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Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building The Economy of Movement with Web3
"Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that is considered standard. In our world, the trade -off is if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy a kit, you got to get your membership, you got to do all of these things. How can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that's considered standard. I think that bears repeating and I can't think of a better example of this than Move to Earn. For too long, exercise has seemed like more of a chore for many and a very expensive chore at that, with the pricey gym memberships, expensive equipment, you name it. With the advent of blockchain, however, there is a unique opportunity to disrupt this and transform exercise from a chore into a rewarding and income -generating activity. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, co -founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the Move to Earn space with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of Move to Earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Oleg to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Oleg, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Such a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. Very nice to meet you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. So excited to have you. I had mentioned this before we got on the call that I've been following it for quite a while, and I'm really fascinated by this whole Move to Earn movement that's going on and how Web3 tools can really change how we get people to be excited about wellness and making healthy life choices. So before we get there, I want to learn about your aha moment that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning. I learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from a childhood friend who described what it was, and that definitely perked my interest. Stupid as I was, well, stupid as I am, I got really, really hooked on technology. And I read an awful lot about how it works, the white paper, the Byzantine generals problem, and just basically as much background as I could. In 2011, there wasn't an awful lot. Then I have installed BT Guild. That was the first sort of pool mining software on my old laptop and put it in the corner, and it was sort of chugging along there for about a month, and they mined a few satoshis. Well, actually quite a few satoshis, but because the price was like 20 cents, it wasn't even covering the electricity that I burned on it. And I just threw away a laptop's hard drive for quite a bit right now these days. So I got hooked on tech, and despite the low prices, I actually didn't buy an awful lot of Bitcoin back then. And I had a very interesting sort of music streaming startup back then, and I was trying to figure out how we can do something in crypto, but at best we could just accept Bitcoin payment, which was cumbersome, slow and not terribly interesting, and just handful of people even knew what it was. So opportunity represented itself in 2014 when I started talking to my co -founders about the problem of why are people not as active as they want to be? How come that I used to run some crazy distances and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, and all of a sudden I couldn't even complete 5k. And, you know, kind of one conversation after another, we very quickly realized that the reason why 100 % of people want to be more active, but they can't, is because nature didn't build us to be active. Nature built us to survive, which means preserving calories rather than spending them. And nature was so serious about it that it gave us this behavioral feature that helped us surviving back then, but right now it's probably a behavioral bug that prevents us from being able to burn those calories called present bias that stops us from, you know, kind of moving and forces us to sit, unless there is a mammoth on the horizon that, you know, that we need to run and kill, or there is something about to make us into food and then we need to run away. And we realized that there is only one solution to present bias, instant gratification. So we kind of went, ooh, so can we actually create instant gratification for every step you take? And that's the story of Sweatcoin. As the name would suggest, we were thinking about building it on blockchain back then, but forking Bitcoin was slow, cumbersome and expensive. Building on Ethereum, we discussed with Vitalik in 2015. We met with him in London. That wasn't really an option because it was just too early. It was a research grade code back then. And we launched in 2016 centralized. And we thought, you know what, give us six months, maybe 12 months, there will be some wonderful blockchain that, you know, we're going to migrate onto. Little did we know that it would take until 2021 for blockchain to get fast enough and robust enough to be able to hold our scale. So, you know, we looked every year and we analyzed everything that was sort of popping up. And until 2021, the answer was consistently, no, we were processing more transactions per second than theoretical throughput of any chain. And in 2021, all of a sudden there was this explosion, there was Algorand, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, well, BC back then, and Flow and Celo and, you know, kind of all of a sudden it just sort of, there was a rush of these new technologies. And we got really excited and put a team on this and analyzed more than a dozen different chains. And sort on of after spending, I think, four or five months, we made a decision that we want to build on near. And yeah, the rest is history. We launched last September and it's going incredibly well, incredibly well. I'm sure that we're going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the numbers and metrics and, you know, sort of, yeah, totally. Definitely. I mean, you've had quite many, many, many achievements and it's really grown at an incredible pace and the amount of people that you have engaging with this platform now every day. And, you know, it's good that you really took that time to kind of like, you know, think and make sure that you had the right blockchain, the right timing. And it sounds like you made a good choice there with Near. And sustainable business model as well and token economics. Yeah, for sure, for sure, which is great. And so you talked a little bit at a higher level about sweat economy, but do you mind giving an overview to our listeners of, you know, what it is, what the mission is of your organization? Sure. The mission of the regional sweat coin and that's what economy is to make the world more physically active. And, you know, it seems like it's sort of a tree -hogging mission. And the reality is it couldn't be further away from truth because we actually realized that physical activity has tangible financial value. When I say that your physical duty has value, everyone nods, like you just did right now. But if I ask how valuable it is, people kind of go, could you reframe the question? Could you use different words? I'm like, no, I don't have to. Typically, if something is valuable, it has value attached to it. And here we have something valuable, but we cannot attach any number to it. Maybe there is an opportunity there. And then we started thinking there is an interesting economy that draws parallel with physical activity. It's attention economy by some estimates attention economy now is about $7 trillion business, all the Googles, Facebooks, everything advertising related sits in there and actually quite a lot more. And the interesting parallel between physical activity and attention is that like attention, physical activity is valuable to you. You know, when you pay attention, something starts, you know, you can engage with something, you can get new idea, you can meet somebody, you can, you know, potentially entering some sort of a conversation transaction and purchase something. Very similarly, physical activity is a better physical state, it puts you into a better mental state, it extends your life. And like attention, physical activity is beneficial for a lot of other parties, a lot of other participants on the market, starting from your family that is, of course, would prefer to have you physically active rather than not because they want to enjoy your company for longer, they want you to be in a better mood. Your healthcare provider, your insurer, your employer are all interested in you being physically active and actually prepared to pay for it. Especially insurers, they know very well that your health insurance and your life insurance, if you're physically active, should be a lot cheaper because you're a lot better risk and you genuinely a lot better business for them. Now, attention economy exists and it's $7 trillion, movement economy or physical activity economy doesn't. There is absolutely nothing there. We can talk about it, we can discuss these use cases, but it doesn't exist. And then we thought, hang on a second, in order for humanity not to spend 200 years building this economy, why don't we actually think of creating a token that is tokenizing your physical activity and makes it into a liquid asset that you can exchange with other parties? That's how the concept of Sweatcoin and now Sweat was born. So coming back to your original question, Sweatcoin is our health and fitness app. Despite the name, it's actually not crypto because for eight years we couldn't operate in crypto. We got 240 million users using this application. And when we could move to Web3, to blockchain, it was too late to tell everybody, like, look, from tomorrow, it's going to be completely different game. tokenomics is going to be different. You can't do that. So we had to put out a new token that's called Sweat and it is a crypto token built on NIR. And effectively the way the two businesses work together is you choose, you either play Web3 game and you just create your crypto account and then your steps are converted into Sweat. Or as a lot of people, you know, kind of choose to, they don't opt in and then they get Sweatcoins, which is a centralized points, think of it like air miles that you can gather and you can use inside Sweatcoin, but they cannot be traded on exchanges. They are not real crypto and not as liquid as Sweat, the token. And of course, these two tokens have very, very different token economics. Sweatcoin, for every 1000 steps, you earn one Sweatcoin and Sweat is constantly demanding an increase in number of steps in order to meet next Sweat. This way, supply dynamics are a lot healthier and we have become deflationary already from the month of July. So July and August circulating supply has been slowly shrinking. Wow. Interesting. So much going on there and like incredible. First of all, with the amount of folks that you've been able to onboard the love, the idea of like offering, you know, Web3 and Web2 version, because it might just be those people that maybe aren't quite ready yet, but want to experiment a bit, want to learn about the technology first, then it gives them an easy kind of entry, you know, accessible entryway, which is great. And so you talked about the Sweat token, which is the built on the near blockchain. And that's kind of the for the Web3 version, the currency that kind of behind this whole movement economy. So you talked about that users will get this, they'll earn this from from walking, engaging in that physical activity. What can they do with these with these tokens once they actually receive them? What's the like utility of them? Yeah, no, there is there is plenty. But actually, if we take a step back, because I think in the crypto world, a lot of people are sort of obsessed with the word utility. I actually think that the more important question is, if you ask somebody, why is this token valuable? Yeah, what is the answer to that question? And I have answered to both of these questions. But I would like to start with the one that I think is more relevant in long term, why is Sweat valuable? And the reason why Sweat is valuable is because it is produced by your verified physical activity. So when you move, and if you try to cheat, it doesn't work. In fact, if somebody is trying repeatedly to kind of break into the system and you know, sort of game it, then we just disable accounts and they can never return. But if you put in genuine physical activity, so you sweat it, then we verify it. And we issue with this token that is tokenized physical activity of yours. And because of that, there is no single question in people's mind that it is valuable. It's a very, very different relationship to a string of numbers that sort of miraculously appeared out of, I don't know, nothing, airdrop, I don't know, whatever activity. And then people, majority of people, not crypto natives, but crypto curious are wondering, why does it have any value at all? Why is it not zero? And that is an extremely difficult question to answer. Now we don't have this problem. However, crypto educated or crypto informed you are, that's my physical activity. That's my sweat. That's not zero because, you know, it cannot be, you know, can I sweat it over it? Right. And this is an answer to the longterm question. So in five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years time, when people are going to be talking about why is sweat valuable, they're going to say, are you kidding me? It's a tokenized physical activity. How can it be zero? However, it doesn't stop there. You know, in order for us to build movement economy, in order for us to feel sweat with this meaning that it is tokenized physical activity, in order for us to establish financial, you know, kind of number or just a value to it, we need to play a game in the interim that is effectively creating utility and demand drivers for sweat. For a lot of projects, that's all they do. We do have a longterm vision that I've just described to you. The short term vision is extremely simple. You need sweat in order to participate in our kind of network in our platform, you stake sweat, and you earn interest by taking sweat, you also have access to a lot of rewards that are linked to health and fitness, well being fashion, etc. So this is an extremely engaging thing for our users, you are also earning sweat from our learn and earn. And because 90 % of our users are brand new to crypto and web3, they are seeking and are very interested in information. So what is taking? How does it work? You know, how do you transfer? How do you receive crypto? So we are building this whole ecosystem of effectively onboarding products and information, how do you become a proper crypto native? Last but not least, are a lot of functionalities that are being rolled out right now as we're ramping up for our US launch. The most exciting one is Sweat Hero. It's a free NFT game that effectively, if you engage, come in, we give you an NFT of legs. Because, you know, we're about walking and running. Yeah. And, you know, you get the NFT and you can play with other people, literally walking, I'm not going to go into mechanics, if you're interested, you can sort of go and look at it yourself in Sweat Wallet app. Or if you are in the US and you can't still use all the functionality, then you can just go on YouTube and put Sweat Hero and there are plenty of screenshots and screencasts from users that have been participating in beta testing. So you basically go into battle and the game and I battle you and I put 10 Sweat, you put 10 Sweat, the winner takes 80 % and the 20 % goes into what we call a battle fee, which is effectively a token sync that community votes on later on. And that brings me to your one of the first and earlier questions, you know, about move to earn and sustainability of the business, because we're frequently asked, you know, how are you different from, you know, kind of other projects out there? And we say, well, tens of millions of users is one thing, nine years of history and therefore ability to spend time thinking about building sustainable business and sustainable token economics. And what we are doing right now by scaling and not going into that spiral is evidence that we know how to build sustainable businesses that really function. More than that, as I already mentioned, in July and in August this year, Sweat has already become deflationary. So the sources of demand on a monthly basis are higher than emissions of token by you walking, plus all unlocks, users, team investors, and everything. So the number of tokens that hit the market is lower than the number of tokens that are extracted from the market, which in web two world would basically be definition of profitability. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Very interesting. Yeah. So much on the go. And, you know, I love this idea as well of the Sweat Hero NFT game. I think that's a really fun way to engage people in a different way and to bring NFTs in the mix as well. You mentioned move to earn in there too. And so I know that obviously Sweat Economy kind of is a great example of that, you know, move to earn ecosystem fits within there. You know, there's, it's a pretty early stage space for sure. You know, fairly nascent, a couple projects for sure, like yours that are really growing at a rapid pace, but still very early. Where do you see things when it comes to move to earn in the future, let's say five to 10 years from now? What do you think? How do you think it'll shape, you know, the overall wellness sector in the coming years? I mean, there are several very interesting things here. One is, whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that, you know, is considered standard. You know, for example, internet broke this trade -off where you could deliver rich message, but very few people, or you could deliver extremely poor message and extremely narrow message to a lot of people. Reach and richness was a trade -off. Internet broke that and the rest is history. You know, you can talk to individual with extremely rich message and sometimes screw with their heads as well as Cambridge Analytica has proven, right? So it's a double -edged sword, unfortunately. So in our world, the trade -off is, or if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy kit, you got to get job membership, you got to dress, you got to do all of these things. You know, how can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of other people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Like in attention economy, you are given free products in exchange for your attention. Why wouldn't we be doing exactly the same thing in exchange for my physical activity? So move to earn is breaking this trade -off and I believe that it is going to become a more or less standard approach because if physical activity was only valuable to me and me alone, I would need to pay. But given that it drives an incredible amount of value for everybody, including countries, I mean, if you're physically active, you're going to be more economically active for longer. The tax revenues from you are going to be higher. It's good business. You know, even if you're looking at it in the dry light of day, obstructing yourself from taking care of people, making sure that, you know, this country is a good place for them to live. But even just in financial terms, it's good business. So this is the first thing that all the businesses in move to earn are doing, regardless if they're Ponzi or non -Ponzi actually think that it's great because businesses are reminding people that their physical activity has value. Bingo. That moves this whole idea of movement economy forward. The other trend that I see is that we need to get fewer people who are focusing on crypto natives, which is the case with a lot of other products and are focusing on mass market, because the value is not in making very, very narrow field of already reasonably rich and wealthy people more physically active. The real value to humanity is going into the lower social stratas, because that typically is where behavior change is most needed. If you look at dominant in A and B social groups, but it's starting to ramp up as you go lower down the income tail. So we need to start focusing on these people. We need to start developing propositions that are absolutely free, that are extremely simple to engage with, like what's what economy is doing. Because a lot of people are asking me, crypto, web3, what's your advice? And my simple advice is, look, we're so early, I can't even point a finger where to go. But if any of you remember internet of 96 and 97, you would remember that, I mean, there was Yahoo, right? There were very, very early businesses. None of them are really sort of dominating. And the opportunity is still there. And the opportunity number one is we still don't have an email for internet. We don't have an ubiquitous use case for web3. That email became for internet. That's what we're focusing on. Can we develop something that every single person on planet earth would be interested and benefit from if they engage with? And if you have legs, and if you can take steps, you know, you can engage with sweat economy. And I think we're on the right path there. The other thing that I would say is that if you actually look at the overall web3, and all the different tokens that exist, I see right now only three use cases or three classes of tokens that can be explained in a very simple fashion. Why on earth do they have value? Case one, Bitcoin digital gold, inflationary protection. It's capped supply. Everyone is paying attention to it. Everyone is in because of the first mover advantage. Therefore, it is playing the role of digital gold and probably is replacing gold as that inflationary protection asset. Case two, layer ones, computers securing asset ownership on the internet. Like electricity powers computers, like tokens, like ETH, like NEAR, like Avax, like MATIC. You need to have them in order for these computers to work for you and secure ownership of assets. And case three is tokenization. And here there is kind of wide range. The most simple one is tokenizing fiat currency, USDT, USDC. Basically, you are turning an asset that already exists into a token to make it more liquid, easier to transfer, easier to exchange with a lot more censorship resistance and with fewer parties being able to tell you can you or cannot you conduct this particular transaction. And there is a lot of experimentation with other assets like TDELs, for example, kind of tokenizing them. And we are pushing absolutely boundaries of that because we're not tokenizing an asset that already exists, that already has markets that can be exchanged. We're creating new asset class because as I said, everyone agrees that physical activity has value. It should have been an asset, but actually without blockchain, it cannot be turned into an asset. And we are creating new asset, new asset class, and the whole new industry that cannot be created without blockchain participating in this.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from Finally End Phone Fear Forever! (Part 2)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We are back and Julie, I have to say the feedback we've gotten on this topic was, is fantastic. Yes. It seems that we might be onto something. For those of you who are willing to accept the fact that you might be a little reluctant to have actual conversations with people and maybe just maybe that reluctance is leading you to have results that you're not that proud of. Well, guess what? Continue listening because you're going to love part two. We're going to start digging into the specifics of not just the psychology of call reluctance, but also really I think what we could argue would be the very practical application of picking up the phone and having meaningful conversations. And this is part two. If you did not listen to part one, please go back and listen to part one now because I think it will make all these extra points that we'll be sharing with you guys today even more useful to all of you. And as always, thank you for listening to our podcast. Thank you for keeping this number on listen to daily podcast for real estate professionals in the United States. Our way of thanking you every single day is giving you the notes from today's show. The notes from today's show are down below. If you just if you're on YouTube or if you're on iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify or all the billions of places this podcast is listened to, open up the description and you'll see all of our notes there. And while you're there, also, you're going to see some links specifically. Look for the link to join Premier Coaching. It's the next natural step for all of you. You love this podcast. This is the part. You know, this is from all measures that number one listen to daily podcast real estate professionals at least the United States. If you love the podcast, which we know you do, because many of you listen every day, you will not believe the value you get in Premier Coaching. So scroll down below. Click the link to join Premier Coaching. Julie, let's roll in and talk about point number one. Yes, that's right. So again, this is part two yesterday. We got your head straight. So if you missed part one, then you know, you know what to do. So assuming that your mindset is adjusted for success, let's get to the real work of real estate, the work that leads to appointments to contracts and to closings. Point number one, this is the real work time guys, make a minimum number of contacts daily. Remember that a contact is a conversation with a decision making adult about real estate. That number of contacts should equal the number of transactions you need to do this year to meet or exceed your financial goals. For example, if you need 12 deals, you must make at least 12 contacts daily. As your skills increase, that number typically shrinks. Agents with prospecting skills who have overcome their call reluctance can usually set one appointment for about every 10 contacts or so, assuming that they're making contacts with the likely to most likely to list prospects and not just doing something like circle prospecting. Now what Julie just said, I hope you guys are breaking down what she's saying. So the first thing is, if you're a real estate treasure map, you're filling a blank business plan which you get as the first level of premier coaching, once you complete that, if you determine that you need Julie's example, 12 deals in order to, you know, earn enough money to have all your financial needs once and desires fulfilled, well, then you're going to have to make that number of contacts a day. Contact is a conversation with the decision making adult where you're, you know, essentially answering their question, maybe following up to answer a question, maybe you're just having a conversation over at Orange Theory, but you're going to ask for business. Now as you become more professional and prolific, what you're going to realize is the conversations are going to have to start focusing more on actual people who actually have their hands up in their air who are actually looking to transact. Now here's the magic of all this. When you're getting started, it's what Julie said, the number of contacts equals the number of transactions you want to do, but as you start becoming a listing agent, then the number of contacts you make per day, you can adjust that to be the number of listings you need at all times as far as whatever your, again, it's all part of the real estate treasure map which you get as a part of the first level in Premier Coaching, but one of the outputs of that or one of the results of completing it is you're going to know what your number of listings you need at all times, not just transactions but the number of listings because we want to gear you guys towards being listing agents. So let's say in your marketplace, if you had five listings at all times, you know pretty much like clockwork, three of them would be in contract at once, maybe only two let's say. Well, your average commission is $10 ,000, you're making $240 ,000 a year if you have five listings at all times. So you're going to start out by making more contacts, but once you build up to your magic number of listings, then what you're going to do is the number of contacts you're going to make per day has to be at least the number of listings you need at all times to immediately exceed your goals. We take a very numerical, drilled down, common sense, practical, no BS approach to all the coaching that we provide for you guys, so hopefully this will, frankly, make things a lot more clear and easy to understand and mostly apply in your business. That's right. It actually makes it far more predictable than most of you think, right? You actually can apply numbers and make that work. But isn't ultimately what we're working on here with these guys is that they don't have to wait around for the business to come to them and I'm reading your future points. They can actually go to where the business is. Like some of you have this, really it's bad information and really bad training around the idea that you're supposed to do marketing, branding, passive email marketing, passive SMS, all this other stuff, waiting for people to call you. You consider a win when you create a lead. That is not a win. Leads have no value. Pre -qualified motivated leads have value. Stop giving yourself a win in your head psychologically when it all is just a stinking lead. That is the biggest mistake and it's frankly bad training the agents have been taught and it's not just the last 10 years, it's really the last 30. You created a contact. You didn't create a lead. Yeah. Who cares? You're building your phone book. I mean, well, a lot of these guys don't know what phone books are, but I mean... Your contact database, your CRM, you're collecting names and numbers of people. That does not necessarily mean they're going to transact with you. We said this yesterday and we say it a lot and it is true and again, it's worth repeating because it's such, I think, different information for all of you. Your goal is not to have a ton of leads. That is an enormous mistake. Your goal is to have a handful of leads. Then those leads are all pre -qualified and primarily listing leads and they're ready to list their homes. Maybe the contracts are signed. Maybe they're going to sign the contract in the next 60 days. The point is, is your goal is not to have 20, 30, 40, 50 ,000 leads. Your goal is to have a few leads, mostly even our top producing agents, less than like 15. And when Julie and I are having a lead coaching call and we ask about their leads, if they're giving us a long list of leads or they're saying, well, you know, screenshotting their database with the number of like 42 million, with the number of leads they're dripping on, no, that person is not doing their job. Well, they didn't actually understand the question if they're doing that. Right. You don't know what a lead is. A lead is a pre -qualified, ideally using our scripts, buyer or seller, ideally a seller, who you know what their motivation, you know what their timeframe is, you know what their half to sell is, you know everything about them. That's a lead. Also, they know who you are. And there are tons and tons, millions and millions of people out there that are actually able to be called pre -qualified at that level to list their homes sometime in the next 12 months or less, ideally 90 days or less. You just have to be willing to have the real conversations. Stop burying your head in the sand thinking that a massive number of leads is somehow going to cure your lack of actual skill and your unwillingness to have these actual conversations. It is critically important that you move past the belief that this is a, you know, sort of mass numbers game. It is, of course, a contact sport. That's what real estate and mall sales is. But it's a contact sport that results in you having a pre -qualified lead. Be very clear about that. Which means you have to get over your call reluctance. And point number two, in part two, is to focus on the person you're speaking to more than you're focused on your thoughts and feelings about being on the phone. You're calling to be of service. Maya Angelou famously stated, they'll forget what you said, but remember how you made them feel. So be fascinated by them. Remove the words I, me, my, and mine as much as possible to avoid making it all about you. Ask more questions and make fewer statements. Resist interrupting and sounding anxious to get to the next question. I had someone message us on Instagram that basically said that we're in conflict when we say, because we do say both things. Our highest and truest purpose in this planet is to be of service to others, and at the same time, we will occasionally say the other truth, which is everyone's primary motivation is themselves. Everybody is mostly focused on themselves. Both of those things are true, and here's how they're both true. Because I do accept the fact that everyone, if you're focused on, and everyone is naturally this way. What's in it for me? How does this make me feel? You can't really move past that, and to think or to try to guilt people and to not, it's the Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged kind of thing, right? But to have people believe that their highest and truest purpose is not primarily the betterment of themselves is complete out of alignment with how, frankly, humans are actually wired. But have you to accept the fact that the way you better yourself is by being of service to others, and then those two motivations are in alignment. You guys get it? So if your highest and truest purpose is to take care of yourself, to make your life better, to take care of your family, really, that is where your primary focus always is, whether you go down and admit it or not. Okay, that is not in conflict with what society wants you to do, which is to be of service to other people, because by being of service to other people, you actually are improving your own lot in life. You're becoming the best version of you as a real estate professional, and a real estate professional is here to be of service to other people. Hopefully you guys now understand that, that our philosophies are in perfect alignment with how a lot of you guys already naturally think. That's right. So it comes down to reminding yourself, when you're over your call reluctance and you're on a real conversation with a real person, pay attention to what they're saying. Don't just ask the script questions, listen to their answers. So Julie also said something in that, and I want you guys to think about this. She said, without using these words, she said, remove personal pronouns when you're talking to people. Why? Everyone's favorite topic is themselves, remember what I just said. Everyone wants to talk about themselves. Everyone wants to have other people show interest in them.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Angle Protocol Introduces stEUR
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Monday, September 25th, 2023. Angle Protocol introduces SDRO, Consensus partners with Protocol Labs for its startup program, OP Labs outlines its fault -proof VM design, and Arbitrum redesigns its ecosystem portal. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Angle Protocol introduced STRO, a stablecoin pegged to the euro that offers a variable 4 % APY. The protocol generates yield by holding BC3M, representing an ETF invested in short -term euro government bonds currently yielding 3 .6%. Users can exchange their AGO stablecoins for STRO to earn interest. Angle Protocol has committed to distributing 90 % of its projected earnings to holders. The APY will be adjusted on a weekly basis depending on the utilization rate. There are no upfront fees, deposit or withdraw charges, locks, or minimum deposit requirements for minting STRO. Angle Protocol has integrated a feature onto its dApp to swap into AGO and stake it for STRO in a single transaction. Consensus partnered with Protocol Labs to support builders as part of its Consensus Scale startup program. Accepted program participants will have access to Protocol Labs resources, technical support, co -marketing opportunities, workshops, funding, and Consensus products like MetaMask, Infura, and Linea. The program aims to support dApps and Web3 projects in the Seed to Series A funding stages. Funded projects with an existing team and product -market fit can apply for the Consensus Scale program, which spans 24 months. Protocol Labs is an open -source research and development startup incubator. In a new blog post, OP Labs detailed how the design of the fault -proof VM in the OP stack contributes to both social and technical decentralization. The fault -proof VM is a component of the OP stack's fault -proof system focused on the secure execution of instructions. Its design embraces the multi -client principle, supporting multiple proof types. The design of the fault -proof VM ensures it remains unaffected by protocol changes on Layer 1, such as the addition of new opcodes. Its primary function is to execute individual instructions, ensuring correct and secure execution. OP Labs is also exploring ZK validity proofs for the OP stack to enable faster bridging. And lastly, Arbitrum redesigned its Arbitrum portal, a gateway for browsing over 600 dApps available in the Arbitrum ecosystem. Users can browse dApps by advanced search, category, or chain. The portal also features developer docs, educational resources, job listings, and community talks. Arbitrum portal also lists a timeline of the upcoming Arbitrum Odyssey campaign. In other news, Pimlico raises $1 .6 million, Taeku releases version 23 .9 .1, Reth releases Alpha 9, and Slowmist suffers a $200 million compromise. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Angle Protocol Introduces stEUR
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Monday, September 25th, 2023. Angle Protocol introduces SDRO, Consensus partners with Protocol Labs for its startup program, OP Labs outlines its fault -proof VM design, and Arbitrum redesigns its ecosystem portal. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Angle Protocol introduced STRO, a stablecoin pegged to the euro that offers a variable 4 % APY. The protocol generates yield by holding BC3M, representing an ETF invested in short -term euro government bonds currently yielding 3 .6%. Users can exchange their AGO stablecoins for STRO to earn interest. Angle Protocol has committed to distributing 90 % of its projected earnings to holders. The APY will be adjusted on a weekly basis depending on the utilization rate. There are no upfront fees, deposit or withdraw charges, locks, or minimum deposit requirements for minting STRO. Angle Protocol has integrated a feature onto its dApp to swap into AGO and stake it for STRO in a single transaction. Consensus partnered with Protocol Labs to support builders as part of its Consensus Scale startup program. Accepted program participants will have access to Protocol Labs resources, technical support, co -marketing opportunities, workshops, funding, and Consensus products like MetaMask, Infura, and Linea. The program aims to support dApps and Web3 projects in the Seed to Series A funding stages. Funded projects with an existing team and product -market fit can apply for the Consensus Scale program, which spans 24 months. Protocol Labs is an open -source research and development startup incubator. In a new blog post, OP Labs detailed how the design of the fault -proof VM in the OP stack contributes to both social and technical decentralization. The fault -proof VM is a component of the OP stack's fault -proof system focused on the secure execution of instructions. Its design embraces the multi -client principle, supporting multiple proof types. The design of the fault -proof VM ensures it remains unaffected by protocol changes on Layer 1, such as the addition of new opcodes. Its primary function is to execute individual instructions, ensuring correct and secure execution. OP Labs is also exploring ZK validity proofs for the OP stack to enable faster bridging. And lastly, Arbitrum redesigned its Arbitrum portal, a gateway for browsing over 600 dApps available in the Arbitrum ecosystem. Users can browse dApps by advanced search, category, or chain. The portal also features developer docs, educational resources, job listings, and community talks. Arbitrum portal also lists a timeline of the upcoming Arbitrum Odyssey campaign. In other news, Pimlico raises $1 .6 million, Taeku releases version 23 .9 .1, Reth releases Alpha 9, and Slowmist suffers a $200 million compromise. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_767 - Pay Me in Bitcoin theory.
"If the merchant wants the Bitcoin and you pay in fiat, that is you shifting the burden of fiat friction onto them. And paying your valued vendors in Bitcoin is the opposite of mutually assured destruction. It's mutually assured survival. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. We have got a wonderful read. We have Parker Lewis back on the saddle doing some writing and I know his book and lots of really really cool things are happening with the Gradually Then Suddenly series, which I absolutely love. And anybody who knows all of the audio is available on this podcast. I will be linking to the first piece, I think there's like 15 of them or something, I'll be linking to the first piece in the show notes and maybe maybe I should take this opportunity to kind of put them all together somewhere. I'll see if Parker is linking to the audio on the actual articles because I also have the link to the Gradually Then Suddenly website where you can find all the written versions. Actually you know what I'll do in the meantime, just in case, I will make a Spotify playlist. That is a really easy way to get the link. So that's probably what you should see in the show notes instead, a Spotify playlist with a link to the Gradually Then Suddenly series by Parker Lewis. But anyway, we've got a different one today and it's based off, or it's the same theory or the same theme I guess as the Bitblock Boom speech that he gave, the presentation that he gave. And it's a really interesting way to think about merchant adoption in Bitcoin and how we're moving from the store of value to the medium of exchange phase and why there's not actually a chicken and egg problem here, that there's fundamentally an order of operations or order of events from the concept of how the merchant sees or understands the value of Bitcoin or how all of the individuals in Bitcoin see and understand its value before there is actual reason in widespread adoption for accepting it as a means of payment. So anyway, I won't head off the article too much. We will go ahead and get right into it. This episode is brought to you by Nodeless. Nodeless .io slash guy is my special link. This is the easiest way. No setup. Don't set up a node. Don't worry about BTC pay server. This is the easiest way to get all that functionality, to get it plugged into your WooCommerce store, get a donation page, set up a fundraiser, accept it on your website or for your project, set up paywalls, whatever it is, even design simple webhooks with none of the Bitcoin or Lightning overhead. Nodeless does all the work and you just get the Bitcoin forwarded directly to you. There's no subscription here. It is a simple 1 % plus 100 sat fee. Signing up doesn't cost anything. There's no KYC. This is literally the perfect way to get the person who you know is interested in Bitcoin but has yet to accept it or doesn't really know how to deal with running a node or doing any of that stuff. How did they get plugged into Bitcoin? How do they easily accept it? That is what Nodeless is for. To make the entire process as painless and simple as possible. Right now I'm offering, don't know how long I'm going to keep this up, I'm offering, if you go to my link right in the show notes, set up your donation page, literally takes a couple of clicks and tag me on Noster or Twitter with the link. I will throw you 10 ,000 sats. So check it out. It's nice to have 10 ,000 sats and you should put those sats on your cold card hardware wallet, which you will also get a 9 % discount for with code Bitcoin audible. You know, if you want to keep your Bitcoin safe, you need a cold card. Check them out. All the details are available in the show notes. And with that, let's get into today's read. And it's titled Pay me in Bitcoin theory by Parker Lewis.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E13: 23 Years of Simpsonizing Real Life: A Writer-Producers Journey
"Hello and welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, we don't have regulars because, well, reasons. As for our guest, he's from Canada. He's a Simpsons writer, Emmy and Writers Guild award winner, and co -author of the occasionally accurate Annals of Football. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Joelle Cohen. I'm holding for applause. I'm sure there'll be a lot of it. Oh, yes. We'll get there eventually. I don't know. I've never experienced it before. Well, at some point, we will. Okay. I guess. So, how's life? I'd say life is fairly good. It could be better. I have some notes. I have some thoughts of life is listening. I have a few suggestions, but otherwise, all right. How's life for you? All right. Very good. Very good. Okay. And have you been up too much recently? Well, as you maybe probably know, the Writers Guild is on strike, so I've been picketing. That's very exciting. Okay. I've been hanging out. I'd like to say I've been cleaning my office, but that'd be a lie, and I'm not about to lie to you and everyone listening. So, I haven't been up to too much. How about you? Life is going great. Okay, good. So, yeah. I'm about to go back to uni again for a second year. Nice. And also working on a revival project for a discontinued app, but we'll get to that point when the beta comes out at the start of this set up start of next year. Okay. Sounds cool. That sounds great. You got more going on than me, certainly, than most people. Yeah. Seems like a yeah. Yeah. All right. We agree with that. Yes, absolutely. So, tell me more about the works you've done and your journey throughout. Well, I'll tell a quick version of the journey. I'm from Canada. I went to university in Canada. I stumbled forward getting degrees that I've found I don't want, like a degree in biology and a degree in business. And then I ended up working in the business world for about seven years and decided I wanted to be a TV writer. After working on kind of a horrible show, I started on this great show, The Simpsons, and I've been there for 23 years, you know, and loved it, written 36 episodes, and now I've written this book. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. Something. It's a story. Yeah. Interesting. Yes, indeed. What inspired you to become a writer? Not knowing what else to do. So, confusion, I suppose. You know, as I mentioned, I was working in the business world and had taken these different paths in university and was not really intrigued or captivated or happy in any of them. And then my brother is also a writer, and I saw his experiences and life, and it seemed like a cool, fun, creative way to make a living and to kind of carry on one's life. So I just tried it, and to this point have managed to keep doing it. Oh, okay. That's cool. That's cool. Now, there is actually one question that I'm itching to tell you. Hit me. Hit me. All right, then. So during your time as a writer on The Simpsons, I was wondering, what is it you do that... I've heard a lot of things about The Simpsons, like predicting the future, whatnot. Yes. I just want to know is, what is the process and how you write each episode of The Simpsons and putting different references, not just what the people are saying about predictions, but any references whatsoever to put in behind each episodes in The Simpsons? Well, we obviously are pursuing a story and a point, but along the way, we want to make it funny. And sometimes just you'll make a verbal reference to something just sometimes to advance the story, but sometimes just for a joke. And then furthermore, sometimes we'll just do a visual reference to something. And then even as a background joke or something, we just want to fill in the color. And it turns out that after 762 episodes, there's a ton of references.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Rate Pause
"Hello and welcome to Ledgercast. My name is Brian Crossguard here, as always, with one and only Josh Olsowich. Hey Josh. Mr. Brian. How you doing? How are you? I'm good. I'm happy to be with you today. You're already cards pulled up, ready to go. I got my best podcast hoodie on, you know. Only the best Ledgercast family. Getting the hoodie season, depending on what part of the country you're in. For sure. My dear Alabama, I mean, this is the weather that you live here for. Like, most of the year is incredibly humid, but September, October, November, that's when it's the good stuff. Well, people didn't come on this podcast to hear about the weather. They came to hear about head and shoulders. We always start with the weather. I know. It's like a podcast faux pas, but we do it anyway. It's the human experience. There's a head and shoulders on like every market on all timeframes. Like, you can't not see it. ETH, Bitcoin, S &P, Qs, any risk market, we'll put it like that, any risk market looks very, very toppy still to me. What are your thoughts on, you know, as we enter our 37th week as macro LARPing traders? Yeah, well, this continues to tell a story, right? Dollar legitimately been up only on a weekly basis for more than two months. Hold on, hold on. Jeff in the chat said. Jeff, were you listening for your show? We were just discussing the accelerated aging of Ryan in the show. I feel like I feel like the bear market is hitting me in every possible way right now. Sorry, continue. Yeah, I'm I'm going to be very gray and old and wrinkly if I make it through another cycle. Anyway, the Dixie is up. Yield. You know what I realized this week? Back to the Dixie for a sec. I realized that the Euro chart, Euro USD is basically the Bitcoin chart. So if you're rooting for Bitcoin, you're basically rooting for the Euro chart. I don't know how that's going to work out. It's not the team I want to be on right now. No, I agree. I don't know how that's going to work out for us because that Euro chart looks bad, quite awful. Yeah, that's bad. So I keep that in mind generally for people, you know, if you see some good news or positive news in Euro land, which I think is rare these days, it should generally signal wellness for Bitcoin. Yeah. Well, it's mostly that dollar strength. It's just not. Yeah, it's all it's all just the same thing. Right. Yeah, exactly. We titled the show Rate Pause because rate hikes were paused. So this is the first time in quite some time that we've gone into FOMC with no change. The result of that was you start to see the 30 year kind of catching up to the two year because they also said that they are planning on staying high for longer. So we're not going to do the thing where we just immediately start going into cuts. And so, yeah, it may not have the desired effect that people might expect by a rate pause. At this point, holding rates at this level is restrictive eventually, right? It gets more and more restrictive as the lower interest rate that like rolls into this new environment, you know? Right. But I think it's honestly, I agree with the Fed. I think keeping it here and doing a wait and see type attitude makes more sense than keep raising and then panic cutting when the time comes. I think you have a potential to break a little less in this regard. I think they should have paused a while back and should have started way before they did. But nevertheless, the idea of pausing but not committing to a cut, I think is reasonable. Well, the markets didn't get angry at pausing. The markets got angry because they hinted at two more hikes still. So if that actually happens, I don't think it will. Look, I'm a chaos agent. I say go all the way, right? Pedal to the metal, no half measures. If you want to kill the economy, go for it. So yeah, let's do two more. Let's do one in November, one in February, whatever. I don't know. I think the consensus, though, is that markets aren't going to last that long. Markets being the economy, I guess. But the economy just isn't going to last and hold up through that. So unemployment is going to tick up considerably. That's the expectation. You're not going to get your soft landing. And Paul basically said as much that that wasn't his base case during the meeting. So you got to keep that in mind when you're looking at risk markets like crypto and alts especially are just still obliterated and continue to look terrible. Two -year looks like it wants more. The three -month yields look like, all the yields look like they want more. Yeah, they're all acting like it. Especially if you take today out of the picture, which I'm not sure I'm going to read too much into what's happening on a Friday. Well, we had, so yesterday we had a negative 1 .6 % day on S &P. And there were already legacy analysts coming out saying, oh man, Paul's going to have to cut this year. It's been one day. You people are so soft, so pathetic. Pillsbury Doughboy over here asking for cuts after a down day. Give me a break. Just absurd. The chart on the S &P does look like it has room for more downside like that. Oh, for sure. Pretty clean breakdown, but it's not in panic mode. It's in the middle. It's in the chop zone. 4200 makes all the sense in the world based on some basic technical analysis. Look at the 200 -day moving average. All this is just meaner version. You have people panicking that the number is going down instead of up and they're pathetic. I mean, that's legacy for you. Even when you look at non -technical analysis, if we were in price discovery for the stock market right now, it would not make sense. It just does not make sense relative to the economy. But ledger, price is in the forward future. It doesn't look at what's happening now. We're not going to get a recession. We're going to get a huge GDP print, man. Forward future looks like we got another year or two of grinding. Like grinding economically, trying to figure out this balance of wage inflation, commodities inflation, cost of goods. There's a balance that has to exist there. Life is more expensive for people. Their homes are more expensive and their business loans are more expensive. are Their wages up, but they're not caught up to that. And so the economy needs to figure itself out. It needs to find its Zen zone. I agree. That could take time. But that's not the S &P. The S &P is eight companies who have billions of dollars, don't need to borrow, don't need debt at this interest level. But now the problem, I think Apple especially, I don't expect their new phone to sell gangbusters because the economy is... It's one of the easiest things to not upgrade. Right. Well, that as well. But USB -C, right? Welcome to the 21st century, everybody. So I'm expecting those numbers to be soft. The Nvidia story seems to be softening, even though it's hard to really know what's going on there. There's still lots of lots of demand for those checking news. Yeah. But I guess the point is, who cares about the rest of the S &P, the 493, right? It's all about the top seven right now. And if those are weak, which they are, just in the charts, the markets are going to turn lower because you're not getting any help from the other 493. All right. I want some of what Andre is drinking in the chat. I'm just going to plop this onto the show. Here we go, Andre. This is your moment. Fed waits another year to lower rates than the BTC happening. The presidential election and lower interest rates are all going to be happening at the same time as we go into the next bull run. Space exclamation point, which is another way of saying triple exclamation point. Where do you put that space in front? Andre, I'm with you. I hope you're right. I think people believe that if they cut, then that will be bullish, but they won't cut until things look terrible. So if they're cutting, then we have a different problem, right? We have a recession if they're cutting, right? It's over if they're cutting. We just have to dodge a recession. You just have to dodge a recession. Around halving, whatever. And then there's this other school of thought, which is kind of what Andre is hinting at. Maybe the halving doesn't matter. Maybe it's just a coincidence that we've been in these four -year business cycles, and it's just lined up perfectly. I've seen that narrative growing recently, which is surprising to me, but it makes sense. Look, if you look at the data and you just don't pay attention to halving, I agree. But I think the halving brings eyeballs. It brings people understanding the asset a little differently because they're like, oh, wait, what do you mean? The supply is going to be cut in half or whatever, the daily emissions. Anyway. And meanwhile, Bitcoin and ETH both basically at their 200 -week moving average. This was okay. So that's the tweet you have up. This was my engagement bait last night. This is if anybody was paying attention. It's comparing the 200 -week and the 200 -day moving averages on Bitcoin. The last time... They're converging. Yeah. So they're converging. And the last time it looked like this was 2015 for a bull cross. It technically didn't cross bearish in 2015. I just want to highlight, though, Josh. We are both getting rejected by that right now, if you look at this weekly. Yeah, but that's okay. It's September. It's key three. I don't care. But yes. They're just winding around in there. They're meandering. It's not good. Also, one other comment. Yeah. Gotta work on this hashtag. 250k or bust. Gotta work on that. Well, that's the target. We need some ideas. That's the 8000 % target from here is 250k. That's where that came from. Yeah, we gotta do better. 250 by 25 is too much of a mouthful. I feel like the phrase millie needs to be in there. Millie? Quarter millie? Quarter millie. Maybe just full millie. Look, I've been on the record. 250k is the target for the next run. Okay. Even before this tweet, the stars are aligning. Yeah. People are saying what's happened to me. I'm using a different camera. I'm in a different place. And I got a haircut today. And everyone says you look old. I look weird and old. I am old. Here, I was I was puffing you up early. You're telling me I look good. And I was telling you how old I felt. And now the whole chat's like, hey, you look old. You look terrible. I think you look fine. But you know, maybe it's the rates, you know, the rates are just killing everybody. It is the rates. I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that I'm affected by that. Sure. So yeah, if we look at if we look at Bitcoin, also, We've also got if you don't like the head and shoulders, at the very least, you have to admit there's some sort of double top there. Yeah, double top, lower, lower low by a smidge. Rejected by the fast and long moving averages potentially. There's a there's reason to be concerned here. If we're above 28, at any point Q4, I think we're good for move higher, which doesn't like logically make sense based on what's going on in the world with rates and everything. So if this then that if we get above 28, we're good. Until then, I expect lower lows, ETH especially. What's going on with ETH, man? You're the ETH fanboy, the ETH cheerleader. What's happening? It's even better than BTC in terms of rejection off the 200. That's clean. It's nice and clean. That's a dump it. Let me translate that for everybody. That means it's even more bearish. I think this tells some of the story like there's not many people in the ecosystem that don't consider pair trades, you know, like opportunity cost or a risk profile of being in one thing versus the other. And a lot of people are dancing on like long tail of altcoins. Like they'll play on those playgrounds. But the people that are in big assets are looking at this where ETH BTC is breaking down further. It looks like it might be escalating. It looks like it might be going from breakdown to a steady progression to the downside. And I don't know, maybe that also looks double toppy to me. Yeah, but maybe another 10 -15 % on ETH is on that relative to BTC and people just don't see the upside as worthwhile. I get it. I understand. I like 05. And if 05 doesn't survive around the ETF stuff, assuming the ETF stuff is going to be bullish, I like 03. I think a 200 week tap at a minimum would make sense. So, you know, you're looking at another 10 % relative in that scenario. And that would probably be a bullish bottom. Bullish, she says. A bullish bottom if it maintains that. I'm sure, I don't know harmonics well enough to just like eyeball it, but I'm sure there's some sort of harmonic. Batwing harmonic, yeah. Yeah, there's something there where you could draw like a crab or something. If this one's a 0 .03, that would be concerning. Well, what's the breakout level of the head and shoulders? Like 0 .035, 0 .036? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I think that would put ETH people, myself included, just in Jordan tier mode. Look, if ETH doesn't get an ETF and Bitcoin does and it actually sees flows. It could happen. It could happen. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Hit your targets, Josh. 0 .053 before 0 .035. That's true. I mean, we need to spot ETF first, which... That's just math, just so you know. And dyslexia. It's just kind of interesting that it has not made a higher high since going proof of stake. Kind of weird, right? The Real Dangles asks, can we do a mini series on learning macro fundamentals? I've only ever looked at crypto, so half of what you guys talk about is foreign to me. No, but there's some people that you can learn from. One of the best, in my opinion, and I was... Jeebus was giving me crap about this, but Ray Dalio is, I think, the greatest macro mind that actually takes their information and then shares it. Big Debt Crises is a book. It's a study of cycles, basically. It's a study of deflationary, inflationary cycles, and they're very good. I would read that. That's a great start. Like, that'll be good. That could teach you more than I ever could. There's many, many other things, in addition to what he talked about, that go into what he talks about. But at the end of the day, it's all about cycles. And that's a terrific book. I would listen to a bunch of podcasts on macro stuff. Blockworks does a billion of them. Yeah, but don't worry. If you listen to those, you'll end up a bear. So you gotta know that going in so that you don't end up a bear. I don't care if you're bullish or bearish, but being able to form your own opinion, that's the end goal. But people that do nothing but talk macro are all bears. They're all dirty bears, Josh. I agree with you. They're doomer macro people. But just knowing the language and knowing what people are looking at definitely helps you understand what the hell is going on. If you listen to them, just know that you need to protect your beautiful, bullish beauty. Don't take their advice, air quotes here. Don't take their advice. Your beautiful, bullish innocence needs to be protected when you listen to the doomer bears. You'll learn all about the SPR and why it's the end of the world. What is it about macro that makes people perma bears? I don't know. I think all this cyclical stuff, the raining down of potential for bad makes you think it's imminent. Yeah, they're very pro -commodity, pro -being anti -market. That's their whole personality and identity. Now I'm thinking of Sven specifically, for those of you who know who that is. But the macro people will be wrong for years and years and years. And then we'll finally get a down move. And they'll be like, yes, I told you so. Now I've lost all my money and the market 10xed at that time. But I told you so. We would get a correction. But I like that about them. The macro people also generally don't like Bitcoin. Some of them do, certainly. But most of them don't. So that tells me we still got time. It's still early. There are very few Lynn Alden's of the world where I simultaneously massively respect their macro analysis. And they don't discount crypto. She does discount everything but Bitcoin. But I'll forgive her for that. Because she's already really good at two things. That most people can't combine their goodness of that. Yeah, she's great. That's another easy listen as far as trying to pick up. She just wrote a book about money, too. I'm sure it's got some good macro stuff in there. There you go. So we'll stop that. Rate's up. Murray, I don't know what we're saying is like Michael Murray. But if he's a doomer bear, then yes. Yeah, this is a doomer bear that he was right at the right time on the right cycle as the media fell in love with such characters. So that carries a lot of weight. Like he can now be wrong for the rest of his life, but he was still right in 2008. But I respect people that have these opinions. I just think it's a lot easier to make money if you're a bull over the long period of time. I agree. Tripsy says he thinks the TA makes a better bear case than macro. I agree. I pay attention to the macro because it's kind of interesting. And having the ability to discuss it is powerful. But if all I do is pay attention to the TA, then I'd be fine. If you see the macro and you make this great bear case and then you see the chart and the chart looks like it wants to explode to the upside, don't make the trade. Not financial advice, but don't sell everything in that scenario. I wouldn't. But if the chart looks like doo -doo and the macro looks like doo -doo, then maybe it's just doo -doo. Well, knowing yields and rates helps you understand the DeFi angle a little bit. Knowing risk premium helps you understand like if I'm not getting paid an insane amount in DeFi right now, it's just not worth participating. You know? Yeah. Assuming a risk -free rate in U .S. government bonds, treasuries, whatever, you're not getting paid that differential in DeFi. Typically, you are seeking yield growth balance, right? There's some combination or you're looking for either or, but there's a balance of yield and growth. If your available yield today is high, so let's say you can earn 5 % in a money market or something like that, then two years ago, you could only earn 1%. Then your need for growth is even higher to make up for your annualized compounding year -on -year returns because when you're seeking growth, you're compounding that growth to make up for the lack of yield. So when the yield is higher, you need even more growth so people get less interested in the growth because the growth needs to be so severe to replace easy yield that's available today. So that's why risk assets that focus on growth look less attractive when yield is high. That's a general concept that can be useful. I always like to think about the extremes. So they used to say, Tina, there is nothing else when you're talking about allocating capital. So if there was no yield before, you get all this crazy VC shit and altcoins and NFTs. Because it's growth at all costs. Because that's it. That's the whole game, right? Now that there's a balance, it'd be much harder to create something like FTX in this environment where you can get a yield, you know? Yeah, there is demand for return on those dollars that's not just growth, that's not just bring it back to me more valuable. Did you hear that NFT story? The NFTs are 95 % worthless thing? Yeah. Yeah, there's some really good replies from NFT people that I thought were worthy. I've retweeted one of them. I don't remember who it was. I think it was the punk person that works, that does the streams all the time. Pink haired punk. You know, most of them always have been worthless is what they mentioned. And I think that they're doing a classic throw the baby out with the bathwater thing. Like the speculation on JPEGs was always going to pop. The underlying technology does have inherent value, it's just who's going to win from that. Like, will all the current market participants, collections, companies, whatever, will they all go away and then somebody will rise from the ashes and win the technology emergence where game the underlying technology can be taken advantage of to create real business value? I think that's what will happen, but which of us will be there to survive it? And then some stuff will get Lindy effects of art, digital art. There was product market fit, there is product market fit for that. But like, you can't just mint 10 ,000 pineapples and expect to make millions of dollars now when there's nothing else. If your denominator is infinity, then yeah, 95 % are useless.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market: What No Ones Telling You!
"Anytime you start making paper Bitcoin, or paper silver, or paper gold, and what do I mean by that? Futures, ETFs, stuff like that, that creates paper version. That's not actual spot, right? So anytime you do that, yes, the same money that comes in to buy it, so that they can actually short it, and they could keep it down with unlimited money and unlimited leverage, they could keep it down indefinitely, or until they scoop up as much as they want, when everyone loses interest, and then it takes off. What's up, everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, and good night wherever you're tuned in from. Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to the show. If this is your first time, and I hope to guarantee that it's not going to be your last time, we've got an excellent guest lined up for you today. Mr. Jesse Olson is going to be breaking down what it means to cut the noise out of all these narratives from FUD and HOPE. Look at the chart, let the chart do the talking for you. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in right to our guest. And I want to ask him a question right up front. Jesse, first off, thank you for being here, but do you think we're still going to get another bull run, bull runs like we've seen in the past, or do you think all these new institutions coming in and big money players coming into the market are going to change the dynamic of what a bull run is in Bitcoin? What's your thoughts? What's up, Kelly? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And we should have some fun here. Coming from a trading standpoint, right? I'm going to come from a trading standpoint and a point of view. When I first got the first bull run, right, 2020, 2021, I was still learning. And yes, I was doing pretty good 2021, really good. But the whole time I was saying this, I was like, please give me one more bull run after this, right? Please give me one more. I'm not 100 % certain that we get another bull run like we did on the last one. And I'm not as optimistic with the big institutions coming in. And I wasn't back in 2020 and I wasn't in 2021. Because coming from options, I know that manipulation is in there because they want to make money. They have billions, if not trillions of dollars. They've had algorithms for, I don't know, 12, 15 years or longer that are probably where us retail folk are at now, right? And they have the money behind it, right? So when futures were created end of 2017, I think Bitcoin started to become more correlated. Then there's trusts like GBTC. And if there's ETFs and stuff like that, I think it will become more correlated. I think it's amazing for traders, right? I just don't think that if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong because I will do much better, right? I will do much better if we get a massive bull run. But if we don't, it's because it will become more of a trading thing than it will be a long -term great. I just, you know, it can't be that easy. And if it is great, we'll all be there, right? I'm trading Bitcoin. I'm trading it with leverage. I welcome that. I make way more money on a long position with leverage than I do on a short position because, A, the leverage you're gaining profit and the coin value is going up. But on the short side, the coin value isn't going up, it's going down. So I collect more coins, but the coin value isn't going up. So first and foremost, I do want another bull run and I beg for another bull run so all my snipers can participate and they can make money as well and change their lives. But I'm not certain that it's going to happen. And I would be surprised if they allow it to happen. If big companies are coming in, you know, I don't know. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see. But we'll be there if it does and we won't be surprised if it doesn't. Put it that way. Now, Jesse, I have to say how much I appreciate people that are in this space that bring a balanced view because everybody thinks it's just going to go up, up and away, especially considering the fact that we have the halving right around the corner. Do you think the halving is going to be the primary driver of if we do get a bull run? Do you think the halving really truly is going to have an impact on price action? What's your thoughts on this? I have a couple of thoughts on it. So one, I think the halving will still play a factor, right? If all things are the same, if the same, you know, if the one there's a couple of things that could hurt it. Right. So Bitcoin has never Bitcoin came out after the 2008 crash. Right. So it's never experienced a dot com bubble crash. It never experienced 2008 crash. I have. I went back to zero. I lost everything. So for me, the up only left me a long time ago. Right. Like, I know it's not up only when I thought it was up only in my mid 20s. Right. So for me, a couple of those things. I do have hope for Bitcoin. I do believe on some level they'll be able to manipulate it and suppress it. If you look at gold and silver. Right. Gold and silver should probably be $30 ,000 an ounce by now for gold. And silver should probably be $1 ,000 per ounce by now. And because of paper, silver and gold should probably suppress it. Right. So I believe those are probably should be worth a lot more. The one positive with Bitcoin is anyone can go buy spot Bitcoin much easier than silver and gold. Right. I've bought silver and gold and they deliver it to you in a weird package and it's heavy. Right. It's not easily transportable and all that stuff. So there are some positive about Bitcoin. Right. So, you know, who knows what the agendas are? I don't. That's why I stick hyper focus to the charts, because I don't know what the backroom deals are happening. I don't know the narratives. I don't know any of that stuff. I'm not a top point one percenter making those decisions. So the only thing I can do is trade the charts. But, you know, going back, if we do get this bull run, I do have some reasons why, you know, like you said, you brought up one hundred fifty thousand. I do have a couple of reasons why that I could see Bitcoin hit one hundred and ten, one twenty five and maybe even top would be like one hundred forty thousand dollars. But that's a lot of what ifs. So, you know, we will take it level by level and swing trade the heck out of it all the way all the way up in the bull run. If we get another bull run, that's kind of like the topping that I would see price it. So now I appreciate that answer. And I'd like to shift gears here for a second, because you've been trading for years, years before Bitcoin was even around. And I'd like to dive into that experience a little bit and throw it back to the beginners out there, because we do have beginners that are out there still right now. But disproportionately, as we get new bullish impulses, especially in Bitcoin or the rest of the altcoin markets, we're going to have a huge number, a huge influx of new people into the space. So what would you say if you had that? Maybe not a secret sauce, but a beginner's pack, a beginner's sort of encouragement and the need to knows and the need to uses for people that are starting from scratch. Maybe they don't have a pro trading view account. Maybe they're not buying one of our indicators of one of your indicators or some of the many paid indicators out there. There's a lot of free tools. So what would you say for beginners getting started today or at any point in the future? Where do they start? How do they dive into this? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, first and foremost, like before this, I would say salvage as much capital at first as possible. I feel like the faster you want to jump in to make money, the faster you are going to lose money. So it sounds generic that, you know, learn first. Right. But say you already passed, you're going down discovery road and you're trying to learn and develop your own strategy. Right. Well, if you're on trading view, for example, you can get a relative strength indicator for free. If you're on trading view, free platform, you can get the MACD indicator. I think that's the most commonly used for beginners is the MACD indicator. And just before you do anything else, just study it and study it some more and then back test it and develop a strategy based off of your back test. There's an amazing replay button on trading view that you can go back and kind of after you develop a strategy, you can easily go back and hit the replay video and see what that, you know, how that kind of plays out in the past. It doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future, but you can get an idea over time of back testing with the replay button. That's probably number one. And then paper trade. I know it's not exciting. I know I didn't do it. I jumped head head first. I would have five digit wins followed by five digit losses. And it was brutal. Right. And I've never had a six digit loss, but I've had six digit wins. But I've had five digit losses and it wasn't until the five digit losses that made me like I made five digit wins with basically hardly any strategy whatsoever. And that was probably the worst thing that could happen. The best thing that could happen is that I had the five digit win loss and it made me go back to the drawing board. It made me reevaluate my whole life. What am I doing in trading type of thing? That aha moment. And that's when I really went obsessive on the charts and developing my own strategy. I saw other people's strategies out there. And when I would back test it, I went through a phase where I back tested so many other people's strategies. I would just say, didn't work. This doesn't work for me. This doesn't work for me. And every strategy could work differently for different people, especially on different timeframes. So develop something that works for you. Find a timeframe that works for you and your lifestyle. Some of our snipers, they can't do swing trading on the daily chart. They don't have the patience for it. They're scalpers. They're day traders. So you got to know yourself too. And then at that point, as you're graduating from paper trading and back testing, the next level is maybe risk some lunch money. The amount of money you and I would go off for like a nice lunch. And if I were to buy your lunch, I don't even think twice about it. Like something that I'm not even going to lose sleep over. Then I talk about doing lunch money. Then maybe you do lunch money with leverage or blah, blah, blah, or a little bit more money with spot, right? So you got to take it in levels and kind of make it a systematic approach. And if you treat it like a business in those levels, that's when you're going to have a better chance of making it. Otherwise, if you jump straight in and you want to go 50 X leverage, no strategy, no experience, no back testing. I guarantee you blow up account. I guarantee it. One of the things I say is like, if you're, if you're trying to double down, like you were doing well, right? So a couple of things that I've talked about in coaching is that, and by the way, I don't do live coaching anymore. I have recorded coaching, but I don't do live coaching. It's just too much time and energy. But when I was doing those live coaching calls, we talked about this and we talked about that. You know, every time you win a trade, if you're treating it like a business, you pull out, for example, I pull out my personal strategies. I pull out 50 % out of that trading kill and I take it out of the digital world and then go maybe put it in the physical world or diversify in some other way. Right? So you're always taking a piece off, always taking a piece off. And one of them, one of the students is like extremely young. Right. And, uh, I, I said, Hey, what are you gonna do with your winnings? Right. He crushed it. And I was actually jealous of his trade. He, he actually nailed it on high leverage. And I'm like, I'm like, go buy your mom something nice. Right. So not only take like money off the table, but it's the whole mindset. If you're not taking money off the table on each trade, what happens is you're up. Like you were say, you know, $50 ,000, $100 ,000, $10 ,000, $1 ,000. Maybe you're brand new. You're up $1 ,000. And that's the most you've ever had. You want to flip that into $10 ,000, right? Then you want to flip that into a million dollars. And that's, and that's what you just fell into that same example you just gave you fell into that mindset. And you only can do that by learning the hard way. So what you have to do is be more systematic about it. And after a win, fighting the urge of going back in and instead of going all back in, you're, you're pulling some out and then you're, you're, you're going at the new, every trade you have to treat as brand new and instead of jumping in and out is everything lining up on the charts, just like it did the first one, you nailed the first trade. And a lot of times this happens when you're, I talk about it, you'll have like nine winning trades in a row and we're human. We're not robots. I'm not a robot. I know I'm most likely to have a bad trade after I've had nine in a row. Why? Because my confidence is so high. I've skipped steps, right? So if you skip steps because your confidence is so high, that's when you're most likely going to have your next loss. And if you forget to put, and if you make a mistake on that, you forget to put in a stop loss. You do too high of leverage. Next thing you know, you're having a major setback and a change. It sets you back not only on financially, but mentally. So be cautious. Once you are making the wins and you are winning like nine times in a row, you're going to have a loss. And usually it's because your confidence is so high, not because you're, you've been on a losing streak, right? So just want to point that out. And it was based off what you're kind of talking about. You're winning. It was the bull run. And then all of a sudden you went all in with more leverage and took a $70 ,000 loss. So you learn from your mistakes, right? Yeah. Well, I got to say, I couldn't agree more with you on all those great places to start for beginners and how utilizing a lot of those free tools that are available to you to get started, to understand the mechanisms of all these tools that you're going to be utilizing when you're doing price analysis and trying to figure out when to buy and when to sell. It's not just about looking at price action. It's about looking at those underlying data sets that can give you an edge as to when trends are going to shift. So with that being said, I have to say, Jesse, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with us and your lens on this market. And everybody, if you want to see more of Jesse, throw one in chat, comment down below, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, ding the bell. And if you would make sure you head over to Jesse J -E -S -S -E -O -L -S -O -N, find out so much more about him here, all kinds of different content he shares on a daily basis, really breaking down charts. He even has his own Market Sniper Academy right here at MarketSniper .Pro. You can also find out more information on BitLab Academy right here at Academy BitLab. Follow me, of course, at Kelly Kellum, K -E -L -L -Y, K -E -L -L -A -M. Make sure you check out bitlabacademy .com. We have all the tools and courses and strategies and the community that can really help you dive into this space and understand what is going on. Self -custody, trading fundamentals, psychology of trading, on -chain analysis, candles, candle patterns, indicators. There's so much in here as a point. Join us here in BitLab Academy. You can still use our coupon code GIVEME30 for an additional 30 % off your first month. I hope to see you in there in the Discord and over on the BitLab Academy daily YouTube stream right here at youtube .com forward slash at BitLab Academy. I'll see you there. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. Get out of the charts and we'll see you in the next video. Adios.
The Refiners Furnace
A highlight from A MAN'S GIFT
"Hi everyone good morning you're welcome to the refinance on his podcast once again and I'm your host the beneath the bassin I trust that the Lord is he then has been so gracious to you all right without wasting most of your time I I just wanted to share a bit of what the Lord is laying in my heart this morning with you and I'm trying to bring a corrective doctrine and let's bring a balance to this very subject because it has been it has been trending for a while and I just want us to have a proper understanding what scriptures really talked about our central text will be taken from Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 and it is actually talking about the wisdom in getting along with others okay so I got to understand that to actually relate properly with other people that there is a certain kind of wisdom that the Lord has the Lord expect of us yes there's something that the Lord expect of us yes there is an attitude there's a lifestyle it expects us to live so I I trust that the Lord will help us this morning in the name of Jesus so Proverbs chapter 18 from verse 16 I'm gonna read it in different translations and how the myths of God explain it I mean bit by bit so the Bible says in King James Version a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men all right the good news Bible says that do not do you want to meet an important person is it take a gift and it will be easy that's a good news translation so let's go to the passion translation the person translation says would you like to meet a very important person is it take a generous gift it would do wonders to gain entrance into his presence you see this very scripture is bringing so much attention to what has been trending so they must gift make it room for him so a lot of people used to think it is what they call it now it is relating to someone's inherent talent someone's order calling now like let's say gifting oh I was born with a gift but the scriptures in Hebrew chapter 18 is practically talking about your relationship with other people and in verse 16 the Bible says if you want to get access you want to meet an important person if you want to be faithful by an important person now we're not talking about bribery as in Proverbs chapter 17 essentially Proverbs chapter 17 was talking about bribery no it's not bribery but this is this gift is giving you access now this talks about access to to important personalities amen so the Bible says if you want to meet an important person get a generous gift and it's going to do wonders I think that's a passion translation you're going to do a lot of wonders so I also carefully look at this in some other perspectives so the Proverbs is a simple recognition of factual generosity and politeness opens many many doors so you can just go to meet an important person for example the let me get let me get let me get that scripture straight but I want to really place so much emphasis I mean so much so much emphasis on on this very subject because I know that there has been a whole lot of misappropriation miss everything has been I mean everything has been taken in the wrong direction so Deuteronomy chapter chapter come chapter 16 verse 16 the Bible says three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread and in the feast of weeks and in the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the Lord empty amen so this is not talking about your talent not talk about your gift this is more of your reverence your honor to a person that you you revere highly this is having to talk about your attitude your your the level at which you are not a person that this important person you're going to me so it must make it so all that can be very foolish and they go to meet an important person empty handed okay but you came with a gift you have so much access okay you have so much attention because you you have whole not this person coming to it you did not come to meet this person empty handed you came with something so a gift is more is more general than bread so here the proverb simply says that a gift can expedite matters but says nothing about bribing judges no so in Genesis chapter 43 verse 11 Jacob knew well and therefore paid his sons to take a present for the governor of the land presented a governor of the land though it were though it were both of every good thing a little so saw in first so was very very I mean King Saul was very very attentive to this very fact so his father's ass got missing and the guy said is there no man of God and the servant of which he was talking with said there is one there's one we know there's one we know and then when he went to go and see the man of God to inquire about is the loss as he did not go empty okay so it can it can it can also be an innocent courtesy of very early con that's a gift to reconcile that like a present Minha sent to the captain that was in first how much as a 20 generous at the 43 verse 11 that's King that's also please you have to take note of this very passage so that say that um you can really understand where I'm coming from and what I'm actually talking about so a lot of people misuse this very subject I mean they talk about their giftings and how talented you are and you see a lot of people start to charge before they can be a blessing to God's people they collect so much money some will be asking you how much is your honorarium budget because they believe that that the scriptures here is talking about what they have inside of them what the Lord gave to them is it freely I have given and I mean freely I've received and then free you have to give so they don't you know that very very scripture they go ahead you go ahead to scatter the the context of scripture just to suit their personal lost I think I made this I made something about this podcast episode happy some some some weeks ago about how people will go about decontextualizing the scripture just to suit their personal lost so a minister who is drawn after Mammon or who is was so much lost for money will now be selling what God gave to him freely and that he was supposed to to give out freely because God gave it to him freely so a man of God will start mechanizing the gift the giftings of God and then using the scripture to to back it up please I beg in the name of God we need to go back to our Bible studies we need to we need to check yes I know you spent so much I know you spent a whole lot to improve on yourself yes second Timothy chapter 2 I think from verse 15 apostle Paul was speaking to Timothy is a study to show yourself approved a workman and it's not patient so the Lord invested in you of course you will need to you will need to work that out you need to make him know that truly you're not wasting that which he bestowed in you amen you need to prove that okay I'm not saying that ministers of the gospel the mind of God should not be cornered of course when they are the concept I know you are still asking me to give you a million dollars you are outside the kingdom of God I'm telling you the truth now I expect to you in all honesty I tell you nothing I am NOT talking because I'm perfect I'm into the full image but I am bringing by the message how do you say part of the money to account before you come now we take the context or the lifestyle of the world to God's Kingdom yes the Lord is supposed to the Lord is supposed to sincerely yes but this is not the root the Bible says he blessed the works of your hands yes now now believe me the fact that you're doing ministry does not mean that you should not walk amen now the fact that you are you a minister of the gospel doesn't mean that you should be I don't know except and unless the Lord sends you I said oh go and do justice and if the Lord asks you to I mean give yourself totally to this cause which he has chosen you for I'm sure he's going to make provision not you make challenging and looking for ways to provide for yourself no how about some sweet little Lord is my shepherd I shall not want if you really know the God in which you are serving you should understand it now to Elijah the Bible says that the Lord commanded arabian arriving to what to feed him now I want you to understand that the Lord cannot really I mean the Lord truly sent you on an errand and then he leaves you empty it's impossible I mean it is extremely impossible like you I mean deconstructorization You are a spiritual, you should, you should, you should talk of midterm dancing.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Intelligent Assistant to Manage Salesforce Orgs with AI, Launched, Metazoa Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with us today Jennifer Mercer, who is the CEO of Metazoa. Jennifer, thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me. So you guys are a pioneering Salesforce tool developer, and you have a very interesting AI announcement. Why don't you tell us about what you just released? Okay, so yes, we are a Salesforce ISV partner. We work with Salesforce's largest customers, Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and we've been around for a little while working with automation on technical debt cleanup, org splits, mergers, But recently, obviously, we've launched something with AI, it's very exciting, we're very excited about it. When as soon as ChatGPT released our developer version 3 .5, we just went heads down and started working on it with our product. It is all throughout our product. We work with Salesforce as org management, and it is very practical, it has very practical uses for that. It's just the nature of org management and the nature of our solution in general. It just works very well. So we launched our metadata studio, which is a, it has your intelligent assistant. And we have our prompt engineering platform, which has over 100 prebuilt prompts that can be edited, and Salesforce admins and developers can also create their own prompts and share them with their teammates. So, Jennifer, if you're using Salesforce, why do I need this tool? So, Salesforce orgs, it is well known that there's been a lot of development and innovation, which is great, but that left a very complex, messy org behind. And these customers are dealing with crippling amount of technical debt, they're hitting all their apex limits. They're struggling to even find the technical debt or detangle it, it's very difficult to do that. So when we launched Metazoa, we started tackling that problem. And we created, everybody's using the same set of APIs, except for we created our own dependency API. So we can see a lot more than Salesforce or any of the other partners or any of the GSIs where the customers can see. And we work with Salesforce customers to really get in there and find, for example, there's kept hitting their apex limits. And Salesforce raised the limit, they hit the limit, they raised the limit, they hit the limit, they're about to hit the limit again, Salesforce said no more, you got to figure this out. They have worked with the GSI for about two years, nothing was done, it didn't move the needle. They sent us in there, we were able to create a report to find all the forgotten assets of apex classes, find out which ones were being used, which ones hadn't been used in years, which ones were dummy classes. And our reports are actionable within the product. So you go in there and you find all that, then you can go and actually remove it in product. So it's not just giving you a report and then you go back into your org and try to do that manually. It's all automated. So our goal was to automate all of these services that these customers are trying to do themselves or use cobbled together products to do this for release management and DevOps, or they're going to a GSI or an SI partner to try to do it manually.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
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I've chosen our episode from November of 2019 on cockney rhyming slang. This is one of those silly episodes That's also packed with a lot of interesting information and I remember Chuck and I having fun making it So I hope you'll enjoy listening to it, too enjoy Welcome to stuff you should know production of I heart radio And welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant right there. There's Jerry Roland right there So that makes this stuff. You should know right Can't top that I was trying to think a way to say welcome to the podcast in cockney rhyming slang Can you make an attempt my I'm my brain is so broken right now. I can't even try. Okay, good good Well, welcome. It's a good good time to record a show You're gonna do some cockney in here, right? We want to offend as many Londoners as we can I don't know just just channel a little Dick Van Dyke. Oh You know Yeah, the American Doing a bad cockney accent. Well, I did recently rewatch the limey Yes Casey's for benefit. Yeah, the great great movie from Steven Soderbergh. Never seen it. It's awesome. Is it really? Yeah, I mean, I know it's like a classic and everybody loves it. But I mean, it's really that good Yeah, because a lot of people liked I don't know the hangover. I Like the hangover. Well, how would you how would you like the limey and the hangover same level? Yeah, they're the same movie almost. All right, it's weird. Well, then I've seen the hangover so I don't need to see the limey Lemmy's great and Terence stamp is Awesome, and it then uses some cockney rhyming slang and one great scene My big exposure to cockney rhyming slang is lock stock in two smoking barrels Snatch. Yeah, which I think are both directed by Guy Ritchie, right? Wasn't lock stock like his first attempt and snatch was the one that like Got him married to Madonna you a fan of his yeah, I mean as much as I Like his movies, I don't like him personally necessarily cuz he like hunts bore like a jackass does it like yeah No drunk with his friends in the most like disrespectful way of murdering a pig. I admit his movies But yeah, I do like his movie sounds like he's a creep, too I'm not gonna go on record saying that but Yeah, those movies are okay and then I guess what's his name Don Cheadle a little bit in Oceans 11 sure he did a little bit of that right and I mean like It's code to Americans. It's oh, there's like a criminal a British criminal, right? That's all that means these days Yeah, I think so in movies. It's definitely Like all of those are criminal right criminal people in the movies They're like, you know kind of slick cool criminals that wear leather coats and stuff like that Not dumb criminals that wear like football jerseys or anything like that. They're like, you know smooth criminals That's I think what I was looking for. Yeah, but This this idea of associating it with cockney is not necessarily associating it with criminals. It's more associated with like Lower class working class less educated definitely not the aristocracy over in Britain yeah, or the upper class sure and that by by speaking with a cockney accent or More to the point using cockney rhyming slang you could really differentiate yourself To as a point of pride, right? Like you were speaking like your group your in -group which was at the time cockney, right? But the big surprise to all this is it's really possible and even probable that it wasn't the cockney that came up with this Rhyming slang that it was somebody else altogether. Maybe who knows should we say what it is? No Not for the rest of the podcast cockney rhyming slang Wasn't even Very clearly defined in this piece. Okay, did you think it was? It's in there. Okay, you got to just kind of separate the wheat from the chaff So it is a two -word phrase and is a slang phrase Consisting of two words so far so good where the last word of that phrase rhymes with the original word and It can be and I think the best way to do this is just to throw out a few no. No keep describing Well, the two -word phrase it can be it can be a lot of things it can be a person's name It can be just something random can be a place could be a place. It could be a lot of things it can be anything Yeah, sure. I guess it can be But shall we illustrate it through? Well, there's a second part to it. Okay, the second part and this is very important the Two -word phrase that you're using to that where the second one rhymes with the word you're actually saying Yeah, the original word the original word. Thank you Usually has nothing to do with it. There's no metaphor. There's no connection. There's no Nothing, there's no there's no context to it It's supposed to just be random or in most cases. It is just random words right one of which rhymes with the word you're replacing and To further complicate things sure In a lot of cases and no one knows why sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't a lot of times that one of the words Of the two -word phrase is dropped. Yeah, and then you're just left with the one word Which doesn't even rhyme with the original word anymore, right? That's I mean, that's probably the best description of cockney rhyming slang anyone's ever given So I think we should illustrate it with a couple of examples. I pulled some from From something called the internet Here here's one the the tip and tete That's how long it took me to come up with that Tip and tete for internet, but in ten years, it'll just be called the tip I'm gonna log on to the tip governor So let's say your word was and this was in oceans 11 specifically trouble is the word that you're trying to say Cockney rhyming slang for trouble is Barney rubble awesome And so you would say you're making a bit of the bonnie rubble again, right when somebody that was kind of Who was that? Making a bit of bonnie rubble not the see I already did it wrong No, but I think you that's not like a real person to an American for sure. Oh, yeah Um, I can't I can't I'll shout it out. Later. Oh, man. I finally did a good one No, but it wasn't a cockney person, okay for Another example Queen They would use the term baked bean Look who's on TV. It's the baked bean And that's the Queen. I like that one or in the case of one that's been dropped What is Ed use here bees and honey? That one is not dropped for money. Okay, but which one was apples and pears right? Right, so you would say I'm gonna go up the apple and stairs Apples and pears. Oh, man Let me retake this everybody You would say I'm going to go up the apples and pears to go get my wallet to pay for this pizza Or something to that effect. Okay, but then over time people drop the pears And so now the word for stairs in cockney rhyming slang is just apples Which if you're just standing there on the outside like a normal American bloke sure, which by the way means person You have no idea why this person just called stairs apples You got what they were saying because the context is there you're going up the apples to get your wallet to pay for the pizza But why would you just say that did you did you hit your head? Is there something wrong with you? What's the problem? Why would you just call that apples? Yeah, that's why it's so confounding But the great thing about cockney rhyming slang and in particular the great thing about researching cockney rhyming slang is you learn How you get from apples to stairs and then it makes sense sometimes Yeah, that's true. It's not always. Yeah, sometimes there's It's not documented which ed points out is one of the problems sometimes you can draw the line the through line But because it's not documented and sometimes these things take years and years to morph into its final version right unless you unless you're you know on the What would you call street on the dole? No on the streets, then I wouldn't know but I don't know what streets is you can't just make stuff up like there's real words I'm the drums and beats So you're on the drums right, but they probably have a word for streets like that's the whole point You can't just make anything up, but the you could if it hasn't been taken yet sure Also, that's the other thing about cockney rhyming slang is it evolves right so old celebrities that that no one even knows about anymore Fall away to new celebrities whose name also rhyme with you know whatever word you're saying right? I thought you meant old celebrities who maybe used to talk this way like Michael Caine no He's never said any rhyming slang in his life. No of course you got to see the movie Alfie Maybe that's who it was it might have been Michael Caine. I'll take that Michael Caine. I think it was as a matter of fact Thank you, I'm glad you did it. Noel always says a good joke is to say Michael Caine in the correct accent say the words my cocaine And it sounds like Michael Caine saying it then it sounds like that the correct accent for Michael Caine all right say it my cocaine Well you just blew that one out of the water You Gotta set me up in the future Okay, well there's I've got it two ways now, man, okay, here's the thing my cocaine That's my cocaine That's pretty good Michael Caine. It is good. You're right. No. You just got to say it the right way and not like a robot Josh So here's that one of the things is sort of confounding if you want to look up a like a glossary and Say well, here's what I'm gonna. Do I'm gonna learn cockney rhyming slang so for my trip to England I'm really you know. I'm really in with everybody First of all bad idea yeah second of all it's it can be very localized Mm -hmm and the accents are all different Yeah, so even people in London sure who both who all use well people in London Do but the people who use cockney rhyming slang in London yeah might not even agree on what word is means What I'm just picturing all the people walking around England laughing their arses off. I can't wait to get to that one As we stumble through this um yeah, it had a really good Example of why there's no codification of the cockney rhyming slang He said that when people are creating a language especially informal ones like slang They don't write it all down quote dear diary referred to my house as a cat and mouse today because it rhymed We all had a good laugh might try. Just calling it cat tomorrow and see how it goes It is it sounds funny, but that's that's how it works stumbling across the diaries And here's the other thing too is there are cases where there is a little bit of a reflection of the original word and the example that it gives here is twist Yeah, like to call a woman a twist mm -hmm Which I don't know if that's derogatory or not or just some weird slang that no one uses anymore I don't think so although I don't know so yeah these are also the people who use the C word like it's nothing Man I can't wait to go back there Which we're gonna do soonish right? I'd love to do in 2020. Maybe yeah, all right So twist came from twist and twirl which meant girl which is They were talking about like dancing with a girl twisting and twirling in a nightclub Let's say so there is some connection in that one. Yeah, so girl and ended up becoming twist So that sort of makes sense there's another one called on your Todd After a guy named Todd Sloan and it means on your own Right and the thing is is like on your Todd it makes sense Sloan rhymes with own It doesn't have to have any connection, but that one actually does yeah Cuz Todd Sloan was a famous jockey in the 19th century like horse jockey. Yes, okay? What other kind is there disc jockeys? Oh, yeah, sure So his book his memoir was called Todd Sloan by himself Which is weird to refer to yourself in third person for your memoir Hmm, but there was a line in it that apparently East End East Enders in London like really picked up I was left alone by those. I never ceased to grieve for It's still like the idea of being alone or on your own Became synonymous with Todd Sloan his name just happened to rhyme with that So it's one of those rare ones where there is a connection to it and also rare Chuck in that This is a 19th century horse jockey and still today on your Todd is recognized as on your own Whereas a lot of people probably have no idea exactly who he is and when that happens That frequently that person gets moved out for potentially another celebrity or another word That's a little more understandable or recognized another new jockey two people today, right? Yeah exactly which can you name one? Nope? 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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from ANTI BITCOIN BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED! SEC GARY GENSLER DOESN'T LIKE THE LAW (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got very interesting news, which I'm sure many of you may have heard in the mainstream media, and that is Senator Bob Menendez has been charged with bribery and a whole bunch of other crimes. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you talking about this? Right. Well, folks, Senator Bob Menendez, who is a Democrat, he introduced a bill back in 2022, which would help to stop Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. And he was citing that the adoption would open the door for money laundering and corruption. Wow. Talk about hypocrisy, folks, right? This guy all along for a very long time, his track record, he's been accused of doing a lot of shady stuff and now he's being charged here. The folks at Bitcoin Archive said the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted for corruption by federal prosecutors who seized one hundred thousand dollars in gold bars and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in hidden cash from his home. So politicians those who are often very loud and screaming against crypto are the ones who have a lot to lose and a lot to hide, who are probably doing shady stuff. For example, Elizabeth Warren, Brad Sherman, Gary Gensler, right? I'm sure they've got some really nasty stuff in their closet. And some folks have shown that Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of seventy three million dollars. And of course, her salary is just like two hundred and eighty thousand a year. That's a great amount of wealth she's accumulated from just a senator's salary, right, folks? But we know the game, right? This is why we got to keep fighting and we got to expose these corrupt bureaucrats and politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman. We know they are puppets on the string doing a lot of the bidding of the tradfi incumbents and people who would love to kill crypto and not just even kill crypto, but just stop or kill the startups and allow their banking buddies and Wall Street buddies to come in and take over. So I'm glad these folks are getting exposed. And President Nayib Bukele, who, of course, he's the president of El Salvador, he tweeted about this news. He said, this is the guy that called for an investigation against us. He ended up being charged, period. So I'm glad he's doing a victory lap there. Now we got some interesting news about a library in the SEC. So we had reported just about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago that library was going to file an appeal. And this is based on the Ripple lawsuit outcome. Right. It makes sense. We have new case law with XRP, so it makes sense for them to appeal. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has directed library to file its brief by November 1st, 2023. Now of course, this is no guarantee they're going to win. But the point is, we want to put the pressure on the SEC and Gary Gensler. We want to expose them for their lies, hypocrisy and much more. So I'm glad library is doing this. Attorney Jeremy Hogan highlighted a video here with Gary Gensler being interviewed. And it just shows his hypocrisy that he doesn't care about the law. He just cares about his own power and his next job. And it's no wonder Judge Sarah Netburn said the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. So he says the crypto space is full of hucksters and noncompliance. Well, the reporter asked them, would anything a court says change your mind? Great question. Gensler said, well, no, not really. And of course, he looked very shaky. He's losing confidence. And Attorney Jeremy Hogan said, you can't make this stuff up. So clearly, this man has no respect for the law. He's just making things up as he goes. It's about his show, his power, his ego. And we can't have that, folks. This guy's supported by our tax dollar. He should be kicked to the streets. And I'm telling you, I hope that Coinbase mops the floor with his buffoon and the SEC so that he has so much pressure on him. He's forced to resign. I'm hoping that happens. Now, Stuart Aldarati highlighted that same video. And here's what he had to say. What's most concerning to me and should be to you in the full video clip, this is the shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the courts. So I'm thankful for the judicial branch and the balances we have in the government that a corrupt scumbag regulator like Gary Gensler, as much as he can go around saying all kinds of nonsense and nasty stuff, he has to respect the courts in a sense of what they put out there. Right. The SEC has to abide by that. Now, he may not personally agree, and he can, you know, like in this interview, say, oh, no, I don't agree with anything. But at the end of the day, if he takes a loss, he takes a loss. Right. So we got to keep fighting. I'm hoping the industry keeps fighting back as well. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using since twenty eighteen. I've interviewed their CEO and many representatives so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and thirty seven fiat currencies so you can switch between these different currencies and crypto and precious metals at a click of a button. So it's a unique platform and they've been around for a long time. Once again, I can vouch for this platform. So if you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. All right. Let's move ahead. Caitlin Long was at Mainnet and she was tweeting out some of the statements coming out of Mainnet. I was at Mainnet yesterday and I met her. I tweeted out a photo of us together. I was supposed to go on Wednesday as well, but I wasn't feeling too hot. So stayed home that day. But, you know, there was a lot of folks there. And Brian Armstrong, CEO, was there. He said the Biden administration has been terrible for crypto. Well, that's to say the least, right? That's an understatement. They've been horrendous, in my opinion. Caitlin also highlighted that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters actually this is she's highlighting what Chris Lee Hain had to say, that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters in 2020 voted for Biden. Democrats are at risk of losing them in 2024 due to anti -crypto policy. Absolutely right. And these Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. Patrick Hanson of Circle highlighted the following, that the euro stablecoin, obviously Circle issues USDC, but they also have the euro stablecoin and it's now EURC instead of EUROC. So just an update there. So the euro coin is now EURC. So just heads up on that, folks. And I want to highlight something I tweeted out today, and I think it's important. And, you know, all emotions aside, all feelings aside, I was highlighting that I'm very bullish on Ethereum for the 2024 -2025 bull market. Now this is, once again, all emotions and feelings about Bill Hinman and Joe Lubin aside, I still want those guys to be held accountable. But as for the token and the code, it's getting adoption. And I highlight that PayPal is building their stablecoin in Ethereum, right, PYUSD, Citibank's token is built on Ethereum. JP Morgan is working on a deposit token, which is built on Onyx, which is a permissioned version of the Ethereum blockchain. Coinbase is obviously launching base, which is their layer two for Ethereum, or they have launched it, I should say. And there's a rise in institutional ETH staking. So I'm very bullish on ETH and this type of news, these facts now, not my feelings, not my opinions, but these facts of adoption from very big companies and brands has me very bullish on Ethereum. I obviously hold ETH in my portfolio. I stake it and I continue to buy the dip, not financial advice. You should do your own research. And obviously I'm not just bullish on ETH alone, but just there's been a lot of adoption. And I want to highlight that because it's about facts, not feelings now. And I'm bullish on Bitcoin, XRP, Chainlink and many other tokens. Let's talk about Core Scientific, which is a Bitcoin mining company. So Core Scientific sealed $77 million Bitmain deal for 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs. The deal was first finalized in August with Anchorage as another party agreeing to an equity stake in the bankrupt crypto miner. So one of the key things is that BlackRock also gave them a bit of money. Guys, this was back in 2022. So it's kind of like to the Victor goes to spoils where Bitmain was in trouble and then a whole bunch of folks started coming in to grab up as much as they can. So the deal between the two mining companies will see Bitmain supply 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs for $23 million in cash, along with $53 .9 million worth of common stock of the bankrupt firm. Apart from the mining hardware purchase deal, Bitmain and Core Scientific have signed a new hosting agreement to assist Bitmain's mining operations. The deal was finalized in August when a court filing highlighted Bitmain's plan to sell mining hardware in exchange for cash and equity. As part of Core Scientific's restructuring plan, apart from Bitmain, the restructuring plan also included Anchorage. And you guys may have seen my interview recently with the president of Anchorage and the co -founder of Anchorage, Diego Monica. If you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. It says here, restructuring plan also included Anchorage, BlockFi and mass mutual asset finance. Apart from Anchorage, all other three firms chose a mix of cash and equity options to settle their claims. The expansion investment plan by Bitmain will come into force by the fourth quarter of 2023, pending approval from a judge. Once approved, the hardware will potentially add 4 .1 exahashes to Core Scientific's hash rate. The two crypto mining companies all have also agreed to work together to upgrade Bitmain's last generation miners hosted at Core Scientific's data centers to further increase the firm's productivity. So, folks, Core Scientific, I will be potentially interviewing the new CEO and I'll let you guys know when that's coming up. But I want to definitely get into the details here and what BlackRock is doing with them in addition to Bitmain. So I'll definitely be asking those questions once I get the interview locked in. But, you know, a lot of companies are preparing for the Bitcoin mining next year. And many of you may have seen my interview uploaded earlier today with Fred Thiel, who's the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, and Marathon is working with a sovereign wealth fund. So, folks, there's going to be a lot of capital coming to the market. You're going to see a rise in demand for Bitcoin as the spot ETFs get approved, especially around, you know, BlackRock spot ETF and Fidelity and so forth. So I'm very bullish, you know, like I've been saying, we are in quantitative tightening, fighting inflation, rates are high, but this will end right as it has historically boom and bust cycles. The Fed will eventually start its QE again. They're going to start printing money, global liquidity will go back up and we'll be back in a bull market. We just have to be patient, dollar cost average where possible. And, you know, don't look at the price every day because you'll drive yourself crazy. And, you know, it's very volatile. Sometimes it's moving sideways. It's very boring. And I know that's tough. But just, you know, take your positions, obviously do your research, take your positions and just be patient and then, you know, watch what these players are doing. Right. Not so much the price, but watch what the players like this are doing, who's investing, who's building, who's raising capital and much more. So that's what I'm looking at. And that's why I build this podcast to share the news, because, you know, this is not going to make mainstream news. This is not going to be on CNBC, Fox or CNN or whatever it is. Right. And a lot of people are not paying attention. But I'm glad I'm here early. If you are here early, pat yourself on the back because there's going to be billions of people coming in buying Bitcoin and other crypto at a premium and they're going to go to BlackRock and whoever else. Right. But you and I are on the side of smart money. We are on the side of BlackRock. We are on the side of Fidelity. Right. Accumulating the lows. And then when the bull markets come back, then, you know, the herds, the herd who watch Jim Cramer and listen to Jim Cramer will go by. And that's when I'll be taking profits. And I'm sure many of you as well. So once you understand the market cycles, both for stocks, even real estate and obviously crypto, you know, you can make money, folks. And that's what I had to learn. I had to unlearn the mainstream media finance and listening to Jim Cramer and all these things. Right. And study the charts and understand the market cycles and know when to buy and when to sell, because all those things, you have to be a contrarian. Right. You've got to go against your emotions. You've got to go against the herd mentality. And that's hard if, you know, all your life you've been trained to go with the herd. Right. From television and media and all these things, you have to unlearn that. And once you get it, boy, it's pretty sweet. Right. To be able to make a nice return, make nice money. And obviously you've got to diversify. I diversify into different tokens, into stocks. I've often tweeted and sometimes shared, you know, my positions. Recently, I told you guys I bought PayPal because Jim Cramer said to sell PayPal. So I bought PayPal. Right. I know it's not going to be some quick flip. It may I see I may see some nice returns by next year and that's OK. I a am patient investor looking to build wealth for me and my family. So anyway, guys, that's my approach. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear what you guys think about this news. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description. Thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. And I'll talk to you all later. Thank you.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from Coriant Coriant provides wealth management services centered around you. They focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives and establishing legacies that last for generations leverage their exclusive network of experts to help achieve your personal and professional financial goals as one of the largest integrated fee only registered investment advisors in the US Coriant has experienced teams who can craft custom solutions designed to help you reach your financial goals. No matter how complex real wealth requires real solutions. Connect to a wealth advisor today at Coriant calm, folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals visit legacy pm investments .com that's legacy pm investments .com Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. It's a nutritious smoothie of creamy fresh yogurt, vanilla protein powder and a mushy banana for your mind. Drink it all down. It's not me I want vanilla. Here comes Eric Metaxas. Welcome to the program. We have the privilege of a friend Rabbi Jason Sobol, who is the author of many books. The new one is called signs and secrets of the Messiah. What is a rabbi doing writing about the Messiah? Rabbi Jason? Well, hey, Jesus was a nice Jewish boy. So you know, obviously all Jesus was a rabbi, the disciples are Jewish. And so we want people to see the Bible in high definition in the context in which was written because we believe it makes it come to life. Well, I agree very heartily with that. I was just with my friend, Pastor Greg Denham, who's in San Marcos, California recently, and he's always talking about the context, the Jewishness of the New Testament, the Jewishness of the Jesus movement, and how, what a crime it is more than a crime, what a horror it is, that we have really torn the good news of Jesus away from its Jewish roots that is fundamentally wrong fundamentally on biblical scandalous. And so anytime I have an opportunity to talk about that I want to so tell us about your new book, which is a sequel to the previous book that we discussed on this program. Yeah, absolutely. We wrote signs and secrets of the Messiah, a fresh look at the miracles of Jesus, because we want people to see the life and the ministry of Jesus in a way that makes these things come to life, like never before. I also think there's something for everyone significant in the book in the sense that each one of these miracles has a promise attached to it. And we live in a world where people have lost hope and they wonder if anything can ever actually change. It seems like it's when impossible you look at everything that's going on. And I think by looking at the miracles, we see that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. In fact, the word for the miracles or the signs are testimony. And the word for testimony in Hebrew shares the same Hebrew root as the word again, he's the God of the again, what he did in these miracles he wants to do again today in our lives. There are many people who are pretty serious about their Christian faith, but they don't seem to be open to the miraculous. And I always think that's sad, because God is alive. He wants to do miraculous things. Today of every kind. I wrote a whole book called miracles, where I talked about the variety of ways God speaks to us and moves in our lives. But there are many people who they have a very kind of pinched view of what it means to be a Christian to follow Jesus. And they somehow don't they act like miracles happen in the past, but they can happen now. That is unbiblical. It's wrong. But a lot of people seem to fall into that it's it's it's almost like a secular version of the Christian faith, which is contradiction in terms.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Truffle Suite Winds Down Operations
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Thursday September 21st, 2023. Truffle Suite winds down operations, Matter Labs introduces a zk -sync fellowship program, Caldera introduces ecosystem integrations, and Rainbow releases its browser extension wallet for all users. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Truffle Suite, a provider of developer tools for Ethereum, announced that it is closing down operations. The project published guides for transitioning to hard -hat tools. Truffle Suite will maintain its infrastructure for the next 90 days to allow developers to transition smoothly. Over the past six years, Truffle Suite has delivered essential tooling, including a development environment, a forking testnet framework, and an asset pipeline designed for EVM chains. The project was acquired by ConsenSys in 2020. Truffle Suite says its legacy will live on through other ConsenSys products. Matter Labs announced the ZK Fellowship, a 46 -month virtual fellowship program for users interested in advancing the protocol. Individuals and teams with technical backgrounds, including students, developers, research, and academics, are encouraged to apply. Application submissions are open until October 15th. The ZK Fellowship is a paid program that offers eligible participants with stipends of $3 ,500 per month and access to senior Matter Labs team members, core developers, and potential post -fellowship opportunities. Research and development topics range from cross -layer -2 gas fee mechanisms to MEV and privacy primitives for rollups. Rollups as a service provider Caldera formally introduced its ecosystem of 19 available integrations for building custom Arbitrum orbits and OP stack rollups. The list of integration partners includes Layer Zero for bridging, Espresso Systems for sequencing, Byconomy for account abstraction, and Celestia for data availability, among others. Caldera specializes in designing high -performance, application -specific layer -2 networks coined as Caldera Chains. The custom chains offer high throughput, low latency, and customization options. Caldera is also a no -code platform and features single -click rollup deployments. And lastly, Rainbow released its browser extension wallet for all users. The wallet can now be installed on Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave browsers. The wallet's unique feature is a Web3 search and command bar called the Magic Menu. The tool features keyboard shortcuts for switching wallets, swapping, and sending tokens. In other news, Uniswap introduces courses through Uniswap University, Metafactory releases a tornado cache supporter t -shirt or braces $2 .3 million, and Nethermind releases version 1 .2 .0 .4 of its client for the Holsky testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Truffle Suite Winds Down Operations
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Thursday September 21st, 2023. Truffle Suite winds down operations, Matter Labs introduces a zk -sync fellowship program, Caldera introduces ecosystem integrations, and Rainbow releases its browser extension wallet for all users. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Truffle Suite, a provider of developer tools for Ethereum, announced that it is closing down operations. The project published guides for transitioning to hard -hat tools. Truffle Suite will maintain its infrastructure for the next 90 days to allow developers to transition smoothly. Over the past six years, Truffle Suite has delivered essential tooling, including a development environment, a forking testnet framework, and an asset pipeline designed for EVM chains. The project was acquired by ConsenSys in 2020. Truffle Suite says its legacy will live on through other ConsenSys products. Matter Labs announced the ZK Fellowship, a 46 -month virtual fellowship program for users interested in advancing the protocol. Individuals and teams with technical backgrounds, including students, developers, research, and academics, are encouraged to apply. Application submissions are open until October 15th. The ZK Fellowship is a paid program that offers eligible participants with stipends of $3 ,500 per month and access to senior Matter Labs team members, core developers, and potential post -fellowship opportunities. Research and development topics range from cross -layer -2 gas fee mechanisms to MEV and privacy primitives for rollups. Rollups as a service provider Caldera formally introduced its ecosystem of 19 available integrations for building custom Arbitrum orbits and OP stack rollups. The list of integration partners includes Layer Zero for bridging, Espresso Systems for sequencing, Byconomy for account abstraction, and Celestia for data availability, among others. Caldera specializes in designing high -performance, application -specific layer -2 networks coined as Caldera Chains. The custom chains offer high throughput, low latency, and customization options. Caldera is also a no -code platform and features single -click rollup deployments. And lastly, Rainbow released its browser extension wallet for all users. The wallet can now be installed on Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave browsers. The wallet's unique feature is a Web3 search and command bar called the Magic Menu. The tool features keyboard shortcuts for switching wallets, swapping, and sending tokens. In other news, Uniswap introduces courses through Uniswap University, Metafactory releases a tornado cache supporter t -shirt or braces $2 .3 million, and Nethermind releases version 1 .2 .0 .4 of its client for the Holsky testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1262. Anti-CBDC Bill Vote! | 27 to 20 Stablecoins vs CBDCs
"You do not want to miss this one, we're going to be breaking down the CBDC vote that happened yesterday in DC. Also taking a look at a number of clips that'll give you some alignment as to what the future of CBDCs here in the United States might look like. We're going to break all that down for you. It's going to be a good one. My name is Paul Bearer, welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor, that's Tangem. And this is all about self -custody. When you think about CBDCs, you got to think about self -custody. Check out tangem .com, you can learn a little bit more about their wallet. They do slim as a bank card, secure as a bank vault, store, buy, earn, transfer, and swap thousands of coins and tokens. If you want to use their card, you can do so with two different types. You can get the classic wallet, or you can get this new Tangem wallet that is a new type of card that's going to give you optional seed phrases. You can order these in three -card packs, so it's very easy. I would suggest doing that, spend a little bit extra for that. Use our discount code to help kind of soften the blow there. But it's a great value, check it out, we'll leave a link down below, it does help the channel out. Let's get into a couple of the things that happened yesterday. The two I want to focus on are these right here. The Power of the Mint Act, and then also the CBDC Anti -Surveillance State Act. These were the two that were focused on primarily. And I want to go to an intro clip real quick to give you kind of a framework of how this all started there in D .C. Listen in. Today we'll consider a slate of legislation to bolster our national security, protect Americans' financial privacy, and shield our financial system from the risks associated with the potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC. Unlike decentralized cryptocurrencies, a central bank digital currency is a digital form of sovereign currency that is designed and issued by a government and transacts on a digital ledger that is controlled by that government. If not designed to emulate cash, could give the federal government the ability to surveil and restrict Americans' transactions. This is not just alarming, it's downright un -American. We've already seen examples of governments weaponizing their financial system against their citizens in China. We need to counter China by being the best version of ourselves. This bill expresses that sentiment that, yes, we're going to innovate and we're going to lead on blockchain and we're going to lead on digital assets, but we're going to do so the American way. And the way we do that is decentralized. We don't do this by centralizing it in a central bank. We can achieve the innovation potential of blockchain and the immediacy of payments and the frictionless payments future with what we did in July. And that is to create a regulatory framework for stablecoin. All right, so there's some fire in the belly of the lawmakers. I like what I'm hearing so far. This sounds pretty good. But we get into more. And remember, there's always a bad guy. So let's go, maybe girl, we'll go to the next clip with Maxine Waters. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Unfortunately, Republicans are marking up one bill that is not bipartisan. We do know that 130 countries around the world are racing to develop and implement a CBDC. What will happen if CBDCs issued by other central banks gain traction as a preferred method of payment in international trade transactions? Are we comfortable allowing the Chinese yuan or currencies from other countries to overtake the U .S. dollar as a principal global reserve currency? Republicans are making baseless attacks against the CBDC that does not even exist. So with that, I yield back the balance of my time. All right, so Maxine in rare form, I shouldn't say rare, normal form with her. She's, of course, for the idea of CBDCs. The other thing, a lot of what she said could be applied to stablecoins. And what we're seeing around the world, this is the first time I think we are chasing other governments who are actually trying to suppress their citizens. I would kind of be in a position or the camp of not going that direction. I like what I'm hearing so far. But let's go into our next clip. This is going to be Mr. Sherman listening. And allowing the Federal Reserve to continue doing what they're doing, literally recruiting and hiring people in the San Francisco Fed office to build a central bank digital currency is the financial equivalent of allowing the empire from Star Wars to build the Death Star so long as they promise not to turn it on. I'm struck by the hypocrisy of the advocates of cryptocurrency. They come in and they say cryptocurrency is wonderful because it's digital and it's high tech and it's innovative. And then they propose a bill which, in the words of the ranking member, is an anti -innovation bill. And they describe the U .S. government as Darth Vader. They describe any attempt to enforce American laws as the action of Darth Vader in the empire. As Sam Bankman -Fried has demonstrated, crypto is perfect for hiding from your creditors. And while his body may be in jail, his money cannot be found. I yield back. General McNeil's back. Thank you. I just have some, you know, obviously I'm opposed to this bill, but I just want to know what I'm arguing against. All right. You can't make this stuff. What am I going against? I don't even know what I'm going against. All right. Well, the point is, is that Sherman's usually in that kind of position. Anti -innovation. I thought that was a rare little piece right there. Both these guys are going to go against anything that I think the Republicans or even to a certain extent, the bipartisan Capitol Hill lawmakers will go when it comes to crypto or anything that is even related to blockchain. Let's get into our next clip. This goes into a little bit more about the unbanked. Listen in. And the idea that this is somehow going to help the unbanked is insane. Because when you ask the unbanked, why are you unbanked? A lot of it is because of surveillance capitalism. A permissionless system would be something more similar to Bitcoin. You could digitize it. And frankly, that's why a lot of people have been drawn in the unbanked and underbanked community to crypto currencies like Bitcoin. I think one of the speakers for this bill said that people aren't banked because they oppose the quote surveillance state. People aren't banked because they don't have any money. It's amazing. The people who aren't banked are the people who don't have any money. I'd be willing to support this bill if it also ended crypto. Well, that's an interesting statement there. When you go to the FDIC site, this is the 2021 FDIC national survey of unbanked and underbanked households. Look at some of the data here on this. An estimated four and a half percent of U .S. household, approximately 5 .9 million were unbanked. This is 2021. OK, likelihood of this is much greater. Remember, we have a lot of immigrants in our country that in many cases also are coming from countries who they've seen their banking system maybe not work out so well for them. And they are very, very skeptical because of that. Some don't have enough money to meet minimum balance requirements, as cited, but around 21 percent. But most don't trust banks. This was the second most cited main reason for not having an account. Avoiding a bank gives more privacy was the third most cited main reason, 8 .4 percent. Further into the report, this was a piece right here. Who are the unbanked and underbanked breaking this out? Most is distrust of banks, inconvenient locations, high bank account fees, needed products and services are not offered by banks, poor credit history, you know, check system, etc. Typical challenges I think a lot of people in the unbanked sector face. Let's go to our next clip. I think this is a good one right here. This gets into the privacy side of things. I think there's what 2000 stable coins that are out there right now. None of them, none of them protects the security of American citizens privacy. And when an American citizen puts all their information out in the private sector and it's available to 200 different retailers and banks and and other governments, there is no expectation of privacy. That's our problem here. Some of my colleagues gloss over the fact the whole reason they're collecting the data in the first place is the government makes them collect it. Frankly, if you don't agree to spy on your customers, you don't get to operate a bank in the United States. You don't get to operate a money service business in the United States, essentially get permission from the government to act as a financial services institution. So long as you spy on your customers. About million 350 pieces of evidence sitting over at the Treasury on private sector activity, these giant, enormous government databases, which have been hacked, both the IRS and others, Office of Personnel Management and others do present tremendous targeting by bad actors. You know, this is really where it gets into the destruction of personal privacy. And this is the problem that we do face in our society. Some of the countries that are already down this slippery slope, countries like China, as an example, right here, China's central bank digital currency. This is the digital ID to deduct fines instantly from your digital wallet if you're caught for speeding or jaywalking by a surveillance system. So right there, this kind of shows the actual crime of jaywalking now portrayed on basically a bulletin board in front of everyone. And then, of course, automatically deducted. These are the kind of invasion capabilities. Talk about, you know, search and seizure. This is going to be able to break down the walls of search and seizure and do things within our own economies and within our own society that we would never dream of, especially around the Constitution. This is China right here. Super SIM cards now featuring new digital yuan functions is this super SIM card right here. It's going to function as a digital yuan wallet, smart card and I .D. cards as the nation's CBDC pilot continues. So this is going on to phones and will make its way into a position where you can no longer utilize because you have digital wallet. Now your wallet and you're going to be able to use this in a way in which you go to a grocery store, you go to any retailer and you use that as a payment for form. And that's where they can lock it down. And that's exactly what I think these lawmakers are fighting against. Let's go to our next clip. This will continue to show you a little bit more about this slippery slope of privacy. Look at my uncle and my cousin helped me get a cell phone that is linked to a Chinese bank card so that I could buy anything pleasing and I have to pass facial recognition identity verification, which is insane, because all I want to do is just spend my gift card balance on this debit.
VUX World
A highlight from Why messaging should be part of your content strategy, with Nick Martin
"Yeah, I would probably first just say I don't know that those are binary, and I don't know that they're black and white. It's one or the other. But forced to choose, I think we're much closer to the former than the latter in the sense of the experiences that we power and that we're continuing to invest in being able to build out are always starting from a place of how do we best take advantage of our publishers content, which is written by humans. And then we think that's a really important ingredient here and leverage what's happening around AI and make it really easy for the publisher to maybe convert their content, maybe augment their content, but in one form or another enhance it, make the experience more interactive, more user -friendly, more personalized, more relevant through chat as the interface that we're building around. And so in that sense, content is the core of it. It's about the stories you've written, the things your journalists have researched, the articles you're publishing, and the topics that your readers are already on your site for. You already have this audience, and certainly a big part of what we do is getting you a new audience by distributing these chatbots in other platforms where maybe you didn't have a presence before because these are chat endemic environments like this one. Again, things are moving so quickly here, and the opportunities are so broad. There is sort of a spectrum, I think, between example A and then this companion assistant version of my AI or Chashi BT or what like the promise I think of Siri and Alexa was back in the day. And I do think things can move that direction even for content companies. And we've assisted for their content a librarian that's personalized to every reader. We've gotten those analogies in sort of private meetings from publishers that we're working with and talking to, and there's ways to take advantage of our platform to deliver that experience. I do think it's still different than what you would see from my AI on Snap where it's more or less, and not to diminish it, I think they've done tremendously well despite some of the challenges that you alluded to. It's more or less the Chashi BT experience, right? It's a wrapper on an LOM. It's broad and horizontal. It's anything that was made available in training data from the public internet. We refine what we do to the publisher's content so it's specific and targeted and accurate. But we're also not trying to drive the I'm your best friend, tell me about your problems, let me recommend a restaurant to you. If you're chatting with a sports publisher, you're not going to ask them for where to go get pizza Friday night, right? But you can imagine over time, maybe that sports publisher does help you find the best sports bars to watch the game, and maybe there's a commercial opportunity underneath that by way of referral or advertising or otherwise. And so it'll continue to evolve. I think if you look at what's happening in the very, very early days around the agent behavior, that also becomes quite compelling and might put a task underneath it, which they're going to be able to do pretty quickly here. But that's not ready for prime time for all types of publishers, the world's biggest, most reputable brands just yet. Yeah, yeah. And so a lot of your publishers, the large publishers, they've got lots of different ways of monetizing what they do. Some of them are subscription based. You mentioned like ESPN and so they've got like TV channels and subscriptions and all kinds of stuff going on.
Unchained
A highlight from The Chopping Block: Will Warren of 0x on Its Settlement With the CFTC - Ep. 546
"I think basically been no agency that has offered really complete clarity about how crypto ought to be regulated. And it's not as though this is an impossible task. If you look around the world at other first world countries that have robust regulatory regimes, there's a lot of clarity in different places, which shows that it can be done. Not a dividend, it's a tale of two quants. Now, your losses are on someone else's balance sheet. Generally speaking, aircrafts are kind of pointless anyways. I'm in the trading firms who are very involved. DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem. Hello everybody, welcome to The Chopping Block. Every couple of weeks, we get together and give the industry insiders perspective on the crypto topics of the day. This week, we're running a little bit short. I think it's actually, because it's conference season, people are getting sick. You might be able to hear, my voice is a little bit sickly right now. So we've got a skeleton crew today, but we've got a very interesting guest that's gonna keep things very lively. So quick intro is first we've got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes. Joining us, special guests, we have Will Warren, Lord of Liquidity at 0x Labs. And you've got myself, I'm a see the head hype man at Dragonfly. So we are early stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see ChoppingBlock .xyz for more disclosures. So Will, it's great to have you on the show. For those of you who don't know, Tom and Will actually have, there's a lot of backstory here in the relationship between Matcha, the 0x settlement that we're gonna be talking about today. And Tom, Tom, do you want to go into that a little bit? What the origin story is here? I feel like that sounded somewhat nefarious or something like that. I know there's a whole backstory. It might be. I was an early employee at 0x and I was a product lead there for two years, worked on two different versions of the protocol and worked on the aggregator product, which turned into 0x API and later Matcha. So Will and I have known each other for a while. We are actually just catching up about some of the 0x mafia and the other 0x employees who are now doing cool stuff in crypto. So I'm excited to have him on today. So actually, Will, why don't you quickly explain what is 0x for those people who are sort of coming in, who only really know NFTs or whatever it is, who are not from the 2017 era. Explain to us what is 0x. Yeah, absolutely. So 0x is a protocol for exchanging ERC -20 tokens in a peer -to -peer way. It was one of the kind of first systems designed on top of Ethereum where there was kind of an off -chain component and an on -chain component. 0x protocol specifically specifies in order format or swapping one ERC -20 token for another and all of the kind of parameters associated with that trade. And this order can then be ingested within a Spark contract on the Ethereum blockchain to settle a trade atomically between two parties. Got it. And tell us as well about Matcha and how that fits into the suite of products under 0x. Yeah, absolutely. So a lot has changed over the years. So yeah, we've been around for seven years at this point. My co -founder Amir and I started working on 0x back in late 2016. And in the early years, and this was a really exciting time, this was when Tom was leading product, we were really focused on building a protocol. So an open protocol that anyone can build on top of, anyone can create their own ERC -20 token marketplace on top of the protocol, build like a front -end user experience on top of it. And over the years, we got closer and closer to end users and building the things that they need. And we started shifting our focus from building this unopinionated piece of public infrastructure for swapping tokens to also building a hosted service on top of it called 0xSwapAPI. And the swap API is basically giving developers exactly what they wanted and needed. They wanted to focus on building their consumer product. They wanted a simple way to support swapping between different assets within that product. And they didn't want to have to deal with smart contracts and all the complexity that comes with it. So our swap API is just a way to very easily kind of plug in an API that kind of looks and behaves similar to others they've worked with in the past, developers have worked with in the past, and it aggregates liquidity across a hundred different decentralized exchanges, most of them probably familiar with. And ultimately, as we kind of worked our way up the stack and got closer and closer to the end user, we started building Matcha, which is a consumer product and a front -end interface at matcha .xyz. And this is essentially a front -end that sits on top of our APIs. And you can think of it as like a search engine for tokens and liquidity. So it's a DEX aggregator. I think people who are familiar with one inch or I guess Uniswap X soon to be also a DEX aggregator of some kind. It's funny, actually, when I first got into crypto and when I first came into space full time in 2017, the first meetup I ever went to was an SF meetup. I think it was like off meetup .com, but it was like, literally, I just like Googled crypto meetups in San Francisco. It was a presentation by 0x. And I remember there was this big, I think it was you, and there was a slide deck that was like, everything is gonna be tokenized. And in the future, there's gonna be a billion tokens and a laundromat's gonna have a token and this country's gonna have a token. And I was like, wow, we're fucking going places. This industry is amazing. And it was a very different time, obviously. There was a degree of bullishness that has waxed and waned over time with respect to the tokenization story.
The Social Fix.
"second version" Discussed on The Social Fix.
"It's like a three minute video. I think there's a thirty second version as well so it's from the com at but it's on youtube and it's a beautiful. It'll vidhyarthi with like circle. Sorry it gore is in as you bring in and then it goes out as you out and sort of like a little bowl that follows the outline of the circle. So that's a really good one to follow that. i like. i would recommend that one. Another one all started. I guess similar a little bit too. Self talk is thought stopping. This is one of my favorites and you have to use it the same way as i explained so talk well in my opinion for it to be effective about verbally out loud stopping yourself from your thoughts sorry it might not always be effective especially for those more intrusive and repetitive thoughts on particularly if it's in a situation like when you're in bed at night time those can be a little bit harder to stop definitely acknowledged that i'm more useful for situations where you might be in marva controlled environment. Where you. I will to move on from two distractions off to these but if you notice a recurring thought that's not really helpful too and in sort of united states making you'll married guard lower and lower than you can actually say out lot yourself. Stop stop thinking that. Stop saying that to yourself and then following that on with the self talk. Sorry i'm sort of all over the place with today's episode. But you'll get the gist of it. So at this point i would hope that you guys have stopped some of the stress a little bit in its tracks before it's really built up then now some how well on healthy carping skills actually towards the end but another thing is will serve mindfulness so we would be a separate episode on mindfulness in the future. Hopefully but i guess the concept of mindfulness is being present in the mormons in really enjoying. What is there at the moment or not enjoying what they're at the moment really the white but i guess being present we've in our for example if you're stressing about a situation how might unfold the next day or that night or a situation..
One Life Radio Podcast
"second version" Discussed on One Life Radio Podcast
"That is pretty big stuff. My gosh and i just love my dogs. Oh my gosh. I one time wanted to have a puppy of the month club. It's a little ridiculous. Oh twelve puppies in one year. That would be a little much. But oh i just know puppies it could. It could be there. You go there you go well. Maybe maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all went to study. What were the findings of the study. Maura yes we'll be Kind of going set test by test or task by task task. I can't talk First tooth half were really trying to get to the crux of whether the puppies could understand human jesters so when researchers were out of view of the peppy they put a treat underwent upside down cup. Now that doesn't leave a room for the puppy to possibly snow the tree so there's not much when the puppy came in and the researcher revealed the cups And they they just showed the cups not which they didn't tell the puppy they didn't like lift up the cups. Okay the treats there now. Cdc they pointed at the cup either hiding food or the second version shut. The puppy is small yellow cube that was placed in front of the cup that had the trees so in both of those tasks puppies went to the correct cup. An average of sixty seven percent of the time way better than about the fifty percent accuracy The scientists were expecting to see And so again. They wanted to make sure that the the little puppies we're not just smelling the treats and going. Oh well obviously or the was the yellow. Did you say the yellow cube was outside the cops. Well kind of cheating. Isn't it because the visual writing or my arm. I not thinking about this clearly. No i mean..
Lights Camera Barstool
"second version" Discussed on Lights Camera Barstool
"It is a. It's a conair retro shirt. it's a it's a faceoff shirt. Sorry yeah it's part of a throwing fits three pack and the face off shirts my favorite. Just because i love face off but there's an old boy shirt and the social network shirt so the really cool shirts You know sue me plug in someone else's merged that's fine but there's it's a classic like three way to like whatever you're someone says to me like. Hey i really like social network. What else should i watch. Ido was like old boy. Obviously like you got to check that out. Do this guy like he has sex with his daughter and then he has to cut out his tongue. Like dude you're gonna love it. It's just like that same just with faceoff to same thing. It's a should. I the original version of old boy i or the american version and just what she original. Don't even watch the american version. No nedia bike. It's just not it's it was okay. It's just like the original. Yeah yeah it didn't even yeah you're right. It didn't even come close now. Not much is up with man Do we have you do a gaming corner. Let's do a quick quarter okay. I finished up Dying light for the second time dying like two's coming out soon. I just preorder it last night. Is that every time. I played dying light. I'm so impressed by how good it is and it is just. It's so much fun up. Open world zombie game. I think they did a perfect. And i am so pumped the second version just a better graphics enhanced version of the first one preferably but we'll see in a multi bad multiplayer modes but it's a game that you primarily play for single player. Okay nice i might. I might look into that. I was dying light and debt by daylight. Oh that's the one where you're looking at motorcycle rate now this day's gone when the when you send me for my birthday. Oh did i. that's right Yeah yeah i was. You can check. I will say this about ken. Jack jack has sent me a disproportionate amount of of gifts like he. He's a good gift. Giver is a very very good gift giver. I've given him a foam hammer. And he's given me everything. He sent me a katana. He sent me a video game. He semi hats. He sent me t shirts. He sent my daughter stuff. Like i. totally. Want about jeff agenda fucking give me shit. Kim jackson estimate gifts that foam hammer. You gave me followed me everywhere. Like i couldn't get rid of it. Because i was at my girlfriend's cousins over Quarantine or whatever we had there. They forced me. Take it with me to back to her. Parents house or parents forced may take it with me..
Rhythm and Pixels Video Game Music Podcast
"second version" Discussed on Rhythm and Pixels Video Game Music Podcast
"So that we're back to so welcome back you were just listening to legacy aka the opening from the game full throttle composed by the gone jackals submitted by a listener. Stephen murray biz is brecon. Bangers i listen to it twice before saying i'm picking the track i was sold Let's see what he has to say about this to this. One is a bit of a cheek since it doesn't technically play during a bar see but the game proper begins in a bar so the association has been planted in my head since i play this games. A kid. full-throttle has always been my favorite adventure game and they used to repeatedly restart the game just to watch this cinematic and absorb all the small details. Ill listen to the music. Arid wasteland interesting. Harvard cars and interesting a bike with a bow. Forty-seven tailpipes that drives over said hover car while a kick ass biker j. place over it now you've got ten year old steve hooked. I think i saw that opening more than any other opening. Cinematic in my life and i spent hours go every little. Figure that opening bar to hear ben's thoughts on awesome that's awesome. This is cool. This is and just the interlude from this. You say benefit cheeses doesn't technically play during a bar scene. Guess what you got it right. Because that's why i like like it didn't have to play door to bar see just like what gives you the vibe or the feeling of a bar to totally works so mission accomplished because i heard this check in my thought was somebody playing something. Like a biker. Bar jukebox like totally. Yeah that's what it sounds like to me to like a rough a rough rough location with a bunch of bunch of people wearing leather jackets and vests. Those tv shows were always the two the two characters once kind of like you know like like things that the good hearted kid in the personal account the more rugged kennedy walk into the bar and music playing. And everybody's like he's like. How are we going to get the information we need now. The the this went to me when he was on the catcher he likes to play the whole. Big up. like i'm here. I'm looking for rugged. Jack himself pumped up first so he plays the entire six minute song this going somewhere. Actually just let the song out jerk. The ball on the index song on the on the jukebox dolly. Parton i will always love you. So for more information on the bonus round rhythm in pixels dot com we'll have links to all the artists bank camps and sound clouds and links to their their their where you can find their stuff on the internet. So i think it got something special for you coming up right now for the end of the show land. Land la la land. Elena la la la la la land the national anthem. La la la la la la la la la la. Hey hey so takes old napper. Pope don't recognize. I hope a lot of people dukes breakfast smile to my face so back in the day there was a little rpg that was produced by game. Art to named imported to the states by working zone is called lunar the silver star male. And laura so to start you. Travel the world on your quest in every town you visited at a bar in the bar itself had his own bar seem like a typical game would have but in each bar was a singing barney. He spoke to her. She was like the girl in town that everyone came to listen to sing so you would go to her and she'd sing her song for you and every town had its own girl and she had the la la la to a certain pitch but it was always on tune so the first track you hurt was like how one of the good girl how the good things loose sung his. Even though it's just wild laws it's on rhythm is rhythmic. You know but the that second version was the one town it was like them like the podunk town and you went to the bar to hear her saying and she was a terrible singer and everybody the bar complaint about how bad she was but she didn't know where she on. The best thing is check she starts. Singing is all keyed is off. But it's also funny because you've listened to like ten good singer so far now you come across the trojan but this little random easter egg throwing a tavern episode. I like it. I i think that's a little flair to the end of the show and people who know we are. I think they're going to enjoy that too late night to sing that song as a kid. I used to walk now. You're you're the most popular kid in school. My perfect singing pitch or thanks to everyone for joining us on episode twenty seven dash six of rhythm in pixels. This our patriotic live episode all about tavern music bar music whether in a game or not in a game. It's all that style of music. And like i said this is a patriotic livestream episodes if you are a member of our patriotism at any any level and you get access to one of these live recordings. Once a month that these episodes do get edited down and sent out and released as a normal podcast episode. This last track comes to us by way of daryl the last rican this is bar from front mission for the super nintendo post by noriko matsuda. And darryl says we all remember the iconic track made famous by the now gone be gm jukebox. Podcast show. That was so awesome and great. I still regret not being able to catch it during its heyday. Rancid listening to the episode last year while working through the pandemic made life easier. How i miss it. So but because of that show. I was able to not only become friends with many of the alumni of that show. But start not one but two podcasts of my own for the possibility of a third one on the way. Congratulations congratulations. darrell. It's always nice when you have a fresh baby. Podcasts newborn baby. So i say we all raise a glass to haju key cliff and josh and everything that made the gm jukebox. One of the best. Bgi podcasts around. We miss you and you meant so much to us and you always will outpost that. That's how they ended every episode. You mean so much to us and you always will. It'd be nice if these on a whim was like you know one reunion episode. Just for the sake of trying. I heard i'm ki. Cliff was on the most recent surge legacy music hour episode. So she's still yeah she's still out there putting in the podcast work looking nice to have either of them back on our show sometime soon. Be awesome miss keeler spoken while actually or even haji. The haunted jukebox hilarious..
Tatooine Sons: A Pop Culture Podcast
"second version" Discussed on Tatooine Sons: A Pop Culture Podcast
"That. Variant of like the company on oil. They've been touching on them and every now and then the mcu three. Yeah really bad corporation. So luther lex. Core core in in. I mean oscar is more like lex score. this is kind of like a second version. it's basically just the big bad corporation. Yeah yeah so. I don't think it has much to do with the sitting. Cool easter egg. Yes i think that's where we see the us hold on. Gordon loki president later on in this trailer. We're seeing. this looks like the rubble of new york. And is that the. Yeah just how the where reposited you're right. This is a destroyed version of new york. We're not sure when this takes place might happen. Hawaii after avengers on the first one and it doesn't look like that to me the th let's it's been awhile because grass and this to me feels more like if vendors were never there to save new york maybe.
Identity at the Center
"second version" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"You'll find who you're looking for and actually the night. They just published a new version. That's more flexible than the first version. So had mentioned in had defined work roles the second version now is more flexible in that. You can kind of build your own roles based on common skill. So it's kind of like a plug and play type thing. And i think that was one of the challenges with the first version so for example. There's a seven categories that aligned with the cybersecurity framework. If you're familiar with the cyber security framework so that you could build your team. Based on the methodology. You're trying to implement and i think that's that's a great idea. You know it's i'm so on. That likes seeing alignment like it kind of makes sense so definitely from a workforce planning perspective. You know work with don't only work with your executives but also work with your architects engineers were actually implementing it You know it's i think it's fairly common that You know you pasha requirements long to hr person And then they him up nothing. Nothing on an hr person's fault doing their job fantastically but sometimes you know you submit for something you know submit for a specific skill that you need need. Sometimes you don't always get it so. I think it's a collaboration Within your organization to make sure that you're hiring the people the people in the skills that you need So jeff i mean you had mentioned some of the workforce models in architectures also. Id pro in. Their body of knowledge is a fantastic. Starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about identity access management So specifically why again. Why focus are scoped. My work are my research to the. Us government is they had So the obama administration they wrote a federal cybersecurity strategy. In twenty sixteen have four initiatives in it and one of them was actually implement the nest. Nice so that's you know that's clear public information. I can see the oh direction of an organization if we're talking reference architectures to implement identity access management you have the federal identity credential and access management architecture so within that there's five identity service areas and At least what i to do with my research is.
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"second version" Discussed on Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
"I need to watch a video on how to do something. I would just rather not do. Yes yes. I'm glad there's a name for us. Oh alison rosen. Has a question. I know her love her. Are you still friends with chelsea handler. No not at all at and that's that was she kind of blew me off. After i had a baby. Well we both had a book coming out at the same time and then one day. I just never heard from her again. That's it and it was. Yeah yeah how. We were really good fried like like. She was one of the people who through my baby shower. And then you never heard from her She no she kind of blew me off. Nothing happened we didn't get into a fight. A think she just like moved on in her life. And just a yeah. That's too bad. I know was misir. What time of life was this for her. Was this before her show she was. She was doing girls behaving badly. Really good friends. But then and she had just started a top. The talk show And then the talk show moved over to the new way. It's a talk show. So i think record. Simmons worked on the first version of it and that didn't go and then she had a second version of her show chelsea lately that had just started and then our friendship stop right It's interesting. i interviewed a lot of people who were once close to her or who are so close more more more who were. And i've heard very like some people have nothing negative to say and then some people have a lot of negative things she's polarizing. Personally i guess is what i never did anything to me except for completely stopping my friend before that she was a very generous. Like sweet fun person to. How do you feel torture now. I mean. I think it sucks that she likes sorta ghosted me but you know i mean it is what it did you try to reach out. I did yeah. I tried a few times and i just got no response so then i was like all right. Yeah i haven't tried lately Chelsea late i heard it..
SPORTS GOOFS
"second version" Discussed on SPORTS GOOFS
"Oh just put shops and cafes chop. Fau might turn out there but regardless to explain. Explain just put by you. I'm afraid of what will happen though it pops up on the screen on don't banning in two thousand twenty one we just got our video sponsorships back come on now anyway. Crack cookies very good They do have other varieties but the true crap cookies. Excuse me are the chocolate chips. Very fresh very yummy. Very dewey much delicious. They sustain re through at least one final study period I remember i was part of a study group for. I want to say krim long reads way cookies but we got a whole bunch of crack cookies as well as the brownies and other Tasty desserts that they sell their breezeway cookies crackers. Cookies gotta love him Promo code goodness goodness okay. All right then well. Then that's that's i think i've only eaten them once. Ever i was more health conscious back. Then at least did you see the picture of that hat that i sent you from the f. book. Yeah the panthers The panthers vice hat. Yeah that's up. Everybody's everybody's got to get on that. Got one one now. Gosh let's see my hat. I've well from a new hat in the longtime no long time. I think last. Christmas miami here remind but a yeah. No no no no. I'm good. I'm good with spending right now at this moment. I just bought a new video game. I don't know i'll do my nonsmoke- it is a video game. So it's again that i have yet to beat but i will probably beat it sometime this week because i'm on that trajectory it is. It's an oldie. I guess relatively old at this point but need for speed need for speed most wanted the second version of the game although the first one's not bad either but i i didn't complete that one but this one i probably will complete need for most wanted by. Ea games so ea calvin lucky stars. Count your lucky stars. That i'm not bashing you this week sometimes Let's see games released..
Relentless Geekery
"second version" Discussed on Relentless Geekery
"So every now and then there's a commercial and I'm sitting there reading off and I wait a second. I know that music and I look up and here's the commercial for mushrooms. I'm like, okay, this is very weird on the me like psychedelic mushroom know like like, you got it. Okay, like for mushrooms is really weird, but guess what the music was. Let's see Jefferson Airplane with one pill makes you larger or something off would be great. Okay. It was the same music we used for our title screen going into this. It was a say exact same as in Larry and they even cuz it has that little donkey donkey donkey donkey point and and they stopped it at that point just like we do at the end of our episode said, oh my God, you know, that's pretty funny. Yeah. It's kind of like I guess we know that we pick a good one that it is supposed to be dead. Your candy you you know funny so like where's my phone, you know, but my phone so slow nowadays. So let's check on that Justice League now. I was great. Did you see the original theater version? Yes, I did. Okay. Okay. I was disappointed, you know the obvious comparison between Marvel Avengers and the Fantastic build up that they had to introduce you to each of the the characters and then bring them together for the Menace so big that only the team can handle it Marvel did that really well and Justice League totally stub their toes and introduced easily to the characters and then in the after trying to introduce them in the movie. So you have an idea who cyborg was idea of Pac-Man and stuff like that. It was I think right Aquaman the movie came out after Justice League yet or right and so it was it felt rushed and it felt like they they had put into wage. Work of getting so everybody always already like these characters and that you'd have kind of your favorites. How would they enter accident? There was a fight who would win between Superman and Wonder Woman or whatever else it might be but that is so much what the second version of his now better is because they did fill in all kinds of background. Now that you said the same thing I did when the movie was coming out and I said this about suicide squad 2 months to a side Squad. I'm like what the hell are they doing? Nobody knows a single one of these characters. Nobody's going to Care you you gotta have some sort of build up to it call and argued with me. But like it's a long movie is good. I don't care how good it is. It didn't do that. Well and people don't even remember it, you know, that's the point and they did the same thing with Justice League. I know there were some other issues that they dealt with but before even any of that I said the same thing I'm like you need a movie with cyborg. You need to put cyborg in a Superman movie for five minutes. You need to have Batman Meet The Flash job. Different movie you need to have this that's how the comics work exactly the real vet interrelated Universe. They already have some relationships and like why would he think to call him will because you work with him on the case of the mistake of fact, you know what I mean or something like that? Yeah. So yeah, so that was the first big problem and then and I thought the theater version wasn't bad. I didn't think it sucked them a few good things I liked about it, but it was it did seem very rushed and there was a lot that wasn't explained, you know at all, you know, not only the heroes but of course like the key to a good movie is you should have a form Global villain, right?.
BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast
"second version" Discussed on BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast
"The folds increases that resemble a snarling samurai face actually the points where muscles attached to the carapace. That just happened to look like the face of an angry. Samurai thanks to our innate ability to find faces a random objects a phenomenon called para dole so he said that they have faces because of their genetic makeup and sagan says that it's because we basically weeded out all the ones that didn't so which is it. i think it's probably the second version i feel like. They probably all have that. It's actually kind of physical makeup of them. Yeah but whichever you believe. I find it really interesting and then finally i also do want to point out that crabs of all different different species with human like shells have been found throughout the entire world. That's cool yeah. Thanks that was. That was a thing outrageous. I love it. I love it so creepy. The week this week we have a short but sweet. Email a story from listener. Sarah hi sarah thank you. She says. I don't know if y'all are still doing this. I'm only on the two thousand nineteen episodes. But i figured i would send anyways. May when i was probably a ninth or tenth grade. My best friend and i had a ouija board that we busted out from time to time because we were psychologically healthy little girls so we played one night and got the response saying we were talking to jimmy hookah. How we thought it would how we thought it was pronounced and had no idea who that was supposed to be creepy but whatever. We went to sleep in the morning. We woke up in her unfinished basement where we had crashed. There was an insulation sealed with styrofoam and plastic along. The walls and stabbed into with the pencil was the name jimmy hoffa. We went on google and immediately freaked out and went to yell at her little sister for spying on and screwing with us. She had just returned from a sleepover and we never got an answer..
Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"second version" Discussed on Breakdown 2 Lowdown
"A whole no. I ain't doja cat streets. Apparently this is a sample. This is a b two k sample. Actually that's the back to the streets. Are the streets calling. What's called st goaling. She's calling your. Yes so that's the name of the track comes from cleansing saying off air. How he's confused. He was a little. You know what. I mean about why. This was the specific song. He can't really explain it to me. So i thought let me put them on blasts. Maybe he'll be expanded able to explain it on air report on bless. Y'all bless non. What no i no. It's a it's a dope zone. Don't get me wrong. I like it album like from all the new stuff that she dropped. Deaths one drug. That i like but like i was expecting to life some of that early doj against the law. You gonna go that far back. I'm barely on her. This is me trying to care. Sorry i'm sorry. I play back but this is off the album hot pink and i'm i'm surprised. I'm quite surprised that i liked it as much. Because i wasn't going into this little doja cat experiment. spectating much really and i was like. Oh my god. I really mess with this song. it's very. I love the beat. I love to be asked that. I i think the sample is used incredibly. Well thank god. Because sometimes i can always say that you know. Sometimes people do really random shit. And i'm actually thinking this specific song that used the me myself in is sample from and i can't remember who is recent from last year or something is one of these days either. Like her or ella. May some of these newer girls use the sample that made no sense but and it was on radio all the time. I was annoyed. But this simple. I liked and i liked the i liked the mysterious in central. Feel that she's giving me like it's really central hermosa very softly purring almost very elite ask. That's what combat attention right away. I was like oh. This is very like baby girl. This is. this feels relief. sweden innocent. She's i think that what i think is really unique. She and i talked about Who is the first artist that we're talking about. Who know who in the warm-up sorry i'm getting confused by weeks in the warmer we're talking about in isaiah and how. He has such a fresh approach to music. I think that has the same kind of like outlook and really like bright eyed view of news really like exciting view that that i do here in her music so i do like that about her think. She's really herself. I like the entity indications that she delivers the rap in and then it goes right back to that soft more relaxing each other. Oh that's a. That's a cute little juxtaposition that you did there. I like that i was. I was friend of that and one lyrics that you know in the civil some alerts us account to me were in my head we belong. I can't be without you. Why can't i find no unlike you. I can't sleep no more in my head. We belong and i can't be without you. Why can't i find no one. Like she's asking the real questions here in dc as the former one facts matt like i mean if you're listening to the phrase versus kind of detailing like a relationship not going too well but kinda dan in the second version explains why she's going back to long. It's really like yo. I looked and i really couldn't fine. You were that thing that i had which you so you know here i am and i and i think that even the fat and i was thinking of the fact that it's called street and obviously it's called streets because the sample i it made me think of that saying that you know we millennials like. That's she's streets or he's for the streets or whatever You know so. Many think of i had how it relates to this song in a way. Because it's like yeah like you for the streets but at the end of the day you might you still kinda belong to me and the circling back moment of coming back around and like y'all well. The streets was fine but couldn't really find that same harmony. And that's true. I mean it's not like i don't relate to it but i understand why some people like circle back to when acts or to a situation ship or whatever that's not me again i don't relate to I like the holiday. Flip the simple on me. Just give me ragged that early. Who thousand five like. I could hear like Throwback sciarrone that ogi sierra gave me you say the elliott leah to But nah like the vibe at one point in the door that she deliver legacy singing all that but for not fall for one of the vers year she just flip through some bars I came out good. And she's that she's using the i pitch to while she's delivering the bars said older affleck's she kind of injectable trade in a way that diverse super diverse would flow in delivery Nado pick to be honest. Well thank you. It makes me really makes intrigues me. To just find out more about her. You know i'm really open. i'm still. I'm still a little salty. I think is my my reticence in this thing. I'm a little salty about some of the stuff that was being set in the chat rooms. But i mean. I guess everybody makes mistakes or whatever you trying to find excuses for what we're trying to well. I have to be able to listen to the music took next. Yeah go ahead. brad. Bottlenecks pick from that already from the uk Ego girl don't always.
Psychology of Entrepreneurship
"second version" Discussed on Psychology of Entrepreneurship
"Creatives to provide a space where they can use thyroid to shed their authenticity with the world as a valued. Listen on your voice matters to to hear your feedback and ideas. Said i'd be shots. Let us know how doing in the ratings and comments if you have a message for our production dane on someone who would be a perfect bit as guess you can find out more information on how to share your influence out. Psychology of entrepreneurship dot com. Welcome back every artists needs to sell and it is called the ugly side of art and that means that it has to be a business because the selling involved so that the artist can keep making the art. Every artist struggled with from april. Who are not involved in the business aspect of it. You know i mean. We're we're familiar with it but for just people. In general art is a business We think is like this Sublime thing that just sort of like in a vacuum that you know artists they just spend their time Creating art but when you look throughout history a lot of the great art was only created Because they had the money to create. They were patronized like a lot of the artists. Were paid very well to create these works of art that we idealize today. The sistine chapel. Or you know the mona lisa. These were commissioned pieces of art. They weren't just like at home. Creating art just for the love of these were pieces. That people paid them to create and You know though as an artist as a creative person. You and i are both creative. So even if i'm not getting paid which ninety percent of the time i'm not i do create because of that compulsion For people who only focus on the business aspects of it They can really care less about the compulsion. They're just there to capitalize and make money off of it. Another aspect of odd that is just ignored and is not as dressed is a lot of feedback engagement direct engagement with the audience. So like what we're doing with crimson letters for example Test us doing a great job of You know creating these events of to where we can communicate like co author. Who are on. The inside can say participate in a book club. You know and as one of the results of the book clubs As we're working on the second version or the updated version of crimson letters we have asked members of the book club to read some of the advanced material and give us feedback that we can factor into our revisions. And so in that. And then they're taking it very seriously. And i have to say this is probably the most intense revision process that experience just because of how hard they're trying to almost do like line by line Critiques feedback so. When i read that i'm seeing from you know six or seven different perspectives. Like wow okay. This is how they took this line. I intended it to mean this thing. And they got. But just the connotations of that line also triggered these other associations for this reader and i can see how they came to that. So how can i rephrase this to either eliminate that association or to enhance it. You know so. I'm literally like writing this Trying to fat tanner. Multiple perspectives tam but multiple perspectives. And hope that these readers sympathetic readers sort of represent the audience as a whole the demographic that we're targeting but the best thing about odds for an artist's is well. I don't think i can do the justice. That george so george over to you mash create. What if an audience to engage with the way they part of that is because i get such a joy from the creative process a part of it is just for me just just to satisfy this commotion get joy from the beauty of things that create things. That are beautiful to me. They might not be beautiful to other people. But they're beautiful to me. And i really enjoy them and i wanted to share that joy with other people i liked to like create sense of and wonder in other people and You know. I think people are creative by nature till i would supposedly for example poetry for me is more about like the just vision of ideas and the way that we say things and to make connections Between things that we typically wouldn't make connections between us so it helps us to see things in a different way from another perspective in the see how connected interconnected everything life really is even to like completely unrelated things of create a good metaphor and so just the half that new way of seeing something. I want others to see it that way too. So when i share palm i really want them to get it. I really want them to. Just have this little piece of insight that i got from and it's not like a reflection on me. I don't want them to look at me like all. Wow you gave me the thing You're just great. Poet is not what i'm looking for praise. I'm just wanted them to have this extra little piece of seeing the world of being able to piece together a little bit. Better having more of the puzzle But what a piece of visual art You know like a look at the sunset. This might seem cliche. But if i look at the sunset just the combination of the colors and the fastness of the sky just creates this powerful visceral emotion in me. I have this pure like emotional response. When i look at that and so i want to figure out a way to translate that visually our in the way that i use lines in contrast and You know setting color side-by-side long. I'm trying to stay in tune with the way that it makes me feel when i look at art so i'm trying to create like a specific mood and this experience.
Psychology of Entrepreneurship
"second version" Discussed on Psychology of Entrepreneurship
"Out with this. Audio documentary has always been to build a strong community of entrepreneurs and creatives to provide a space where they can use thyroid to shed their authenticity with the world as a valued. Listen on your voice matters to to hear your feedback and ideas. Said i'd be shots. Let us know how doing in the ratings and comments if you have a message for our production dane on someone who would be a perfect bit as guess you can find out more information on how to share your influence out. Psychology of entrepreneurship dot com. Welcome back every artists needs to sell and it is called the ugly side of art and that means that it has to be a business because the selling involved so that the artist can keep making the art. Every artist struggled with from april. Who are not involved in the business aspect of it. You know i mean. We're we're familiar with it but for just people. In general art is a business We think is like this Sublime thing that just sort of like in a vacuum that you know artists they just spend their time Creating art but when you look throughout history a lot of the great art was only created Because they had the money to create. They were patronized like a lot of the artists. Were paid very well to create these works of art that we idealize today. The sistine chapel. Or you know the mona lisa. These were commissioned pieces of art. They weren't just like at home. Creating art just for the love of these were pieces. That people paid them to create and You know though as an artist as a creative person. You and i are both creative. So even if i'm not getting paid which ninety percent of the time i'm not i do create because of that compulsion For people who only focus on the business aspects of it They can really care less about the compulsion. They're just there to capitalize and make money off of it. Another aspect of odd that is just ignored and is not as dressed is a lot of feedback engagement direct engagement with the audience. So like what we're doing with crimson letters for example Test us doing a great job of You know creating these events of to where we can communicate like co author. Who are on. The inside can say participate in a book club. You know and as one of the results of the book clubs As we're working on the second version or the updated version of crimson letters we have asked members of the book club to read some of the advanced material and give us feedback that we can factor into our revisions. And so in that. And then they're taking it very seriously. And i have to say this is probably the most intense revision process that experience just because of how hard they're trying to almost do like line by line Critiques feedback so. When i read that i'm seeing from you know six or seven different perspectives. Like wow okay. This is how they took this line. I intended it to mean this thing. And they got. But just the connotations of that line also triggered these other associations for this reader and i can see how they came to that. So how can i rephrase this to either eliminate that association or to enhance it. You know so. I'm literally like writing this Trying to fat tanner. Multiple perspectives tam but multiple perspectives. And hope that these readers sympathetic readers sort of represent the audience as a whole the demographic that we're targeting but the best thing about odds for an artist's is well. I don't think i can do the justice. That george so george over to you mash.
FAITH AS IT IS!
"second version" Discussed on FAITH AS IT IS!
"Their will. Come back in these this Attack the flesh by five things differently. You're not as one way and You know wings. New york diffusion distance conditions. So i think putting all sensations saw gas. It's necessarily the dodgers all time point so woodhead i'm like petitions and the one thing again. You know that summed up again and this is one thing i like. It's about seeing for the person you objected. Patch that is suited for a second version of fuso and would again another point speaking of the race to separate also and so i have known many persons who have suffered the addiction to bomb and so like s will. I just like to suggest people who are battling with that. So that is that many blockers available on all the play stores and one of the efficient logos that stops all the websites unblocks all the other content is bulldog block it even talks on guidance angel and it is a this a catholic app. It's down catholics. And it definitely. Yeah and all those willing to try give it a try please. Definitely and i guess if the face i at the link in the district shuttle and awesome. There's also apple But this is block but this app is a sweat It is a nonprofit than open source project and that literally use people Shows them why pornography is dangerous and how this Infinite bit wants to fiscal. We just can't come back so it is never late to realize comebacks. Oh i guess. These apps got angel block also monitors the buddha block and this fortify app and with the distilling sam was wanting to please you check it out. you know. that's all. I forget the need wolf walker for length on devious name fool awesome. Es for moving on. I think this is stopping many. Even if they make any event is lost it will yeah. They're still struggle. Being unwrought becomes gluttony. Like i'm i'm fond of ice cream. Time for the dna and form of chicken. I'm fond of mattila. An hole in the woods at eating my issues would be blood. That is today now. All news yes yeah. Full easing I see eating excessively like for non or speak up five scheme or something in violence. The things. I think that is an issue much. No i mean it's top of your head even sit through the whole. The knee is an attachment to the Enough to foods did values will unendorse. Detective is in it. And you focusing focusing on this and your your whole be shifted away from war and we'll attached before more than anything i think. That's that's new. Becomes they eating the lost the guys you gender others be excessive desire for this and you know and the faction enforced is find virtue to extensive offensives again is modulation island Definitely nautilus and for sufi watch. That sort of yeah. We'll be some bachelor this again Acting and shit and Off sometimes we can. They can hold be have now with two time Fox and universal get our guide under control. I mean nike no it excessively of besting over sugar on moving it in sitting as a sacrifice is much of the kitchen. And i you guys to the mood junk-food entirely a good thing to one. It can be a low because called this and understand for that wing onto a defining thing Eve.
Detour To Neverland
"second version" Discussed on Detour To Neverland
"The theater. That's the most vivid memory. I have as a child from this attraction also terrifying it was terrifying but it was an impressive animatronic. It was it was super cool and it was scary now. Now the story which will get to in just a second that the the war song. That's not scary. No but. I don't think that that's what what was going for saying. They were different emotions being pulled out for this overlay. Yeah but we're not going to be the to like bash. This one because i feel like a lot of our memories are with it now. Now that i've seen both of them. I obviously like waltz version better but under new management doesn't like make me cringe like i think a lot of other people do that. Yes that's very fair. I mean in part of me. Obviously i can go watch it on youtube but like it's it's fun to see it again. It's the nostalgia factor. We're also very like we don't care if intellectual property enters the park. we're always in that camp. We don't care anyway. So as the story goes in two thousand eleven. The theater caught fire in the under new management Did overlying fire match in there. It was a small fire. But they use that as their opportunity to take it under reefer begin and they revamped it back to almost. It's a version they. They've abbreviated it. They took out one song in disneyland's version also took out the same song right. Well it was a long show. I mean i think i could be a little off that when the show i started with waltz. I think it was about seventeen minutes long. So it's pretty long. So i'm not surprised that they shortened it just a little bit and then tokyo has had three different versions so we said it wasn't opening attraction for tokyo. They had a second version which seemed super weird. And i can't even begin to explain it. What what it was now. The third version is what they currently have has stitch included in it and essentially the story. Is that the ticket. Birds are there and stitch. Like hijacks it and he really wants to perform with them and so he does and at the end of it. He declares that everybody in the theater.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"second version" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"While retaining its copyright now that they started making money by writing software. Bill quit college and along with allen founded microsoft in nineteen seventy five microsoft started becoming famous and writing programs for other companies. Few years later they made ibm an operating system called dos. An operating system is an interface that lets the user communicate with the computers hardware even if the user doesn't no machine language the only language known to computers hardware once ibm purchase. Dos from microsoft. Other companies also came to microsoft and purchase dos thus dos became the standard operating system. At that time dos however only had a command line interface and no graphical interface to work with. There was no concept of a mouse. Users used a keyboard to type in commands. That opened her edited files. Once dos became famous apple came to microsoft and asked them to create excel word and version of basic for their macintosh computers. When bill gates went to apple to demonstrate these software he noticed a graphical user interface of macintosh which was driven by a mouse. It was more user friendly than dos. Bill gates immediately realized that microsoft would be or advocated if it didn't create a graphical user interface of its own so bill gates announced that microsoft was working on an operating system with a graphical user interface similar to macintosh's graphical user interface. He called this new operating system windows. Due to bill gates announcement dos users. Waited for windows rather than purchasing macintosh computers to experience. The new graphical user interface when microsoft eventually launched windows it was slow and cumbersome but the second version of windows was much better however it was similar to macintosh's graphical user interface so apple sued windows for stealing its graphics however the case was decided in favor of microsoft then the nineteen nineties. A company called netscape launched an internet browser called navigator. It became quickly famous because of its graphical interface and the ability of independent developers to add additional functionalities as plug ins this made. Many users believe that netscape navigator had the potential to replace windows so to keep its ship from sinking. Microsoft launched a campaign to destroy navigator. I it launched. Its own browser. Called internet explorer by purchasing an old version of code written by netscape's founders. Then it pressurized computer makers to install internet explorer in their computers instead of navigator as a result netscape's business was destroyed and internet. Explorer started to become famous but scape was not the only company that suffered at microsoft's hands many other companies including ibm intel and apple suffered because of microsoft microsoft's use of its monopoly in.
Detour To Neverland
"second version" Discussed on Detour To Neverland
"A whole caveat of none of this was meant to be figment. Thin pigment is not supposed to be in laboratory correct. I mean he's not a lab dragon. He's better than that but here we are so for. All intents and purposes figment is a lab dragon. But of course the big realization that you get at the very end in this finale that you've been talking about katherine is dr nigel. Chaining thornberry has come around and he sees it from figments point of view at this point and he understands that it's more about tapping into your creative side and it's about following your passions and finding that spark so it's a nice little finale. I think our listeners to be upset. If we didn't mention the doctor nigel. chaining moon. It's i. I'm not defending. It's not great but it's there it's there and we got to live with it and that about wraps it up from there you leave and you get to go to image works which is the lesser version of what the imagination pavilion previously had to offer Of course right now you can experience it at all so i don't even know what they have anymore a wreck it. Ralph meet and greet. But he's not actually there right now. It's not there so this is a is and this is a good time to mention. Is that that entire area. Used to be ride and so when they cut it down between the first and second version they cut the ride down by like thirty five percents. I mean they could drastically so. I'm a very visual person again. If you're interested in seeing these visuals you can probably see him in a lot of different videos or online blogs if you want to see what they started with verses what it is now there's a ton of unused space and again. I think that just goes to show visually how much of a budget cut. There was just a lack of funding. There's also weird point about that..