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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Matthew: The Temptation Of Jesus Christ
"In chapter 4 of Matthew, our Savior was led out into the wilderness where He was tempted for 40 days by the devil. But what did the devil think He was going to accomplish? Did He really think He could convince Jesus to sin? And why did Jesus undergo this temptation in the first place? Those questions will be the focus of today's study. Does the Devil Think that He Can Win? Does the devil think he can win? In today's text we are considering this temptation of Jesus which occurred when Jesus goes out in the wilderness at the very outset of His ministry and the devil comes and tempts Him at least these three times over a course of some 40 days. And given the lengthy amount of time that went by and given the amount of intervals in which the devil went at Him, you have to wonder, did the devil think that one of those approaches or all of them might succeed? Did the devil think that he could be victorious? Did the devil think that he could win? It probably depends on how you define winning. If the question is, does the devil think he can win? It probably depends on how you define winning. You see, we tend to define winning, especially when it's mono e mono or one force against another force. We tend to define it in, I guess, I don't know, wrestling terms. Two men enter and one man leaves sort of thing. Whoever is the last man standing is the one who wins. When we think of this sort of conflict with these sort of stakes, we think that he who is standing at the end of it is victorious. Now, under that definition, if you think long term, we think that only God will be victorious at the end of days. We see the devil cast into the pit of fire and we say there's only going to be one standing, only one standing, that will be God Himself because He's bigger and stronger and more powerful and transcendent and all these things. Well, here's the thing. I don't think the devil defines winning the way we might. I don't think the devil believes that he can out muscle God. I really don't. I don't think that's something he believes is an option. He's going to out muscle God. However, however, he may have thought this. He may have thought that although he might not be able to out muscle God, he may have thought that he could at least become equal to God. Maybe he thought that he could at least share the stage with God. In fact, I can prove it. Isaiah chapter 14, we read this, how you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, how you're falling from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. For you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mountain of the congregation on the farthest sides of the earth. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will be like the most high. I don't think the devil thinks that he can make God subordinate to him, but I do think that in his perverted sinful mind, he thinks that he and God can be equals. In fact, he's always had a complex with that. And Isaiah 14, he says, I can ascend. I can be like the most high. He overtly says that. And God says, no, and that's why you're being judged the pride that you think you could do that. But what was the temptation to Eve? He comes up to Eve and he offers the same idea. Eve from the tree, what will happen? You'll be like God, knowing good and evil. I think the devil has a complex about this, the idea of being like God. Now, how could that equality occur? Is it possible? Well, we know, no, it's not. But theoretically, how could that sort of equality occur? Can the devil ever rank up, you know, perk up, rise up to God's level? Can he ever do that? Can the devil ever graduate and become the level that God's at in terms of power and authority and might? Well, probably not. However, maybe the objective of the devil isn't necessarily that he's going to rank up to God's level. Maybe, maybe the objective is to bring God down to his. And that's how the equality would be attained. When a child rebels against a parent, the objective isn't necessarily that I'm going to overthrow my parents. They know that's not an option. But if a child can make the parent frustrated, if a child can make the parent break ranks from their previous attitudes, if a child can make a parent sin, then what happens? Well, then we're both wrong. Sometimes children in sin are just looking to get their parents to that point of anger and heat and temper where they do something wrong. And what is the net effect of that? It brings the parent down to their level, right? We're both wrong. There's an equality that could perhaps be attained if you can take the parent down to your level as a child. Well, what do you think's going on here in the wilderness? The devil's tempting Jesus to do what? To sin. And what would be the outcome of that? Well, suddenly, suddenly then, the differences between the devil and Jesus are just a matter of degree and not of nature. It's very possible. I can't say this dogmatically because I don't know what dogmatically, but it's very possible that that's the objective. To somehow even the playing field to be like God, if I can't rise up to His level, maybe I can break Him. Whatever the case, the objective here clearly is that the devil wants Jesus here to do that which He shouldn't do, to give in the temptation of the human flesh. And as we're going to see in the text, Jesus won't fall for it. All right, let's expand on this now. Let's look at verses one and two and then just work our way through this short passage. Verses one and two. Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. This is not an accident. This is intentional. God sends him there. The Spirit leads him there. And when He had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, which is a significant number, afterward He was hungry because He was a man of flesh and blood, just as He was fully God, He was also fully man. All right. As we said a few moments ago, this passage occurs at the outset of Christ's ministry, really at the start. It's right after He was baptized and before He recruits His disciples, which will occur later on in this same chapter. Now, verse one suggests that the Spirit, remember, had come down as a dove at Christ's baptism and lighted upon Him. The same Spirit drives Him out after the baptism. After God has said, this is my Son in whom I am well pleased, He's driven out into the wilderness in order that He would be tempted, in order that He would be tested, in order that His obedience would be put to the test in the most difficult of landscapes. Now, again, at face value, you can stand back and go, well, why? I mean, I get it happened, I read it happened, but why? Why did God the Father, why did the Spirit hand deliver the Son into just the most rugged landscape on earth, which if you've ever been there or looked out upon it, it's like the moon. It's hard to describe. When you look out at this, it looks like the least desirable place you could possibly ever spend a day, let alone 40, 40 days here. So why would He go out into that environment in order to encounter the world's toughest spiritual adversary? You're sending someone in the worst circumstance, the worst environment, in order to encounter the worst adversary they'll ever face. Why? Well, let me answer that question as best I can in the shortest amount of time I can answer it. R .C. Sproul, the Presbyterian theologian, he explained it in this way, and I'm partial to this, but he says, all right, here's the first Adam, way, way, way back in the garden, was tempted by the devil, right? The devil basically asked him some variations of the same thing, or asked Eve some variation of the same things that we're seeing here, put God's word to the test, and without any hesitation, Adam and Eve, our first parents, yielded to temptation and did that which was wrong. So the first Adam messed up, and the result of the first Adam messing up is that you and I are messed up. We might not like it, but that's the way it is. We are fallen as a result of being the progeny of our parents' first sin, our federal heads first sin all these years back. So Adam messed up. Well, in Romans 5, we see that, all right, if Adam is messed up, then what do we need? Well, we need a better Adam to come along. If Adam messed up, we need a better Adam to come along and do that which is right and live up to God's standard and to pass the tests and temptations that he might face. Well, Sproul makes the case, and I agree, that the whole objective here going out in the desert is that the second Adam would do what the first Adam failed to do, be tempted and yet stand. But here's the difference. If you think about Adam and Eve, think about the garden. Was the garden a nice place? What do you think? I would think so. Based on everything we read there, it sounds pretty grand. So Adam and Eve are just in this lush garden. There's fruit on all sorts of trees. I mean, there was one tree not to eat from. Everything else was cool though, right? So there's animals and plants and flora and fauna and just good times. It's the garden of Eden. It can't be that bad. Contrast that to the wilderness here. And what you see is that one difference between the test of the first Adam and the second Adam is the environment.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
Fresh update on "several times" discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"Does he really mean that? I do know. Does he know what he's saying? But what's interesting to me is he does know what he's saying because in the public realm, from what I can tell, generally speaking, people don't believe in forgiveness. They believe if you forgive people for things that they have done, you'll be crushed. You can't forgive people. When Lee Atwater, conservative Republican official who recently died of cancer, now, maybe some of you saw this, it just didn't get the press I thought it probably deserved, but Lee Atwater was a dirty politician, a backstabber, somebody who went and dug up dirt and used it against opponents in campaigns. He got cancer. Before he died, he was converted. From what I can tell, he became a born-again Christian. And what he began to do is he began to confess and ask for forgiveness. He began to confess his sins to people. He said, I was a dirty politician. I was a dirty dog. It was interesting to see how people responded. It was interesting to see what the writers and the pundits and the columnists said. Basically, they had to be a little bit careful because the man was dying. The man was dying. And they liked the fact that he was admitting he was a dirty dog. But basically, you could tell what they were saying is, what do you mean forgive? How do you forgive somebody for something like that? What do you mean wipe the slate clean and everything's okay? Come on. Nobody believes in that, really. You don't forgive groups of people for sins against other groups of people. You don't do that. All you do is you remind them about it forever. You never ever ever ever forgive. Somebody decides to ask forgiveness, good. I'm glad he's admitted the kind of person he really is. But forgive him? Come on. Chuck Colson, who worked in the Nixon administration, who's a very famous born-again Christian type, the way in which he's regarded, from what I can tell, basically by the media, is with absolute scorn. The idea that somebody who did the things that he did, now he gets converted and he says, God has forgiven me, and he expects us to forgive and forget, to wipe the past clean. Come on. See, that's the attitude. The attitude is to forgive means you put yourself in a place of weakness and you will be absolutely crushed. And when you get married, you find it's actually the opposite. If you don't forgive, if you don't put the past behind you, if you don't start clean, you will be crushed. It's exactly the opposite. You see, out in the world people say, hey, you achieve or you don't. If you fail, if you blow it, don't ask us to forgive. Don't ask us to wipe out the past. If you sin, it'll be on your blot forever. See, we always consider you that way. Give me a break. Wipe out the past forgiveness. Come on. You'll be crushed if you forgive people. In marriage, you'll be crushed if you don't. And what you see in marriage for the first time is you can't be saved by your works. You can't be saved by your performance. You've got to be saved by sheer grace, by constant forgiveness, by constant repentance. In fact, in a good marriage, what you have is you have the drama of salvation continually and constantly played out. In fact, sometimes it goes through the cycle. I call it the gospel cycle. And the gospel cycle, it happens actually several times a day in a very, very, very small way and then sometimes a couple times a month in a large way and actually a couple times in a lifetime in a very, very large way. And the drama basically is you have peace, you see, and you have harmony until somebody decides to live for their own glory. Somebody decides to put his or her own glory and happiness above the other one. And because that person sins, that person decides to go his or her own way, decides to live for his or her own glory, there's a strangement in alienation. So here's a peace and harmony and then there's sin and then there's a strangement in alienation and hostility. And then somebody reaches out and there's redemption and there's reconciliation and there's peace and harmony and that's the cycle. And in every good marriage, that sort of thing is happening constantly in various, as I said, in various degrees of seriousness. Now, let me give you an example of what I mean. What do I mean? That redemption part is really critical. In the Bible, we're told, the redemption happens because two things are happening. On God's side, there's electing love. That means God, who has every right to be angry at us because he's been offended. He is the one whose glory has been impugned. And he's the one who's been trampled upon. That God puts away his wrath, covers the sin, reaches out and puts his love on people and says, I want you. I know what you've done but I put that behind me. I've dealt with that. I want you. Open your heart to me. That's God's part, electing love. And the human part is repentance. You see now, let's talk about this. You see, these two sides, the offender repents. The offended elects in love. Both of those things have to happen. But actually, though we know biblically that they happen in this order, that God is the one who comes after us and we repent. In marriage, the fact is it can happen either way. But it both has to happen. You see, what happens if your spouse has wronged you? Well, if you're the offended one, what can you do? You can say, I'm going to put away my wrath. I'm going to lay it aside. I'm going to deal with the sin. I'm going to cover it. And I open myself to you and I want you. Now, how do you do that? Generally speaking, of course, you're not very verbal. In fact, if you sit down and say, I'm the offended one, but I lay aside my wrath. I put away the sin. And I am open to you coming back anytime you want to grubble. You'll see, what you've actually done is that's not electing love. You're punishing the person. Let me tell you what it means to truly elect somebody, to truly choose somebody freely. What you basically say is, I know you're under a lot of pressure. See, as soon as you say that, as soon as you don't revile even though you've been reviled, as soon as you don't pay back even though you've been hit, as soon as you just say, like Jesus says in the garden, the Spirit is willing. I know you meant well. I know you've been under a lot of pressure. What that does is it gives the other person the open door. It's a way of saying to the other person, I'm not going to pay back. I really want you. And ordinarily, just that kind of thing, just to have the other person know that you've just slammed, but you're not getting slammed back. And the offended says, I know you're under a lot of pressure or something like that. That convicts you of sin. It convicts the offender of sin. And the offender says, well, yeah, but it's no excuse for what I just did. And there's the cycle. There's the gospel cycle, election and repentance. It happens. You see, that's the one side. The other side is the offender has to actually repent. Now, repentance is the thing you learn in marriage. And repentance, if you want to understand repentance biblically, and it's so important, I'll just spend a moment or two on it. You don't really understand it until you get, I think, into marriage, until you learn all this in marriage. Repentance, you can see in the parable of the prodigal son. There, the prodigal son comes to his senses, and he says, I'm not going to make any excuses. I come back to my father and I say, father, I've sinned against you and in heaven's sight. And I make no excuses. Not only that, I don't make any demands from you. If you want to take me back, you can. If you don't want to take me back, you don't have to. If you want to take me back, partially fine. Your schedule is fine. I deserve what I get. I'll do anything to make it right, and I'll take whatever you give me. That's repentance. See, it's not penitence where you're trying to sort of pay for your sins by groveling deep enough and flagellating yourself. Nor is it explanation. See, a lot of people think they're saying, I'm sorry, but they're explaining. They're making excuses. They're saying, father, you know, but hey, I was rebelling. You know, I was 18 years old, father. That's why I was in the pigsty, but I mean, I've been reading books about this. All kids need to separate, you see, to come to maturity. So hey, you know, I would like my place back. Maybe not the room I had before, but that's not what he does. In repentance, what you say is, no excuses, no defenses. I will take whatever you can give me in your time at your discretion. You know, that is what reinstitutes the relationship, and nothing else. It's one of my favorite illustrations. And when I saw this movie, I don't remember much else about the movie. It wasn't a terribly remarkable movie, but it was the movie with Ted Danson and Jack Lemmon and some younger kid. It was called Dads. It wasn't a big splash. It was probably last year. But there's this one place where the son, the grown son, talks to his father and says, dad, why did you leave us? He divorced the family and he left. And he left the mother with the kids. And the kid looks at the father, and they've always been estranged, and he says, dad, why did you leave us? And Ted Danson is the dad who sits there and says, well, he says, we had irreconcilable differences. We had two different views of life. We were both really young. Neither of us really knew what we wanted to be. And Ted Danson says, let me tell you why I left. Because I loved the powerful feeling I had when I made money. And I couldn't make money and have the job that I wanted to have and still have that family because your mother was always making me feel guilty. I loved the power. I wanted that more than I wanted to raise you, and that's why I left. And when he did that, he moved from explanation to repentance and instantly, instantly, he could see that the relationship was resurrected instantly.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from 10 Fun Facts About Realtors (#7 Will SHOCK You!)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. We are back. We've got a fun show for you today. We are talking about the National Association of Realtors member profile. Julie and I picked out what we feel are the 10 most interesting points from the member profile and I think point number seven, maybe even point number eight will really surprise you. So Julie, we have a lot to go through. Let's just jump right in. Yes, this is about all of you listening and the agents that you deal with day to day. I think I had a few little mini surprises, but let's go through these relatively quickly. First of all, the typical realtor had 11 years of experience. That's actually up from eight from last year. I think that that's probably surprising to some of you because you know, there are a lot of new licensees and some of you deal with each other all the time, but 11 years of experience is the average. Now we're going to just remember as we go through these points, Julie and I are going to do our best to sort of decipher, I think in a lot of ways, some of this information because when it gets to, for example, they're going to, we're going to talk about average income for the average agent and all the rest of it, but they don't think it's confusing to be honest with you. I can't really understand and maybe somebody who is more knowledgeable about this stuff can put in comments, Nara will often say things like the family income or the household income of the average agent, but I'm not so sure. I mean, does that mean like for example, there's a guy and his wife is a brain surgeon and she makes like $14 million a year and he makes like $4 a year selling real estate, you know, and so obviously that's going to affect the average agent's income. Again, I'm not sure I'm reading the question correctly, but let's just get right to it. Yes, that's right. We'll translate as best we can with the information we've got. So next is interesting because with the market shift, a lot of people like to say, oh, everybody's going to get out of the business and yet 76 % of realtors were very certain that they will remain active as a real estate professional for at least the next two years. Now, Julie and I predicted that when the COVID hit and all the rest of it, that there would be no major drop off in the number of members of a national association of realtors. And those of you who've been attached to us for a long period of time, you will remember us telling you why, and I'll for the rest of you tell you why now, because in previous, you know, fortunately there wasn't a slowdown following COVID, but in previous slowdowns or recessions or all kinds of other things like that in the economy, there hasn't been a decrease in the number of agents, but an increase. And so Julie and I went back as far as we could find from national association of realtors looking at the number of members, and it was very clear that what we theorized was correct just simply by looking at the numbers of agents joining during economic slowdowns. So why do people get real estate licenses during slowdowns? Side hustle. That's true. They need to make more money. Or maybe, you know, if you go back to the sixties and seventies, there were a lot of ladies that were looking to get into real estate that maybe hadn't had out of the home employment before and things of that nature, retired people, but really the real reason why Julie and I knew there wasn't going to be a precipitous drop in the number of, you know, members of the national association of realtors was demographics and demographics ultimately is going to run the show for the real estate industry for the rest of our lives and beyond. The number of humans in the United States that want and need to buy or sell real estate is only increasing. And it didn't make sense to us that, uh, just because there would have been hypothetically because of COVID some kind of slowdown, which as all of you know, there was not quite the opposite actually. Exactly. And just a flash forward to today, we now see that again, Julie and I's theory was correct and you notice all the other naysayers that were, uh, predicting doom and gloom about the number of agents dropping dead, like, you know, 2014 levels or whatever. They're all wrong. And the total number of agents did decrease, but I think it was, it was by basically nothing. And now here's another prediction. Wait for it. We are expecting the number of people getting real estate licenses will start to increase over the next 12 months. I'm following, I think what was a lot of people deciding to, you know, should I get a license? Shouldn't I get a license? And here's how I know that's true. The number of emails and the number of texts I get from people who are getting real estate licenses who want to join Julie and I at eXp royalty is through the roof. Absolutely. And I would also concur from my own private elite coaching clients. Many of them have gotten their adult children licensed, their transaction coordinator licensed, their assistant licensed. You know, there's a lot of things that happen, um, with a change and doing more volume that just, you know, people want to have their family work in the business. There's lots of that going on about 6%. By the way, I did read that about 6 % of current licensees, uh, got licensed as a result of doing something during COVID, you know, supplementing their other job, for example. That's a good point. I mean, there also was a baby boom, you know, so between studying for the real estate test and the, you know, the other thing, I guess there you go, Oh, and I'm sure a lot of those babies eventually get licenses too. I mean, Zoe's already wanting to get a license. So as far as those of you who are looking to upgrade your brokerage experience, a reminder Julie and I are proudly associated with eXp royalty. So if you're looking to join eXp royalty and you're looking for a sponsor, they'll be very proactive in your success at eXp. There are two paths forward for you. Number one is you could just text me directly, and this is if you're ready to land the plane and join eXp and you're ready to choose your sponsor, text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206, text don't call. The other thing you can do also is if you're filling out the application, just put Julie Harris, Georgetown, Texas as your sponsor. If you want to learn more about why so many agents are joining with Julie and I in our group at eXp Realty, by the way, our eXp Realty group, listen to this guys, our eXp Realty group so far this year has done 3 billion, 300 million in real estate transactions on over 11 ,000 transactions if I remember correctly, most of which are on the seller side. So if you want to talk about an incredible success during what should be a slower year for virtually everyone, our eXp Realty group is actually increasing by significant margins and units and in total dollar volume. So yes, we'd love to have you as part of our overall group and if you're ready to join eXp Realty here are your two paths. One, you can just frankly scroll down and click the link and go over that's in the show description below and read more about our eXp Realty group or you can just text me directly at 512 -758 -0206, 512 -758 -0206. In the market that is going to start happening, we're going to guess the next 6 to 12 months it's going to feel very much more like a real estate, frankly, recovery if not a surge. You definitely want to be with a broker that's going to have your back and definitely want to be with a team that you know is experienced to make it so you can help the most people and maximize your potential in real estate and please do consider Julie and I for the job of being your eXp Realty sponsors. All right, next surprising point. Well, next, in last year based on the NAR report, the typical agent had 12 transactions which was the same as the previous year. Now what was the sales volume? Well, the median sales volume for brokerage specialists increased to 3 .4 million from 2 .6 million, so things are looking up there as well. Now they always do a survey about how agents perceive what's going on with their prospects, right? Let's go back to that point, okay? So again, this always goes back to the interesting things when you dig into the numbers. So if the average agent and we are talking about 12 transactions, right? I'm looking at your notes. So 12 transactions and the average home in the United States is $400 ,000. So if you did, for example, I mean, if it's you guys, whatever your market commission is, but let's just call it $10 ,000, $10 ,000 times 12 transactions is $120 ,000 a year and you wonder why real estate is such an amazing business to be in. I mean, come on, it's incredible because during inflationary times, yes, everything is getting more expensive, but so is real estate, which means your average commission is also increasing. Look how smart you were to be in real estate where most everyone else is suffering from inflation and the cost of living and all the rest of it. You actually have a built -in pay increase year after year as things start to inflate even more so in real estate. So there you go, go you. Exactly. And related to that, 17 % of agents sold 10 million or more in volume, 4%, 15 million or more, and 5%, 20 million or more. Some of that you can chalk up to higher average sale prices, but again, go you because it's baked in that you're going to make more money doing more deals at a higher price, right? Okay, so let's look at the next one. All right, so at 32%, lack of inventory remains the most important factor limiting potential clients from making a purchase followed by housing affordability and difficulty finding the right property. I think difficulty finding the right property is the same as lack of inventory.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Fred Thiel Interview - Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing in Bitcoin & Bitcoin Mining - Marathon Digital Holdings
"At five, six hundred billion dollars of total market cap for Bitcoin, if you include all the Bitcoin that have been produced today, a sovereign who wants to go park fifty billion dollars because they happen to have a five trillion dollar set of assets in their overall portfolio, that would have a huge impact on the price of Bitcoin. INTRO This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 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, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, 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 Fred Thiel, who is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings. Fred, it's great to have you back on the show. Great to be here. Fred, we last spoke about two years ago. I'm excited to hear the latest updates around Marathon Digital. I'm excited about the boom in Bitcoin mining in the United States. And Marathon is certainly one of the leading miners. Tell us what's new with Marathon. Well, compared to two years ago, we've grown a lot. We're now with over 23 exit hash of installed capacity, about 19 exit hash operating, just waiting to turn on our Garden City site, which should be any day here. And we've also expanded internationally. So we now have a 250 megawatt installation in Abu Dhabi, 50 megawatts of which is up and operational. That's all immersion. It's the first site that we've designed, inspect, built and operate ourselves fully. So that's very unique conditions. It's the middle of the desert and next to the Persian Gulf. So it's very hot, very humid conditions. But we have this great relationship with the local grid operators that allows them to balance the grid using our Bitcoin mining, which they love at the moment, which is great. And that site should be fully operational by the end of this year. And then we've recently announced some additional machine orders. So we'll be growing our capacity to around 30 exit hash in the near to mid future. So we're very happy with that. Another thing, we announced a week ago that we were going to essentially redeem about $417 million worth of our debt for equity, which will put our balance sheet in a really strong place. We'll end up with a little over $300 million of debt with over $400 million of liquidity between cash and Bitcoin. And coming into the having, we think it's really important to have a strong balance sheet with no short term debt and a position to take advantage of whatever opportunities arise. Yeah, that's exciting. And I'm curious about the Abu Dhabi location. Was it more of a, let's say, friendliness to Bitcoin mining in addition to, let's say, low energy costs? But also, it seems in the Middle East, there's more opening up to crypto in general. What was the strategy behind positioning yourselves there? core So the desire was a couple of things. One, balance the grid, because in the summertime, they use four gigawatts of power. In the winter, it's only one gigawatt. So it's a huge asymmetry in the power need. And they had just put online a new five gigawatt nuclear power plant. And so they have this excess power. So what do you do when you have excess power? Well, you find a customer for it. And Bitcoin mining obviously being an easy customer to use because we have the ability to be an interruptible load, which for their needs is perfect because in the summer, they don't need four gigawatts all day long. They only need it in certain times of the afternoon and evening. And so where initially they were going to consider longer curtailment periods, they're actually doing it in very short increments now. It's working so well that they're looking to automate that whole process, which will be great because we're ready for that automation.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep380: Now I Realize That It's An Even Bigger Problem Than I Thought
"But I do want to let you know that realistically, podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, what's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And in this episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about urgency. Urgency is the thing that lights a fire underneath your ass. If you've got a fire underneath your ass, you're going to F and move. You're going to start moving. You're going to get up and you're going to do something. So there's this guy, super successful, multi, multi, multi -millionaire, several businesses. And I work with a couple of his friends who are the same. I work with a lot of people that are very highly successful. Something that I notice about these highly successful people, not all the time, sometimes they figure out what they want. They make the decision. They go do it. Like it's so easy. It's so simple. And other times they want to be frugal with their money. Even if they're a multi -millionaire, they want to be frugal with their money. They don't want to spend it all in one place. They want to make sure that they're going to get the value for what they're doing. And this guy, I'm going to call him Chris. That's actually his first name, but I'm not going to say his last name. This guy, his name is Chris and all of his friends keep pointing him to me. And he's had two different conversations with me, like almost two years ago. The other one was probably close to a year, like the end of last year. So getting really approaching. And I just dropped it because he had those conversations. He had those discovery calls. And I'm not going to force anyone. I'm not going to high pressure sale anyone. And, you know, someone like Chris, he's going to make the decision when he makes the decision. And I reached out to him yesterday and during the text messages, it was a Facebook message. I just asked him, hey, your podcast is being really successful. And it is. I want to get your story on my podcast. And he said he came back with basically almost a direct quote. I'd be delighted to come on the podcast. And by the way, I've been thinking about your services to grow my podcast. And here's the direct quote. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. Now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So Chris reaches out after a year or two. We could have been giving him more listeners and giving him more social proof on his podcast, having more people that he could do business with. He's already a multimillionaire. But in two years, he lost out on a shit ton of listeners. That could have converted into actual dollars. And in his case, this might not be the case for everybody. He charges a good price when he works with people. And so in his case, he avoided, let's just call it six grand a month. We'll just agree to disagree. He avoided around six grand a month twice. And it cost him perhaps many, many hundreds of thousands, maybe even over a million dollars over the last couple of years. And he says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought. So I want to reach out and give that urgency to you. Yes, this is self -serving because I can support you and I'll make money too. My team will make money too. I get that. You got to understand where my heart is actually coming from. It's coming from a place of you needing to have a fire under your butt. Sometimes, some of us, we just won't make that decision to start our podcast. And because we don't get in front of those people for a year or two, we end up losing out on a lot of money. We end up having more competition than we would have if we just started now. There is about five million podcasts today. There's about five million. Of course, there's way more YouTube channels. The last I checked was 60 million. I'm sure we're pushing 100 million. I would like to pull up that number and verify it. But I am sure that it's way higher than the 60 million that I checked it out on three years ago. We just crossed five million podcasts that are out there. When Chris had a conversation with me two years ago, there was only around 1 .8 million, which means his competition is way more than doubled, way more than doubled in his competition. So you wait and you lose out. Urgency, light a fire up your butt and figure out what you got to do, whether it is doing the same thing as Chris is now going to do, hire somebody to help market his podcast so that he can stop missing out on those hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, or whether it's you finally launching your podcast, or whether it's something about your business or your health or your family relationships or your spirituality. It doesn't matter. Urgency, that's what we're really talking about. Chris says, now I realize that it's an even bigger problem than I thought because he waited one year and then another year. And now he's freaking out because he knows that he's got to get this started, this marketing started or else it's going to make a negative impact on his business. We've got to get in front of those other people. It's not competition. It's not like that. I'm not trying to give you a scarcity mindset, but I do want to let you know that realistically podcasting is taking off. Podcasting is growing. I know that because I helped many podcasters launch a brand new show just over the last few months. It's how my business is staying in business, being able to support people that made that decision. And if my team is helping them do their marketing as well, they're going to grow and they're going to have a lot of listeners. I'm hoping that you get that urgency. You make the decision that you need to make to get off your butt and do something. Do something that benefits you. Think of something that you've been postponing. Think of something that you could have started a year ago. You could have started six months ago. You could have started three years ago and you just have held off. It might become a problem if you don't do it right now. Urgency. I'll see you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you've got, the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about Bird Church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The productivity trap
"In this episode I speak to Kate Cocker about the productivity trap and the importance of everyday happiness for leaders focusing on mindset and effective communication. We discuss the importance of maintaining a positive mindset and finding happiness in your work, realising that happiness is a personal responsibility and that taking control of your own happiness leads to a more fulfilling and productive work life. In this conversation we also look at the importance of communication and understanding expectations in the workplace. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Kate Cocker, how are you doing Kate? I'm good thank you Judith, how are you? I'm good and it's very warm here. It's very warm. I've just come back from Kenya and I can report that it was cooler there than it is in the UK right now. That is absolutely crazy talk. I know, I know. Crazy talk. So Kate, what makes you happy in life? What makes me happy in life? My brain immediately goes to being on the water. So I love my paddleboard, I like going out on my paddleboard and spending time on the water just being able to think and empty my brain and that makes me happy and my family make me happy as well. And also just feeling like you're being productive, I don't know if you have that, that productivity hit that you could sometimes get. Feeling like you're moving forward as well. But yeah, my happiness is really, you know, if I think about the things that make me happy, my brain goes straight to the water. That makes sense because it's so peaceful and there is a thing about being in nature isn't it that makes a big difference. Yeah, and I think as well, like if I ever get to do some open water swimming with friends, I'm always quite alarmed by how the world looks different when you're looking up at a duck. That makes sense. When you talked about happiness and productivity, it's interesting because that doesn't make me happy, but it would make me unhappy. So if I was not doing things in a productive way, I would be unhappy, but it wouldn't be a source of happiness. That's interesting, isn't it? So talk to me a bit about that. So what makes you unhappy about the productivity element? Like not achieving that, sorry. Well, it's just a waste of time and effort, isn't it? It's just like, what's the point? I'm very much one of those people that I don't run lists, so I don't do lists of it. I put it in my diary, right? So if it's not diary worthy, then I'm not going to do it anyway. And if it's in the diary, I like looking in the diary and going, right, today there's these things and here's the time, which of the times I'm going to do it, and I just do it. I run by the diary and I just don't like lists because it feels like lists are running me rather than I'm running the list. And almost everybody I know who runs lists never complete them. So again, for me, it feels like a waste of time and effort to write down a list of stuff to do, which you're not going to do, it seems a bit silly. Whereas I guess for me, I make the decision, I'm going to do something as I put it in the diary. Yes, I'm led by my diary. And it's funny, I've got friends who say, you know, they have other friends who will say they're going to do something and then don't, but if it goes in the diary, I'm almost like I'm controlled by the diary. I'm like, I'm there, I'm committed and I'm in. And if I don't make it, I move it. But you move it. You go, I can't do that today. So I'll move that. Yeah, absolutely. But I am a list maker as well. I've definitely had to learn that there are two things. One is that really there should only be two or three things on your list, right, each day because then you actually do feel like you tick them off. But the list is always going to be there. So I seem to have wrestled with that slight disappointment of not getting things done is now replaced by, you know, it's okay to step away from the list. It's almost just a tool for me to remember, you know, I'm actually more afraid of forgetting. That makes me unhappy when I forget. So actually having the list is a useful tool, I suppose. Yeah, I think for me, the very few times I'm on a list is if there are things that is a discrete thing, so like if I'm designing a new website, and then I might start putting things on the list of things to do, but in my head, I call them, it's my snagging list. Yes, I like that. So it's things that is like, you know, it's the snagging list as opposed to a list of stuff to do, but then that maybe that's just the way my brain works. Yeah. And you have to find that. I mean, I do think that there's a level of, especially for business owners, we do fall into the productivity trap, don't we, in terms of having to get things done, like feeling like we've moved the needle every single day is the key to the happiness. As you just said then, like if you have a list and you don't tick things off, it can be a real source of disappointment and unhappiness. So whatever works for you, really, you know, the biggest trap that people fall into, I think, with lists is that you write this huge long list and you forget to do what you do, which is allocate the time to the task. And then it's always very frustrating when it takes a lot longer than you were expecting it to, you know, but at least if it, you know, I am exactly like you, if it goes in my diary, it gets done. And if it's on the list and it doesn't get done, well, you know, it'll find a place in the diary and wait till tomorrow. I think that's what you said. There was a key, allocating time. So I think I've got a project to do. I will allocate the time and put multiple points in the diary of the amount of hours I think it would take. Yeah. Whereas I think you're right. You look at a list and somebody says, I don't know, I don't know what people list like, clean house or something. It could be 10 minutes or five days, couldn't it? Yeah. And that's where the frustration comes because, I mean, it's the time management thing, isn't it? It's like, I remember starting in work and having to learn how to manage my time by writing lists of, well, tracking what I was doing in the day versus how long I think things took me. And that's where the wrestle, I think, of unhappiness comes because you can only disappoint yourself when you're setting yourself up to fail. If you haven't actually assessed what it is that you want to achieve and how long that's going to take you and have got good at understanding yourself, then that's when the disappointment and the unhappiness flies in, I imagine, because you're constantly just looking at all the things you've not achieved.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Breaking of the Global Economy with Nik Bhatia
"You can imagine a world in which people actually have more power than institutions and governments. Bitcoin has the ultimate power in making the world a better place for people. Hello there from sunny Bedford. Hope you're all doing well. Got a nice weekend planned ahead. Obviously for me, it's going to be football weekend. We've got home games for the men's hopefully getting through to the next round. And our ladies who won every game this season, they're going to be playing some Auburn. So it's a busy weekend of football for me and obviously talking about Bitcoin to people. We've actually got a meetup at the game tomorrow. So if you get in this early and if you're in and around Bedford, you want to come down, come down to Bedford. We're going to talk about Bitcoin before the game. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at RS Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, and today I've got my buddy Nick Bartier back on the podcast to get into all things macro and Bitcoin. Now, when we planned our trip to Australia, Nick was a very obvious person to ask to come out and take part in the live event. And while we're there, we took the opportunity to record another show with him. And the legend he is, he absolutely delivered. Now, the first time I spoke to Nick was about four years ago. I met him in LA. I can't believe it. It's gone so quickly. But Nick has always been a solid person to have on the podcast over the years. And as ever, he absolutely killed it. He has a very good and simple way of explaining complicated macro stuff, which I know some of you listeners love. So big thanks to Nick for coming out to Australia and for all the support he's given the podcast over the years. And if you haven't checked out his book, please do go and get it. It's an amazing book, and Nick is an amazing asset to Bitcoin. Also, if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do hit me up. My email is hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Just a few things outside. We're going to be heading out to LA in about 10 days. It's gone around so quick. Actually, even soon. I think it's nine days. Going to be heading out to Pacific Bitcoin. But we're also going to be doing some interviews there. With regards to the two films we've made, Argentina's in the final edit. That should be released in the coming week, maybe two weeks, but the coming week. And then we will move into editing the Lebanon film. Two amazing films. Just, I mean, not the films are amazing, not that we're privileged to have gone out to these places and made these films. And just another big thanks to RS Energy for sponsoring all this because without their support, I couldn't have done this. Okay, on to Nick. Hope you enjoy the show.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The Future Of Crypto Is Being Voted On TOMORROW - The Celsius Vote Is Bigger Than You Think
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HASHR8
A highlight from Auradines 4nm Bitcoin Miner w/ Barun Kar and Rajiv Khemani
"Welcome back to The Mining Pod. On today's show, we're joined by Auradine, a new Bitcoin mining ESIC manufacturer coming to market. We talk about the unit specs, the team behind the machine, and how they expect to compete in an ever -crowded market. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out MakeMoreMoneyMining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining, called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting MakeMoreMoneyMining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? Check out Activation .Watch. See what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community, developers, and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many BIPs up for consideration. Activation .Watch. 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Solidify your trust in the world of artificial intelligence and the world of artificial intelligence. We'll see you there. Hello, welcome back to the MiningPod. I'm Will Foxley, joined today by Rajeev and Varun from Auradine. Thank you so much for joining today. We're really excited to talk about the new ASIC product you guys are bringing to the market. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Thanks for having us, Will. Definitely. You know, the market's clamoring to know more about you guys. The first time I heard about you was from someone who reads into Marathon Digital's deep SEC letters that they put out there, their filings. And they're like, what is this company Auradine? What's going on with this? And people are wondering about it. And then we found out this summer, you guys were public, you guys raised $81 million and there's a lot of momentum around the product you guys are bringing to market. So that's why we're having you on the show today because people have a lot of questions. I'm sure you guys are excited to start producing a new miner for the Bitcoin mining market. So let's just start there. If we could get an intro for both you guys, like your past backgrounds, what Auradine is doing, and then also on the product. My name is Rajeev Kimani. I am a Silicon Valley technology executive and entrepreneur. I've been in Silicon Valley for 30 plus years. Have been involved in multiple successful startup companies, as well as being a C -level executive in public companies. My background is in computer science and engineering, and then also an MBA from Stanford. And this is my fourth startup that we believe is going to be bigger and better than those other companies before this. Yeah, my name is Barun Kaur. So my last company was Palo Alto Networks. I was in the founding team and did two more startups before that. And I started my career at Motorola after I finished my PhD. Awesome. Thanks for that background. Fortune just did a great piece on you guys for like detailing the company. And it started from the question like, how did this company raise $81 million just like on the background here? And maybe you guys have some disagreements with that, but that aside, I like the ending of the whole fortune piece, which we'll link in the show notes, which is, and you guys are coming into a crowded market and raise a lot of money based on your background, based on the things that you guys have built before and as exited from successfully. So with that being said, let's talk about Auradine, the product that you guys are bringing to market and where you see it fitting into the competition landscape. Yeah, we started Auradine with a big vision and the vision was to build an infrastructure company for the next generation of the web infrastructure. And we believe that blockchain AI and privacy are fundamental building blocks that will really revolutionize how we all work and play. And we think that as we started to look at these spaces, we started with blockchain Bitcoin being the biggest blockchain and the most successful that there is. And then during that process, we connected with marathon. And what we said is, what can we do that's innovative and different than what has existed before us. And prior to us, as you know, what has happened is that Bitcoin mining has gone from CPU's to GPU's to ASICs. And then all of the ASIC providers have moved, have essentially been Chinese companies. And so what we saw was two things. One is that we need to provide a very robust US supplier of this technology, which is very important, especially for US and North American miners in general. So that was a very important aspect. But the second aspect is, was to do something that is much more symbiotic and constructive for the energy ecosystem. And so we have done a lot of innovation in bringing out this product, which is our very first product. It's the first four nanometer ASIC in the world. And we've executed extremely fast when people look at us that literally within from start to getting a product out in the market is not much greater than a year. But we have executed extremely fast on this. As you can imagine, we have an amazing roadmap in front of us. And we have some amazing capabilities in our first product. So we are super excited to bring the Teraflux mining product line to market. Awesome. Yeah. So it's kind of going on that whole line. Tell me a little bit about like the market you guys are building in. I noticed that you guys are building within the US, as opposed to Bitmain and others who are building mostly out of East Asia. Bitmain of course has moved its facilities a lot of times and they're mostly out of Malaysia. But then even like the chips themselves are coming out of Taiwan or in the case of MicroBT, they're coming out of South Korea. Tell me about your guys' supply chain, where you guys get your ASIC parts and how you guys choose to manufacture your whole machine. Yes. So I'll give an overview and Varun can add to it. But essentially, well, first of all, we are a US company. So we are a US incorporated company. Secondarily, the chip design is entirely done in the US. So we are based in Silicon Valley. All of our engineers are based here. So that's a second very important piece of it. So all of the intellectual property, the second. The third thing that we are doing is that we are, in terms of the foundries, we are working with the leading foundries. But what we paid extra attention to is that whatever technology that we use has a manufacturing plant in the United States. Now, turns out the two leading foundries, TSMC and Samsung, both have US manufacturing locations. And we wanted to make sure that those chips could be manufactured in the US. Very, very important aspect for us. And so, you know, even though some of the Chinese companies have moved to other parts, the reality is that the US has restrictions about access to leading edge process technology. There are tariffs. Are those companies bypassing tariffs using certain corporate models or not? Those are questions that are yet to be answered completely. But that's something that we have to do that for the US vendors. Awesome. Yeah. So let's go into the product itself a little bit more. And I like what you noted about like the difference of tariff restrictions. I think the geopolitical issue with ASIC importation itself is an under discussed topic. So from what we're seeing from public numbers right now, it looks like you guys released 22 joules per tariff for this machine with a plus or minus 8%. Curious a little bit more about some of these details. You guys can take this question as you want. Is this on the chip level or the system level? What do you think about that 8 % deviation from the 22 joules per tariff hash? Is that like higher or lower than you're seeing from competitors? And then from there, let's talk about the four nanometer chip that you guys are working on. Yeah. So this is the first product is four nanometers. The specs that we've done are at a system level, not at a chip level, because at the end of the day, customers care about system level specs. And then the plus or minus 8%, what happens is when you're in the leading edge process technology node and you're building the silicon, when you're manufacturing the silicon, there's a deviation in the capabilities of the silicon. And so that is really to capture that. Now, in terms of our competitors, we've seen numbers that are plus or minus five, and actually in other cases, plus or minus 10 % as well. Now we are early in the game. So as we get more and more learnings from building larger quantities of products, we can refine those numbers, make it a little more tighter. We may be able to improve some of these efficiency numbers as well, but we are coming from the point of view of being somewhat conservative. Other vendors before us have tried to be aggressive and then have missed expectations. And we hear that from customers. And so our goal based on our prior track records is to try to see if we can be somewhat conservative and delight people on the upside. So that's our philosophy. Barun, anything? No, I think that's... Great. I don't know if you guys have released these numbers and it'd be curious to see if you have or have not, but hash rate and then power at the wall. Have you guys discussed those publicly yet? Yeah, the hash rates, you know what, the world before our product, which is up till now, is that typically people give you a miner that runs at a certain terahash rate and has a certain efficiency. And what happens is that today, if you want to be able to go up and down, people refer to that as overclock or underclock. That requires either a firmware change or a different firmware, or you have to change the control board, or you have to write software on top of it to turn on and off these systems very kludgy. It's really, I would say it's still in the dark ages, so to speak, relative to the rest of the technology infrastructure. And that's because Bitcoin came from being more of a hobbyist product to the data center scale product. And it has done a bunch of batch work along the way. What we have in our systems is we have built in from the ground up the capability to go up and down in terahash rates, all the way from zero to 185 in our air -cooled systems, in our immersion systems to much higher numbers, some of which we haven't disclosed. And you can do that very fast. And that's super important for people who want to work with energy partners to bring down energy consumption and take advantage of some of those curtailment related economics that we get in a very rapid timeframe. So we have all of those capabilities built into the system. We refer to that as energy tune. It's patented technology. And I think people are going to love it when they see it. So we've done that. But in addition, what we've also done is we've made sure that these systems keep operating at high temperature ranges, which again is critical, as you know, in certain parts of the country, temperatures are getting hotter than they used to be, and miners are shut down for 10, 20, 30 percent of the time. In our case, it will keep running and will keep hashing and keep providing the economics to the miners. Awesome. For the four nanometer part, I want to go back to that. The energy efficiency, there's this general idea that as we go down to the size of the node from eight to seven to six to five to four, it's supposed to become more energy efficient. Tell me a little bit about that and energy efficiencies you guys are capturing within your new model and also how it compares to the market as of now. Yeah. So today, most of the products that are shipping are in five nanometer or older process nodes. To achieve energy efficiency, you do need leading edge process technology. In addition, what you also need is design and architecture to enable that. These Bitcoin mining systems run at very, very low voltages, and to make that work at very low voltages relative to every other product is a complex engineering and technology effort. And so we have both of those things in motion. As I said, we started the company literally a year and a half ago, and we have brought to market a product in record time, matching the best in class that exists in the world today. We have more tricks up our sleeve as we bring additional products to the world at Halfing and beyond. And we believe we are going to be the best in the world, if not within plus or minus a few percent of the best in the world. Both now as well as we go forward. So super confident of that. Right now, as you know, the world is in kind of the 21 plus or minus in terms of deployments. We think it's going to get much better than here. But when we talk to customers, we see there are certain customers that are very sensitive in cost of the miners. Others are more sensitive in the efficiency. But both of them care extremely about the variability and the energy tune features, which we think is going to become a must have requirement going forward. So yeah, let's talk about the auto tune features that you guys have put into this. From my understanding, there's a patent around this. How do you guys look at this technology compared to some of the other technologies that are out there? I mean, there's definitely lots of different firmware options for controlling a miner and controlling its temperature setting. What are you guys sort of doing different when you're building this unit holistically? Yeah, very different. Very different than anything that has been done before. So in the past, typically at a single miner level, you could actually run it at a certain terahash rate or shut down the miner, put it in sleep mode. Then more recently, people have started to put together an eco mode, if you will. That's the state of the art that exists today. And what people have tried to do is solve some of these fundamental problems through putting software level turning on and off of the miners. Not the most efficient way to do it. What we have done it is things that are inside a miner. And so we have these capabilities that are unique, very different than anything else that's been done before, where inside the miner through API calls, the hardware is able to change and adjust the various terahash rates and so forth. And what all you do is you just give all these inputs to the miner, and the miner figures out how to do it and does it, rather than trying to do it in a crudgy fashion outside through some software mechanisms. So that's very different, and that's where we have a patent for the energy tune and autotune capabilities. As you might expect, things like Bitcoin price, energy cost, transaction fees, temperature, all of those are inputs into trying to figure out what is the optimal point for the miner to run. More and more variables are coming into the picture. And to top it off also, autotune has the ability to go to tens of thousands of miners and be able to do an energy tune on each of them at the get -go. And we are trying to get to a point where we can do it in a few seconds so that it is in line with customer requirements where curtailment can happen at that short period of time. Now, there's a distinct difference between... So the autotune is one feature and there's the energy tune is another feature. Now, the energy tune also to couple with what Rajeev mentioned, we are using a machine learning techniques to do dynamic voltage frequency scaling so that each chip can be tuned to get to the optimal joules per terahash. Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies? The MinerMag brings you free data and analysis from all major NASDAQ listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out. Check out visualized metrics and data dependent stories at theminermag .com. Filecoin's mission is to create decentralized efficient and robust storage infrastructure for humanities information. 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A highlight from Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money
"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cass Pianci, and I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, not of the criminal sort, Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you, Cass? I'm doing good. It's been busy. It's been a very busy week for both of us. But today's episode is going to be about SPF's parents, the Bankmans and the Freeds, and their what appears to be increasingly important role that they each played in the criminal elements of FTX and Alameda Research. They called it a family business. They accepted incredibly large salaries. His father was getting a million dollars after requesting it because he was only getting 250 ,000 before. Mom pushed and tried to ensure that any money getting sent to the charity arm of the company had two steps of separation, two degrees of separation. And just really shady, weird stuff going on over there with the Bankmans and the Freeds. But those are kind of vague descriptions of what's going on. Bennett, why don't you walk us through some of the seriously criminal elements and what is happening? There is a decent amount of allegations contained in this lawsuit from the FTX debtors in possession against Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried that at a high level alleges that they were involved in specific aspects of the business and were closely connected to various alleged criminal acts and criminal acts people have pled guilty to. Starting with Joseph Bankman, he was involved with Alameda Research as early as 2018, which is when it was founded, and stayed involved throughout the entire time. The first several years, this appears to have been relatively informal. He directed FTX towards their first law firm, suggested their first accounting firm, was involved in consultations for hiring of certain executives and things like that. But none of this was documented in any kind of formal way. Eventually, in January 2021, he decides that there should be some kind of piece of paper that describes his relationship with these entities. And so he creates a document that describes his work for Alameda Research and FTX and FTX US, saying he's doing a variety of pro bono legal work and consulting work for these entities. What's interesting, of course, is that he was the signatory for the FTX entities and for himself on this entity. Really has kind of vibes of that loan agreement between Bitfinex and Tether years ago, where JLVDV and Juan Carlo was signing for both entities. And so that was one moment that really struck me as I was going through that is that he felt the need to, after providing advice for several years, finally in 2021 documents it and says he's providing this pro bono legal advice. This did not stay pro bono for very long. Later in 2021, he would take a leave of absence from Stanford University. And after he took this leave of absence, he allegedly told an FTX US employee, I'm no longer getting paid by Stanford because I'm on leave, so you should have me on salary starting December 1st. In December 2021, this is when he finally entered into a formal employment agreement with FTX US, where his nominal title was Senior Advisor to the FTX Foundation. You said it was $250 ,000. It was actually $200 ,000 a year, plus bonuses he was supposed to be getting paid. And this is where we get to the fun part that you made an allusion to before. He went to FTX's head of administration after signing this employment agreement that clearly said $200 ,000, told this person that he was supposed to be getting $1 million a year starting in December, and then he sends an email over to Sam Bankmanfried, his son, that says, and I quote, Gee, Sam, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I've heard of the $200 ,000 a year salary putting Barbara on this, meaning he cc'd in Sam Bankmanfried's mother and his domestic partner to help him deal with this contract negotiations that happened after he signed that contract. And it worked. It worked. Within two weeks, Bankman and Fried were gifted $10 million in funds originating from Alameda. Within three months, they ended up getting their $16 million mansion in the Bahamas funded entirely by FTX. And over the period after they got that mansion, they were able to expense something like $90 ,000 in various other expenses. And before he signed that contract agreement in December 2021, I do want to make clear he was also provided with an option to purchase shares of FTX US and FTX trading in November 2021. Before he was even employed with FTX, he was getting large options of shares. So yeah, I think that kind of is a good initial overview and we can get into some of the details he was also involved in, but they were receiving a lot of this type of monetary compensation. Yeah, well, I want to specifically bring up here some things that really made a red flag go off for me were, for instance, how they were keen to keep the residencies, the properties that they were acquiring with these gifted funds and all this money that they were essentially taking from customers, to be clear on that, that they wanted to ensure that that money in those properties would be shielded from a bankruptcy. And I'm just wondering, like, why, if they're so confident in this business, if they're so confident in their son, if they're so sure this is the future of finance, and I get it, you want to shield your personal property from a bankruptcy, but you just got gifted $10 million. You have to know this isn't exactly personal property, right? Like, you have to know your son is giving this to you. Your son is making money from the company. How is he making all of this money? You haven't really nailed that down yet. And you still are just letting this all transpire. Nobody was asking any questions is kind of what I'm getting to. But the questions they were asking were about, like, ensuring that they were shielded from any problems in the future. Yeah. And we should clarify the timeline a little bit here. There's a 2021 email exchange where FTX's general counsel wants to set up a meeting with their law firm to discuss how assets, including primary residence, can be structured to be bankruptcy remote. And Bankman quickly kind of responds in this email chain the next day and says it would be great, all else equal, if we could have the founders put money into property in the Bahamas and sent them a link to a description of an offshore trust structure in the Bahamas. He then discusses this with a lawyer in the Bahamas, another Stanford law professor, and his brother -in -law, and then ends up saying something we might use when we buy property in the Bahamas. And the reason I'm belaboring this point is because it happens, I think, about a year before they actually end up getting the house. And then, five months before they get the house, there's another thing that happens, and that's that they apply for residency in the Bahamas, permanent residency in the Bahamas. In order for them to get that, there's a $15 ,000 fee. That's also paid by FTX. And so I think what that kind of shows is this kind of series of planning that went into them eventually getting this mansion. They started discussing how to structure this about a year before, and I don't think they ended up using those trusts, at least not at the time of bankruptcy. They had already gotten their residency months before they got the property, and then they got the property. They wanted to benefit from this. There's no doubt about that. I mean, there is no doubt. I just want to be clear, and we're going to link to the very thorough protest article that goes over all of this, but it is very obvious. I think before we get to the crux of this, I first want to delve into this a little bit more. So Stanford yesterday decided that they were going to return all of the donated funds from this family, which amounted to $5 .5 million, which is a lot. I mean, I know that they get a shit, a metric shit ton of cash every year, but the idea that they're getting $5 .5 million in a single year from one family, one company, you know, essentially one family. That's how you get your name on a building and stuff like that. So they were donating a ton of money to this educational institution. All I want to say is that I think Stanford is disgusting. I think we see this in a bunch of these higher education, these private institutions, probably equally common in great public universities as well, but the ones that we hear about are like MIT or Harvard or Stanford accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein or accepting money from these guys, and then, oh, okay, you're returning it. Great. Well, you know why you're returning it? Because you got caught. That's why you're returning it. You're not returning it because you thought it was the right thing to do. Now that it's all coming out in these court documents, Stanford's giving the money back. They didn't do it one minute before that happened, though. Isn't that interesting? And I, you know, I think you should get into kind of the details of those donations, which there were many over this period, but like, oh, what a nasty, nasty way for a university to operate. I think the elite private colleges are at a special risk for kind of this because so much of their, like, existing structure is based around taking in cash and converting it to some vague elite authority. Speaking specifically about the donations from FTX to Stanford that appear to have been directed by Joseph Bankman, there was one that came from Paperbird directly to Stanford University. And this one was interesting because there was a lot of discussion about which entity to use. And what Bankman ends up saying is that he thought it should come from Paperbird, which was one of the entities that Sam Bankman -Fried owned that held most of the stock for FTX that investors were buying into. The corporate structure of FTX is a mind fuck. But this shows Bankman was aware of parts of the mind fuck. He says Paperbird can use the deduction. And when he discusses alternatives, he says we can have another entity loan Paperbird money, but that requires some paperwork. Eventually they get it all sorted out. FTX transfers money to Paperbird into a newly set up bank account, which immediately sends that money on to Stanford. There was another four million dollar donation to a Stanford fund for pandemic preparedness that he described as pretty much a no brainer. Bitcoin were transferred from Alameda Research's FTX account eventually. There was another series of donations where it was proposed that they give 1 .5 million from the FTX Foundation to Stanford College. However, the initial 500 ,000 for this came from an Alameda Research bank account, and the second 500 ,000 came from an FTX US bank account. There was another donation they did for a Stanford blockchain conference so they could sponsor it. That one was only 10k. But again, it kind of points towards how Bankman saw these entities as interchangeable. He said 10k is so little it doesn't really matter. So if we think that having FTX US is easier or safer for some reason, we should just do that. And what's most interesting is you talked about your name on a building. And there was a Stanford University employee who provided comment as part of this lawsuit. And this Stanford University employee apparently says that internally in Stanford, these donations were categorized as directed by the Bankman -Frieds. And like when they specifically got the big $4 million pandemic preparedness donation from Alameda, this person even reached out, should this one be categorized like the rest as from you all? Or is this one somehow different? And so yeah, I think that those donations kind of point towards how they were specifically using these commingled customer and client funds from across all these different entities in this self -promotional activity of giving these donations. Yep, there's more to where this money went, how much was spent, why they were in control of this. But I think the question that everybody wants to ask and is wondering about is how are they not being criminally charged with anything yet? And will they? I think we should hold off on that question for just a moment, because I want to talk about how Joseph Bankman also made sure other people he was related to and friends with got paid while he was in this position, because I think that's kind of fun. They talk about one example where he got a Stanford law student a free trip to the French Grand Prix tickets to the race so they could go and visit that. But I think the more interesting one was a hackathon that they had planned that was run by his sister. Bankman freed Sam's aunt. They hired her at a rate of $14 ,000 a month to prepare the FTX million -dollar hackathon and crypto summit held at the Miami Heat Arena, which was the one they put their name on briefly. They spent a total of $2 .3 million on this event, which was attended by 1 ,200 people. They were spending crazy amounts. They said she was authorized to spend like without a budget, whatever it was needed to get this event done. There was so much of this kind of like self -enrichment here that we'll get to your question as to how are they not being criminally charged. That's just grift. Yeah, obviously. The other person we need to talk about, of course, is Barbara. Barbara Freed, Sam Bankman Freed's mother. In her specific role, she, as you alluded to at the very beginning of this episode, described herself as her son's partner in crime of the non -criminal sort. And Sam made sure to sing her praises to his team, making known to her that he intended to rely on her direction regarding who to give to, how much to give to, and how it should be disclosed and told them that it would be good for them to follow her advice as well. And what seems really interesting is she seemed to have a great deal of control. The lawsuit even alleges she was able to unilaterally commit funds of Sam Bankman Freed's to her political action committee, Mind the Gap, meaning without Sam's authorization, she was able to take Sam's money donated in Sam's name to her political action committee, which is a great deal of trust. And even inside her own committee, when she had to talk about some of these donations, she would say things like, I don't know exactly what interconnected entity he sent the money from, but the business is real and revenue -generating, which again, I think, points towards kind of the interchangeability of these entities for these folks. What I think really gets interesting is Nishad Singh, who has already pled guilty for conspiracy to defraud the federal election committee, as well as a variety of other conspiracy charges. He was one of the people who appears to have served as effectively a straw -man donor for Sam Bankman Freed, and was advised in this process by Barbara Freed, Sam's mother. At one point when they were discussing donations to her organization Mind the Gap, and she suggested that, now that my connection to Sam is publicly known, because we don't want to create the impression that funding MTG is a family affair, as opposed to a collective effort by many people, including some mystery guy Nishad Singh, which is when she was suggesting that on their end, they would prefer if his name was the one that was donating to Mind the Gap instead of Sam Bankman Freed's. And similarly, she was worried about a lot of their political donations. There's a really telling one, where she's warning him in an email, And again, later, just the last one to really put kind of a cherry on top of her seeming knowledge of some of the criminal acts that Nishad Singh has pled guilty to. She said, And I think this, as well as some of the more specific tax advice that Bankman Freed was giving on FTX their specific finances and stuff like that, point towards potential knowledge of criminal acts. I tweeted out shortly after I read through this lawsuit, or as I was about halfway through reading this lawsuit, if I'm being honest, And as you alluded to previously, that is kind of what this feels like. It feels like these two law professors, who should have known better, had high -level knowledge of things that people have already pled guilty to, and were deeply involved in the business. Bankman specifically was even mentioned on an internal document as a member of the management of FTXUS, along with only a few other names. They had knowledge, they were inside the organization, and they had some amount of presence. One last thing that I think really hammers that home. When we went to consensus, and we talked about this in our episode that we did after that, Anthony Scaramucci was talking about his experiences in the lead -up to and aftermath of the FTX collapse. And one thing he said that seemed to be corroborated in the lawsuit is that Bankman was involved in them attempting to get the emergency funding. And as we said, and we shared the audio clip of Scaramucci saying it, Bankman apparently told Scaramucci, Anthony or intimated to him, that there was an asset liability mismatch at FTX. What happened to me is I was actually speaking in Sarasota, Florida. There was rumblings that day, I think it was November the 6th or something like that, or 7th. The Monday was the 7th. And then I got back to New York and I spoke to Sam's dad about the problem, and it was intimated to me that it was an asset liability mismatch, that they were leading redemptions and there were assets available, but they weren't necessarily liquid, and they needed time to get the liquidity, and they were looking for some rescue plans. And so at that time, I was a good citizen and a partner in the business. In fact, they owned a piece of my business. I was certainly trying to help them on their fundraising round.
Unchained
A highlight from Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers- Ep. 547
"I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? 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 22nd, 2023 episode of Unchained. 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 episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. 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Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details. But I think people knew that they were pretty involved. And I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, you know, why is he hanging out with his parents, weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business, and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People I think long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas. But to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting, you know. And yeah. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess it's the involvement like in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which is that I guess was is, and that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, you know, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition, and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? And, you know, to be fair to these guys, like in the, you know, in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as, you know, people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, like, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything, you know, everything is good scrutinized. And to be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and, you know, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see, you know, sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, you know, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court, you know, for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh, yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, they'll win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you know, you can only squeeze a, you know, whatever, rock so hard. So the question will be, you know, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, you know, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, you know, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like, you know, higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys. But it's a little harder from the criminal side. But all of it, just on facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, you know, facts matter, Thomas. So it is more discovery happens than they take discovery. We'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty, pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah. I think one of the ones that stuck out at me simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine something similar was happening with my mother. She would be like, wait, is this OK that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was OK, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was. Yeah. It wasn't 100 percent owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is OK, but I don't like someone would have said something. Maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean. But if FTX is so wildly profitable, I mean, it was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also notice is that the document hedges its language, saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags, revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like they either knew or blatantly ignored. So right. Yes. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right? But the standard for breach of fiduciary duty or unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know? Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So that's why I keep saying that. So you're saying, so basically they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor. And what people usually say is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So like a board of director, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there, that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So it's just this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and under a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also, so as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day to day. You know, he was often listed with FTX management. He you know, could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations. And I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. Campaign finance fraud? Yeah. Again, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on. Again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married. They're domestic partners. Just to clarify. Yeah. All right. 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The Mason Minute
Competition (MM #4566)
"When decorating did for the holidays become a competition? And I guess I shouldn't really ask when did it become a competition, but why did it become a competition? The other day I was driving through the neighborhood, saw somebody who had Halloween decorations up. No big deal. What, we're like 40 days away or something like that? These folks decorate all the time for Halloween. They decorate for Christmas too. I didn't think anything of it. Next day I drove by, their next door neighbor had decorations up. Even more immense than this person. Day later, somebody else right next to them with decorations. Are they competing amongst themselves? Are they in this together? Everybody's gone over the top when it comes to Halloween decorations. Back in the day, we'd cut up a jack -o -lantern or something like that and throw a candle in and throw it on the front porch. Maybe throw something in our window, a little cardboard black hat or a little cardboard jack -o -lantern or something. Maybe a ghost. But now people are hanging things from trees. They're covering their garage doors. It's gotten crazy. I feel like everybody is competing and this is just Halloween. I don't quite understand why it's become a competition. It's one thing to celebrate, it's one thing to decorate, but competing for it? Just kind of crazy.
The Mason Minute
Competition (MM #4566)
"When decorating did for the holidays become a competition? And I guess I shouldn't really ask when did it become a competition, but why did it become a competition? The other day I was driving through the neighborhood, saw somebody who had Halloween decorations up. No big deal. What, we're like 40 days away or something like that? These folks decorate all the time for Halloween. They decorate for Christmas too. I didn't think anything of it. Next day I drove by, their next door neighbor had decorations up. Even more immense than this person. Day later, somebody else right next to them with decorations. Are they competing amongst themselves? Are they in this together? Everybody's gone over the top when it comes to Halloween decorations. Back in the day, we'd cut up a jack -o -lantern or something like that and throw a candle in and throw it on the front porch. Maybe throw something in our window, a little cardboard black hat or a little cardboard jack -o -lantern or something. Maybe a ghost. But now people are hanging things from trees. They're covering their garage doors. It's gotten crazy. I feel like everybody is competing and this is just Halloween. I don't quite understand why it's become a competition. It's one thing to celebrate, it's one thing to decorate, but competing for it? Just kind of crazy.
The Mason Minute
Competition (MM #4566)
"When decorating did for the holidays become a competition? And I guess I shouldn't really ask when did it become a competition, but why did it become a competition? The other day I was driving through the neighborhood, saw somebody who had Halloween decorations up. No big deal. What, we're like 40 days away or something like that? These folks decorate all the time for Halloween. They decorate for Christmas too. I didn't think anything of it. Next day I drove by, their next door neighbor had decorations up. Even more immense than this person. Day later, somebody else right next to them with decorations. Are they competing amongst themselves? Are they in this together? Everybody's gone over the top when it comes to Halloween decorations. Back in the day, we'd cut up a jack -o -lantern or something like that and throw a candle in and throw it on the front porch. Maybe throw something in our window, a little cardboard black hat or a little cardboard jack -o -lantern or something. Maybe a ghost. But now people are hanging things from trees. They're covering their garage doors. It's gotten crazy. I feel like everybody is competing and this is just Halloween. I don't quite understand why it's become a competition. It's one thing to celebrate, it's one thing to decorate, but competing for it? Just kind of crazy.
The Mason Minute
Competition (MM #4566)
"When decorating did for the holidays become a competition? And I guess I shouldn't really ask when did it become a competition, but why did it become a competition? The other day I was driving through the neighborhood, saw somebody who had Halloween decorations up. No big deal. What, we're like 40 days away or something like that? These folks decorate all the time for Halloween. They decorate for Christmas too. I didn't think anything of it. Next day I drove by, their next door neighbor had decorations up. Even more immense than this person. Day later, somebody else right next to them with decorations. Are they competing amongst themselves? Are they in this together? Everybody's gone over the top when it comes to Halloween decorations. Back in the day, we'd cut up a jack -o -lantern or something like that and throw a candle in and throw it on the front porch. Maybe throw something in our window, a little cardboard black hat or a little cardboard jack -o -lantern or something. Maybe a ghost. But now people are hanging things from trees. They're covering their garage doors. It's gotten crazy. I feel like everybody is competing and this is just Halloween. I don't quite understand why it's become a competition. It's one thing to celebrate, it's one thing to decorate, but competing for it? Just kind of crazy.
The Mason Minute
Competition (MM #4566)
"When decorating did for the holidays become a competition? And I guess I shouldn't really ask when did it become a competition, but why did it become a competition? The other day I was driving through the neighborhood, saw somebody who had Halloween decorations up. No big deal. What, we're like 40 days away or something like that? These folks decorate all the time for Halloween. They decorate for Christmas too. I didn't think anything of it. Next day I drove by, their next door neighbor had decorations up. Even more immense than this person. Day later, somebody else right next to them with decorations. Are they competing amongst themselves? Are they in this together? Everybody's gone over the top when it comes to Halloween decorations. Back in the day, we'd cut up a jack -o -lantern or something like that and throw a candle in and throw it on the front porch. Maybe throw something in our window, a little cardboard black hat or a little cardboard jack -o -lantern or something. Maybe a ghost. But now people are hanging things from trees. They're covering their garage doors. It's gotten crazy. I feel like everybody is competing and this is just Halloween. I don't quite understand why it's become a competition. It's one thing to celebrate, it's one thing to decorate, but competing for it? Just kind of crazy.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from A New Point Of View (The Basin)
"I'm coming to you now from the basin This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for you to break it down a little more Take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know. Let's go Since I'm saying there's so much more to the story I just want to point out that so much more to the story May not just mean that it isn't finished yet like that. There's more to come but it also as a phrase could mean The story as it has been so far is much different Than what you've been told about it because in storytelling point of view is everything so I want to talk about that point of view is everything Point of view is everything Have you ever had a situation that felt really big to you in one moment and really small in the next what was different? You know the situation obviously can change but let's say it didn't have you ever had a situation That felt in the moment like the biggest thing in the world later you saw That kept me up at night that Okay, it's probably That the point of view changed the point of view changes sometimes because of you changing sometimes the point of view changes because of you as You change the way you see things changes as you mature as you grow as you get tools You should be able to look back over your life and go oh Wow, I was a jerk there and you don't even have to necessarily Call the person and say I was a jerk four and a half years ago But at least to know it moving forward and sometimes you make Repairs in relationships and sometimes it would do more harm to open an old wound But see the point of view changes Because of you changing and if you don't let God change you that's where you get stuck in a story you go Man this always happens to me and never gets my way and everybody always picks on me What is the Why is everybody always picking on me character, maybe you can put it in the comments for me, I don't remember but you know point of view is everything when it comes to I A friend was telling somebody the other day About working with a certain individual and I was like it was awesome. They came in they gave their all it was incredible Person sitting in the room didn't look like they were on the same page as me this person who had come in and worked with Me I had seen right they were they were all in they were going hard The the person in the room had been involved in the lead -up to the person coming in to work with me And in the lead -up the person was really difficult Non -committal indecisive I put a lot of extra strain on my team who was helping to arrange all of the details and so You know in that particular situation The person that was sitting in the room with me had information that changed the way that I saw the story There will be times in your life We're either an outside Observer or an inward witness Will call to your mind something that you just know happened this way. I know they took advantage of me I know I did 97 % of the work and got 3 % of the credit And then Time shifts the story Because of you changing growing evaluating Experiencing life gaining ability for empathy because of you changes your point of view changes now I'm gonna bring this to the gospel real quick because we could do Joshua and Moses, but we could also do Jesus and the disciples Moses disciple Joshua Jesus discipled Peter Imagine the difference of Peter telling the story about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane before and after the resurrection Imagine he's telling the story they came up to get Jesus. He was praying we were sleeping Maybe he leaves that part out of the story he was praying we were sleeping and I was trying to help Cuz when Barabbas came to get him I cut his ear off and Jesus didn't even appreciate what I did for him He put his ear back on he undid the work I did and then all of a sudden You know at the cross when when when he denies Jesus in the courtyard and then isn't there at the cross and then he's out fishing and Jesus comes to get him and talks about feeding my sheep and he goes on in his ministry in the Light of the empty tomb rather than in the shadow of the cross. I believe he told a different story After He had lived through a few stages of life and you will too you will too maybe at the At the time he wrote first Peter because he was older than he's saying humble yourself Like you don't know What you don't know point of view is everything. I was young and now I'm old, but I never seen the righteous forsake him and You know, we are not always on the same page with God. We're not always on the same page with God's Spirit It may be helpful for us today sometimes to Find those points of communion in contact with God so we can get on the same page so that we can have His point of view You you know that God has a purpose in the earth And he's working that purpose in your life and there is a bigger picture Than any particular incidents or preference there's a bigger picture than your past up to this point or your present pain and To get into that place with God where you can say, all right Lord, I want you to be my new point of view and that means Allowing him to speak things about you how he sees you because God sees you different than you see you your situation your struggle The injustices that have been done to you the mistakes that you've made and what you need to do next and what you can do next Point of view is everything The same Peter that was saying never Lord telling Jesus what to do was saying humble yourself because of you changing because of view because of you changing as you change your point of view changes point of view is everything and In the story, so little exercise that I was introduced to recently It was saying how would somebody Who admires you describe you Try seeing yourself through the eyes of Someone who admires you now that's hard for me because I am very self -critical. I have a hard time Giving credit myself and because of that I probably don't encourage others as much as I should but I'm working on this and The advice see yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you Sounded good to me and a little fluffy if I'm honest, but in the process of considering it I realized that my wife Holly Sees me through eyes of admiration and it's not the kind of admiration that's based on a lack of information Where she she doesn't know me really well, and she only sees a certain side of me So she admires me she sees everything She sees the days in the past where I couldn't get out of bed because I was depressed she sees the days where I go hideout in my man cave mind and Barely engage with the family. She sees the days that I'm irritated. She sees the days that I'm short -tempered She sees the days that I doubt myself You Know on an even more practical level she sees the messes that I make she sees the slob that I can be and Yet even today as I was waking up. I Opened this letter that she had written me she gave me a stack of letters for Christmas and there were only about four or five of them, but I was on the fourth one and She put a picture of me with a little note about me and it was a picture that she took of me getting ready to preach in Los Angeles last year and in the picture, I'm kind of like sitting there with my head in my hands with my Bible in my hand and I know how I felt in that moment, which was like I'm not the man for this Who do I think I am going out to preach to 12 ,000 people at the forum in LA? You Know I feel all this self -doubt and I can almost see the self -doubt when I'm looking at the picture, but she wrote me a note Saying thank you for working hard. Thank you for not just relying on your gift strictly, but seeking God to preach to us And she said I hope you forgive me for taking this picture without asking your permission And I thought Man I need to see myself sometimes through her eyes because All I see in those moments is what I don't have what I'm afraid I can't do but she saw a man who was trying to seek God and Lean into him Point of view is everything Point of you the point of You the point of your life is Not just to be self -serving the point of you The point of your life is to not just be a consumer who eats all the messages that professional marketers Send to you every day the point of you is to glorify God and to know him and to make him known and The land which I promised Their ancestors Joshua is getting God's point of you point of view What is the point of you being in this Marriage, what is the point of you being in this family? What's point of you being on that job? What is point of you being in that city, Toronto? Wichita Houston Charlotte What is the point of you being there? It's so the glory of God can be revealed he told Joshua you are leading these people into the promise and God is Fulfilling his purpose and from God's point of view it didn't start with you So don't start with you. How could it stop with you? He began a good work and you'll be faithful to complete it God sees The end from the beginning that's his point of view point of view It's everything I Believe That God can take you Into the future. Do you remember? The Apostle John he said after this I looked and there before me was a door standing open in heaven John revelation for one Yeah Yeah, that was different point of view, right? The voice say come up here. I'll show you the things that much must take place after this God said I'll show you Get with me Get around people Who not Will flatter you not just gas you and Not only admire you in an empty way people who God can put in your life to see the things that God put inside of you a view point of view Kingdom of heaven is in you And living from the inside out looks like trusting God Even when you can't see what he's going to do Getting his point of view his promise and walking in it Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast And if you did Make sure to share it and subscribe so we can get you all of these new messages as soon as they're available I also want to take a moment and thank all of you who are a part of elevation whether you support us Financially or serve with us or just share these messages It's because of you that we're able to reach people all around the world and if you want more information On how to be a part of elevation click the link in the description Thanks again for listening. 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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from Marriage Supper of the Lamb
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. When it comes to marriage, we often use words like soulmate or the one. These words can reveal an underlying belief that to have a good marriage, you just have to find the perfect person. But the biblical vision for marriage is starkly different. It's a way for two imperfect people to help each other become who God intended them to be. Listen as Tim Keller explores the meaning of marriage. This passage in Ephesians 5 on marriage, for the last time, is a slight mistake. This is not the tenth sermon on marriage. This is the ninth sermon on marriage. And this is the last one. And I want to start off right now by saying, unfortunately, there's a lot of people that I've talked to over these nine weeks who said, Are you going to say this? Are you going to say this? Are you going to get to this? And I said, Yes, yes, yes. I don't know if I'm going to do it. I've got to be done tonight. We're done. I'm tired. You're tired of marriage. And I've just got to finish tonight. From here, I've said, Well, I'll say this or I'll address this person. I'm not sure I'm going to get to it all tonight. And I want to apologize ahead of time. Don't be too mad if I was somebody, if you're somebody that I talked to, you know, somewhere in the last few days or a few weeks and said, Yes, I will definitely address that. I'm just not going to get to it all. Tonight, I would just like to talk about the, in some ways, the peak verse of this entire passage. I won't even read the whole thing again. But it's Ephesians five. And I just want to read chapter five of Ephesians, verse 32. We've been going in these evening services through the Book of Ephesians. We've come to this passage on marriage. And we're going to look for the 21 to verse 33. But I would like to just read you one verse and expound it and try to pull the meaning out of it. And it's verse 32, where Paul says, This is a great mystery, but I am talking about Christ and the church. He's able to say all this stuff I've been to. It's all been about Christ and the church as well. If I was going to name this sermon, I would call it, and maybe I should someday name this sermon something besides marriage number nine, I'd call it the marriage supper of the Lamb. What Paul is saying is everything I've said in these verses, you can say about the marriage state and about the gospel state, about relationship your between you and Christ. Put it this way. This verse is teaching us that there are some things we would never know about marriage if we don't know about how you relate to Christ by faith. And conversely, there are things we would never know about our relationship with Christ if we didn't know about marriage. When you look at marriage, you see things you would never know about our relationship with Christ otherwise. And when you look at Christ and our relationship with him, we learn things about marriage you wouldn't know otherwise. Did you catch that? That's two sides. And in some ways, what Paul is saying is if you don't know both marriage and a relationship with Christ, you don't really know either. In a sense, one teaches you about the other and you can't completely understand one without understanding the other. And all I would like to do is lay out, though you could go on infinitely thinking and reflecting about this, I would like to take those two headings and I would just like to say there are two things I'd like to mention under each heading. Two things that we learn. First of all, what does marriage tell us about our relationship with Jesus? What do we learn from marriage? What do we learn from being married? What do we learn from what the Bible teaches about marriage that teaches us what it means to be a Christian? And here are the two headings that I would just like to say. Two things and let's look at them. First of all, I believe marriage teaches you about repentance and grace in a way nothing else on earth can. It teaches you why your relationship with Christ has to be based on repentance and grace, not on works, not on good deeds, not on performance, because your marriage relationship could never be based on your good deeds and your performance. So first of all, what marriage tells us about our relationship with Christ, it teaches us about grace. And secondly, marriage teaches us about the relationship of intimacy to fruitfulness. I'll go back over both of these. Secondly, marriage teaches us about the relationship of intimacy to fruitfulness. I'll try to be loud. I know I've been in the balcony. I know it's hard to hear me from back there. First of all, marriage teaches us about grace and repentance. A lot of us think we know about it. We think we know what it means to repent and believe until you get married and you realize you don't know much about it. It was pretty interesting, for example, yesterday for me, just to hear briefly a place where R .N. Hatch at the hearing said, sexual harassment is unforgivable.
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: Ethereum Absorbs Alt-L1s | SEC vs. Stoner Cats | Mark Cuban's -$870k Wallet Hack
"Layer two summer is getting hotter and hotter. Three new roll -up ecosystems have joined Ethereum just this last week. This isn't just another OP stack. It's not just another Arbitrum or ZKSync. These are brand new ecosystems coming into the Ethereum layer two roll -up fold. Bankless Nation. It is the fourth Friday of September. David, what time is it? Ryan, it's the Bankless Friday weekly roll -up where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor. This week, no exception, yet we persevere into the frontier nonetheless. How are you doing this week, Ryan? I'm good, man. Back from permissionless, feeling energized. It was great to meet the community last week in person, get some proof of humanity. One time a year that Ryan manifests. Yeah, some hugs. Well, handshakes, high fives, stuff like that, fist bumps. Yeah, it was great. Anyway, okay, we got some topics of the week, David. The SEC, they're coming after the celebs, man. Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher. Gary Gensler does not like what they did with their NFT project. We're going to talk about that. What else we got? But why this NFT project? Is it because of the celebrities? We'll talk about that. Coming up after that, Ethereum collects three new roll -ups this week. Two of them previous layer ones, now layer twos on Ethereum. And the third, based on Solana. Solana on Ethereum as an L2. What is going on with that? We're going to cover that. And then Ryan, what's after that? We got Coinbase. Apparently, they have a 570 ETH work of Alchemix's money. How in the world did that happen? And should they give it back? This is kind of an MEV question. Legal question, moral question, some big questions. It's a quandary. It's a real quandary we got on today's episode. And then speaking of quandaries, Mark Cuban, he lost almost a million dollars in a wallet hack. Not good news. We'll tell you a bit more about that. David, before we get in, we got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Bridging Protocol, Platform, Layer Zero. What do they want people to know? Layer Zero and Google Cloud have partnered up and they are ready to bring the interoperable cross -chain apps of the future to you. This is what they want to do. So, of course, what is Layer Zero? It's a simple modular framework for applications to use the Layer Zero smart contracts that exist on 15 different chains. And then Google Cloud as the default Oracle between these different smart contracts are the service provider for passing messages so that apps on different chains can start to be woven together. So Google Cloud is the latest option of Oracle's for Layer Zero is served as the default. But, of course, Layer Zero, if you want to pick your own Oracle, that is something that you can apparently do. So visit LayerZero .network for more information if you are working in the world of cross -chain interoperability. Cross -chain, we're moving from this world of cross -chain to a multi -chain, which is different. You deploy once and you got to cross many different chains. So very cool stuff there. David, let's get to the markets though. Speaking of cool stuff, how are we looking on Bitcoin price? Is that cool? No, it's not cool. Not cool stuff. Bitcoin lost $100 in the week, which isn't that crazy. No, that's not that crazy at all. I mean, it's not cool, but it's not like bad. It's definitely not cool. Yeah, it's something in the middle. How about ETH? It's worse. Definitely not cool. Down 3%. Started the week at $1640 currently at $1590. I think I saw a low of $1575. Not, not cool. It's not cool. Thanks to Kraken for these charts though. And if I press reload, does the price go up at all? You should try that a few more times. How many times do you do that per day? Just like, you know, if you don't like the price, you just reload.
Evening News with Art Sanders
Fresh "Several Times" from Evening News with Art Sanders
"We've never seen what these 40 students and four adults would have experienced, but certainly there are families grieving today. ABC's Rhiannon Alley with more on what happened. The bus was carrying members of a marching band from Long Island to Pennsylvania when it skidded off the highway landing on its side tumbling and 50 feet. 15 year old Anthony Eugenio recalls the bus rolling over several times. Two adults were killed including 77 year old Beatrice Ferrari, a retired teacher described as the heart and soul of the band program. Also killed, band's the director, 43 year old Gina Pelletieri. The NTSB is investigating but authorities say a blown tire is likely to blame for the crash. Five people are hospitalized in critical condition, believed to be students. Other news we're just days away from a government shutdown. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy failing to get a stop cap spending deal with an end of the month deadline. I don't understand why McCarthy had floated a 30 day day. This is a whole
Bloomberg Radio New York
"several times" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Several times came back to what was one of the big stories yes the move that we saw along the US Treasury curve and really among global sovereign debt if you will in terms of yields moving up but China every day there was a stack of new headlines there definitely wasn't especially because this is the world's second largest economy behind the US and then obviously the third one is Japan but this is really crucial to see how that economy if you're seeing particularly especially this year supposed to be this big rebound here for the economy what does that mean when you have different trajectories for both of their central banks it's been tough going and we've saw that in certainly the economic data points of deflation fears a weakened housing market a crisis in the shadow lending sector so much a surprise rate rate cut so let's get to it shazad kazi is back with us we're so delighted he's got to report out a new note and he asks is China starting to collapse shazad of course is managing director at china beige book internationally were founded over a decade ago and really to work with and help institutional investors and CEOs navigate China's you know notoriously black box economy that's how they write it on their website it's well said he joins us uh... on this friday afternoon shazad the report you ask is china starting to collapse is it or is that just ridiculous no no china is not collapsing at all uh... the market is just so disappointed at the way eight twenty twenty three is unfolded they were expecting a big boom basket recovery uh... we argue that was very unrealistic that has not happened and so the the investment community has settled on the narrative that china's on the verge of collapse and the only thing that can save the day now is big bang stimulus we of course argue back and push back against that little thesis what's been the catalyst to prevent us seeing a bigger rebound here in china's economy since so many people were expecting that to happen in twenty twenty three i i think think some of the assumptions going into twenty twenty three were just misplaced you know we had two years of a very bad economic because of zero covid policies and of course a deflating of the property bubble which really you know not only destroyed household wealth but really crushed consumer confidence so expecting the chinese households to come strongly into twenty twenty three and spending left and right was very very unrealistic coupled that with the fact that you know there is slowdown on the in the external environment for china as reflected in its export orders as seen through you know sort of the manufacturing recession if you will that we're seeing take place in we're certainly seeing pretty slow down in manufacturing out here in the united states those are starting to add on and course of the critical thing the property market which is in a multi -year restructuring phase and will be a problem story i think for chinese economy for several more years to go just uh forgive me i mean shazad go back to what you said did you say what did you say about the big banks in china what was needed um the idea right now the consensus is that you know china needs to leash big fiscal stimulus projects the kind that they did in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and only can big bang fiscal stimulus save the chinese economy um but that's not going to happen chinese policymakers are looking to de -risk the system they want to bring down this whole again this over leveraged problem that they have in the economy they're not going to i think add further fuel to fire so then what okay so it's great that it's kind of contained domestically all right or at least how you're seeing it but i mean if if what's needed not is going to be done then what's i mean you know i think we talked with you earlier the in week like what do we need to in terms of a reset think about the china growth engine yeah i think you know as we discussed the other day first of all investors need to understand that they're looking at a structural slowdown in china they're looking at the economic management of the country they from depart the model that they're used to where we used to get high rates of growth now china is actually paying the price for some of it the political leadership in china has decided that they have the appetite to pay the political price because they see it as short term pain and their time horizon is a lot longer than the markets and investors and they're willing to pay the price today in order to set the on a more healthy sustainable pace of growth even though it's going to be a much slower pace growth of than anybody i think anticipated china hitting you know they're going to potentially do five percent this year we're looking at sub five percent for sure moving forward uh maybe even one percent or no growth down their line if things need to deteriorate and they're unsuccessful at transitioning the economy all right not apples to apples but is this kind of a kin if i think about volcker paul when he had a reign in inflation in the 70s like he had to do something that was going to make it very uncomfortable all but was going to put the us economy on the right trajectory is that kind of where china is and it's kind of the way of you know managing your economy within the property market and the way they deflated the bubble um i agree with that completely uh they you know pain pain it has to be endured because that's what happens when you deflate bubbles uh but that's exactly what they're trying to do and this year i think is a great example of the fact that they haven't jumped in to do massive massive um bailouts so i think that's indicative of the fact that they are willing to put the economy on the right track and to avoid what could potentially have been a much worse hard landing we may i think have gotten the chinese hard landing that everybody predicted this whole time over the last couple of years with the evergrande prices and the property prices we've that seen have you seen any sort of red flags brewing when it comes to their property market i think this year has been you know a very disappointing story for those who bet on the fact that property was on on on a a steady road to recovery you know you're getting sales weakness you're getting price weakness anytime you see an improvement in the numbers it's not at all sustainable and it may very well just be
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "several times" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"And streaming on your smart speaker. Your information station. Coming up. Can a convicted criminal be given life in prison if strike one of his offenses was committed as a minor? I'm Jeff Pojola with what the High Court has ruled. Plus we'll take a look at your traffic and weather. It is The countdown continues toward a partial shutdown of the government at the end of the month. House The is heading home for the weekend in the Senate. Delaware Democrat Chris Coons. We may need to send them a proposal because they're not able to get anything together. West Virginia's Joe Manchin not panicking. Kevin's a good leader. He'll do the right thing at the right time. I hope Hispanic caucus President Biden urged Republicans to think about how many people would be hurt by a government shutdown. The president announced another $325 million in military assistance for Ukraine, including more air defenses obstacle and clearing equipment. Two adults were killed when a charter bus load of high schoolers from New York's Long Island headed for a weekend band camp in Pennsylvania, rolled several times down an embankment 45 miles northwest of New York City. Five students were critically injured. A blown front tire on the bus is suspected in the mishap. Richard Cantu, ABC News. Newsradio 1000 FM 97 7. Stay connected, stay informed. I'm Kelly Blyer and here are the top local stories. People in Ravensdale are afraid that illegal dumping
77WABC Radio
"several times" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Can depend on us New York's talk station 77WABC I am ready to start the show The Mark Levin Show, Live and National at 877 -381 -3811 www www with the family leader and they hosted the first presidential forum of the 2024 primaries I honestly couldn't watch I didn't have time but it's over now I just wanted you to be aware of this because Blaze is a fantastic independent media operation no connections to any other media operation and Blaze was asked to participate in this process which they did and I understand went extremely well so Even those of you who knew you which candidate to support in the primaries apparently you watched and apparently was very successful but here's the thing It's not not just today you go to Lavin TV we put out a brand new program several times a week discuss things that we do not discuss on radio and on Fox it's a completely different format and it's a format that we developed many years ago you might recall we started with conservative review
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "several times" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"We update a few of the hour's top business stories Paul. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers says Federal Reserve policymakers are too optimistic with their latest set of economic projections. He's portioning that they are at risk of being surprised by both faster inflation and weaker growth than they're expecting. Summers spoke earlier to Bloomberg. On the one hand things won't be any better than you aspire for them to be on the other hand it's a good idea to under forecast and reform so it's a very difficult balance that the Fed has to walk. That's former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and for more of our conversations with Summers you can head over to Bloomberg Wall Street week podcast feed that's available wherever you get your podcasts. We are still seeing signs of a very healthy job market in the States despite the fact that interest rates have been raised several times now on the part of Fed. the Bloomberg's Michael McKee takes a look at the latest numbers on weekly jobless claims. 201 ,000 jobless claims filed last week that is an extraordinarily number low given the situation that we're in here. It looks like companies are just holding holding on, on, holding on to workers. 1 ,662 ,000 continuing claims and that is lower than the previous week. Now that number on first -time jobless claims reinforces the idea that consumers won't need to become caregivers anytime soon. Paul? Well the Bank of Japan is expected to keep monetary stimulus unchanged at today's meeting. Investors will be focused on any remarks by Governor Kazuo Ueda on negative rates or the yen. This is as the yen trades near a 10 -month low right now 47 .65. Traders are also alert for possible intervention, 150 dollars seen as the trigger level. Investors will look for clarification on Ueda's remarks to the Yomiuri newspaper earlier this month when Ueda said the chances are not zero that authorities might be able to confirm a virtuous wage cycle inflation cycle by the end of the year and that could be a prerequisite for a right hike. Well the trade chief for the European Union will be visiting China on a four -day trip. comes It after heightened tensions as a result of a probe on electric vehicle subsidies. The story from Bloomberg's Bonnie Yao in Hong Kong. EU trade representative Valdis Dombrovakis says he's looking for a reset in relations. The visit comes after China's tone towards Europe hardened following EU anti -subsidy probe. Beijing called the probe a naked act of protectionism. The EU will be looking to seek Beijing's cooperation for what will be a months -long process and it may use the opportunity to cool try to down some of the fallout from the EV investigation. In Hong Kong I'm Bonnie Yao, Bloomberg Radio. Right 31 minutes past the hour, let's get a check of global news. And US President Joe Biden promising the moray to Ukraine. Ed Baxter's got details, Ed. Yeah that's exactly right Paul, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is headed home now after a whirlwind trip to the US that had him for aid before the UN, US lawmakers and President Biden in a full house. Bloomberg's Nancy Lyons has more. President Biden is offering a whole new military package to help Ukraine through the winter with an on beefing up its air defenses. The American people are determined to see to it that all can we to ensure the world stands with you. But many House Republicans are cool to the idea of more Ukraine aid. Former diplomat Brett Bruin with the Global Situation Room tells Bloomberg SoundOn Zelensky's visit will likely boost support. It is hard to look Zelensky in the face to see that pain
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Verdict guilty. The once wealthy high profile South Carolina lawyer was also convicted of two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime. He said to be sentenced Friday morning. Winds in excess of 80 mph were reported as storms blew through the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex tonight, some roof damage was reported along with trees and power lines being knocked down as the storms blew through. Nearly 190,000 utility customers are without power across Texas. Residents in east palestin are making sure that federal state and Norfolk Southern officials know they are angry and frustrated in the aftermath of last month's hazardous waste train derailment, residents expressed their grievances Thursday evening during a public meeting that included EPA CDC and fema agents as well as Ohio congressman Bill Johnson and a representative from Norfolk Southern. Republicans want to give the Biden administration the authority to ban the Chinese owned social media app TikTok. Lisa Taylor reports Republicans in committee advanced the bill, but every Democrat voted against it in Texas congressman Michael McCall said there's some irony here. Well, I don't understand why if we deem it it's dangerous enough to be taken off of our phones and Congress, why the Democrats would want to allow this to take place on our children's phones. There's growing concern, TikTok is being used by the Chinese to spy on Americans, TikTok calls the attempts to ban the app, political theater. I'm Lisa Taylor. Tennessee is the first state this year to enact a law that will restrict public drag show performances. The bill signed by Republican governor bill Lee on Thursday prohibits adult cabaret performances on public property. I'm Brian shook. SpaceX crew 6 mission is finally off the ground. Trey Thomas reports three, two
What a Weird Week
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"Number two, Grinch hands out free onions to lucky speeders. This is one of those deals where the police force want you to slow down, drive safe through the holidays, so they devised this publicity stunt where the local media outlet goes and covers and one of the officers dresses up like the Grinch. If you get caught speeding, you receive an onion. You know, cute story, slow down, drive safe, it's the holidays. The reason this made number two on our top ten is the photo of the officer. Because it is one horrifying Grinch. If you don't have a chance to click the show notes, I'll try to explain it. You know the Grinch? Yeah. Well, this is some sort of demon Grinch. And if you got pulled over by officer demon Grinch, you would look out your window and see this creature approaching. And I think it would just, I believe, in my heart that you would peel out and flee. You would drive away from that hideous creature. And never look back. Maybe never go home again. Every time you shot your eyes, you would see that demon Grinch face and you'd be like, ah, end up in therapy for years and years and years. That's my thought. If you want to click the show notes and see the photo of demon Grinch, you have been warned. Honorable. Got an honorable mention here. I didn't want to talk about it. It's all over the feeds, and some people find it hilarious. So I'm going to try, but I'm really buttoned down. It's about these scientific find the snakes thing that was out this week. Scientists finally found a snake's okay, so they were studying a female snake. There's something the matter with me. I'm way too conservative talking about a snake's naughty bits. Anyway, female snakes have two happy, happy fun love areas. The Australian scientist in the article, a lady named Megan, says there's a lot known about male snake genitalia, but not so much. Really, anything known about females. We don't have a photo of, I don't want to lose my PG-13 rating. We did not post a photo of the snake saucy snake stuff. Name the giant flamingo contest was a wild success. The Tampa airport made the news this past week. They have a giant 21 foot flamingo statue with no name, so they ran a contest and it made the news because they had to delay announcing the winning name that got too many entries to handle. Just wonderful. People are getting into the spirit of naming flamingos. Got a lot of media attention. People love a good name, the flamingo story. Such a cold, cold stare. It is a creepy statue. I know. I got creeped out easily, but cold dead eyes. One. Okay, number one, this is a wild one. Wild pregnant lady on a plane story. Police in Spain had a spring in to action the other day after this weirdness at the airport, a lady went into labor. And so her flight from Casablanca to Istanbul. Made an emergency landing in Barcelona, Spain. So she started in Casablanca, goes in the labor, emergency landing in Spain. When the plane lands, a bunch of people got off the flight and made a run for it. It turns out the lady was faking going into labor and has since been charged by police, some of the people who illegally entered Spain have been rounded up, but some are still at large. So it seems like I guess I say allegedly, I'm not sure anymore legally what I'm allowed to say. Allegedly, or it seems as though the article indicates that this was all a plan. The lady is pregnant, by the way, wasn't faking that, but not in labor and was never in labor. That was a wild one to end on, let's go, let's be done. Thank you for listening though. I appreciate that and if you can share, you can like, you can subscribe for star review. I usually ask for 5 stars, but my holiday gift to you is only asking for a four star. I'm gonna save you that extra step up the 5th star, thanks for your four star reviews on Apple podcasts. Next week, it's almost Christmas, got something special in the hopper for next week, but in case I don't catch you. I have a very happy holiday season. Or if you don't celebrate, you can still season solos there and you can still have happiness,
What a Weird Week
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"Thank you for coming back to the podcast or checking out for the first time the podcast called what a weird week we do a countdown of the ten weird news stories of the week from the news, the news stories. Ten. All right, number ten squirrel gets Minnesota man arrested. I don't want to make light of how super duper unsafe this fellow allegedly was. The squirrels held very clever to get a hammer arrested the 76 year old fellow from Minnesota got arrested after neighbors claimed he shot their house by mistake. He was aiming at squirrels and I have to say allegedly, I believe, so he allegedly until the courts decide allegedly shot the neighbor's house. He was at war with the squirrels in his bird feeder, the rules of engagement in a squirrel war do not allow for shooting your neighbor's house. According to The Associated Press, the authorities say when the man was taken into custody, his wife said, well, I told you. Comforting the neighbors found a bullet and broken glass in their house, just super duper dangerous, and it looks like the squirrels won this war. At least one this battle. 9. 9, they just sold the oldest jeans in the world, and now there is a tug of pants. A tug of pants, you guys. I was so proud when I wrote that. Copyright 2022 weird week productions. Tug of pants. Now I regret all of it. It wasn't that great. At the time though, maybe that was a little tired, tug of pants. The jeans sold at auction for a 114,000, they were recovered from a ship that sank in 1857 off the coast of North Carolina. Their white button flies. I don't know, or they still in style, I don't know from style anymore, you guys. The officials at the auction say, oldest jeans in the world, but other people say, not officially jeans even. Some people were quoted in the article. So that's where I get into tug of war over the jeans except tug of pants. Did I mention tug of pants? The term tug of pants is something I, yeah. All right. Some people say the genes are connected to mister Levi Strauss, the Levi's jeans, but they Levi's has a historian, and the historian says, nope. No way, not officially connected to anything with our company. So people are taking sides. Pants war. 8. Just before we continue, there's been a lot of war talk already, and I don't want, I mean, it's a time for peace. The holiday season. Instead of a pants war, what about a no pants war? Would that alter the course of the human race if from now on it was mandatory if you're going to go to war? Everybody had to take their pants off. With that, maybe there would be more, would there be more peace? I'm going to write that one down in the idea book and we'll come back to it sometime. 8. Number 8 is a happy story. Good news story, oranges, to save human race. Study from western university and molecule in oranges and tangerines might reduce obesity, prevent diabetes and prevent heart disease. It helped obese mice get healthy. They don't know exactly how it does it. Next step human trials. We've had orange is a long time you guys. We knew they were full of vitamin C who to thunk that somebody somewhere was still studying oranges. You know what I mean? It's a vitamin C fruit. Let's move on to something else. That's what I imagined happen with the fruit scientists, but no. Somebody was still looking into oranges and there's something else here that might save the human race. So I say way to go science. I love that. 7. Number 7 is another happy story and another human race gets saved story cave people are also going to save the human race. They found antibiotics in the DNA of Neanderthals, Neanderthals, maybe is how you would want me to say it. Anyway, they're hoping this DNA find will make us all healthy. Maybe we'll live forever, you guys. There's more to it, you can click the show notes. 6. Oh, and if you have a chance to click the show notes, new scientists tweeted out a photo of Neanderthal, or maybe a denisovan. Cave person. And all I can really describe it is as though the cave person is maybe acting flirty. You might want to click the photo. If you have a second to do that, cards on the table, I'm going to make one 68th of a cent if you click the blog, so thank you in advance. 6. Number 6, another great story that came out this past week about how we're all saved. You guys were saved. Cold fusion was announced on Tuesday, and then we were back to eating pork rinds by Wednesday, or is it just me? Was it just me, you guys? It's a holiday season. Time to eat pork rinds. U.S. Department of Energy announced on Tuesday, nuclear fusion, the quote is, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century. The key to this fusion breakthrough is we're getting more energy out than we're putting in this time. I think there's been fusion we've even in this podcast talked about fusion before, but the key is you want to get more energy out of the process than it takes to get the process going. And that's what they're saying is happening. The hope is clean, cheap fusion, and we're all saved, you guys. To be continued. 5. Number 5 is another breakthrough you guys. It's going to make our lives better. Gold is the answer to your fogged up glasses. Can you imagine the same week that they announced we have fusion, they also announced that they figured out how to not have fogged up eyeglasses. These scientists working on breakthroughs probably in the same lab. They Sally how's the fusion going? I think we got it. What about your fogged up glasses? Yeah, I think we got that too. What a great week. It's just a great week for breakthroughs, you guys. So they have figured out how to keep your glasses from fogging up is a thin layer of gold coating on the lenses. And they say it shouldn't add too much to the cost of your glasses because they only need a very, very thin layer of gold. Might take a little while for manufacturers to get on the process though. Four. Number four, all South Koreans to become one or two years younger. It's the law. This one blew my mind. I have no idea things like this, and I apologize if I'm just so ignorant, but I love to learn things. Like, Korean age. I didn't know what that any of this. So if you add someone from South Korea, how old they were. A lot of South Koreans would have three answers, and international age, a calendar age, and a Korean age. And a new law is locking in for all official documents you have to use your international age. That would be like here in Canada. That would be how we keep track. I didn't know it was called international age, but when you're born, you're zero. And then on your birthday, you turn one, and you count up from zero to, you know, all through your birthdays. But many Koreans use their Korean age, you start at one. When you're a brand new baby, you're already one, and then you count up every January 1st. So let's say are a wee little baby born on Christmas. Well, a week later, you're two. You start at a one, you already count it up. So this is really fascinating to learn about, they're just, they want to make sure everybody's on the same page, international age, for official documents in South Korea. Three. That's number three. That's the sound of a mini Martian tornado, not really a tornado, but you know dust devil? They have dust Devils on Mars, you guys. Did you know I didn't know that? One happened while the NASA rover had its microphone switched on, they got about ten seconds of what it sounded like. We played it for you. That was the actual audio. It could have been me in the parking lot at work here on my cell phone and just sounds like wind hitting a microphone and some dust. I want to hear it again.
KDWN 720AM
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"Close to wine country. So what's to celebrate with pretty good? There's gonna be plenty of wine in the clubhouse. I'm sure and for guys like Tyler Rogers from Bud Light for me Personally, I got some Scotch ready, so we're going to go enjoy it, and we'll toast to you guys. Kepler, making the comments to NBC Bay Area sports. It's the earliest date, the franchises clinched a trip to the postseason. San Diego, meanwhile, fellow game behind Idol Cincinnati for the second NL wildcard and after a premature bench clearing celebration, and a couple of blunders that almost cost the Raiders the game, the party finally began for real in Las Vegas after the Raiders won their first game there. Winning their season opener. Thanks to a furious rally is stellar Defensive play in a perfect play call that produced a 31 yard touchdown pass from Derrick Carter is a Jones giving the Raiders 33 27 victory over Baltimore. After the back and forth match up, head coach Jon Gruden said he felt like a cat that died several times in a row. Great pick up the pressure. All alone is very Jones and he will pass into the end zone for the touchdown and the victory in overtime for the Raiders, and this celebration is for real. I felt like I died and woke up and died again. And it was like a cat. I had multiple lives tonight. I don't like playing like that. It was Um, tough, but, um, again, we did a lot of really good things to win that football game tonight. Audio courtesy.
WBAP 820AM
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"A p dot com. Yeah. By 47. W B A P Tuesday Morning news How we, uh, we saw this story out of Texas and we thought we'd get into because I want to thought about this, uh, in this scenario, And when are you in the clear? And when are you not? Okay, Uh, this happened to Houston woman? Uh, who said she was in fear? After seeing a stranger looking into her home, Peeping Tom. He was looking through her bedroom went on a Friday night at 11 15. That would, uh, that would be enough to put fear into a woman. I think so more about a doubt. Yes or me? Yeah, yeah. Uh, she she grabbed the rifle. She fired several times through the exterior wall of her home. The man was here, hit at least once in the torso, staggered a few feet away before collapsing. Dead, uh, on the woman's driveway. Job well done. They say that there was no relation between the two. Um, this happened this past Friday they police arrived. They found the man like Dad on the driveway. The woman was in her bedroom. She told officers she was scared. She didn't know what else to do. She was in fear, according to Houston police, Lieutenant Wilkins. She grabbed that rifle and she just shot several times. Well, I guess I guess they haven't done their investigative work. They didn't know each other and they weren't having a lover's quarrel. And right. Do they know all that? She was being done? They say that there is, uh, there is no connection between the two. He said the woman was cooperating with police and investigation is ongoing. Is she in the clear? Probably not. I do I get the feeling this story's going to end with lethal injection for the lady. No, no, no, no, there is no more. In fact, this will be one of the very few times that I've given you a story and not Kept in the whole strum you Yeah, That's it for me. How dare you? As of right now that's the entire story. The investigation is continuing. The question is, Is she in the clear? And I'm going to say no. I mean, is it a house apartment? It is. It is a house. At what point do you become peeping Tom? If you're standing on the street in front of the house trying to look into a window At 11 o'clock at night. Are you peeping Tom? Or do you have to be up a foot from the window? I don't know. Howard Court would consider this Well, aren't you on her property? Yes, you are. Yes, but so to me, that is the deciding factor right there. You are on her property looking in her window. Yes, by the window, or was he out on the sidewalk? No, he was by the window window. But he was body was found in the driveway. Yes, he ran a few feet property, also her property. Well, I I'm so glad you asked me for this because I can honestly answer. I don't know. Yeah, I think she might be okay. And just based on the police reaction, yes. You know, the lieutenant saying she was in fear. She grabbed a rifle and shot several times through the wall of her home, hitting them at least once in the torso I'm all for and I'm all for that, right? I'll be darned right. She's going to be in the clear. If you're going to do something wrong, there has to at least be just an ounce of risk involved. And sometimes that risk is getting shot by the person you're you're wronging, right? Right. Yeah, that's a risk that guy ran. He picked the wrong house. Look into the window. Mhm. Well, And I hope that is the full Story will keep an eye on the five steps. You wanted to be A P traffic.
MYfm 104.3
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"What troubles you kick it into when you turn your back? Okay, So he was two at the time that every time we turned our back, it didn't matter who was watching him. He would find whatever we were drinking and he would pour it out constantly. And this was like, several times a day every single day until he did it with a can of red paint. And with the moving Oh, why were you drinking red? Paint it? You know you You have to turn to what you need to turn to. You know, they handle the kids, but we were moving, so we had some red paint open. Yeah, He just dumped it. And he was so sweet and so cute, but all my God, we just We didn't know what to do if you lost email he stopped. Was he pulling these things down a drain or just like all over the counter? No, no, just like on the floor wherever he was just dumped it out right there, wherever he felt he needed to port out right? The red team. That was it for you See in the car with you right now? No, we're home. He's sleeping. Oh, he is. Okay. So yeah, he's sleeping. Is he done with school Teen? Uh he is he is. He is now in baseball camp. Oh, Good for him. Okay? Is out for summer. Good deal. What made him eventually Stop. Do you know? I don't know. We had a baby right after that, And I think maybe he focused on the baby. I don't know. He just he was. I don't know. Good thing. He was cute, though, because Oh, my God. It's constant every single time. He did it, though. Maybe you didn't realize this. He was just doing it for his homies, you know? This is he was poured outwards. Comey's our first home. He's man. Was he there when your water broke? No. You know what? I was unplanned C section so but that would have been perfect. Don't just another mess. You guys are weird. I know because if he saw her water break if you like, See, Mom, you're doing it to you know you can't Oh, my gosh. Heather. Have a great day. Tell me said Hi. Good. Look at baseball camp. Okay, well, love you guys. Okay? Take care of below 43 my FM Valentine.
TechStuff
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"June twenty-ninth two thousand seven apple launched the iphone. Well other smartphones predated. The iphone it's safe to say that the iphone was the first truly successful consumer smartphone that appealed to the mainstream market previously smartphones. Pretty much just targeted geeks and executives. Now everybody wanted one. The smartphone would open up brand new opportunities for data collection in two thousand. Eight apple launched the first iphone to include a gps chip this allowed for really useful features for user such as real time maps. That can give you an accurate view of your current location that was huge right enormous benefit but it also meant that along with all the data that companies could access thanks to cookies and social media posts and search engine activity. They can now also added location data to the mix. Well now companies can know what you were doing online and where you were in the actual world. Now that'd be clear. Companies could do that for folks who are accessing the internet on desktops or laptops as well. It's just that we don't tend to carry desktops around with us at all and for those of us who do use laptops. We don't have them on an active all the time but a smartphone. that's different. That's a device that can ping back to home base several times a day sometimes more than a hundred times a day and that ping can include stuff like how much screen time you've spent on the device that day. What apps you've been using what sites and services you've accessed and where in the world you happen to be and again this allows companies to target more specific ads your way and now those ads could be location based as well as activity based. So maybe you're wandering around the new city and you start seeing ads for specific locations like restaurants or shops or amusement parks or whatever on the one hand that could be really useful as you tried to find things that you might want to experience the new place but on the other it indicated that the smartphone was really gathering a ton of information about you. And then there's that scenario. I mentioned at the top of this episode. If you hang out with other folks and everyone happens to have a smartphone. Everyone is generating data whether they're actively using their phones or not and part of that data isn't just what they're doing or where they are but also who they're with and now our relationships with one another the time we spend with each other and the places where we spend it that all becomes part of the data. Grab as well. i'd represents another way. The companies can leverage and exploit the information we generate one of the industries that grew out of all of this was the data brokerage industry. These are companies that collect and maintain massive data repositories about well about us these companies and sell personal information as if it were any other commodity because for a lot of entities out there. That's exactly what our personal information is so even for companies that might not have the means to collect your personal data directly through their own services can pay to get hold of.
Talking Tesla
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"Who would not have actually none of whom have ever turned a wrench in your life not true not true not true not true or even any tuning to talk tuning. Aluminum co covers trumpet. That's i can. I can do a mean toon. So i'm gonna. I'm gonna say he's not rate just about that i. I think he's talking about cartooning. We listened to it several times thinking that we had missed some context for your assertions. How many times did they listen to it. Several times. That was awesome. That was a one hour and forty minute show time or maybe just listened to that one part where we we shit about sandy and by we. Let's be honest we're talking about joel and it was really me. We're smart enough to not show up for that episode. Let's see you've scraped into some sort of greed base gumri at sling mud. It's my axel community. Tesla needs right now. We need this right now. We need sandy monroe. We need slinging ryan surge forward In its latest projects. There's a long way to go yet. Tesla and actually those tesl a the stock stock symbol. So there's a long way to go for for the tse stock. I guess away from yourself center. Yuppie angst the newest crap. How many tesla's have you guys got literally torn apart and evaluated and then offered a set of evaluations papers for producers consumers to study none but you have said something about how sennheiser audio products related a related. Ingrate de i said something heiser mike. Okay and i saw. Let's get to the point of this. Is you guys talk about sandy. And this young person gentlemen whoever it is could be a woman i said person okay. Es one nine one one somewhere. That's the guy's name all over all over the place. Usually whoever doesn't much matter like wasn't very happy with what you guys had to say about. Zanny monroe okay. Fair enough but weird just weird in general like the whole thing about like us being greedy because we said something about another person so actually tried. Commodore them like look. I think he misunderstood. We all love santa monroe where you think he's really important and and so i sent that out there. I'm like so. I think there's a misunderstanding. It and response. The response is great. Gutter the response to that was mel. Herbert what was said is on record. You can spin it but you've already lost any credibility as people of any sort thank. God thank god beyond musketeers. That's fine but it's interesting to see how you see. You see brains. That means you see branston calibrated breath a message into art of war. Good luck your done. First off not done yeah. He didn't even make this comment on the podcast channel. He made it on youtube which wasn't related to the chip any who. Yes you guys said some things about sending monroe being a a interviewer okay. You're entitled to your opinion..
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"The funny of this. It was not lost on her. In the video, you noticed the range of time stamps. Morning afternoon 10 30 at night. The Pink Panther seem always in the background. You'll hear it as Lindy eats at her kitchen table or Leans against the door frame in her living room, holding back a smile as she lays in a yoga mat rocks through her hall. When he picked up the horn and you first heard the notes. Come out. You're like, Oh, I'm in for how long? I'd say 45 minutes or an hour. 45 minutes to an hour. How or maybe got now. Now I feel like is that crazy? Maybe 20 days. I mean, I mean, maybe it was 20 to 30 minutes. It felt to me like it was never ending. It felt to me By the end that I was just it was all day all night. Lindsay was now working remotely from this Dublin apartment. Then all the Pink Panther ring became a running joke for the people that you worked with. They was so audible that Lindsay found herself constantly having to mute during video meetings. Because Mike's on phones very so much like I couldn't totally grasp how loud it was in person. Like, how loud was it? I mean, it sounded like it was in my house. So when I posted this on Twitter people were like You know, I got all kinds of responses. But people were, you know, wondering if I you know if if I was playing a recording of it in my house, but it was so loud that it will. It did sound like it was coming from inside the house. And I don't know if he knew how loud it Woz. Yeah, and I don't think he did. Lindy says this went on for weeks and weeks several times every day. Just to point out most days. This was actually her only real life. Human contact the saxophone coming through the walls, video montage that Lindsay made of all this. She eventually tweeted it. Accumulated 5.4 million views this for scale Miles Davis is kind of blue has sold five million copies. Theo Internet responded like the Internet. Some of the.
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
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"So, he says more into the jogger. He's got his brownies. His cup of coffee sets on the hood of his truck car, killing It's a text. Oh, comes around to grab the kid. He took it across the yard. And then the cat. The rabid bobcat runs underneath the vehicle of their driveway. Nice identification, Bobcat. Just so everyone knows. I mean, he was staring at it face to face. I mean, he's just like you held it up like you do like a newborn baby type figure like a puppy or a kitten, But instead, it's bobcat and pissed off. And he's face to face with things like is a bobcat Bob gets like I know are what made it attacked the woman, though you don't mean because Rabies Okay, Rabies. And maybe because so maybe because since they were going to take their cat to the vet, maybe because she had their cat in the carrying case or something I don't know. But instead of going after the carrying case Climbed up the ladies back. I don't know. Bobcats got Rabies, So there's not a whole lot of rhyme or reason, But law enforcement did arrive at the weight home where officers were able to kill the Bob Cap. The Bobcat was then sent to a state lab and Rollie We're testing revealed it was positive for Rabies. Because the bobcat bit both happy and Another, saying her name's Kristi. Ah, yes, Yes. So Christy That happy and Christie Several times. Yeah, That's a lot of times, which is we all know is seven. The couple has received treatment for Rabies, including many.
WTOP
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"Shot several times in the home they shared in all D prosecutors say during the trial that Welsh killed the two because he was trying to steal $3000 from re c'mon Wani. Who had been dealing drugs from his home. Next is the sentencing phase of the trial and Welsh faces up to life in prison. Some new research is saying that minorities and people who are not highly educated, will not benefit as much as whites from a long term shift to remote work here in the D. C area. A report released today by the Greater Washington Partnership also finds that public transit, smaller businesses in central business district and essential workers will be hurt by the shift. The partnership found 49 10% of jobs in the capital region are remote, capable second only to the San Francisco Bay area, but only 41% of black workers and 28% of Latinos can work remotely compared to 56% of white workers. It says. People who work from home could save 11 days a year by not commuting Christopher Cruz. W T O P News Some D C residents are seeing red when it comes to a stop sign camera that's been there for years. News for I team looked into it and found a nearly 2000% jump in traffic tickets. Investigative reporter Jodi Fleisher spoke with neighbors who question whether that camera is really too slow Drivers down or make fast money. The stop sign camera sits in the middle of the Northwest D C neighborhood and racked up about a million dollars worth of tickets in just two months. Neighbors say there must be something wrong. Some have gotten multiple tickets in the same week or even the same day. The item watched as the camera flash to drivers who stopped while others who rolled on through appeared to get no ticket. What DC's Department of Transportation said all drivers should know tonight on news for it. Six. It is 5 50 to the district is about to get a vibrant new retailer for black owned brands. It's called Gift Shop. It opens tomorrow near Union market in northeast. We've had this idea for quite a while to kind of empower other small businesses like cars and find avenues for other people to be successful, too. Mon George Co founded Gift Shop with Fairfax native Gary Williams. Junior. We're super excited to bring these brands Tioga Space. Black.
WGN Radio
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"You know, I've got this guy or tried and that's where I'd like to go in and talk to those players and say, Like I use saying that I've got this guy Are you saying Take this guy pointing at him? I'm a little bit confused on that. But again, national tried almost the exact same place several times in the Blackhawks still had a hard time defending at the Reed was not there. If you look at the other side of the equation, the Blackhawks haven't had those Those type of opportunities because national never broke down in either one of these games. Five Honor three on three They had great structure and they're playing a strict man on man. So you gotta figure out what you're going to do there and you work on it. You look at the video tapes and They said they did it, but they had some some of the same issues in this one. And some of the same players out there as well. All right, well, thanks for sticking around. Appreciate all the insight as always, great job. I You and John and we'll look for it again on Friday night, Columbus coming into the United Center will see that well, we will see there and I know John was wondering Patrick Lining is in Ottawa. Now getting is these and he still has to go through the quarantine so he will not be Available to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday, But her heart's broken was part of that deal as well. Local Columbus Kid will be playing in that game. I think, actually, he's making his debut tonight. We'll see. Line a soon enough. I think so. Yeah, we can wait to see him. We couldn't wait to see him. I know what he's about. We could wait, Wait to see Patrick lining. I'll be in a hurry to see you on Friday over the United Center. Thanks again. Thanks, Chris Shucks Primary. Joining us wish I could say the same to you could you could, But you would shoot out. Lost to the Nashville Predators. Get out of here. If you want questions for players get out of the zoom calls. All right, Chris. Good job. Thanks, shucks. Who won the Blackhawks fall in a shoot out in Nashville. We will hear from Jeremy Carlson in a bit will come back with the highlights of this one. Next. And 7 20, WGN pros bring something extra.
WTOP
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"Sponsored by Walgreens. I'm Steve Kay fenders breaking news about the impeachment trial of former President Trump and it comes from the Senate majority leader, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer. I've spoken to Speaker Pelosi who inform me That the articles will be delivered to the Senate on Monday. It's not clear how soon a trial would start at the top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has asked for it to be delayed until next month. Senate action moments ago, confirming Lloyd Austin is the first African American to leave the Pentagon as defense secretary. The Senate Finance Committee approved the nomination of Janet Yellen to be Treasury secretary. Back now goes to the full Senate. Everyone have a nice place to stay with her. Do you think this morning it was Chuck Schumer, greeting the National Guard of the U. S Capitol of moved to send the soldiers on rest periods to a nearby parking garage was reversed after an outcry. CBS is Katherine Herridge sandwiches. CBS News, the Capitol Hill Police said they immensely appreciate the integral support of the U. S National Guard. In its own statement, the guard said the move to the garage was temporary, and troops are heading to hotels or other accommodations. At the end of their shift. CBS NEWS White House correspondent We judge Jiang has the latest on new federal action to fight the coronavirus. President Biden plans to sign to new executive orders to provide economic relief from the cove in 19 pandemic. The first one will focus on providing more financial assistance for food amid a growing hunger crisis, and the second aims to help federal workers in part by restoring collective bargaining and worker protections that the Trump Administration rescind it. The National Football League, says 7500 vaccinated healthcare workers will be given free tickets to next month Super Bowl in Tampa, another 14,000 fans will be let into the game. As CBS's Jim Priscilla tells us the government's given the OK on a new HIV treatment. US. Regulators have approved the first long acting drug Kabul for HIV. The monthly shots can replace the daily pills Val used to control infection with the AIDS virus. It's a huge change from not that long ago when patients had to take multiple pills several times a day, carefully timed around two meals. High winds in California brought down two giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. There's millions of dollars in damage, and spokesman Scott Gettleman says the park is closed through the weekend. We have extensive damage. It's a huge operation Justin are talking.
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"Owner of Seoul street shoes Zak Monks, remembers his store being broken into several times last year during protests or definitely nervous from everything we've heard. It's something to be very aware of being very cautious of monks says his business was hit hard by vandalism and looting on a retail level about you know, close. $140,000 is what we lost post office. Is say they'll close early and remove blue collection boxes temporarily. Those boxes are currently scheduled to be reinstalled the day after the presidential inauguration and a nice Sunday ahead. Denver area temperatures around 50 degrees We do start that thick cloud cover right that apart again, but we do keeps in those partly sunny skies around and temperatures, they are still staying mild Fox 30 one's Carly Cassidy. Next update at 7 30 David Ko Ko, a news radio 8:50 A.m. and 94 1 FM. From the bed. Fred Sports Fabrics Enter your Sunday morning, Dr. Looking good around Denver, 25 north and South bound is clear, green and good to go. No problems. Eastern westbound on I 70 through town. If you are heading up to the mountains, we do have some slippery roads and some slower speeds. Westbound on your final approach. So about the last mile or so approaching the Eisenhower tunnel. Box 31 pinpoint whether partly cloudy skies today and Wendy look for a high temperature near 50 and overnight low expected near 23 in the mile High city. Right now it's 30 degrees. This report is sponsored by American financing, Refinance your mortgage and Save $1000 or more each month without.
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"I wanted to ask my couple questions. My first question is probably for Dr Weaver. Um, if we're only getting 79,000 doses a week, and we have 455,000 people scheduled For through the rest of this month. I mean, is there any worry, though? We are not gonna have enough vaccine to get all those people who have appointments and then also give people who've already gotten their first dose. Their second dose. That's a great question, So the second dose is not accounted in that so that's honestly kind of a number that we think of separately. So a lot of what we share is what this first doses but as far as the number that we're getting every week, so I think it's important. That is what we have been getting. Really consistently the last couple of weeks and what we have projected to get through the end of the month, but we had bigger. Boulis is a two beginning of the month. So you know we are allocated a certain amount in the in the middle of the week and then we're able to order those to be delivered at the beginning of the week. And of course, you can't give all of those vaccines in one time, so there is a little bit of carry over to make sure that we cover people until they get their their next shipment. So it's really not A 1 to 1. And then, of course, you know, we'll see what the next couple of weeks bring a zoo. We may have more doses allocated and released. Indiana. And I also want to know And I'm not asking for you Tol answer for for national officials, but we have there have been They had said several times that they think that we could have everybody wants a vaccine could be able to get a vaccine by late spring early summer, the second quarter of this year. In your opinion, do you think that is possible at the rate that we're going right now? We are absolutely ready here in Indiana to expand the number of sites, the number of vaccinators and our throughput on a daily basis to get through whichever vaccine or how much vaccine that we receive. So all of those plans are in action, and we're just waiting to have the vaccine available to do so. Yeah. Are limiting factor is inventory we have the network built to accommodate waiting are Whitney Dow Nerd C N h, i Good afternoon, Whitney. Good afternoon. My first question is have accepted for Dr San. There was a story from Evansville area about a long term staffer having an adverse reaction. And ending up hospitalized from a reaction to the vaccine. I wanted to kind of asked, generally speaking about the vaccine, any adverse reactions that we had reported And are we having trouble getting long term care staffers to take the vaccine? I know you said that they could go to multiple locations. But do you have any percentage is there and then I have a second question. So to answer the first one. I don't have a lot of information on the adverse events. I don't know if Dr Weaver has any around that she may make a comment in terms of the staff. The best estimate we have is really based on an anonymous survey that we did right before the visor vaccine was approved, so we very quickly mobilized. The resource is we had with her party in the school of Medicine to get out. Vaccine to ask staff working A long term care facilities of the vaccine was available right now, how many would be willing to take it? And at that time we had about 45% of long term care, predominate, skilled nursing staff that said We would take it today but in additional about 25% of them, so the total of 70% said we would take it but maybe a little bit later. It's really complicated when we want to estimate the number of staff because number one like we mentioned, some are going to get it on site. When the pharmacies clinics show up. Some are going to have gone to the hospital and some of the staff have had covert and recovered and maybe waiting for their colleagues to get scheduled first before they get scheduled, and some Because they have some immunity from covert may be waiting for the second or the third vaccine clinic visit so that they again can stagger it out. So we don't have as clear insight into the acceptance rate on the staff, the residents that are on site. It's a little bit easier because of right now for those and still nursing facility. That's the predominant means by which they get the vaccine. Let me let you, Dr Weaver. Ask about the or answer tomorrow happens. Or Dr Box while she's coming up. You want to chip in? Sure s O. I know. Indiana has had two cases of an awful axis, which is the more serious allergic reaction and both individuals did well, but did have to be hospitalized from that. There have been other reported cases of minor type things, some a rash itching, so I'm not feeling very well readiness or swelling at the site and those types of things that are reported to the adverse reactions. What we call bears at CDC are getting reported back to us. On a somewhat irregular basis. But other than that those are the main things we've had. We've also had on Lee 11 cases per million off an AFL axis or allergic reactions through the entire world with this, and although that's higher than influenza, it is certainly not overwhelming number of people. Lindsay. Anything I have Dr Box is exactly correct. Um, Whitney. I think you had a second question. Maybe. Yeah, I love I know how much you love to pivot to national politics. But as we speak, our House members are currently giving that another impeachment process. I was wondering if I could get Your reaction to that process, and you know whether or not there needs to be some accountability for what happened A week ago..