40 Burst results for "Seven"
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from CONGRESS DEMANDS BITCOIN ETF APPROVAL - GENSLER GETS REKT | SB Originals
"You refuse to be transparent with Congress regarding your interactions with FTX and Sam Bankman -Fried. That's the investigation we started last Congress. Finally, your lack of responsiveness to this committee's legitimate oversight continues to be unacceptable. And I want to finish here. In February, the committee made multiple requests for documents to the Securities Exchange Commission. This is normal congressional oversight. Yet seven months later, the committee has not received a single non -public document that was not part of a FOIA production. As I said, our patience is wearing thin. The SEC is not above the law, nor is it unique. Other financial regulators have routinely complied with congressional oversight. So let me be clear. I do not want to be the first chairman of this committee to issue a subpoena to the Securities Exchange Commission. And you should not want to be the first SEC chair to receive a congressional subpoena. Either we find a path forward where the SEC recognizes Congress is a co -equal branch of government and is responsive to our oversight duties, or my option is to issue a subpoena. It's time for you to consider the lasting consequences of your actions and what that means to the Securities Exchange Commission's reputation long term. While your time in this role may be temporary, the repercussions for your actions may be permanent for the agency. I yield back. What's up and welcome back. You know, they say when you're on the hot seat, the burns can last a lifetime. And the other night the hot seat was in Congress and Gary Gensler was feeling the heat. We got a lot to cover. Let's get it. All right, let's get it started here. This was just in full letter to the SEC, and this was on September 26th and addressed to Chairman Gensler. It included Representatives Mike Flood, Tom Emmer, Richie Torres, and Wylie Nickel, and they claimed the SEC continuously is discriminated against spot Bitcoin ETFs. And then we have this from Representative Warren Davidson, Gary Gensler must be held accountable. And then if you guys look at the tweet here throughout his tenure, Gary Gensler has blatantly ignored Congress, be it when considering rulemakings or responding to lawmakers oversight requests. Republicans continue to bring long overdue accountability to Gensler's SEC. Republicans are holding SEC Chair Gensler accountable. They even went so far as to say, all right, let's bring in subpoenas or maybe we should just fire this guy. He went further. Gensler's failures are many. That's why I introduced the SEC Stabilization Act to fire Gary Gensler. He'll see you in the hearing. And we've got so much of the hearing to get to. It was honestly out of line in some regards, hilarious. But let's get to it. And we're going to go ahead and get it started here with the GOP majority whip, Tom Emmer totally crushes Gary Gensler. Here's one quote. It cannot be understated. A common theme throughout your career, sir, is your relentless loyalty to the largest financial institutions at the clear expense of innovation, competition and everyday Americans. Let's roll the clip. Chair Gensler, I have a series of questions that require a yes or no answer. And in the interest of my limited time, I'd appreciate it if you would comply with it. Mr. Gensler, is it fair to say generally that large institutions in any given industry benefit more from regulatory uncertainty than everyday market participants or smaller institutions who don't have the scale or the capital to fund expensive compliance teams? Large institutions could benefit from uncertainty. Reclaiming my time. The answer is yes, sir. Mr. Gensler, you had an 18 year career at Goldman Sachs where you were partner and co -head of finance, correct? Yes, sir. Thank you. And is it correct to say that you made most of your personal wealth directly through your employment at this bank, Goldman Sachs? I've done well since then, too, sir.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Seven" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"At shirm dot org slash radio that's s h r m dot org slash radio rob stalworth w t o p traffic now to seven news first alert meteorologist jordan evans sunshine for the rest your sunday and for the next several days early september like weather will you through thursday temperatures this evening very comfortable at six o 'clock at seventy seven eight p m at seventy one ten p m back down to sixty nine and even tonight early morning temperatures fifties and sixties tomorrow we do it again at eighty two tuesday it's up to eighty three and day eighty four degrees i'm seven news meteorologist jordan evans in the first alert weather center right now eighty degrees two dupont circle seventy seven degrees in germantown eighty one degrees in anandale right now and coming up w on t o p did someone or you might be wondering if you won the powerball prize lab the numbers for you coming up my daughter is vegan my
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Neil Mammen
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original. Something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now. I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you, Eric. Good to be here again. Okay. We're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick have made this a reality. This is a big deal. This is an answer to a real problem we have. I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious and I get that all the time. I go around speaking, people go, oh, do you know a good church in this area or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out 1 .7 million people look for a new church every month. 1 .7 people look for a new church. A billion. A billion. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about 5 million people looking for a new church every month. 5 million. Most of them, turns out, it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it, so I went on, you know, the source of all information is Google's Bard Artificial Intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google's Bard said. And I said, really? Is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistic. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend a church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. Now, I ask people, what decade do they think that is? And they always say, oh, oh, that's 1990s, 2000s, whatever, right? You know, actually, this is 1990s because today is probably a lot worse. But we'll come back to that. But so so I asked Bard, I said, what what since you think that these are people looking for progressive churches, can you give me a list of the growth rate of progressive churches? And Bard said, OK, so it gives me this rate and it's you know, it shows me this list of people of churches and like the UMC. They've dropped like 50 percent, the Presbyterian, the USA, you know, the liberal Presbyterian Church, they've dropped by 38 percent. And so I go down that list and I ask I ask I say, well, give me the list of all the progressive churches and how they've grown in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2020. So in 2000, the progressive total people going to progressive total was about 18 .7 million. And today it's about 16 .8 million. So they've dropped by 10 percent total. There's no surprise people going to these ridiculous, you know, quote unquote progressive churches that have veered away from biblical doctrine. I'm surprised anybody goes to those. Exactly. I mean, the the Presbyterians, they've dropped. The Presbyterians were the ones that dropped by 50 percent. The UMC has dropped by 15 percent. Yeah, because why go to a church like that when you could go to to like a local, you know, Neil, where are you going? What's the punch line? Because I'm getting confused. Are you? I know there's my assumption would be that most people who actually care about church are trying to find a conservative church, a church that teaches biblical doctrine, but also that speaks to the issues that people like because many people can go to these ridiculous mega church or whatever, where they they're avoiding the hot button issues that everybody has to deal with when they leave that church, their kids are dealing with it, everybody's dealing with it. What's going on in America? So the idea is, how do you find those churches? So I know that's where you're heading with this. So I turned the bar and I said, OK, now give me the conservative churches. I'm on board just looking for liberal churches, progressives. I said, give me the conservative churches. And it gives me things like, oh, the Orthodox Presbyterians, they have grown by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The Orthodox Russians have gone by 29 percent. Independent Baptists have grown by 33 percent. The conservative. And so I did I said, what about the Calvary church? The Calvary churches have grown by one hundred and fifty percent. And then the you know, even the Southern Baptists who's stuck in the news all the time, they've grown by seven and a half percent. OK, but conservative total have grown from sixty seven million people in 2000 going to these conservative churches to ninety two million going to these conservatives. So they've grown by almost thirty seven percent in the last 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this and this is the kicker here. This is all pre covid data. It didn't have any data for twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. This is twenty twenty. And as you know, and you're going to be preaching in my church in Santa and in in San Jose and sometime in your future Calvary Chapel, San Jose, right. They grew from three hundred people to three thousand people over covid. Why? Because a couple of things is very important here. Pastor Mike said, I'm not going to let the state determine what I'm doing. I'm going to be legislated, be active with voter guides. We had candidates coming in who's fighting the state. Remember, we say we're the finest church in all of America because we have four million dollars in Calvary Chapel, San Jose, because we wouldn't shut down for covid. So churches like these have been exploding all over the nation. So just these numbers are three years old and I can't seem to get the twenty twenty three numbers. So, no, the people who are looking for church. And so I went back to Bartlett said, well, this is the growth rate. Our people are really looking for more progressive rates. And, you know, I always say, well, I'm really sorry. I apologize. Yes, you're right. They must be looking for conservative Bible believing fundamentalist churches is what it comes back to. So it actually says, oh, yeah, you're right. You were correcting me on it. Right. So the issue here is then why? How do we find these if five million people are looking for churches every single month, how are they going to find these conservative churches? OK, this is this is a very long way of getting to the punch line, because this is such an exciting punch line, Neil, that I am just at the bit to get to this. We started. I know what I mean. I just want to say.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "seven" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Match up between the nfc east rivals and our uh... commanders beat porter george wallace is there george it it's been crazy already it has been yet fourteen seven washington with the lead seven fifty three to go second quarter as a two seventy five -year t .d. drives for washington personally as it occurs samuel one -yard touchdown run and internet more recovers brian robinson probably fumbled in in the end zone mclaurin jumps on it for the second score jaylen hurts on the other side uh... nine of ten that good start for m sixty nine yards in the address with as a touchdown run for the eagles how eight of eleven so far to start this game at terry mclaurin four catches fifty eight yards fourteen seven washington leads thanks a lot george we'll talk to you again next our lamar jackson scrambled for ten yards and the score as the ravens lead the browns that is seven three oh hill yeah that's seven three right now they are in the second quarter jaguars beat the falcons twenty three seven in the nfl game across the pond jags the sac desmond ritter three times intercepted him twice trevor lawrence was twenty three of thirty for two hundred seven yards and one touchdown the bills demar hamlin made his first start of the regular season for first time since suffering cardiac arrest on the field nine months ago that game is tied at fourteen dianne roberts wtop sports president biden says congress needs to stop playing games traffic and weather next table since but my family has storm ready wi -fi from xfinity they can stream and game like usual on all their devices all over the house who moved the couch
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-30-2023 16:00
"Hey, can I let you in on a little secret? Ugh, I'm obsessed with the Drop app. Drop makes it so easy to score free gift cards just for doing my everyday shopping at places like Ulta, Sam's Club, and Lyft. So if you're like me and love a good shopping spree, download Drop today and join the secret club of savvy shoppers. And use my code GETDROP999 to get $5. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. It appears a government shutdown has been avoided after the House passed a 45 -day stopgap funding bill. The measure passed 335 to 91 with overwhelming Democratic support as dozens of Republicans voted against it. The bill now goes to the Senate for final approval. Former President Trump could be in New York City on Monday for his civil fraud trial. Trump's lawyers revealed his plans on Friday while discussing another case, a lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump was set to undergo a deposition in that case in Florida on Tuesday, but his lawyers asked the court to postpone it so he could get to the New York trial, which opens Monday. Earlier this week, the judge overseeing the New York case ruled that Trump had been overvaluing his properties and was liable for fraud. A Michigan judge is ruling the teen who shot seven people and killed four at Oxford High School in November 2021 can be sentenced to life without parole. Lisa Taylor has more. Judge Kwame Rowe made the announcement Friday morning that Ethan Crumbly has a slim chance of rehabilitation. He said the teen is obsessed with violence even while being held in jail. The hearing and ruling are required as the U .S. Supreme Court ruled that underage defendants could not be given a life without parole sentence without a separate hearing following a conviction. Crumbly is scheduled to be sentenced in December. I'm Lisa Taylor. SpaceX launched another 22 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The Steve Holland Retirement Wealth Show
Fresh update on "seven" discussed on The Steve Holland Retirement Wealth Show
"If we can't provide value at least they're gonna get a roadmap a written financial plan and we're providing that for all of our listeners anybody who wants that we're doing it complimentary and that's a fifteen hundred dollar value because a lot of advisors charge that or this more type for of planning i've said this before i'll say it again you can take that plan implement it on your own of course mike and our team we would love it if you implement it with our advisors but if you don't hey at least we've you out helped is kinda how we feel at talonwealth and you can also take it to your current advisor and they can get the attaboy a great way to add value to your life near and in retirement so whatever you care to do with that plan up is to you but you do have to call and schedule it to be able to have that option eight one three seven five five five thousand eight one three seven or pick a time and location right now at guarding your nest egg dot com find out
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
A highlight from 3 Points with Chris Mannix - Dame is finally traded
"Sick of paying $100 for groceries and getting nothing but eggs, orange juice, and a paper bag? Then download the Drop app. Drop lets you earn points with your everyday shopping and redeem them for gift cards. Want a free dinner with those groceries? Drop it. How about daily lattes? Drop it. So download Drop today and get $5 just for signing up. Use invite code GETDROP777. The volume. New customers can bet $5 and get $200 instantly in bonus bets. Throw $5 down on any of this week's epic matchups to walk away with an instant winner. And DraftKings isn't stopping there. All customers can take advantage of two new offers every single game this September. So football is more fun when you're in on the action. So download the app now and sign up with the code MANIX. New customers can bet just $5 to get $200 instantly in bonus bets. Only on DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NFL with code MANIX. The crown is yours. Gambling problem? Call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit www .1 -800 -GAMBLER .net. In New York, call 877 -8HOPE -NY or text 877 -HOPE -NY, 467 -369. In Connecticut, help is available for problem gambling. Call 888 -789 -7777 or visit ccpg .org. Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino Resort in Kansas, licensee partner Golden Nugget Lake Charles, Louisiana. 21 -plus age varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. See sportsbook .draftkings .com slash football for terms for eligibility. Terms and responsible gaming resources. Bonus bets expire seven days after issuance. Eligibility and deposit restrictions apply.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Seven" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Her memorial and funeral have not yet been announced california's democratic governor is in charge of picking her successor that's reporter kevin cork new york city is recovering from record rainfall this weekend reporter cb cotton is at laguardia airport well new yorkers some of them are feeling awesome some of them now dealing with flooding still in their basements are buckled floors again this comes after record -setting rainfall across the city there would have been two to three inches of rainfall it made its way inside the terminal shutting it down several for hours leaving travelers to deal with cancellations and delays and trying to get on the train was also no no easier as water made its way inside subway stations several subway and commuter rails were knocked out because of flooded tracks some service interruptions continued for commuters also some parts of brooklyn some more than seven inches of rain leaving some drivers stranded and causing other people to walk through knee -deep water turkey's interior affairs minister says a suicide bomber struck his ministry while a second assailant was killed in a
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: CoinDesk Market Index Week in Review
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Hello, this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. On today's show, we will be turning it over to Coindesk Infosys for some weekly crypto market insights. We will be using Wondercraft AI Voice for this episode. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Wondercraft AI Voice is here to give you six crypto market takeaways from last week. We will start by taking a look at what happened in markets in the first half of the week. Here, Coindesk Indices provides week -on -week data over seven days, leading up to Tuesday, September 26. One year after the Ethereum merge, prominent liquid staking protocols have experienced recent underperformance. In the last month, Lido minus 5 .4%, Rocketpool minus 7 .5%, Yearn Finance minus 9 .2%, and Ribbon Finance minus 21 % have all lagged behind Ethereum's minus 3 .9 % monthly performance. Layer 1 smart contract platform Moonbeam, GLMR, has surged by 44 % in the last seven days. Other alternative, Layer 1s like Aptos, APT up 7 .2%, and MOVR up 5 .9%, have also posted substantial price gains this week. The Coindesk Computing Index, featuring digital assets linked to decentralized computing, leads all sectors in week -on -week performance. This is partly driven by the strong performance of oracles, protocols enabling blockchain interaction with real -world data including Covalent plus 24%, Chainlink plus 14%, and API3 plus 3 .7%. Stay tuned for after the break when we will bring you three more takeaways from the week. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits. May be subject to capital gains tax. Welcome back. Now for the takeaways from Friday, September 29th. Here, Coindesk Indices provides week -to -date numbers over the Friday -to -Friday time period, leading the week -to -date performance on the 183 -asset Coindesk Market Index are three smart contract platforms. Layer 1 Moonbeam, GLMR, has surged by 43%, while Layer 0 Byconomy and Terra, Luna, have both risen by 23%. Oracle providers continue to excel, with Covalent, CQT, and Chainlink link, posting gains of 16 % and 7 .4%, respectively. Despite positive returns for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Coindesk Market Index this week, several assets linked to decentralized computing have experienced declines. Among them are shared storage protocol Akash Network, AKT, minus 6 .8%, IoT platform Jasmine Coin, Jasmine minus 4 .2%, distributed CPU protocol, render token, RNDR minus 2%, and blockchain infrastructure provider Anchor, minus 2%. Like what you are hearing, head over to coindesk .com slash markets for more. We will see you tomorrow. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "seven" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Can stream and game like usual on all their devices all over the house who moved the couch so everybody stays connected well i just try to find a seat in the dark oh cactus can i get a little help over here yeah bro just let me finish this boss battle sure go ahead medic now you can get fast reliable internet on the xfinity 10g network and get storm ready wi -fi when you upgrade so you can stay connected for up to four hours even when the power comes out only from xfinity go to xfinity .com call 1 800 xfinity or visit a store today restrictions apply storm ready wi -fi limited to customers within range of 4g lte cellular signal speeds reduced to 30 megabits per second actual scootsbury for more details visit xfinity .com storm ready coming up washington is in philadelphia for the first game of the season against a division foe we'll check in on the action sports in 10 minutes on wtop i'm bob burke founder and chairman of burke america parts group a family of brands that includes repair clinic dot com an appliance in h fact part solution company that's grown into an international brand before american eagle dot com we partially launched a new technology platform developed by another firm american eagle help take our technology to a whole new level with digital marketing software development and business insights into our key markets appliances hvac and outdoor power equipment and did so both on time and on budget american eagle dot com has the resources experience and talent needed to produce solutions our new technology platform developed by american eagle dot com has produced tremendous results with higher traffic conversion engagement in online revenue if you have any home repairs you need to take of care check us out at repairclinic .com if you need a world -class website or technology project then i would highly recommend american eagle dot com call american eagle dot com at seven seven three network that's american eagle dot com seven seven three network everything you need every time you utop it's news 115 i'm sarah jacobs and i'm sandy cozell thanks for being with us it's a day student loan borrowers have been dreading their loan repayments resume today after year a three pandemic pause while tens of thousands of people begin repaying their loans an estimated eight hundred four thousand borrowers who have about forty billion dollars in debt are having their loans it's forgiven one part of a -time adjustment being granted by the biden administration it's for people in income -driven repayment plans who have been paying back their loans for up to twenty five years but never received the credit for late or partial payments it also credits the borrowers for periods before the pandemic when they were allowed to pause or reduce their payments due to financial hardship the Department of Education says ninety five percent of those who qualify have now been informed about the cancellation. Dan Ronen, WTOP News. The Marine Corps marathon is just weeks away and if you are a long -distance runner you know injury can derail your goals. Here are some exercises you can do to avoid injury. Start off sitting on the ground, legs out straight in front and essentially walk your butt along the ground. They're called butt scoots. They're meant to give you better posture and more hip mobility. Robin Lalonde, a Nike Run Club coach, tells the Wall Street Journal that doing Doing destabilizing drills can also help like suitcase carrying one weight and doing high knee marches or just squats with a weight in just one hand. Recent studies show about one out of of every four distance runners is dealing with some sort of injury. Luke Looker, WTOP News. If We're running the Marine Corps Marathon, WTOP would like to know why you're running? Share with us on WTOP dot com. We're learning more about the events leading up to a fiery one car crash
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from CoinDesk Market Index Week in Review
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Hello, this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. On today's show, we will be turning it over to Coindesk Infosys for some weekly crypto market insights. We will be using Wondercraft AI Voice for this episode. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Wondercraft AI Voice is here to give you six crypto market takeaways from last week. We will start by taking a look at what happened in markets in the first half of the week. Here, Coindesk Indices provides week -on -week data over seven days, leading up to Tuesday, September 26. One year after the Ethereum merge, prominent liquid staking protocols have experienced recent underperformance. In the last month, Lido minus 5 .4%, Rocketpool minus 7 .5%, Yearn Finance minus 9 .2%, and Ribbon Finance minus 21 % have all lagged behind Ethereum's minus 3 .9 % monthly performance. Layer 1 smart contract platform Moonbeam, GLMR, has surged by 44 % in the last seven days. Other alternative, Layer 1s like Aptos, APT up 7 .2%, and MOVR up 5 .9%, have also posted substantial price gains this week. The Coindesk Computing Index, featuring digital assets linked to decentralized computing, leads all sectors in week -on -week performance. This is partly driven by the strong performance of oracles, protocols enabling blockchain interaction with real -world data including Covalent plus 24%, Chainlink plus 14%, and API3 plus 3 .7%. Stay tuned for after the break when we will bring you three more takeaways from the week. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits. May be subject to capital gains tax. Welcome back. Now for the takeaways from Friday, September 29th. Here, Coindesk Indices provides week -to -date numbers over the Friday -to -Friday time period, leading the week -to -date performance on the 183 -asset Coindesk Market Index are three smart contract platforms. Layer 1 Moonbeam, GLMR, has surged by 43%, while Layer 0 Byconomy and Terra, Luna, have both risen by 23%. Oracle providers continue to excel, with Covalent, CQT, and Chainlink link, posting gains of 16 % and 7 .4%, respectively. Despite positive returns for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Coindesk Market Index this week, several assets linked to decentralized computing have experienced declines. Among them are shared storage protocol Akash Network, AKT, minus 6 .8%, IoT platform Jasmine Coin, Jasmine minus 4 .2%, distributed CPU protocol, render token, RNDR minus 2%, and blockchain infrastructure provider Anchor, minus 2%. Like what you are hearing, head over to coindesk .com slash markets for more. We will see you tomorrow. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
Live2cre8
How Reyn Guyer, Inventor of Nerf & Twister, Broke Into the Toy Business
"I am joined today from Gasparilla Island in Florida by toy and game inventor, Ren Guyer. Ren is a serial entrepreneur in a variety of creative fields including toys and games, music publishing, education, and art. He is perhaps best known as the inventor of Nerf and Twister and is a member of the Hasbro Toy and Game Inventors Hall of Fame. Guyer also has founded music publishing company, Ren's Song Music of Nashville. He is also the creator of Windsor Learning, an educational program for remediating those with dyslexia. And he is the author of the book, Right Brain Red, Seven Ideas for Creative Success. Ren, thank you so much for joining me today. It is an honor to have you on the show. It's nice to be here, Shane. Can you tell us, how does one break into the toy and game invention business in the first place? And what were you doing before that? Well, I was, my father had started a design company. He had been a vice president and director of new product development for a paper company. And as such had over 120 patents with his name on it. And when he left the paper company to start his own business with an eye toward trying to make packaging for large Fortune 500 companies and to make in -store displays for Fortune 500 companies. And so I was working in that company and had become a co -owner of that company with my father in the business. And that's what my profession was at the time. We would design them and sell them to them. Did you go to school for design or was that something you just picked up from your dad? How did you get into designing? Well, when I got out of school, I had planned to be a writer and he said, just come with me. I have just started this company. He said, you know, let's see what happens. And so I did. I joined him and he had already hired. He had been in business for about six months when I joined him. And he had already hired several very competent graphic artists to design the display materials. The company also did graphic design for large companies. What's an example? We did all of the packaging for Land O 'Lakes, for instance, and redesigned logos for people. We also did that. So we had the artists were kept busy doing things. And my father stuck me at a drawing board in the middle of these artists. And I watched because I really didn't. I had taken some art classes and I was, you know, a fledgling artist, but not very competent. And I watched what their methods were. And back then there were no computers, of course, back in the late 1950s. So a lot of it was copied from magazine ads and catalogs. And a lot of the work was done by tracing, by putting tracing paper over it. And so you would start with that and a sketch. You'd develop the sketch that way. So I saw what they were doing. And so I would take home some tracing paper and I would find some ads or something like that, something visual. And I would start tracing over it just to see what came out of it. And I discovered that if you focused on making sure that the darks were accurate, the pieces of dark in the illustration or in the photograph were properly replicated or traced, you take the photo away from underneath the tracing paper and voila, you have something that looks pretty much like the photo that you just had underneath the tracing paper. And so I soon realized that if you look, I soon began to be able to look around the room or look anywhere. And essentially by making an accurate depiction of the dark portions or the shadowed parts, you will come up with an accurate depiction of what you're looking at. And so I got pretty good at sketching. And I got pretty good at looking at what I saw and replicating it. I actually think if I get time in this life, I'd like to write the book that tells that little secret and has people practice that with tracing paper. It is a shortcut to understanding visual art because it's a shortcut to learn how to
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 09-29-2023 19:00
"Warning. The following message contains an app recommendation you won't be able to resist. Girl, how do you keep getting all these things for free? Coffee, makeup, and now lunch? You haven't heard of the Drop app? Drop is a free app that rewards you for shopping at places like Ulta, Adidas, and Sam's Club. I've already earned $100 this month. Download the Drop app and get $5. Use invite code GETDROP222. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. President Biden is honoring the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein. During remarks in Arlington today, Biden said Feinstein was a trailblazer for women and a great friend. Dianne made a remark on everything from national security to the environment, gun safety to protecting civil liberties. The country is going to miss her dearly. Feinstein passed away at the age of 90. Lately, she's been battling health issues, but there's no word yet on an official cause of death. A suspect has been arrested in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Las Vegas police announced Dwayne Kefi D. Davis has been charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon. Before today, no one had ever been arrested in the 27 years since Shakur's murder. The clock continues to count down to the deadline to avoid a government shutdown. The House failed to pass a Republican -led short -term funding bill this afternoon. The government is set to shut down at midnight Saturday if lawmakers fail to make a deal. A Michigan judge is ruling the teen who shot seven people and killed four at Oxford High School in November 2021 can be sentenced to life without parole. Lisa Taylor reports...
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: Heres How Sam Bankman-Frieds High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out
"Arbitrum's leading layer two scaling solution offers you ultra cheap and lightning fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's guest is Nick Day, Coindesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. Welcome, Nick. Thanks for having me. The trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried starts next Tuesday, October 3rd. There's been a lot happening pre -trial. For instance, Sam has requested release from jail multiple times and repeatedly been denied, including as recently as Thursday morning. My personal thought was that it seemed like all these requests that the defense was putting in at this critical juncture right before the trial was supposed to begin was maybe not the best use of their time, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm not a lawyer. Why do you think they made this such a point of focus in the last few days? Yeah. So I'm actually coming, you know, I was in the courthouse just a few hours ago where this very issue was brought up and the, you know, defense's arguments were, well, the first time we asked it was for pre -trial release. You know, this was right after Bankman -Fried was remanded into custody in mid -August. The second time was, you know, they were asking an appeals court to overrule the judge's decision to remand him and they lost that as well. In court today, the defense said, well, you know, now we want to ask for during trial, which is why we waited until this week to make that request. And they say that they want to, you know, the circumstances are different. They're not asking for Bankman -Fried to be released from jail in the weeks leading up to trial. Now they're saying, well, you know, during the trial, we're going to have to talk to him and check with him about defense witness testimony and cross -examination and things like that. So that's why we're making this request. And the judge didn't really find that compelling. And why do you think the judge has stuck to this position of keeping Bankman -Fried in jail? So in the judge's words, there's a couple of different reasons. One being that Bankman -Fried has had ample time to look at the defense materials. You know, one of the arguments was there are something like 1300 exhibits expected over the course of the trial. And the judge asked today, you know, were these all prepared and shared with you before, I think he said September 8th, so earlier this month. And the defense, they said, yes, we've seen all of this. We've had access to all of this. Bankman -Fried was out on bail for about seven and a half months. And so the judge's argument is, well, he's had time to look at this. You know, there's no surprises here. And he said that the defense has the chance to talk with Bankman -Fried in the Metropolitan Detention Center where he's currently being housed weekends during days that there are no trials. So, you know, the trial is not every weekday. It's going to be most weekdays. And he said, you know, you have the time, you have the opportunity, you are able to talk to your client. You're not really losing a whole lot. But he added kind of a, you know, made this ruling where Bankman -Fried will even be presented to the courthouse early on trial days where there's certain witness testimony that has to be discussed and let the attorneys just talk to him before the trial begins on those days. So he's saying basically, you know, you have opportunities to talk to your client and I'm going to give you more time to do so, but I'm not going to let Bankman -Fried out of jail. So the main focus next week as the trial begins will be jury selection. Tell us what you think that process will be like. It definitely will be interesting. I think it's probably going to be very boring from just kind of an observer perspective because it's a long process and we're going to be just sitting there watching this judge ask each individual, have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Bankman -Fried? What do you think about cryptocurrencies? But it's going to be very interesting because this is the part where we're really going to get a sense of, okay, you know, these are the 12 or so people who are going to determine whether or not Bankman -Fried spends the next, you know, 10 to 20 years of his life behind bars and so I'm expecting to see maybe as mixed selection. I think if you pluck a random group of New Yorkers off the streets, some of them may have heard of cryptocurrency. Most of them probably will not have and they're going to be tasked with deciding whether or not one of the biggest figures in crypto committed fraud on the way up and on the way down. Something that was interesting to me was the prosecution said that they expected jury selection to take the better part of a day. I've seen some legal opinions that it will take longer than that. What do you think could potentially happen there and why do you think some analysts are saying that it would take longer? Yeah, no, I've spoken to a number of lawyers as well ahead of the trial, you know, where at Coindes we're trying to do a lot of kind of preview coverage, basically saying here's how it might go down. Everyone I spoke to said it will probably take a couple days. Part of that is because this is a fairly notorious case. A lot of people will have heard about Bankman -Fried and presumably formed some kind of opinion that would, you know, disqualify them from being a juror on the trial. I'm not sure where the DOJ is getting their estimate from. It's very possible that, you know, through the questionnaires that the jury pool is sent through the, you know, the kind of the mass selection process or deselection process that the judge engages in. Maybe that streamlines a big part of it by kind of, you know, reducing or like immediately filtering out the people who are most blatantly, you know, either knowledgeable or biased or otherwise have their own preformed viewpoints about the case. And so the jury selection might just be focused on, you know, those individuals who have made it through those initial filtering processes. But that's speculation on my part. I honestly am not sure if it is a better part of the day that we could see opening statements as soon as next Wednesday, October 4th, which would be a pretty rapid start to the trial. And Coindesk did some work to try to suss out what it is that Lower Manhattan New Yorkers might say if they were randomly picked for a jury. What did you discover there? Yeah, no. So Coindesk's Dylan and Victor went to Manhattan, downtown Manhattan to the financial district, and literally just went up to people and said, hey, we're with Coindesk. Have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Sam Bankman Fried? And a fairly large part of this group just hadn't heard about it. You know, they weren't familiar with it. They weren't comfortable talking about crypto. They weren't familiar with crypto. And of those who were, you know, I think they found a fairly even mix. There were some individuals who had heard about Bankman Fried, some individuals who had only heard about crypto, some individuals who were very knowledgeable. They actually found a, you know, a Yahoo anchor who was the most knowledgeable about it, naturally, as you know, a reporter covering the financial space. But they also found people who were looking for jobs in crypto, people who were investors in the space. By and large, it seems to, you know, a lot of the people they spoke to just weren't interested or talking, interested in talking about crypto or in, you know, being part of this, being part of crypto. So if that is a representative sample of who we'll see next week at the jury pool, it'll be interesting because we'll see a large, potentially large, jury pool of people who aren't familiar with crypto. Again, on one of the biggest, you know, bang in on one of the biggest figures in the space. Recently, the defense proposed certain questions that it would ask the jurors and the government said that they felt these were quote unquote intrusive. What were some of the questions that were proposed and what was the government's response? Yeah. So, you know, the background here is both the DOJ and the defense team filed their proposed jury questions to help filter potential jurors. The defense team in particular had a number of questions about, you know, how these potential jurors felt about things like effective altruism, about political donations, about ADHD and people who have ADHD. And the DOJ response was really, you know, they felt that some of these questions, for example, about effective altruism and about political donations seemed kind of primed to or designed to prime the potential jurors to think, oh, well, Bankman Fried was trying to do all of this in service of this effective altruism philosophy. Therefore, he was trying to raise money to donate to better the world or designed to try and prime the jury to think, okay, well, you know, political donations is fine. So these allegations about breaking the law in the way he tried to donate funds maybe is, you know, overreach or whatever. And then the intrusive part, you know, treating just kind of this question of ADHD and whether or not people were, you know, involved with individuals who had it or the DOJ just felt that these questions were really designed to try and shape how the jury would see Bankman Fried as opposed to just kind of gauge their existing biases. And so the DOJ opposed these questions. And I think we're still waiting to see for sure if there's any public response on the judge prior to jury selection on Tuesday. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about different legal strategies that the defense might pursue. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Arbitrum stands at the forefront of innovation as the premier suite of Layer 2 scaling solutions, bringing you lightning fast transactions at a fraction of the cost, all with security rooted on Ethereum. From DeFi to gaming, Arbitrum 1 plus Nova is home to over 500 projects. And with the recent launch of Orbit, Arbitrum welcomes you to build your very own Taylor Layer 3 or an Orbit chain. Propel your project and community forward by visiting arbitrum .io today. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Easy to use token grant award templates, vesting tracking via online dashboard, tax withholding integration with payroll, automated distributions, great employee experience. Make it simple with Toku. Learn more at toku .com slash Unchained.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Loses It, Defending Biden As a 'Father Figure'
"Who want to work for a living and take other people's money. So I don't care. But This isn't she's wearing a Louis Vuitton pin. That's probably worth more than a lot of her struggling constituents make in a week or a month. And she's sitting up there claiming to be like this warrior for the class. working Give me a break. If you want to watch the video, if you know reason for you not to believe me, but Watch it on rumble. You can see it. She's got this really expensive like Louis Vuitton thing on I asked Joe producer Joe this morning what it was. He didn't even know. He was like, is that like Eva solar also? I'm like, I don't know, bro. How do I know? Here's representative Jasmine losing Crockett her on the house floor. This one viral yesterday people making fun Check of her this out seven counts related to obstructing the investigation three false statements one count of conspiracy To defraud the United States falsifying business records conspiracy to defraud the United States two counts related to efforts to obstruct the vote certification proceedings one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights 23 counts related to forgery or false documents statements eight counts related to soliciting and I could go on because he's got 91 counts pending right now, but I will tell you what the president has been guilty of he has unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally and that is the only evidence that they have brought forward and honestly I hope and pray that my parents love me half as much as he loves his child until they find some we need to get back to the people's work which means keeping this government open so that people don't go hungry in the streets of the United States and I will
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1270. Ethereum ETF Launching Monday | Government Shutdown vs Crypto
"All right, so today let's get into some Ethereum news for you. The ETF, Futures, is launching and what that might mean for you guys out there today in terms of the crypto impact overall. We're breaking down for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back to Tech Path. All right, so let's talk to you guys about a few things here. I want to get into our advertisers today and that is Tangent. If you guys are looking at going into self -custody, one of the ways you can do that is going through Tangent Wallet. These are cards that work off of NFC. Very effective. I've been able to see and test this wallet. Has a lot of features in it. If you guys want to check it out, just go over and there's a couple of cards you can get into. You can get into the new Tangent Wallet, which essentially is going to allow you to do an optional seed phrase and or you can go to the classic where it generates all that for you. But make sure and use our discount code below. They just put out a tweet, optional seed phrase now available there on the new card coming up. We don't recommend using a seed phrase, but we want every user to choose their own path. That's kind of up to you guys how you want to go. Because the seed phrase card obviously will do that. And then the non -seed phrase card will auto -generate that. So you don't necessarily have the integration into external wallets. But take a look at it. I think this is one of those tools that will help you out. All right. So let's get into a couple of the news items today. I want to jump over to the first story. And this is anticipated GDP data released. Obviously, Bitcoin's first reaction. We've seen a little bit of uptick in terms of Bitcoin, mostly because I think because of the Ginzer hearing. But remember, we've got a lot of people worried about this government shutdown and the negative impact it's going to have on not only the U .S. credit rating, but also markets, bonds. And if markets and bonds are affected, the likelihood is we're going to also see some effect here in the crypto markets as well. I'd love to get you guys' feedback on whether or not you feel a shutdown would cause Bitcoin or Ethereum to fall. Let me know down in the comments. Make sure and smash the like button if you guys like these kind of video breakdowns for you. Further into topics for the ETF, the ETF price skyrockets as Ethereum's ETF eyes this Monday launch. There's been a little bit of a push for this, too. The tweet that was done here by Belshunas, update hearing the SEC. Here you go. Hearing the SEC wants to accelerate the launch of e -futures because they want it basically off their plate before the shutdown. So they've asked their filers to update their docs by Friday p .m. no small tasks to jam all this in 24 hours. This is a pretty big deal. I think obviously the component here and a lot of people that will look at this is maybe the SEC taking a step forward to offset this bipartisan or I should say partisan approach toward the crypto markets and ETFs in general because Congress called them to the floor yesterday. By the way, if you want to check it out, there's a ton of clips. I think the thing was like six or seven hours long. We pulled that down into a core clips that really got into the crux of what they were talking about. So check it out. Ethereum spot ETF becomes the SEC's next delay victim. That, of course, is the situation that I think a lot of people will deal with. One day after delaying the Bitcoin spot decision, the SEC also confirmed that similar Ethereum applications have suffered the same fate. So this is not something that's going to be moving very quickly. All of this stems from the 1934 Securities Act. The act allows the agency to postpone resolutions like the Ethereum spot ETF for 45 to 90 days there in that highlight. And the SEC could fast track the e -futures product to compensate for its spot ETF delay. I don't know. I think there's a little bit of a way on both. I think this is more of a government shutdown situation than anything with Gensler and with the SEC.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Congressman Warren Davidson Interview - Crypto Regulations, SEC Gary Gensler Hearing & Subpoena, Bill Hinman Ethereum, CBDCs
"Oh yeah, I mean, I think book Gensler should have been subpoenaed already. I mean, I think the amount of patients that chairman McHenry shown, I mean, maybe that's why he's the chairman. He's like more patient study, kind of working it more diplomatic. Like, yeah, I think the subpoena was due like in February. This content is brought to you by link to which makes private equity investment easy. Link to is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and FinTech companies, some of the crypto companies you may recognize include circle ripple chain, analysis, ledger, dapper labs, and many more, if you'd like to learn more about link to please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews with me today is Congressman Warren Davidson, who's a Republican out of Ohio, Congressman Davidson. It's great to have you on. Yeah. It's an honor to join you. Thanks. Yeah. Congressman Davidson, I've followed you for years and all the great work you've done with legislation around crypto. I think you were boy was maybe the first, if I, as far as I remember going back to the token taxonomy days and things like that. Uh, but before we get to all that, you know, tell us about yourself, where you're from and where'd you grow up. Yeah. So I grew up in Ohio, um, a little North of where I live now. So, um, graduated high school in the eighties, 88 listed in the army and, uh, got sent over to Germany when the wall Berlin wall was up, you know, the cold war was there and there, uh, wall separating the East and the West went through East Berlin and got to be there when that came down. And, uh, I'll just say like the people on the other side, weren't looking for more government. They were looking for more freedom and it was definitely a life -defining experience. Uh, from there, I got to go to West point, which, so that's not the normal way you go to West point, but, uh, it worked for me and, uh, graduated, went back into the infantry, served in range of regiment, 101st airborne division, uh, the old guard, you know, so some great units, but ultimately decided I needed to get out and go into a business. So my wife and I, and two little kids at that point in time, moved back to Ohio and, uh, started manufacturing companies, went to Notre Dame, got an MBA, and we basically had a little group of manufacturing companies. And that was what I was doing. And John Boehner resigned as speaker of the house. And a couple friends stopped in and said, Hey, you know, who are you going to back in the race? And I said, Hey, you know, you guys are the political people. And they cracked really a joke. They go, you know, it'd be great if there was an army ranger business guy in the race. So we just laughed and I went home and told my wife about my day. And she said, well, what'd you tell them? Like, well, we just laughed. Cause it's crazy. And she said, no, it's not. You'd be great at that. Well, here I am. So that's been like, you know, gosh, over seven years ago now. So it says it's pretty crazy. So in Congress, I got here and very few people knew much, very few elected office holders knew much about crypto. And I was new on the financial services committee and, uh, you know, kind of started that kind of army ranger business guy, the business guy, financial services also on foreign affairs. And, you know, that's, it's been a, it's been an interesting time to be in politics. Right. Oh yeah. Uh, well first thank you for your service. And, uh, it sounds like that wasn't, uh, just an incredible experience you had with the Berlin wall and so forth and being over there. Um, that must've been something, uh, life -changing it sounds like. Oh yeah. And look, I mean, the military offers a great opportunity for so many people. I mean, it's not a perfect fit for everybody for me. I just love that I got to be a part of it and it turned out phenomenally well for me, but it really is, uh, a great, a great thing to do and, you know, a lot of phenomenal people they'd go in and give a portion of their lives in service. And then unfortunately for frankly, some of my friends and others, they give their full life, um, you know, lost in combat or occasionally a training accident or something, but, you know, it's a serious commitment, but it is really cool that I had the chance to do it. Wow. Um, so let's talk about, uh, some of the work you've done in the crypto legislation front, because I remember as far as I can remember, uh, I, the token taxonomy act being maybe the first crypto legislation, and you can correct me if I'm wrong there, but, um, you know, tell us about the history of the different bills and things you've worked on. Yeah. So when I first got to the committee, you know, it was January of 2017 and, you know, you remember 2017 was like the ICO market people like, oh, you know, I could just write a white paper and kind of skip everything. And there were really good use cases, people trying to do things honestly. And then unfortunately there were just some outright pump and dump scams where people were being taken advantage of. And I'm like, where's the sec. You should be cracking down on these scammers and, uh, you know, they weren't really, you know, reacting well. They didn't really know who was going to do what. So there was this void and, you know, I was trying to get hearings on this subject and you, as the new guy, you don't get to choose which hearing. So this goes all the way into 2018. And, uh, we really couldn't get focused as a committee on the issue. Uh, so I was like, well, I can at least have a meeting. I mean, we won't be able to call it a hearing, so we'll have a meeting. And we did this thing at the library of Congress and it started out with a goal of getting about a dozen people together. And by the end, we had to cap it at 50 and like, people were like, oh, I want to send my CEO and I want to send my general counsel on, you know, we had some of the biggest names in, in, uh, not just crypto, but, you know, venture capital, you know, the New York stock exchange fidelity state street, I mean, you name it, any Andreessen Horowitz, you name it, the big players, we also are like, look, we got to have some startup companies and some founders that no one's ever even heard of some of those kind of knowing that still is heard of. They kind of went away. Uh, but a lot of them have really turned into some of the biggest names in crypto over time. And it was just an interesting conversation. So the goal was this listening to everybody and say, well, how, if we're looking at a tree, how far up can we go before everybody's interest starts diverging and branching out in a different way? And we want to kind of go up to that first level of branches and say, this is the consensus. If you solve these things, uh, you could provide a really difference making piece of legislation. So that was the token taxonomy act. Darren Soto, a Democrat from Florida, and I led the bill and man, think how different crypto would be if we had passed that bill in like 2018.
Unchained
A highlight from Heres How Sam Bankman-Frieds High-Stakes Trial Could Play Out - Ep 549
"Even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever, it's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is it'll probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Hi everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full time. This is the September 29th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Thinking of launching your own stable coin? Start with the open source stable coin studio toolkit on Hedera. Start your journey at Hedera .com slash Unchained. Shape tomorrow today. With the crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code Laura. Link in the description. Arbitrum's leading layer two scaling solution offers you ultra cheap and lightning fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's guest is Nick Day, Coindesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. Welcome, Nick. Thanks for having me. The trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried starts next Tuesday, October 3rd. There's been a lot happening pre -trial. For instance, Sam has requested release from jail multiple times and repeatedly been denied, including as recently as Thursday morning. My personal thought was that it seemed like all these requests that the defense was putting in at this critical juncture right before the trial was supposed to begin was maybe not the best use of their time, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm not a lawyer. Why do you think they made this such a point of focus in the last few days? Yeah, so I'm actually coming, you know, I was in the courthouse just a few hours ago where this very issue was brought up and the defense's arguments were, well, the first time we asked, it was for pre -trial release. You know, this was right after Bankman -Fried was remanded into custody in mid -August. The second time was, you know, they were asking the appeals court to overrule the judge's decision to remand him. And they lost that as well. In court today, the defense said, well, you know, now we want to ask for during trial, which is why we waited until this week to make that request. And they say that they want to, you know, the circumstances are different. They're not asking for Bankman -Fried to be released from jail in the weeks leading up to trial. Now they're saying, well, you know, during the trial, we're going to have to talk to him and check with him about defense witness testimony and cross -examination and things like that. So that's why we're making this request. And the judge didn't really find that compelling. And why do you think the judge has stuck to this position of keeping Bankman -Fried in jail? So in the judge's words, there's a couple of different reasons. One being that Bankman -Fried has had ample time to look at the defense materials. You know, one of the arguments was there are something like 1300 exhibits expected over the course of the trial. And the judge asked today, you know, were these all prepared and shared with you before, I think he said September 8th, so earlier this month. And the defense, they said, yes, we've seen all of this. We've had access to all of this. Bankman -Fried was out on bail for about seven and a half months. And so the judge's argument is, well, he's had time to look at this. You know, there's no surprises here. And he said that the defense has the chance to talk with Bankman -Fried in the Metropolitan Detention Center, where he's currently being housed weekends during days that there are no trials. So, you know, the trial is not every weekday. It's going to be most weekdays. And he said, you know, you have the time, you have the opportunity, you are able to talk to your client. You're not really losing a whole lot. But he added kind of a, you know, made this ruling where Bankman -Fried will even be presented to the courthouse early on trial days where there's certain witness testimony that has to be discussed and let the attorneys just talk to him before the trial begins on those days. So he's saying basically, you know, you have opportunities to talk to your client and I'm going to give you, you know, more time to do so, but I'm not going to let Bankman -Fried out of jail. So the main focus next week as the trial begins will be jury selection. Tell us what you think that process will be like. It definitely will be interesting. I think it's probably going to be very boring from just kind of an observer perspective because it's a long process and we're going to be just sitting there watching this judge ask each individual, you know, have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Bankman -Fried? What do you think about cryptocurrencies? But it's going to be very interesting because this is the part where we're 12 or so people who are going to determine whether or not Bankman -Fried spends the next, you know, 10 to 20 years of his life behind bars. And so I'm expecting to see maybe as mixed selection. I think if you pluck a random group of New Yorkers off the streets, some of them may have heard of cryptocurrency, most of them probably will not have, and they're going to be tasked with deciding whether or not one of the biggest figures in crypto committed fraud on the way up and on the way down. Something that was interesting to me was the prosecution said that they expected jury selection to take the better part of a day. I've seen some legal opinions that it will take longer than that. What do you think could potentially happen there and why do you think some analysts are saying that it would take longer? Yeah, no, I've spoken to a number of lawyers as well ahead of the trial, you know, where at Coindes we're trying to do a lot of kind of preview coverage, basically saying here's how it might go down. Everyone I spoke to said it will probably take a couple of days. Part of that is because this is a fairly notorious case. A lot of people will have heard about Bankman Fried and presumably formed some kind of opinion that would, you know, disqualify them from being a juror on the trial. I'm not sure where the DOJ is getting their estimate from. It's very possible that, you know, through the questionnaires that the jury pool is sent through the, you know, the kind of the mass selection process or deselection process that the judge engages in, maybe that streamlines a big part of it by kind of, you know, reducing or like immediately filtering out the people who are most blatantly, you know, either knowledgeable or biased or otherwise have their own preformed viewpoints about the case. And so the jury selection might just be focused on, you know, those individuals who have made it through those initial filtering processes. But that's speculation on my part. I honestly am not sure if it is a better part of the day that we could see opening statements as soon as, you know, next Wednesday, October 4th, which would be a pretty rapid start to the trial. And Coindesk did some work to try to suss out what it is that lower Manhattan New Yorkers might say if they were randomly picked for a jury. What did you discover there? Yeah, no, so Coindesk's Dylan and Victor went to Manhattan, downtown Manhattan to the financial district, and literally just went up to people and said, hey, we're with Coindesk. Have you heard of FTX? Have you heard of Sam Bankman -Fried? And a fairly large part of this group just hadn't heard about it. You know, they weren't familiar with it. They weren't comfortable talking about crypto. They weren't familiar with crypto. And of those who were, you know, I think they found a fairly even mix. There were some individuals who had heard about Bankman -Fried, some individuals who had only heard about crypto, some individuals who were very knowledgeable. They actually found a, you know, a Yahoo anchor who was the most knowledgeable about it naturally as, you know, order covering the financial space. But they also found people who were looking for jobs in crypto, people who were investors in the space. By and large, it seems to, you know, a lot of the people they spoke to just weren't interested or talking, interested in talking about crypto or in, you know, being part of this, being part of crypto. So if that is a representative sample of who we'll see next week at the jury pool, it'll be interesting because we'll see a large, potentially large, jury pool of people who aren't familiar with crypto. Again, on one of the biggest, you know, bang in on one of the biggest figures in the space. Recently, the defense proposed certain questions that it would ask the jurors and the government said that they felt these were quote unquote intrusive. What were some of the questions that were proposed and what was the government's response? Yeah. So, you know, the background here is both the DOJ and the defense team filed their proposed jury questions to help filter potential jurors. The defense team in particular had a number of questions about, you know, how these potential jurors felt about things like effective altruism, about political donations, about ADHD and people who have ADHD. And the DOJ response was really, you know, they felt that some of these questions, for example, about effective altruism and about political donations seemed kind of primed to, or designed to prime the potential jurors to think, oh, well, Bankman Fried was trying to do all of this in service of this effective altruism philosophy. Therefore, he was trying to raise money to donate to better the world or designed to try and prime the jury to think, okay, well, you know, political donations is fine. So these allegations about breaking the law in the way he tried to donate funds maybe is, you know, overreach or whatever. And in the intrusive part, you know, treating just kind of this question of ADHD and whether or not people were, you know, involved with individuals who had it or the DOJ just felt that these questions were really designed to try and shape how the jury would see Bankman Fried as opposed to just kind of gauge their existing biases. And so the DOJ opposed these questions and I think we're still waiting to see for sure if there's any public response on the judge prior to jury selection on Tuesday. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about different legal strategies that the defense might pursue. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Arbitrum stands at the forefront of innovation as the premier suite of Layer 2 scaling solutions, bringing you lightning fast transactions at a fraction of the cost, all with security rooted on Ethereum. From DeFi to gaming, Arbitrum 1 plus Nova is home to over 500 projects. And with the recent launch of Orbit, Arbitrum welcomes you to build your very own tailor -made Layer 3 or an Orbit chain. Propel your project and community forward by visiting arbitrum .io today. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's easy -to -use token grant award templates, vesting tracking via online dashboard, tax withholding integration with payroll, automated distributions, great employee experience. Make it simple with Toku. Learn more at toku .com. Looking to venture into the world of stablecoins? Explore the open -source stablecoin studio toolkit on Hedera. Whether you're building the next big thing in Web3 or an enterprise banking and payment provider, Stablecoin Studio simplifies stablecoin issuance and management, keeping you at the forefront of on -chain finance. With seamless integration into commercial custody providers and KYC services and built -in proof of reserve functionality, Stablecoin Studio streamlines development and time to market. Harness the power of stablecoins by visiting hedera .com slash unchained. Back to my conversation with Nick. Recently, the defense did propose a number of witnesses, but the judge denied most of them. Who were these proposed witnesses and why were they denied? Yeah, so the DOJ and defense both had a number of proposed expert witnesses. The defense in particular had a number of individuals that they said could speak to everything from the terms of service that FTX operated under to the FTX software to just rebutting certain DOJ witnesses. The judge basically said he agreed with the DOJ in rejecting all of these proposed witnesses. There were seven. He did allow the defense to call for four of them later on, but they have to meet certain requirements and fill out certain disclosure forms first. A big part of the judge's reasoning was the witnesses had just not adequately explained what they wanted to testify about or what they would say, and so they didn't have or he didn't have enough information to allow them to testify, which was functionally the DOJ's argument as well. That being said, some of these proposed witnesses are intended to act as rebuttal witnesses to DOJ's witnesses. I know we're saying the word witnesses a lot, but that's what it comes down to is four of these witnesses could come back and respond to, you know, either FTX intercircle members who are testifying on behalf of the DOJ. One of the potential witnesses that the defense can call forward is someone who can speak to the actual technical software underlying the, you know, FTX program, again, in response to DOJ witnesses. The judge did completely ban, for example, a British barrister who was supposed to explain the FTX terms of service as well as someone who was supposed to speak to kind of the crypto industry at large, saying that, you know, those witnesses and that proposed testimony seemed a bit too far afield from what the case would be about and could probably do more to confuse the jury than to clarify anything. And SPF's team also wanted to block a proposed government witness that was also denied. Who was that and why did the judge deny that motion? The DOJ proposed a University of Notre Dame professor to testify about some forensic analysis he did on FTX financials. The defense objected. They said that this witness would basically just reiterate the DOJ's claims, the allegations, but the DOJ argued that he was doing his own analysis of the data he had access to. And so it wouldn't just be stating the DOJ's claim. He would be providing his own expert insight based on his own work, you know, examining the databases that he had access to. And the judge agreed with that and said that based on what he'd saw and based on what the witness disclosure had provided, the witness was likely just speaking to his own expertise and looking at actual data as a third -party expert witness might do. And so those witnesses are allowed right now. We're still waiting on the full and final witness list, but we now know that there are probably at least a dozen witnesses that we're going to hear from over the next six weeks. And who are the ones that stick out to you on that list? I think the cooperating witnesses, so the FTX inner circle, that's former Alameda Research CEO Carolyn Ellison, former FTX director for engineering Nishat Singh and Gary Wang. I forget which one of them was the director of engineering. The other one was a fellow executive, but you know, these are the three individuals I think we're going to hear from probably first, maybe. Might hear from them as soon as next week, not certainly the week after. They're the ones who were in it, right? They were involved in this. They were part of FTX. They were part of the highs. I think we're going to probably hear from them, you know, how FTX might've fallen apart. I know from court filings, we know that DOJ wants to ask Carolyn Ellison about the FTT token and allegations that Sandbank and Freed was directly involved in trying to argue for Alameda to take a large sum of it and to potentially allegedly manipulate the price. So I think that testimony is going to be really interesting just because, again, it's the firsthand account of what happened. We're also probably going to see the defense try and discredit these witnesses to the extent possible, right? Straight out of the gate saying, well, you know, you weren't threatened with jail if you didn't testify in turn against your former boss. So I imagine we're just going to hear arguments like that from the defense during cross -examination, but either way, I think this is going to, you know, those are the three witnesses I think we're looking forward to most right now. And then once we're past that kind of initial surge of FTX insiders, that's when we'll get to kind of more, I don't because I don't think that is the right word for it, but, you know, people who are looking at it from kind of the, you know, again, forensic analysis perspective, people who are going to be able to kind of dig through and say, all right, well, you know, we've looked through the smoking remains and here's what we found. And I think that will also be interesting because it'll be really a third -party perspective on, you know, here's how this thing was set up and here's where things may have gone wrong or here's where things may have fallen apart. And getting a third -party perspective on that I think is going to be really fascinating because there'll be, I assume, a bit more objective about it than, you know, people who built it and worked on it maybe could be. One other kind of motion that happened this week that was pretty interesting or development, I should say, is that the judge did allow SPF's team to ask some of the witnesses about their drug use. What do you think will be the significance of that line of questioning? I think that goes back to, you know, a witness, cooperating FTX inner circle member saying, while we were at FTX, Sam directed us to manipulate FTT, whatever, you know, just speculating what someone could say. And the defense comes back and says, well, you know, are you sure that's what he said? Were you high at the time of these conversations or were you engaged in recreational drug use during the time you were running this company? You know, if I'm a member of the jury and I hear, okay, well, everyone was partying and on drugs and doing weird stuff or, you know, potentially, you know, in an altered state of mind, that might shape how I view the, you know, the defendant, the verdict, the whole case. So the judge did say that prior to making those, you know, kind of questions, the defense has to notify the prosecution and the judge about it. So it's not going to be a case of like they'll blindside the witnesses about this, but I imagine that's going to kind of go back to this effort to try and say like, okay, you know, Bankman Fried wasn't doing something wrong on his own or intentionally, it's just that things fell apart, but they were well -intentioned. The defense is going to attempt to, I think, pin some of the blame on legal advice that Bankman Fried received. How effective do you think that argument will be at trial? That's a really hard question to answer. I think the problem that the defense has is there's really no denying that FTX fell apart and it fell apart in like a very dramatic fashion, right? The day it filed for bankruptcy that evening, what, a couple hundred million dollars or tens of millions of dollars worth of crypto was stolen, I think. I forgot the exact amount, but you know, it was a pretty dramatic way to cap off what was already a chaotic week. So the problem the defense has is they can't say, well, FTX is fine. And so they're leaning on this advice of counsel defense. Their argument is going to be, you know, Bankman Fried was well -intentioned. He told his lawyers everything he wanted to do, and he did everything they told him to do. And so because it all fell apart, you can't really pin that on Bankman Fried. You have to look at the advice he was given and the information he was acting on. And so I guess part of the problem that the defense might have here is did they share or did Bankman Fried share everything he wanted to do with his attorneys? Did the attorneys have all the information and did he do exactly everything the way his attorneys told him to? And I don't know, you know, I'm sure we'll see answers to those questions over the next, you know, six weeks or so, but that seems to be kind of how that might play out. And it's going to be an interesting argument for sure. But again, I think it goes down to the central problem of FTX for sure collapsed and how you respond to that. One other issue is that the judge did rule that the prosecution could mention SPF's political donations. And there are charges specifically related to that that will be tried in a separate trial next year. So why were those allowed in this case? So this is where we get into what has become one of the new fun parts of being a court reporter in this case is Bahamas extradition treaties. So the original indictment that Bankman Fried was charged with back in December of 2022 did include campaign finance violations as one of the charges. But because it did not appear in the charging document that the Bahamas Police Department had, there's a Bahamas National Police, something like that, Bankman Fried's defense team successfully argued that they could not bring that charge right now because he had agreed to be extradited on the first seven charges, which were wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and bodies fraud, et cetera. So what it seems like is going to happen is the prosecution is going to try and fold all of that into all the political donation stuff into the other charges, into the wire fraud charges, and say, well, you know, we have the evidence, we have the allegations, and here's what you have to look at what that means for the next trial. And, you know, you're absolutely correct. There is another trial currently tentatively scheduled for either March or April 2024, next spring, either way, where we will be going through all of this again. But a lot of that is dependent on the Bahamas. And yeah, we could probably talk about that for another hour if you wanted to. All right. Well, we'll leave that for another episode. But one thing I did want to ask about is earlier in this interview, you said that his sentence was likely to be in the range of 10 to 20 years. And obviously, you know, there's many charges and we don't know which ones he'll be found guilty of and which ones he won't. But how are you coming up with that estimate? So yeah, I should definitely be more precise there. So I personally am not a lawyer or an expert in this. I have spoken to a number of lawyers about this. And what they said is, if you have a defendant who is found guilty, so these assumption here is that he is convicted on at least one of these charges. But if he's found guilty on even several of the charges, because all of the conduct is similar, because it's all kind of identical conduct at the core, a judge, when making a sentencing determination, will basically fold all the charges into each other, right? All the conduct. And so even though each of these charges, if you look at the DOJ, press release says, oh, it contains a maximum sentence of 20 years or five years, whatever. It's not going to be consecutive. It'll be concurrent. So the estimate I'm getting from various attorneys that I've spoken to over the past few weeks is probably be somewhere in the, you know, 10 to 20 year range. Some estimates came down as low as five years, some as many as 36 years. But they all seem to base that on just kind of the allegations, the charges themselves combined with the amount of money allegedly lost, which is more than 50 million, combined with the severity and all of that. Yeah. And so 50 million is sort of like some thresholds because I think it goes in levels of severity. Yeah. And the higher the number goes, the longer the sentence. However, that's the largest threshold, obviously. Yeah. I literally looked up the federal sentencing guidelines, which by the way, is a very confusing document. I did not understand it. So I asked someone else to explain it to me, but yeah, it's the different thresholds that you mentioned. And it starts with the, I think the thousands range and then just kind of escalates up and 50 million seems to have been the uppermost that they had. So it's 50 million plus. I think the allegation is something like 10 billion loss from FTX. So 10 billions, a hair more than 50 million. Just as many multiples. So that will probably be kind of the way they calculate it, probably. And again, this is dependent on if he's convicted on one or more charges and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well, we will have to see how all that plays out. Thank you so much for explaining all of this on Unchained. Thanks for having me again. Always great to talk to you. Yes. Same here. Don't forget next up is the weekly news recap today presented by veteran crypto reporter and Columbia University night budget fellow, Michael Del Castillo. Stick around for this week in crypto after this short break. Join over 80 million people using crypto .com. One of the easiest places to buy, trade and spend over 250 cryptocurrencies.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 4
"But the at end, they're going to be like, hey, count one. What do you say? Guilty, not guilty. Count two, guilty, not guilty. And I don't know, push comes to shove. I don't know what those elements that are going to stand out at trial that sway jurors are going to be, but to Mark Litt's point, you might only need one person to say, I'm not convinced. And the advice of counsel stuff is tricky because according to the filings going back and forth, there are big differences between if you tell a lawyer, go and handle this for me, and the lawyer commits a crime, versus if the lawyer was just in the room when you discussed committing a crime and you took their silence as implicit endorsement of the legality of your actions, that does not hold up in court. There are specific precedents that say you can't get away with that. So again, those three deputies that may have been in the room with Sam and his lawyers from the firm Fenwick and what is it, Fenwick and West, or Ryan Miller who has a past at Sullivan and Cromwell, or Dan Friedberg, who was the top lawyer at FTX for a long time, testimony from all of these people and the exact phrasing and intentionality of what was in the room could end up being important. I mean, I think all of that will end up being important for sure, one way or the other, depending on how much is allowed to be discussed at trial. If Judge Kaplan says, yeah, I'll let you try it, then yeah, maybe some of it starts to appear. But I do think that was interesting because to your question on how much has changed since we started digging into Sam's defense, given what he's provided to us directly, there wasn't a lot of mention about Fenwick and West. There was way more about Sullivan and Cromwell and this idea of, hey, you promised me a lot of things before I turned this company over to John Ray, your chosen hand -picked successor to me. And then he turned around and chose Solcrom, that's now on pace to make almost a billion dollars through all this. And that as a defense kind of, again, you can start to see the pieces come together. As Marklet told us, on the other side, the government wants to include the bankruptcy facts, the facts at FTX eventually because of all of these things wound up in bankruptcy with a huge hole, is because of all the things that came before it and it completes their story. I think it's kind of interesting that we didn't see, I mean, he mentions Fenwick and West in here, but what he filed in his idea of advice of counsel leans way more in that direction than anything against John J. Ray and Sullivan and Cromwell. So I think that that's kind of, if you think about my discussion with him as a snapshot in time of his defense at that moment before he's in jail to where kind of the advice of counsel argument is moving now, I don't know if that like completes his story to kind of use the parallel grading metric. And if you're a juror, I don't know if the big bad boogeyman of my quote unquote lawyers told me I was fine. I don't know. But I don't think it's as neatly presented that way. So will it hold up? I don't know. But those are essentially the two pillars. And then the third one's not even really a defense in the courtroom at all, which is, hey, CZ wasn't exactly helping me out here when he triggered a bank run on FTX. And that also should be talked about, which I think actually probably should be talked about, which is why we talked about it in this series. But looking ahead, Abrams, when you think about what is to come and how these are going to go, as we discussed, 150 years for Bernie Madoff. For Sam, he's facing seven counts. And how the jury rules on it could determine some things. Right. I've heard a theoretical maximum penalty of 115 years. That's what the Justice Department said back in December, I believe. And you think about good behavior, bad behavior, sentencing, and how all this is going to go past whatever convictions happen.
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: Coinbase Crashes DC | Gary Grilled By Congress | Vitalik Deepfakes
"Miss Wagner is like, yo, MIT version of Gary was pro -blockchain, but SEC Gary is anti -blockchain. And then Richie Torres is like, yo, it's a Pokemon card of security? These people are listening to crypto Twitter. They are like, these are our things. The power of crypto Twitter is like getting into Congress. Well, it's because it's distilled logic. I mean, Bankless Nation, it is the last Friday of September. David, what time is it? It's the Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup Ryan where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor, yet we persevere nonetheless into the frontier this week with a bunch of clips of Gary getting grilled. So everyone, everyone prepare for that one. If you're not listening to this with coffee, because it's too late in the day, well then you should get your popcorn, because that is what you will need. I mean, this is a catharsis, I think, for many of you in this episode. You'll enjoy this very much. Also, crypto was present in Washington this week. Yeah, Coinbase's stand with crypto day was held at Capitol Hill the same day that Gensler was giving testimony in front of Congress. Convenient. What about the timing of that? David, what else we got? After that, we'll talk about pudgy penguins in Walmart landing a huge deal, a ton of distribution for pudgy penguins, also with each toy purchase having an on -chain identity on ZKSync. So we'll talk about that. And then after, also not only are penguins getting identity, but citizens of Buenos Aires perhaps also getting some on -chain presence as well. We'll talk about that. And then, of course, we're going to do the PSA of deepfakes and phishing attacks that are out there. We got a Vitalik deepfake that we want to show you. It's pretty hilarious, but not if you believe it. Notable VC Fred Wilson got phished for 40 NFTs this week. So if Fred Wilson can get phished, so can you. We will talk about this and more. What else we got, Ryan? You know, the usual Bitcoin ETF stuff. ETH might be getting futures. There's a ton to talk about every week. This is a bullish week, I think. I'm declaring it such, David. It is a bullish week. And we got some green candles when we get to the markets. But before we get in, David, we got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Layer Zero. What do they want the folks at home to know? They want you to know that after a year, over a year of combined effort, Layer Zero and Google Cloud have announced their partnership, and they are ready to build the interoperable cross -chain apps of the future. What is Layer Zero? Of course, Layer Zero is a set of smart contracts that are deployed on every single chain. These smart contracts connect to each other. How do they connect to each other? Well, they need some Oracle service in the center to be the chatterboxes, the passing messages between all of the Layer Zero smart contracts across all of the 50 different chains. Google Cloud is that new default Oracle. That is the partnership that they have created. So there is a link in the show notes for you to go explore more if you're a builder who wants to build on Layer Zero. LayerZero .network is also the URL. Well, you know what I want to learn more about this week, David, is markets. Tell me about the old markets. I think, I think, I haven't looked at this yet, but I think we got some green on the week. We got some green, dude. Let's look at the Bitcoin charts first. What's Bitcoin showing us? Some single digit green. Look at that green right on the right. That's your dose of dopamine for this week. It's like, whoo, Bitcoin up 2%, whopping 2%. Started the week at 26 ,600, ending the week at, well, Thursday morning, if you call it the end of the week. It's not the end of the week. 27 ,150, up 2%. Ether price up a little bit more, starting the week at 1660, up 4 .5 % to the current price, excuse me, starting the week at 1560, ending the week at right around 1660, where we are right now. 1660. I mean, it's still low. That is a low price. We are getting excited about very little right now. Yeah. It's up such a small degree, you shouldn't even be excited about this. And yet we are. Yeah, we are. 4 .5 % on the week, I'll tell you. It's better than flat. When's the last time we had a double digit week, man? Double digit up or down? Up. I can't remember either, actually. We've been in the flatlands for so long. It's just like kind of a little bit of a bleed out all the way from 1900. Weren't we over 2000 a few weeks ago? Yeah, we have touched over 2000 in this bear market, but man, it certainly doesn't feel like it. Last time we were at 2K was July. In July, briefly. We weren't at 2K. Yeah, I can't remember July. Well, I was in the mountains. It's been downhill ever since I caught back for the mountains. Yeah, it really was. It's been all downhill since you guys. The only thing you can do, David, is go to the mountains. Bad things happen to Gary Gensler when you go to the mountains. Although, I guess nothing bad happened to him this week. Anyway, I'm skipping too far ahead. We'll have our Gary later in the episode. ETH, Bitcoin, up 2%. Total crypto market cap, $1 .11 trillion. Layer 2 scaling factor, touched 6 % this week, down to 5 .5%. Still at all -time highs. Layer 0. Wait, what touched 6 %? Excuse me, not 6%. Total value loss? 6x. 6x is what I meant. Oh, activity. That's what you like to look at. Yes, layer 2 activity touched 6x of Ethereum, but now it's at 5 .69. Nice. 60 transactions per second, 64 transactions per second. Yeah, that's where we get the 6x. We got more transactions per second left in this tank, I think. Oh, yeah. David, you want to talk about the general markets, like all the TradFi markets? You want to talk about macro really quick, because it's been super confusing to me. It's been super confusing. And then I read this tweet. We're also doing a macro show on Tuesday as well. So a macro show, so talking about the state of macro from a crypto person, so it's a crypto person who understands macro, so I'm really excited for that show. Are you a crypto person that understands macro, David? Do you understand macro? When I have a smarter macro person with me, then yes, I understand macro. My question to you is, does anybody really understand macro, particularly right now? Oh, you mean current snapshot? Definitely not. Yeah, all right. So here's the tweet. Current situation. One, stocks are falling like a recession is coming. Two, oil prices are rising like there's no recession in sight. That's contradictory. Three, interest rates are rising like we have 10 % inflation. Yes, they are. Four, gold is falling like inflation is gone. Five, housing prices are rising like rates are falling. And six, commercial real estate is falling like it's 2008. Nothing adds up here. That's the way I feel about macro right now. It's very confusing. There is a confusing set of signals going on, and it's not adding up in my head. What do you think about this? Yeah, they follow through, and they say it's beginning to feel like a pivot point in sentiment. I don't know if I'm about to say what I think they are meaning by this, but when there's a bunch of confusion, people, I think, brace for something, brace for clarity, and then whatever that clarity is will define sentiment. Where are we going? We don't know. As soon as we find out, we'll know how we feel about it. But we know it's going to be different from here. Different good or different bad? Those are the only two directions. Yeah, I guess that's the reductive take about it. But it's basically like we don't really know. That's why I'm very interested in doing this macro episode next week to see what the newest macro person kind of knows. I will say one thing, though. I think volatility is back on the menu. I think that's what this means. Because when the market doesn't know what direction it's going to go in, then it can kind of lurch in one direction or the other. So weird macro climate right now. On the back of stimulus, on the back of money printing, like what's going on here? And just to be clear about something, we've previously talked about stocks being at all time highs. That's been kind of the theme of the last two months, I would say. Well, so from looking at the SPY, you don't have the chart up, but it has declined by 7 % since July. So the SPY is down 7%, which is more. That goes to the first bullet point. Stocks are falling like a recession is coming up. I don't know. It's down 7%, just doesn't feel like a lot to me. Well, in the trade market, 7 % is a lot historically, but not recently. 7 % in the trade market is actually, that's just like, trade markets are also volatile. OK, well, we'll try to make sense of this, but let's get back to crypto. This is a negative report from JP Morgan, who said, Ethereum's activity post -Shanghai that was the last hard fork back in March, has been disappointing. JP Morgan calling Ethereum's progress disappointing. They've got some reasons for this. While the shift from proof of work to proof of stake meant that the energy consumption from Ethereum collapsed by 99%, the Ethereum supply is shrinking and staking rose sharply by 50 % since the Shanghai upgrade. While that happened, the increase in network activity has been rather disappointing. Ethereum's daily transactions, daily active addresses, and total value locked on DeFi protocols on the network have all experienced declines since the last hard fork. So JP Morgan, their analysts expressing some bearishness here over the last six months or so. Yes. I'm not mad, just disappointed with that activity. My response to that is, who the hell are you? JP Morgan doesn't know how to analyze these things. Well, I don't know. Ethereum post -Shanghai activity, it's just the broader crypto downturn. And also, they're just wrong, JP Morgan, he is wrong. They say layer twos have displayed mixed results. Well, no, TVL and economic activity on layer twos across the board are all up. I don't know where the hell they're getting their data from, but not only is their data wrong, but their analysis is poor. Well, let's go to the actual numbers, Stephen. Layer two beat provides a good source for value locked on layer twos. What are we looking at? At the 180 -day time frame, it's basically flat. It's marginally up, it's basically flat. It's a flat TVL, $10 .5 billion. Activity is up, it's up so much. It's unequivocally up by a lot. I'm disappointed in JP Morgan. Wow. Have you ever been not disappointed with JP Morgan, David? I'm generally disappointed by banking in general. Really? You should start a podcast called Bankless, David, about escaping your bank over time, slowly. I think Vance Spencer put that tweet in perspective as well. Actually, I don't think he was responding to that tweet in particular. But we are. We got some perspective here from Vance Spencer. This is Ethereum, if you chart it against some of the fastest growing tech companies in human history, companies like Alphabet was Google, of course, and Meta or Zoom or Microsoft, and how quickly, over time, it took them to surpass $10 billion in revenue. How long did it take them? It took Ethereum seven years. When charted against these other tech companies, there's only one that did that faster, and that is Google. Yeah. Ethereum really did all of its $10 billion of revenue inside of 2020 to 2023. I mean, so look at this line. It's just kind of like a slope line up. So I mean, doing pretty well, all things considered, JP Morgan. Not disappointing. I'm not disappointed by this. And I'm not disappointed. Also, long -term perspective, not disappointed in the price of ETH over the last seven years either. And we can keep going. Uniswap this week hit 300 million in swaps. 300 unique million trades, swaps, has happened on Uniswap. Uniswap was invented in 2019. 300 million swaps since 2019. Is that disappointing? Is that disappointing? I'm not disappointed by that in the slightest. I feel great about that. Maintain my disappointment about JP Morgan. You know, I think it's part of a broader crypto sentiment, and I've seen a lot of takes just in general in news, but even in financial analyst news like JP Morgan research, that sort of thing. It comes back down to this, David. Mainstream thinks that crypto is dead, again, like always. This always happens. And this is what makes this a buying opportunity, as with previous cycles. And when crypto 10x's the next cycle, don't let anybody tell you you didn't earn it. Because if you're buying here, when everyone is saying crypto is dead, it's never coming back. That they're disappointed. That's how you earn. It's so easy. The signals are just being laid at our feet right now. They really are. I tweeted something like that out, and somebody responded with this life cycle. What are we looking at here? Yeah, just like the cycle of the bull bear market. So in the top of the bull market, some crypto friend of you will tell you, a bankless listener, you're so lucky. I wish that I bought two. And then the crypto market will go down and be like, you're an idiot. I told you crypto was a scam. Yeah, so especially when they say the words disappointing, it's such an emotional word. It's kind of just playing into the readership. I don't know if JP Morgan is about that game. I mean, we're in the stage of the cycle where everyone thinks you're an idiot. And they told you it was a scam. And you can't talk about crypto at your family events or parties because you're just the crypto moron who knows nothing. And ha, ha, ha, SPF, FTX, that's so stupid. Scams, frauds, NFTs are such a joke. Well, granted, some of those things are actually true. Sure, sure. But if you're still in crypto and you know why you're here. And you're no longer buying the scams because you can identify them. And then you'll swing back to like, I am a genius. I am amazing. I am lucky. Or third parties will say you're lucky when that happens and you'll feel like a genius. You've been chewing glass for three years, but you know, you got lucky, though. You got lucky. How about the Bitcoin ETF, David? Here's a tweet from James Seyfert. What's this about? He just says that the SEC has come out super early and delayed the ARK Invest and 21 shares Bitcoin ETF filing. There wasn't a decision due until November 11th. And typically up until recently, the SEC has always gone up right up until the buzzer. But they decided to delay their decision on this earlier than usual. You know why? Partially? It's some speculation. It's because the government's about to shut down. The U .S. government's about to shut down. That's on Monday, right? On Monday? Yeah. So apparently if by Sunday night, this Sunday night, Congress doesn't reach some sort of compromise resolution, whatever agreement to keep the government running, then it shuts down yet again. I mean, how many times have we been through this? And so this is the SEC just getting ahead of that so that the stuff doesn't expire while the government shut down. And I guess, I don't know what would happen if the government shut down and these deadlines were missed. But maybe they would de facto be approved. I think that could be how it works. Is this some sort of pseudo oracle about how the SEC thinks that if we do go for a shutdown, we'll get shut down all the way until at least November 11th? I have no idea. I have no idea what this could mean. I do know this is good news. So Congress, both Democrats and Republican lawmakers, sent a letter to Gary Gensler pleading that he approve a spot Bitcoin ETF.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
"Coming up, Dame gets traded. Million dollar pick Seth Meyers, it's all next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. Get in on the football action right from the opening kickoff with America's number one sports book. The app is safe, secure, easy to use. FanDuel always has exclusive offers. When you win, you'll get paid instantly. FanDuel has lots of ways to play, like the spread, money line, over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during the game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game in a same game parlay. Download the FanDuel sports book app today. Make every moment more of this football season. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit TheRinger .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of this episode for additional details. You must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit TheRinger .com slash RG. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats. I just use this. Here's something every football fan should know. You can get everything you need for game day delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything because you can't get the dream flex for your fantasy team delivered with Uber Eats. But Tex -Mex, yeah, great pass protection, can't get it. Great pizza selection, oh yeah. While they can't help on the field, you can get pretty much everything else you need to watch the game delivered with Uber Eats. So this season, get anything, almost, almost anything for game day by ordering on the Uber Eats app. Uber Eats, official on -demand delivery partner of the NFL. Order now. I'll call in select markets and 21 plus to order. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Ministry of Evangelism
"Welcome to the Heart for God podcast. With many years of experience pastoring and helping to start churches, Dr. Jim Townsley has some practical and biblical advice that can be a great help to you and your ministry. On this podcast, Dr. Townsley and other guests with special expertise cover a variety of topics. His goal is to help you lead your church to be a healthy, strong, and balanced ministry, and for your family to be happy, healthy, and living for the Lord. Welcome to the podcast today. I'm glad that you joined us. I have with me here Brother Matt Barber, and he is an evangelist. He's been at our church since Sunday. This is now Wednesday, so he's had several opportunities to speak to us and preach the Word of God. Matt, it's good to have you with us this morning. Good to be here. It's a pleasure. So I want you to just say a little bit about your background, who you are, your family, what God has called you to do, and where you were before. Well, I was raised in a pastor's home. I had great opportunities to hear the gospel. I got saved as a child. When I was 16, the Lord finally got a hold of my heart, and I surrendered to him, and that's when I felt called to preach. I went on to Bible college. I went to Baptist College of Ministry up in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, back in the early days of the college there, and that's where I met my wife. So a lot of good things happened in those days. And then our first ministry was in Woodridge, Illinois, where I went there as an assistant pastor. So that's in the Chicago area? Yep, that's right, southwest suburbs of Chicago. And within six months, I found myself the pastor of the church, and we stayed there for 13 years. And you have family? Yes, sir. Yep. So my wife, Chelsea, and then we have five children, and so the Lord's blessed us richly. And the years at Woodridge were wonderful. We learned a lot. The church grew. It had been through a lot, and we were kind of in a re -establishing, rebuilding phase at the church. And then in 2018 and 2019, I began to feel the Lord stirring my heart towards evangelism, and that's where I felt called originally. And by 2021, the Lord finally gave us the green light, and we stepped out by faith. And so we've been traveling full -time now the last two years. So stepping out by faith is no small exaggeration, because for an evangelist, to get started, people don't know you, they don't know your name. So how does that all come about? How do you end up getting meetings? Well, that's a good question. When I first announced it to our church, they were shocked that we were moving on, but I felt that the church was ready for another hand at the till, so to speak. The church was established, and I guess they thought that I was going out into evangelism by popular demand, and that was not the case. I didn't have anything on the schedule, and I was just trusting the Lord. I expected to be working full -time or part -time as we got meetings lined up, but God and His mercy just allowed the meetings to come in. And they didn't come in all at once, but the Lord stayed ahead of us by three or four weeks or a month or two, and He just filled up our year. We found ourselves traveling two or three weeks a month, plus Sundays and Wednesdays here and there, different places that first year. This second year has been a lot more busy. We spent the whole summer just packed all the way through. We're out west and got to see some beautiful country. But the best thing is we've been seeing God's blessing and seeing God just confirm the step of faith with meetings and with fruit. Dr. Darrell Bock So you're traveling with your family. So you've got a pole -behind trailer, and you've got seven people in that thing. How do you live in that? David Jones Well, you know, the Lord already provided the Ford Excursion. That's right. It's a 2002 Excursion. It's the gas kind, the gas guzzler, but we already had the Excursion, and when the Lord was stirring us up to go, of course, the first question is, can we do this? And the first thought is, no, we can't do this. This is impossible. But then we began to look into it, and we found some pole -behind travel trailer options that would work for our family. In fact, we only found one option big enough that I could actually haul with our truck. And so it's got several slide -outs, and it has a lot of roomy space for the kids to sleep. I say roomy in relative terms, but it works for us. It's tight, but we've been doing fine the last couple of years. Dr. Darrell Bock So you've been a pastor. Now you're traveling as an evangelist. There's got to be a pretty good perspective you have. What is the difference in what are some of the things that people might be interested in, the difference between being a pastor and being on the road as an evangelist? David Jones Well, there's some stark differences, and I guess just going back to the root of it is there are two different gifts in the Bible. We have them listed in Ephesians, Chapter 4. Of course, you have the foundational gifts of the apostles and prophets. Those are no more because the foundation has been laid. But then it goes on to mention evangelists and then pastors and teachers, and I think pastor -teacher is kind of the one idea of pastoring and teaching a flock. So what is the evangelist? Well, if you think about it in the order of events, before you have a church, you have to have gospel preaching so people can be saved so you can have a church, right? So evangelist, an the word evangelist comes from the word evangel or gospel. So an evangelist preaches the gospel, but all of us do that, right? But it's a special gifting that focuses on the gospel. So as an evangelist, I think God gives a special desire, burden, boldness, or even I think also clarity in preaching the gospel so that people can understand. And that's not something to boast of, it's just something that God begins to reveal what your strengths are, what his giftings are. So evangelism is a pioneering gift. Oftentimes evangelists will plant churches, but that's not always the case. My older brother Nathan is a pastor. He planted a church. He would not call himself an evangelist, but he planted a church. So God can use different gifts for different things. I was an evangelist, but I was pastoring for 13 years. But the whole time, I knew I was an evangelist who was trying really hard to be a pastor. It's hard to explain that, but I knew that. But I'm thankful for that background so I could understand the ins and outs of being a pastor and how a church works. But an evangelist is a pioneering gift. You lay the foundation. But an evangelist can also be a restorative gift. I think of Paul. Obviously Paul was an apostle, but if you look at the way he traveled, he was trailblazing. And that's not something just an apostle can do. There were others who did that. In fact, when Paul and Barnabas split up, Barnabas took Mark, and he went off in a different direction doing the same thing that Paul was doing. So there were many who were traveling around in an itinerant way, preaching and laying new foundations through church planting. But then Paul continuously came back and had a desire to circle back and establish and strengthen the churches that he had been a part of. Well, that's itinerant work. I think in America we see a lot of the typical evangelist who travels itinerantly, preaches revival meetings. But that's not unfounded. There's a basis for that in Scripture. I just think the evangelist is more than a revival man. An evangelist can plant churches. An evangelist can go to the mission field. But I think there is a desire in evangelists to not only plant or lay a foundation, but then to be used of God to establish or to even bring an outside perspective that can help a church. And the pastor is there day in, day out. God uses that outside perspective and that special outside gifting to complement the pastor and to help the church grow. Dr. Darrell Bock So what would you say your goal is? As you go from church to church, what is your purpose and goal? What do you feel you want to accomplish by doing that? Dr. Mark Bock Well, a lot of evangelists focus on the word revival, and that's a good word. It's actually more of an Old Testament word, although we see the concept in the New Testament as well. But basically the way I look at it is churches need to thrive and new churches need to be started. My role in that would be to preach the gospel so folks can be saved. But then if I'm going back through established churches, then my goal is to see churches restored, revived to a place where they can grow again. And obviously individuals in that church being, to use another word, quickened. David talked about that. He says, quicken thou me according to thy word. And I think the evangelist can be used of the Lord to have God's power to open eyes, to quicken, to revitalize a church so they can grow. Not that he brings revival with him. Not that he has anything better than the pastor has. But it's a different gifting that complements the work of the pastor. Dr. Darrell Bock So a different train of thought here. From the perspective of a pastor, having an evangelist come into your church, how can a pastor best prepare to have an evangelist come, and how can he take care of him while he is there? Well, I mean, going back to Ephesians 4, they're called the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church, right? So the pastor, I think people see that clearly, the pastor is a gift to a church. If you have a pastor, you have a gift. God has gifted and blessed your church. But I think sometimes pastors forget that the evangelist is also a gift to the church. And there are many pastors now who aren't having evangelists for various reasons. And I would say they're robbing their church from a gift that God wants to give them. Not because the evangelist is so special, because it's a gift God designed for the health of the church. So knowing, seeing it as a gift that God has established, make room for it, you know, promote it.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Katy Faust
"Hey you, have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to The Eric Mataxas Show? Well welcome, tune in, and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Mataxas. Hey there folks, welcome. I'm excited to have back as my guest Katie Faust. Faust, Katie Faust. New book called Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Katie, welcome back. So good to be with you. You've got a nice little feature in my storyline of authoring. I didn't write my first book until you were like, Katie, you need to write a book. And I was like, I don't have time. And you're like, well, then your little global children's rights movement is going nowhere. And I was like, well, then I guess I write a book. So credit to you for getting Stacy and I into the official publishing world because we wouldn't have done it without your coercive prompting. Wow, that's terrific. Now, the problem is biblically you have to tithe unto me after the order of Melchizedek. That's biblical since I was the one behind this. And you are without genealogy and eternal, is that how this is working? Well, this is Salem radio, so I guess it all makes sense now. Oh, my God. Oh, that is creepy. The priest of Salem, Melchizedek. All right. I love the fact that tons of people are saying, what, what, what are you talking about? Read your Bibles, people. All right, I don't have time. So Faust, Katie you are your organization is called Them Before Us. Talk about that a little bit before we get into the new book. Yeah, well, I am really passionate about two things. One is when it comes to the changes in culture, law and technology that are taking place in our world today. I'm very passionate about don't touch the kids. Leave the kids alone when it comes to changes in marriage, family, parenthood, reproduction. And right now the world is looking at kids and they're like, those are accessories that I can cut and paste into any and every adult relationship. So the first book is about no children have a right to be known and loved by their mother and father. All adults need to conform to those rights. So whatever is going on in your personal life, leave the kids alone. But I'm also very passionate about something else, and that is leave my kids alone. Don't touch my kids. But that's very challenging because this culture is insane and it's absolutely after our kids. They are hell bent in destroying children's life, family, mind and body. And they do that highly and very effectively through indoctrination, whether that comes through the schools, whether it comes through social media, whether it comes through mainstream media, their friend group, sometimes infiltrating their churches. And so my co -author Stacey and I have written a book about how we have been able to raise collectively our seven kids between our two families in one of the most hostile, progressive cities in the world, Seattle, and largely sending them to public schools. And you can't capture our kids. Like we have been able to locate our worldview in our kids to the point where they can spot the lie. They can stand against the crowd and they can push back. Right. And look, there are a few things that need to be said. First of all, the fact that we are now at a point where the left, broadly defined, is coming after our kids. This is when you move from like mere leftism or from liberalism or whatever we called it in the past into full blown Marxism, cultural Marxism, where they say and they believe the family is the enemy of the state. They want to crush families. They want to divide children from their parents. They want to divide husbands from wives. They want to destroy the family because the family, like God, like people of faith, is their enemy. And so this is something that we need to recognize. It's a new iteration in the long march to the institutions. They have now gotten to a point where they're open about wanting to steal our children, steal our children's minds. And you're quite right. You know, the buck stops here. That's that's not going to happen. We will die as parents before we let you do that. And we will die happily. That's right. Children from these vile ideas. So your book, the new book is Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Now, I want to say there are other options, folks. You don't need to live in a woke city. Perhaps you don't need to send your kids to public school. You can homeschool your kids. I would say the first thing to anybody would be homeschool your kids. You know, go to Sam Sorbo, ask her how to do it. Everybody who says I'm not qualified to do it is totally qualified to do it. But what you're saying, Katie, is that even if you can't do that, even if you can't send your kids to a genuinely faith based traditional school, there is hope. Well, and the deal is like the woke is coming for your kids, even if you're homeschooling them, even if they're in a great private school, it is seeping into their world. I mean, I've got friends at great conservative Christian schools where the woke is infiltrating them as well, where kids are talking about being pansexual. You know, and it's a private Christian school. And I'm surrounded by homeschool kids who are awesome. And I love them. I'm currently running the youth ministry at our church and there's a lot of homeschooled kids. These kids are great. They're also battling these woke ideas. It is also infiltrating their world. So like you cannot bubble wrap your kids. And honestly, you should not try to bubble wrap your kids. There is an appropriate way to shelter your kids early on and then strategically expose them to these ideas. You, the parent, introduce them. You don't let the world introduce it to them. You introduce this in age appropriate ways, in developmentally appropriate stages. And that's what we do in the book is we kind of lay out sort of these stages of learning for kids what you need to be covering in each of these different phases, how to strategically make sure that you are getting to your kids first rather than letting the world introduce these concepts to your kids and thereby establishing yourself as the expert. And parents need to be doing this regardless of your zip code, regardless of how your kids are being schooled. You we all need to inoculate our kids against the woke virus. And if we can do it in Seattle with our kids going to public school, you can do it, too. Well, that's amazing. And listen, what you're saying is, is that, you know, when you say you can't bubble wrap your kids, the point is you want to let them understand why the ideas on the left are bad. Not just say that they're bad, but actually make them understand. No, no, no, no. They're actually bad. They're actually harmful. They're stupid. They're illogical. They're irrational. They're anti -human. They're inhuman. They are failed and failing and will fail. Our kids need to get that. So it's not just my parents believe that and they told me I have to believe that. No, no, no. It's actually true. It's like teaching your kid math. You know, then they can do it on their own. They don't they don't need you once they learn how to do it. So that's an important point to make. So the book is brand new folks raising conservative kids in a in a woke city. And I'd forgotten, Katie, that you lived in Seattle. Of course, I live in New York. And it needs to be said, you said it, but it needs to be said again and again that a lot of these places that we trusted, a Christian schools, Christian institutions, churches have themselves about the need to bail or are perfectly willing to go along with bowing the need to bail. A lot of the institutions that we once took for granted as on the good side have gone to the dark side. Christianity Today magazine completely gone over to the dark side. Campus Crusade, now called Crew, has opened the door to tons of bad ideas. The Gospel Coalition, which was once OK, has opened the door to tremendously pernicious ideas. And so it really does fall to us, the parents, to take this seriously and to understand it is our job. We can no longer entrust our kids to these to these places we once thought were safe. Well, and we talk about in the conclusion, like sometimes it feels like, what can I do? I don't have a huge platform. I'm not in political office. You know, I don't I'm not an author at any of these outlets. You actually have the most position as a parent. Do you understand the power of raising the next generation to embrace conservative ideas? And by that, we define conservatism as you're just recognizing historical, economic and biological reality. That is what conservatism is today. On team reality, folks, it's called reality. We believe in reality. That's right. It's no longer just return to the gold standard, you know, kind of people or or, you know. Hawks on foreign policy, it's like if you recognize that men and women are different, if you recognize that the free market is the best way to conduct ourselves in the economy, if you recognize that life begins at conception, if you recognize that, you know, we are defined by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. I mean, like if you recognize those things, you're a conservative. Welcome to the welcome. Welcome to the red pill, baby. And it's amazing. We have to go to a break. What's the website then before us? Then before us dot com is where you can keep up before us dot com. Katie Faust will be right back with the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. You've decided to stop shopping or doing business there. But did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your 401ks, IRAs and other investment accounts? Folks, this is a huge problem. And we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts, like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire advisors financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel today. Go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. That's inspire advisors dot com slash Eric advisory services are offered through Inspire Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor with the SEC. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver, no matter how small or large, with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM investments dot com.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"However, urine, I've discovered for me, I can't, again, I can't speak for everybody, but I can say that for me, I have been able to help my body do what it needed to do with every type of infection cut, bruise issue that has come up in the last ten years, I've been pretty much able to do everything myself with urine. And so I am no, unless there was a specific reason like what I just mentioned where I need penicillin. I don't need pharmaceuticals anymore. And so that is a you can understand that the amount of money that is made by the pharmaceutical industry. They don't want to tell people drink your urine, it's going to help you. Because they're not going to make money and you can't make money off of urine therapy. In that sense of my urine's best for me. Now, if someone else can't pee for whatever reason. We have discovered that when anybody can drink anybody else's urine if they have to because there's nothing else available. Or if you're stuck in the desert and somebody can't they've run out of pee, they've got nothing left in their thirsty, give them your pee. It's water. Like they're going to be able to drink it and live. They won't die from dehydration. Right. And your urine isn't going to hurt them. But ultimately, you can't, I can't make money off of my urine. It's mine. It's best for me. And that's part of it too. You can't sell it. And I remember your question about the homeopathic element. This is part of what's going on in urine, is that the, you're not just getting a thing, and this is where people get into this whole waste thing. What if it's toxic, what if there's something bad for me in there? But there's this element that by the time it goes through your body and gets synthesized by your organs, it gets bound to other things. It's not like a free form, tiny little atom of vitamin C is floating through your system, not interacting with anything. It interacts with everything. And by the time it then gets into your blood, it gets filtered by your kidneys in a filtration system that is so complex that we have not been able to replicate it outside of the body. This is a highly sophisticated filtration system. By the time it gets to your urine, your urine is probably cleaner than your blood. So with a dosage that you're getting in your urine at any one time of the thing that you need. Is what your body has decided is best for you. And you're getting small amounts of things continually. So in that sense of the homeopathic thing, like if I'm sick and I drink my urine back, I'm not going to make myself sicker. I'm going to help my body fight the thing I'm putting back in. The body is going to get a little bit more of it. That, oh, that's the thing you want me to fight. Right. Put my effort over there. People have also said when there's lots of great stories, a couple goes out for dinner. They both get food poisoning. One of them drinks their urine and sleeps through the night and stops throwing up, the other vomits all night because they refuse to drink their urine. So the toxin, the toxin that's in the food poisoning, when they drink their urine, they're not re poisoning themselves. They're telling their body, this is the thing you have to fight. The antibody is already in the urine. Just give me a quick second. I'm just going to mute my phone to ensure it doesn't happen again. Yeah, but that is that is something powerful because I think a lot of people around the world are realizing, especially after the pandemic that there are certain large groups that are not working in their interest. And like you pointed out, uterine is not very financially lucrative. But the good thing is urine is your own personal medicine in a world where we take a medicine that is prescribed standard to like thousands and thousands of people, which might or might not work for you. And if you read the seals, you've got like ten side effects that honestly are scary. And so when I have found is the way that people can dissuade large groups of people from doing something is either by convincing them that that group of people are disgusting. Or crazy. That's why they turn them conspiracy theorists, right? And so they encourage you to not even inquire for yourself to investigate and maybe they're disgusting. Maybe they're crazy, but then you've not found it out for yourself, right? And. You have your own pharmacy within. That's not very profitable, right? If you find out that what you were looking for has been right underneath your own nose, literally that's not very profitable for a lot of people. And so that's why it's hard of doing this part, because I feel that this message needs to really go out in whatever manner possible. Yes, I got a way to 5 years or 6 years. And completely established that it's good for me. But in these short amount of time that I've tried it, I love it. And I'm benefiting from you. Your experience also, because you've done it for so many years. So I think this is a very, very powerful topic. I wanted to now this part is a little bit more advanced. Let's talk a little bit about the evolved or aged urine, what exactly it is, and how is it different from fresh urine? So there's a book of all the books I also wanted to make sure I remembered. So Martha Christie known perfect medicine is one of the PDFs that's free online. She has a great write up. But she has medical studies. And so when you just mentioned side effects, one of the things that she found by putting hundreds and hundreds of medical studies was there were no side effects when they did studies using urine on people. There were no negative side effects. So that's, first of all, just a huge thing. It doesn't mean you're innocent powerful. It's incredibly powerful. But it's not like it's not going to have to come with a bunch of labels on it. John Armstrong's book to get to the evolved conversation. John Armstrong is another book. It's called the water of life. It's the first, it's the oldest known book that I know in English that was written about your own therapy. And he helped hundreds and hundreds of people between the First World War and the 1950s. Who came to him because he was dying of tuberculosis, and he didn't die, and so people went, what did you do? You're still here. What did you do? How come you're still here? And he talks in his book. This is when I first heard about evolve because my teacher didn't mention aging urine. But here it is in his book, people would come to him on death's door. And alongside putting them on a diet of drinking water and their own urine, or just their own urine sometimes, he would get, he and whoever helped him, they would take the person's urine and rub their whole body multiple times a day. They would massage the entire body with urine. And that is one of the things that he said was the most helpful. To help people recover, was this putting it in through the skin everywhere. But he would say, age it. And his definition of age was minimum four days old. Okay. Now, at four days, you're in his smelly. You're in generally will smell off gas. And we're talking about ammonia, but there's probably other compounds, organic compounds that are also off gassing that don't smell great. Ten to 14 days has been my experience is when the it really smells. And after those ten to 14 days, it calms down. Every single jar of urine is going to be different and just like how I said before the first year and you drink is not never going to be the nicest. The first year in new age is never going to be the nicest. One that you do. And we can call it aged because we're aging it, or we can call it evolved or fermented.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Between soaking my legs in water versus doing this. And I'm going to try it more often, but it's sort of like an investigation. You try out different things and see what works. Be honest and authentic with yourself to find out am I ready? Just thinking it, or is it really happening? So you might have to try it multiple times and see what works for you. Have you done a foot soak? This was my version of a foot soak, but I'm actually going to get a proper place where I can soak my legs in. This was like a foot shock attempt, I guess. Okay. So one of the things that I've done is I take two plastic bags. That ziploc. And I put the urine in the ziploc, I zip it up to my ankle. And I put it on a cookie sheet with a towel, so it doesn't drip. And then I do that. And then I have little bags, and I just slide them back under the couch when I'm done. And I use it for a while until I'm ready to change what's in the bags. But I mentioned the foot soak and the legs are amazing, but again, because all your nerve endings come to your feet. So when you soak your feet, you're bathing your nervous system. As well. The other thing I decided to throw as an example is that my mother is in her 70s and she's had shingles. She had some cancer treatments and since the cancer treatment she's had shingles repeatedly. And the only thing that has removed the pain of the shingles. Is putting urine on it. That's so true. Like in a compress. And keeping it on overnight. And she now tells her friends, she's not interested in doing the rest of it, but she knows that this will take away the pain. Yeah, this might sound crazy, but it's so true. The other day I went to the beach. I sort of got a little cut on my leg. And then when I came home, I put some urine on it. And I can't see it like an after half an hour after a couple of hours. It's like completely properly sealed. The other day I was having some toothache pain on my tooth. I just gargled with some urine. Been gone in like ten minutes, right? So all these stories are not just random. There has to be some thing that is happening in there, which is causing all these people to write books and yourself as well, practicing all these years and myself. Pricing for a month, but I'm still noticing shifts. So it's really interesting. I wanted to ask you, talk to me about the process of urine therapy, looping. And how things like vaccines are for that matter, homeopathy is actually in a way mimicking what's happening in looping. If you may. So looping is the practice of drinking all your urine every day. So what comes out goes in, so you create a lot of everything. Right? It's like you, everything. Yeah. Or, you know, it could buy maybe it's 95%, whatever. But it's the idea that you loop it back in. You could also call it upcycling. You're putting it back through the system. And you can also do sip looping, where instead of drinking all of it, you take at least a sip every time you go to the bathroom. Okay. And part of the idea is that whether you're looping everything or your zip looping, whatever your body just created, you're putting it back in to tell your body this is what you just created. And if your body was creating something that had a specific antibody in it to fight a specific pathogen that's in your body at that time, a virus of bacteria, a fungus, whatever, then you're giving that information back to your system. So it is an information communication tool. That your body is using with you to do this. So looping when you get into it starts to, and this is the first time that I had the healing crisis. When I started drinking, I was looping. That's exactly what happened is I started looping all of it. And the urine then the extra that was in there, it's when it went and found things. Now, I also think of it as washing the cells. Because you have this highly, highly effective water because it hydrates distilled water, hydrates better than anything else like tap water or any other, I don't know, reverse osmosis or pick all the different things people charge money for for the water. But urine is a distilled water that you're producing. And I now find that if I'm thirsty, I can drink water, but it's not quenching my thirst. If I drink urine, then I feel this shift, I'm not thirsty anymore. So there's a real difference in the level of hydration that we're used to. So when you start drinking and looping it, you're giving your body the signal, hydrate, deeply. Take in, I want you to produce more high quality urine. So I want you to really absorb all this in. Take the information. What do I need more of? What do I need less of? Where's the balance in my system? Today. And the urine is we already talked about it's your blood. So your blood is your life force. It's your energy. And so when you start drinking a lot of urine, you're pulling in huge amounts of energy. And that we can think of it as prana or Chi, depending on which tradition you're used to hearing that from. But it starts rejuvenating your whole system. And this is, so that's one of the benefits of looping. And when I'm fasting now, this is the only way I came to fast I could never fast before. I thought I would never find. And now I can, I can decide part way through the day. Oh, I'm just not going to eat. I'm just going to drink my urine for the rest of the day. And I don't get hungry and I don't get brain fog and I don't get irritable. Because I'm getting everything I need. Awesome. So Megan in terms of the time of the day. Morning urine, or afternoon, or evening for somebody getting started. What would you recommend? Or how did you get started? I started, I was so, again, you read the books, and the books are going to say a couple of things, or yeah, and the dam are tantra says, too, it's a first morning urine is very potent. Your body's been producing it all night. It's full of great stuff.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"This is a wonderful thing for this place. You have a lot of activities from nature, not only on the sea, you have yoga classes, you have yoga retreats in the Shang is amazing. You can imagine for the food for the yoga for the meditation. Or you have others activities like tamaskan, is a newborn in your life for me is when you do one time a scar, you take out the bad energy and you have a new life, I don't know. And you have cenotes, you have jango, you can do yoga on the beach on the Django on the studio, yes. And if you like, you can know teach and exercise other magic plays around here, no it's important more, but it's around here. This is the older pyramids for mayas is incredible, yes. It's magic place. Yeah, for sure. When I was coming to or thinking about traveling to Mexico, I done a lot of research in Porto vallarta and mazatlan and all the places on the West Coast. But then I asked my intuition, what is it ideal place that I should go if it's the first time that I'm going to Mexico and it dawned on me that I should go to somewhere in the Yucatan because I wanted to visit the pyramids of chichen itza. And I went there day before yesterday, but what a sight to behold, right? I've seen all of these things only on television and movies, but here I am in front of the pyramid and it is magnificent to witness. And for those listening, I see a lot of similarities between Indian culture, the Vedas and Mayan culture. Because in India, Maya is a word, as you know, it means illusion. And I see a lot of similarity between Vedic astrology and how people design their homes in the four directions and focus on mathematics and astrology and the chakas, the energy centers, and the aura as well. So a lot of similarities, which is always good to know. So Noah, what brought you to port the morelos. Yoga is exactly what brought me to the area. A friend of mine owns a hot yoga retreat center here. And at the time I was living in West Virginia and he had just built a new retreat center up there and was bringing the 26 and two hot yoga practice to the area. I had been practicing with him for a few months and then he made a joke that there was one spot left on the retreat and lo and behold I went home and I booked that last spot. Didn't have a passport, figured I could, I could wing it like everything else. And that turned into a nightmare, had to fly across country to Denver to get an expedited passport, but I made it to that yoga retreat. And soon fell in love with Puerto morelos. That is amazing. How long back was that? That was about a year and a half ago now. I ended up immediately going to a second yoga retreat over in Puerto vallarta. And again, just had an epic experience and was with some of the retreat guests that I had met at my retreat here in Puerto morelos. From there, I couldn't get enough. And I kept traveling back and forth to both sides of the country. And ended up going for a yoga retreat in Thailand, April of 22. From there, I flew back to Puerto morelos to do my own 26 two yoga teacher training and by the end of that month, I just couldn't leave. And I've been here ever since. Amazing, amazing, amazing. It's sort of reminds me I was just, I love doni Robbins and I was listening to a real listening to one of his workshops and what he says is that life is all about decisions, right? And when you decide something magical happens, a decision is when you decide that things can not be the same, that you deserve a shift, and when you make a decision, it's all about action as well. So how do you back that decision by some kind of action? And in your case, you decided to on the fly book your spot on the retreat. And then sort of everything worked after that. Even getting your passport expedited. Which is awesome. So you did a retreat in Porto vallarta as well. Yes, and I went back the second year to do that retreat again. Yeah, I can't speak highly enough about the yoga retreat model. It's one thing to find a good class and be there regularly, but spending an entire week just immersed in the practice. I really learned this or got a taste of it with my yoga teacher training because it was one weekend a month over the course of an entire year. So I was getting these little bits and pieces of the experience of that real yogi lifestyle and then by the time I signed up for that retreat, I was already sold and from there it's just been a journey diving deeper into my own practice, my healing and hopefully one day I'll be teaching and leading retreats as well. Amazing. So how would you compare Porto vallarta to Porto Morris? Porto vallarta is a lot harder to navigate. The culture is
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Yesterday I had the privilege of conducting an in person interview with some of my new friends here in Puerto morelos, Mexico. Where I'm here on a short trip, part spiritual quest and part adventure, and it has been nothing but amazing so far from exploring the ancient history of chichen itza going to the pyramid connecting with the essence of that ancient energy learning about the stories of what happened there. And learning also about the enormous detail and preciseness with which that monument was constructed, looking into the solar cycles and mathematics and astronomy to really, really amazing. To snorkeling with barracudas and padded fish and the other fish and other amphibians in the vibrant reefs have been fully immersing myself in the local culture, savoring the moat watering Mexican cuisine. The tacos and the empanadas and the seafood and who can forget the services. And absorbing everything that this beautiful country has to offer, especially the sunshine and the blue waters and the white sandy beaches. During my stay, I discovered the serene sundara yoga studio nestled on the pristine beaches of Puerto morelos. It was there that I met rocio, who is a yoga teacher over here. And Noah fellow yoga enthusiasts who frequently visits this particular studio to practice and connect with community. So in this episode, we dive deep into the world of yoga, our own personal journeys of meditation and spirituality and what it means to us. And we discuss how these practices have really enriched our lives. But that's not all. We also explore the charming, uniqueness of Puerto morelos, which is a small town that is in between cancun and playa del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula. A place that holds a special place in our hearts, we discuss local traditions like the temascal, traditional sweat lodge ceremony, the significance of The Serpent in ancient Mayan culture and the similarities with yoga and the Vedas from India. The powerful energy of the obsidian crystals, and by the way, I got two of them from one of the local Mayan people right across chichen itza and the potent combo medicine derived from the secretions of the Amazonian tree frog. There is so much of things that I was hoping to explore, but time is limited and hopefully we get another chance to record some more episodes. So join us as we share our insights, experiences, and the importance of following your own intuition and pursuing your heart's true purpose, because as we discussed in this episode, we all know deep down what we should be doing and where we must be heading, but a lot of times the noise around us is so loud that it drowns our own inner voice. And that's why sometimes it's important to change your environment so that you can rethink and reimagine and expand your aura to your new vision. And so tune in to this episode, let's take you on a journey through the mystique and the wonder of Puerto morelos and beyond and get ready to be inspired by the stories, the wisdom and the beauty of Mexico's hidden gem and most importantly, let this be an invitation for you to reconnect with your intuition and go beyond your comfort zone. What's up, everyone? This is AJ here host and founder of my 7 chakras, my 7 chakras dot com, the place where you can experience bliss, tranquility, relaxation, wherever in the world that you are. And guess where I am, today I am in Mexico. Porto morelos in particular and many of you know that I've had this goal this vision of traveling to Mexico and seeing if that place aligns with me on a more medium to long-term basis. And for the longest time I was just procrastinating and delaying and saying, you know, giving excuses about not actually traveling to Mexico. And while this is not this trip is not a long-term thing for me right now, I wanted to see. I wanted to be there. I wanted to take in the culture and the experience and the energy and the people over here and so I am here Porto morelos for those of you who don't know is a smaller town that is in the Yucatan Peninsula in between cancun and playa del Carmen and the beautiful part about this place, apart from the office, ancient wisdom, ancient civilization, the Mayan culture, so much to take in because it is on the Caribbean Sea so to speak, you get to enjoy beautiful blue Turquoise, water, clear blue skies, most of the time, lords of sunshine, and along with that amazing people as well, Mexican food also. So there's a lot to take in, but on that journey, I did not want to forget about what this podcast is all about, which is meditation and yoga and spirituality and breathwork and cold showers. And on that note, I attracted and manifested some friends over here, particularly a yoga studio called sundara, yoga, shala, which is just on the beach. So I ended up meeting rocio, who is the yoga teacher from originally from Argentina, Buenos Aires, which by the way means beautiful air, right? Yes. Hello. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. And so the way I came here is I actually spoke to patty one of the other teachers here, but unfortunately because of the dates I could not attain her lessons. And I attended one of the sessions by rossio, just day before yesterday, enjoyed that session very relaxing. And then I asked her whether she would be interested in doing a podcast interview just to get to know herself or story, how she got into yoga, a little bit about Porto morelos, as well as Mexico in general. And I met another friend over here who is Noah and Noah has been regularly coming practicing yoga at this studio. As well as practicing yoga in general for a while now and let Noah introduce himself. Hi. Thanks for having me. It's wonderful to be on the show. Likewise likewise, that's amazing. Cool. So where do we begin? I take a couple of seconds of silence over here because we're enjoying this beautiful ambience, the birds chirping, the wind just breezing by. And by the way, you should take a look at this yoga studio. Like I said, it's literally on the beach. And there's a natural breeze that is flowing despite it being a little bit sultry, a little bit warm and sunny outside. It's a nice ambience. So maybe we can start with rocio. Talk to us about your journey, where were you born and brought up? And a little bit about your childhood, if that's possible. How was your childhood like in Osiris? Okay, thank you so much. Okay, I'm born in Argentina. I have a good country. I love Argentina. From when a cyber city, you know, it's beautiful, but it's a busy city. The life is fun. And when I start with yoga with this is the rhizome for change my life or state around the spirituality and meditation.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Fat decrease. Which is why we need to find a way to maintain or increase our brown fat. Cold exposure activates brown fat through a process called hormesis. Hormesis is when a low dose of espresso like cold temperature actually benefits the body. When we expose ourselves to the cold, our brown fat works harder to generate heat and maintain our core body temperature, leading to increased metabolism and energy expenditure. In other words, stress is not all that bad. Small doses of stress can actually be good for you. Research has shown a strong link between cold exposure and brown fat activation. And my favorite way of cold exposure is called showers. Cold showers are a practical and accessible way to incorporate code exposure into your daily routine. And they have numerous mental and emotional benefits, such as improved stress management, mood, regulation, improved energy levels, and the list goes on. Now let's compare cold showers with other methods of cold exposure. Like ice baths or coal plunges, cryotherapy, and a few others. Cold showers are advantageous because they are inexpensive. You already have a cold shower in your bathroom. They are practical and they are accessible. On the other hand, to do a cold plunge invariably, you need a place where you can do the coal plunge, maybe in your backyard or your veranda. You need to fill it with water and possibly ice. And some of these core plunges can be a bit on the more expensive side. With the shower, it's as simple as walking into your bathroom and switching on the faucet. With a shower, you can easily adjust the temperature from warm to cold, back to warm, or maybe lukewarm, which allows for a more gradual introduction to cold exposure. Moreover, and this is critical. The flowing water during a cold shower provides better energetics compared to stagnant water in an ice bath. Firstly, the flowing water based on yoga based on qigong, it's good to have flowing energy because that stimulates your own energy, your prana, your Chi in a much more efficient manner. Secondly, when you are in an ice bath or a core plunge. And the water around you is still, there is a layer of warmth that gets formed around you, which makes it easier to withstand the cord. Whereas you don't get that privilege inside a cold shower. Now I understand that even though you may feel that cold showers are highly beneficial, doing your first cold shower might be challenging. But with the right techniques with the right breathing methods with visualization, approaches with some movement. You are able to regulate your nervous system and gradually fall in love with the core. Over the past 6 and a half years, I have been doing daily cold showers. Sometimes both in the morning and in the evening and I've experimented with a variety of breathing techniques, mindset approaches, visualization, as well as movement that is helped me and I've put together a cold shower protocol that I've been sharing with our students, as well as inner tribe members. If you're interested in trying out cold showers, I recommend starting with a warm shower and gradually decreasing the temperature. Practicing, breathing techniques with nice, long exhales, and mindfulness to help your body adjust to the cold are good ideas. Start slow and gradually increase the length of your cold showers over time. Action drive get ready for spring with ready to eat meal kits by factor. Save time, save energy by receiving nutritious, chef prepared meals, delivered straight to your door so that you can focus on stuff for a change. Listen, sometimes we all don't feel like cooking. So skip that trip to the grocery store skip the chopping and prepping and
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"You can Google my name and my website comes up and some articles and videos and things that I've done in the past always pop up. So I'm really easy to find as long as you can spell my name. And then. Amazing, we'll have all these links up in the show notes action tribe. If you enjoyed this episode, and if you'd like to support us, then make sure you hit subscribe, hit follow, and ensure that you are following this podcast. Make sure you write as an iTunes everything and review or Spotify review, whatever platform you are on and make sure you tell your Friends and family of this episode because I'm sure that many of our listeners and non listeners currently would love to get to know about Brad's work and benefit and partake in this amazing experience that can potentially transform your life and make sure you go to our website as well. My 7 chakras dot com. We have articles from time to time as well as podcasts that we post about that can change your life. So Rebecca, thank you so much for coming on our show, talking to us about the power of breath and taking us one step closer to a human revolution. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for listening to my 7 childhoods at my subtle chocolate dot com that is my SEV and chakras dot com.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Network is hard. Breath work is uncomfortable in the beginning. And you have to push through in order to get the results. Cold showers are hard. But they feel amazing as almost everything that's good for you is really hard or uncomfortable while you're doing it. Breathwork, exercise, cold showers, you know, the list goes on and on and on. And then you feel amazing afterwards. You know, so if you're willing to show up and push through that uncomfortable or that difficulty of that hardness, you're going to have, you're going to feel great afterwards. And if you don't do that, if you're just lazy and you don't do any of that stuff, you're going to feel miserable because of that. So where do you want your uncomfortableness? I want to ask you, or talk about limiting beliefs. Now, a lot of people get into breaths work because they somewhere somehow, in some format, recognize that they have these limiting beliefs that are then holding them back from achieving their pursuing their goals and desires, right? So how does breastwork help a person let go of that limiting belief? And then if you can also couple that with what were some of your limiting values that you had to start out, work on earlier on as a leader as a father, as somebody who is helping others make a change in their lives. That's a great question. So limiting beliefs of the first thing you have to ask yourself about those is, where did they come from? Where did this limiting belief that I have developed? That I can't be a good father or I can't be a good teacher, right? Or I can't do this. And it's usually childhood, right? It comes from our parents or some sort of story that something happened to us in our childhood. And so in a way, it's almost like a trauma, you know, that we got that story. It's a story that was created in our childhood that I'm not smart enough, or I am not, I'm not a good public speaker. Because you tried to do a book report in school and you did a terrible job on it and you didn't go back and work harder on it and go back up and do it again, right? So that goes back to what we were just saying. Like that first time she did the swim. She wasn't good at it. So there's two ways you can go when that happens. You can work harder at it and become good at it or you can go back and just say, you can create a story like I'm not a good swimmer. That's it. That's over. I'm not a good swimmer. And I had a lot of those stories in my own life. And once I started doing breathwork, you start to get clear about what your stories are. And they're like, oh, this is a story I created because of this, because this thing happened, and that thing happened. And if you can let go of that story and write a new story, then you can shift that area. So first is recognizing where did this start? What's the limiting belief? So first identifying what the limiting belief is, and then going, where did that come from? Oh my God, that came from my mother said this when I was a kid. She said, I wasn't good at math, or I wasn't good at that. And like, oh, that's just a story that was created. Let me focus my energy here. Because whatever you focus on expands, so if I have a story that I'm not a good public speaker, I'm not good at speaking in front of groups of people. And I can go back to that story where it originate and go, that's interesting, recognize that. And then change that. And then start to identify and work on my public speaking, like it's a skill, which it is, the crazy I read this somewhere that the number one fear that people have is public speaking. Number two is death. Right. So people fear public speaking more than death? And so I guess it's an ingrained thing or something. I don't know, right? So for me, I joke like in my class, my training, like what's the worst thing that's going to happen in here? What's the worst thing I can think of that could happen to me and you're like, I shit my pants, you know? Okay. That would be horrible. That would be embarrassing that would be humiliating, but I would live, I would be fine. And so I kind of go, let me get over myself and work on this skill set. And so limiting beliefs, you can shift whatever that is. If you focus your energy, you identify the story and you change it and you shift it and you focus your energy on working on the opposite of that. I'm not good with money. Okay, where did that come from? Oh, that came from hearing my mother say all these things about money when I was a kid and let me learn about financial health, you know? And so I've shifted so many limiting beliefs in myself. Yeah. That's very, very interesting and following up on that same question, a lot of times when people want to make a change in their lives. A lot of people have fear of failure. That's true. A lot of people fear getting into a project and not succeeding in that endeavor and then feeling. But a lot of people have fear of success. What if I do succeed and then fail, it's going to be even worse than where I'm at right now. What if I make a $100,000 and then go back to square one would ever get mad and then get divorced or if I get a new job and then get fired or get laid off, right? So from a mindset standpoint, how do you reconcile or how do you think about not coming back to square one after achieving that success? Or do you even think about that in the first place? And then how does Brazil help you navigate through this mental mess? The mind can sometimes create. Does that make sense?
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"But they would come in and they would go, I go, okay, where do you feel stuck? What's the problem? And they would be like, oh, well, I'm in this relationship. And I go, yeah, and they go, well, he's this, and he's this and he's this. And I'm like, okay, and then, but he really, you know, they give me the two sides of the case of the relationship. They're like a lawyer pleading the case. They're like, okay, great. Let's set the intention for clarity about what's right for you in that relationship. And they would lay down and breathe, and then they would sit up. And the answer would be perfectly clear. Right. That, you know, the relationship's not right for them. Because what they did was they turned off their head, and they moved into their heart, which is one of the things breathwork does. It turns off the head and moves you into your heart, and your heart knows exactly what is best for you. What it wants for you, your head can create arguments on either side, to try and protect you and keep you safe. But your heart knows what it wants. And then what happens to a lot of those people is their head turns back on and they start to get in their fear and they start to go, well, I don't want to go back on bumble, I don't want to go back on the dating sites again and it's too hard and they get scared. And they start to live in their fear. So they live in their fear rather than living in their faith and in their heart. So if you do breath work again, you turn off that fear and you go, nope, I don't want this. But some people don't want to go there. So they stop because they've rather live in the lie. They'd rather live in the comfort zone of not really having what they want. People would rather be safe, sadly enough. Not all of them, but you know? Yeah. That's very true. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What you were saying was it's very interesting what you said because you said, or at least you implied that it's about doing what you said you would do. And that's part of self love, because I have found that as well. If you do not do what you said you would, something within you, you start not loving or not respecting yourself as well. So doing what you said you would do, whether it is a breathwork session, or waking up and doing a course shower, which I love, but doing what you said you would do because you tend to build that respect for yourself even more and more to microsteps. And then the next thing is like you burn it out, knowing and acknowledging that things will go wrong, but then you still love yourself and you will take some corrective measures in order to get closer and closer to your vision. So it's like a balancing act. But also knowing that as a result of your doing, you won't always be perfect for the new program. But here's the thing. If you're not doing what you said, you are going to do. Yes, you're going to be not feel good about yourself, but also you're going to allow people in your life that aren't doing what they said they were going to do. You've got somebody in your life. You've got you're in a relationship with somebody who's not showing up for the way the width. They said they were going to do. And you're getting upset with them. But you're not doing it yourself. The only reason we ever let anyone treat us poorly is because we treat ourselves poorly, or we feel like we deserve it on some level, unconsciously or consciously. But once you start showing up for yourself and doing what you said you were going to do and you do the work on yourself, you won't accept that from other people. You won't accept other people to not show up for you. And so I've seen relationships totally either change or end as a result of breath work. That is so true. I can see that for corporates as well, right? Like you mentioned, a lot of times, employs at the lower level don't do or act in a certain way or in alignment with the values that company or the vision of that company, because they're like, their boss, he does the same thing. And he makes mistakes all the time. And he goes against his words. And so it's sort of trickles down from the leaders, right? And if the leader is somebody who is disciplined, says what he or she does what he or she said they would do and isn't complete alignment, then it trickles down. Everyone respects them because of their word and how they respect it. Yeah, I mean, I worked at that's how I operate with my kids. My wife, like we do what we say, what we're going to do. Even if we don't want to do it, like, you know, my daughter joined the swim team and she came home immediately. Like, hate it. I don't want to do it. I want to quit. I was terrible. And I said, okay? But you have to finish out this season. I'm like, you know, you said you were going to do it. You made the commitment. And you got to follow through because we follow through what we say, we're going to do even when we don't want to do it. Because we made a commitment and sure enough, here we are, like, halfway in and she's actually really good. And she's doing well. And now she loves it. And so it's like, I'm glad I was able to sort of push her and hold her accountable to get over that hope. Because if we quit, every time things are hard, every time something is uncomfortable, then we're not going to do anything with our life. If you do what's easy all the time, then life gets hard. And if you do, it's hard that life gets easy. You got to choose your hard.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"U.S. LLC. You saw authentic. I'm like, I'm not trying to be authentic. I'm just being honest and real and genuine and not giving a shit what people think. Yeah. And so the people are going to find me. I can not be true to myself and be who I really am and then worry about what people are going to think about me. And so other breath work teachers will stumble on me and it's one way or the other. They either love me or they hate me, you know? There's no in between. I had some lady come, I don't know when it was a couple of months ago to online and like literally like 5 minutes into the class. She's like, you're talking too much. You're too loud. It's assaulting my nervous system. I'm a breathwork teacher. You can't do it this way. And I was like, please leave. Please leave. This isn't for you. I'm not for you. I'll fund your money back. Go away. And then she went on and did like a post about how I was like, not teaching. She'd been teaching like a year or two, and I've been doing it a decade. Who is she to come say how I should be teaching, right? I'm obviously not her flavor, but hundreds and hundreds of people that show up to my classes. I am their flavor. You've been teaching for a year and you've got 5 people coming to your class and I've got 300 people, and you're going to tell me I'm doing it wrong. Talking about. Yeah, I think authenticity comes in different sizes and different packages and different flavors, right? A lot of people assume that authenticity is this are it sounds like this or these are the words that you say, but when people try to emulate that one person who is authentic by themselves, then it's inauthentic because they're trying to be that person. You can't replicate that person. And people can sense it also. It's way beyond words, person doesn't have to say anything. They can sense so that person is not being completely in alignment of who they are. Whether it's using certain words or whether it's more brash and more direct. Yeah, you're a 100% right. You can not be great. You can not be like unique and amazing while copying someone else. It doesn't work. I've seen some good copycats though. There's one or two out there that I come to mind that are so copied me. And they literally just taken my copy and just put it on their stuff, you know? And I've had people copy and paste. And I'm like, what is that? Like, do the work yourself. Yeah. People want to skip the line. They don't want to do the work, and they just want to copy and they're lazy. And I think that it's a bummer, you know, it bums me out. And there's not much I can do about it. And I think it shines through, you know. Of all the benefits of breadth work. And I know that our listeners can read about it online and you read articles and there are so much of conversations and discussions around bread work itself. What do you is the biggest benefit that conscious connected breathwork in particular offers to the audience or somebody you practicing? So it's hard to say like the one main benefit because there's so many benefits. That's true. And I think that everybody's different and everybody comes to breath work with their own set of problems and issues. And so the beauty of it is it's going to deal with whatever your problem or issue is. If you've got a health issue, something like IBS or some sort of digestive issue, breathwork is incredibly amazing for that health issue. In fact, most health issues are caused by emotional issues, right? You look at my alopecia, for instance, alopecia is something that's an autoimmune condition where your hair attacks your white blood cells attack your hair follicles and make them fall out. Because I think it's a foreign body. And that's caused if they think it's caused by stress or trauma. And so I tell people, if you don't think your emotions can affect your health and go find my eyebrows 'cause they're gone. And that's an emotional reason. That's an emotional to physical results. From an emotional thing. So I've seen it really shift a lot of health issues for people and I've seen one of the things that I love that I think is really powerful is you hear all the time. It's very cliche. You gotta love yourself. You gotta learn to love yourself first. Self care, self love is the big thing. But you know, like, how do I do that? How do I love myself? Well, for me, loving myself is doing the hard work for myself when I don't feel like doing it. And that's kind of breath work. And what breathwork does is it makes me get to a place where I can love myself, where I can be whole. And I don't need anything else outside of me. And if I can get there, then all the other stuff is doesn't really matter. And so it's taught me that self love. And what I realized is I make mistakes. I still make mistakes all the time. I'm human. I make mistakes with my kids. I make mistakes with my wife. It makes me mistakes with my business. And I'm going to still keep making mistakes, but I don't have to beat myself up over those mistakes. And so if the shift, if I can get the shift in knowing, acknowledging, you know what John Paul, you're probably going to make a mistake today or a couple of mistakes today. But like, do you have to beat yourself up over them? If my kids were as hard on themselves as I am on myself, that would hurt my heart that would break my heart. So I need to model that for them. I need to stop being so hard on myself, so I modeling that for my children. And so how do I stop being so hard on myself? And breath work is one of the ways that I've learned to do that is just to learn to love myself. It's also a great way to just clear out clear the decks of stress and anxiety, worry, depression, all that kind of stuff. It just clears that right off the decks. If you've got trauma, I've never seen anything better for trauma than breath work. So there's so many benefits out there. I almost feel like if we went into all the benefits, people would be like, yeah, that's ridiculous, right? And so most of the people I'm sure are listening to the show are, you know, already into this breathwork or into the world to some degree, so I'm not trying to convince anyone. You've already known it. You've already done it. But you can also use it as this tool to shape your life. Which I have done. You know, it's given me direction and clarity. Like, what do I do next? Okay, let me lay down and breathe and it'll tell me what I'm supposed to do next. There's this argument that happens in my head. I used to see clients
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Know, being healthy, being healthy is what looks good to me now. No, not like extreme in any in any way, just taking good care of yourself. That's right. From a health standpoint, and so, you know, I understand what it's like to worry so much about your looks, because I was like that. And I lost it at a young age. And so what a lesson that was for me. What a gift that was for me to teach me. It was such a teacher because I don't think I would have got sober, had I not had that experience, right? So that brought me to my sobriety at a young age at a fairly young age, which was a gift. And I don't think I'd have the life I have today, had I not got sober at 26 years old, right? And so would a gift losing my hair was. I mean, I really look at it that way. And it's not really what happens to you that matters. It's the meaning that you assign those experiences. So I assign the meaning that it was a gift. I'm grateful. Amazing. So doctor was about the first breathwork session that you attended. It was a story behind that. How did you get to know about it in the first place? And what really happened? Okay, well, there's a couple different ways I could go with this. So I did some breathing with a spiritual healer guy, but that wasn't the breath work that wasn't circular breathwork. So that was just a different form of breath work. And that kind of opened up my eyes and were like, what is this? And that was this guy that Matthew Perry from friends. Went to see the spiritual healer guy, and then he told me about him. I was his trainer at the time, and we were close friends, and I said, no, that sounds like nonsense. It sounds like he's asphyxiating you. And so he got me a session with this guy, and I went in to see this guy and he did this weird breathing technique. And it was like, wow, it kind of blew my mind. And then two people who didn't know each other, two Friends of mine, but they didn't know each other, said to me, you need to go try breath work. And I was like, what's breath work? Breath works in umbrella term, but they meant circular breathwork, conscious connected breathing. So I went to the studio in Los Angeles. That's not there anymore. The yoga studio that had a lot of breath work. And I walked in and it was a class probably like 6, 7 people maybe at the most. And you know, at the time, I was still really, I'm from Boston, right? Like I was living in Los Angeles a couple of years, but I'm like, oh my God, what is this? I'm cynical and, you know, the teachers got this sheepskin rug and there's oils out in this crystals and I'm like, oh, what is this fresh L that I've walked into? Because this is not my scene. This is not my thing. And she starts talking all this stuff that's whoo whoo and new age and I'm like, God. This is gonna be awful. And I laid down and I did the circular breathing technique and I thought, I couldn't really breathe into my diaphragm because I was a trainer and I had been working my abs for 2030 years, maybe. And so I had a real hard time. I hadn't really breathed into my belly. I hadn't really breathed into my diaphragm. So I had a real hard time breathing into my diaphragm and I was arching my back to try and get it in there and working so hard. Yet, I still had the experience. I still had the big experience where I broke open and I had this, you know, I thought, okay, this is like a workout. You know, I'm a trainer. This is like a workout. I can wrap my brain around it. I had tried meditation. I tried all these different things. And I couldn't get my mind to quiet down and meditation. It was just so hard for me. And so painful, like sit there and my back hurt and all these things. And so I cracked open during the breath work and I started to feel I started to feel first I started to feel weird and then I just cracked open and I had this big emotional release. And it was the biggest most cathartic, emotional release I've ever had in my life. And I cried probably, you know, 20 years of stuff that I had pushed down and all this trauma and all the things that had happened to me. And it was undeniable. And yet I hated the class, I hated the music. I didn't really care for the teacher style. I didn't really care for all of it, but the experience, the technique was undeniable. And so I was blown away by it. And I started to do it on my own right away, like daily. So I made a playlist of songs that I actually liked, and I started to breathe in my room and have these big experiences at home in my room. And that was life-changing. And it actually felt better. And then occasionally I would go to a class to try and have that community, but it just didn't vibe with me because it's just not my, it's just not my style. It's not my language, right? And somewhere in that process, I thought, why doesn't everybody know about this? You know, this is like, why didn't somebody show this to me when I was 14 years old and I was suicidal or why didn't somebody show this to me when I was losing my hair and I was suicidal. You know, like all this like, how was this thing so incredible, so powerful, so life-changing, and I had never heard of it. And I realized my realization was, oh, it's been kept in these weird new age whoo whoo circles for too long. And people do things with people that are like them.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Years, her name is Solberg. And she has a podcast with ranch and chat, doctor anjan Chatterjee. And she just answers a lot of questions about how cool should it be, how long should it be and therefore, how many times a week, what's it doing to your system? And actually, when you look at it, she says that it's 16° centigrade and below to get that stimulus that you need that cold water reaction. It doesn't have to be freezing water with ice cubes in it. It can be a minute and a half. Of 16° or lower temperature. So, you know, people who worry about going into the cold, you know, it doesn't have to be as cool as you think it does. But I think the ice cubes make for good Instagram photos. Don't you think? Awesome, awesome. That's amazing. And so for you, what do you like about soma breath in particular? Over some of the other brands worked practices. Because I'm also a small bread work instructor, as you know. And that's how we met as well. And I'm also working towards some of our master certification, which I've been delaying a bit, but I know it's all in divine timing. So for you, or do you feel what draws you towards soma breath? What do you feel? I wouldn't say better, but what about it aligns with your goals and your visions? Yeah, I think we can thank wim hof immensely for what he has done for the breathwork community. My experience with wim hof and my knowledge of physiology, I feel no. Knowing summer breathwork in and out, I feel that the wim hof method is very sympathetically charging and very dominant. You know, he's restricted to one or two different types of breathing techniques. Which are going to tap into your stimulating the sympathetic you're into that fight or flight response. Where it allows you to go into the water and deal with the stressors. And that's fantastic. And when people have got some life-changing results, a revolutionizing their health, with just purely one half method. But if I had a client that was very sympathetic charged like they were very stressed, very working a lot training a lot. Stress lifestyle at home, drinking excessively smoking. Would I want to then take that person that individual further into more sympathetic charged responses. So with a silver breath, we can change the ratio of the rhythmic breathing. Alongside the fact it's got an amazing music to go along with it which helps you get into that zone. But as you know, there is breathing is manipulated. So we can have an inhale of two cone or an axial with an axial four. Then here the four and axial four and then he'll have four and exhale of 8. So if we're doubling up the exhalation, we can actually reduce the sympathetic charge and bring in more of a parasympathetic break. If that person needs it. So we have the ability to manipulate the ratios, make it faster, we can make it slower. I like the breath hold retention, so there's a quick sip of air. And then go back into that further breath hold, which is different again to the wim hof method. So allows you to get a little bit deeper into those breath hold. The community is amazing as well. With soma, I've never done a qualification where everyone feels like you're a part of a tribe where everyone's got your back. Everyone's helping each other. And they're all coming together for the benefit of breath work and the benefit of each and every individual improving their health and improving their wellness and devoting and that dedicating that time. To helping themselves and others as well. I mean, when wim hof methods like that as well. But it's just more appealing and it's more aligned with what I can adhere to. Nowadays. That makes sense. That makes sense for sure. Yeah, I think there are certain breadth works, like you mentioned, there are more like sympathetic dominant that are great, but can be done only on certain occasions. And when done more regularly, it might not be the best for the nervous system. But ever so often you can always blend it up and have this more sympathetic, shamanic style breath work session which happens in soma as well. Where you enter into a deep state of trans or maybe state of hypnosis or you feel that feeling all over your body, it's great, but then it's good to also, like you've sort of applied work with somebody who's holding space for you and knows your background so that they prescribe a certain breathing technique. But also ensure that you don't go overboard, because we hear these stories from time to time. Where people maybe they go over and they breathe to heavily and go too much into their sympathetic. And that can cause issues, right? Especially when it comes to experiencing trauma and not being able to hold it in. Yeah, you can, you can take that trauma or that, that charge head on and use it to revisit any trauma you've had. But again, let you see it. It can be, it can re traumatize that person. So I think we have to look at what current states the nervous system and when you meet them for the first time, because the nervous system is not robust enough to withstand a fast careful session or a fast. Breathing for an hour. Then you're just going to push that person over the edge even more. So a summer breath instructors we can find that breath ratio usually are two, four breath. And we can reset the nervous system, preparing them for the longer breath holds prepared them for, eventually going for a faster breath work, because we wouldn't want to take them straight in the air extremely. We can build them up to that. So we're gradually helping them out. And in that process, a two four breathing four four balancing breathing. We might see stuff coming up that a little bit of trauma coming from in small, smaller doses rather than this big, huge dump of trauma coming out. Because I think when you're taking someone back into that trauma release, I've heard it's been said several times that you are going back into the stress response, but finishing the cycle. So if the last trauma they had, put them into sympathetic system. And they didn't finish that cycle. We didn't come back then to rest and digest.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"It's part of the culture, at least once in a year to do a poll or tip. But what is it about? Is it in Scotland as well? The culture and tradition of doing cold emergence? I think in the last two years, cold water and Martian has become really, really popular. Like I said, I'll let on it. I stay on the coast, so we have cold water on our doorstep. Personally, I mix my sauna with a cold shower and I do that twice a week. Especially in the winter time. And not so sure that sona, the heat versus a cold, is such a big thing yet, but the cold is definitely the immersion there are. There are groups of people down on our beach every day going into the water, even my wife does it and my wife never used to like going on the cold. That is amazing. That is amazing. I found that a lot of people have hesitation towards the core. But when people do it, they develop a sense of excitement, enthusiasm, drive towards the core. Because of so many proven health benefits of doing regular ideally daily cold water immersions on cold water showers. I do a Cold War shower daily, and I've been doing that for the last 5 years, at least. And whenever I get a chance, I go into the cold ocean slash C as well. Because I really love it. And so I can see why when people experience it, they then become a fan of it. So there's a book that's come out recently. Yeah, I'm from a Danish I don't know if you've heard of the Danish researcher who's been researching cold water exposure. For the last 8 years, her name is Solberg. And she has a podcast with ranch and chat, doctor anjan Chatterjee. And
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"Action drive this new year, you've got goals and factor is here to help you achieve each and every one of them. The thing is preparing meals at home can be time consuming. So why not save the time and energy that you need to tackle everything on your to do list with factors ready to eat meals, delivered straight to your door. Skip the chopping, the prepping, the cleanup and entirely skip that trip to the grocery store because factors, fresh, never frozen meals already in just two minutes. That's two minutes. So all you have to do is heat, relax and enjoy the meal. Last time I told you that I'm sending some meals to my sister. So let's hear what anisha has to say. I received a box of 6 meals and 6 shakes, all of them vegetarian. I love the variety and portion sizes. There was a biryani with tandoori cauliflower pesto fusilli and veggie bean chili with quinoa. I love the biryani, the cauliflower felt a little bland for my taste, but my favorite was the bean chili with quinoa, which had some really great flavors. This service is convenient, especially if you want to carry food for work. It's nutritious and filling. No matter what your lifestyle factor has the meals to help you live it to the fullest with keto, gallery smart, vegan, veggie, protein plus meals on the menu each week, and they are prepared by chefs, approved by dietitians, each meal has all of the ingredients you need to feel satisfied all day long. And there is always something new to try. So why not try something new? Save diamond energy and work on that side hustle, or that project that you've been planning to launch and spend quality time with the family. Head to factor 75 dot com slash action tribe 6 zero and use code action tribe 6 zero to get 60% off your first box. That's called. 6 zero at FAC OR 7 5 dot com slash ACT. 6 zero to get 60% off your first box. And now back to our episode. I
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"I forwarded beginning the purpose of life is to serve. I have a comedian them. My life to this porpoise to serve is to make others happy and a healthier to serve is to lighten and empower others. So the number ten is not great enlightenment. We have the physical life when the buddha teaching were allowed. The teaching physical life is important but the more important is our soldier so therefore physical life with tourneys during his life trying to believe the united are. So what does it mean to you. And i are so is after our physical try vision. Our soul can be connect. I go back to the source. That's a sense of that is that is amazing. Am sure our listeners are listening to what you're sharing and these are beautiful words and just when you hear these words it has an influence and it inspires you in terms of how you can live your life now but for the benefit of listeners. I'm gonna start that again and you mentioned love who doesn't love right. That touched back hug you can. It's beyond beyond words but love forgiveness right no matter if somebody has hurt your or you've had a difficult childhood upbringing and somebody's not done good to you but you always have the opportunity to forgive compassion experiencing the light sunshine. That's always free. And available to everybody. Humility harmony flourishing experiencing gratitude and giving gratitude towards fellow. People in your life service right something about service and you serve and you want to help people and you want to uplift them something magical about that and ultimately enlightenment realizing that you are not the physical baggage you are experiencing this physical journey but deep down. You are on a soul's journey so thank you so much for building that foundation for our interview. And and i'm sure now. Our listeners are in a better perspective to understand what we are about to discuss. So masha. what is dow calligraphy was understand clarify. We've talked about doll is all to me the source you loud. Dahl do gene loud. You know really we leave. We leave between heaven. I heaven belong to your earth. You know china's encounter who created heaven earth. You will ask how. These hyman urged currently planets mothers only one planet stars. God's universe were form there. The modern science bomb bat everything happened. That isn't modder weight but allowed certain asian. We listen laws that we haul heaven earth from komo inches really loud and said that before heaven and earth will form so there are of blurred condition butler blurred Why knees blurred vision wishing of puerto confusion. There are two kinds of energy within. Why is a chin cheat. She meets entity chimneys cling clean energy. The other is a dorchi blurred Turbo the energy. This energy mix another distinguish. Is our wine condition. Of course huge. They stay for ye uh-huh they waited the for the cheat. Transformation energy transformation for year million billion years that when the time radi the clean energy rises to form the disturbance energy of fools to form the mother errors hall heaven and the mother earth will form that heaven mother earth interrupt to create a sole so light being. Everybody will have a body mind spirit. People may not know. The spirit is a lighter being used said our body. That's lots of deep wisdom. I have time to go deeper for that. You want to know heaven urge together create a soul now. Of course creator create a human being different religions. Different karcher have a different explaination but we are too human being already. We leave a beating heaven earth but a heaven earth are created by doubt you asked me to create to explain the dow greasy iconic with ultimate a source wishes to create for heaven earth. So why all the easy than i connect. They put pool the the love late. Because dow is the invisible. You can see us now. We can culture chair see the screen but dow cannot be saying there for the dow is exist. Why would a calligraphy the put the love light of frequency vibration therefore this calligraphy carry source. Love life remember. We said the law mounts obligated angry. Corey lie to transform and i and the frequency vibration. But the sentence of positivity information i said so our energy and a major so these could if like a portal.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"And women different things different. Meditations that show a device so a lot of it was people being there practicing learning growing every dedicated very strongly to personal spiritual growth. Got it and did you get a chance to meet or shoots point. Well he had died by the time i was. There was once. Ed the when i was in oregon. I don't know how many of your listeners saw while while country which was kind of a biased view but but it gave you the labor that went. Oh show a drive by the car. saw Drive by any job by in the car. And i got louis a strong sense of energy strong sense of energy. This is something. I discovered in india that i had not heard about in the west. Even though i've been a spiritual secret for so long as you meet beings indian beings such high frequency wholesaling that in their presence. You guys are gonna think. I'm crazy but i'm not in their presence. I think it would be like psychedelic drugs. I would could see auras around their heads you could. It felt like the lights were warping. Somehow because these people have developed themselves to such a high frequency that there is inexplainable. Something happens to your own body in their presence. The first one who said this because a lot of the people that i've interviewed on my show in fact including the person that comes to my mind right now is dan brulee and Swami da the in all these different people who went to india they notice. These individuals who practice are through other exercises or their own regimen were able to build their magnetism or their energy Such a extent that had an influence on people around them. Which just fascinating now in talking about how you met your husband you say. It seemed like magic when we met. Because that was that is what we've been led to believe by moi's and fairy tales disney princesses in superheroes. It looked and felt like magic because when we met. We both expedience something far beyond what we'd ever felt before are coming together even seemed like something off the divine and yet it wasn't magic because we created it by preparing ourselves by the inner and outta work. We've been doing in dedicated manner for a long time. So how did you prepare for this encounter so to speak I heard a great thing about a month ago. Somebody said behind any magic as the magician so magic looks like it's something but the magician has created that so what i teach people is. There's many areas that we need that we that we can work on ourselves to increase frequency. Really loving enough was one thing. I i was a loving person family friends. I had a cat. I mean you know you think era typical loving person. I realized for example. The way i went about dating which was considered culturally normal to was very unloving. Hardwood meet men. I go doesn't look good. You know we're taught to do that. And i realized that's not being a loving person you know. That's not being loving because loving to me means i'm equally loving to everyone. One of my coaches said. And i think this is one of my goals. He's not. I treat everyone the same if it's a fashion mile or obama and not. What a terrible unloving thing to say. A homeless person on a bus bench. Want to treat them the same. I think that's a beautiful aspiration. So i had lot of work to do and obviously still do if i'm referring to people as bumps to go this is what we do. We keep working to raise our frequency to be more loving one thing. We raise our frequency by taking care of our bodies and trying to live on our bodies eating better food By staying in shape in some way and we don't have to become super athletes. Vegans or anything like this but we want to at least raise our frequency that we're not being are energy is down from eating badly all the time type of thing. We want to clean out we could. We raise our frequency by cleaning out the trauma from our past a lot of us had. I certainly came from difficult childhood ahead to do a lot of work in therapy to clean out the have a good relationship. So that's away. People can raise their frequency and are thought patterns and and so forth. All of this raises are frequency. Maybe someday to the level of those people in india who are vibrating. At least enough to be able to attract another loving person. I realized that the men had been attracting before. Were kinda half loving one foot in one foot out. And i realized the reflection of me. I'm a half loving person. Thought it was fine. But when i was really Figuring out i realize. I need to raise my frequency to be more loving and then i was able to attract man who's genuinely loving Very very interesting. And i'm sure i'll listen able to relate also today allies are instances where loving are. Maybe they noticed now that there are certain areas of their life. That needs some inner work. Now how do you know if the other person has done their work and you signals any hints and he signs did you look for or do not look for these things. Definitely i For saw kindness they came to my number one thing on my list. for example i remember guy. When out wasn't he was kinda rude to the waiter. And i thought wow. That's not a person who's going to be safe so a kindness to other people I started realizing. I needed to be with someone. My list changed but it was more a frequency thing. I wanted to see if a person was involved in anyway in giving If their profession is giving or if they teach if they coach lou league after work or if they contribute to their church or they Coach young men or in some way or involved in giving and not just getting because the person is just involved. With how much am i getting out of. Life is not going to be really in a loving space. So those were the some of the things i looked at is my body. Save with this person. Is the friendship possible. It started to be for me when i started getting closer closer. Meaning that has been that. If i fall a lot of strong chemistry with someone. I need to really slow this down our fall. This is a sign to be careful. It might work iphone a lot of chemistry when my husband when we met size. I'd go really slow. I'm going to jump in because my pattern before like a lot of people's chemistry jump in For example my hairdresser told me this morning. She met a guy a week ago. Narrow already an item. I was like well. We'll see how that works. Maybe it works. Sometimes it works but often doesn't so that was part of it too was slowing down when i felt really strong attraction and just making sure that this is a good person. This is a person who gives as the person who kind my husband had raised a disabled child. I got anyone who has the patience to do that. That is a good quality bowl. You'll look for good qualities. I have good relationships with their family with their friends..
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"A lot more than just stating but were you literally experience that that imai you know that and you can go in iron higher and higher suited to the to the ultimate but everybody is suffering all the time even if they're not aware of i mean kind of the underlying suffering were ebbing is separation from the supreme ding our troop that meet and everything an inner minds in our desires and pulls martinez. All of that is nasty but it ever have a feeling of being own sicker having this indescribable. Mommy really is your soul loaning to go back to source. Oh my god. That's such a profound thing that you stated and the thing is i think when you get it taste and he stuff maybe the presence of the glimpse you start longing for it even more and then you suffer because you're not close to god and he warned to expedience that Guard spins many people. Outside of the great secrets is that you can't find god before as in the forest room caver unload address within you in you. You have the power to to go with them. Which names really piercing going to the ice center and drying your mind and soak to head relate the inner spiritual journey. Wow so now you said that you've had four.
My Seven Chakras
"seven" Discussed on My Seven Chakras
"But first shock rut is physical. I have twelve barrels of money. Now that big. And i don't see that all the time but letting it be physical just like food just like air you know. Let me know that my body likes us. Ed needs it. And i can receive the money that comes in through checks or you know through visa transfers earlier kinda then mo or whatever it is. That's out there right now. So also make physical think connection. I'm open opened connections of in abundance and do whatever you need to physically let money be something real for you him hissing. That is some really really amazing advice. Things that people can try immediately and it is practical. Thanks for sharing action tribe. I hope you enjoyed the session and you are now realizing at you are indeed made of energy light and sound but deeper still you are not your body or your mind but you are the witness consciousness. That is watching all off this on ford you in garnett into the treaty word and then at a certain point you us from your physical existence but the real you the existence and the consciousness is always present detached and unaffected and the more you go inward and you work on your energy. You feel like you're connected to abundance and prosperity you realize how these statements are in your discover how powerful you truly are for as krishna states in the bug with either the spirit is neither bond nor does it die at any time it does not come into being are ceased to exist it is born eternal permanent and primeval splitter does not destroyed when the body is destroyed. So think about this and go deeper and deeper into the realization of your true nature. And with that being said cindy we've come to the last hour for today which is called the wisdom around four questions so that our listeners can take note and take action so where does the best advice that you have received. Just be yourself because nobody else can be you period and if you could go back in time and spend one hour with someone was living or maybe dead. Who would it be. I spend it with my dad. I've lost my dad. And i connect with them in the spirit realm but i know that he's acquired even more wisdom and i would love to sink into what else he has to offer tonight. I believe it's father's day on a and it's my dad's didn't coincidentally down. What is one thing you do in the morning. Cindy or maybe in the evening that has really improved the quality of your life. Every morning i get up at four or four fifteen. I have to really big dogs. Eighty pound dogs i put in. I grab ice. he. I put them in the car. We drive to the fenced in dog park. And i run the dogs. Actually they run. And i walk. People think iran. I don't run. And you know so. I spent forty five minutes outside and i watched the sun come up. That's changed my life. I'm always in a happy mood after i've done that. Even the rain. I'm in a happy mood phenomenal. And what is one book. You'd like to recommend for our listeners today. There's if you're really into energy. The best book is by. Brattle medicine by dr richard gerber decades old best book ever written. It stands the other one. I would say as a young adult. Both by susan cooper. The dark is rising it just it. The dark is rising it. It basically describes reality amazing action tribe. Many of you know about Audible dot com supporting all of our listeners and giving one all of our listeners. A free audiobook down lord and in most of the cases the authors read the book out themselves and sad. I know that your books are also an audible as many books in tumble cindy's book. Obviously in so many books but one book got really really like is the little book of the us you know because it's such beautiful small little book and you can always you know glance through it and come across the different techniques meditations and practices and you can put it in your in your bag as well so in addition to the larger book the complete book of the checkers. This beautiful book. But i really like this book. And i'm sure you'll get it as well but once again. Thanks a lot for writing these phenomenal books and for coming on our show before you go. What is one thing that you grateful for today. And how can we find you. I felt for this time with you. My heart feels really full. So thank you. I'm grateful that my dog.