely right. It would be intermediaries. Uh, and in fact, this goes back to some of the constitutional issues that, and the third party doctrine that Seth mentioned, but it's really transactional information. Um, and historically, in fact, the, we can talk through a little bit if you want the history of the Bank Secrecy Act, but it was exactly this. It was around, uh, reporting requirements basically, uh, coming up through the seventies. Um, and basically at the time it was purely, it was basically large cash. Um, law enforcement was seeing large cash deliveries to banks. I'm pretty sure it was organized crime. And when they would go to a bank, the bank would say, I don't know, I don't know why, um, Bugsy Siegel dropped off, $100 million. Uh, and so the other piece of that was that there was foreign Swiss banks, uh, at the time. And so this was the foreign transactions reporting piece of it too. Um, that had Swiss bank, Swiss secrecy, uh, Bank Secrecy, which is where the Bank Secrecy Act comes from. Um, and so the US would say, okay, well, we'll go to Switzerland where some of this money is getting sent from the bank that was brought in in cash. And they'd go to the Swiss and say, okay, you tell me about what's going on here. And they would say, there's nothing we can say. There's a secret, there's bank secrecy here. And so part of it was going to the US banks and saying, we need you to collect more information at the time. It was really just information of like, who's collecting it. Um, give me their, their, basically their, their bank opening information. Where do they live? What's their phone number? What's their, um, what's their occupation? What's their source of income, that sort of thing. It evolved over time to suspicious activity reports, which is much more, I think what, what you're thinking through, which is, okay, now a bank is making a determination. Seth came in the other day. He didn't just drop off a bunch of cash. He's, he's making anomalous, uh, deposits that don't make sense to us. Uh, this seems suspicious. He said he was, uh, he said he was a reporter, but he makes a million dollars a day. Um, what's going on here. And so they would file a suspicious activity report that would lay out, who is it? What did he say it came from? Um, and what is it that's suspicious about it? And I, and I should say like, you know, back in the day that would have been, he brought in a bag of cash, um, net, then it would evolve to checks and check numbers. Then it would evolve to trans, uh, wire transfers and the wire transfer information about every piece of that transaction who the correspondent bank was in the crypto space. That could be all sorts of things. What wallet address was connected? What time? Uh, if it's a, if it's a public ledger like Ethereum or Bitcoin, that might be, here's a graph of everything that that wallet touched, um, historically, uh, depending on what the platform is, they may collect the IP address, even the device identifier that Seth used to connect. Um, so there's a tremendous amount of data and metadata that could be collected in that. Can we, Michael, so can we go back to kind of the history here, uh, with you guys to make sure I understand it. So there wasn't, and we're still domestic, so we're still talking about the U S and we'll expand international after this. So, um, prior to like the 1970s, am I right to say there wasn't much financial surveillance? And then in the nine 1970s, is that, is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that's correct. And then in the 1970s, basically to kind of fight crime, maybe organized crime, you know, the mafia was sort of one, uh, one organization that was in the cross hairs. Uh, the U S came out with a bank secrecy act and this started sort of the, the surveillance, financial uh, apparatus. And, and so this, is this the reason basically for AML KYC, which is like, I have to be identified before I can like, you know, with a government ID, let's say before I can open a bank account. And this is the reason when I go to like transfer money or take out a large deposit from my bank, uh, the bank teller will say, what are you doing with that? Like, how are you using that money to ask these questions? I'm always like, why, why do you need to know this? Uh, you know, and it's almost couched as if, well, we want to protect you from frauds and scams and you know, maybe that's part of it. It seems like more of it is, is, is kind of this financial surveillance apparatus. So that's why I have to present an ID. That is why they are asking questions like, what are you doing with the money? And can you tell me more about, uh, the source of the funds? These are all questions. I'm, I know many bankless listeners have, have seen from their banks and it all, all emanated from this legislation from the, the 1970s and the bank secrecy act is that, is this correct? Yeah. So it started, uh, bank secrecy act was enacted in 1970. Um, and you know, at, at that time it was, uh, you know, a much smaller version, uh, you know, than it is now. Uh, right. So in 1970 I had two, uh, two core provisions, title one, title two, title one basically said banks have to, um, record, uh, transactions of their customers. They have to keep an internal log of all the transactions their customers made. Title two said the banks have to report, uh, transactions over a certain size to the treasury department. And in 1970, that, that threshold was set at, at 10 ,000 us dollars. Um, and so that created, um, one of these forms that, uh, the reports get made on called a CTR or currency transaction report. Uh, importantly, the, uh, that threshold, that $10 ,000, uh, hasn't ever been adjusted. Right. So if you, if you go back and you adjust the CTR threshold, uh, back to, to 1970 dollars, it's the equivalent of about $79 ,000 today. Wow. And what that amounts, yeah. What amounts that amounts to is, uh, you know, a gradual but constant tightening of the noose of, uh, transaction reporting of, uh, you know, the American people. Uh, and, you know, and so that's where it started. Um, you know, but, you know, both as, as sort of Mike and, and Ryan, your, your, your comments alluded to, there's this sort of creeping nature of it where it all, it just expands. Right. So first it was just the CTRs and the record keeping, you know, now it's, uh, SARs or suspicious activity ports that were added in 1992. Um, there was a, a vast expansion of the scope of the types of transactions it just really quick SARS. So suspicious activities report, is that basically incumbent on sort of the bank teller or bank employee to be like, Hey, there's something fishy about this transaction and I'm going to report it up. Is that right? Exactly. Exactly. Okay. Um, and, um, you know, so interesting stat on, on suspicious activity reports, um, somewhere North of 2 million SARS get filed with Vincent every year. Um, uh, you know, again, curious for your, for your insider take on this mic, but, uh, you know, testimony, uh, presented to Congress is that FinCEN reviews less than 1 % of the SARS that are actually filed. Um, and, you know, and, and there are, you know, way more CTRs filed than SARS filed. So, you know, most of this information goes into, uh, you know, basically just a government database and sits there waiting to be queried. Um, and, uh, you know, but so, uh, these things keep getting added on to the BSA, right? So it, it grows over time and there was a huge expansion in scope. BSA bank secrecy act. And so there was a big expansion in scope, um, as part of the Patriot act, uh, after nine 11, uh, that added a lot of new types of information that had to be gathered and reported and, uh, new intermediary types that are responsible for gathering and reporting that information.
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"Where the game starts. Now back to bob Ryan on Bill Russell. He and red, right? We need to cover that because, you know, when they talk about Belichick and Brady, and we all know how that ended. But Russell and red, just a special special relationship. Red, when I once was unbelievable, we created to do an interview on behalf of CBS, sitting at mid court at the Boston garden with those two. It's out there somewhere, you know. And he made a categorically clear that he never would have been the player that he became in the NBA. If he hadn't played for red, the red appreciated what he had to offer and how to get the best out of him, that he could never have no ways when 11 championships anywhere else ever. He made that clear. And of course, red was externally grateful. He didn't win a championship until Russell showed up, you know, period. And he knew that. And he said, no, they had and Russell wrote a book about friendship and reading him. Restaurant was a subject with several books, fascinating, all worthwhile reading. But yeah, he absolutely, and he appreciated he appreciated posture about the blacks going back to chuck Cooper. He didn't have to rent and have to apologize for anything in Russell's eyes that Russell believed that red was equally opportunity. Friend employer. And redhead experienced it with anti semitism. I mean, they had that Bond. Red could sit there and say, got it. Dude, I've been there, you know? And I think that meant a lot. I also think there was a great, great companionship there. And real quick, bob, 'cause we could go on for hours here. The other part of red that I love and how we handled Russell is from what I understand Russell goes, I'm not practicing today. Red would go. Fine. Rush would sit and read the paper. Ben was notorious, not notorious. I said, famous for treating players individually. Right. He didn't treat them all like. This wasn't Vince Lombardi. Okay? No. No, Russell got special treatment. And a pro Tyson definitely did approach chime in, any approach cozy, then he approached Ramsay and Russell got his deal. And when Russell, oh yeah, it was known. He wasn't going to overplay Russell back to back games or anything like that that he was going to sit in practice. And when he was coaching, he was known for player coach. He was known for sitting there reading a paper and Wayne or siggy or somebody else with, you know, run of drills and, you know, they knew us would be there what he needed. Yes, true.
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"That's trying to get inside the head of a complicated man. He had made that initiative when it was about Boston and the way he still felt about Boston by that time in 74. It couldn't have been against the Celtics per se. No, it's the I always wondered if it had something to do with that, we understand that the challenges yet dealing with racism in the city. We've talked about that and we certainly could sympathize with what that man had to deal with. There's no doubt about it. But I always wondered if it was Bill Russell was such a team oriented guy. You know, to him anything less than a ring was just kind of foolish. That's what I thought. The two things he did resist it, of course, where the Hall of Fame itself, which he thought was racist at that point. Sure. He later accepted induction. But this is different. You know, the Celtics themselves God knows could not be accused of treating him anything, but as royalty. Now, well, guess what? He took it to his grave. Yeah, we'll never know. I just always thought of him as a child. And individual accolades weren't his thing. I was privileged to be there. That's pretty cool, though. Okay. Now, I want to wrap this up or the next stage of his life is he was, you know, he was a very smart man. And he knew how to hold an audience when he chose to. He really could, boy. And I'll tell you, that AT&T commercial, the bell system, remember when he took the hook shot? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right now, when I asked him about that, he said he made it on the first take. I want to argue, no, me neither. And that laugh of his. His laugh during the broadcast became like his signature. 'cause that's what I fell in love. You know, 75 of them, 11 years old. 74. The first Celtic team I remember really remember is 74. And then, you know, he's doing all the games, you know, Mandy Rudolph, Pat Summerall, most burger, Russ, and that laugh during the game was just infectious. He was really when he chose to be, he could really be a Chauvin. You could not ask for a more charming person to spend an evening with. Then go Russell. When he wanted to turn on that charm. Yeah. You couldn't. And I was witness and privileged subject to that. More than ever. And more than once, but certainly that night in Providence in 1999, when I did that interview, three and a half hours closing up the capital grille and cackle cackling. Oh, no. But it was all up to him. If he's going to turn on that charm or not. Yeah. But it was there. It was there. Okay, we'll get back to bob in a minute. First, I have to tell you that our partners at bet online are the number one source for all your betting needs and sports
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"As far as dealing with racism and being a champion. He became the first African American coach in any sport. Well, right? I mean, for two years, he was a player coach. John mccloud was actually hired by of all people, George Steinbrenner, in the American basketball league in 1961. John mccloud coached a treatment papers, and he ill fated AVL formed by apes sacristy, and a guy to hired him for the Cleveland pipers was George Steinbrenner. So Don MacLeod was the first, but that was a league that lasted a year and a half. And it was a challenge to the NBA that failed. But Russell became the first existing prominent major sports league black coach NFL, Major League Baseball. And I want to make sure that we set the record straight for John mccloud. Pioneer basketball history. And give George Steinbrenner credit, frankly, one of the, but when red tired Russ, it was the first time one of the major sports leagues. Right. Of any kind had hired a black person. And I didn't even hesitate. You know, it was a very obvious thing and a logical thing. And Russ and the first year out they don't win. And then they went to and Russ was the coach. I mean, it wasn't like red was pulling the strings. Trust me on that. No, no, no, no, no. It was Russell street and Russell Rea neck right next to you. Did he have to coach that? I mean, obviously you had a presence, but they had been together and it was sort of a Celtic way. Yeah, good veteran team. And what good enough in 67, that they weren't 68, as I said, I'll get Philly credit for kind of him being hurt, but you got veterans. How much that's coming into his prime. He's got such, he's got Nelly. He's got he's got Sam. He's got he doesn't have KC. He's got siggy. You know, he's got some players. And he's got himself. He's still playing. He saw himself. And let me tell you something. In 1969, after they finished fourth and east in a 14 Eastern Conference, and if championship team was Baltimore bullets who had a great season and they went up and they beat the 76ers and that was okay. Then they beat the next added to pusher and had to push them and read and Bradley and Barnett and he played. He afraid of him. 36 years old. Yeah, played me to beat him. And get there. That was an expected. That was, I mean, remember to see finished fourth.
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"And then we'll end us the league in 1959 as the phenomenon. And Russell's already entrenched three years into the league. And immediately a rivalry ensues. Naturally, because there were the by far the two best centers. And first they were friendly. And it legendary stories about Russell dining at wilts house in Philly before affiliate game and vice versa, Russ dining up here. And they say, as frenemies for most of the 60s and then when wilt went to LA in 1609, okay, it changed. And famous 7th game in 1969 in the forum got hurt and a little bit came out of the game and melt counts came in and started hitting some shots and Butch vibrato to test it it will put them back in a game and we'll claims you wanted to go back in and put them in. And of course the Celtics won that game by the famous Nelson jump shot up and after the game. The balloons in the rafters. Balloons that we have just a balloon game. Russ went off a little bar and I don't know it was not that night, but at some point in the aftermath. Implied that he would have never come out of the game. Right. And indicted for coming out. And well, obviously didn't take well to that. And their relationship got frosty for X number of years. I do not know when they resumed. But I do know this when wilt died in 1999. At age 63, prematurely, frankly. Russell about a month later at came to Boston. Came to practice. And I went and I was there, and I talked to him, and he told me that he and Russ had reconciled and were basically speaking, if I do not remember, he said, once a week or once a month, but they were in contact. And I said, let me ask you something.
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"Get it. You know why? Because he was so regenerist. There's never been another Bill Russell. There have been a lot of wonderful big he was ahead of his time athletically, as he told me and others, he could touch the kick the win. Kick the rim. Yeah, yeah. And he was a quick jumper. There was two kinds of jumpers. Gatherers, you know? Or quick taper offers. He was a quick taper offer. With Afghanistan, will it was a gatherer? You always a quick taper offer? But didn't get that high, but he was a quick taper offer. Larry. Larry was a quick taper offer. Right. Well, among others was not. Anyway, Russell was. And it was an extraordinary ahead of his time athleticism. Robeson, I jumped 6 9 when no technique, you know, in college. Anyway, but he was a genius in knowing the game. That's the thing he was a genius when he really understood the game. And my man. My first year on a beat was 69 70. Year after he and Sam Jones retired. The suffix of floundering at 500 team military. John havoc said to me, we miss him more in offensive defense. By the way. And they win the offense around his passing. Right. They had a thing called the 6th play. Guess what? What was the number? Ask anybody it was there. The 6th play. A variety of options. But it started because the ball went to Bill Russell. And he went from there. Now, you made an excellent point that I must amplify about the house he could have scored. I urge you and anybody that I am proud to say that The Boston Globe, as we speak, has reprinted online the story that I was able to do with Bill Russell in 1999 on the occasion of that ceremony that you alluded to at the Boston garden where we finally got about honoring Bill Russell properly. And I did the preview story. Sitting with Bill Russell at the capitol agreement with Providence wrote Allen for three and a half hours and him telling me every goddamn good story and he gave me his a plus game. And when he was talking about what? Yeah, I could have scored more. And I could have scored more and tried to score 20 points a game. That would have disrupted the flow and continuity of our offense. No question. That wasn't my job. If I had to do that with a lesser team, now he's acknowledging this when a very good team that and he was. And that was able to take care of this other matters.
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
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"There's not going to defeat him. He was never going to defeat him. It was going never. It was not that he was going to he was going to give it the backhand and I love that phrase that description it is, which is citizenship is not my gift. It's a birthright. And by the way, white America was not going to define the gift, any privileges that were going to get me. I already had them. I don't need whitey to tell me that I could do this or not when it was going to a lunch counter or vote or anything. That was Bill Russell's credo from forever. And he applied that to his daily life for the rest of his life. And now to talk about Bill Russell, the player, the greatest winner of all time, you just mentioned two NCAA championships at the university of San Francisco. Gold medal and 11 NBA. 13 years. One of which, enjoying one of which he was hurt. In 58. I will give the sixers an out in 68 to be Cunningham was hurt and did not play. And they were, he was a very important component of the 68 sixers who the Celtics coming down from three to one. So if you want to offset them, I'm not going to fight that. But we do know documented that he competed for 16 championships from 1955 until 69. Two in CIA's one Olympics at 13 inch 8 and his team's one 14. And it was in primary player on each of those 14 teams. That's unmatched legacy of winning in North America sport history. I know I hear about Richard. I meddle smart. But it doesn't stop 14. It's a lemon, I think. So anyway, so if I'm wrong about an exact way, the fact is it was a documented great winner at the greatest in American North American sports history, to win games. And the other one is, and I love this one. And I'm proud of what I came up with this one in which it is that in 21 winner take all games, which means every NCAA game, because every anti games win to lose. Right. Every medal round game in the Olympics because you can get to the metal round having lost the game. But of course 56 day and lose any games. But every metal ground game. And best of 5 or best of 7. 21 times Bill Russell's teams faced elimination. And 21 times day one. Yeah. And so I submit confidently. That's an unmatched legacy in Americans in North American sports history. Well, let's talk about how we did it because they did not keep track of the block shot. I believe, right? So what Tommy heinsohn used to tell me often when he talked about Russell's game is, you know, Ross Ross may have two or three blocks in one possession. Or to start the fast break, rush knew where to tap the ball.
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
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"It got to the last game was may 5th, 1969. So he lived a complete life afterward, and he lived it permanent and total dignity and assurance assurance and ASS and the way he wanted to live it. He lived his he was in charge of his life. In a way that few people are, black or white, frankly. Well, just to, you know, to go to give people an idea if they don't, if they're not aware of the history books, when he and red started together, read a Jewish American, Russ, an African American, both victimized by anti semitism and racism, would go into a would go into St. Louis, Kansas City, wherever. And they had to and the hotels were segregated. And I mean, you know there's better than me about it. You know, red would say, no, we're all staying together. This isn't happening, right? These are the types of things that he experienced in that, of course, you know, victimized by vandalism in his home. Worse than anything he encountered and segregated or semi segregated America was what he counted in reading this. When someone broke into his house and smeared species on his wall. Yeah. And this is the world he and he came into in Boston when he became a wookiee here in 1956 in December. When he turned from the Melbourne Olympics with a gold medal around his neck, having won two championships in San Francisco and a gold medal in Melbourne. And now it's the price rookie of the Boston Celtics. Any accounted a Boston, it was very different. I hope that God, that we can say that in Boston is today. And he accounted racism. There's no question. Thank you. And yet, unlike some of his conference, who yielded a little more, you know, Russell, just head to head on. Head on. He was, he was, he always spoke about his father, Charlie. And don't remember, here's Bill Russell's background. He was born in segregation in this movie's Monroe Louisiana in 1988. So whatever the year was, I'm sorry. I'm the man in my head. That's okay. You say 88 when he died. He was born in segregationist Monroe Louisiana. His father was part of the Great Migration and in the Great Migration in his case was to Oakland rather than in the Midwest. There's many stories, history and books and great novels and stories about the Great Migration. His father was part of it. And he was part of it. So he grew up from age 8 on in Oakland and whatever amount of racism was California we provide, but was certainly somewhat less stinging than what it would have been available in Monroe that Louisiana. All right, but.
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"ryan" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"Ryan and Jeff Goodman podcast. NBA, some college, a little bit of everything. You know, what can I say, but it wasn't going to happen here with him. I was okay with it because it wasn't about talent I didn't think. All right, let's get right to it. Welcome to a special edition of the bob Ryan Jeff Goodman Gary tank wheel along for the ride zoom and podcast. We are here to celebrate the life and career of Bill Russell, who passed away at the age of 88 years old. Personally for me, I will just say that in my opinion, he used the greatest winner of all time. And I did have a brief interaction with mister Russell later in life I had a chance to interview him a couple of times and the thing that he always conveyed to me that he was wanted to be known as a man, as opposed to just an athlete. And I think that that says, all you need to know about if you were looking for one just one sentence to sum him up, that would be it. That's all I have to say. Now let's go to bob Ryan and bob, of course, when did you start covering the Celtics and when did you first meet meet Russ? I met Bill Russell after his playing career ended when he was coach of the Seattle SuperSonics. My first year in a beat was 69 70, the year after Bill Russell retired along with Sam Jones. And when he became coach of the sonics and during the course of my travels, I encountered Bill Russell and found him to be a friendly and charming informative and engaging action to say, but interview subject. And I got to know him later on a little better when he was a broadcaster. And as those days in the 80s, as when I would interact a little more in various places with Bill Russell, never consider myself a friend, we can get into this, but how Bill Russell defined friendship. But I was in the circle of acquaintances with whom he was compatible. And it was a very nice place to be. There are two ways to look at Bill Russell and let's start with the off the field first. Bill Russell is a great American. He was given the congressional Medal of Freedom by president Obama. And he deserved that and long before Barack Obama became president of the United States because he's one of the great Americans of the 20th and 21st century. Way above his athletic prowess. Right. Go Russell was a civil rights advocate and an advocate for human dignity and freedom. And the line that I would recommend where I privileged to put the coda on his tombstone, I would put the quote that Bill Russell used frequently, which is my citizenship is not a gift. It is a birth rate. And by that he
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"ryan" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"And the hard part is, here's the only difference I would say with Tatum and like LeBron, you go, obviously Jordan, you'd go Kobe. Those guys were so athletic. Tatum's not that, right? He relies a ton on as bob said his skill. He still, you know, I called them the most complete player and maybe that was the wrong terminology, but I think he's got the most complete skill set in the NBA. That that may be more accurate. A guy who can shoot it from three can shoot it from mid range can score around the basket can defend can rebound can pass can do it all. But he's not a great great athlete. He's a very good athlete, but he's not, again, he's not LeBron. He's not MJ he's not Kobe. Those guys could at any point just say I'm gonna go get one because they were big, strong athletic. Tatum's not that and you could see that last night against Wiggins. Well, some of the times when he goes to the basket, he finishes with an awful lot of dexterity. I mean, that to me that's athleticism. Another guy has to be in this general discussion as to, you know, having to range a skill. And it's Durant. We don't want to forget the ram. In this discussion, you know, and because I haven't won. 7 one helps there too. Get anyone at any get any shot he wants. And he's not a notably great person. Good enough. All right, guys. Well, listen, there's been a pleasure. We will be back next week later in the week. We will start talking about the NBA draft, but this puts a rap on the Celtics season. Bob Ryan, Jeff Goodman. Pleasure, my Friends were powered by bet online. They continue to be the number one source for all your betting needs and sports info. Gentlemen, until draft time next week, we'll see you later..
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"ryan" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"Is the bob Ryan and Jeff Goodman podcast. NBA, some college, a little bit of everything. You know what can I say, but it wasn't going to happen here with him. I was okay with it because it wasn't about talent I didn't think. All right, let's get right to it. All right, welcome to another episode of the Ryan and Goodman podcast. He's bob Ryan. I'm Jeff Goodman and we're in October and bob, October might just be the best sporting month of the year. I mean, we got everything, right? As we're as we're recording this on Tuesday morning here, we've got the Red Sox Yankees, wild card playing, whatever you want to call it game. So baseball is heating up. We've got preseason NBA basketball, which isn't great, but it means that the regular season is around the horizon. Same thing with hockey. And NFL is in full bloom here. So we've got everything going on. I think that's what makes it the best month of the year. I think if you're an all around sports fan, you love this month. And absolutely. Now, April's good too at times, but the thing about is that this is the combination of baseball season with the most important games whereas in April unless you're, you know, your whole life is baseball and you don't care about other sports. It's baseball is the background music to the NBA NHL playoffs, you know, at that point in time. And of course football has become a 12 month obsession and it's the month of the draft and NFL Draft has become one of the great sporting events in America. Let's face it, you know? You know, it is. And I gave more power to him. This goes back to Pete Rose. You know, this discussion for another day. But October, yes, this is and today's we have we're just coming out of, you know, Brady hangover now, a couple of days later and all kinds of good football stories, but anyway, works in basketball here. And before we go to that, none of them. Before we go to that, I think the world might want to hear your views on Mac Jones and Tom Brady in that whole deal. So I was more impressed certainly with the Patriots than anything else and more press probably with Mac Jones than anything else, how he handled himself in that circumstance with all that pressure and at home going against a legend, the greatest quarterback ever who played, you know, wore that uniform. Are you are you now like a full fledged believer in that Jones or was this just kind of the start and you want to temper your expectations? Well, I'm more inclined to think that he's the real deal that they're going to be very happy that he's a guy that you can win with. My criteria is not whether you're a leader or go to the Hall of Fame. But quarterbacks can you win with him? Ken with the white other circumstances, could he actually be a Super Bowl participant? And that's the thing. And I think that he's on that track that he doesn't make mistakes. He comes with all the experts like his poise. They like his decision making. And all that. And the arm strength is sufficient, you know? You know, I think he's quitting himself very well. And of course, going into that game, he had actually had higher marks than any of the other wookie quarterbacks at all, which is the same much. No, but then again, Zach Wilson played well on Sunday. You know, and gave them some hope. But anyway, yes, I'm happy with him..
Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"ryan" Discussed on Bob Ryan & Jeff Goodman NBA Podcast
"And Jeff Goodman podcast. NBA, some college, a little bit of everything. You know what can I say, but it wasn't going to happen here with him. I was okay with it because it wasn't about talent I didn't think. All right, let's get right to it. All right, welcome into another episode of the Ryan and Goodman podcast. I'm Jeff Goodman. He's bob Ryan and we're joined by, you know, you try to be objective, bob when you do this job, right? You try. But some sometimes you just can't be objective. And that's how I am with TJ McConnell. Absolutely. That's how I am. I'll admit it. You know, we're both Arizona wildcats. One did a little bit more to help the Arizona program than the other. But, you know, listen, I'll go back to maybe my favorite story involving TJ McConnell bob. And he had graduated from Arizona. And I don't know if he even remembers this. But he graduated and he called me maybe I don't know two weeks after TJ. I don't know if you remember this at all, and you asked me. You said, hey, do you think I can play in the league? Do you think I can play the league? And I said, hell yeah. Like, at the time, Matthew Dellavedova was playing like 30 minutes for Cleveland in the playoffs. And I said that to you. I said, listen, you're not the same player, we know that. But absolutely you can play in the league because you're an elite defender. Your toughest shit and you're gonna get better shooting the basketball. And now TJ McConnell, you are gonna go into year 7 in the NBA now? That is correct. Yeah. And the best part is, the first game TJ played bob was where? In the garden in Boston. Yeah. It did not go well. I'll tell you that much, though. But you know what? I don't know if it mattered. You were so happy. When I walked into the locker room, the smile on your face that you're on an NBA team, you know, playing for an MBA team that day was like, I don't think it mattered to you, whether you play well or not. You were on a team. It's a hell of a story, TJ. It's a hell of a story and again, I'm not objective. I'm not afraid to say that. You know what I think of you as a person, you know what I think of you is how hard you've worked and you just got to get paid now. You got to get paid. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of just a waiting game right now. Honestly, just trying to work out and spend some much needed time with my 5 month old son and my wife, you know, the seasons of grind. So just spending some necessary time with them.
G&Q Review
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"Are what are we talking about today. A long interview. Yeah yeah today we as you can see in the title in the banner below With days review is saving private ryan. mommy golic's up for you because I do not have been slacking. Yes saving private. Ryan is a nineteen ninety. Eight american epic or films are active steven spielberg and written by robert. Rowe debt Set during the invasion of normandy in world war two. The film is known for its graphic portrayal war especially its depiction of the omaha beach assault during the normandy landings And the premise of the film is if they follow this. Captain john miller and a squad as the search for private ryan ryan got it trying to save him because he is a brother either as four boys he has three brothers in the died in action and apparently the the high up to secretary chief chief of staff she someone really high up is is pulled in ryan the private ryan out of the war. Yeah they had some kind of cheesy opening where it was. They were like looking.
Dead America
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"I'm happy to answer it. You know kid caster only does booking podcasts. But you know if you wanna know a good dare headphones to buy. I've got a resource for you if you want to build your own podcast I know folks you can talk to so I like helping people. And i like people helping people get introduced into this will podcasting so S to castro dot com. Good place to find me okay. Well that was my next question. How can people find you and get started using kit. Castor so castro dot com. And you said your email was ryan caster that barnes me too absolutely okay. Well that's going to wrap it up for this one unless you want to add anything to this ryan. It really appreciate coming on and talking about castle ed. I'm glad it's Been helpful for you. And i i just really enjoy your podcast and the best friend. Well i do. Thank you for what you do and i especially. Thank you for being with us today. Here on the dead. American podcast my pleasure. Thank you for listening into the podcast episodes today. If you enjoyed it please share with a friend. Also please follow us on any of your podcast players or if you'd like to get a little more personal with us and really identify what we truly are about and get involved with what we are doing. Make sure you go over to the google. Play store and download our new app. We can't wait to get involved with you and that's gonna finish up. This episode of the dead america podcast. Make sure you come back next week and follow along for another great interview. I'm ed waters out..
Dead America
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"We have with us ryan estes. He's co founder of kit caster podcast booking agency ryan. Did you introduce yourself and let people know. Just a little bit about you please. I'd love to add. And i appreciate you having me on the show Like you said. I am the co founder of castor. We book entrepreneurs on top podcast We we are very deep into podcasting. We love podcasters And you know. Our mission is to celebrate good conversation wherever that takes us. We're ready to go. So i'm excited for this conversation and On your show. Thanks that well. I should be. Thanks for being with us today ryan. It is a pleasure now before we get into this. Why don't we go ahead and recognize your partner in the business of kit cast. Could you tell us just a little bit about who they are. Absolutely our co founder. Her name is brandy waylay and brandon. And i met probably five or six years ago. She had a pr agency. I had a digital marketing agency. I also had a founders. Podcast called talk launch and she would book some of her clients or start of coins on my podcast and we just always kind of clicked. You know a couple of years ago. i was coming on the heels of a failed project. I was working on a Crowd funding platform For service workers so basically if you're a barber or your house painter and you wanted to pre sell your services you could do it on that platform it was called career funded and you know i had that going about eighteen months and just in the traction i i needed for it to to really hit so i was considering kind of sorting the towel Ironically enough. I think that product would have been a massive success due to kobe but nonetheless Was talking to brandy and branches. Let's do something be some in podcasting so we kinda set forth. What would become kick castro with the pilot program Had some fun. Doing it had some success doing it. So we wrapped brand around And and took off. You know that was probably we. Officially launched september twenty nineteen and have seen just kind of rapid expansive growth since then capacity now has fourteen employees. Or we're gonna hire another gallon next week and you know we're feeling really bullish on podcasting and kind of what it can bring to the world s. Very impressive brian. So what is it like for you helping so many people. they're podcasting. Oh i love it. You know like i said i. I've been podcasting myself for ten years. You know and it. I originally started as kind of a a cure for the blues. You know. I had a little bit of depression. I was coming out of a career in music and because they had two small young children. You know this is ten years ago and thought i missed the music turns out. I just missed my bandmates. You know and i kinda discovered that two podcasting by getting my old band buddies back together and doing podcasts. And sell them over the medium you know kinda get a spin with the new the talk once podcast to introduce podcasting into my professional life in sasha's like a massive opportunity but also like real revenue you know i i can probably attribute you know before kick house or maybe eight eight hundred grand.
Sci-Fi Talk Indie Film
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"Scene one apple take one scene. Run apple take too high today really a privilege to have ryan for your on and he is with monsters aliens robots in zombies or mars not the planet but the company true short. Great to talk to you about your work Ryan it's amazing stuff you doing. It's great to be here. thank you very much. I been enjoying wanda vision. And my wife. And i were watching the first episode. We were kind of scratching our heads from a visual standpoint. I do know watching the behind. The scenes that his makeup was actually blue than the usual purple When he went to black and white yes. When you go from you know i was. Do they photograph it and color and you guys take the color out kind of thing. Yeah so the whole the whole show is filmed in color and there. There's we put on a lot. Basically there's there's a color look up which is It's a lot that goes on top of the footage after it goes to the i. But all of our work is done in color But we do see the you know the initial Color correction they're going to put on top they send us that They go and tweak afterwards before they finally off the aso we work everything in colorado so we were looking at the blue but then we were fighting for the black and white Just to see how that was looking because in a mixture everything was looking the same. Is that a one snap Take a while to get to the black and white. I know let's super-quick super-quick so that's almost like filter. That goes on top of the footage. Okay almost like a filter. That would like your standard instagram filter. Its color correcting it in one step but like i said afterwards they go in they find they find tuna on their end before goes to the future and you also did the transition.
Midlife Surfer: Surf Podcast
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"Yeah and and compare this to like. I don't know about mountain. Biking is kind of my go-to metaphor. Surfboards are massively under yes please acknowledge that if you buy a mountain bike right now. It's not customized to you. It's made in a factory so more than likely overseas mass produced by machine. Five thousand bucks right. Surfboard is made by hand custom to your specifics in your community. It's a thousand bucks. That's nothing believe me. The margin industry breaks my heart. Because you guys work. Yeah i mean. I don't know man i think we shapers just need to take a stand. I think about this every day. Like i'm trying to compete with the overseas manufacturers. Like the mayhem. The that are sitting on the racks in the repeal store. Yeah i don't know. If i should write i'm taking the lowest possible dollar that i can to sustain my business realistically. I think the customers that i have. I'm finding will pay will pay more if i charge more. So it's it's a tough. I'm not saying i could get away with more. So why do it. It's like honestly this. I'm giving away my bores at the price that they are. We'll get him while you can't while ryan before ryan raises profit margin as he rightfully should. Yeah all right. Let's see i've had you for seventy minutes..
Photography Radio
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"Well did afternoon everyone and welcome to another podcast from frames magazine my name is scott olsen and today i am talking to a member of the frames community ryan hers. Orion's work is all over our group. It is engaging it is provocative. It's the kind of work that you look at. And you're you're going to have a response to it. Personally i find it absolutely thrilling. An end fascinating ryan good afternoon. How're you doing pretty good. how are you. i'm doing great. You're out in santa monica california. Did tell me what you see out your window. What kind of day is it out there. It's pretty much seventy five degrees Another perfect Or another shitty day embarrass dice. All right well. I i envy you that here on the planes as it's gray and cold and snow ian winners coming in. You began your photography career when you were twelve years old and you came across an old range finder in a drawer. Tell me that story. Tell me how you got started in photography. Yeah i think actually it was more like it was about ten and i found an old contacts range finder in a drawer. Not being used. And i think it had been forgotten and somehow i latched onto it and i'm not quite sure how i learn to use it but i did and then a few years later there was a huge fire. One of those big california brushfires in my neighborhood. And i somehow got it together and took very poor pictures of the fire and the planes and i thought that was great in the photo bug was planted right then never left me. What what is it at age. Twelve or thirteen over that sent you out to photograph the fires versus. Just run away head you already been smitten a little bit by capturing images or what was the. What was the motivation there. I'm seventy three. That's a long time ago. There was always something about getting the images. I remembered i have one cute picture of me in my cub scout uniform with the context around my neck. My cub scout had turned backwards. So i don't know what pretended you were taking pictures. That bill was getting in the way where you go. that's right. we started the whole movement. There you go there you go. You also mentioned that. You took a two day seminar when you were in college with eugene smith that taught you as you claim the appreciation of the photo essay. Well okay i mean. Obviously we know what photographs are. What do you mean by the photo essay well especially with gene. Smith's work at life magazine. Was that former. You got to use eight or ten pictures. Basically to tell a story not a book nada along scale project but something you would go into for probably a few weeks and try and get eight or ten pictures. That convinced it all now. In his case obviously he was a master at it and obviously each composition was better than the last and medium and talking to him a little bit and observing him. Gave me a lot of input. Into what i want to do in the future and also what. The possible costs were because this is about nineteen seventy he had been fighting with various editors for basically his career and it was to the point then when he had recorded. I don't know how he'd recorded. But he ed recordings of his conversations with various editors and how they didn't understand what he was doing at the time and he actually broke into tears at one point in front of about thirty five forty people other points he was brilliant and other point see was certainly technically a master. So that was very insightful. I thought he was a rather troubled man at the time. And i had hopes for his future and lo and behold a year later he started minamata which obviously was a large-scale book project that was very very successful in lead to some of his best images. There's a good lesson. They're on both sides of success and working through the the struggle when people don't appreciate the kind of stuff that we're trying to get out there. I don't think that's unique to photography. I think musicians. I think writers. I think dancers all when they come up against a border are gonna meet resistance Border is is there because of some evolution of the form hasn't quite grown that direction. I bring that up. Because i am looking at your project called unseens which you subtitle street. Photography in the age of photoshop street photography is supposed to be the very real the documentary the untouched. And here you are really playing with that form so tell me about surrealism in street photography telling me about unseens. Where did it come from. What are you doing. Well in terms of surrealism. I've always considered myself and have a healthy dose of that. And i think a lot of the street photographers in france. Were surrealist their hearts. Certainly critize and man ray were surrealist and it was a thread that went through everything back then in paris at the time when everybody found the like and that was really the birth of the street. Photography movement my estimation anyway Unseens are a little different. They're not different than street photography in that they are not planned. They are not set up