40 Burst results for "Silly"
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
First Births Can Be Incredible Too...
"You had this amazing birth experience especially given that it was your first baby which I always try to tell moms just because it's your first baby doesn't mean it has to be hard and terrible. Sometimes it can be a little bit more challenging but first births can be incredible too. I would love to know how you prepared. How did you choose what kind of a birth experience you wanted? When you found out you were pregnant did you always know that you wanted an unmedicated birth? How did that all come to be? I I wish had known any of what I know now when I first found out I was pregnant. I truly didn't. It sounds so crazy from where I started and where I came. I truly just had a whole education process through it all. I did not know you could give birth outside of a hospital. I did not know there was such a thing as unmedicated and medicated. I didn't know all the things I needed to consider. I think I was 21 when I got pregnant. I just graduated college. We were newly married. I guess it just wasn't something that I learned growing up. We started off. I went to my OBGYN who I had only ever seen once in my entire life. I didn't really know her. It was a very terrible experience. She wouldn't look us in the eyes. She wouldn't talk to us. She threw away our first ultrasound pictures and didn't give them to us. Just very not a human experience that you want to have with someone who is going to deliver your child. Very quickly I was just like we left and I cried and I was like there's got to be a different way. From there I set out. I had seen a friend post something and I was kind of following along her birth journey. She hadn't given birth yet but I was following along her whole pregnancy journey and she started talking about home births and going to a chiropractor and a midwife and all these different things. I just started messaging her and I was like what are you doing? I just need to know what's going on because you look like you're having a great time. Through her I found the account Pain Free Birth which I know that you know about too. That just changed my whole perception of everything. I grew up more of a Church of Christ background. We just interpret Genesis not the same way that a lot of other denominations interpret it. It's very literal and you will be in pain forever. All these things. It really took just finding that account and talking to this girl and really breaking down all of that and being like okay that's not what this means. If we go back and actually really look at what is being said here. We are not cursed. We are made perfect and whole. It is not meant to be an awful experience. That was just a huge perception shift for me. Taking that forward I took the Pain Free Birth courses. Really loved those. That just really helped get me educated and I was like okay I have to find a different provider because we cannot do an OBGYN. I would have loved to do a home birth which sounds silly. Spoiler alert I did do a home birth. I originally chose a birthing center up here in the Woodlands which I absolutely adore. From the moment we walked in I knew it was where we wanted to give birth because it had very coffee shop vibes. Was it the Addis? Yes. I love them so much. I assisted a mom there a couple months ago now. It is just like you walk in that birth center and you are like it is so beautiful. It is gorgeous. From the moment we stepped in there I was like this is where I am giving
The Voicebot Podcast
Fresh update on "silly" discussed on The Voicebot Podcast
"So people should be looking at that first. Okay, Eric, winners and losers of the week. What do you want to start out with? Winners or losers? I guess if I had to pick a winner, I mean, obviously it's very easy to say in video once again, but I'm actually going to say the people who have to manage companies and offices, the ones who organize meetings and so on, because not only did Zoom come out with their new features, but Slack has done a whole revamp and that's very much centered on encouraging use of generative AI. And I think that there's going to be a lot more integration of those tools into how offices are run. And for the people who have to be the ones actually talk to executives, their job is probably going to be a lot easier, hopefully. Yeah, fair enough. All right. So winners this week for me, it's hard not to say OpenAI because I know how much interest there is in that product. And we just talked about a couple of weeks ago, people are saying, oh, OpenAI is spending too much money. They're not generating any revenue. And we showed some evidence that suggests they're probably making a half billion dollars a year. We saw some other things. People say their run wage is a billion dollars a year. And that's before chat GPT Enterprise. So I think that's really good. I would say that I'm actually pretty heartened by the developer or by the cloud, both Google Cloud and Amazon also providing more access to third party models. I think that's really good for developers. But I would say that OpenAI is probably the big winner this week because we had the information last week, but now I'm starting to hear people buying it. And it's kind of like that product that flies off the shelf. So it's just going to be a flood of cash and it's going to give them more advantage. OK, who do you have for Loser this week? I'm going to have to say musicians, unfortunately, because not only did the viral AI-generated music creator Ghostwriter come out with yet another song that's doing just as well, if you will, but it's not going to take over the music industry, at least make it even harder for the classic starving musician to make it into the big time. Yeah, that's really interesting. I was talking to somebody who provides technology to the media industry over the last few years. Or this week and like how the SAG strike and all these things are coming about. And it's really interesting what's going on with artists in this space. Maybe that's for another day. That's another day. I think it's like super fascinating. But one thing I will say is I actually think that if you're not OpenAI or a couple of other folks, my Loser, and I think it's a temporary loss, but my Loser this week is actually all these people who are adding generative AI features to their software packages, which people are yawning at now because it's like, oh, yeah, I've seen that everywhere. But also to a lot of these software companies who think that they're going to sell new subscriptions because of this, whereas we're seeing some of the friction that we talked about creeping into the corporate buying cycle. Oh, I don't have AI governance yet. I don't have strategy. I don't have tooling. I don't know how to monitor these apps. And all those things are actually, the summer created a little bit of a pause and there's going to be a frenzy over the next six weeks. I could tell you what's going on. But a lot of the people that thought they were going to land really big generative AI software deals like this month are not. Maybe it'll be November or December, but it's going to be delayed a few months because the enterprises right now still don't know how to absorb this or make that big commitment. So that's something we're tracking very closely. Oh, and I should do one more thing. That's Winters and Losers of the Week. But I do want to do a quick shout out to Pete Erickson, the MoDev crew, who put on the Voice in AI conference this week. It was fantastic. We had a lot of really senior people there, but we had a lot of frontline practitioners. And it was 400 or 500 people all together. It was in Washington, DC. But these are people that are actually doing work. They're using generative AI. They're using conversational AI. And you can see that a few of them are exploding right now. And that's in a good way. So it's like rocket ship going off. Maybe some are blowing up too. But a few of them are actually on the precipice. They see optimism going forward and really positive sales pipelines. A couple of them are actually just getting a lot more business than they've ever seen before, a lot more activity before. So I think a shout out to Pete for bringing everyone together, a lot of these real innovators. But plus, it's not just buyers, but it's practitioners just talking about what's actually working in the space. And Roger Kibbe just showing how you can run an LLM on your laptop. Basically, a version of Llama 2 on your laptop and how that could show edge computing and all these other types of innovations. Ryan Steelberg from Veritone has a really interesting new framework around human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, human-out-of-the-loop. So there was some good thought leadership there as well. Walmart made a really interesting presentation. I'll have more coming up in the Voicebot YouTube channel on that as well around what they're doing and conversational AI and gender of AI, which is coming up later. So just shout out to Pete Erickson, MoDev community for bringing everyone together because I learned a lot. It was great to see a lot of people in the community and to see not just activity, but learning and what people are being able to share. Yeah, yeah, I think that says it all. And also, I mean, the idea that the things are stable or done changing quickly now is very, very silly. Obviously, anyone who's been watching this, I think everything's going to look entirely different in two months from where we are even now. Yeah, it should make everyone here feel better, too. If you feel like you're behind, everyone that I talked to, even the people who were doing cutting-edge stuff, felt like they were behind. They can't keep up with it. It's just like sort of the way it is when we go through these waves when you're in the middle of it. It's hard to keep up, but there's a lot going on. A lot of reasons for optimism. I'm Brett Kinsella. This is the Gender of AI News Rundown. We do this every week. That's Eric Schwartz. Sign up for Synthetia. Read voicebot.ai. We have a new LinkedIn newsletter, which just gives you links of different articles to read each week. You can find that in my profile, Brett Kinsella on LinkedIn. Keep track, but come back. Big comments. Thank you, everybody, for making comments today and joining us and asking questions. It makes this a richer experience. Until next week, everybody. Bye-bye.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Dennis & Julie: Exciting versus Enduring
"Hey everybody, Dennis Prager with Julie Hartman, Dennis and Julie. One of my favorite hour and 12 minutes of the week. Me too. Isn't that amazing? Yes. And what's also amazing is that we actually do probably three or four Dennis and Julie's a week that are not recorded because we talk on the phone so often. And sometimes, I don't know if you think this, sometimes when we're done speaking, I'm like, wish that were recorded. Really? Yes. That's an interesting point. But you know what's also great? We are very personal on this show. There's really, I can't think of many things that we talk about privately that we wouldn't talk about publicly. I think people understand that. That's why that guy called me and I've talked about this a lot, said, I have a great word for you Dennis, transparent, because I decided early on in my career that as unnatural as it seems, because people obviously hide parts of their lives from others, I thought I'm going to hide as little as possible. That's why people say to me more often than any other things when strangers meet me, you know, I feel like I really know you and I'm sorry and I say, you do. I can attest to that as someone who knows you off the air as well as on the air, listeners really do know you. It's also just easier being transparent because I can imagine that it's difficult to have to think, oh, did I say that? Should I say this? That's right. It's just kind of your default. It's like it's easier to be faithful than have an affair. Aside from all the moral issues and the hurt of my spouse, all of that stuff, putting aside that they're all real. A major reason not to have an affair is because of the amount of hiding you have to do and lying. It is not possible to have an affair and not become a serial liar. Well, one lie begets another lie, which begets another. It has to. I mean, if you say I was at the doctor's and they say, how was it? And then you go, yeah, let's say your wife runs into the doctor. You know, like it just it's this tangled web of of deceit that's I can imagine difficult to keep up. You know, in that regard, it's amazing how our conversations just developed. So I'm going to say something that will strike people at the outset as odd at best and maybe even bad at worst. So when I meet somebody who's having an affair, because people open up to me, in most instances, my first reaction, I may know more and change my reaction, is I feel bad for them. I obviously feel bad for the spouse, that's a given. But my sense is, and by the way, I believed this when I was your age, well before I was ever married. I sensed that most people who have an affair, it is not because they're bad. And oh my God, I can't believe I'm saying this to you. One of my favorite Bible commentaries is by Richard Elliot Friedman. He is a brilliant scholar, University of California, San Diego now. I think he's at the University of Georgia, a major biblical scholar. And if I say that, you can believe me because I know my Bible. And he's written a commentary on the Torah, which I love. I love it. And obviously I'm writing my own. So I refer to his. Under adultery, in other words, the commandment, thou shalt commit adultery. He wrote, I wish I had the entire, I could find it, but we don't have breaks during Dennis and Julie, but I would like to read it exactly. But he wrote, and I just read this to my synagogue this past Sabbath, I read his line about this. That good people commit adultery, and he italicized good. And I thought that this guy's human. And I've been faithful, so I have no self -interest in this. But to assume that everybody who commits adultery is evil is beyond simplistic. You commit murder, okay, if that's not evil, you could say, well, you could say a good person could commit evil, could commit murder. It's a bit of a stretch. It could happen, but generally speaking, that's not true. But anyway, good people who commit adultery, and by good, I mean the non -serial adulterers people who just go from affair to affair, I have no defense of as a human being. You mean like a one -time thing? Yes, or fell in love. If somebody falls in love with somebody else while married, it usually means there's a lot problematic in the marriage. People in love with their spouse don't fall in love with another spouse. Okay, this is such a good topic, and I want to pause and say what we always say. We had no idea that we were going to discuss this. I love that about this show. It just blossoms. Because it's real. It's real, and it's incredibly spontaneous. Okay, a lot of questions. This is where I'm going to evoke the, what do you call your radio show, the Human Laboratory? This is where this is particularly useful. So most people who tell you about their infidelity, I'm assuming most of them are male? Or is it even? Yes, that's correct. What would you say the percentage is? Of those who tell me? Yes. It's high. It's 75%. Male? Yeah. Okay. And usually, do they tell you that they're unhappy in their marriage? Yeah. And what is the most cited reason for the unhappiness? They don't feel loved by their spouse. Loved in what way? You're tough. I'm not trying to be tough. She is tough. All right. Maybe, okay. You don't want to go there. No, no. There's nowhere I don't want to go. Anyway, even if I don't want to go, I go there. That's true. So, okay. For the record, generally speaking, a man who feels sexually fulfilled with his wife is going to stay faithful. This is so foreign to women that they just have to take my word for it. That's not how women think. Women do not have affairs because they're not sexually fulfilled by their husband. Some might, I fully acknowledge, but they don't feel emotionally fulfilled. That's much more a woman's reason, and I have just as much sympathy for her as for him. It's not, all I'm saying is, and I don't even remember how we got on this, but it's amazing that we did. How did we? Yeah. It's funny. I usually remember the genesis of a subject, but all I'm saying is when I meet people, my first reaction is not, wow, that's evil. If I met a murderer, yeah, or not even a murderer. Frankly, doctors who give hormone blockers to 10 -year -olds are doing evil. I have much more contempt for them than for somebody who had an affair. Okay, so let me ask you this. Let's say you got a call from a guy who was five years into his marriage. He has three or two young children, and he calls you and he goes, Dennis, I am not happy in my marriage. It's not awful, but I'm not happy, and I have my eyes on another woman. What do I do? Do I stay in my marriage that's unhappy, or do I leave because I'm unhappy? I'd say do everything possible to make yourself happy in your marriage, which by the way involves obviously working it through with your wife, but it also involves working it through with yourself. So, I'm a guy's guy. I'm male as as they come. So, men really relate to me. Happily, a lot of women do too, but it's not the same thing. Male -male is not the same as female -male. Okay, so I understand men really well, and I explain men to women. So, both sexes have to adopt the Prager notion of not having too many expectations. I think it's fair to say, nobody says this, because sex is ironic. We have a sexually drenched society, and yet people never talk honestly about it. That is very well said. It's mind -boggling. It's mind -boggling. You're so right, and people get upset when you talk about it. That's right, because I'm honest. So here is something I would say to men, guys, just know you are not going to have the sexual life you fantasized in the vast majority of cases. It's just the way it works. You mean when you get married? Yeah, when you get married. I'm sorry, that's right. I wasn't clear. Yes, when you get married. And therefore, you enjoy what you have. Now, obviously, I'm not going to give it a time factor limit. It's different when you're 25 than when you're 55 or 75. All of that is real. But I remember when I was in high school thinking, wow, to be married, you have this woman anytime you want. Oh, gosh. Such a male thought. Exactly. This was worth the entire broadcast. My comment and your reaction? I think I represent all women. Yes, exactly. Watching and listening. And I represent all men. That's the point. So that was my fantasy in high school. Oh, my God, it must be the greatest possible situation being married. She's there whenever you want her. So men… I just looked at the camera. So men have to understand it's not going to be that way. Are there exceptions? I'm talking in general, of course, there are exceptions to every rule in life. So I really ought to, if I had the time, I would write an advice book to men. Oh, you really should. Who is it? George Gilder wrote that man book? That man book? Sexual Suicide and the Naked Nomad. He deeply influenced me. So, men need to understand… By the way, we all need to understand… I don't know what women's fantasies are about marriage. Her fantasies are not likely to be fully realized either. So it's best probably not to have fantasy… I don't care if you have fantasies, it's fine to have a fantasy life, but in the sense of directing you in your emotional reaction is not a good idea. And in your reality, it can't direct your reality too much. That's right. So I have told men, I'll tell you where I feel for men. And that is, if they're married to a woman, I'm just talking the sexual arena now. If they're married to a woman who doesn't take care of herself physically, that's given the power of looks in the human species, it's the female that attracts the male. I know there are gorgeous men who attract women, but most men are not gorgeous. What attracts women to men is not that they're gorgeous. they're Certainly when reached by age of 30, a high school girl is going to go, Oh God, is he gorgeous? Oh God, you know, that's fine, it's part of life. But one of the biggest ways you show you love your husband is by taking care of yourself physically, trying to look good. And the proof is you tried to look good when you dated. Why did you stop trying once you got married? That's not fair to him. You're right, and it's not fair when men have B .O. and also don't take care of themselves, which I know you recognize. No, of course, but that's not the same thing. The B .O. holds for both, but looking gorgeous or as gorgeous as you can, I mean, looking cute. In peacocks, the male attracts the female. In humans, the female attracts the male. It's just the way it works. And if she succeeds in doing it, he gets aroused and they make the next generation. That is how human sexuality works. I really love what you said a few minutes ago about we live in this over sexualized society that also gets so upset when people like you and me talk about sexual matters, not to overhype our importance, but people who are brave enough to talk about sex within with a Judeo -Christian good values worldview are so valuable. I don't understand. Yeah, but a lot of them do, but they're not real. A lot of the religious people who talk about sexual matters are not rooted in the real world. So what is an example? Masturbation. Wow, welcome to Dennis and Julie. But the proof is nobody feels that they can talk about it. Yes, that's true. I mean, I debated a guy, very religious guy, seen by hundreds of thousands of people on the internet. He said, masturbation is evil. And he's speaking from a religious point of view. Evil? I said, I looked at him and I said, evil? I mean, if he says it's a sin, fine. Every religion has a whole list of sins. But evil? And I challenged him. I said, are you serious? It's evil? I mean, child molestation is evil. Genocide is evil. I know. Masturbation is the charge. Of course it does. So religious, you're right about the Judeo -Christian values perspective. Unfortunately, a lot of religious people have made religion look silly and people have therefore rejected it. You know, you're right. I think a lot of people point to something like that and go, that's just, that's too far for me. It's too far, exactly. It's difficult, the job of being religious, because you obviously want to promote good values, but you also want to be real and recognize that there are certain thoughts and proclivities and actions that a lot of human beings partake in. And so it's about mitigating the, I was going to say mitigating the harm of those, but allowing them to happen as long as they don't go too far or as long as they're not harmful. Yeah, that's right. So people should read a book by an Orthodox rabbi, Shmueli Boteach, who's a well -known rabbi, B -O -T -E -A -C -H, in English, Boteach, but it's pronounced Boteach, and it's called Kosher Sex. It's a great book. That's a good title. Great title. And whole his thesis is, you keep sex within a marriage, but within a marriage, do whatever the hell you want, providing the other person agrees, obviously. And, you know, as raunchy as it may sound to the outsider, if you two agree to it, the only restriction is that it's not with another. You know, God, of course, I forgot my train of thought. I just I really marvel at how real this is. And sometimes when you make these comments, I think, God, he is gutsy. He really goes there. You know, I am gutsy. I want to tell you, this is very revealing about me. People will take it for what it's worth. I decided very early in my life, if I want to do good in this world, that's all I've ever wanted to do. I will not shy away from putting myself out there and knowing I'm going to get slapped. And that's the reason I do it. It's not fun to talk about masturbation, but I know how many people are traumatized by the message you're doing evil. And it makes religion and God look bad, and I don't like that. Mm hmm. And here's the thing, also, it's uncomfortable to acknowledge, but it's the truth. People do the like I mean, this is the whole point of the conversation. People do these things. What are we going to pretend like they don't exist? We have to deal with them. And I think it's cowardly to run away. Look, I have told you, Dennis, that I grew up in a house that didn't talk about these matters. And I'm grateful, actually, because I think there are certain boundaries that ought to be respected. And I there's a time and a place to discuss things like this, but we do have that forum to do it. And I don't understand I don't understand when people deny reality. We are seeing the harm in the United States today of denying reality, including in the sexual arena. I mean, that's this whole hookup culture thing by by contorting reality to make women believe that they want sex as much as men is harming women. Plain and simple it is. Is it uncomfortable to acknowledge the reality of males extreme sexual proclivities? Yes, but we have to because we're seeing the consequences when we don't. So I applaud you. And I do think sometimes I'm like, wow, he he's really going there. He's gutsy. But but people need a good role model for these matters. Well, you don't make a good world if you're not gutsy. True. You can't build a good world on cowardice. And it's so hypocritical because people people have sex. People do these things. And I don't I don't I dislike the people that that are on some kind of moral high ground when they talk about this stuff. It's like, please, you do it to your human being. Don't act like you don't partake in these things that you decry. Right. And some of them probably don't. But my question is, are they better human beings in general? You know, I talked I said to you what Richard Elliott Friedman said, that a lot of people who commit adultery are good people. It's because it's it's weakness more than anything or or something else. I'm not talking about serial adulterers.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "silly" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Engine posted. Thank you to users for twenty five years of curiosity. This morning, CBS tech contributor Ian Shore on Google's history. It's really fascinating. There are very few products that ever get to become as entwined in our lives as something like Google. Right. And I think a lot of of us probably can't remember what life was like before Google, which says a lot. Right. The fact that it's become a verb, you do Google things, but also that all the different products it's done, whether it's Gmail, Google Maps, all of these different things are in our lives. A large percentage of the world is using software that was powered by Google. Their phones are powered by Google and all sorts of other things. So I think it's really fascinating what they've become in such a short time, but also the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, you put out a note and he said, if in another 25 years, someone looks at what we've done and kind of shrugs their shoulders, they'll feel like they did the right thing. And that's the one thing I've always found fascinating about this company is that they are always talking about the long term. are They always trying to think about how do we impact the world for the future and not just how. And that is something that a lot of other companies have taken on. But Google was one of the first to really talk about it that way. Ian, you talked about Gmail, but what about the Google Doodle, which so many people love? It's also source for that. Yes. Well, you know, the Google Doodle was originally thought to be one of the worst ideas ever to come out of Google, because why would you ever play with your logo? Getting someone to memorize your logo and who you are is like one of the number one things for brand experts. the But truth was that the Google Doodle was very much part of that personality of the company that they were trying to get across. And when you think about who they were, especially 25 years ago, you have to remember, Microsoft had just been declared a monopoly. The tech industry was very corporate feeling. Steve Jobs had just come back to Apple after years off in the wilderness. And Apple was this place with suits and ties and was nearly falling apart. So Google was coming in and they're like, no, we're going to be playful. We're going to have silly colors. We're going to have Google Doodles. We're going to do all these things because we want to show people that technology can be fun and not just, you know, you're buying stuff from us. And again, I mean, now we take that all for granted that whimsy is very much a part of how a lot of technology works. But they brought a lot of that to the fore. Talking tech stuff in 25 years of Google, that CBS tech contributor, Ian Schor on WTLP talking with Ann and Sean. Quick look on this Thursday morning at the stories we're following for you. Seven Republicans hoping to win the party's presidential nomination squared off last night's for the second GOP debate out west in California. Will Congress avoid the looming federal government shutdown? you We'll bring up to date as to where we are with just days left and how DC's mayor is responding to the city's record number of homicides this year. More on these developing stories in just minutes. You are listening 103 to .5 FM in WTLP .com. With SAIC, you can protect the nation from the stars to the seas. With SAIC you can build custom systems that benefit everyone. With
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
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I've chosen our episode from November of 2019 on cockney rhyming slang. This is one of those silly episodes That's also packed with a lot of interesting information and I remember Chuck and I having fun making it So I hope you'll enjoy listening to it, too enjoy Welcome to stuff you should know production of I heart radio And welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant right there. There's Jerry Roland right there So that makes this stuff. You should know right Can't top that I was trying to think a way to say welcome to the podcast in cockney rhyming slang Can you make an attempt my I'm my brain is so broken right now. I can't even try. Okay, good good Well, welcome. It's a good good time to record a show You're gonna do some cockney in here, right? We want to offend as many Londoners as we can I don't know just just channel a little Dick Van Dyke. Oh You know Yeah, the American Doing a bad cockney accent. Well, I did recently rewatch the limey Yes Casey's for benefit. Yeah, the great great movie from Steven Soderbergh. Never seen it. It's awesome. Is it really? Yeah, I mean, I know it's like a classic and everybody loves it. But I mean, it's really that good Yeah, because a lot of people liked I don't know the hangover. I Like the hangover. Well, how would you how would you like the limey and the hangover same level? Yeah, they're the same movie almost. All right, it's weird. Well, then I've seen the hangover so I don't need to see the limey Lemmy's great and Terence stamp is Awesome, and it then uses some cockney rhyming slang and one great scene My big exposure to cockney rhyming slang is lock stock in two smoking barrels Snatch. Yeah, which I think are both directed by Guy Ritchie, right? Wasn't lock stock like his first attempt and snatch was the one that like Got him married to Madonna you a fan of his yeah, I mean as much as I Like his movies, I don't like him personally necessarily cuz he like hunts bore like a jackass does it like yeah No drunk with his friends in the most like disrespectful way of murdering a pig. I admit his movies But yeah, I do like his movie sounds like he's a creep, too I'm not gonna go on record saying that but Yeah, those movies are okay and then I guess what's his name Don Cheadle a little bit in Oceans 11 sure he did a little bit of that right and I mean like It's code to Americans. It's oh, there's like a criminal a British criminal, right? That's all that means these days Yeah, I think so in movies. It's definitely Like all of those are criminal right criminal people in the movies They're like, you know kind of slick cool criminals that wear leather coats and stuff like that Not dumb criminals that wear like football jerseys or anything like that. They're like, you know smooth criminals That's I think what I was looking for. Yeah, but This this idea of associating it with cockney is not necessarily associating it with criminals. It's more associated with like Lower class working class less educated definitely not the aristocracy over in Britain yeah, or the upper class sure and that by by speaking with a cockney accent or More to the point using cockney rhyming slang you could really differentiate yourself To as a point of pride, right? Like you were speaking like your group your in -group which was at the time cockney, right? But the big surprise to all this is it's really possible and even probable that it wasn't the cockney that came up with this Rhyming slang that it was somebody else altogether. Maybe who knows should we say what it is? No Not for the rest of the podcast cockney rhyming slang Wasn't even Very clearly defined in this piece. Okay, did you think it was? It's in there. Okay, you got to just kind of separate the wheat from the chaff So it is a two -word phrase and is a slang phrase Consisting of two words so far so good where the last word of that phrase rhymes with the original word and It can be and I think the best way to do this is just to throw out a few no. No keep describing Well, the two -word phrase it can be it can be a lot of things it can be a person's name It can be just something random can be a place could be a place. It could be a lot of things it can be anything Yeah, sure. I guess it can be But shall we illustrate it through? Well, there's a second part to it. Okay, the second part and this is very important the Two -word phrase that you're using to that where the second one rhymes with the word you're actually saying Yeah, the original word the original word. Thank you Usually has nothing to do with it. There's no metaphor. There's no connection. There's no Nothing, there's no there's no context to it It's supposed to just be random or in most cases. It is just random words right one of which rhymes with the word you're replacing and To further complicate things sure In a lot of cases and no one knows why sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't a lot of times that one of the words Of the two -word phrase is dropped. Yeah, and then you're just left with the one word Which doesn't even rhyme with the original word anymore, right? That's I mean, that's probably the best description of cockney rhyming slang anyone's ever given So I think we should illustrate it with a couple of examples. I pulled some from From something called the internet Here here's one the the tip and tete That's how long it took me to come up with that Tip and tete for internet, but in ten years, it'll just be called the tip I'm gonna log on to the tip governor So let's say your word was and this was in oceans 11 specifically trouble is the word that you're trying to say Cockney rhyming slang for trouble is Barney rubble awesome And so you would say you're making a bit of the bonnie rubble again, right when somebody that was kind of Who was that? Making a bit of bonnie rubble not the see I already did it wrong No, but I think you that's not like a real person to an American for sure. Oh, yeah Um, I can't I can't I'll shout it out. Later. Oh, man. I finally did a good one No, but it wasn't a cockney person, okay for Another example Queen They would use the term baked bean Look who's on TV. It's the baked bean And that's the Queen. I like that one or in the case of one that's been dropped What is Ed use here bees and honey? That one is not dropped for money. Okay, but which one was apples and pears right? Right, so you would say I'm gonna go up the apple and stairs Apples and pears. Oh, man Let me retake this everybody You would say I'm going to go up the apples and pears to go get my wallet to pay for this pizza Or something to that effect. Okay, but then over time people drop the pears And so now the word for stairs in cockney rhyming slang is just apples Which if you're just standing there on the outside like a normal American bloke sure, which by the way means person You have no idea why this person just called stairs apples You got what they were saying because the context is there you're going up the apples to get your wallet to pay for the pizza But why would you just say that did you did you hit your head? Is there something wrong with you? What's the problem? Why would you just call that apples? Yeah, that's why it's so confounding But the great thing about cockney rhyming slang and in particular the great thing about researching cockney rhyming slang is you learn How you get from apples to stairs and then it makes sense sometimes Yeah, that's true. It's not always. Yeah, sometimes there's It's not documented which ed points out is one of the problems sometimes you can draw the line the through line But because it's not documented and sometimes these things take years and years to morph into its final version right unless you unless you're you know on the What would you call street on the dole? No on the streets, then I wouldn't know but I don't know what streets is you can't just make stuff up like there's real words I'm the drums and beats So you're on the drums right, but they probably have a word for streets like that's the whole point You can't just make anything up, but the you could if it hasn't been taken yet sure Also, that's the other thing about cockney rhyming slang is it evolves right so old celebrities that that no one even knows about anymore Fall away to new celebrities whose name also rhyme with you know whatever word you're saying right? I thought you meant old celebrities who maybe used to talk this way like Michael Caine no He's never said any rhyming slang in his life. No of course you got to see the movie Alfie Maybe that's who it was it might have been Michael Caine. I'll take that Michael Caine. I think it was as a matter of fact Thank you, I'm glad you did it. Noel always says a good joke is to say Michael Caine in the correct accent say the words my cocaine And it sounds like Michael Caine saying it then it sounds like that the correct accent for Michael Caine all right say it my cocaine Well you just blew that one out of the water You Gotta set me up in the future Okay, well there's I've got it two ways now, man, okay, here's the thing my cocaine That's my cocaine That's pretty good Michael Caine. It is good. You're right. No. You just got to say it the right way and not like a robot Josh So here's that one of the things is sort of confounding if you want to look up a like a glossary and Say well, here's what I'm gonna. Do I'm gonna learn cockney rhyming slang so for my trip to England I'm really you know. I'm really in with everybody First of all bad idea yeah second of all it's it can be very localized Mm -hmm and the accents are all different Yeah, so even people in London sure who both who all use well people in London Do but the people who use cockney rhyming slang in London yeah might not even agree on what word is means What I'm just picturing all the people walking around England laughing their arses off. I can't wait to get to that one As we stumble through this um yeah, it had a really good Example of why there's no codification of the cockney rhyming slang He said that when people are creating a language especially informal ones like slang They don't write it all down quote dear diary referred to my house as a cat and mouse today because it rhymed We all had a good laugh might try. Just calling it cat tomorrow and see how it goes It is it sounds funny, but that's that's how it works stumbling across the diaries And here's the other thing too is there are cases where there is a little bit of a reflection of the original word and the example that it gives here is twist Yeah, like to call a woman a twist mm -hmm Which I don't know if that's derogatory or not or just some weird slang that no one uses anymore I don't think so although I don't know so yeah these are also the people who use the C word like it's nothing Man I can't wait to go back there Which we're gonna do soonish right? I'd love to do in 2020. Maybe yeah, all right So twist came from twist and twirl which meant girl which is They were talking about like dancing with a girl twisting and twirling in a nightclub Let's say so there is some connection in that one. Yeah, so girl and ended up becoming twist So that sort of makes sense there's another one called on your Todd After a guy named Todd Sloan and it means on your own Right and the thing is is like on your Todd it makes sense Sloan rhymes with own It doesn't have to have any connection, but that one actually does yeah Cuz Todd Sloan was a famous jockey in the 19th century like horse jockey. Yes, okay? What other kind is there disc jockeys? Oh, yeah, sure So his book his memoir was called Todd Sloan by himself Which is weird to refer to yourself in third person for your memoir Hmm, but there was a line in it that apparently East End East Enders in London like really picked up I was left alone by those. I never ceased to grieve for It's still like the idea of being alone or on your own Became synonymous with Todd Sloan his name just happened to rhyme with that So it's one of those rare ones where there is a connection to it and also rare Chuck in that This is a 19th century horse jockey and still today on your Todd is recognized as on your own Whereas a lot of people probably have no idea exactly who he is and when that happens That frequently that person gets moved out for potentially another celebrity or another word That's a little more understandable or recognized another new jockey two people today, right? Yeah exactly which can you name one? Nope? 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This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
The Aloönæ Show
Fresh update on "silly" discussed on The Aloönæ Show
"What is something popular now, but in five years, everyone will look back on it and be embarrassed they liked it? I think some of our social media stuff, we'll look back on memories will show up more, we'll wonder why were we into these things. It seems to be the cycle that that we're into, we look back and wonder why we did things the way we did. Yes, I would say the same thing. In fact, I've actually looked back my couple of my old musical.ly videos and I'm like, why am I Why was I like this? It makes no sense. But hey, it's, I mean, honestly, it could be way worse. Oh, yeah, it's definitely could be. Just think those are the those are the things we share. Those are the things that will pop up later that will look back and wonder we won't. We won't see you know, a lot of the stuff we don't share with people but those memories will come and we'll wonder why we were wearing what we were or why we were doing the things we were. Yep, they will certainly live on. What improved your life quality so much you wish you did it sooner? This is this is this is easy. My and it wasn't related to drinking, even though that was when I start by eliminating alcohol, but just giving myself permission to be different than what I was used to doing and trying things that I wasn't used to doing. So I wish that I would have discovered that sooner and realize that I'm not, you know, we're not expected to maintain a certain attitude for the rest of our life, we can change at any point. So I think I wish I would have found that much earlier than I did. But I don't have any regrets. I think it happened when it needed to. Ah, of course. Would you ever try space tourism? I wouldn't rush to get into a plane with any of the marketing and sales people at Milan Musk and Jeff Bezos. But I think if the development goes the way that it's probably going to I wouldn't be against it. But like going deep dive ocean touring, I think I know my place and I'd sooner not be above or below a certain altitude where I feel safe. Okay. I'd say the same ish kind of Yes, I guess. Let's do it. What hobby would you get into if time and money weren't an issue? Time and money hobby, probably some form of I don't want to say NASCAR, but maybe like car something to do with sports cars and I don't not collecting because you can only drive one at a time but maybe some form of I guess travel or tourism with like expensive vehicles. Cool. Would you rather be really hot or really cold? I would rather be cold. You can only take off so many layers. Cold. As long as you're not, naked in the Arctic, you can reach for as many layers as you need to help. So hot, you can't, you can only lose so much. So I'm gonna go with cold. Sweet. If your mind was an island, what would it look like? Um, my island would have, it would be separate. There'd be like some, some areas where it'd be extremely quiet and then there'd be, you know, silly areas. I think it would look a lot like the, the, the movie. I'm struggling. It was a Pixar movie with the young girl and they were constantly in their mind. So at moments it would be like, you know, family island section and then there'd be sports island. Nice. That's actually my kind of holiday. Well, speaking of which, if you had to get rid of holiday, which would you get rid of? I'd get rid of Easter. It's very, the kids like the chocolate, but it's, it's the most irritating, I think. Cause how did we believe that was a thing for so long? And I don't mean the religious part of it. Cause I know that's, that's very much a thing I don't come from. I don't come from the religious portion, but I would get rid of the Easter bunny part of Easter. Yeah. I feel like that a lot of these, uh, celebrations or just like marketing promotion stunts, just like as a way to profit out of certain holidays. So I think the whole Easter bunny side of things is just a marketing ploy. Just like make the moolah, you know? Yeah. There's nothing to do with the religious part. It's just, how can we make the moolah from the people? Yep. And then, you know, as soon, as soon as they can, all these stores get, get putting their stuff out like Halloween. I think they started advertising for Halloween month or two ago. Like I started to see stuff going up. Cause that was the next thing was coming.
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.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/20/23
"Music I needed me some Gary Numan mic with a little new wavy electronic sound of cars. Because I've done something now that you have done. My goal in life is to follow everything you've done. When I grow up, I want to be you. So guess what I've done? Don't get dry socketed. Okay, well, Lord knows. Oh, how'd that go? How'd that go? I may not make it today. I'm going to maybe do the hit with you and I am, boy, am I hurting. Oh, boy. I come out of here and I'm listening to the Mike Gallagher Show as all good Americans should. Bless your heart. You're saying, please call me so I don't have to talk as much. Oh, my gosh. And they oblige. Yeah, it's really. But what's going on? And then I'll get to my silly little story. Well, no, no, I didn't mean to interrupt you. I didn't want to. No, it's okay. First things first. And I know you're and you're a little cranky because listen, I want to I want to lift you up. If you've got to be scooped by anybody, be scooped by Tucker Carlson. No, you know what's funny? Because Paxton's people thought I'd be upset. Oh, we're so sorry. It's like, dude, it's Tucker flipping Carlson. There's 50 million people if that delays me a day. And I also totally understand in Tucker world if they say, look, if Ken Paxton is going to be on with us. No other media before this airs. I completely understand. Well, it also gives you a lot of great material based on what he's going to say. Five o 'clock tonight, it drops. Yeah, yeah. Because when I saw that unfolding, I thought about the timing because I saw his announcement of being on with Tucker and I knew he was going to do your show. And I thought, well, I'll bet you the Tucker thing has got to go first, probably. And they're bringing him to Maine, right? That he has been there. It has happened. It's been taped. Absolutely. Oh, wow. Interesting. So anyway, I had this stupid wisdom tooth surgery Friday and was feeling great Saturday, a little less great Sunday, starting to feel bad Monday. By Tuesday, full -fledged pain. Go to the dentist. He said, yep, you've got dry socket. I said, well, Lord. And don't look that up online if you're going to have wisdom tooth surgery. So it's like a really, really awful, awful pain. It's like when the I don't want to get too graphic. But it's it's people who know it, know it. Dry socket is what you don't want to have after you get your wisdom tooth taken out. So I'm not sure I'm going to make it. Is there something you I remember when I had some wisdom teeth taken out. I remember a piece of device that said, don't do fill in the blank or you'll get dry socket. What was that? And did you do it? Well, I ate and that's you know, you got to eat and have that. No kidding. And that's sucking through a straw. How about a straw straws? Bad. No straws. No, you know, don't chew on that side. You don't want to get food in there, but good luck not getting food in it. And that's the problem. The dentist, the oral surgeon said, oh, boy, you got some food in there. I said, I've been trying to rinse with saltwater and like they told me to do. And I you know, but it's bad. I mean, I was up all night and tossing and turning and you can't. And it's always bad. Of course, it's this interesting dilemma that everybody has in life. Everybody goes to the doctor, has the same. And if you've got a problem like this, they don't want to give you narcotics. They are so reluctant because of the scared of you. Well, hooked on something ensuing. Yeah. Because of the whole, you know, national epidemic. Opioids have a bad name. Opioids have a bad name. Opioids are awesome. The cause. There's a drop. They used to be the cause. I mean, the purpose properly used has been. And what's the thing? You saw it, didn't you? A painkiller. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. About about the Sackler family and all that. So this is they all this Dr.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1406: Bitcoin Will Hit $4 Million, Rising 100x - Peter Thiel
"In today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin Bollinger Bands hitting a key zone as Bitcoin price fights for $27 ,000. In breaking news just in, Bitcoin hash rate hits a new all -time high. Let's go. And quoting Stacey Herbert, Bitcoin is pumping on the news of President Bukele's speech to the UN tonight. Can't wait. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin Adoption Fund launched by Japan's $500 billion Nomura Bank. That's right. The Bitcoin Adoption Fund will have long -only exposure to Bitcoin and be available to institutional investors. We'll also be sharing Sam Bankman, Fried's father, dragged his mother into an FTX US salary dispute. You can't make this stuff up, folks. Also in today's show, Bitcoin gearing up for a post -having parabola, according to crypto analysts. I'll be sharing his very bullish all -time high target. We'll also be discussing crypto asset market cap should explode 5 to 10x during the next bull cycle, according to investor Raoul Pal. I'll also be sharing Peter Thiel's $4 million Bitcoin price prediction, and we'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1406. I'm your host JV. And today is September 19th, 2023. We have lots to cover as usual. Massive shout out to everyone today in the live chat. Please let me know where you're tuning in from. And at the end of the show, I'm going to be reading everyone's comments out loud. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day, the entire crypto market back in the green with Bitcoin back above $27 ,100 and checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap on the climb at $1 .08 trillion with roughly $27 billion in volume for the past 24 hours, Bitcoin dominance at 49 .2 % and the Ether dominance at 18 .4%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we have TonCoin leading the pack up 5%, trading at $2 .57, followed by GMX up about 5%, trading just under 36 bucks, followed by Conflux up 4%, trading at $0 .12. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, virtually 95 out of the top 100 cryptos are in the green. Some of the top gainers include GMX, GRT, as well as CRV and NEO. And checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated at 46 in fear, same as 37 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you are pretty stoked for this most recent pump? And how many of you agree with Stacey Herbert that this pump is due to Bukele's speech scheduled for this evening? Let me know, fam. And now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Check out the charts and what's popping with the king crypto. Bitcoin could see fresh upside volatility as the price action and the strength revisits a key level according to a classic metric. In a new post, John Bollinger, creator of the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator, says Bitcoin was positioned for a breakout decision. That's right. After hitting new September highs the day prior, Bitcoin has been challenging resistance levels out of reach since mid -August, according to data from Cointelegraph and TradingView. Now for Bollinger, the signs for Bitcoin are encouraging. Bollinger Bands use a standard deviation around the simple moving average to determine both the likely price ranges and volatility. And as Michael Saylor once said, volatility equals life force. Now, currently Bitcoin is putting in daily candles that touch the upper band. And when this happens, it can signal an imminent reversal back to the center band, or conversely, an inbound fit of upside volatility. Now narrow Bollinger Bands seen on Bitcoin recently lend weight to hopes that the latter scenario will now play out, quitting him here. And then there is the first tag of the upper Bollinger Band. After the new set of controlling bars were established at the lower band, he commented alongside this chart, the question is now, can we walk up to the upper band or is it too early to answer? What are your thoughts, chat? Let me know in the comments below. Now Bollinger characterizes the current mood among seasoned Bitcoin traders and analysts on the short -term timeframes. Despite the strength seen this week, caution abounds as various trend lines previously acting as support remain above the spot price. Now discussing the situation, we had on -chain monitoring resource, material indicators share the following. We have heavy technical resistance overhead at the key moving averages and support at the lower low. It is quite possible that we round trip the range. And with any luck, we'll see a legit test of the RS levels that will give us some clarity on where Bitcoin goes from here before the end of the week. And they also shared here in update number two, as noted earlier, it appears the Bitcoin bulls are gaining some momentum, but things are not always as they seem and goes on to share that sometime after last night's candle and close open, we've seen a new trend precognition signal develop on the daily chart and it seems to be bullish. I mean, we are breaking out. We are above 27 ,000. So let's freaking go. And also more strong foundation on the technicals. You can see Bitcoin hits yet another all -time high, which virtually means the network has never been this strong and this secure. Now I'm pretty stoked to tune into President Bukele's speech to the UN this evening. What do you think he has to share besides? I told you so. Let me know, fam. And again, welcome to everyone just joining us for the live show. Lots to continue to cover. So let's continue breaking it down. Next, let's discuss this adoption fund, which is a pretty big deal coming out of Japan. Let's go check this out. Japan's largest investment bank, Numura's digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital Asset Management, launched the Bitcoin adoption fund specifically for the institutional investors. Bring it. The official announcement noted the Bitcoin -based fund will be the first in a range of digital adoption investment solutions that the firm plans to introduce. Now Numura is a Japanese financial giant with over $500 billion worth of assets, which basically that's half a trillion, baby, offers brokerage services to leading institutional investors. The Bitcoin fund launched by its digital asset arm will now offer investors direct exposure to BTC. The Laser Digital Bitcoin Adoption Fund offers long key exposure to Bitcoin. The financial giant has chosen Kamanu as its regulated custody partner. The Bitcoin fund is a portion of Laser Digital Fund's segregated portfolio company that has been registered as a mutual fund in accordance with the Cayman Islands regulatory authority. Now, Laser Digital Asset Management head Sebastian said the Bitcoin is one of the enablers of this long -lasting transformational change and long -term exposure to Bitcoin offers a solution for the investors to capture this macro trend. Now, the Bitcoin adoption fund might be the first of its kind launched by Numura and the digital asset arm, but the Japanese investment banking giant has been investing in the digital asset ecosystem for quite some time already. In fact, September of last year, the firm launched its digital asset venture capital arm to stay at the forefront of digital innovation. And also won Dubai's virtual asset regulatory authority license to operate in the country. The long -only Bitcoin adoption fund for investors in Japan comes amid a growing discussion around Bitcoin -based investment products from regulated and mainstream financial giants. The United States SEC approved two Bitcoin ETFs, even though there is a delayed decision specifically on the spot. Bitcoin ETFs. What's up with that, Mr. Gensler? Just saying. And apart from the US, Canada and focused investment products over the past couple of years. So there you have it, mass adoption, let's freaking go, especially on the institutional level. How many of you are in Japan? I know we have some in our audience out there. Let me know. And have you ever heard of this company before? Any plans in investing through them? Let me know how you guys feel. And now let's break down the latest. It gets more surprising and shocking every day with what all is going on with Bankman -Fried and FTX. Now his parents are involved. His parents are being sued by FTX. And it's just a nightmare of a mess, to say the least. So let's break down this latest story regarding SBF. Now, Joseph Bankman, the father of the former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman -Fried, complained to his son about the salary he was receiving during his employment at FTX US, turning the issue into a family matter. In a September 18 filing with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, FTX debtors filed a complaint against Bankman and Barbara Fried, alleging that SBF's parents misappropriated millions of dollars through their involvement in the exchange's business. And according to the court documents, Bankman's contract with FTX US should have provided a $200 ,000 annual salary following a leave of absence from the Stanford Law School in December 2021. However, Bankman seemed to express ignorance about the terms of the contract, claiming to both FTX US and his son that he was expecting a $1 million annual salary. What about all that property in the Bahamas, fam? What about all that? Hundreds of millions worth of properties? Just wanted to throw that out there. The complaint states that Bankman was putting Barbara on this, suggesting that SBF's mother may have been able to persuade her son to follow through with the salary change. Things get even more interesting. So according to the complaint, Bankman's influence paid off, with SBF later providing his parents $10 million from Alameda Research. Can you talk about commingling? A 16 .4 million property in the Bahamas, funded by FTX Trading, the ability to expense roughly $90 ,000 to FTX Trading on the island nation in the Bahamas, and options to purchase company stock. Now, when reached out to the legal team representing Bankman and Fried, but did not receive a response at the time, unfortunately, the legal action brought by the debtors was the latest in the bankruptcy case involving FTX and many of its subsidiaries filed in November of last year. Bankman Fried also faces 12 criminal charges to be spread across two trials, starting in October of 2023, which is right around the corner, fam, and March of 2024, right before the halving, scheduled for April of next year. And since the federal judge revoked his bail in August, Bankman Fried has been largely confined to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Where's Brooklyn at? Before the start of his October trial, then on September 19th, a three -judge panel heard an appeal from SPF's legal team requesting the former FTX CEO to be released from jail in order to prepare for the trial, citing the lack of internet access and first amendment issues. All I got to say is this, I mean, how many people realistically have access to the internet in jail? Why should he? Million dollar question right there. But what are your thoughts, fam? How do you think this is likely to play out? And do you think that Bankman Fried's parents are just as guilty as SPF himself with the commingling and the fraud of going up north of $30 billion, making it the biggest scam in history that we're aware of? Hence why we call him Mini Madoff, because he made off with billions of dollars worth of investors' money, and Gary Gensler and the SEC was protecting him behind closed doors. So it's going to be very interesting to see how all this is likely to play out. Now let's discuss post halving. We all know there is a halving scheduled roughly six months out. We all know post halving, the price action is most likely going to reach a new all -time high and enter price discovery mode. Well, this analyst shares a very intriguing target. So let's break this down, shall we? And welcome to y 'all just joining us. Say hello in that live chat. Let me know where you're tuning in from. I stream live here seven days a week from Puerto Rico. Synonymous analyst Rhett Capital tells his followers on X that Bitcoin can rally above $80 per ,000 coin in the months following next month's event. For the halving, send it. Let's go. The Bitcoin halving cuts the Bitcoin miners' rewards in half, as we all know, expected to take place in April of next year. And while Rhett Capital is a long -term bull on Bitcoin, he notes that it is possible for Bitcoin to continue its downtrend before the halving, putting him here. Hang in there and make the most of any deeper downside in this pre halving period. You won't see the post halving parabola in the outlines here in this chart. It shows you in the yellow, the pre halving period, then in the pink, the post halving resistance, and then in the green, you can see the post halving parabola when we hit those new all -time highs. Now, Rhett notes that Bitcoin may repeat its 2019 bear market cycle when it traded within a triangle pattern before breaking out and starting off the bull market, as he shares here, if Bitcoin continues to form lower highs, could Bitcoin fill the CME, which is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange gap, at $20 ,000 later this year or in early 2024? So it makes a good point. There is currently a gap sitting at that $20 ,000 psychological level. And he continues, if so, the possible path could be consolidation to the apex of the black triangle before finally breaking out to close the halving. And you can see that triangle right here in this chart. Now, looking at the chart, he seemed to suggest that Bitcoin will confirm the triangle breakout in April of 2024, followed by a rally towards his long -term target. Now, let me know your thoughts, chat. How many of you agree that Bitcoin is likely to break out to a new all -time high, entering price discovery mode in 2024, the year of the halving? Let me know. And what are some of your targets? I'd also like to point out that the Stock the Flow model and Plan B, creator of that model, he suggests a $100 to $1 million range price for the King Crypto post halving. We also have some very other bullish predictions, which I cover on a daily basis here on the channel. But I'd love to know your personal prediction. I think we reached the cycle peak personally sometime in 2025, but I think 2024, we enter that price discovery mode. But I'd love to know your thoughts and your opinions in the comments right down below. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest from the macro guru, Raoul Pal, who is suggesting that the Bitcoin market cap and crypto market cap as a whole does something between 5 and 10x for this upcoming bull cycle. Now, you do the math. We have a crypto market cap right now. I'm going to ballpark it at a trillion. We have a Bitcoin market cap. I'm going to ballpark it at a half a trillion, which is 500 billion. So hypothetically, if we were to 10x Bitcoin in and of itself, we're talking about a 5 trillion dollar Bitcoin market cap, which would be half the current market cap of gold. Now, with the entire crypto market cap, we can potentially hit 10 trillion. Now, also note, back in November of 2021, when we hit that all time high of 69 ,000 in November of last year, the total crypto market cap was just north of that 3 trillion dollar market cap. So he's so let's break this down and shout out to Raoul Pal. Here we go. Former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal says the next bull cycle can bring an explosion in the market cap of all of the digital assets. That's right. In a new interview with Altcoin Daily, the macro expert says he expects a huge increase in the adoption of digital assets, and that can cause the total market cap of crypto to skyrocket as much as 900 % from its current value during the next bull market. Quoting the analysts here, obviously, I think we'll go well through new all time highs. I think the whole ecosystem of crypto will go from 425 million users where we're at today. And I think at the end of this cycle, there'll be a billion users by that kind of use cases in which we have talked about. And let's not forget, we have got central bank digital currencies that are known as CBDCs and stable coins. There is a lot going on still. So if this entire space is going to grow 2 .5 X in the number of users, well, the market cap of the entire space is five or 10 X. Send it. Let's go. Pal also says he is closely watching development of layer two Altcoin projects for new use cases, which could boost the value of their individual market cap, quitting him again. And then let's see how people value layer twos in this. We don't really know how layer twos accrue much value. Do we have to have a massive amount of transactions in which case then you need stuff like Ticketmaster with millions and millions and millions of transactions to drive value to those chains because they batched them and batched them down to Ethereum. So there you have it. And to watch this interview, he did Raul Pal, the macro guru with Altcoin Daily entitled best cryptocurrency investing strategy into 2024. Check the show notes, blow the video in the description and let me know your thoughts on his personal prediction. Do you feel post having that the market cap for the entire crypto market can likely 10 X from the current valuation along with Bitcoin surging 10 X to roughly a five trillion market cap? And hypothetically, if the macro guru is correct, where do you think that would likely take the Bitcoin price? Well, let's run some hypothetical math. Bitcoin was the 10 X from the current price action of 27 ,000. Well, that's $270 ,000 per coin. Take that. And as we all know, Bitcoin rises like that, the entire crypto market cap would go along for the ride, including the altcoin. So please let me know in the chat, fam, which altcoins, if any, are you most bullish on in the crypto market? And what are your thoughts surrounding Raul Pal being so bullish on Solana? A few months back, I read in an interview he shared that 80 % or more of his portfolio was specifically in an altcoin called Solana. So I'd love to know your thoughts. Obviously, he has a high risk tolerance as I look at that particular cryptocurrency to be very risky, especially with all that went in with the venture capitalists and SPF and FTX exchange pumping that particular all. So I'd love to know how you feel regarding all of that. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss Peter Thiel and his $4 million price prediction, as well as rumor has it, and I'll be covering this as well, that he dumps most of his Bitcoin position at the top of the market practically 30 days before the crash. So let's break this down because Peter Thiel was actually one of the keynote speakers at the Miami Conference for Bitcoin. And here's what he had to share as I transcribed his speech, and then we'll discuss him reportedly making $1 .8 billion cashing out on his eight -year bet around the time he was touting these all -time high predictions. So here we go. He says, the enemy's list is a list of people who I think are stopping Bitcoin. He says there is a lot of them. They tend to have nameless, faceless bureaucratic perspectives, which of course is one of the ways they hide. He goes on to share, we are going to try to expose them and realize that this is sort of what we have to fight for Bitcoin to go up, 10x or 100x from here. Now, just FYI, to give you some perspective, at the time he made this prediction on stage at the Bitcoin Miami Conference, Bitcoin was trading at roughly $43 ,000 per coin. So you run the math. 43 ,000 times 100x is over $4 million per Bitcoin. So you know that? Let's continue with what he had to share. The central banks are going bankrupt. We are at the end of the fiat money regime. How many of you agree with that statement? I agree there 100%. The first person on the list is Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffett. Thiel put up a picture of Buffett with two of his most famous quotes about Bitcoin. One was rat poison and the other, I don't own any and I never will. I also like to point out now since then, Warren Buffett has much indirect exposure to Bitcoin through Bitcoin mining stock companies and etc. So go figure. If you can't beat them, join them, right? And he goes on. He opined, I think the direct in it. Yeah, and I say also Charlie Munger goes along with him. Now, feel further noted that Buffett has a bias and makes him long on fiat money system and money managers who follow the Berkshire Hathaway executives advice will pretend it's complicated to invest into Bitcoin. I think we call that FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Now expect nothing less from one of the wealthiest people in the fiat money matrix Ponzi scheme. You know what I mean? So just saying. The next person on the list of Bitcoin's enemies is the one and only JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, or as Max Kaiser calls him, Jamie the tapeworm. They'll put diamonds picture up with the following quote. I don't call them crypto currencies. I call them crypto tokens because currencies have rules of law behind them, central banks and tax with authorities. Now you guys already know how I feel personally about JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon. So I won't go any deeper there. But anyways, we know he's an enemy of Bitcoin and always has been. The next picture he put up was of the BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, with the following quote. I see huge opportunities in a digitized crypto blockchain related currency, and that's where I think it is going to go. Now just FYI, Larry Fink is the CEO of the largest asset management firm in the entire world, which owns a large share in virtually all the companies in the S &P 500, and that is BlackRock. They currently have over $10 trillion in assets under management. And for a long time, he was spreading FUD regarding Bitcoin. But guess what? Like I mentioned earlier, if you can't beat them, join them because they just most recently, a few months ago, they submitted their application for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which ultimately means they're going to be introducing this to the institutions which have trillions upon trillions of dollars as there's currently north of $700 trillion in total addressable market, and they want their piece of the Bitcoin pie. So he goes on to share, the PayPal co -founder added that Fink's quote is somewhat representative of the whole genre of Bitcoin attacks that need further context, stating that pro -blockchain is an anti -Bitcoin term, very typically. Feel then brought up the environmental, social, and governance, ESG standards, elaborating the following, the label they have come up with, and perhaps the real enemy is ESG. I think that ESG is just a hate factory. Also like to throw out there, Elon Musk, he stopped taking Bitcoin payments for Tesla, and he says it's because of the FUD regarding this ESG, and we all know it's not more than FUD, and it's already been proven that Bitcoin is more than 50 % clean energy. So the million dollar question, when will the world's supposedly wealthiest man, Elon Musk, when will he start accepting Bitcoin payments again for Tesla? Isn't that a great question, and wouldn't you love to know the answer to that? Maybe you should ask Elon and tag him on X and see what he says. Anyways, feel stressed. You can always ask the question, what's the difference between ESG and the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party? Well, when you think ESG, you should be thinking of CCP per H. Now, he also goes on to share, it is the finance gentocracy that runs the country through whatever silly virtue signaling or hate factory to them, just like ESG, the billionaire concluded. This is what I would call and what you have to think of as a revolutionary youth movement, and we have to just go out from this conference and take over the world. So there you have it, fam. What are your thoughts surrounding Peter Thiel's prediction that we are likely to 100X, and along with his enemies list, as it seems, a lot of the enemies have come around and now have direct exposure to BTC, but it doesn't stop there because around that time he was making this $4 million Bitcoin price prediction. He allegedly dumped most of his position cashing out and with over a billion dollars in profits for his fund. So let's also break this down as this is also very relevant. How many of you were able to watch the speech he gave at that Bitcoin conference? It was epic, to say the least. I recall it now. So here we go. Check it out. Peter Thiel's venture capital firm reportedly made $1 .8 billion closing out its crypto positions around the time when he was an early Bitcoin bull, still predicting the token's price to surge by 100X. And again, from 43 ,000 price action, 100X means over 4 million. Founders Fund had cashed out almost all of its bets on digital assets by March of 2022, according to the Financial Times report that cited people familiar with the matter. But Thiel was still backing Bitcoin, obviously, when he spoke at the crypto conference in Miami the following month. He went on to share where at the end of the fiat money regime, he said, adding that the token's price could increase 100 fold from its level at the time, which was reported at $44 ,000 per coin. That prediction was proven false and as rising interest rates and failures, the high profile firms like Celsius Network, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, Terra Luna dragged the crypto sector into the prolonged bearish winter. Now Bitcoin plummeted by over 60 % in 2022 and was trading at under 17 ,000 by the end of the year. And I believe the bottom currently for the cycle is 15 ,700. How many of you feel that that bottom is in? Let me know, chat. Founders Fund first started pouring money into crypto all the way back in 2014, when Bitcoin was only trading at roughly $750 per coin. So by the time Bitcoin reached its all time high in November of 2021, it had surged 8 ,500 % from that particular level. Not too shabby for a seven year run, wouldn't you say? Now Thiel has a long track record as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent tech investors. He took early stakes in startups, which include Facebook, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and ride hailing app Lyft, and even co -founded PayPal back in 1998. Thiel is also a high profile supporter of the Republican Party and continued to voice his support for Donald Trump since the former president left office in January of 2021. The fund held around two thirds of his portfolio in Bitcoin at one time, but now not has significant exposure to crypto according to FT's sources. So there you have it. Fam, what are your thoughts surrounding his prediction and him cashing out at around that time he was making those all time high predictions of 100X? Let me know, fam. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1256. $300 Billion Coming To Bitcoin ETF w/Mark Yusko
"All right, so welcome in today. We're going to be diving into topics around ETFs and also what is happening with the SEC in terms of their enforcement actions and some of the things they've been doing that could be causing a slowdown in innovation for blockchain. We'll break into all this good stuff today. I think you'll like it. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in to Tech Path. Joining me today is a regular guest, one that I think you guys all love, and that is Mr. Marc Usko coming in from Morgan Creek Capital. Great to have you on the show today. No, great to be with you, Paul, as always, and happy Friday. It's going to be a good one, Marc. Let's first of all get into a few things. I want to lead off the show with a tweet from James Seyfert, who is one of the Bloomberg analysts on ETFs. He does a really good breakdown. He's been on our show before. There's some dates to watch here. We've got middle of October, next major days to watch. October 16th with Global, and then also October 7th. And then you've got all these scenarios playing out right here with iShares, which of course is BlackRock. I'll zoom in on that a little bit so you guys can see it. Second deadline coming up on 10 -17, and then a slew right there on that same day. First of all, I want to get your opinion on, do you think that this October is when the SEC might actually give us an early Christmas present? Or are you just going to get pushed again? No, look, I'm 50 -50 at this point. So I do think more tricks than treats for anyone who's 10 -17 date. So any decision before that date, I think is a negative decision. I'm not sure it'll be an outright denial, but will definitely be an extension and a push. And then we come to the big dog. I believe, and I've said multiple times, that BlackRock will be the first one. I've actually been saying that for over a year. I actually might even go stronger and say, oh, that'll never happen. That would be too much corruption. Well, I'm just saying it's certainly possible. What's probably more likely is BlackRock first, and then a gap, and then some number of others. But the thing is, whoever's first is going to get the vast majority of assets. Vast majority. Well, first mover is always going to be taking. I mean, that's just like the gold ETF, kind of the same kind of scenario. Yeah. The gold ETF is an example with GLD. You had the Bitcoin futures ETF with Bitto getting 98 % and then a couple others getting like 1 % each. So that's just my belief. And I believe it's who you know in this game, not what you know. There are a lot of people who have should gotten approved. The Winklevoss twins were the first to apply. They should have gotten approved. There was no reason not to approve it other than, again, kind of the way the game is played and the people in charge want to be in charge. So any new disruptive players I think are unlikely. Cathie Wood partnered with one of our companies, portfolio Amun, to do 21 shares. That looked like a great application ding pushed out. I think Bitwise is a day ahead of iShares on 10 .16 as much as I would love it. Again, portfolio company, full disclosure. I would love for them to get approved. I just don't think it's going to happen. Again, I don't think it'll be denied. I just think they'll be pushed. And here's why I'm 50 -50, Paul, to answer the question. I think they could approve on the 17th, but I don't think they will. I think they'll push it into next year. So you push 90 days. That gets you into January. January 15th. Yeah. You could push again then into March, April. But that's it. Then you have to approve. Now, what's interesting is we have this little thing called the halving coming up in mid -April of 24. And so it would be an interesting alignment of stars. But I said, could they pull the trigger on BlackRock in a month? Yeah, they could. Yeah. All right. Well, with that and to your point, the third deadline, just so everybody can put it on your calendar out there, you've got January 15th for BlackRock and then moving in all the way into March, what we're going to discuss there. March would be an interesting timing. I think you're right, because obviously the halving right there on the cusp of that, along with maybe a little bit of lightening the load in terms of inflation, because I feel like we're going to continue to see some inflation hits through the end of the year. What is your thought on how the inflation numbers came in this week and how the Fed might react? I don't think the Fed cares about gasoline prices, quite honestly, Paul. All this little blip is gasoline prices, all of it. I think most of the other components were actually negative. And the gasoline prices are because Saudi has decided to go a different direction. We had a very hunky dory relationship with Saudi from 1973 till now. And that's clearly over, right? The big guy went over to Saudi right before the election last year and tried to get them to pump more to get oil prices down and gasoline prices down, because there's this inverse correlation between presidential popularity and gas prices. And they basically said pound sand. And so he came down, he came in and said, well, this is a convenient decision to get gasoline prices down. Guess what happened? Democrats did pretty well in the election. And because there's no way out for that now, though. I mean, there's no way. Now we have an empty SPR. And the thing is, we can't fill it up ourselves because, and again, not to get too technical, but there's, there's light sweet crude, which we produce and a number of other places, Nigeria and others produce. And then there's heavy sour crude, more sulfur content, because we cut this deal with the Saudis in the seventies, we built all of our refining inventory infrastructure, sorry, around processing heavy sour. Yeah. Well, here's the problem. If now Saudi is going to sell their heavy sour to China and Russia and other places, and we're not going to get as much of it, what are we going to do? Well, we've got to build new refineries or retrofit the refiner. It turns out no one wants a new refinery in their backyard. Yeah. I think I'm right. It's been like 30 years since we built a refinery. It turns out they spit out, you know, pollutants and things like that. So nobody really wants one around. We all like driving cars by the way. And and living our lives and, you know, Oh, well, you know, we can, we can stop using oil. No, we can't. Nothing you do every, I mean, everything you do every day, the vast majority of it is powered by oil and gas, the vast majority. And yeah, you say you could get an electric car, but where'd the steel in that car come from? Did they make a little electricity? No. How about the plastics? Nope. Oil. So it's just, it's kind of comical when I hear we're going to, you know, outlaw fossil fuels, but back to the inflation number I think this might not be temporary in the sense that Saudi announced, they're going to do a voluntary cut. Why? Cause they're just sticking the knife in a little bit deeper because they're like, all right guys, you said you were going to refill the SPR. You didn't do it. Oil prices were all the way down in the sixties. Could have easily done it for sure. Now oil prices are in the nineties. Yeah. We're going to hit a hundred bucks a barrel for sure. How does this, okay. So when you look at that Mark and you look at an election year coming in, you've got all this pressure from the macro side, including most likely jobs market getting a lot stiffer. Companies starting to really get some pressure on. We had bankruptcies at the highest point ever. We've had a very long period of time for independent companies. This does not look like a rosy picture. Where do you think we come out of this in relationship to the timing of the havening, a Bitcoin ETF, maybe into next summer? How far into 2024 do you think this happens? So I believe the ETF will be approved sometime around year end, whether it's in early January or December, sometime in that timeframe. And I think that will pave the way for a very large influx of capital. I know you've had Eric on the show about Eunice and he does this great work, right? I mean, there's 30 trillion with a T 30 trillion. Remember 1 trillion is a dollar every second for 31 ,710 years, but 30 trillion is going to come into, or that's the total amount of money managed by RIAAs and others that is not allowed at this point for whatever silly reason to own Bitcoin. And they can't own GBTC and they can't own Bitcoin miners and they've called a timeout. Well, once there's an ETF, particularly if it's an ETF that BlackRock runs, there are going to be no excuse and they're all going to have to approve it. Their clients have been asking for it. I would say I have a family harmony account at UBS. They let me buy what I want to buy. And they're like, no. So I think all that goes away. And I think Eric's number is, let's say one 10th of 1 % comes in. That's 30 billion. Well, but wait, 30 billion on 500 billion. That's not that much. Well, no, it's not 500 billion. 400 billion of the 500 billion of Bitcoin's market cap doesn't really trade. It's either locked up like the Satoshi wallet or the Winklevoss wallet or, you know, hodlers that just said, you know, take it out of my cold, dead hands. It's only about a hundred billion that is the free float to borrow a TradFi term. And so 30 billion on 100, that will move the price. But I don't think it's going to be 10 basis points. I think it's 1%. I think you have to do 1%. As a fiduciary, if you got, you know, 50 % in equities at some of the highest valuations in history, and you got another 30 % in bonds, which have had the first two negative years in the history of the bond market, 140 years of history, two negative years, looking pretty ugly. And you got this asset that is the best performing asset again, 11 of the 14 years that Bitcoin has been alive. It's been the best performing asset of all assets. It's the best performing asset then this year. Yeah. Eric hit on his prediction about 150 billion in terms of market impact. Do you like that number or do you think that he's still like it? Well, again, I think 150 billion would be half a percent, right? Instead of 10 basis points. And it looks like he's updated his, his thoughts. I'll go further and say 1 % seems more likely that'd be 300 billion, 300 billion on a hundred billion of free float price goes up a lot, a lot, a lot. And here's the, the interesting thing, Paul, is the way halvings work is the fair value increases. So we've got a tailwind that the fair value today based on Metcalfe's law model that Tim Peterson runs and that I think is fantastic, says that the fair value is somewhere in the low fifties, 52, 53, let's just call it 50. So at the halving, fair value doubles. What do you mean, Mark? What are you talking about? Well, think about it. The miners who secure the network, their costs are fixed, mining machines and electricity. So if their block rewards, the number of rewards that they're paid to secure the network gets cut in half and the price doesn't move, then they're out of business. So there's a built in mechanism to move the price higher, which is actually really interesting because that attracts attention because there's movement. And so long story short, fair value, every halving added has a zero. So we went from a hundred to a thousand, then we went from a thousand to 10 ,000. Now we go from 10 ,000 to a hundred thousand. So a fair value is a hundred thousand and we're trading at 26. It's a pretty rapid increase to fair value, I think, as investors buy things that are below fair value. But then what happens in the post fall halving, you get this parabolic blow off top. And in the previous cycle, fair value was around 30K. We got all the way to 69. That was because there was too much leverage and too much gambling and speculating. I don't think we go 2X this time or two and a half X this time. Could we get one and a half X? Sure. That gives about 150K, something like that. Yeah. Well, that is OK. So that's very intriguing. If you're if you're estimating this could be in the 300 billion dollar area, you know, for based on, you know, just the exposure to these funds and obviously how that might play out. How do you think retail response to this? Do you think retail is going to come in like a banshee coming in on this with a lot of now what would be legitimized ETFs? How do you think they play? Again, it's I've been saying this for five years. My hashtag get off zero zero is the wrong number, right? This is a truly unique diversifying asset that must be in everyone's portfolio. Doesn't have to be your whole portfolio. I never said that. It should be at least one percent.
Abundant Encounters
The Beauty of Inner Healing Is Connecting to God
"A personal level. You know, not on a grandiose level, of course, but like on a personal level, I can see that God is deeply invested and deeply involved in our life and is setting things in place so that we can be rescued from the proverbial floodwaters. Sometimes it just feels like a flood is coming at us, you know, and it's like we've got to get prepared. I don't care what anybody else thinks. We have to follow what God is calling us to do. We have to do this. It doesn't matter if when people think of inner healing, they think of, you know, the Exorcist movies or something silly like that. Nothing that matters, but God can do what he needs to do. You know, in our minds, the beauty of inner healing is about connecting to God. That's it. It's connecting to God. Demons don't want to be in the same place where God is. When he's manifesting inside one of his sons or daughters, nobody wants to be there. And I have seen deliverance take place and it's beautiful because it's not a big showy thing. Nobody would, you know, want to make it into a horror movie. It is a beautiful situation where someone, you just watch their face change sometimes. And that's it. That thing's gone. And peace has come. The kingdom is here. There's nothing that God can't do. He's so amazing at setting people free. When we give him the time, set aside the time to be present and focus on him, he's going to show up every time. And maybe he's challenging that right now. And that's okay. Like I would highly recommend receiving inner healing to see. I mean, to get your breakthrough. Find out, get curious. I remember being a complete atheist. And I never would have believed that God would show up as completely and frequently as he does in my life. It's just he's always there. He's always been there. I just got really good at ignoring him. And I think a lot of us are born that way. We're just really good at ignoring God. It's interesting, the statement in chapter 8 here where he's talking about people in their imaginations. They have vanity from their birth, you know. And that vanity obviously gets in the way of us being able to just acknowledge that we're not alone. That God is right here with us in this amazing creation that he made. I love how the story of Noah gets us to celebrate what God has done. He has made beautiful things everywhere around us.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from On The Edge Of Something Special (The Basin)
"Hey, 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. One of the things that I'm always trying to learn though, when I'm doing coaching is with creativity specifically, how do we keep the flow going when we have moments that we're not really overthinking things and we want to stay in that moment. And I know you've had this moment before, even if you're like, I'm not a creative person. I don't write poetry or screenplays or I don't have canvases lying around in my studio. I don't have a studio. But you do. You have a studio. You're the studio. The inside of you is the studio where God who is the master artist creator is making a masterpiece out of every day. So even how you approach your day can either be creative or robotic, reactive. I believe that. And I believe that sometimes when we label something as either good, bad, many cases, right, wrong, cool, corny, we miss that thin edge where something can become special. I was in a songwriting session recently, and it was a complete joke until a moment when I said, hey, slow it down. And we were doing something real fast, almost like a jingle, like a joke, like a parody song, you know, not weird Al parody that's clever, just being stupid. And I said, slow down, slow down. And all of a sudden it went from stupid, silly, to something that was real serious and heavy. And by the end of the two days of writing, that was the favorite song that we had created of a couple of the writers. So I wish I could tell you. And that song was, you know, Reckless Love. Well, we didn't write Reckless Love and that song wasn't Reckless Love. It may not be a big song, but we definitely felt it was good. And it started with that something was really silly, right? And then at some moment we decided to slow it down. And I turned to one of my collaborators, I said, if we slow it down, this will turn into something. If we slow it down, this will turn into something. And I didn't mean slow it down and start talking and overthinking. That's usually a bad way to create a creative flow, to slow down and just overthink and start taking things apart. Usually it's better to stay in the moment. What I meant by slow it down was just slow down the tempo. Like, let's just bring it down and boom, settle into it. And all of a sudden something unlocked. So I wonder how many times in our life we have been on the verge of something special, but we told ourselves a story that it was silly. This is stupid. It doesn't matter. I wonder how many times we've been in the middle of saying something to someone and we interrupted ourselves with judgment. Here comes the psychological component. I can do it from the Bible too. Judge nothing before the appointed time. I can do it from the Bible too. I can do it from the Bible too. I can do it from the Bible from Jesus. When the woman was brought to him and they were rushing to judge her and he slowed the whole thing down and said, hold on. And he did something special and they were about to do something stupid. I could preach it from the Bible, but I just want to come at it creatively, psychologically. And tell you that sometimes you're on the verge of something special. A moment with your child, but it feels awkward. A moment with your wife, but it feels awkward. And you judge it and you go, oh, this is awkward. Oh, they might think I'm cheesy. Oh, you know, I'm probably coming across like a know -it -all. Ah, this doesn't make any sense. So you stop. I want to encourage you for moments today where you push just past that point of awkward. Hey, if something's awkward because you're being obnoxious, stop. If something's awkward because you're making somebody uncomfortable, stop. If something's awkward because you don't know how to break out of contact, stop. Or if something's silly and it needs to be serious, don't make a joke out of everything. But when you're on the verge of something and it feels like, hey, I'm in this, be careful of that pull that pulls you out of those special moments where you're tempted to judge it. When you judge it, you disrupt it. And when you disrupt it, you kill it. You kill creativity. When you categorize, I had a friend early in our church give me a piece of advice. Okay. I used to label myself as not creative. What I meant by that is pretty much I can't draw somewhere in my mind. I got the thought that creative people could draw probably in like six year old Steven said, because it was called art class and we drew and I don't like to draw and I'm not good at drawing, not technically classically. Sure. Somebody likes it. Thanks. Thanks for the support out there for all of you who are very nonjudgmental, but yeah, I got this bad habit of saying I'm not creative. I'm not creative. I'm not an artist. I'm not creative. I'm not an artist. I'm not creative. And one of the guys we were starting the church with, I turned one day and I said, I'm not creative. I'm not creative. And a few minutes later I shared an idea I had, and this is going to sound corny, but I wanted to do a little teaching in the church where I was talking about momentum and I wanted to use the different, I wish I could hold up my computer because I wanted to use the different keys on the computer, shift, return control option, and do the teaching around those different buttons. And I was saying it to him almost like, I know this is dumb, but you know I know this is stupid, but rolling my eyes at myself before I even got out of my mouth, basically projection, telling him why he wouldn't like the idea I was about to present before I even had the chance to present it, saying his no for him so he couldn't reject me. And I told him my idea and he's like, that's awesome. I love that. Now he was a designer that he did specialize in visual stuff. He looks back at me and goes, I love that. He goes, hey, and don't ever say I'm not creative again. Now remember, I'm the pastor, I'm the leader, I'm the boss in some ways, although he wasn't getting paid, but I was the boss. And he telling me what to do. So first it hit me, don't tell me what to say, but then I'm like, oh, thanks. I kept that with me. I kept that with me. He planted a seed in me. Like God told Jeremiah, do not say I'm only a youth. He said, don't say I'm not creative. You should never say that again. You're very creative. And I hear my wife say that time, I'm not creative like you. Yes, you are. Did you see the way that you just made our whole family feel with that birthday party that you did? Did you see the way you just made Valentine's Day feel special? You put out this little mailboxes and made us write all notes to each other and the boys acted like they didn't want to do it, but they'll never forget it. You made something really special here. I don't like the term you made a memory because people make their own memory out of events. We don't get to make someone else's memory, but you created space for memories to be made. And you're very creative. So don't say I'm not creative. It's just what are you creating and how do you, psychology term, constrict your creativity by rushing to judge it while it's still in process? I want you to think about that today. I'm going to carry that with me today as I move into this songwriting appointment is to not judge something before it has the chance to be special. Give it space to be special. Do that by dismissing the critic. One of my friends calls that the security guard who won't let something through because, oh, this is so stupid. But I think you'd be surprised how many times something is on the edge of special if you don't interrupt it with the judgment. All right? If you just let it unfold, try it out today, sit in the awkward moments a little longer, sit with the awkward moments with yourself a little longer, press through conversationally, breathe, see what's there on the other side of what feels silly. It might be something special. That's the title. It might be something special. 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 is 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. Make sure to leave a review, share the message and subscribe. God bless you.
Paul Vato Presents: A Celebrity Centric Podcast!
A highlight from Exploring Art, Laughter and Resilience with Illustrator, Jason Seiler!
"Y en ese hombre, hold another bottle. Look a little closer, cigar and Moscato. An actor in improv coming from Chicago. Auto, make way for Paul Vato. Bravo, and welcome everybody to another episode of Palo Alto Presents. And today my very special guest is Jason Seiler, who, judging by your Instagram, instagram .com slash Seiler pants, you make pants. Oh yeah, yeah, I got mostly made in Wisconsin, yeah. Wisconsin, Wisconsin, China, Jaina, Jaina. No, it's Seiler Paints, Paints. Seiler Paints, I think I got the wrong guy. I need a pair of pants and I thought you could hook me up with a pair of pants, nevermind. Folks, I'm just kidding, of course. I'm not the pants guy. I'm not a pants guy either, now in the time of Zoom calls and COVID and whatnot. No need to wear pants. No. My guest is Jason Seiler, who paints. He's an illustrator, he's an artist. He does caricatures. He's done the cover of Time Magazine various times with people like the Pope. And who was your other cover that you did? I've done Trump and Pelosi and a bunch of other political people, Biden and Kamala, person of the year. I think I've done about 10 covers for Time. That is amazing, congratulations. So I thought I'd spend a few minutes talking to Jason about his art, talking to him about his standup comedy. And we have a connection in the world of standup comedy as well as the Chicago connection. So folks, please give Jason a very warm round of applause. And thank you, Jason, so much for being here. Thank you, thank you. Oh, nothing better than claps and laughter. That must be so different, the fact that you're getting claps and laughter on stage. Sure, that's almost not in fact, but that when you're painting or drawing it's such a solitude thing, that you go from one world to the other where you're very solitary and concentrating. Not that you don't in standup, but you're not getting that immediate reaction until afterwards while standup, you're getting it right away. You're getting the applause, you're getting the laughs and all that. And the groans. Well, a reaction is a reaction. I love it. Have you got any groans for your artwork? Oh yeah, yeah, I was just about to say, I do get reactions pretty quickly when I share work. It's kind of funny, because I have done a lot of political type work, but I can't stand politicians. The left or the right, they're all lunatics as far as I'm concerned. So I have no problem illustrating for anybody, because I don't have a horse in the race really. I don't worship politicians, let's put it that way. Every once in a while I'll paint a certain politician and I'm trying to take care of my family. It's my job, I'm painting to somebody and I will get the nastiest messages from people just angry so that I, how dare you even work for that publication or draw that person or whatever it is. I've gotten pretty serious. One time I painted the president of Iran, this was years ago and I got some serious, nasty messages from people trying to curse my family and writing me crazy things. I actually even got a care package in the mail from Iran. This was like 15 years ago and it freaked me out so much because it was just after I got all these threats. So I gave it to the police and to the FBI in Chicago. I just told my story and they took it and they came and got it, I don't even know what was in it. And then maybe, I don't know, like a month later, I got a call and they told me it was mixed nuts. It was a bag of mixed nuts. I thinking was that there was maybe gonna be like, man, those are some delicious Persian cookies. Yeah. But sorry, you didn't want, but same thing, mixed nuts. But then I found out from someone from Iran that that's actually like a gift of love or whatever, like that's a common thing to be, so it was probably a fan, but it still weird me out. I was like, okay, I don't know. People are saying death to you and your family, here's some nuts, enjoy. Maybe they thought you had a peanut allergy, so maybe it wasn't. He's American, send him some gluten, that'll kill him. Send him some gluten and a shoe. We couldn't throw it at you, but here it is. No, until somebody's paying your mortgage and your rent or your bills, they can't exactly tell you how to do it, but that's the thing, you're not a hypocrite. You're only going like, oh, I'm only drawing Republicans or I'm only drawing Democrats. You're going across the board and all showcasing your beautiful talents and artwork, so you can't let that, of course, stop you, and it hasn't, so that's wonderful. It is a little bit tricky because there's some artists that I know that only will work for the left, and then they criticize me if I do anything for a right -wing publication. But the thing is that I don't illustrate something if I don't, if it's over the line in any way that I don't, otherwise, mostly it's just like, whatever. There's a story about this person and I'm just doing a painting of them. Chill out. I'm recording history, okay? This is something that is happening right now, and whether you like it or not, that person exists, and recording I'm history with my painting. That's basically, and I'm also taking care of my family and doing what I love, so chill out. Yeah, agreed, and that is 100%. You're not doing the political commentary. No. You're just doing a painting for whatever article that is, be it right, left, so no, I don't think that you should ever, of course, need to explain yourself. I know that we're just dialoguing, but no, you can't listen to what other people say. And then, I'm friends with a pretty well -known cartoonist and he's very left -wing. His name's Lalo Alcaraz. He's an award -winning cartoonist, and I co -hosted the show Pocha Hour of Power with him on KPFK in LA, as you know, that's very left -wing radio. And he, you know, he'll go at both sides, but he really, of course, goes after the right, and especially Trump and whatnot, but I think he would appreciate your work because we also know people on both sides of the aisle, and yeah, that's just incredible. You're taking shit from all sides. And even in comedy, too, like I don't really get into politics too much in comedy because it just divides the room right away, but I like to make fun of myself or kind of make fun of both sides at the same time, you know what I mean? Like making fun of Trump and Biden together, you know what I mean? Like that's more fun to me, like if it's a fun joke, but yeah, it's different with the illustration because it's, you know, a client will call me and tell me like someone they want me to paint. They'll tell me the story. If it's a caricature -type editorial illustration where they're like wanting me to draw a situation, if it was something that I didn't agree with, I just wouldn't do it, and I've done that before. I'm like, eh, I don't really want to do that. And that's fine. They'll find someone else. But mostly it's just in the last three years or so with the heightened wokeness thing that's been going on where people are seeing them being a little bit more sensitive about things, that caricature, which is what I've been doing since I was like nine, 10 years old, has not been used as much in editorial work. And I've actually been called out a few times now for doing caricature that I'm a bully, that it's mean, and that they're like, how could you do that to people? And it's just like, it's ridiculous. And it's funny because it really, the caricature illustration and comedy, it's always been like very similar to me. The difference is when I do comedy, people go to the show to see comedy. So I actually feel like I have way more freedom to express myself. And it's like, hey, shut the fuck up. You decided to come to a comedy show. So get over it. But like with the art, it's like you're kind of just putting it out there and then anybody feels like they can say and they know what they want. And now everyone has access to tell you what they think. So it's a - Of course, of course. Yeah, everyone's got a platform. Now you're saying that you're being called a bully or you might be because you're exaggerating features of people's faces? Because I think that's what caricature is, correct? I mean - Oh yeah. There's been people that take it in that way, that like, I've been called a bully basically, which is kind of crazy. Cause it's like, they look at what I'm doing as super mean or that's like insensitive or racist or whatever, just as like, because of how I draw somebody and it's like, no, that's what they look like. It looks more like them than a photo sometimes. A good caricature. It really can capture someone's essence. But I've definitely noticed in the last few years, this shift in this, like people are like walking on eggshells about everything. So - Yeah. We especially notice it in comedy or satire and whatnot, you know, but I hear you. So keep fighting the good fight. Now you mentioned you take commissions. Now, if I wanted you to draw either myself or something for a book, that's a project that you would possibly take on, you would consider? Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm a freelance artist. So if you have monies, I provide the honeys. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Because I was going to offer, you know, I'd love for you to draw me. It'll bring you great exposure. I feel like a lot of people make that offer. Like, oh please, you know, do work for me. And you'll get a good exposure. So sorry, but I can't tell that to my mortgage company or my landlord. Do you charge different rates, say for individuals versus like corporations, like to draw the cover of Time Magazine, do you have a set rate? Is it the same as other artists? And you know, if this is proprietary knowledge, then by all means, you don't have to share it. But I think people would be very interested to know what can an artist make? Obviously you've dedicated what, 20 plus years to your craft? Well, yeah, I mean, it's different how it works. Because basically from magazine to magazine, the way it works usually is they have like a set amount for cover or for spot illustrations, inside the illustrations. And they offer you the job, you either take it or you don't. You know, so that's usually how that works. And a magazine cover can be anywhere from, you know, 1 ,800 to 2 ,800 to 3 ,500. It depends on who it is. And then it varies for different other projects. Like I recently did background paintings for an upcoming Disney movie. And that was different. That was more of, I got paid every two weeks. And so I had a set amount where I was paid. And so it's never the same. Like sometimes I do, sometimes for clients or for private commissions, I'll do a day rate, you know, which is usually I'll charge like 1 ,000 to 1 ,200 for a day rate. And so it just depends on what the project is and also, especially if it's a private commission, I usually, I ask for like half upfront for something like that. And then because I'm also taking on, you know, editorial work while I'm doing that, you know, so it really just depends. That's, it's not, there's not like a set thing. Yeah, I mean, and it's different also for, because when I do my editorial work, I work digitally, but when I do private commissions, well, I also work digitally for that as well, but sometimes I'll do oil paintings, gouache or things like that. Those will cost a lot more because they're traditional and they're huge and they take a long time. So that's, you know, again, it's all over the place. So it depends on what it is. Like if it's an album cover, let's say I've done a few album covers before, that can be a lot more than like a book cover or, but in the industry itself, there's not like a set thing, you know. Wonderful, well, thank you for sharing because I think that we get a lot of listeners that are getting into the arts or enjoy the arts or artists themselves. And I think that's one of the important things is, you know, monetization and can I make a living at this? So thank you for being free with your information and sharing, so much appreciated. And then how did you get into standup comedy? It's kind of crazy, but we kind of have a connection. You mentioned Steve Byrne before, but basically, so I've always wanted to do comedy. Ever since I was a little kid, I know he's not so popular right now, but Bill Cosby was my favorite comedian. When I was a kid, I would watch it over and over and over again. And as I got older, I just, you know, every comedian show I could see, I would watch. Saturday Night Live, anything comedy. And then of course I was really into Mad Magazine and that kind of stuff. So it's always been a huge part of my life. And I've always, I wasn't really like a class clown. I was definitely a weird, quirky artist guy that loved to make people laugh. And I would be silly with my friends and I always wanted to get people to laugh. Like it was, I would, you know, whether I was like walking, I used to sometimes for just for fun, I would walk around my high school like Charlie Chaplin. And I would just do the Chaplin walk for hours. Like I was just weird, I don't know. Like I've always just loved comedy. And then as I got older, I moved to Chicago when I was 18 and I joined, I was in a bunch of punk bands and metal, like hardcore bands really. And so I spent years touring and putting out albums with bands. And then eventually I quit and focused like on my art full time.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/11/23
"There stars are in the southern sky and if ever you decide... If my research is correct, this was what the Madison Square Garden crowd heard to begin the show that Mike was in attendance for when he was in New York. I'm just watching guys play tennis, but this is what Mike did. I bet it was awesome. Mike and I were in New York City at the same time doing very different things. Wait a minute. Don't say Mike and I were in New York City. You created quite the drama by your refusal to spend even a second of time with me when you and your beautiful bride were celebrating your anniversary. Well, excuse me for not peeling away for schmooze time on an anniversary event. It took Peg Hudson to set Joe and me straight. Let me give you the backstory. Yes, there's always backstory. Your research is spot on. That was what they opened with. They all lined up across the front of the stage, including the great Vince Gill. Oh my God. That show was unbelievable. I mean, when's the last time you've gone to a concert and for two hours you hear the band just do hit after hit after hit after hit? Who can do that? It's not a long list. The Eagles can do it. And they did it. Opened up by Steely Dan. And in fairness, there's an example, three quarters of the songs, I don't remember it. I never heard of, but there's a couple of hits there for some of the great Steely Dan. And then of course, the Eagles with what was an incredible night at Madison Square Garden. But anyway, you're here, you're in town. I'm in town with Joey and Peg. We're seeing the Eagles and we saw a couple Broadway shows and I figured when Mark and Lisa go do stuff, it's Mark and Lisa time. And I should have known that. So I delicately said, hey, you want to get together for lunch or dinner while you're here? I mean, we don't see each other in person very much. And of course, as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, oh, we're slammed. Thank you. We're very busy. We're very busy. We're slammed. We're a little maxed out here. We're maxed out. And so Joey and I got all up in arms about it Saturday night. My man, my man, buddy card is being revoked. We went to dinner at a place called Centurion, New York, and I had a table set for you and Lisa. I mean, we were in a private room on the 55th floor of one Wondervelt. I'm not kidding you. It was unbelievable. It's this brand new dining experience. And we had a room with a table of six with three of us. And I kept saying, gosh, what, how perfect that would have been for Mark and Lisa to have joined us. And Joey and I started bellyaching about your rudeness. And then Peg says, it took a woman to point out, are you guys high? Right. Well, she says, do you think they want to spend their anniversary weekend with you talking shop? And I said, well, first of all, we're more than just shop. It's not just work. We're friends. Exactly. There's all kinds of commonalities and tastes and the culture in our lives. And we're intertwined, of course, it would have been lovely. But it wasn't because you didn't give us the time of day. I know my priorities. Well, you're right. Okay. I mean, good for you. And I hope you had a lovely weekend. So what exactly should I have given up? Should I have, well, here's a weird story because we thought that one night was going to be at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for tennis purposes. And the other one was going to be at Elio's in the Upper East Side, the restaurant where I proposed to her in March of 2002. So which of those should I have cashed in, you know, go hang out with y 'all as much as wonderful as that would have been. I mean, is the proposal restaurant all that significant? Come on. Yes, it is. But here's what's weird. Here's the weird thing that happened on tennis day. Do you know how weird tennis is trying to attend it? If you want to go to the Cowboys and the Eagles on December 10th, you can get a ticket right now for the Cowboys and the Eagles on December 10th. But if you want to go see Novak Djokovic, which is what my bride wanted to do, because from 10, 15 years ago, we're watching Nadal and Federer, and she just loves these guys. And we have loved watching tennis together on the TV box. And I said, for this anniversary, I'm taking you to the U .S. Open. It's like, great, we'll go see Djokovic or other great players, Daniel Medvedev, the young Carlos Alcaraz, who may be the next Nadal. But if you want to see Djokovic, you can't. He's not guaranteed to play on a particular day at a particular time. You can nail down the day. We did not know until hours ahead of time that Djokovic and Ben Shelton, the American, would be the early match. And silly me, I thought, there's no way. He's got to be the late match. So I bought tickets to the late match at no small expense. But then all of a sudden it's like, ding, ding, ding. Nope. That is Medvedev. He'll be playing Alcaraz at night and beat him, of course, because it was Djokovic and Medvedev. And Djokovic won in the final that we watched last night. It was great. So here's what I had to do. I've never done this before. I'm a big fan of the secondary market. So I had these tickets on Ticketmaster. In the old days. You tell me you sold tickets because I was desperately trying to get tickets to go. I'm going to kill you. What? No. I wanted to go so bad. To the open? I wanted to go to the open so badly I could taste it. And I went on the secondary market. You know, God's been good to me and I have a pretty good living. I ain't spending $14 ,000 a ticket. Okay. You want to talk real dollars? I'm going to do this. I am going to do this for my bride. She doesn't do mink coats or huge jewelry. You know, she's just one of the million reasons I love her. We were in unbelievable seats for the night, for the night one in the hundred level, the loge level. And they were $1 apiece. ,700 $1 ,700 apiece. So $3 ,400 to put my wife and me in these magnificent seats. Then we learned, guess what? Djokovic ain't playing at night. He's playing in the daytime. So now I got to go get seats to that. But here's the thing, since the world expected Djokovic to be at night, that's why those seats were $1 ,700. The moment it was announced, I flip immediately to the day session, got the exact same seats on the other side of Arthur Ashe Stadium for $600 apiece. Boom. Then I sold, with my phone still in my hand, sold the ones that I had bought. Obviously, their price went down a little bit. So I didn't make it all back. But I essentially paid for the other ones with the sale of the first ones. It is a crazy modern world, man. It is a crazy modern world. And heaven forbid you would have said to your talk show buddy, you want a couple tickets to the open because I would have bought them from you direct. I wouldn't even know. Funny, I don't know how to transfer them to another actual human being. Well, there's a way. There's got to be a way. All right. I think there's enough about that. Here's my proclamation. If I come to Dallas for a weekend, I'll make time to see you and Lisa, okay? And I will find a restaurant with a private room and a seat for anybody you want to bring. All right. We'll replicate it, Texas. Let me share with you the sights and sounds of what I experienced this morning walking into work here at 111 Broadway in lower Manhattan. All the police activity as the commemoration, the bell is ringing, observing the moment the flight hit the North Tower. Twenty -two years, Mark. The moment you know well. Boy. You were in the Empire State. Sure was. And we're going to relive that today on the show as we always do. We're also going to play that beautiful faith -filled tribute called Silent Night that our friends at KRLA in Los Angeles made many years ago where God, you just don't believe it, but he has a plan and he is always, always with us, even in our darkest hours. So, you know, Axios had an interesting piece this morning about how young men and women enlisting today and joining the military. They don't have that sense of understanding or recognition of 9 -11. So many people became members of the military because of 9 -11. It was such a movement in this country and it was beautiful and it continues to be. And they're in their mid -forties now. Correct. You know, ish. And you think about, I mean, there are people of legal adulthood, 21 years old now, who were not alive for 9 -11. Absolutely. For them, it's not like it's Pearl Harbor or anything, but it's just something that happened before I was born. I got to wrap my head around that. It's interesting that I heard, that's a second time today, though, I've heard somebody say, well, it's not like Pearl Harbor. I really feel it is. Just to me, it's, maybe it's because of our age and, you know, we run around. Here's the crazy thing. You and I were both born less than 20 years afterward. Correct. After Pearl Harbor. So it was just something that had recently happened. That's right. Had a certain stigma and, you know. So I think about the people who joined the military on behalf of those who died on 9 -11 and fighting for our freedoms, fighting against tyranny. And Mark, I am stunned at the rapid way tyranny has come to our own governance. I read an article the other day in the New York Times. It's an opinion piece, to be fair. Trump indict Trump's indictments, the key players in the 2020 election effort. And Mark, they did one of these and I read it online, one of these comprehensive articles about how everybody who questioned in any way, shape or form the outcome of the 2020 election is a co -conspirator in the election denialism that is traitorous, that is traitorous, that's treason. Now, attack on democracy. Right now, never mind all the Democrats, including Hillary on down, who lined up in question the outcome of 2016. I guess that doesn't count. I'm sure the New York Times didn't do, you know, an extensive piece on this, but they've got everybody ensnared in this, Mark. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley. We saw Lindsey Graham almost got indicted in Fulton County. And all they were doing was saying, what happened here? And exactly daring to inquire. And that has become a tactic of the left. And I think COVID, tell me if you agree with me, COVID broke the door open on this. If you dared question the vaccine or if you dared question the lockdowns, you were shut down. You lost your social media status. Some people lost their jobs. Look at the, look at all the airline pilots we lost because they wouldn't get vaccinated. And that kind of opened the door. And now it comes to the, to election integrity and the New York Times and people who think like them want to weaponize our free speech right to question anything. And criminalize it. And so your metaphor is apt. It absolutely is. And I hope it goes a similar way that the COVID extremism did. And that is that the pendulum swings. And now we have relative rationality, even though I did see in New York City, people walking around by themselves in Washington Square Park, wearing a mask outside. But not many, right? Not very many at all. Listen, I almost wanted a mask to keep away from the weed smell. I asked a New York City cop, what's with the weed? And he told me, he said, look, it's legal. You can't have enough where you're trying to sell it. You can't give it to kids, blah, blah, blah. But it's pretty, and I said, has it been a problem? He said, not really. He said, I don't like it either, but it's people doing, so, but not to divert. So your metaphor is apt. I hope that the pendulum swings, as it did with COVID, and I hope it does it maybe even quicker because the, because the Fauci's and the various other people who hit us with this have been proven so terribly, terribly wrong and corrupt so relatively quickly. I hope that can happen on weaponization of election. Well, Mark, there's reason to be optimistic. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling, huge win for free speech where this appeals court upheld the prohibiting government officials from communicating with social media companies. There was a preliminary junction. The defendants include Joe Biden, the U .S. Surgeon General, the Health and Human Services Secretary, and the courts are agreeing that it is absolutely unlawful for government officials to try to censor speech on social media. Of course it is. Well, it took a long time. Sure. Well, listen, justice delayed is justice denied. But that's the pendulum swinging. And I hope you, speaking of New York, I hope you saw the New York -based shrews over on The View Friday, Anna Navarro and the rest of them now complaining about the illegals in New York City saying they need to be resettled elsewhere. Anna Navarro and the rest of them on The View want to kick illegals out of New York. How unwelcoming. Oh, how well, how unchristian -like of them. But listen, I heard somebody say this somewhere else and it's true. People like Greg Abbott and others have called Eric Adams bluff. Yep. We've called their bluff. We've said, all right, you want to be a sanctuary city? Here's what it looks like. This is it. Welcome to Texas. Every day, the amount. Welcome to El Paso. And, you know, so golly, I hope the pendulum is swing. Great to have you back. It is wonderful to be back. Great to kick off a big, big week. I'll be in Philly tonight for a big event with Dennis Prager and Pastor Robert Jeffers. Faith and Freedom Coalition event. And then back here on in New York Tuesday and then back to Florida. So, OK, this is crazy. Mr. Acela corridor. You're in Philadelphia for an event tonight. I'm on the 115 Acela. I love that train. In the morning? 115 this afternoon. To get there. But where are you doing the show tomorrow morning? From Philly, from AM 990. And then taking the Acela back. And I have to admit, I'm not a big train travel fan. Yep. I like that Acela. Yep. Pretty cool. And, you know, I think I've got to be in first class just so I can, as an observer, experience what that first class experience must be like. If you're going to do it, do it. You might as well go up front, you know, and or actually in the back. Sometimes the first class on the Acela is on the way in the back. But I still like walking over to the cafe car and getting a hot dog. Kicking it old school. Absolutely. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Big week. All right. Happy Monday, my friend. Happy Monday. Mike Gallagher there for you on this very. I'm just. Think identity theft won't happen to you? Think again. There's a new victim every three seconds in the U .S., over 15 million this year alone. And many don't even know their victims. LifeLock alerts you to identity threats you could miss, even when you monitor your credit. If your identity is stolen, your dedicated U .S. based restoration specialist will work to fix it. No one can prevent all identity theft, but everyone can save up to 25 percent their first year at lifelock dot com slash Salem. Identity theft protection starts here.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep373: Skipping These Steps Affects The Value You Give Your Listeners - Alex Pardo
"Okay. Half ish, a million a year. And I'm thinking to myself like the doctors that I know, the attorneys that I know, I dated the same attorney for years and years and years. They don't make 500 grand a year. Only a couple of them, only a certain amount of them. You have to be a certain type of doctor or a certain type of attorney, but the people in this world who we all look up to and strive to have an income similar to that, they're not even pulling in a half a million a year. So I think that it's good to see how lucrative it can be if you're doing something like that. That's right. One thing I do want to stress for people listening, have a specific day and time that your episodes get released that your listener can come to expect that from you. And you might decide to do more, but I've seen too many podcasters are very inconsistent. They might release on a Tuesday, one day, nine days later, it's released on a Thursday and then two weeks later it's on a Monday. And then, you know, it's very disjointed and I don't see anybody that's done that gain any traction with podcasting. So just commit to the craft and just stay consistent is one big thing would underscore for people. I've got a couple quick questions for you, but first I want to mention one thing that I remember calling you out on that I felt was a mistake during when you were monetizing. And I think it was maybe your sponsor that you promised like 45 second ads to. Yes. And you wanted to go above and beyond for them. And I don't remember the length and I don't want to exaggerate it too much, but it may have been like double the length, like from 45 seconds, maybe a minute and a half issue was okay. Yeah. And I remember thinking like, why spend so much time on this ad on every single episode because your people start hearing it. And then after they've heard it like three or four times, then they're like, I've got to push the forward 30 seconds three times and it's over. And so I felt like it was giving less value to the sponsor by doubling the length. And so I just want to point that out to the listener right now is like a 15 second ad, a 30 second ad, a 45 second ad. These are awesome lengths. A minute is probably the longest. And I don't think you're always going above and beyond by increasing that to a minute or two or three minutes. I think you're probably giving the best value by keeping it at or around within 15 seconds of what you promised them. I now agree with you. I remember at the time hearing that feedback from you. And despite the fact that you know better, I was like, in my mind, speaking about the product or service and how much I believe in it and the deliverables, I felt that was going to add value. Now I know, no, it detracted value from it. You're a hundred percent right. Yeah. I just wanted to point that out because you have like an extremely giving heart. You're that go giver in my mind. When I read the book, go giver, you're the person that comes to my mind and I can feel it with the authenticity. I can feel it with your episodes that I can certainly feel it when you're talking about, I stopped having people pay that we're willing to pay because I didn't feel so good about that. They weren't monetizing it already. And so I stopped. And so I really liked that. I wanted to point it out. So now let's talk about just real quick, the length of an episode, not the length of the ad, but the length of the episode and number of episodes that you would recommend to podcaster another who's already kind of going or they're about to launch a podcast. You did two a week for a long, long time. I don't know exactly where you are today, but what would you recommend to the listener? Yeah, no, it's a really good question. And it depends really on the person's goals, objectives, how much they want to commit to it. My personal opinion, and I'm happy to be wrong on this or feel free to push back. My personal opinion is that it's easier to start on the lower side and ramp up if you want to versus starting on the higher side and then realize that maybe you bit off more than you could chew. I committed to two shows a week and I did that for six ish years and about a year and a half ago or so, like I realized that I had so much on my plate that it started to not serve me and recording podcasts. I remember at one point was almost taking energy from me versus giving me energy. And I'm very in tune with the things that are energy giving versus energy draining. And I started to ask myself, how does the podcast become a get to instead of a have to say it again? How does the podcast become a get to? I get to do this podcast versus a have to. I have to do this podcast. And during around a year and a half ago, if I'm being honest, for a while, the podcast felt like I have to like I have to get out of a show on Monday and Thursday. And to be honest with you, Adam, I was struggling with like content. Content used to be very free flowing. I used to be able to get on a mic and for talk for 15, 20 minutes. And I felt like it was coming from the heart. I was connecting. And around a year and a half ago, I was like, I'm kind of struggling figuring out what to talk about, man. And I don't want to just keep interviewing people because I would alternate, by the way, like on my Monday show, I would interview on my Thursday show was a solo. And so anyways, long story short, I scaled down to one show a week and now it's a get to. Now it gives me energy to hop on it. I feel like it's a rhythm and a pace. I can continue for a long time. So for the person listening, I wouldn't go any less than one show a week. I think if you're going to do one every other week, I just don't know if you're going to gain traction that way. So I would say minimum one show a week. If you think you can do two shows a week, I think you'll gain more traction, right? I know some guys that do three shows a week and I know one dude who I think still does a daily show. That's a lot. I wouldn't recommend that for too many people, but I think between one and two shows is probably a good starting spot. And then your other question, my solo shows where it's just me, I'm usually on the mic between 12 and 20 minutes. I keep a short suite and I typically try to focus on one or two like points I want to drive home when I'm interviewing someone roughly about 45 minutes. Yeah, I like that. And I don't disagree. I like the thought where you said do as many as you can comfortably handle. I like the part where you said don't bite off more than you can chew. On my end, I was doing six for a while and my company, because we serve the same person who listens, my company was doing extremely well and I slowed down to two a week. I went from six down to two. And after doing that for about a year, my company started not making as much money. And so I doubled it back to four. And around the time that this is airing, it's back up to six again. And it's because it doesn't take away from me. I like that I get to versus a half do. And to me, sometimes the solos are like shit. You've got to record a bunch of solos now because it's happening. I have to do this. But at the same time, I think right when I push record, I can get into that mindset where I'm finally I'm excited about it and I'm passionate about it again. So for me, around the time you're slowing down, I'm trying to speed it back up. So I think it's just a good conversation to have. But with this one big takeaway, at least one a week, I a hundred percent agree with that. One hundred percent. No question about that. Alex. Oh, you know what? I got to bring you back on because we're like at that 45 ish minutes that I agree with you on. I really want to talk more about personal visions. Can you give us a brief on it and maybe jump back on another show? And so I so believe in I learned about a decade or so ago from this organization called Life in Air. And I got to give them credit. I learned about the importance of creating and establishing a vision for your life, because I see so many people who they're always focused on business and growing and generating more wealth and cash flow. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's all very important. But yet I see people always spending so much time in this area of their life, i .e. business. And then yet their health suffers, their relationships suffer, their kids grow. They don't really get to know their kids. And that pains me, right? Because you're a man or a woman, you're a person first. An entrepreneur is just what you do. It's not who you are. And so I really learned the idea of like, what is it I want my life to look like without regards to money, possessions, material things, things of that nature. But what do I want to experience and what about my life to look like? Then figure out how to create and structure a business to support and enhance your desired lifestyle. And so that has served me very well. So I always now ask questions. Does this get me closer to my life's vision or does it take me further away? Prior to having a vision, any opportunity under the sun that I felt that I enjoyed or that I could monetize, I would say, okay, let's do that. And then I was stacking so much on my plate that I didn't have enough time for the things that mattered to me, like family, travel, faith, etc. Now that I have a vision, I look at an opportunity and I say, does this fit within my vision? Yes or no. And I make the decision based off of the vision, like the podcast that fit my vision. I get to help people. I get to impact. I get to communicate. It fits within my strengths. I get to do it on my timeline. I get to monetize it so it feeds the business so I can help more people that fit within my vision. Going out and traveling and speaking on stage every other weekend, that doesn't fit my vision. So I don't do it. Yeah. The life in there guys. So I hired one of them personally. And so I worked with a guy named Sean and for years he would tell me to filter everything through my vision. Yeah. And I just didn't feel like I had time to have a vision. I thought it was bogus. I thought it was silly. I thought it was a waste. And so I never did it. I mean, I didn't do it for a long time is what I mean to say. And one day I wrote it down and I committed to him that I would filter everything through that vision. And it changed everything. I started working a lot less and my income actually went up, which I didn't expect because I thought for sure it would go down. But the income went up. My happiness went up. My health went up. My relationships went up. And it was because I finally took the advice of taking a step back, looking at what I want that vision to look like, and then making everything fit around it and filtering everything through it. So I love that part a lot. Yeah. The only caveat I would add to that is if people sit down to create their vision, don't filter based on what you think is possible or isn't possible. What is it you want your life to look like? Even if you don't know how to do it, the how -to will come. What is it you want your life to look like? Get that on paper. That's a good place to end the episode today. If you're listening and I know you are, the next episode is a solo episode, just like Alex. He does every other episodes or solos. And I've got something curated that I really think is important to you. I don't want you to go anywhere. I'll see you on the next episode. If you're glad that you checked out the podcast today, if you got some value out of this episode, some actionable takeaways, I invite you to do one of three things. A, you could do a written review on Apple. Let us know what you think. Just an honest written review. B, you could share the podcast with a friend of yours who needs it. Or C, at the very least, implement what you've learned to take your business and your podcast to the next level. And I'll see you on the next episode. Bye.
The Breakdown
A highlight from UPDATED: How Big A Deal Are The Changes to Crypto Accounting Standards?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, September 7th, and today we are asking how big a deal are new crypto accounting rules? Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Now, reiterating that point, I said this on my AI show as well, but today you are listening to a birthday episode. Yes, 39 years ago today I was born, and if you would like to give me a beautiful gift, leaving a rating or a review for this show wherever you happen to listen to it would be an awesome, awesome thing to do. I appreciate all of you listeners and participants, and so let's talk new crypto accounting rules. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, have changed their recommendations for how crypto holdings should be recorded in corporate financial statements. The FASB oversees reporting and accounting standards for companies that follow generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP guidelines. On Wednesday, the FASB unanimously passed a vote to recommend fair value accounting for crypto assets held on corporate balance sheets. This means crypto will be marked at the prevailing market price in financial reporting. Previously, corporations were recommended to record impairment losses on their balance sheet when the price of crypto fell. This impairment was not removed if crypto prices recovered, making it difficult to quickly determine the value of corporate crypto holdings using this method. Michael Saylor, the chairman of MicroStrategy, has been railing against this recommended accounting for years, claiming that it made little sense it was misleading to investors. MicroStrategy and some other companies worked around this problem by providing an alternative accounting within their financial disclosures, which included the current fair value of crypto holdings. Now, the FASB kept the proposed changes simple and elected not to address NFTs, wrapped tokens, or stablecoins for now. Companies may begin using this method in their official accounting immediately, with the rules officially changing in 2025. FASB member Christine Bodasan said, It's not very often that we can both take cost out of the system and improve the decision usefulness of information, and it makes it a really easy vote to do both of those. Jeff Runlet, the head of accounting strategy at accounting software company Cryptio, said, It's a great step forward for the entire crypto market. I think it's a great step towards mainstream adoption. I can see finalizing this proposal to help large corporations that are maybe scared to hold crypto on their balance sheet because they're scared of the technical complexities. Now, by and large, the community greeted the news as something that was unlikely to cause big widespread attention, but which was quietly significant. Michael Saylor tweeted, Fair value accounting is coming to Bitcoin. This upgrade to FASB accounting rules eliminates a major impediment to corporate adoption of Bitcoin as a treasury asset. Stack Hodler says, Huge FASB votes in favor of fair value accounting for Bitcoin on corporate balance sheets. Most public corporations couldn't stack Bitcoin without this rule change. Now, cash rich companies have a way to ensure their bond portfolios against debasement. Dr. Chris Dark said, They voted unanimously to change the rules to fair value accounting, which is logical by the end of the year. FASB rule change for crypto matters for corporates a lot. It's boring and wonky, but it fixes one of the most silly accounting rules where it was an indefinite lived intangible asset. TLDR, corporates will be able to hold Bitcoin or ETH or crypto, and in quarterly accounts it will be valued at its fair value, not by the current rules, which is at its purchase cost minus impairment. Genuinely big news that no one will care much about. Well, Dr. Dark, we care about it here at The Breakdown. Next up, another bit of news along the same theme of institutionalization, which really one could joke, pretty reasonably, that the perpetual bull narrative in crypto is institutions just around the corner. Anyway, a pair of asset managers filed applications for Spot Ethereum ETFs on Wednesday. ARK, in partnership with 21Shares as well as VanEck, will try their luck to get the first of their kind products approved by the SEC. Now a reminder about process, once the regulator acknowledges the applications, that will start the clock on a 240 -day deadline for a final SEC decision. The first interim deadline for the regulator comes after 45 days, and these Spot ETH filings join 16 existing applications for products offering exposure to Ethereum futures. Now if you want a little more insight into 21Shares and their parent 21 .co, go check out my interview with CEO Hani Rashwan on Bitcoin Builders. We talk about how much the company and the industry has changed since they got their first -ever crypto exchange -traded product approved in December of 2018. Now back to this news, both of the applications filed on Wednesday featured a surveillance sharing agreement with Coinbase. This feature is intended to monitor Spot crypto markets for manipulation and has been seen as a key difference in the latest round of Spot Bitcoin ETF applications. Coinbase will also serve as the custodian for the ARK 21Shares ETF, although VanEck has not yet named a custodian. Up until now, the SEC has always summarily requested the withdrawal of Spot ETF applications. And yet, Grayscale's recent courtroom win has been widely viewed as making the SEC's continued rejection of Spot crypto ETFs for major tokens, if not untenable, then certainly at least on borrowed time. One of the key rulings is that there was no fundamental difference between how futures -based and spot -based ETFs should be considered, given that the markets are 99 % correlated. When all is said and done, Bloomberg analysts expect additional Spot ETH ETF applications to pour in over the rest of the week. Bloomberg analyst James Safard tweets, The Spot Ethereum ETF race is officially on. It's early, but I'd estimate a final deadline on these applications to be around May 23, 2024. Now, all the same, many crypto traders noticed that, once again, a bullish piece of news had basically no impact on price. ETH pumped an anemic 2 % on the news and then fully retraced. Based Carbon tweeted, We used to pump coins harder on fake Grayscale trust filings than we did on a real ETH ETF filing. Still, I think analyst Ilo has it when they write, Price action still looks like it's going to be bleak in the short term. No liquidity, no volume, everything basically dead. But 2024 is shaping up like this. Approved ETH futures and spot ETFs, hard to ask for a better setup. You get to buy the lows before all the flows are with us again. Shoot your shot. However, because we are in this in -between moment, that means that any day that has a bunch of good news is also going to have, if not bad news, then at least news of the cleanup and fallout of last year. On that front, bankrupt crypto lender Genesys have sued parent company Digital Currency Group for payment of over $620 million in loans, which came due in May. These loans have been at the center of the Genesys bankruptcy, with allegations that they were made in an attempt to paper over problems within the DCG empire after the collapse of Three Arrows Capital in May of last year. And yet, despite their notoriety, relatively little has been known about the details of these loans until this lawsuit was filed. According to the complaint, Genesys loaned DCG almost 19 ,000 Bitcoin in June 2022 under the terms of an open loan agreement first signed in 2019. In November, the loan was converted to a fixed term due on May 11th this year. The filing states that the loan was partially repaid with a balance of 4 ,550 .5 Bitcoin outstanding. The two parties underwent mediation, which ended in August, but continued to negotiate. According to a separate document also filed on Wednesday, Genesys extended four cash loans to DCG throughout 2022 worth a total of $500 million. DCG claimed that it was able to convert the loans back to open term loans under the prior agreement, but Genesys disagreed. Genesys is seeking the repayment of principal without late fees. Now, it's unlikely that this lawsuit will move forward anytime soon, as Genesys has stayed the court process. A DCG spokesperson said, Genesys has agreed to stay the turnover action so that we can move forward with documenting the deal in principle that was reached with Genesys, the Unsecured Creditors Committee, and DCG. We are documenting a forbearance agreement and expect to file it with the court shortly. At that point, we will initiate the distribution of funds and continue on the path to significant recovery for Genesys creditors. Now, you'll remember that this in -principle agreement was filed in late August and promised repayment of 70 -90 % on unsecured creditor claims. The deal was widely panned as a bad deal by commentators, and Gemini, who are the largest creditor in the Genesys bankruptcy, do not support the agreement. Roe Rider tweets, SEC needed a new reason to deny Grayscale ETF. Well, they just got it. Pending litigation against a parent company from lenders involving substantial underlying shares and assets is all the excuse they'll need. DCG can only hide behind its entity structure for so long. Now, one more smaller side story staying in the DCG world. Arkham Intelligence believes that they have identified a Bitcoin wallet cluster belonging to Grayscale. The on -chain tracking platform has flagged over 1 ,750 wallet addresses linked to Grayscale's Bitcoin trust holdings. Each wallet holds less than 1 ,000 Bitcoin worth around $25 .7 million. In total, the wallet cluster sums to $16 .1 billion in Bitcoin holdings, matching Grayscale's public disclosures. Arkham did not disclose the full list of wallet addresses. In addition to the Bitcoin wallets, though, Arkham has also identified Grayscale wallets containing other assets including $4 .9 billion in ETH. Moving on to other Fallout stories. The assets of former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky have been frozen according to a court order unsealed on Wednesday. The order was originally issued on August 16th, and the list of assets included accounts held with Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and SoFi Bank, as well as a property in Austin, Texas. It included assets held in the name of companies Koala LLC and AM Ventures Holdings, as well as in the personal names of Alex Mashinsky and his wife Christine. Financial institutions are no longer permitted to facilitate transactions to and from the listed accounts. Mashinsky was of course arrested in July in relation to criminal fraud charges surrounding his operation of Celsius. Prosecutors claim Mashinsky defrauded customers and lied about Celsius's profitability. Mashinsky has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges, which his lawyers have called baseless. He was released on bail after posting a $40 million bond. Mashinsky also faces civil lawsuits from the SEC, the CFTC, and the Federal Trade Commission. Over in FTX world, SPF's request for immediate release from jail has been rejected, pending appeal. Sam is currently appealing a decision to revoke his bail made last month by the Federal Circuit Judge assigned to his criminal case. The Court of Appeals denied a motion for immediate release on Wednesday, but will hear the appeal before a panel of three judges at the next available opportunity, although it's unclear how long that will take. Now, Sam's trial is set to begin in less than four weeks. Defense attorneys have been protesting Sam's lack of access to a suitable laptop to review volumes of evidence, which have been disclosed by prosecutors in discovery. They've complained of low -quality internet access on a laptop with insufficient battery life when Sam is brought to the courthouse to look over documents in a holding cell. But according to a joint letter filed by the DOJ on Tuesday, Sam now has an upgraded battery and access to the laptop seven days a week, with copies of the discovery documents downloaded to hard drives. The letter also claimed that the internet access provided is sufficient for most internet review activities. Sam's defense team has until the close of this week to apply for a delayed start to the trial on account of the claimed difficulty accessing documents. That said, during a hearing last week, the judge made no indication of whether they were likely to grant a delay on the information currently disclosed. Now, earlier this morning, Bloomberg also reported that Ryan Salem was going to be pleading guilty, but as of recording, we don't have more info as to what, so we'll have to circle back to that later this week. Lastly today, tornado cash developer Roman Storm was arraigned on Wednesday. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to operate a money transmitter, facilitate money laundering, and sanctions evasion. Storm was released on a $2 million personal recognizance bond secured by his residence in Washington state immediately after his arrest last month. The tornado cash co -founder will remain on house arrest with limited travel allowed in central California, as well as to New York and New Jersey to attend court hearings. A Russian passport was seized from Storm who maintains dual citizenship. Fellow tornado cash co -founder Alexei Perseve is facing similar charges in the Netherlands and remains on house arrest awaiting his trial, and a third co -founder Roman Semenov has been charged by the DOJ but remains at large. Authorities allege the trio knowingly facilitated over $1 billion in money laundering through tornado cash without mitigating its illegal use. Tornado cash was for a time believed to be the primary money laundering system used by notorious North Korean hackers the Lazarus Group. Storm's lawyer, considered one of the top criminal defense attorneys in the crypto legal community, has said that authorities are In that, this case will be much more significant than just whether this set of people happen to do wrong. Anyways friends, that is going to do it for this birthday edition of The Breakdown. I appreciate you listening as always. Until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other.
Mark Levin
An Excerpt From 'The Democrat Party Hates America' on Nuclear Families
"To this crime we plead guilty. But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations when we replace home by social. It's the communist manifesto. Marx specifically drilled down on the essential necessity to replace parental care, love -nurturing, teaching and moral guidance, with the priorities of the egalitarianism and communality of the state. Fair to surrender your children to the will and propaganda of the state is to demonstrate allegiance your to, or worse, participation in the oppressor bourgeoisie status quo. Moreover, you care not about your children but about the perpetuation Marx wrote, quote, And your education, is that not also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, but the intervention, direct and indirect, of society, means of schools, etc. The communists have not invented the intervention in society and education. They do but seek to alter the character of the intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. That is, you folks. The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, he wrote, about the hallowed correlation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting by the action of modern industry. All family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labor. know Now you why the nuclear family is under attack. Has anybody ever read this to you but me? In his book Capital, Marx pronounced as silly any absorbing of the family, since it is developed through historical stages. Thus Marx advocated for the
The Eric Metaxas Show
Father Frank Pavone: "We Stand on the Platform of Jesus Christ"
"Father Pavone, I was just saying that this preposterous lie that somehow we can divorce faith and politics, it is so rampant. There's so many people who really haven't thought it through and they don't really think about, well, what if we had two parties and one of them was pro -slavery? Would I, as a Christian, not be obliged to say that as a Christian, I must stand against slavery and against the party and against the candidates that are pushing slavery? In other words, it gets silly even talking about it as politics. This is just reality. This is morality. This dealing is with good and evil. And if you're a Christian and not just Christians, but you have an obligation to speak about that. And when people accuse you of being political, you have to say, well, look, I'm happy not to be political. I'm just speaking about good and evil. So when we're talking about the unborn, I mean, I find it particularly scandalous if somebody like Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi can be vigorously supporting things that are outside the teaching of the Christian church and somehow claim to be Christians. And I think this is where things get muddy and confused. And I think this pope has been particularly guilty of confusing these issues and of making the faithful. People will say, well, I want to be a good Christian. Getting them confused is the church changing its tune on these things? That to me is the crime of the current pope. You know, Eric, I've been saying to people that when a political party comes along and calls for the killing of babies, calls for the suppression of religious freedom, has no respect for the dignity of human life. And the church stands up and names the evil and points to the people that are doing this. That's not the church being political. That's the church being the church. We don't stand on the platform of the Republican Party or of the Democrat Party. We stand on the platform of Jesus Christ. And it's our duty from age to age, whenever that platform is being attacked, for us to stand up and defend it and to name the attack. And because otherwise, how can people know the nature of the battle? It used to be that the church could and the church does rightly claim to do we represent the kingdom of God? Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world. So you can make an argument that look, the church is not meant to be a political party. The church has to have a certain neutrality if if if politicians are debating different policies, as long as those policies are trying to implement the same principle.
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"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Who's up for one? I don't think that was it either. So the last thing we'll say is that we mentioned earlier about city council, people, it has been banned here and there because it's such a pain. In the mid 2000s, I think 2004, there was a city council person named Tom le bonga, le bans in Los Angeles, Hollywood just goes crazy on Halloween. There's like a lot of party in and right there in central Hollywood. And apparently the silly string was out of hand with people spraying it with people getting on fights from getting sprayed with it and that they actually put a price tag on that that said silly string remediation was costing the city of Los Angeles 200 more than $200,000 each year. From that one night, just from Halloween. So they said, no more. Not on Halloween, not in LA. Yeah, some fat cat silly string cleaner upper was making 200 K on November 1st every year. Between 85. So they actually passed an ordinance where silly string is outlawed one day a year. Halloween in Los Angeles. At the very least in Hollywood. And I did not go back and find out if there had been any change to this law. So let's talk about it as a potential that existed at least in the past, if not currently, right? Because Tracy says that these sanctions are even worse than a pot charge. And I don't think you can get charged for pod anymore in California, right? No, it's legal. Right, okay. So this fine of just carrying a can of silly string could get you a misdemeanor, a $1000 fine, and up to 6 months in jail in LA, which is like a pretty glamorous jail, but it's still jail for 6 months. Yeah, they put it on par at the time at least. With a drunken disorderly charge bicycling or hunting while drunk was $250 and $500 respectively find while drunk did not know that. Well, no, and each of those separately, it makes a lot of sense, but if you put them together, that's when it starts to get hilarious. You could have broken into the LA zoo and got in the mirror $250 fine. If you had a can of silly string it was a thousand. Did you see the video recently of that poor dog who got into a gorilla enclosure? He was so scared. And the gorillas weren't happy that he was there either, but he did not want to be in there. And when they finally got him out, animal control got him out. He had like the guiltiest look on his face like I'm sorry. I didn't want to go in there, but it just happened. So he got out. Everybody was safe. It worked out very well, but yeah, he was really nervous and not happy. No one was. I guess you wouldn't be telling that story if you like. Oh man, it got mauled in a million pieces. Yeah. He looks like a 2012 Camry now. Very nice. Full circle. You got anything else? No, just the rule of threes. I think we accomplished that. I think that was four or 5. 2085 where it's more than three as well. We're failing. We're screwing it up left and right. Since I said, we're screwing it up left and right, everybody. Obviously it's time for listener mail. I'm going to read this just because it's just a nice person saying thank you. We don't do these much. And we get to also answer a question. Hey guys, I wanted to write not about a specific episode, but rather to comment on your overall series. I've been listening for years now and continue to find episodes delightfully upbeat and formative and extremely respectful of different viewpoints. The chemistry that you two have with each other as a parent to the listener through the silly banter and fun tangents. Well, if I want to you can say something like, you know, that thing, and the other one can name exactly what he means. You also have to say that I crack up just about every time Josh says, well, since chuck said, blank, it's time for listener mail. There's no rhyme or reason to the transitional phrase and it makes it all the better when you say it. I like that too. That's one of the nice traditions here. Definitely. As a lifelong learner, your work on this podcast seems to be a dream job. It is. And I didn't mean that as a question. It is. You get to research an immense range of topics and you make them so accessible to the audience. Something I appreciate is a teacher. I also applaud you for doing such a thorough job at being diligent with and mindful of your sources. That is such a teacher word. Yeah. What diligent? Yeah. One thing I always look forward to as well is to fund musical interludes going in and out of the commercial breaks. I always wondered how you get them to fan submit them. Where do they come from? Keeps episodes fresh, even after the many years that you have dedicated to your show. And so Amy, from agoura hills, California, yes, those are absolutely listeners. They have been sending them in for years and they continue to and they're always fun and amazing and it's just kind of one of the fun ways that we can make listeners a part of the show. Yeah, like super big time thanks to every single person who submitted an ad jingle for us. They just agreed they keep the show fresh and happening. Indeed. Who was that from chuck? Amy from agoura hills, California. Okay, Amy, thank you very much for that email that was really kind of you. If you want to get in touch with us like Amy did and say some kind words or call us out for something. Whatever, you can send us an email to stuff podcast at iHeartRadio dot com. Stuff you should know is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts, my heart radio, visit the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts, or
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"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Who's up for one? I don't think that was it either. So the last thing we'll say is that we mentioned earlier about city council, people, it has been banned here and there because it's such a pain. In the mid 2000s, I think 2004, there was a city council person named Tom le bonga, le bans in Los Angeles, Hollywood just goes crazy on Halloween. There's like a lot of party in and right there in central Hollywood. And apparently the silly string was out of hand with people spraying it with people getting on fights from getting sprayed with it and that they actually put a price tag on that that said silly string remediation was costing the city of Los Angeles 200 more than $200,000 each year. From that one night, just from Halloween. So they said, no more. Not on Halloween, not in LA. Yeah, some fat cat silly string cleaner upper was making 200 K on November 1st every year. Between 85. So they actually passed an ordinance where silly string is outlawed one day a year. Halloween in Los Angeles. At the very least in Hollywood. And I did not go back and find out if there had been any change to this law. So let's talk about it as a potential that existed at least in the past, if not currently, right? Because Tracy says that these sanctions are even worse than a pot charge. And I don't think you can get charged for pod anymore in California, right? No, it's legal. Right, okay. So this fine of just carrying a can of silly string could get you a misdemeanor, a $1000 fine, and up to 6 months in jail in LA, which is like a pretty glamorous jail, but it's still jail for 6 months. Yeah, they put it on par at the time at least. With a drunken disorderly charge bicycling or hunting while drunk was $250 and $500 respectively find while drunk did not know that. Well, no, and each of those separately, it makes a lot of sense, but if you put them together, that's when it starts to get hilarious. You could have broken into the LA zoo and got in the mirror $250 fine. If you had a can of silly string it was a thousand. Did you see the video recently of that poor dog who got into a gorilla enclosure? He was so scared. And the gorillas weren't happy that he was there either, but he did not want to be in there. And when they finally got him out, animal control got him out. He had like the guiltiest look on his face like I'm sorry. I didn't want to go in there, but it just happened. So he got out. Everybody was safe. It worked out very well, but yeah, he was really nervous and not happy. No one was. I guess you wouldn't be telling that story if you like. Oh man, it got mauled in a million pieces. Yeah. He looks like a 2012 Camry now. Very nice. Full circle. You got anything else? No, just the rule of threes. I think we accomplished that. I think that was four or 5. 2085 where it's more than three as well. We're failing. We're screwing it up left and right. Since I said, we're screwing it up left and right, everybody. Obviously it's time for listener mail. I'm going to read this just because it's just a nice person saying thank you. We don't do these much. And we get to also answer a question. Hey guys, I wanted to write not about a specific episode, but rather to comment on your overall series. I've been listening for years now and continue to find episodes delightfully upbeat and formative and extremely respectful of different viewpoints. The chemistry that you two have with each other as a parent to the listener through the silly banter and fun tangents. Well, if I want to you can say something like, you know, that thing, and the other one can name exactly what he means. You also have to say that I crack up just about every time Josh says, well, since chuck said, blank, it's time for listener mail. There's no rhyme or reason to the transitional phrase and it makes it all the better when you say it. I like that too. That's one of the nice traditions here. Definitely. As a lifelong learner, your work on this podcast seems to be a dream job. It is. And I didn't mean that as a question. It is. You get to research an immense range of topics and you make them so accessible to the audience. Something I appreciate is a teacher. I also applaud you for doing such a thorough job at being diligent with and mindful of your sources. That is such a teacher word. Yeah. What diligent? Yeah. One thing I always look forward to as well is to fund musical interludes going in and out of the commercial breaks. I always wondered how you get them to fan submit them. Where do they come from? Keeps episodes fresh, even after the many years that you have dedicated to your show. And so Amy, from agoura hills, California, yes, those are absolutely listeners. They have been sending them in for years and they continue to and they're always fun and amazing and it's just kind of one of the fun ways that we can make listeners a part of the show. Yeah, like super big time thanks to every single person who submitted an ad jingle for us. They just agreed they keep the show fresh and happening. Indeed. Who was that from chuck? Amy from agoura hills, California. Okay, Amy, thank you very much for that email that was really kind of you. If you want to get in touch with us like Amy did and say some kind words or call us out for something. Whatever, you can send us an email to stuff podcast at iHeartRadio dot com. Stuff you should know is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts, my heart radio, visit the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts, or
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"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"I can just see that 2012 Camry in your driveway with like the ceiling liner kind of hanging down a little bit. It came undone in one spot and it just kept going for me. No, those ceiling liners last forever. They sure do. Way beyond 2022. I like the idea that people actually might think that they gave us like Camry's. No, it's true. I mean, seriously, there's still old episodes that had that ad embedded in it. It's amazing. Then we'll go away. They really got their money's worth out of that one. Yes, and still do. One of the interesting uses of silly string popped up during the war in Iraq when the U.S. Military, although they didn't officially endorse it and buy this stuff for the troops, which I'm not sure why they wouldn't. They would use them to find IEDs and tripwire, so they would go up to the doorway of a room, and they would spray silly string around, and see if they were if it hung on invisible trip wires, not invisible, but hard to see trip wires. Yeah, which is really awesome. It's kind of like Catherine Zeta-Jones spraying that powder or whatever. Yeah. In that one movie. I can't remember that, I don't remember, Thomas Connor fair, maybe in the show. It was the one with Sean Connery. I can't remember the name of it, but it was just 90s dumb movie. But yeah, same thing, but using silly string in Iraq. Taking out IEDs rather than trying to steal a diamond or something. That's just some differences, but it's the same principle. Yeah, and there was kind of a cool story from 2007 when I think a soldier's mother in New Jersey, they wanted to get their hands on some of this stuff. And so she mounted a drive and collected about 80,000 cans of silly string to send to the troops. I think the sort of bummer ending in that story is she had trouble getting it shipped or something. I think a lot of it went bad. I never saw any time there's not a great follow up. It's probably not a great ending. Or the media just got bored with it. They're like, we're really, can we just write a listicle again? I've got it now, chuck. The 2012 Camry. It's ready. Are you ready? Is that what it was? No. I still don't have it. So if you heard us listing all these ingredients, even though free on 12 isn't in there anymore, you might think that it's probably not something that's great for the environment. And like you said, in the 70s and 80s, kind of right as this was being born, they immediately were started to get rid of CFCs and HCFCs, hydro, chloro, fluoro, carbons. The greatest named carbons of all. Yeah, there's a lot of letters in that word. One of the problems was that they replaced hydrochlorofluorocarbons with just plain old hydrofluoric carbons. So you can tell fewer letters, obviously it's not nearly as dangerous, right? The thing is, they're fine for the ozone layer. They basically do nothing for the ozone layer, but keep it in place. So that's good. But they're finding that they also have a high global warming potential. So like any chemical that can enter the atmosphere, it can be given a global warming potential and the lower the number, the less effect it will have on changing the climate. The higher the number, the more greenhouse gas it is. And some of these HFCs are kind of high greenhouse gases. They have a high global warming potential. So we still need to keep figuring out how to get aerosols out. Yeah, that kind of had that feeling. I'm glad you looked that up because my feeling was like surely they didn't solve that to where this is just great. And I imagine even though we didn't see the ammonia in anywhere else on the Internet, it can't be great to be squirting out something with ammonia everywhere, right? I don't know. I really don't know. And I know that so no, it wasn't the ammonia that I didn't see. I didn't see people putting isopropyl alcohol in an aerosol can to keep things from growing inside of it. That's what I didn't see. Oh, okay. People do use ammonia. Yeah, here's what I will say, though, is that I haven't looked at a canon in a while and I don't know what warnings come on it. But I bet one of them should be like, don't let your pets eat it and that kind of thing. Or don't let humans or your little sister eat it. Yeah, well, also it's good advice, right? There's also you can find some warnings depending on what kind of propellant is used in the can. To say, hey, this is flammable. Don't spray it at a campfire, although it'll look really awesome. Because that's really dangerous. Another one is it can freeze. It can basically freeze to your skin. And the reason why is because when that compressed liquid is converting into a gas undergoing a phase change, part of that phase change is that it's drawing a heat from any available immediate source that includes the can. So it turns the can ice cold 'cause it takes all the heat out of it to help turn that gas or that liquid into a gas. I did something kind of dumb a number of years ago. I had these little skin tags and I would go to the dermatologist to get them clipped. And then I thought, you know what? I'm just going to buy some of that. Freeze spray. And I'm going to freeze and clip them myself. Because that's got to be easy. And I got some of that spray and I guess the idea is that it's not for that purpose and you spray kind of from a distance to maybe numb something. And I got it right up on that thing and sprayed it. And it burned like the fires of hell, it hurt so bad. It felt like someone pressed a hot glowing piece of metal into my skin. I can imagine, I know where you're coming from, actually, because I went through a phase when I was a tween 85. Weirdly enough about N 85. And where I had warts, especially on my elbows for some reason. And I had to go to the doctor like, every couple months, and they would burn them off with liquid liquid nitrogen, frozen nitrogen. And yeah, if they missed even a little bit, it would really hurt. It was really damaging. But if they just got it on the work, which they normally did, it was weird. There was no sensation whatsoever. We should do a shorty on warts. Sure. I don't know. That might be our least listen to episode. You'd think? Yeah, I think so. Even less than aerosol cans. That's right. Our poop centric episodes. People love those. Can we finish this one? The 2012 Camry.
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"I can just see that 2012 Camry in your driveway with like the ceiling liner kind of hanging down a little bit. It came undone in one spot and it just kept going for me. No, those ceiling liners last forever. They sure do. Way beyond 2022. I like the idea that people actually might think that they gave us like Camry's. No, it's true. I mean, seriously, there's still old episodes that had that ad embedded in it. It's amazing. Then we'll go away. They really got their money's worth out of that one. Yes, and still do. One of the interesting uses of silly string popped up during the war in Iraq when the U.S. Military, although they didn't officially endorse it and buy this stuff for the troops, which I'm not sure why they wouldn't. They would use them to find IEDs and tripwire, so they would go up to the doorway of a room, and they would spray silly string around, and see if they were if it hung on invisible trip wires, not invisible, but hard to see trip wires. Yeah, which is really awesome. It's kind of like Catherine Zeta-Jones spraying that powder or whatever. Yeah. In that one movie. I can't remember that, I don't remember, Thomas Connor fair, maybe in the show. It was the one with Sean Connery. I can't remember the name of it, but it was just 90s dumb movie. But yeah, same thing, but using silly string in Iraq. Taking out IEDs rather than trying to steal a diamond or something. That's just some differences, but it's the same principle. Yeah, and there was kind of a cool story from 2007 when I think a soldier's mother in New Jersey, they wanted to get their hands on some of this stuff. And so she mounted a drive and collected about 80,000 cans of silly string to send to the troops. I think the sort of bummer ending in that story is she had trouble getting it shipped or something. I think a lot of it went bad. I never saw any time there's not a great follow up. It's probably not a great ending. Or the media just got bored with it. They're like, we're really, can we just write a listicle again? I've got it now, chuck. The 2012 Camry. It's ready. Are you ready? Is that what it was? No. I still don't have it. So if you heard us listing all these ingredients, even though free on 12 isn't in there anymore, you might think that it's probably not something that's great for the environment. And like you said, in the 70s and 80s, kind of right as this was being born, they immediately were started to get rid of CFCs and HCFCs, hydro, chloro, fluoro, carbons. The greatest named carbons of all. Yeah, there's a lot of letters in that word. One of the problems was that they replaced hydrochlorofluorocarbons with just plain old hydrofluoric carbons. So you can tell fewer letters, obviously it's not nearly as dangerous, right? The thing is, they're fine for the ozone layer. They basically do nothing for the ozone layer, but keep it in place. So that's good. But they're finding that they also have a high global warming potential. So like any chemical that can enter the atmosphere, it can be given a global warming potential and the lower the number, the less effect it will have on changing the climate. The higher the number, the more greenhouse gas it is. And some of these HFCs are kind of high greenhouse gases. They have a high global warming potential. So we still need to keep figuring out how to get aerosols out. Yeah, that kind of had that feeling. I'm glad you looked that up because my feeling was like surely they didn't solve that to where this is just great. And I imagine even though we didn't see the ammonia in anywhere else on the Internet, it can't be great to be squirting out something with ammonia everywhere, right? I don't know. I really don't know. And I know that so no, it wasn't the ammonia that I didn't see. I didn't see people putting isopropyl alcohol in an aerosol can to keep things from growing inside of it. That's what I didn't see. Oh, okay. People do use ammonia. Yeah, here's what I will say, though, is that I haven't looked at a canon in a while and I don't know what warnings come on it. But I bet one of them should be like, don't let your pets eat it and that kind of thing. Or don't let humans or your little sister eat it. Yeah, well, also it's good advice, right? There's also you can find some warnings depending on what kind of propellant is used in the can. To say, hey, this is flammable. Don't spray it at a campfire, although it'll look really awesome. Because that's really dangerous. Another one is it can freeze. It can basically freeze to your skin. And the reason why is because when that compressed liquid is converting into a gas undergoing a phase change, part of that phase change is that it's drawing a heat from any available immediate source that includes the can. So it turns the can ice cold 'cause it takes all the heat out of it to help turn that gas or that liquid into a gas. I did something kind of dumb a number of years ago. I had these little skin tags and I would go to the dermatologist to get them clipped. And then I thought, you know what? I'm just going to buy some of that. Freeze spray. And I'm going to freeze and clip them myself. Because that's got to be easy. And I got some of that spray and I guess the idea is that it's not for that purpose and you spray kind of from a distance to maybe numb something. And I got it right up on that thing and sprayed it. And it burned like the fires of hell, it hurt so bad. It felt like someone pressed a hot glowing piece of metal into my skin. I can imagine, I know where you're coming from, actually, because I went through a phase when I was a tween 85. Weirdly enough about N 85. And where I had warts, especially on my elbows for some reason. And I had to go to the doctor like, every couple months, and they would burn them off with liquid liquid nitrogen, frozen nitrogen. And yeah, if they missed even a little bit, it would really hurt. It was really damaging. But if they just got it on the work, which they normally did, it was weird. There was no sensation whatsoever. We should do a shorty on warts. Sure. I don't know. That might be our least listen to episode. You'd think? Yeah, I think so. Even less than aerosol cans. That's right. Our poop centric episodes. People love those. Can we finish this one? The 2012 Camry.
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"That stuff quick, get rid of it. Right. So one of the other things moving on from the propellant, which again, it's really, really important stuff. But all of these things are important. Each one plays its own role. That's right. And the surfactant plays a really interesting role too because it helps the resin foam. It helps the resident expand and the surfactant does this by the fact that it's amphiphilic. Sorry, it's hydrophobic and its hydrophilic, so it repels water and it attracts water. It doesn't know what it's doing, but it does both of those things. And in that sense, it actually manages to keep molecules. Cohesive. So it lends it its cohesive property. It also lends it a little bit of stickiness, but I saw that it keeps it from being too sticky. So this is like the surfactant is just a wonder chemical because it's doing the opposite at the same time. Yeah, and the surfactant is like Tracy says, you know, so many years ago in this article that it's just sort of a fancy name for a detergent. And the idea is if you think about like if you have a sink full of water and you just squirt some soap like dish soap in there, it's just going to sort of sit there and you might not even know there's any soap in there. Until you turn on that high pressure from the sink and maybe even put your finger over it, then that stuff's going to foam up all of a sudden. And that's sort of what's going on with this can of silly string. Right. And originally on the patent, they listed the surfactant as sorbitan 8. Which has a trade name of get this tween 85. 2085? Yeah. That's weird. It sounds like a super weird. Yeah, that sounds like an Internet name for a predator. It's for sure. But it's also one of those things that's like so innocuous that it almost makes you wonder if they went to great lengths to come up with something you'd just look right past. You know? As far as how much of this stuff is in there of what stuff is in there. The resin is about ten to 15% surfactant is actually less than 5%. Most of what's in that can is that propellant. So if you had a see through can of silly string, it would be mostly that liquid propellant. Well, I guess it's all liquid at the time until it comes out, like we said. But mostly propellant, but you did mention talc in there, I think, without the talc, it would it wouldn't have much body to it. Is that the idea? Yeah, it would, I can't even imagine what it would be like. Yeah, it'd just be like kind of fleck Y plasticky exoskeleton without it. The foam, I guess, is what I saw. Okay. And I also saw get this. So I've been doing a little bit of sleuthing. Tween 85 is actually used as an emulsifier for mixing mineral oil with other stuff in other applications. So I believe that tween 85 serves a double duty as a surfactant, but also an emulsifier for the talc as well. Oh, okay. Okay. Did you just do that on the fly? I mean, when I was researching it. Oh, okay, it sounded in the moment. No, I mean, I don't walk around knowing other industrial uses for 2085. You just happen to look at up or something. No, no, no, no, I looked it up and wrote it down. I was like, this is juicy. I can't leave this one now. It's pretty juicy. You also have any time you have something like this, you're going to need a stabilizer, and in this case, they use ammonia and isopropyl alcohol. And I think the ammonia keeps it from corroding. Inside the can. And the alcohol stops bugs, basically. Life from forming. Right. I didn't find that anywhere else on the entire Internet. I looked in every single corner. I didn't find it. Not only in relation to silly string, but in relation to aerosol cans in general. I have no idea where that came from. But I did some more sleuthing. Oh boy. I think that was from the wired article, right? Maybe I think so, actually, yeah. But I just don't understand what they're talking about. I mean, it makes sense, but I just haven't seen it anywhere else. But isopropyl alcohol is also commonly used as a solvent. So the unnamed solvent might actually be named. They might have all the ingredients listed here, but they're just not saying this thing is also pulling double duty as well. I got you. A little bit of sleight of hand in what's it called misguidance? Misdirection, yeah. Yeah, misdirection. That's right. Yeah. You'd be a heck of a magician. I misguiding you. Everyone's like, what? I don't think you're supposed to announce that either. That's right. Man, I would be terrible at this. If you think the coin would fall out of my knuckles, if you look at my right hand and not my left, you will notice. Misguided. All right, does that cover the ingredients? Oh, just one more thing. Okay. No, I guess we already talked about it about how the aerosol, the propellant boils and carries everything else out on it. And if you're just like, man, I need more. Tell me more about the manufacturing of aerosol cans. You're in luck because we actually did an entire episode on aerosol cans before. Did we really? It sounded familiar. That's an old one, huh? Yeah, it was back in we were just casting about at the time, obviously. But if I remember correctly, we did it. It was done, you know, when we were finished. We were casting about trying to sell old Toyota camrys. That's right. The 2012 Camry. Are you ready? Let's take that break. I'm going to go fire up the camera and get the AC going because it's hot here. I'm ready to leave. And we'll talk about some interesting other uses and
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"That stuff quick, get rid of it. Right. So one of the other things moving on from the propellant, which again, it's really, really important stuff. But all of these things are important. Each one plays its own role. That's right. And the surfactant plays a really interesting role too because it helps the resin foam. It helps the resident expand and the surfactant does this by the fact that it's amphiphilic. Sorry, it's hydrophobic and its hydrophilic, so it repels water and it attracts water. It doesn't know what it's doing, but it does both of those things. And in that sense, it actually manages to keep molecules. Cohesive. So it lends it its cohesive property. It also lends it a little bit of stickiness, but I saw that it keeps it from being too sticky. So this is like the surfactant is just a wonder chemical because it's doing the opposite at the same time. Yeah, and the surfactant is like Tracy says, you know, so many years ago in this article that it's just sort of a fancy name for a detergent. And the idea is if you think about like if you have a sink full of water and you just squirt some soap like dish soap in there, it's just going to sort of sit there and you might not even know there's any soap in there. Until you turn on that high pressure from the sink and maybe even put your finger over it, then that stuff's going to foam up all of a sudden. And that's sort of what's going on with this can of silly string. Right. And originally on the patent, they listed the surfactant as sorbitan 8. Which has a trade name of get this tween 85. 2085? Yeah. That's weird. It sounds like a super weird. Yeah, that sounds like an Internet name for a predator. It's for sure. But it's also one of those things that's like so innocuous that it almost makes you wonder if they went to great lengths to come up with something you'd just look right past. You know? As far as how much of this stuff is in there of what stuff is in there. The resin is about ten to 15% surfactant is actually less than 5%. Most of what's in that can is that propellant. So if you had a see through can of silly string, it would be mostly that liquid propellant. Well, I guess it's all liquid at the time until it comes out, like we said. But mostly propellant, but you did mention talc in there, I think, without the talc, it would it wouldn't have much body to it. Is that the idea? Yeah, it would, I can't even imagine what it would be like. Yeah, it'd just be like kind of fleck Y plasticky exoskeleton without it. The foam, I guess, is what I saw. Okay. And I also saw get this. So I've been doing a little bit of sleuthing. Tween 85 is actually used as an emulsifier for mixing mineral oil with other stuff in other applications. So I believe that tween 85 serves a double duty as a surfactant, but also an emulsifier for the talc as well. Oh, okay. Okay. Did you just do that on the fly? I mean, when I was researching it. Oh, okay, it sounded in the moment. No, I mean, I don't walk around knowing other industrial uses for 2085. You just happen to look at up or something. No, no, no, no, I looked it up and wrote it down. I was like, this is juicy. I can't leave this one now. It's pretty juicy. You also have any time you have something like this, you're going to need a stabilizer, and in this case, they use ammonia and isopropyl alcohol. And I think the ammonia keeps it from corroding. Inside the can. And the alcohol stops bugs, basically. Life from forming. Right. I didn't find that anywhere else on the entire Internet. I looked in every single corner. I didn't find it. Not only in relation to silly string, but in relation to aerosol cans in general. I have no idea where that came from. But I did some more sleuthing. Oh boy. I think that was from the wired article, right? Maybe I think so, actually, yeah. But I just don't understand what they're talking about. I mean, it makes sense, but I just haven't seen it anywhere else. But isopropyl alcohol is also commonly used as a solvent. So the unnamed solvent might actually be named. They might have all the ingredients listed here, but they're just not saying this thing is also pulling double duty as well. I got you. A little bit of sleight of hand in what's it called misguidance? Misdirection, yeah. Yeah, misdirection. That's right. Yeah. You'd be a heck of a magician. I misguiding you. Everyone's like, what? I don't think you're supposed to announce that either. That's right. Man, I would be terrible at this. If you think the coin would fall out of my knuckles, if you look at my right hand and not my left, you will notice. Misguided. All right, does that cover the ingredients? Oh, just one more thing. Okay. No, I guess we already talked about it about how the aerosol, the propellant boils and carries everything else out on it. And if you're just like, man, I need more. Tell me more about the manufacturing of aerosol cans. You're in luck because we actually did an entire episode on aerosol cans before. Did we really? It sounded familiar. That's an old one, huh? Yeah, it was back in we were just casting about at the time, obviously. But if I remember correctly, we did it. It was done, you know, when we were finished. We were casting about trying to sell old Toyota camrys. That's right. The 2012 Camry. Are you ready? Let's take that break. I'm going to go fire up the camera and get the AC going because it's hot here. I'm ready to leave. And we'll talk about some interesting other uses and
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"Just adding a period? No, but I think this is definitely the episode to put that. Okay, so apparently if you were sending a telegram, letters were very cheap, but punctuation was expensive. So you actually paid less to spell out the four letters STOP than paying for a period. That's why people had stopped in the middle of their sentences. But the big dumb dumb would say, stop, exclamation point. I really mean it. Wow. It's a period here. That's amazing. What a great little factoid to be able to throw out at the next dinner party. It is a way to tenth of a fact. Oh wait, I might have my wires crossed. I know what you mean. There's probably a couple of listeners who get it. All right, let's dive into a can of silly string. Yes. Because what did inside a can of silly string is known generally to the public now? Although some of this stuff on the original patent is has been changed since then. So I think there are some trade secrets, but let's just say it's definitely a liquid inside the can. Yes. And it becomes the string outside the can because of the stuff that's inside the can. It is very lightweight. And like we said, it does have an adhesive quality, but it's got to be just the right mix. You want it to stick to a lampshade, or stick to a wall or stick to a person's ears and hair if you're draping it over them over them over the rim. But you don't want it to be so sticky that you can't get it off with something. You want to be able to, you know, it's got to be cohesive. You want to be able to pull it out and have it kind of generally come in one big ball as you're trying to clean up afterward. Right, so that's the tension between the adhesiveness of it and the cohesiveness of it. And as long as it's more cohesive, meaning it'll hold its shape when you pull on it. Then it is adhesive. So it takes less force to pull it off somebody than it does to take to pull it apart. That's why it's so easily cleaned up. Because it is a little bit sticky, but not fully sticky, and that that has to do with the genius of some of the stuff that's in it. Yeah, and imagine getting this right is, I mean, it sounds, well, it's about to say it sounds silly. To put this much research and thought into a product like this. But if you get it wrong, no one's going to buy it. If it sticks so bad, everything that parents can't clean it up, they're not going to buy it for their kids. It's kind of genius in a way that they figure the exact recipe to make it fun for kids, but something that you could generally just sort of pull off and ball up and throw in the trash. Yeah, and Robert peacocks and Leonard a fish are the people who did spend that time figuring that out because you couldn't make an instant cast with the stuff that comes out of a can of silly string. No, I've tried. So they had to go back and figure out how to make it, you know, very colorful, how to make it so it didn't stick too much, how it was cohesive all that stuff. And they did, they managed to come up with the perfect mixture of basically three ingredients, although there's more than three. I don't know why everybody says three, but everyone does say three. I think three is the magic three and then some other stuff. So there's a resin of surfactant in a propellant. And apparently, there's also a solvent, which is very important. There's also talc, which is very important, as we'll see. But each one of these things plays a really important role in the creation of the silly string. And, you know, like you said, it has to be just right or else the whole thing's going. The whole enterprise is going to collapse. That's a picture of doctor strangelove wheeling into the room all of a sudden. Mind podcaster. So you've got your resin, that's going to form that plastic structure that exoskeleton of the strand. And original form that patent it was an acrylic resin using poly isobutyl methacrylate. And the resin is like everything else with this silly string. You got to get it just right. That is the framework of those strands. If you have too much resin, it's not going to foam like you wanted to foam. And it'd be more like shooting caulk at somebody. And I think we can all agree that's no fun. That's such a silly caulk. Right. If you have too little of this stuff, then they're not going to hold together. And if silly string, I think we agree that if it came out as tiny little foam bullets, it wouldn't be as fun as if it comes out as a big string. But the whole point is, is once this thing is propelled into the air, then it forms that shell that if you don't mess with it, it'll stay there for a while. It's not like it just disappears. Yeah, because the resin that plastic structure that it lends to the whole thing, yeah, if you leave it alone, it can survive for weeks, basically. I would guess indefinitely, I'm sure it's like how many lakes it takes to get to the center of it to roll pop. No one really knows because no one's just left silly string indefinitely, you know? Talk about a monster. So the propellant is also really important too for a couple of reasons. Whatever propellant they're using is at room temperature and normal sea level pressure. Which is what it's like outside of the can. It would be a gas. But the contents of an aerosol can is under so much pressure that it's actually in its liquid state. And the propellant when it emerges from that can, it essentially boils. It changes from liquid to a gas. And as it does that because everything else is mixed up with that propellant, as we'll see, it takes all of those other components, the resin, the surfactant, the solvent, on a wild ride, and they all combined with one another in turn foamy. So again, the structure of the exoskeleton, the thing that lends the whole thing, it's initial support. That's the resin. Yeah, and the other thing the propellant does is that it also helps that resin form basically. And it helps sort of create that foamy exterior because once that propellant is shot out, it evaporates very quickly. If you shoot it at a normal distance, if you've ever taken silly string and shot it into your closed palm or a fist or something, it's going to be different. It's going to be like a lot more wet because it doesn't have that chance to spread out and quickly evaporate and it's going to be a lot more brittle. That's why you're supposed to shoot the propellant across the room. It sort of lends itself to doing what it does best. By doing what it does best. You're right. Which is propelling things. Right. So they used to originally use dichloromethane, also known as freon 12. And freon 12 is so bad for the ozone layer, that there is a global law against manufacturing freon. Like think about how many global laws there are. That might be the only one. Murder. I guess so, but yeah, this is like an actual murder, but still. How about like a global regulation maybe? Okay, sure. Or something that has to do with industry or manufacturing, rather than killing people. So they used to use free on, but you can't use free on anymore. You actually can use it in some applications. There's a finite stock of free on left on earth. And you're allowed to use those. You just can't manufacture anymore. So eventually we'll run out of freon. They had to figure out something else to use. And they did. So you don't find free on 12 inside of silly string anymore because it was really bad for the ozone layer. That's right. Although, as we learned in our research over the years, there have been various rogue off brands that have used freon that have popped up in the 2000s and I think even in the 2010s, they would find some random silly string shipment that came from Taiwan or China that still had that free on 12 in it. Confiscate
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"Just adding a period? No, but I think this is definitely the episode to put that. Okay, so apparently if you were sending a telegram, letters were very cheap, but punctuation was expensive. So you actually paid less to spell out the four letters STOP than paying for a period. That's why people had stopped in the middle of their sentences. But the big dumb dumb would say, stop, exclamation point. I really mean it. Wow. It's a period here. That's amazing. What a great little factoid to be able to throw out at the next dinner party. It is a way to tenth of a fact. Oh wait, I might have my wires crossed. I know what you mean. There's probably a couple of listeners who get it. All right, let's dive into a can of silly string. Yes. Because what did inside a can of silly string is known generally to the public now? Although some of this stuff on the original patent is has been changed since then. So I think there are some trade secrets, but let's just say it's definitely a liquid inside the can. Yes. And it becomes the string outside the can because of the stuff that's inside the can. It is very lightweight. And like we said, it does have an adhesive quality, but it's got to be just the right mix. You want it to stick to a lampshade, or stick to a wall or stick to a person's ears and hair if you're draping it over them over them over the rim. But you don't want it to be so sticky that you can't get it off with something. You want to be able to, you know, it's got to be cohesive. You want to be able to pull it out and have it kind of generally come in one big ball as you're trying to clean up afterward. Right, so that's the tension between the adhesiveness of it and the cohesiveness of it. And as long as it's more cohesive, meaning it'll hold its shape when you pull on it. Then it is adhesive. So it takes less force to pull it off somebody than it does to take to pull it apart. That's why it's so easily cleaned up. Because it is a little bit sticky, but not fully sticky, and that that has to do with the genius of some of the stuff that's in it. Yeah, and imagine getting this right is, I mean, it sounds, well, it's about to say it sounds silly. To put this much research and thought into a product like this. But if you get it wrong, no one's going to buy it. If it sticks so bad, everything that parents can't clean it up, they're not going to buy it for their kids. It's kind of genius in a way that they figure the exact recipe to make it fun for kids, but something that you could generally just sort of pull off and ball up and throw in the trash. Yeah, and Robert peacocks and Leonard a fish are the people who did spend that time figuring that out because you couldn't make an instant cast with the stuff that comes out of a can of silly string. No, I've tried. So they had to go back and figure out how to make it, you know, very colorful, how to make it so it didn't stick too much, how it was cohesive all that stuff. And they did, they managed to come up with the perfect mixture of basically three ingredients, although there's more than three. I don't know why everybody says three, but everyone does say three. I think three is the magic three and then some other stuff. So there's a resin of surfactant in a propellant. And apparently, there's also a solvent, which is very important. There's also talc, which is very important, as we'll see. But each one of these things plays a really important role in the creation of the silly string. And, you know, like you said, it has to be just right or else the whole thing's going. The whole enterprise is going to collapse. That's a picture of doctor strangelove wheeling into the room all of a sudden. Mind podcaster. So you've got your resin, that's going to form that plastic structure that exoskeleton of the strand. And original form that patent it was an acrylic resin using poly isobutyl methacrylate. And the resin is like everything else with this silly string. You got to get it just right. That is the framework of those strands. If you have too much resin, it's not going to foam like you wanted to foam. And it'd be more like shooting caulk at somebody. And I think we can all agree that's no fun. That's such a silly caulk. Right. If you have too little of this stuff, then they're not going to hold together. And if silly string, I think we agree that if it came out as tiny little foam bullets, it wouldn't be as fun as if it comes out as a big string. But the whole point is, is once this thing is propelled into the air, then it forms that shell that if you don't mess with it, it'll stay there for a while. It's not like it just disappears. Yeah, because the resin that plastic structure that it lends to the whole thing, yeah, if you leave it alone, it can survive for weeks, basically. I would guess indefinitely, I'm sure it's like how many lakes it takes to get to the center of it to roll pop. No one really knows because no one's just left silly string indefinitely, you know? Talk about a monster. So the propellant is also really important too for a couple of reasons. Whatever propellant they're using is at room temperature and normal sea level pressure. Which is what it's like outside of the can. It would be a gas. But the contents of an aerosol can is under so much pressure that it's actually in its liquid state. And the propellant when it emerges from that can, it essentially boils. It changes from liquid to a gas. And as it does that because everything else is mixed up with that propellant, as we'll see, it takes all of those other components, the resin, the surfactant, the solvent, on a wild ride, and they all combined with one another in turn foamy. So again, the structure of the exoskeleton, the thing that lends the whole thing, it's initial support. That's the resin. Yeah, and the other thing the propellant does is that it also helps that resin form basically. And it helps sort of create that foamy exterior because once that propellant is shot out, it evaporates very quickly. If you shoot it at a normal distance, if you've ever taken silly string and shot it into your closed palm or a fist or something, it's going to be different. It's going to be like a lot more wet because it doesn't have that chance to spread out and quickly evaporate and it's going to be a lot more brittle. That's why you're supposed to shoot the propellant across the room. It sort of lends itself to doing what it does best. By doing what it does best. You're right. Which is propelling things. Right. So they used to originally use dichloromethane, also known as freon 12. And freon 12 is so bad for the ozone layer, that there is a global law against manufacturing freon. Like think about how many global laws there are. That might be the only one. Murder. I guess so, but yeah, this is like an actual murder, but still. How about like a global regulation maybe? Okay, sure. Or something that has to do with industry or manufacturing, rather than killing people. So they used to use free on, but you can't use free on anymore. You actually can use it in some applications. There's a finite stock of free on left on earth. And you're allowed to use those. You just can't manufacture anymore. So eventually we'll run out of freon. They had to figure out something else to use. And they did. So you don't find free on 12 inside of silly string anymore because it was really bad for the ozone layer. That's right. Although, as we learned in our research over the years, there have been various rogue off brands that have used freon that have popped up in the 2000s and I think even in the 2010s, they would find some random silly string shipment that came from Taiwan or China that still had that free on 12 in it. Confiscate
Stuff You Should Know
"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"At least started it. Okay. I had to do with the invention of the hula hoop. Okay, yeah, I saw a lot of that. But some Coen brothers movies are just not for me. Yeah, yeah. I hear you. I like them all, but I get it. Emily doesn't like a lot of them because they do mean things to animals and almost every movie. I never noticed that. Yeah, it's a Coen brothers thing. Okay. So they basically say, get these guys in here, this stuff is brilliant. And they did and apparently within a couple of weeks, they had a contract with Wham-O to license and sell silly string, but that still doesn't explain Julian saman, right? No, Julian Simone, the guy who is legendarily the person who invented silly string back in 1969, actually does have something to do with silly string, but he came into the picture 30 years after he was reputed to. Because in 1999, Wham-O said, we've spent our silly string. We're done with this. Who wants it? And Julius samann had a company called Julius Simone limited, which was the parent company of the car freshener corporation. How great is that? And car freshener had a subsidiary, a toy division called just for kicks and just for kicks bought the rights to make silly string in 1999. And if car freshener corporation just rings the slightest tiniest bell, you might have seen it in really little script on your tree air freshener that is dangling from your rearview mirror. That's a Julius saman. Is the gentleman who holds the patent to the fir tree air freshener? It's amazing. Another ubiquitous product I've never owned. Yeah. Same here, I never got into those either. He had two patents. And one was for the tree shaped air freshener, another one was the undressed naked lady silhouette air freshener. Those were two patents. Well, I guess you saw it on a mud flap and was like, I think that was the greatest in air freshener. Yeah, I've never seen that one, but I would guess it's kind of that mud flappy thing too, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I feel like mudflaps, it's either Yosemite Sam saying back off. Yes. Or it's like silhouette of a naked lady. Yeah. That's your mud flap selection. All right, I think that's good enough for the first segment. Which we'll just call history. Sure. And in our second segment, after the break, we will bore you to tears by talking about the chemical contents
Stuff You Should Know
"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"At least started it. Okay. I had to do with the invention of the hula hoop. Okay, yeah, I saw a lot of that. But some Coen brothers movies are just not for me. Yeah, yeah. I hear you. I like them all, but I get it. Emily doesn't like a lot of them because they do mean things to animals and almost every movie. I never noticed that. Yeah, it's a Coen brothers thing. Okay. So they basically say, get these guys in here, this stuff is brilliant. And they did and apparently within a couple of weeks, they had a contract with Wham-O to license and sell silly string, but that still doesn't explain Julian saman, right? No, Julian Simone, the guy who is legendarily the person who invented silly string back in 1969, actually does have something to do with silly string, but he came into the picture 30 years after he was reputed to. Because in 1999, Wham-O said, we've spent our silly string. We're done with this. Who wants it? And Julius samann had a company called Julius Simone limited, which was the parent company of the car freshener corporation. How great is that? And car freshener had a subsidiary, a toy division called just for kicks and just for kicks bought the rights to make silly string in 1999. And if car freshener corporation just rings the slightest tiniest bell, you might have seen it in really little script on your tree air freshener that is dangling from your rearview mirror. That's a Julius saman. Is the gentleman who holds the patent to the fir tree air freshener? It's amazing. Another ubiquitous product I've never owned. Yeah. Same here, I never got into those either. He had two patents. And one was for the tree shaped air freshener, another one was the undressed naked lady silhouette air freshener. Those were two patents. Well, I guess you saw it on a mud flap and was like, I think that was the greatest in air freshener. Yeah, I've never seen that one, but I would guess it's kind of that mud flappy thing too, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I feel like mudflaps, it's either Yosemite Sam saying back off. Yes. Or it's like silhouette of a naked lady. Yeah. That's your mud flap selection. All right, I think that's good enough for the first segment. Which we'll just call history. Sure. And in our second segment, after the break, we will bore you to tears by talking about the chemical contents
Stuff You Should Know
"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Boy, did this one just not reek of the old house stuff works days? Yeah, but what's awesome is that you knew that you could just, you know, like you didn't have to double check any facts or anything like that, because Tracy Wilson was on the case. Yeah. And she does not get her facts mixed up. No, this was an old house of forks article from Tracy and also got some stuff from CNN. Gizmodo, a mental floss, wired, and mother Jones that feels like a veritable greatest hits of stuff you should know, reference sites. Look at it. But we're talking about silly string. We haven't done one on a classic Tory in a long time. It's been too long. And although this isn't quite as interesting as like, say, a sea monkey, I think it still has some pretty interesting points. Well, there's a 100% less Nazis in this one, which I like. That's true. Not one Nazi. So silly string is a toy, and it's one of those things that is so ubiquitous and everybody knows about it and may even be annoyed by it or whatever. That you don't realize that there's people out there who talk about this stuff and think about this stuff. And that if you start to dive into the Internet and look for those people and you read what they write, you start to figure out that they're all very, very wrong in whatever they're saying about silly string. Yeah, and I think that was I think especially at the time Tracy wrote this article that was one of those deals where everything on the web basically said, we don't even know what's in silly string, and it's one of those sort of like easy cheese. It's like this sort of mystery, what's inside the can, and science can't even figure it out. And all we know is invented by Julius Salman in 1969, and it turns out that none of that stuff is actually true. We do know what's in silly string and Julia Simone did not invent it. No, and I think here about a minute and a half into the podcast, we should probably tell everybody what silly string is in case they have been in case they haven't heard. Living where? Living outside of a silly string laden country. That's right. Silly string comes in an aerosol can. So if you look at it, it might look like easy cheese or it's about a small can of aqua net. First spray paint. Now we're spray paint and I was trying to think of like antiquated things, but sure. It's works as well. Okay. And you press the nozzle and out come shooting a pressurized stream of this foamy string. And you can, it depends on how hard you shake it and your angle of incidence, I guess, or is that right? I'm probably got that wrong. The angle in which you shoot it. Sure. Angle of attack. Angle of attack. But it can travel 5, 6, 7, up to ten, 12 feet. Yeah. And it's like kind of wet and cold, cool feeling when it comes out. It comes out very fast, and then very quickly, it doesn't completely dry. It still has sort of that tacky feeling because it will stick to things, but the idea is that it stays in a string form. Unless you kind of pull it apart. That's what makes silly string fun and great. Yeah, it's not like your grandfather's shaving cream. That was just foams up and into this pile, this bubble that kind of grows. It holds its shape. And that's a really important part of it because it wouldn't be a toy if it just came out like shaving cream. No one would want to play with it. It certainly would have not had a very famous part of the movie, the great Tom Hanks movie big. No. So you've ever seen big, that's silly string in the scene where he and Billy, I guess, are playing around all of a sudden they have all this money and they buy all this garbage candy and stuff. Oh yeah, yeah. And they buy silly string and Tom Hanks acts like he's squirting it like snot out of his nose and they spray silly string and that's the idea is that kids have a good time with it and parents hate it. Yeah, parents and city council people as we'll see. Exactly. And you said another part of it too is not only just its shape, but the fact that it can really travel. You said it can travel up to ten to 12 feet. Which for our friends in non imperial countries is a handful of meters. And that's a lot. You know, like you can be standing pretty far away from somebody, spray them, drop the can and turn and run, and you still have a pretty good head start on them chasing you. That's right. So the story of silly string chuck is actually pretty interesting one. I love ones that like toys that started out as something else, which seems like every toy we've ever talked about. It started, it started life as a different thing. And then somebody was like, actually, this is a pretty good toy. And everyone said, agreed, and it became a classic toy, and then we podcasted on it 60 years later. That's right. Not quite 60, but in this case, it was if you look at the actual patent from 1972 for foam able resonance for a foam able resinous composition. You will find Robert peacock's and Leonard a fish, fish was an inventor. Cox was a chemist. And what they were trying to originally invent was a medical device, kind of an emergency largely battlefield, but an emergency cast that you could spray on like a spray on cast if you break a bone that would sort of and if you think about silly string in a different application and if you think about it, what if it instead came out and coded your arm and solidified, that's the idea. And from what I could tell, they were successful in that. But part of what they were trying to do was find the right nozzle. Apparently tested like 500 nozzles. And one of those nozzles shot this stuff out, this concoction that they came up with in a string really far and that string held its shape. So they were like, let's put a button on this particular nozzle. I'm sure Leonard a fish walked around with it, and his little change pocket of his Levi's for many years. And then when the time was right, they said, we should get back to that because we've got the we've got the spray on cast down pat. I think that other thing would make a really good toy and Robert peacock said agreed Leonard fish and Leonard fish knotted silently. That's right. As the legend goes, they did not know anything about toy marketing, obviously. So they made an appointment with who at the time was probably the biggest name in toys in the early 70s, Wham-O. Still a big name in toys. Sure. And we covered frisbees in yo yos. This has made an appearance in a lot of these episodes. Yo yos was one of our better episodes if I remember correctly. Yeah, it was a good one. So they went to Wham-O as legend has it. They sprayed the stuff all over the office. And the person they were meeting with as well. And they said, get out of here. This stuff is like how dare you kind of reaction. And the next day, though, apparently fish got a telegram saying from Wham-O saying we need 24 cans of this stuff as a marketing test. Stop. Just stop right there. And the idea in this sounds very much like a legend, but who knows it may be true. The idea is that the next day they cleaned it up, but there was one hanging string on the lamp, that one of the owners of Wham-O saw and picked up and said, what is this stuff? It's fantastic. It's like Paul Newman from hudsucker proxy. Okay. I haven't seen that one, I guess. I don't know. I
Stuff You Should Know
"silly" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Boy, did this one just not reek of the old house stuff works days? Yeah, but what's awesome is that you knew that you could just, you know, like you didn't have to double check any facts or anything like that, because Tracy Wilson was on the case. Yeah. And she does not get her facts mixed up. No, this was an old house of forks article from Tracy and also got some stuff from CNN. Gizmodo, a mental floss, wired, and mother Jones that feels like a veritable greatest hits of stuff you should know, reference sites. Look at it. But we're talking about silly string. We haven't done one on a classic Tory in a long time. It's been too long. And although this isn't quite as interesting as like, say, a sea monkey, I think it still has some pretty interesting points. Well, there's a 100% less Nazis in this one, which I like. That's true. Not one Nazi. So silly string is a toy, and it's one of those things that is so ubiquitous and everybody knows about it and may even be annoyed by it or whatever. That you don't realize that there's people out there who talk about this stuff and think about this stuff. And that if you start to dive into the Internet and look for those people and you read what they write, you start to figure out that they're all very, very wrong in whatever they're saying about silly string. Yeah, and I think that was I think especially at the time Tracy wrote this article that was one of those deals where everything on the web basically said, we don't even know what's in silly string, and it's one of those sort of like easy cheese. It's like this sort of mystery, what's inside the can, and science can't even figure it out. And all we know is invented by Julius Salman in 1969, and it turns out that none of that stuff is actually true. We do know what's in silly string and Julia Simone did not invent it. No, and I think here about a minute and a half into the podcast, we should probably tell everybody what silly string is in case they have been in case they haven't heard. Living where? Living outside of a silly string laden country. That's right. Silly string comes in an aerosol can. So if you look at it, it might look like easy cheese or it's about a small can of aqua net. First spray paint. Now we're spray paint and I was trying to think of like antiquated things, but sure. It's works as well. Okay. And you press the nozzle and out come shooting a pressurized stream of this foamy string. And you can, it depends on how hard you shake it and your angle of incidence, I guess, or is that right? I'm probably got that wrong. The angle in which you shoot it. Sure. Angle of attack. Angle of attack. But it can travel 5, 6, 7, up to ten, 12 feet. Yeah. And it's like kind of wet and cold, cool feeling when it comes out. It comes out very fast, and then very quickly, it doesn't completely dry. It still has sort of that tacky feeling because it will stick to things, but the idea is that it stays in a string form. Unless you kind of pull it apart. That's what makes silly string fun and great. Yeah, it's not like your grandfather's shaving cream. That was just foams up and into this pile, this bubble that kind of grows. It holds its shape. And that's a really important part of it because it wouldn't be a toy if it just came out like shaving cream. No one would want to play with it. It certainly would have not had a very famous part of the movie, the great Tom Hanks movie big. No. So you've ever seen big, that's silly string in the scene where he and Billy, I guess, are playing around all of a sudden they have all this money and they buy all this garbage candy and stuff. Oh yeah, yeah. And they buy silly string and Tom Hanks acts like he's squirting it like snot out of his nose and they spray silly string and that's the idea is that kids have a good time with it and parents hate it. Yeah, parents and city council people as we'll see. Exactly. And you said another part of it too is not only just its shape, but the fact that it can really travel. You said it can travel up to ten to 12 feet. Which for our friends in non imperial countries is a handful of meters. And that's a lot. You know, like you can be standing pretty far away from somebody, spray them, drop the can and turn and run, and you still have a pretty good head start on them chasing you. That's right. So the story of silly string chuck is actually pretty interesting one. I love ones that like toys that started out as something else, which seems like every toy we've ever talked about. It started, it started life as a different thing. And then somebody was like, actually, this is a pretty good toy. And everyone said, agreed, and it became a classic toy, and then we podcasted on it 60 years later. That's right. Not quite 60, but in this case, it was if you look at the actual patent from 1972 for foam able resonance for a foam able resinous composition. You will find Robert peacock's and Leonard a fish, fish was an inventor. Cox was a chemist. And what they were trying to originally invent was a medical device, kind of an emergency largely battlefield, but an emergency cast that you could spray on like a spray on cast if you break a bone that would sort of and if you think about silly string in a different application and if you think about it, what if it instead came out and coded your arm and solidified, that's the idea. And from what I could tell, they were successful in that. But part of what they were trying to do was find the right nozzle. Apparently tested like 500 nozzles. And one of those nozzles shot this stuff out, this concoction that they came up with in a string really far and that string held its shape. So they were like, let's put a button on this particular nozzle. I'm sure Leonard a fish walked around with it, and his little change pocket of his Levi's for many years. And then when the time was right, they said, we should get back to that because we've got the we've got the spray on cast down pat. I think that other thing would make a really good toy and Robert peacock said agreed Leonard fish and Leonard fish knotted silently. That's right. As the legend goes, they did not know anything about toy marketing, obviously. So they made an appointment with who at the time was probably the biggest name in toys in the early 70s, Wham-O. Still a big name in toys. Sure. And we covered frisbees in yo yos. This has made an appearance in a lot of these episodes. Yo yos was one of our better episodes if I remember correctly. Yeah, it was a good one. So they went to Wham-O as legend has it. They sprayed the stuff all over the office. And the person they were meeting with as well. And they said, get out of here. This stuff is like how dare you kind of reaction. And the next day, though, apparently fish got a telegram saying from Wham-O saying we need 24 cans of this stuff as a marketing test. Stop. Just stop right there. And the idea in this sounds very much like a legend, but who knows it may be true. The idea is that the next day they cleaned it up, but there was one hanging string on the lamp, that one of the owners of Wham-O saw and picked up and said, what is this stuff? It's fantastic. It's like Paul Newman from hudsucker proxy. Okay. I haven't seen that one, I guess. I don't know. I
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Mattress brands like Silly and Sleepy's Plus, get a free adjustable base with their $999 purchase. Kevin Brennan, WB's ease traffic on the threes. And now the four day WBZ AccuWeather forecast. Here's AccuWeather meteorologist in divorce. Right, Gina. We've got some low clouds and fog in places the showers of tapered down a bit, but they're going to pick up again. I think this afternoon more downpour, potential flooding problems could be aggravated, breezy, much cooler as well standing upper sixties. There is a high risk of rip currents if you are on the Atlantic Ocean beaches today, Couple of showers near 60 tonight and then staying in the low sixties tomorrow. More showers. There could be some downpours in the afternoon. Sunny breaks on Sunday, maybe a shower thunderstorm in a couple of occasions. We hope to get a little drier time. But it's not looking that great of her sixties to near 70 back to near 80 Monday. I thank you with meteorologist for WBZ Boston's NewsRadio. Mostly cloudy right now with some light drizzle. We've got 62 degrees in Beverly in Denver, 64 in Quincy and 63 in Boston and Cambridge. It's 10, 26 and now New England business. Here's Jeff Belanger over a Bloomberg Vegetarian Pizza is coming to Boston, Double zero. Will open a pizzeria in the back bay a week from today, Boston Business Journal reports The restaurant on Newbury Street will be the fifth in the new double zero change. There is also one in Providence. Healthy lifestyle brand Lifetime plans to open an athletic resort at the North Shore Mall and Peabody, The 120,000 Square foot space will have a leisure pool, water slides, a spa and a bistro. It will be the first facility of its kind in.
Adventures with Grammy
"silly" Discussed on Adventures with Grammy
"Today's guest is violet. Fabricio also known as silly yahya prior to beginning her career. As a children's picture book author illustrator violet worked as a medical administrator. She is the of nine granddaughters and his well known for her sunday. Dinners and lavish holiday gatherings. She is ready to thousands of students in schools and libraries across the country. Her goal is to inspire kids to learn to love to read by raising readers. One book at a time a start by.
In The Draft Show - NASCAR Talk
"silly" Discussed on In The Draft Show - NASCAR Talk
"We're done with the show and listen to it so at two hundred after they pull the the drivers into pit lane. Shut the engines off and do the whole memorial day ceremony which was really nice. Really cool nascar to do after they come they start. The car is like he starts going into this thing this weekend. Further free the we have the freedom to race and it's thanks to all those people who are on the cars they did and it just went on to the troops rant dislike man. Is he getting fired and going to fox ankle four. He's chubby because the season their seasons soon they're gone. Do you want to be like. I didn't expect that coming from my joy. And i'm pretty sure you pan the camera over like the cameras on it was a one man. Yeah yeah so if you had a camera there if we had the in camera earn studio camera. You'll probably see gordon and clint just looking at each other. Just kind of figuring out. What the hell's going on you know. Prepare that like three weeks beforehand. I'm sure food. He's been waiting all year for that. Are they going to put him on the radio. Show with that meathead head guy that they advertise like twenty seven times a race dude. Like jesus it. It's almost like hey we got a black guy. We're not racist. Stop xactly god. The ads that they play in the side by sides are ridiculous between those and the tucker carlson ones man although there are off of that one now sponsorship news autodesk. Doing some cab work with the number forty one customer for six races interesting. They're i think they're working the construction angle that Because a lot of a lot of builders lot of construction companies use autocad so Some good crossover there that you wouldn't normally think of This weekend it's matter. They start the indy. Row course daytona bristol talladega and the all trademark so. That's pretty good. I like that nice. Little bit for them could sponsor and a nice little break for us haas automation. Yeah yeah exactly. From having to pay for their own car and then a farmer. John farm farmer. John john right. John farmer is i. This is the farmer john. i'm thinking of. Yeah farmer. John there they do meet meets okay. There we go they subsidiary of of of smithfield See here farmer. John meats. They're based in a clark packing. Llc in vernon california parent organizations springfield foods. Yeah there you go there you go all right so i thought that was like a newbie. It's not it's just a sub brand is going to be on the a number. Ten car with eric admiral this weekend. Jacqueline cinema perfect so more sausages on the car. Police there you go. Hey it's pride month so is it. Hey sausage everywhere So that brings us to so noma so noma and i didn't look up to see if there's any news. No i did not see checking naked real quick sway here real quick. I somehow ended up on the On the merch. Page on how i got there so of the rx merch page. Yeah yeah somehow. I got there straight to the t shirts man. So nola the energy drink. Yeah indy five hundred. Was this weekend watching any five hundred. I did not know. Wow who want it. It was a the elliott. castro says. Yeah five point five million viewers. Wow really wow outdid nascar. Definitely fourth his fourth indy. Five hundred win. Yeah i was gonna say he's won quite a few of those things and he is going to be in the series. Yes yes elliot's yeah. There's no no. They're news because they also had the passing of Jason duke squire pasquet jason tour. I unfortunately solve that wreck and so two watching Was watching motor. Three qualifying and instantly was like. That's not good but the angle you know relating show anything crazy but yeah now that was bad. That was bad a very rare type of thing even though motorcycling is dangerous sport obviously but It's very rare and usually only happens. In instances where a rider ends up on track after the wreck which is exactly what happened here right rough rough but no other news to speak of. Yeah right on. Well i'm looking at their site now. I finally found the regular site and boy. It is a bit alarming in that. Kind of opening sequence. The video secrets have got rolling over and over again. It's kind of arming. How wistfully what's his name. Jeff gordon's crew chief levin him. Yeah thank you. I can't remember his name. We mentioned earlier in the. He's like looking very longingly wistfully down at the car in that segment and makes me. It's a little creepy. Must think it's a driver of his yeah development driver of his tackling What you do in girl but the show in the car driving around pretty good. That's nice yeah we should we start up that soon june twelfth at stafford. Yeah away. i'm next week. I'm pretty psyched about it. Man i wanna see. It'd be interesting to see. Yeah should be interesting to see what. Cbs does with it. And they got in their intro video. They've got kenny schrader in there. That's good way in the weird part about it is. it doesn't specifically say here kenny. Schrader is part of the series. He's not but yet he's in the video which is fine. It's fine line. Traders gonna be there. Do with desperately want traitor to be there. We all knew from from the word go. It's so weird. And he was going to somehow find a way in this be because like the back back. Clips are like Ever kind of looking down to the car like. Hey what's up. What's up their baby. And then kenny schrader getting in the car and so it makes it even weirder for me right. It's kind of a bizarre situation. Yeah oh yeah. There's can you get in the car. Gay just place forever. It should stop. They should have it. Stop at some point anyway. So yeah this weekend. it's no matter. How many cars in the field here. It's a thirty seven thirty six really man can can't get a whole friggin field anywhere. Although lee is a long trip. So i guess i kind of understand that a little bit yet. Thirty seven including cody wear.