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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from CONGRESS DEMANDS BITCOIN ETF APPROVAL - GENSLER GETS REKT | SB Originals
"You refuse to be transparent with Congress regarding your interactions with FTX and Sam Bankman -Fried. That's the investigation we started last Congress. Finally, your lack of responsiveness to this committee's legitimate oversight continues to be unacceptable. And I want to finish here. In February, the committee made multiple requests for documents to the Securities Exchange Commission. This is normal congressional oversight. Yet seven months later, the committee has not received a single non -public document that was not part of a FOIA production. As I said, our patience is wearing thin. The SEC is not above the law, nor is it unique. Other financial regulators have routinely complied with congressional oversight. So let me be clear. I do not want to be the first chairman of this committee to issue a subpoena to the Securities Exchange Commission. And you should not want to be the first SEC chair to receive a congressional subpoena. Either we find a path forward where the SEC recognizes Congress is a co -equal branch of government and is responsive to our oversight duties, or my option is to issue a subpoena. It's time for you to consider the lasting consequences of your actions and what that means to the Securities Exchange Commission's reputation long term. While your time in this role may be temporary, the repercussions for your actions may be permanent for the agency. I yield back. What's up and welcome back. You know, they say when you're on the hot seat, the burns can last a lifetime. And the other night the hot seat was in Congress and Gary Gensler was feeling the heat. We got a lot to cover. Let's get it. All right, let's get it started here. This was just in full letter to the SEC, and this was on September 26th and addressed to Chairman Gensler. It included Representatives Mike Flood, Tom Emmer, Richie Torres, and Wylie Nickel, and they claimed the SEC continuously is discriminated against spot Bitcoin ETFs. And then we have this from Representative Warren Davidson, Gary Gensler must be held accountable. And then if you guys look at the tweet here throughout his tenure, Gary Gensler has blatantly ignored Congress, be it when considering rulemakings or responding to lawmakers oversight requests. Republicans continue to bring long overdue accountability to Gensler's SEC. Republicans are holding SEC Chair Gensler accountable. They even went so far as to say, all right, let's bring in subpoenas or maybe we should just fire this guy. He went further. Gensler's failures are many. That's why I introduced the SEC Stabilization Act to fire Gary Gensler. He'll see you in the hearing. And we've got so much of the hearing to get to. It was honestly out of line in some regards, hilarious. But let's get to it. And we're going to go ahead and get it started here with the GOP majority whip, Tom Emmer totally crushes Gary Gensler. Here's one quote. It cannot be understated. A common theme throughout your career, sir, is your relentless loyalty to the largest financial institutions at the clear expense of innovation, competition and everyday Americans. Let's roll the clip. Chair Gensler, I have a series of questions that require a yes or no answer. And in the interest of my limited time, I'd appreciate it if you would comply with it. Mr. Gensler, is it fair to say generally that large institutions in any given industry benefit more from regulatory uncertainty than everyday market participants or smaller institutions who don't have the scale or the capital to fund expensive compliance teams? Large institutions could benefit from uncertainty. Reclaiming my time. The answer is yes, sir. Mr. Gensler, you had an 18 year career at Goldman Sachs where you were partner and co -head of finance, correct? Yes, sir. Thank you. And is it correct to say that you made most of your personal wealth directly through your employment at this bank, Goldman Sachs? I've done well since then, too, sir.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Demo 1 - NaviLens
Sony Unveils New Earphones and Noise-Cancelling Headphones
"We've long waited for the successor to Sony's awesome noise -canceling WH -1000XM3 headphones, which earned a CNET Editor's Choice Award back in 2019. Credible photos of headphones that appeared to be the Sony WH -1000XM4 appeared on Twitter earlier last month, but it looks like they're a no -show for the time being anyway. While we're waiting, however, the company recently announced that it's bringing out two new wireless headphones. The WF -XB700 is a true wireless headphone in the company's extra bass line. It'll cost $130, while the WH -CH710N, a new noise -canceling over -ear headphone, will cost $200. Both are set to be available for pre -order in April. WF -XB700 extra bass true wireless earbuds with Sony's extra bass technology hold structure. It creates a comfortable ergonomic fit with up to get this nine hours of battery life and an optional charging case delivers an additional nine hours. You can even do a quick charge with it. Ten minutes on the quick charge provides about 60 minutes of music playback. Available in April for pre -order in black and blue, and then of course we have the WH -CH710N. They come with 30 millimeter drivers, artificial intelligence noise canceling, and it can automatically select the most effective noise canceling mode for user surroundings. It also includes dual microphones. It'll kind of help you catch more ambient sounds, up to 35 hours of audio on a single charge, and it automatically selects the most effective noise canceling mode for the user's surroundings. You can get up to 35 hours of audio on a single charge and again it has the quick charge feature that provides 60 minutes of music playback via a 10 minute
The News Junkie
Fresh update on "single" discussed on The News Junkie
"Address at any time that we haven't seen the president down there the vice president the supposed to be the czar for this issue what can the administration do to essentially stop the flood let alone what's happening at the border but to stop them from even approaching the southern border what can they do i mean when i talk to law enforcement i talk to border control it's a really simple thing that they say Rory they say enforce the law that's on the books right if to you're going say you come in between a port of entry uh you know illegally and try to seek asylum you're going to be returned um you know they they're running into issues with that because they tried judge said no people need to be able to claim asylum so what is that is that creating a more a larger pathway at ports the of entry to keep these people out of the hands of the cartel because the people that are crossing between the ports are going through the smugglers they are ending up in these hands of the transnational criminal organizations right so in taking my opinion up the journalism hat a little bit to be the most humane we need to get them out of the hands of the cartel we need to give them a better option right and so what does that look like right now we're already allowing in 1450 people at every single day at the ports of entry but again we're seeing 11 ,000 people at our southern border so that's a drop in the bucket right so they would have to address that if that is what they would want to do but even that they can't keep that cap satisfied either because they're they're allowing in 1450 on the CBP one app but we're seeing an average of 1700 every single day at the ports so they're not even able to meet the cap of CBP one app right so now they've got to do something because everything is bursting at the seams even the legal pathways what's the trend are we seeing the peak or is this just a signal of what's to come I think we're gonna be riding this wave for a little bit sir unfortunately it looks like Mexico is trying to do some due diligence over there and depressurization it looks like they're trying to deport some people on their end but they also we're talking about stopping the trains however I talked with representative Tony Gonzalez whose district is Eagle Pass in El Paso where we're seeing most of the traffic and and he said that while Mexico is saying that the trains have stopped he said there are more coming there are more trains on the way right now my agents are telling me there are 2 000 people over across from Eagle Pass to waiting walk into the country so are we at a peak I don't think so agents don't think so I think we're kind of going to be we're going up the roller coaster right now I'm you know hoping for the best and hoping that the administration responds adequately you know it's unfortunate because in this position two years in I've been covering this it seems that the United States is always in a reactionary standpoint Rory even when we can see the trains coming from miles away even when we can see the caravans walking towards the U .S. to the cartel um so maybe so maybe that's where we can start you know trying to be a little proactive in the situation some sobering numbers from Allie Bradley the southwest correspondent over at NewsNation. Allie thanks for the update. As
Demo 1 - NaviLens
A highlight from Your-Weekly-Tech-Update-EP-133
"Hello, everyone. Welcome to your weekly tech update, the show that explores the newest, coolest, and sometimes mind -boggling side of tech available on the interwebs. I am your host, Ray McNeil. Coming up on the program today, we're talking Skype. They're rolling out their new Meet Now calls, and you don't need to sign up or to install it to use it. Amazon's new Blink Mini is a small indoor camera that allows for two -way audio, motion detection, HD video, and it's only 35 bucks, and will take your mind off of the world and put a smile on your face with this week's moment of joy. That and a whole lot more coming up on today's edition of your weekly tech update, next. There are more video calls going on now more than ever. However, a significant chunk of that action has gone to Zoom, which honestly I had never heard of before a couple of months ago, and not necessarily Skype, who has been the mainstay video chatting service for many years now. Microsoft's product that has been at the center of online voice and video chat since well before smartphones were commonplace is now coming out with a new feature that's rivaling Zoom and the market share that Zoom has captured in its short time. Perhaps too easy with some security and privacy compromises, but Skype is finally ready to fight back with Meet Now. With Meet Now, hosts can create and share free meetings with just three simple clicks. That's according to the company. Even the host doesn't need to have Skype installed. It's all ran from your web browser. You can start the process from its website and then invite people either using a simple link or the share button that's available on the page. If the person you're inviting has Skype installed, then it will automatically open up in the app directly, and if not, then it will open up a new app. We've long waited for the successor to Sony's awesome noise -canceling WH -1000XM3 headphones, which earned a CNET Editor's Choice Award back in 2019. Credible photos of headphones that appeared to be the Sony WH -1000XM4 appeared on Twitter earlier last month, but it looks like they're a no -show for the time being anyway. While we're waiting, however, the company recently announced that it's bringing out two new wireless headphones. The WF -XB700 is a true wireless headphone in the company's extra bass line. It'll cost $130, while the WH -CH710N, a new noise -canceling over -ear headphone, will cost $200. Both are set to be available for pre -order in April. WF -XB700 extra bass true wireless earbuds with Sony's extra bass technology hold structure. It creates a comfortable ergonomic fit with up to get this nine hours of battery life and an optional charging case delivers an additional nine hours. You can even do a quick charge with it. Ten minutes on the quick charge provides about 60 minutes of music playback. Available in April for pre -order in black and blue, and then of course we have the WH -CH710N. They come with 30 millimeter drivers, artificial intelligence noise canceling, and it can automatically select the most effective noise canceling mode for user surroundings. It also includes dual microphones. It'll kind of help you catch more ambient sounds, up to 35 hours of audio on a single charge, and it automatically selects the most effective noise canceling mode for the user's surroundings. You can get up to 35 hours of audio on a single charge and again it has the quick charge feature that provides 60 minutes of music playback via a 10 minute charge. Bluetooth 5 .0 is included with this as well as the standard USB -C charging. This has 30 millimeter drivers, support for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, one touch button access to those digital assistants by the way, and it's going to be available in April for pre -order as well, this one only coming in black for the time being anyway. Having AI agents learn how to play simple video games is an ideal way to test their effectiveness thanks to the ability to measure success via a score. Alphabet's DeepMind designed 57 particular Atari games to serve as a litmus test for its artificial intelligence and established a benchmark for the skills of an average human player. The company's latest system, Agent 57, made a huge leap over previous systems and is the first version of the AI that outperforms the human baseline. In particular, Agent 57 has proven its superhuman skills in Pitfall, Montezuma's Revenge, Solaris, and Skiing, all those games that have been major challenges for other AIs. Now according to MIT's Technology Review, Pitfall and Montezuma's Revenge require the AI to experiment more than usual in order to figure out how to get a better score. Meanwhile, Solaris and Skiing are difficult for AI because there aren't as many indications of success. The AI doesn't know if it's making its right moves for long stretches of time. DeepMind built upon its older AI agents so that Agent 57 could make better decisions regarding exploration and score exploration as well as to optimize the trade -off between short -term and long -term performance in games like Skiing. Technology Review notes that while these results are impressive, AI still has a long way to go. These systems can only figure out one game at a time right now, which it says is at odds with the skills of a human. True versatility, which comes so easily to a human infant, is still far beyond AI's reach. That said, AI is already in use across industries. The lessons learned from Agent 57 could help improve performance even if human -level skills aren't achievable for now.
This Week
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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Neil Mammen
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original. Something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now. I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you, Eric. Good to be here again. Okay. We're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick have made this a reality. This is a big deal. This is an answer to a real problem we have. I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious and I get that all the time. I go around speaking, people go, oh, do you know a good church in this area or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out 1 .7 million people look for a new church every month. 1 .7 people look for a new church. A billion. A billion. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about 5 million people looking for a new church every month. 5 million. Most of them, turns out, it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it, so I went on, you know, the source of all information is Google's Bard Artificial Intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google's Bard said. And I said, really? Is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistic. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend a church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. Now, I ask people, what decade do they think that is? And they always say, oh, oh, that's 1990s, 2000s, whatever, right? You know, actually, this is 1990s because today is probably a lot worse. But we'll come back to that. But so so I asked Bard, I said, what what since you think that these are people looking for progressive churches, can you give me a list of the growth rate of progressive churches? And Bard said, OK, so it gives me this rate and it's you know, it shows me this list of people of churches and like the UMC. They've dropped like 50 percent, the Presbyterian, the USA, you know, the liberal Presbyterian Church, they've dropped by 38 percent. And so I go down that list and I ask I ask I say, well, give me the list of all the progressive churches and how they've grown in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2020. So in 2000, the progressive total people going to progressive total was about 18 .7 million. And today it's about 16 .8 million. So they've dropped by 10 percent total. There's no surprise people going to these ridiculous, you know, quote unquote progressive churches that have veered away from biblical doctrine. I'm surprised anybody goes to those. Exactly. I mean, the the Presbyterians, they've dropped. The Presbyterians were the ones that dropped by 50 percent. The UMC has dropped by 15 percent. Yeah, because why go to a church like that when you could go to to like a local, you know, Neil, where are you going? What's the punch line? Because I'm getting confused. Are you? I know there's my assumption would be that most people who actually care about church are trying to find a conservative church, a church that teaches biblical doctrine, but also that speaks to the issues that people like because many people can go to these ridiculous mega church or whatever, where they they're avoiding the hot button issues that everybody has to deal with when they leave that church, their kids are dealing with it, everybody's dealing with it. What's going on in America? So the idea is, how do you find those churches? So I know that's where you're heading with this. So I turned the bar and I said, OK, now give me the conservative churches. I'm on board just looking for liberal churches, progressives. I said, give me the conservative churches. And it gives me things like, oh, the Orthodox Presbyterians, they have grown by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The Orthodox Russians have gone by 29 percent. Independent Baptists have grown by 33 percent. The conservative. And so I did I said, what about the Calvary church? The Calvary churches have grown by one hundred and fifty percent. And then the you know, even the Southern Baptists who's stuck in the news all the time, they've grown by seven and a half percent. OK, but conservative total have grown from sixty seven million people in 2000 going to these conservative churches to ninety two million going to these conservatives. So they've grown by almost thirty seven percent in the last 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this and this is the kicker here. This is all pre covid data. It didn't have any data for twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. This is twenty twenty. And as you know, and you're going to be preaching in my church in Santa and in in San Jose and sometime in your future Calvary Chapel, San Jose, right. They grew from three hundred people to three thousand people over covid. Why? Because a couple of things is very important here. Pastor Mike said, I'm not going to let the state determine what I'm doing. I'm going to be legislated, be active with voter guides. We had candidates coming in who's fighting the state. Remember, we say we're the finest church in all of America because we have four million dollars in Calvary Chapel, San Jose, because we wouldn't shut down for covid. So churches like these have been exploding all over the nation. So just these numbers are three years old and I can't seem to get the twenty twenty three numbers. So, no, the people who are looking for church. And so I went back to Bartlett said, well, this is the growth rate. Our people are really looking for more progressive rates. And, you know, I always say, well, I'm really sorry. I apologize. Yes, you're right. They must be looking for conservative Bible believing fundamentalist churches is what it comes back to. So it actually says, oh, yeah, you're right. You were correcting me on it. Right. So the issue here is then why? How do we find these if five million people are looking for churches every single month, how are they going to find these conservative churches? OK, this is this is a very long way of getting to the punch line, because this is such an exciting punch line, Neil, that I am just at the bit to get to this. We started. I know what I mean. I just want to say.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from $17.7 TRILLION IS COMING FOR YOUR BITCOIN | SB Originals
"I've recorded at least a couple of videos at this point talking about not selling your Bitcoin to BlackRock, how the institutions are coming, Fidelity, BlackRock, ARK, etc. The big players are coming and they want your Bitcoin. And I get the impression that many of you don't really appreciate why Bitcoin is so special, why the institutions do want your Bitcoin and will pay you whatever price they can to get it, and why selling it is the absolute last thing that you want to do. This article from Forbes is titled a fast growing 17 .7 trillion, that's T, trillion, Wall Street crypto earthquake is suddenly hurtling towards the Bitcoin and Ethereum price. Let's ignore that latter part, the Bitcoin price. Bitcoin has been thrust into severe uncertainty in recent months. Okay, first off, no, it hasn't. Maybe uncertainty if you don't understand Bitcoin, but this is baby sleeping time. This is not a time of uncertainty. These don't times matter in the grand scheme of things. The price dip and change from this to that is all irrelevant. It's all going to zero. And Bitcoin, on the other hand, is going up forever. So for the next little bit of the article, it talks about how the price has rose and dipped. And it's just a kind of a bunch of nonsense. But then it down here talks about Franklin Templeton. Franklin Templeton filed with the U .S. Securities Exchange Commission, the SEC, this week for a spot Bitcoin ETF, joining a flurry, that's an understatement, of applications that was kicked off by the world's largest asset manager. That's right, BlackRock in June and includes Fidelity, Invesco, Galaxy, Wisdom Tree, who between them manage 17 .7 trillion worth of assets. You have to realize that that's not really what matters. It's not that amount of money going into Bitcoin. It's what that signals to everyone else, because that 17 .7 trillion, yes, is under control by those asset managers. Yes, but you know what else happens when the big boys do things? Everybody else pays attention. So you get all these family offices going, wait a second, I'm sorry, BlackRock did what? They put what where? Oh, so, OK, I guess that's what we should do. This happens in every arena around the world. You can see it in literally everything. If a movie does something, other people try and copy it. If a technology does it, iPhones, for example, everybody else tries to copy it. So when BlackRock and Fidelity and Invesco, when they do move into the space and it is coming, they wouldn't all be filing for this just to do something to do because they're so bored. No, they're doing this because they want a piece of that. And why do they want a piece of it? Let's cut to something that seems completely unrelated. Post Malone has bought Magic's two million one ring card. And this is from the guy that found it. I believe he was in Toronto, Canada. When I found the one ring, the first person who came to mind was Post Malone. I have played Magic since I was a kid, and obviously it would be amazing to keep this card. But for a guy like me, being able to sell it is a life changing. I just really hoped it would go to someone who would appreciate it as much as I do. This is my dream come true. Meeting Post Malone and him buying the one ring from me is literally a moment straight out of a fairy tale. Post Malone, at Magic the Gathering, you have changed my life. Things like this don't happen to people like me. I guess it's Magic. I am forever grateful. In the past few months, Post Malone was on with Joe Rogan, and Joe Rogan asked him about that. And Post Malone was like, yeah, I did spend that much money on a card, and Joe Rogan doesn't get it. But here's why he did that, because it's the only one that will ever exist. And you might say, yeah, but Dell, you can go over to TCG player and get one for here. Look, with the 37 bucks right here, the borderless one, here's a different version for 60 bucks, 50 bucks, whatever this one, 100 bucks. So you don't need to spend two million dollars on it. Okay, no, you don't to actually have that card in your deck and can play with it. Sure, you can spend 50 odd whatever bucks on it and get it. But to get the exact one that Post Malone spent $2 million on, the one of one, that exact version, no, you do need to spend $2 million to get it or whatever Post Malone is selling it for now. If you've ever experienced a banking kerfuffle, to put it mildly, like I have, then there's a really good chance you already know the importance of Bitcoin. But you might have other questions. Maybe you don't feel quite as secure with your self custody setup as you would like to. Schedule a free 30 minute consultation call and they will help you solve whatever it is that you have about Bitcoin. Don't let a question keep you up at night. Call the Bitcoin way. At this point, I imagine you're wondering at least two things. Those are, what in the world happened with the banking story? What is Magic the Gathering have to do with this at all? And number three, so why in the world does Fidelity and BlackRock, why do they actually want that? Let me go through these. First off, why does BlackRock and Fidelity and all the big players, why do they want Bitcoin? Here's why they want Bitcoin. This one's from at BTC salvation. He says owning one Bitcoin is rare. How rare is it rare than the Magic the Gathering card? No, it's not quite that rare because there's only one ever in existence of that. But here's how rare it is. It's like owning roughly 25 pounds of gold or 107 acres of land in the US or roughly 1754 acres of land in the world or roughly 6 .7 houses in the US or roughly 109 houses in the world. And what has BlackRock been buying? It's homes. What has Bill Gates been buying? It's farmland. What do the people in power, what do these large players in the financial space want? They want, ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't figured it out by this point, I'm not sure what to tell you, but I'll tell you, they want scarce assets. They want the things that there is only a limited amount of. And what will there only ever be 21 million of? Bitcoin. That's right. There will never, ever, ever be more than that. What if somebody else forks it and they make a whole new thing called Bitcoin too? They've done that. It's trash. It's garbage. It's going to zero. It's all going to zero. You can only find perfect digital scarcity once. It's not possible to do it again. Anything else that's a copy of it is, oh, I already told you what it is. It's a copy of it. That's what it is. There is, you can't do it again. Bitcoin is true digital scarcity and anything else that comes along after it is a copy. So now what does this have to do with magic, the gathering and rarest things and scarce things? And well, let's jump over to something else that seems completely unrelated. I've had hedge fund managers, like, reach out to me on LinkedIn to be like, hey, like, could you talk to us about TCGs? Like, we want to know how they work. Like, that's an experience that I'd never had before. Do you see it yet? Are you starting to understand? Am I painting the picture clear enough for you that the power is to be how much of the pie they want? They don't want the tin. They don't want the crust. They don't want that nice top with the different funny shapes cut into it. They don't want the juicy filling. They definitely don't want the bottom. No, they want the whole damn pie. Every crumb, last every single little iota of the pie. If that includes card games, hedge fund managers are going to call card game designers and ask them, how can we get it on that pie? They want all of the pies, every last one. They're going to show up to the marine calendars and just give me the pie. Every last one. They definitely want the Bitcoin pie, every single one. So if that means contacting old Gary Gensler and saying, hey, get this approved, don't do that. If it means contacting drone pal and Janet Yellen saying, hey, print us all of the money ever so that we can entice these goons out of selling every last Bitcoin that they have so that we control and not they because they're just peons. They're just silly people. They don't know what to do with their money. They're clueless. They don't know. We know that's how we got here. Clearly, we're the best players in the room. We know what we're doing with the money. We're the ones in control. Let us have all of it. Print us as many Chuck E. Cheese prize tickets as you possibly can. All of them. Trillions of them. It doesn't matter. Who cares what the debt is? It just goes up and up and up. It doesn't matter. Give us more so that we can buy the Bitcoin off of them. They keep on kicking the can down the road and behind them, the road is crumbling. And where's the new road come from? They're just laying it as they go. And at some point they will stop to catch their breath and everything will come crumbling down. But guess what's under that road? Bitcoin. That's where everything falls to. Everything falls onto the shoulders of Bitcoin. And Bitcoin has some real strong shoulders. Let me tell you what. So where does my story end? My story ends with my banking crisis being averted. I finally talked to somebody that had since they knew how to solve the problem. They said, yes, let me actually get you to the right department. I don't know why those three other people didn't do that. Got to the right department. I was helped by a lovely woman who got me back access to my bank account. So that was a harrowing few hours of that morning. But I eventually did get access to my bank account. But for those few hours, it was a sobering experience to realize that I could be completely cut off from all financial access. I couldn't pay anything that I wanted. Rent was coming due, couldn't pay that, got bills due, can't pay those. Forget about buying a coffee, which might be nice to have or a sandwich or whatever like that. That's irrelevant. But when the bills start going, hey, you owe us this. And then we start turning off the electricity and you don't have Internet and then you can't do this and you can't do that. It's a real big problem. So, yes, the crisis was averted. But there is a global crisis looming, an absolute catastrophic world shattering, meteor impacting the world style event coming to the monetary system. And if you don't have some heavy shoulders to fall upon, I don't know where the road goes when the road crumbles. And if you have nobody to catch you, I don't know what's under there. I think it's just an abyss that falls forever. That's not a place that I want to be. Is it a place that you want to be? No, I don't know. But here's what I do know. If you're here on Simply Bitcoin, the chances that you don't want to be in that precarious situation is pretty good. So get subscribed, learn about Bitcoin, understand how important it is, and the answers will fall into place. And you, ladies and gentlemen, might fall upon the shoulders of Bitcoin. And like I said, this is not the first time I've talked about this. So check out this video right there where I go over in another way the institutions coming for your Bitcoin, because they are. Ladies and gentlemen, they are going to try and get it from you. Guaranteed they want it.
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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from BREAKING First U.S. Ethereum ETF APPROVED! (Altcoin Pump Coming?)
"The future is so bright for crypto, folks. I just had to wear the shades. Thank you for joining today. Good morning. It's time to discover crypto. It's Friday, September 29. I'm getting ready to go to Vegas for the CNFTCON, now called NFT -LV. Jeremiah's going to be there. No, no. Sawtooth is going to be there. Jeremiah, just happy he bought some Chainlink. Guys, we got a great show today. We're talking about the ETH futures. We're breaking that down. Also, we're talking about Bitcoin. Tim has something special to show you on the charts. Circle listing. And my fiancé might pop up on camera, and she's going to tell a story how I was the world's worst fiancé ever this morning. So she might come on camera and tell the tale. You know, I am a family -oriented man. And you know what? I'm bringing my one and only woman here on camera. Alright, guys, make sure you are sub to the channel here. Discover crypto. Check out all the other channels. Nothing but love for Frankie. Frankie had a big announcement yesterday. We still love Frankie. There's no hard feelings. And we're applauding and celebrating Frankie here at Discover Crypto. Still going to be collabing with him. Still going to be working with him. He's still working in the building. Yeah, we're going to see him literally every day. Well, I didn't want to tell that much. But yeah, he's still here, folks. Yeah. He's literally still here. Tony, Tony, Tony. I think he's like, he's still in the candle mafia house, though. He's still in the basement. Well, he shoots certain videos from home and certain videos from here. Like literally, his schedule will not change whatsoever. But the difference, and we're very excited for him, is he will completely own everything he does. Everyone here is excited for him. Shout out to Frankie Candles. I still predict, Deezy. There's a lot of, I want to make sure I preface this right, because even I do TA. There's a lot of good technical analysts out there. I still predict Frankie Candles will be the number one crypto TA channel in 2025. I would, I will say I would agree with that with maybe one person still going to be beating him, still going to be putting out a lot of content. And we all love him. Frankie loves him. I've talked to him, you know, MM Crypto. And there's something about that guy. When the bull market hits, I mean, guys, you might see some strong thumbnails now. Wait till the bull market. If you haven't been through a bull market with MM Crypto thumbnails, you haven't really experienced a bull market, folks. And I also love how he has 17 exclamation points on MM Crypto's titles. He has a very interesting title selection there. Well, folks, let's get right into the show. All right, first, should we lead with the world's worst fiance? Let's do it after Crypto Market Cap. Yeah. All right, we're gonna go ahead, show the prices, and I'll tell you why I was the world's worst fiance. Kat, are you okay? Just briefly telling the short section of that story in about two minutes. All right, first, let's get into the crypto market cap here. I just refreshed and we are moving up, folks. We are still above 1 .1 trillion. We are up 0 .8%. 24 -hour volume was right around 50 yesterday. I think it was like 54. Today, it's 48. So, largely the same. Bitcoin dominance has fallen, however. We went from 47 .1. We were hanging out there forever, jumped up to 47 .4, and now we're down to 47 .0. And strangely, gas is only 14 Gwei. I don't get how gas is so low right now. I was swapping some alts the other day. We have Bitcoin down 0 .1 % and Ethereum up 1 .8%. And that is the large reason why you're seeing the dominance change here. Just the two biggest cryptos moving in opposite direction, albeit slightly. We have BNB 0 .5 % to the upside. But I think who's really celebrating today is the XRP community. XRP is up 5 % today. Is it anticipation for XRP's party in New York City tonight, you think? What are your thoughts? Was it a TA level? It was just bound to happen? Or are people really excited about partying in the Big Apple? Well, not me. I'm not that big of a party person. And shout out to New York. But I don't really like going to New York. You don't like going to New York? If you had one reason why you avoid New York, what is that one reason? There's many a reason. I just don't like city life like that. I like being out, not the middle of nowhere, but like the middle of somewhere rather than the middle of everywhere. I like being in the middle of nowhere near somewhere. All right, we have Cardano up 2 .8%. Another big pump for the top 10 here. We have Solana. Solana is up 4 .5%. It is now above $20. Looking like it might turn $20 into support. It likes hanging around that psychological level. Tron is also up 3 .5%. We do have something moving down. And that is TonCoin. TonCoin, the hottest coin last month, two months ago. Now it's a little bit as maybe Chainlink's taken some of its juice. And you can see Chainlink flat for the day. But if you look at the weekly there, you can see 16%. And that is higher than every single coin above it. In fact, no coin has even gotten to the double digits, except for Bitcoin Cash. And Bitcoin Cash, you know, kind of an asterisk next to that coin as far as price movement. Shiba is also moving to the upside. But now it is time to look at the biggest gainers. The biggest gainers in the world is going to be me at the blackjack table. It's going to be a cat at the slots. All right, the world's biggest gainers. What do we have? We have Sweet.
SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
A highlight from 3 Points with Chris Mannix - Dame is finally traded
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Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from BONUS // The Best New Podcast for Christian Children: Hearing Jesus for Kids
"Did you know that the Hearing Jesus podcast has a companion show for kids? We take the same content from the adult show and I teach it in a way that kids can understand. It's geared for kids ages 6 to 12 and we're going to show you a quick preview of one of the episodes. I pray it's a blessing for you. Stay tuned. Hey friends, welcome to the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast. Do you ever feel like you want to know more about the Bible but then it's kind of hard to understand? Do you want to share your faith with your friends but have a hard time figuring out how to do that? Do you want to learn how to connect the Bible to your real life? Well then this is the show for you. My name is Rachel and I'm your host. I've been a children's pastor for a long time and one of my favorite things is helping kids learn how to understand the Bible. I think that sometimes people think that the Bible is just for adults, but God actually really wants kids to know about him. So on this podcast, we're going to learn all about God's big story and how he shows himself to us through the Bible. As we learn together what the Bible stories actually mean, we can learn how to live out our faith in our everyday life. Hey friends, welcome back to the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast. I'm your host Rachel. Today we're talking more about prayer. Yesterday we learned some important things that the Bible has to say about prayer, but today we're going to start looking at a very special prayer in the Bible. In Matthew 6 verses 9 through 13, Jesus shares what we call the Lord's Prayer. I could tell you all about it, but I think it's better to go to our Bibles and read what it says for ourselves. So I'm going to read it now. It says, Pray like this, Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. The first thing we read about in this section of this prayer is the words pray like this. Jesus doesn't tell us to pray this prayer word for word every time we pray. Instead, he says pray like this because this is a prayer of example of how we should pray and some of the things that we could pray for. If you think for a minute about some common books that you may even have at your house called How to Draw Books, the way that How to Draw Books are is they have an example set up for you to copy. If you had, let's say, a monster truck that you were trying to copy, you would look at the How to Draw Book and you would look at the steps that they had and you would try to copy it on the other side of the page. Well, our prayers are kind of like that. The Lord's Prayer is kind of like the How to Pray model. When we copy it, it's not going to look exactly the same. It's going to be our version of that kind of prayer. So the Lord's Prayer shows us how to pray, but our prayers will look a little bit different than this, and your prayer is going to be a little bit different than my prayer. But Jesus gave us a prayer as an example of how to pray, but it doesn't mean that we have to pray like that every single time, and it certainly doesn't mean that we have to use those same words every single time.
The Breakdown
A highlight from ETH Futures ETFs Get Set to Trade as Government Shut Down Looms
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 29th, and today we are talking ETF approvals. 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 in the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, lots of action to wrap up your week. We're going to talk a little bit of ETF announcements and then we're going to get into the government shutdown and, of course, give you all of the information that you need. Now we start with the SEC in the world of ETFs. That organization has been busy over the past few days making decisions on a variety of different crypto applications. Now, there are currently three major batches of crypto ETF applications that are being considered. On Thursday, four Spot Bitcoin ETFs were delayed, including the BlackRock application. Two additional Spot Bitcoin ETFs were already delayed on Tuesday. Announcements delaying the rest of the similar applications are expected to follow today and are likely to be published by the time the show is released. The next deadline for the SEC to consider approving Spot Bitcoin ETFs is on January 10th. That's an important one because it's the final deadline for the ARK21 shares application, so it will require an explanation from the SEC rather than just a simple delay. The second batch are the Ethereum Spot ETFs, which were also delayed. On Wednesday, the SEC deferred their decision on products from VanEck and ARK21 shares. The next deadline for regulatory consideration falls on December 26th. The SEC can delay further on these products with the final deadline falling in May. Now, overall, the delay of Spot crypto ETFs has not been particularly surprising. As much as people have wanted the legal decision from the Grayscale suit to force the SEC's hand, that court order is still able to be appealed, and there is nothing really compelling the SEC to move forward with Spot ETFs for the time being. Now, the more interesting developments surround Ethereum futures -based ETFs. Throughout August, at least 24 applications were filed, including some products offering short Ethereum exposure and combined long exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum within a single fund. Throughout the week, there have been rumblings that the SEC was preparing to approve futures -based Ethereum products, asking investment firms to update their documents by Friday afternoon. The rumor was that ETFs could begin trading as soon as Tuesday. On Thursday morning, VanEck debuted two 30 -second advertisements for their Ethereum futures product, which would trade under the ticker eFute. VanEck are going with the tagline Enter the Ether and commenting on the ad, Eric Valkunas, the senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg said, Now, later in the day, VanEck updated their prospectus for the fund. The ETF will only charge 66 basis points in fees. This is below the dominant pro -shares Bitcoin futures ETF, which is ticker symbol BITO, which charges 95 basis points. The lowest fee product seems to be Roundhill at just 19 basis points. Also on Thursday, Valkyrie announced that they would begin buying Ethereum futures on Friday in anticipation of altering the strategy of their existing Bitcoin futures ETF. The fund will now hold half Bitcoin futures and half Ethereum futures. The new strategy will be formally adopted on Monday under the existing ticker symbol BTF. Later yesterday as well, Valkyrie's chief investment officer, Stephen McClurg, said that both VanEck and pro -shares had been given the green light to launch their dedicated Ethereum futures ETFs on Monday. A pro -shares spokesperson said no one is in a position to launch ahead of us but declined to elaborate further on timing. Now, part of the reason that the SEC may be trying to move up all these delays and announcements is the looming threat of a government shutdown. Indeed, a government shutdown is at this point all but certain to begin on Sunday after House Republicans failed to come to a suitable agreement during a tense closed -door meeting on Thursday night. The House passed several versions of an appropriations bill that would authorize government spending on Thursday, but reportedly none have any chance of passing the Senate. The Senate are working on a bipartisan proposal for short -term funding, but this measure is unlikely to be passed by House Republicans. Tensions have flared between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Freedom Caucus member Matt Gaetz, who is playing a major role in pushing the government into a shutdown. The dispute is around demands to slash government spending with a more specific demand that war efforts in Ukraine are defunded. Now, a government shutdown would end all funding of non -essential government programs until an appropriations bill can be passed. The length of a shutdown would be unknown. However, most government agencies are making plans to shutter for multiple weeks if not well into November. The impact of a shutdown will be largely felt by government workers who will not receive paychecks, as well as the recipients of government benefits. Social Security and Medicare continue to operate as usual during a shutdown, but the patchwork of other social programs will be paused. Now, when it comes to the macro environment, one of the other implications is that a shutdown would halt the collection of economic data. The next Fed meeting isn't until the end of October, but if the shutdown stretches out for a substantial period, the Fed could be faced with making a decision without key economic reports gauging inflation, employment, and growth. That would, of course, leave the Fed flying blind as they attempt to bring the economy in for a soft landing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"Black Privilege" With Heather Mac Donald
"Heather, thank you for taking the time. Heather, I want to start with you commenting on your visit to University of California, Berkeley. Tell our audience all about the wonderfully tolerant students at UC Berkeley where you come to talk about some rather non -controversial things, should be non -controversial. Tell us about it. Well, it is very controversial to tell students that they are actually the most privileged individuals in human history simply by virtue of being on a college campus and having access in theory to knowledge. And there's nothing that makes Black law students even more upset than being told that the reality in our world today is Black privilege. So I was doing a Q &A with Stephen Hayward about my book and saying that the reason that we have racial disparities today is not because of racism. It's because of ongoing skills gaps and behavior gaps when it comes to crime. And the students had already defaced the posters for my event with the phrase racist. And the heckling, especially towards the end, grew very intense. You know, who the heck are you? You know, you make sure you're assaulted just being here. Your presence is racist. Your book is racist. And when I said finally, you know, the reality today is Black privilege, that resulted in utter pandemonium. But, you know, as you know, Charlie, there's nothing more depressing than being in the face of the student mob and seeing the utter emotional, spiritual, psychological commitment to the lie that, especially if you're a Black student, that you're the victim of racism. I mean, it's preposterous on its face. The Berkeley Law School is discriminating against Black students. As simply an empirical matter, we know that the Berkeley Law School and virtually every University of California entity and campus is so determined to have Black students and Black professors that they are using vast racial preferences. They are admitting students. They are hiring faculty who, if presenting the same test scores, the same academic record, if they were white and Asian, would most likely be rejected. So Berkeley Law School is absolutely fanatically committed to having Black students there. And yet these law students are just psychotically committed to the idea that they experience, as they said, we experience racism every single day here. And I said, name me some names. Name me a professor who is racist. Name me an administrator who is racist. And of course, they didn't even try.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Leads Fight for No Ukraine Funding
"There's some good news. There's some good news. Despite all the Republicans voted against Ukraine funding, there actually was some good movement on a Ukraine amendment led by Marjorie Taylor Greene. She's been leading a very valiant fight. Congresswoman Greene, thank you so much for taking the time. Tell us all about it, Marjorie. Well, thank you so much for having me on, Charlie. I'm very excited. This has been quite an effort. I've been messaging, telling all my fellow colleagues that the American people are sick and tired of funding a war in Ukraine. I even had anti -war protests on the steps of the Capitol earlier this week. I have been introducing amendment after amendment to strip the money from Ukraine, and we got that accomplished. It's really because of the people, Charlie. Polling shows that most Americans do not support their hard -earned tax dollars going to Ukraine, so that was a big win for me, but it was also done with 117 other Republicans that agreed with me. All right, so Marjorie, I'm busy doing all sorts of stuff. You got to break it down for me because I'm sure the audience. Okay, so did this pass the House Representatives or pass a committee? Was this a single issue bill? Was this a rider? Was this an amendment? Just walk me through it because I want to make sure I understand it. Yes, thank you so much, Charlie. So the defense bill had 300 million dollars for Ukraine inside the bill that has been there for years, and this money goes into a special fund that the Biden administration has been using to send equipment and weapons to fund the war in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, they have spent a lot of the money out of that fund that was built up over the years, and so I've been demanding. I think I'm one of the few members of Congress that has voted for zero dollars to go to Ukraine since it has started, and I've been fighting very hard on the issue to stop it. Well, what happened this week is because I really fought my conference so hard, I'm the only Republican. As a matter of fact, I voted with the Democrats to knock down the rule, so I voted against the Republican rule for the defense bill, sending a strong message to my conference, sending a strong message that I am completely against the war money for Ukraine. Then after that happened, I had a lot of conversations. Again, I had an anti -war protest against the Ukraine war on the front of the Capitol steps. I argued in conference that if they want to fund money for Ukraine, they need to strip it out and they can vote for it, that I'm not voting for it, and there's other members that do not want to vote for it. Well, thankfully, leadership listened, and so what they did is they created another amendment that pulled them out, and we had to vote again on a separate rule that was pulled the money out of the defense bill. So the defense bill came to the floor last night, and we passed the defense appropriations bill, which is filled with so many great things, but we passed it with no money for Ukraine.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
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Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1272. BlackRock CEO Hints at DeFi & Bull-Run! | FULL BREAKDOWN
"All right, so let's drill down into Larry Fink's brain today. We're going to do this. He did a big interview at a Bloomberg event, and it breaks down a lot of not only his ideas of where the markets is going, but also some of the technologies within crypto that are going to affect all of this. I'll break it down for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back into Tech Path. All right, let's get into our first clip. And this first clip is breaking down interest rates over the next few years, what it looks like from the man himself. Larry Fink, listen it. You have Jamie Dimon, for example, saying rates in the U .S. could go to 7%, and we're not ready for it. Is he right? Look, we all have opinions. I mean, I've been saying for over a year - I want to know your opinion. My opinion is we're going to have 10 -year rates at least at 5 % or higher. All right, so you heard it, higher, longer 10 -year rates holding on to that, but yet still very optimistic in terms of the overall position, so a little bit more hopeful. Rick Ryder, who is one of the key investment guys there at BlackRock, who manages like almost $3 trillion in assets, he also came in on this clip. Listen in to what he had to say. So I think there's a couple of things that are going to happen. I think when the Fed starts, and I think they'll start cutting rates in the second half of the year. I don't think they're in any rush that they need to do it. Second half of this year? Second half next year. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you for that clarification. I would have been buying stocks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so he's looking toward the third quarter next year. We talked about that before, is that that most likely will be the case with this higher for longer approach that goes into this. Now, the key here is, is what is causing this? Now, what are we seeing this in terms of the market disarray, the pushback, the consumer spending that's been holding inflation high? They get into it a little bit here around wages being too high. Listen in. The whole idea about restricting immigration. And in the United States, we've had close to a trillion dollars of fiscal stimulus just beginning its J curve. These are huge job creators and at the same time we have restricted immigration and as a result of it, you know, we see more wage pressure. So at what cost? We have in the United States, a very protracted strike between the auto workers and the auto companies. It has been reported that the union is asking for a 40 % increase. So at what cost? What do you do with a problem like that? Right now, I think in our mega trends, right now we are under invested in China. Under invested in China. That's interesting. OK, so a couple of points here to make and also to kind of references the framework of why these strikes are occurring, especially with the United Auto Workers strike. You look at it and it really boils down to corporate greed. I mean, at the essence, you've got all these car companies who have been feasting on American consumers for quite some time, for the last couple of years. Here's Stellantis as an example all the way back to 2016 when they were kind of flat and then right there 2018 blows up. Obviously, we saw the impact on the markets and then just this continued climb of Stellantis stock price. Now, part of that has been just because obviously car sales have continued. So his point of that wages are too high, that this is causing a lot of disarray within the market, there's an alternative to that as well. Let's go to this next clip, because Biden, actually, it's an article here, Biden actually responded to a little bit of this issue around the UAW. Remember, he's very pro -union, but his statement was he asked if he supported the 40 percent increase on the union and asked for it. He said, hey, listen, it's it's really more of a bargaining chip, really, than anything. And I would agree, you know, because it's kind of you ask for the highest amount you can and then you settle in with where it may end up. And I think that's what Stellantis is going to end up doing here as we go further. Remember, the key here with think is if you are very pro and I'm pro capitalist guys, don't get me wrong, but if you're a super capitalist, meaning you are absolutely just wanting to run amok within corporate greed, then you do want a lot of immigrants coming into the country and you want these kinds of mainly from just an optics standpoint, because it does start to put pressure on American workers. And I think that's the thing that everybody is looking at is how do we keep job wages low? And when I say everyone, meaning these capitalists that are really pushing at this. So this gets into some pretty big issues right here, even though he's asking for more immigration. I want to play this next clip to show you just kind of where immigration currently is. Let's listen in. In just one week, they came by the thousands, group after group after group of migrants streaming into Eagle Pass, Texas, prompting the border town to declare a state of emergency and straining the nation's immigration system. Again, the Border Patrol encountered a record two point two million people crossing the border illegally. The numbers went down a bit in the fiscal year ending this month, but are still high. Anybody that thinks this is a secure border is delusional. And this is something you see every day. All right. So as you can see there, does it look like we're restricting immigration at all? I think his point is really, really more toward the whole idea of, you know, higher wages being pressured, getting into that side of it. All right. So let's get into this next clip that talks about the recession and whether or not it's going to be bad, good, all that good stuff. Listen to what he had to say. Does that mean we are headed for a recession right now? I think we're going to see some economies enter recessions early. Which ones would that be? Well, I think Europe is more sensitive to the ones that are more sensitive to this elevated interest rates. Whatever the recessions we're going to have, they're going to be quite modest. So I'm not even that fearful. In many areas, you may need a recession to bring down labor demand. All right, so again, back to the point he's talking about, that's profitability and a lot of companies, once you bring down labor demand, that's one of the biggest issues there. He also gets into the point of what could be the catalyst to cause longer, a longer recession play into this. Here's what he had to say. So throughout history of U .S. growth slowdowns, we have underestimated every single one of them. Are you confident we're not making that same mistake again? If fear becomes worse, then consumers pull back and the recessions are going to become more protracted. We have elections in so many places in the world. We are going to have many political candidates who are going to provide a lot of fear. I think the political winner is the one who provides the most hope for the future or what people believe with the hope of the future. Do you see that, though? Do you see anyone projecting hope? I dearly hope so. I'm projecting hope. Larry for president? I don't know. No, I'm too young. I love that. All right, so I want to get into an area around reimagining bank lending, and this is where it starts to get into crypto or at least the underlying efforts of what he's thinking about crypto, because this is going to be kind of that format of how crypto will start to integrate into the banking system. Let's know what he had to say. We need to reimagine finance because of Dodd -Frank in the United States. Banks can't lend. And more of that, you know, the world doesn't want to get to the developing countries. They lend well, but clearly. All right, so obviously that's where, you know, stablecoins, DeFi, this starts to solve all those problems that we're going to be looking at around tokenized assets. I want to go to a clip here from Bankless asking really what's holding this back. Listen in to what they had to say in this interview. What you're buying today when you buy a stablecoin on the back end, it's cash and cash equivalents. That's an accounting term to say treasuries, repos and some cash in banks. The thing that is not like flowing through is the yield component. So you're getting a zero percent yield on your stablecoins today. So I started looking at someone has to have built something that solves this problem and no one had. The big challenge here is how do you bridge these two worlds, giving clarity on the real world asset side? So someone has to hold a treasury, a treasury bill, and that person was buying those treasury bills. At small scale, you can buy, but if you're starting to buy anything at meaningful scale, you have to show where the money came from and that where the money came from, the compliance AMLKYC component was hard to do. So we said, OK, if we want to offer this, you have to be regulated to do this at scale. And that is the biggest challenge that everyone in this industry faces is how do you answer that regulatory or legal structure in question? It sounds like what you're trying to build is the largest pipe possible between the government, United States government, risk free rate and DeFi. And right now you're saying that this pipe is actually constrained by our current stablecoin paradigm, the current meta of stablecoins, because you go through it vanilla dollars first when really you can just go more, let's get right to the punchline of this whole thing, which is like, let's take the yield of the risk free rate and get it into DeFi.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is a Lifeline | EP 835
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up forever, bro. Bitcoin! You're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution of corporate breaking news, culture, matic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Sailor tweeted something very interesting yesterday. Anything when it when you tweet a picture, I really call it a meme, right, because memes are a form of, you know, graphics, memes, they're really what they're forms of transmitting information, transmitting data, right? So I'm just going to call it a meme, even though, you know, by the usual definition, it's not a meme. It's a bunch of statistics, a bunch of data. But for the sake, just to simplify, it was a meme, tweeted a meme about the inflation rates of all fiat currencies around the world. And what he said, the tweet that he said is, if you don't have access to dollars, Bitcoin is a lifeline. I mean, and it's very interesting because if you don't have access to dollars, thing is like, if you have a bunch of piles of crap, right? The dollar is the smallest, less smelling pile of crap, right? It's still crap, but it is the least worst of all of them, right? And what I think is happening, especially in the global south, the developing world, is you are seeing a lot of people adopt alternatives to state money. But the pattern that you're seeing is people aren't really adopting Bitcoin per se. Of course, there's a percentage of Bitcoin adopters, but what you're really seeing is people adopting stable coins, specifically USDT or, you know, the USDC or whatever, any specific type of stable coins that is a US dollar stable coin. And the thing about those things is that they provide a false sense of financial sovereignty. Number one, because they can freeze it. And number two, because I think eventually, due to its centralization, they will inevitably be co -opted. And they still have inflation baked in, right? So like it's a multitude of factors, but this is why this whole thing is going to be multi -generational, right? I truly believe. And the analogy that I always, always use, and I know it's cliche, the movie The Matrix, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but this analogy is so useful. Nio was just exposed to The Matrix and Morpheus and Nio are in the construct and Nio goes into denial and he's like, no, this isn't real. And he goes crazy. They pull him out. He gets out of the chair and he just collapses on the floor and, you know, and he just, he just passes out. He can't believe he can't, it's too much for him to take. And then the next, the following scene, Morpheus is standing over Nio while Nio wakes up and Morpheus looks at Nio and he says, Nio, I apologize. After a certain age, we don't pull people out of The Matrix because it's too much for their minds to, for their minds to handle. And I think it's a very fitting analogy to the fiat matrix. If you've lived the majority of your life using paper money that has faces of old people on it or faces of structures or faces of things, you're used to state issued money. You're used to banking. You're not used to taking self custody of your wealth. It is a very, very radical idea. It's not to say that you can't do it, but it's you have to go through a process of unlearning and then learning something new versus what Naim Bukkela is doing in El Salvador, where he's teaching the next generation about Bitcoin right off the gate. So it's not a process of unlearning. It's a process of learning something new. Now, in my specific career, and I know Opti, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty confident he's experienced the same thing before I bring him up. You know, I've been in Bitcoin basically a third of my life. So I had no idea about the traditional financial system. And so I started making Bitcoin content. And I thought, you know, when you start making Bitcoin content, OK, you're just going to talk about Bitcoin. No, it ends up being this macro geopolitical, you know, because Bitcoin is fundamentally going to change the world. That's why we say in the beginning of the show, separation of money and state. And you have you're forced to learn about the traditional financial system. And holy cow, are you just like in awe, you're just like, do things really work like that? That's absolutely insane. Right. So that's what I got to say is yes, absolutely. If you don't have the dollar, Bitcoin is definitely the lifeboat. But that's not to say that people are choosing Bitcoin. People are using or choosing stable coins, again, because I think that they've been conditioned. Right. I think that they've been conditioned to this, to the belief that the dollar is very, very strong. And in the global sense, like before Bitcoin, you could have made that argument and would have been a solid argument. But I'll ask you guys, it's a very simple question. If you have a currency that is designed to inflate and lose purchasing power over time and can also be censored and confiscated easily by the state versus a currency that is designed to increase in purchasing power over time is censorship resistant. I mean, what what do you think people are going to choose eventually? Incentives matter and Bitcoin incentives are the best. And that's truly believe. That's why I truly believe over the long run, enough people will wake up to that fact and adopt it. Right. Anyway. So we're going to talk about all that today. I know I rambled on for quite a bit, but I want to welcome my very special co -host, always optimistic. He had a dream. You had a dream, bro. You had a very interesting dream. You know, I started the Chrissy thing as a joke. I didn't think it was going to end up here. Yeah. Well, guys, if you didn't see my Twitter and I didn't even make this up, I legitimately had a dream last night that I was battling Christine Lagarde and she was a praying mantis and Claus Schwab was a locust. And I had to. That was a third one. I can't remember the third person. Yeah. I don't remember who it was, to be honest, but there was someone else there and I had to battle them. There was like a full Mortal Kombat scene in my dream where I was battling the unproductive parasite, Sat B. Yeah. I can't make up. This is where my life is. Actually, I mean, I think it's because I watched Prometheus again last night trying to unplug and there's that one scene of like the human spider thing. Anyways, anyways, anyways, that's totally not here nor there. To your point, Nico, it's funny that once I look through the world, through the Bitcoin lens and trying to understand Bitcoin and its place in the world, you start to learn a lot about the traditional financial system, global geopolitical macro. And I think we were having this conversation yesterday. It's like being in Bitcoin is just a crash course in how the normal world works, how all of the adult adults in the room see the world and how the financial system works. And then it's just funny because we always filter everything through that Bitcoin lens. And you're just like, we were saying it to each other, it's like Bitcoin changes everything and it's so simple and everything's so convoluted and so complicated in the traditional financial world. And it's just like, I don't know, fix the money, fix the world. It's just so simple. But it really gives you a crash course on life when you start to understand Bitcoin and you start to understand how Bitcoin works and why the fiat system is broken. And yeah, it just it blows my mind that we have learned about the traditional financial system through Bitcoin. And I never learned that before I found Bitcoin. It blows my mind. One hundred percent. I mean, again, like it's like we didn't have to in a way, you know, like and then I can't even imagine our children like they're going to be born in a world where Bitcoin has already existed. Right. So it's just it's just crazy to think. It's like when we think about our parents, like they were born in a world where the Internet didn't exist. You know, like people still read newspapers. That blows my like I can't even conceive of like, you know, of of that world. But I think the paradigm is is going to be so great because I don't think we've ever lived in a world where the money wasn't issued by the king or the emperor or the state or the government, you know, or the, you know, the democratically elected body, whatever this ruling class of people. And every single time throughout history, the ruling class of people manipulated the money to benefit themselves at the expense of the populace, at the expense of the public. Now you have something like Bitcoin where they can't do that. Right. It kind of levels the playing field and it kind of changes the power dynamics of the whole structure entirely. It's very, very fascinating, the entire thing. But you know, what turned from a joke into a meme ended up in Opti's dream. And I think Chrissy as a praying mantis, if anyone could make that A .I. picture of that, that would be dope. Please send it to us. We'll put it on the meme review. Anyways, everybody, let's jump straight into the numbers. We have a lot to talk about today. Let's check it out.
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: Coinbase Crashes DC | Gary Grilled By Congress | Vitalik Deepfakes
"Miss Wagner is like, yo, MIT version of Gary was pro -blockchain, but SEC Gary is anti -blockchain. And then Richie Torres is like, yo, it's a Pokemon card of security? These people are listening to crypto Twitter. They are like, these are our things. The power of crypto Twitter is like getting into Congress. Well, it's because it's distilled logic. I mean, Bankless Nation, it is the last Friday of September. David, what time is it? It's the Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup Ryan where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, which is always an ambitious endeavor, yet we persevere nonetheless into the frontier this week with a bunch of clips of Gary getting grilled. So everyone, everyone prepare for that one. If you're not listening to this with coffee, because it's too late in the day, well then you should get your popcorn, because that is what you will need. I mean, this is a catharsis, I think, for many of you in this episode. You'll enjoy this very much. Also, crypto was present in Washington this week. Yeah, Coinbase's stand with crypto day was held at Capitol Hill the same day that Gensler was giving testimony in front of Congress. Convenient. What about the timing of that? David, what else we got? After that, we'll talk about pudgy penguins in Walmart landing a huge deal, a ton of distribution for pudgy penguins, also with each toy purchase having an on -chain identity on ZKSync. So we'll talk about that. And then after, also not only are penguins getting identity, but citizens of Buenos Aires perhaps also getting some on -chain presence as well. We'll talk about that. And then, of course, we're going to do the PSA of deepfakes and phishing attacks that are out there. We got a Vitalik deepfake that we want to show you. It's pretty hilarious, but not if you believe it. Notable VC Fred Wilson got phished for 40 NFTs this week. So if Fred Wilson can get phished, so can you. We will talk about this and more. What else we got, Ryan? You know, the usual Bitcoin ETF stuff. ETH might be getting futures. There's a ton to talk about every week. This is a bullish week, I think. I'm declaring it such, David. It is a bullish week. And we got some green candles when we get to the markets. But before we get in, David, we got a message from our friends and sponsors over at Layer Zero. What do they want the folks at home to know? They want you to know that after a year, over a year of combined effort, Layer Zero and Google Cloud have announced their partnership, and they are ready to build the interoperable cross -chain apps of the future. What is Layer Zero? Of course, Layer Zero is a set of smart contracts that are deployed on every single chain. These smart contracts connect to each other. How do they connect to each other? Well, they need some Oracle service in the center to be the chatterboxes, the passing messages between all of the Layer Zero smart contracts across all of the 50 different chains. Google Cloud is that new default Oracle. That is the partnership that they have created. So there is a link in the show notes for you to go explore more if you're a builder who wants to build on Layer Zero. LayerZero .network is also the URL. Well, you know what I want to learn more about this week, David, is markets. Tell me about the old markets. I think, I think, I haven't looked at this yet, but I think we got some green on the week. We got some green, dude. Let's look at the Bitcoin charts first. What's Bitcoin showing us? Some single digit green. Look at that green right on the right. That's your dose of dopamine for this week. It's like, whoo, Bitcoin up 2%, whopping 2%. Started the week at 26 ,600, ending the week at, well, Thursday morning, if you call it the end of the week. It's not the end of the week. 27 ,150, up 2%. Ether price up a little bit more, starting the week at 1660, up 4 .5 % to the current price, excuse me, starting the week at 1560, ending the week at right around 1660, where we are right now. 1660. I mean, it's still low. That is a low price. We are getting excited about very little right now. Yeah. It's up such a small degree, you shouldn't even be excited about this. And yet we are. Yeah, we are. 4 .5 % on the week, I'll tell you. It's better than flat. When's the last time we had a double digit week, man? Double digit up or down? Up. I can't remember either, actually. We've been in the flatlands for so long. It's just like kind of a little bit of a bleed out all the way from 1900. Weren't we over 2000 a few weeks ago? Yeah, we have touched over 2000 in this bear market, but man, it certainly doesn't feel like it. Last time we were at 2K was July. In July, briefly. We weren't at 2K. Yeah, I can't remember July. Well, I was in the mountains. It's been downhill ever since I caught back for the mountains. Yeah, it really was. It's been all downhill since you guys. The only thing you can do, David, is go to the mountains. Bad things happen to Gary Gensler when you go to the mountains. Although, I guess nothing bad happened to him this week. Anyway, I'm skipping too far ahead. We'll have our Gary later in the episode. ETH, Bitcoin, up 2%. Total crypto market cap, $1 .11 trillion. Layer 2 scaling factor, touched 6 % this week, down to 5 .5%. Still at all -time highs. Layer 0. Wait, what touched 6 %? Excuse me, not 6%. Total value loss? 6x. 6x is what I meant. Oh, activity. That's what you like to look at. Yes, layer 2 activity touched 6x of Ethereum, but now it's at 5 .69. Nice. 60 transactions per second, 64 transactions per second. Yeah, that's where we get the 6x. We got more transactions per second left in this tank, I think. Oh, yeah. David, you want to talk about the general markets, like all the TradFi markets? You want to talk about macro really quick, because it's been super confusing to me. It's been super confusing. And then I read this tweet. We're also doing a macro show on Tuesday as well. So a macro show, so talking about the state of macro from a crypto person, so it's a crypto person who understands macro, so I'm really excited for that show. Are you a crypto person that understands macro, David? Do you understand macro? When I have a smarter macro person with me, then yes, I understand macro. My question to you is, does anybody really understand macro, particularly right now? Oh, you mean current snapshot? Definitely not. Yeah, all right. So here's the tweet. Current situation. One, stocks are falling like a recession is coming. Two, oil prices are rising like there's no recession in sight. That's contradictory. Three, interest rates are rising like we have 10 % inflation. Yes, they are. Four, gold is falling like inflation is gone. Five, housing prices are rising like rates are falling. And six, commercial real estate is falling like it's 2008. Nothing adds up here. That's the way I feel about macro right now. It's very confusing. There is a confusing set of signals going on, and it's not adding up in my head. What do you think about this? Yeah, they follow through, and they say it's beginning to feel like a pivot point in sentiment. I don't know if I'm about to say what I think they are meaning by this, but when there's a bunch of confusion, people, I think, brace for something, brace for clarity, and then whatever that clarity is will define sentiment. Where are we going? We don't know. As soon as we find out, we'll know how we feel about it. But we know it's going to be different from here. Different good or different bad? Those are the only two directions. Yeah, I guess that's the reductive take about it. But it's basically like we don't really know. That's why I'm very interested in doing this macro episode next week to see what the newest macro person kind of knows. I will say one thing, though. I think volatility is back on the menu. I think that's what this means. Because when the market doesn't know what direction it's going to go in, then it can kind of lurch in one direction or the other. So weird macro climate right now. On the back of stimulus, on the back of money printing, like what's going on here? And just to be clear about something, we've previously talked about stocks being at all time highs. That's been kind of the theme of the last two months, I would say. Well, so from looking at the SPY, you don't have the chart up, but it has declined by 7 % since July. So the SPY is down 7%, which is more. That goes to the first bullet point. Stocks are falling like a recession is coming up. I don't know. It's down 7%, just doesn't feel like a lot to me. Well, in the trade market, 7 % is a lot historically, but not recently. 7 % in the trade market is actually, that's just like, trade markets are also volatile. OK, well, we'll try to make sense of this, but let's get back to crypto. This is a negative report from JP Morgan, who said, Ethereum's activity post -Shanghai that was the last hard fork back in March, has been disappointing. JP Morgan calling Ethereum's progress disappointing. They've got some reasons for this. While the shift from proof of work to proof of stake meant that the energy consumption from Ethereum collapsed by 99%, the Ethereum supply is shrinking and staking rose sharply by 50 % since the Shanghai upgrade. While that happened, the increase in network activity has been rather disappointing. Ethereum's daily transactions, daily active addresses, and total value locked on DeFi protocols on the network have all experienced declines since the last hard fork. So JP Morgan, their analysts expressing some bearishness here over the last six months or so. Yes. I'm not mad, just disappointed with that activity. My response to that is, who the hell are you? JP Morgan doesn't know how to analyze these things. Well, I don't know. Ethereum post -Shanghai activity, it's just the broader crypto downturn. And also, they're just wrong, JP Morgan, he is wrong. They say layer twos have displayed mixed results. Well, no, TVL and economic activity on layer twos across the board are all up. I don't know where the hell they're getting their data from, but not only is their data wrong, but their analysis is poor. Well, let's go to the actual numbers, Stephen. Layer two beat provides a good source for value locked on layer twos. What are we looking at? At the 180 -day time frame, it's basically flat. It's marginally up, it's basically flat. It's a flat TVL, $10 .5 billion. Activity is up, it's up so much. It's unequivocally up by a lot. I'm disappointed in JP Morgan. Wow. Have you ever been not disappointed with JP Morgan, David? I'm generally disappointed by banking in general. Really? You should start a podcast called Bankless, David, about escaping your bank over time, slowly. I think Vance Spencer put that tweet in perspective as well. Actually, I don't think he was responding to that tweet in particular. But we are. We got some perspective here from Vance Spencer. This is Ethereum, if you chart it against some of the fastest growing tech companies in human history, companies like Alphabet was Google, of course, and Meta or Zoom or Microsoft, and how quickly, over time, it took them to surpass $10 billion in revenue. How long did it take them? It took Ethereum seven years. When charted against these other tech companies, there's only one that did that faster, and that is Google. Yeah. Ethereum really did all of its $10 billion of revenue inside of 2020 to 2023. I mean, so look at this line. It's just kind of like a slope line up. So I mean, doing pretty well, all things considered, JP Morgan. Not disappointing. I'm not disappointed by this. And I'm not disappointed. Also, long -term perspective, not disappointed in the price of ETH over the last seven years either. And we can keep going. Uniswap this week hit 300 million in swaps. 300 unique million trades, swaps, has happened on Uniswap. Uniswap was invented in 2019. 300 million swaps since 2019. Is that disappointing? Is that disappointing? I'm not disappointed by that in the slightest. I feel great about that. Maintain my disappointment about JP Morgan. You know, I think it's part of a broader crypto sentiment, and I've seen a lot of takes just in general in news, but even in financial analyst news like JP Morgan research, that sort of thing. It comes back down to this, David. Mainstream thinks that crypto is dead, again, like always. This always happens. And this is what makes this a buying opportunity, as with previous cycles. And when crypto 10x's the next cycle, don't let anybody tell you you didn't earn it. Because if you're buying here, when everyone is saying crypto is dead, it's never coming back. That they're disappointed. That's how you earn. It's so easy. The signals are just being laid at our feet right now. They really are. I tweeted something like that out, and somebody responded with this life cycle. What are we looking at here? Yeah, just like the cycle of the bull bear market. So in the top of the bull market, some crypto friend of you will tell you, a bankless listener, you're so lucky. I wish that I bought two. And then the crypto market will go down and be like, you're an idiot. I told you crypto was a scam. Yeah, so especially when they say the words disappointing, it's such an emotional word. It's kind of just playing into the readership. I don't know if JP Morgan is about that game. I mean, we're in the stage of the cycle where everyone thinks you're an idiot. And they told you it was a scam. And you can't talk about crypto at your family events or parties because you're just the crypto moron who knows nothing. And ha, ha, ha, SPF, FTX, that's so stupid. Scams, frauds, NFTs are such a joke. Well, granted, some of those things are actually true. Sure, sure. But if you're still in crypto and you know why you're here. And you're no longer buying the scams because you can identify them. And then you'll swing back to like, I am a genius. I am amazing. I am lucky. Or third parties will say you're lucky when that happens and you'll feel like a genius. You've been chewing glass for three years, but you know, you got lucky, though. You got lucky. How about the Bitcoin ETF, David? Here's a tweet from James Seyfert. What's this about? He just says that the SEC has come out super early and delayed the ARK Invest and 21 shares Bitcoin ETF filing. There wasn't a decision due until November 11th. And typically up until recently, the SEC has always gone up right up until the buzzer. But they decided to delay their decision on this earlier than usual. You know why? Partially? It's some speculation. It's because the government's about to shut down. The U .S. government's about to shut down. That's on Monday, right? On Monday? Yeah. So apparently if by Sunday night, this Sunday night, Congress doesn't reach some sort of compromise resolution, whatever agreement to keep the government running, then it shuts down yet again. I mean, how many times have we been through this? And so this is the SEC just getting ahead of that so that the stuff doesn't expire while the government shut down. And I guess, I don't know what would happen if the government shut down and these deadlines were missed. But maybe they would de facto be approved. I think that could be how it works. Is this some sort of pseudo oracle about how the SEC thinks that if we do go for a shutdown, we'll get shut down all the way until at least November 11th? I have no idea. I have no idea what this could mean. I do know this is good news. So Congress, both Democrats and Republican lawmakers, sent a letter to Gary Gensler pleading that he approve a spot Bitcoin ETF.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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"A man with sensitivity And that's not me Nigga, why you gotta fuck up a good song with your negativity? Why you gotta fuckin' be happy all the fuckin' time? Maybe because I'm in a relationship And maybe that's why you single Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's that amazing time again Where it's time for that That's Why You Single podcast I'm your host, Nappy And my co-host today, DJ Timeout And we have a special guest today And my man, TJ TJ, what's your status, DJ? Yes, just so you know I've been DJ Timeout friend for a long time So yeah, anything I need to know I just need to know real quick What's your status? Is it single? Dating? What's going on here? Fuckin' miserable You already know what the answer means, then That nigga married, man Timeout, wait Timeout has a married friend? Yeah Oh wow, I didn't think that existed in his life I thought everybody in his life was single What the hell? What? I thought you had to be single to put up with Timeout So I don't know how you did it No, no, no, no, I was single Me and Timeout lived together a long time ago We were roommates Me and Timeout were roommates Yeah, we gotta specify with Timeout these days Because he liked to be on that old school mindset sometimes So thank you for specifying Timeout with my brother Timeout with my brother, he's always been my brother Yes sir, yes sir It's been like that Yeah, so again This is DJ Timeout He didn't even introduce me, did you? Yes I did, I introduced you second This nigga, this is crazy Alright, so Again, this is my boy I love to welcome him to the Artie Scribbler Studios My man TJ Um, knew him for years Married man Definitely has an opinion on everything So I know he's gonna be a very great guest Um, Nappy I have a question real quick So TJ, is Timeout always been this miserable? Like he always act like he needs some pussy in his life? Well, Timeout has always been angry Okay I'll say that Timeout has always been angry And your assessment Uh, Nappy is totally wrong Nappy is not a fucking doctor Or anything like that I think he just needs some pussy in his life He's not a therapist He's a dick sucker or something, I don't know Oh, just for the record I know Timeout's brother And Timeout's brother said he's always been mad the same way I know Timeout's brother personally So he came out of the womb asking for dick In pussy Timeout's been pissed off for a long time His brother I know his brother personally And his brother's like, yo, that nigga's always upset Got you He's never happy So this nigga's already in some pussy He just came out this way, that's crazy He's always been upset I don't know what the fuck these guys are talking about I know for a fact Happiest and funniest and comedic dudes You both know So Yeah, just watch the latest shows and all the views Go on the website DateYourselves.com And you can tell me what your opinion is Please leave a link in the comments below And let us know what your thoughts Alright, well That leads us into our first segment Our first segment We're going to talk about Cause I was reading something the other day And I was very happy to read About all these women Celebrity women that are now Having to pay child support And or alimony To their significant others Also, I want to give a shout out To my favorite soccer player He caught that hole He caught that hole Cash rules He caught that hole He caught his slippers I believe the soccer player forgot his name I think it's Steve Harvey No, Steve Harvey Well, no Steve Hardy is going to have to pay Yeah, he made too much But she got caught cheating Ain't she rich though? No, she's not on the grand scale She had money But she was dealing with drug dealers before Oh wow, okay, okay I thought she was somebody She's somebody to somebody So what I'm talking about There's this soccer player Who dated an older Supermodel or ex-supermodel Whoever the case may be, I forgot The whole situation But she basically tried to divorce him And asked for Half of his money basically Because he's like A multi-trillion-million dollar So Guess what His mama being smart And he being smart He put all his money in his mama's name So when it was time For them to go to the court And they asking for like Oh, I want this much and this much He like, I'm broke I don't got no money And she ended up having to pay Everything she had So half of everything she got Went to him and he's sitting pretty So That's what I'm talking about right there Nice move, nice Amen That's a nice move We're just gonna run off a couple of names Just a couple that's in that situation First off, we got Sherri Shepherd Give it up Let me show you Black female Celebrity, she's an actress She gotta pay her husband? Let's see We got Britney Spears Mary J.
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"I was laughing at just the jokes itself. Do I agree that what he was saying was right or fair? No. All right, for the listeners and then the watchers that don't know, they're blessed in certain ways. So, those things- Well, to me, you finna fight for real. Those things were, those things are situated during the funny ass Fridays, the comics keyed in. But my whole thing for the next podcast, is it because of what they were wearing, they got subjectified. Watchers are gonna be like, well, you shouldn't have wore something so loose, you know they gonna shake like Jell-O. First of all- I didn't say nothing. I didn't say nothing. I'm just saying, for the podcast, for the podcast. Once again, ladies, I will first- I'm down for everyone there. I will apologize for you guys. There is no right or no way that you guys should feel the way you feel. You guys are both wonderful and beautiful. And I want you guys to know that. So, please just take what you guys are given and just please realize you did a lot of fan service that night and just thank God- Oh, I already know that, baby. Yes, no, there's a lot of fan service in the whole world. Just for you guys being there, you made the world a better place. Let's just say that. This nigga is too happy. All right, we gon' end the podcast on that note. Yeah, for your sake. Happy ass shit. I like to thank- Now, shut up your ass. I like to thank you guys for coming on. They sound like they ready to go at your neck. They ain't gonna go at my neck. They shoulda went at it. They was loving it. They was laughing and all that. That funny ass Friday. They was center of the tension. I said, I said, say him. I said, I said, say him. They was all, you know what, you know what I'm saying? You could've wore something different. And just so to prove, Walter, I got- My name is DJ Time Out, lady. What you say? Whatever. DJ Time Out, I got more proof of that. More proof of what? The DJ needed Time Out right now. I got more proof than he was more than what he was showing that day. Who? Yeah, he was wildin'. He was wildin'. But, I mean- Oh no, he's an asshole. He's an asshole. He was so wildin'. Why you making people be here? Even after. Even the day after that. Even the day after that. Huh? Literally just yesterday. And he had to get put in his place. And real quick. Who yesterday? What are you talking about? Respectfully. Respectfully. Oh, did y'all get to do the number? They get to do the number? I don't know what's that. No, no, don't do that. Huh? Don't do that. He made us, he made us out of him on Facebook because he said he would promote. And then he's out of him on Facebook. He's got sliders and other things to be in. Yup. Okay, well- And then he got put in his place yesterday because you were a whole ass married man, okay? Nobody knew that. Yeah, because what is he doing? And then he takes back, I understand. So that means he was trying to get something in. Boy, get out of here. Well, that's going to be the subject of our next podcast, whether y'all calling or not. Well, whether the way you guys just brought the attention on. I'd like to thank you guys. Because they walked out of the house confident. Shut up, Nappy. Thank you for having us. This is That's Why You're Single podcast. I'm DJ Time Out. This crazy nigga from Sesame Street is Nappy. And I'd like to thank Gino, Justina, Tanya. Go to dateourselves.com, be an active member. Thank you everybody. We'll holler at you next Sunday. If you want to be live, 475-373-76. There you go. All right. Thank you guys. How is the selling of the website? Huh? What'd you say, Tanya? How is the selling of the website? Oh yeah, I'm not new to this. I'm true to this. You know, I'm new to this. I ain't new to this. What's your website? It's dateourselves.com. Dateourselves.com. Oh, I just said dateourselves.com. D-A-T-E, the letter R, cells.com. You'll get a flyer on Friday if you come down. We'll have them Friday. But thank you guys. Everybody holler.Gino. All right. All right, thank you. Have a good night. All right. I love you guys so much. Thank you guys so much. I appreciate you guys. Much love. Peace out to the planet. Yeah, that was a good one. All right.
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"It's a matter of pregame or not. Exactly, exactly. Three games do not exist when that happens. You got to know your body. What if you pregame and you get there and it's not what you expected and it's whack? You probably ain't even going to be able to stay hard. So you pregame for no reason. So you basically got one off yourself rather than get one off for her. Well, let me, because I don't know what the, this is one of his subjects. He loves to ask the women. I don't understand why. And me personally, I don't have that issue. So I don't worry about that. Men aren't the only ones that do that. Women do that as well. We pregame before a man comes. Yeah, but not every man needs to pregame. We just, he talking about. Yeah. I'm just saying it's cheaper than Viagra, but why is that? I've never had an issue with that. Why is that? I've never had an issue, but I, I know people that do it. I, like I said, I was in a relationship for 14 years. I've come across a whole bunch of people, a whole bunch of single people. And that's all they talk about is like, yo, I'm not going to meet this girl and I'm not going to go do this. I'm like, why the hell are you doing that? Because the last thing we want to do, because I can explain why. I can explain why. Because women talk. I've done hurt. I've done hurt at all. Women talk. The last thing I want to do, right? In a situation like that, where if I'm about to go out. What's supposed to happen to you? No, not to me. Not to me. This is one of your biggest fears. Yes. Biggest fears. And my biggest fear is that I go out, I talk a good game, and then you pop the cap too early. Now she going back to her homegirls because I'm always that quote unquote gay best friend around females where I hear. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. What? I'm not gay, but they consider it the gay best friend. You know, just the guy that people come up telling him to. Move over a little bit, man. Oh my God. It's not even like that. I know. No, no. He's not wrong. He's not wrong because honestly, when I first met you, I did think that you were gay. Oh Lord. I was like, maybe we should be friends. I didn't think he was gay. I thought he was a weirdo. I thought he was a weirdo. I ain't going to lie. I thought he was gay and weird. I thought he would be a fun gay friend, but then I found out he had a whole relationship and all of that. And I, I, I, I felt that, but I'm always put in that, like that zone. So I hear all of their, like females, horror stories and everything. And this is like years of hearing this and I'm just like, you got a complex, I'm scared. But don't act like you wasn't listening to all those stories and taking notes.
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"Good, man? What's poppin', man? Not much, what happened yesterday, man? Why are we doing the podcast? Like, you know we got fans, we got people who love what we're doing, what's going on, man? What's going on? I ain't tryna hear all that shit, man, I'm fuckin', fuckin' pissed off, man, that fuckin' dumbass, high -ass girl gonna hit me yesterday, hit and run, so that shit pissed me off, and then it was just mad shit, mad, stupid shit, and I couldn't get in touch with a couple of people, you know, so, you know, I ain't paid Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that sound like a whole lot of excuses, you talking about someone who was high who hit you? Yeah, this motherfucker I'm just saying, that sound, come on, what are you, an 80's baby? Don't y 'all remember the day when y 'all was smoking on the lube and you had a doobie? I don't know what the fuck you just said, but the bitch was high, and I'm tired of this shit, motherfuckers always hitting me and running and shit, I had to fuckin' chase her down fuckin' one way, and the police was right there, they saw the shit, or I don't know what the fuck they was doing, playing the video games or whatever So, this bitch backs into me at the red light, so I'm just looking like, okay, you know there's a cop on the corner, sitting in his car, boom, what do you wanna do? So, I wait two seconds and then this bitch just pull off I gotta chase her, I'm honking on the horn, trying to get the cop's attention, he don't pay me no mind, so I'm chasing this bitch fuckin' through highways and byways, I ended up on exit 8 I called the police, you know what I'm saying, and then they said to stop chasing the bitch, I was going, I ain't gonna fuck with you, I was gonna chase her ass to Massachusetts You said they hit your ride, you said they hit your ride, you wanna go and say, hey, god dang Nah man, I'm tired of this shit, this is like third or fourth time these motherfuckers, then they take off, you know what I'm saying, the last motherfucker got away, you know what I'm saying, this bitch wasn't good, I know she had to be high, I know she had to be high, I'm tired of these motherfuckers riding around, dirty, high as fuck, you know what I'm saying, then I find Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, so you're tired of people being high, but yet, but yet, but yet, I remember those days where, you know, we used to do what you used to do Yeah, that's years ago, that's years ago, so what, I ain't high now, fuck that, I'm just tired of these motherfuckers hitting my shit, tired of motherfuckers, then they don't have no registration, you know what I'm saying, then I gotta go through my shit, you know what I'm saying, so we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see At that point, you should have just hit me up and said, Napoleon, make it happen, and I would have made it happen for you
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"Get your take. Yeah. From a grown man's perspective. Okay. And I got to put a little context to it because we are talking at this point right now is a boy raised by a single mother, right? Right.
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"Thing first is the event that's on the news lately. The Chicago mother and son duo that shot the guy at the pizza store. Are you guys familiar with this story? At 10 o 'clock at night, I am very familiar with this. Okay. And let me ask you this, Mike. Do you think it's, do you believe it's premeditated murder? The mother, yes. The son that did the shooting, not too sure. I think he was influenced big time. If you really want to look at that. There's two ways to look at this. Well, well, let me, let me say this. A lot of people say the son is a hero and that, you know, that, that, that, that the guy got it, got what he deserved. Um, I don't know, Kev, what do you think? Do you think it was premeditated also? I'm on the same page with Mike. I feel like the mother, she, um, you know, from my understanding, she told the son, you know, I guess the grabbed the Blickie or whatever. I don't know. But, um, Oh man, we gonna have a punchy woman. From my understanding, they follow him out of the restaurant and we haven't confirmed it was a pizza place. It looked like it was a chicken spot, to be honest with you. The food does matter. Guess what? It doesn't matter. You keep saying a pizza plot. It looked like it's a chicken spot. Doesn't matter. Gino. Pizza, chicken, Chinese. Doesn't matter. Restaurant. I don't know. You know what? Honestly, no. That's Gino question right there. You talking about me. You know what I'm saying? I had a cheeseburger. You must got food on your mind. You just go get a snack. I'm sipping. Oh yeah. Okay. That explains it
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"Some suckers for love out there that, that let that woman use them and they'd just be sitting. Done right when there's a man doing it, right? Is that what you're saying? Because the man is not going to sit there and give a woman a chance after chance, like women do, but women get faulted. Cause you said, no, that's a little bit, you said that bullshit is double standard, but I didn't, I seen it. That's not double standards at all. Y 'all got support groups and things to help y 'all with the shit that niggas do. Niggas ain't got that. So it's one and done. Oh my God. Yeah. Y 'all have a buttress. Y 'all love calling your friends. Like, guess what this nigga just did? Even if a guy isn't going to start a brand new relationship out the gate, we ain't going to do that. A guy is not starting a brand new relationship out the gate. We might smash it. Wait, I gotta, I gotta clarify something on that point. Cause unless he looking for somewhere to stay, he will. I don't do that. Keep a girl just to have some way to lay their head. Especially if it's 10 below outside. He going to put up with anything. And he's going to line up his next crib where he's staying at. What you feel about that? She got another nigga in the crib. He like, just throw me a pillow. What you feel about that? Cause a nigga keep a girl to have some way to stay. But outside of that, you are right nappy. We're not going to just jump from one relationship to the next. We'll, we'll be single for a little while. But what I find is that nowadays, nowadays, these women, these women go from one man to the next. They don't even heal. They're broken. And then they just jump into the next relationship. Now, I mean, what he's comparing it while y 'all not in a relationship, y 'all playing and y 'all using that hurt as an excuse not to be in a relationship while you strangle all the women along. Fuck out of here. Well, I'll admit I'm an Aries at heart and I broke a few hearts in my day. I will. Yeah. So I didn't do it intentional. That's all the way out. I thought she was looking for love and probably. I could, I could, I could, I could agree with that, but it still doesn't justify that Jezebel spirit. No, let me, I'm just joking. I'm talking about how women will go from one relationship to the next and be all, got to move the dude in right away and everything. Like, come on. All right. Let me show you. Let me explain to you guys this. I have an example, right? Perfect example. All right. I got a perfect example. Can I use this example, please? All right. All right. Both my parents are separated, right? My dad, my dad took longer to find love, but he's getting married sooner. Compared to my mom, who's done a bit of exploring. When I say a bit, a bit of exploring and she is still looking for, but 15 years, 15, 20 years of, you know, marriage gone down the drain over whatever. I don't know. Could be finances could just be, love interest is no longer there. Whatever the case may be. Not my business, but this is where I'm coming from with this, where I say women will build. I don't know. I feel like it's the desperation that women have to be desired. I might get in trouble for it, but I just feel like that's what it comes down to. Wait, wait, wait. Get one of your girls on the line. So you won't feel outnumbered. And that's not the case with all women. I won't say that for every woman. I will clarify that it's not the case for all women, but for someone, I'm sorry. You feel that way. That was nappy. That said that it's not that I don't understand it. You guys probably understand it from a point on me. I'm not going to lie to you, what I'm thinking. And I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not going to cheat you, but you're looking at it. Okay. So like your dad and your mom, your mom did a little, you know, Surgeon. What do you say? A lot. Moon, you got to talk closer to the phone. I was like, you're not like when she was searching, she was like, oh, I'm just yeah. What is it? Oh, you got cut off. Oh, okay. Hold on. The other way around. It's like, so one of her one man and it's okay. You know what I'm saying? Women got to be in competition with each other. So yeah. So yeah, they are. It is a sport, but a woman that she's searching because she wants a decent man. But where are they at? Why are you taking so long? All right. I got ready for this? Ready for this? Ready for this? Where they at? It was the guy who sat there that you said ill to probably one or two times. You said hi. That's where they at. Women are the first people to be like, I want a good man. I want this down to third. But I'm pretty sure you came across probably three, four, five, six of them. And they ain't the ones before some odd reason. They might not be your preference, or they might not be your shape. They might not be your size. They might not talk the way you like them to talk. But for some reason, why have preferences, right? We just gotta go and smile at the the first big trip of lard that fucking like us, right? That's not it. I'm not saying that. We are with these badass kids, right? Okay, that's not all I'm saying. I'm not saying you can't have preferences. I'm just saying yep,
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"Was looking for love and
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"Go on. So from what I'm understanding from history and biological human genetics and all that good stuff, it will get you a scientist. It will get you, it will probably get you one or two dates. If you're looking for a ring in that relationship, depending on how the one or two if you go on some, Hey, I just want to smash. And then you go from, Hey, I just want to smash casually to then, Hey, I just want to smash. And now I want to be your partner for the rest of my life. This, that, and the third, nine times out of 10, it's not going to end well, right? Reason why? Because you changed, you flipped the relationship. I don't know. I did in college. I did, uh, somebody, I dealt with an aggressive woman. She wanted me, but, um, I wasn't shocked, but anyway, so I dealt with her, but she wasn't really my type, but we had started a sexual relationship. And outside of that, she would bring me like a hot pockets at two o 'clock in the morning. And if I needed a juice box, like that was love in college, you know what I'm saying? So I ended up still starting to have feelings for the only hot pockets, even though she wasn't my type. Ain't the only hot pocket she gave you. And I ain't talking about that. No, it was, everything was good. I mean, she was aggressive. She wanted me. I gave it to her and we continued. And I thought we were just sex buddies or whatever, but then my boy broke it to me because I started feeling bad. He was like, look, man, does her friends know about you? I said, yeah. He said, I mean, are you dealing with anybody else? I said, no, you in a relationship, literally back. And that's all she wanted. So I just feel like as long as women don't come with the mindset of entrapment, that's, it's not off the table. That's a good point. That's it. That's a good point. That's a word right there. Okay. Like for example, I had a situation in my past where I messed around with a girl and we both knew what it was. It was just what it was. Nappy. Let me remind you. You're engaged. So don't incriminate yourself. She already knows about my dirty past. Oh, you did all that pillow talking? I mean, she knows about my dirty past. She knows that I'm not a Saint. Oh, okay. Cause they had to catch me right here. They ain't telling shit. I mean, but yeah, no, like it was supposed to be just straight up friends with benefits. Right. We, mind you, we hung out. We hung like we were straight up just friends. But then I guess her situation had changed and now she's trying to hop to me. And at the time I just wasn't ready for all that that she was trying to bring. So now to me, it felt like she was just keeping me around as just a backup plan. Oh, hold that for a second. Cause now you just brought me to a song and I went through this whole situation. Genuine. But it goes something like this. I am your man, but only when you're lonely. You feel me? So it's women. I had a relationship like that or a situationship. I should say that the girl was hot or cold. Anytime her baby daddy was acting up, she was hot with me. She really, I knew where our heart was at. That's why I knew the relationship was going, wasn't really going nowhere, but there was some, there was a connection between me and her. And I felt like I started feeling like genuine. If y 'all don't know that song, y 'all ain't made no noise when I said that. Y 'all know that song from his first album, genuine? No, we don't know. Only when you're lonely. It's a classic. Okay. That's a banger. That's a banger. Moons. Did we lose moon? Moon, are you there? Did we lose moon? So that situation, those situations like that are real because women are the best at that. Like they know how to keep you around only when they're lonely. You know what I'm saying? When they got when they got a whole baby daddy's situationship that they ain't get rid of. Yeah. And that's the crazy part about the whole, about this. I know how women say men are dogs, but they are the best dogs in the world. Why? Wait. Women say men are dogs, but women are the best dogs. Women are the best dogs. Are you calling them bitches? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saying how This nigga throw subliminal shots. No, no, no. It ain't like that. It ain't like that. What I'm saying is women say men are dogs, how we will hump anything and how we will, you know, go on to the next thing faster than anything else. Whoever shows us attention is the next, you know, the next person we show our, our gratitude to. Right. And that mindset, but women are better at it because women will show loyalty. They will show trust and they'll show whatever, but the minute they get a new owner or not even an owner, but a new man. Oh shit. Yo, you better stop before you don't get married nigga. I'm just, it's just, it's just how it is. But the minute you guys know where I'm going with it, though, the minute I'm getting where I'm going with this though. Right. Right. The minute that they see something or someone else grabs their attention, all the loyalty, all the love, all the trust now goes to that person. Oh, for sure. For sure. Now, now, now that they, before they were, you know, they were one guy's best friend. Now they're the new guy's best friend. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But soon, soon I wasn't acting right. You flipped and flipped it on me. Now you found somebody else. Oh, I thought I could fix him. Say that shit for your mama. Cause guess what? exactly. Oh, I ain't putting the cap on to save you. Okay. I ain't putting the cap on to save you. All right. Respectfully. We give y 'all everything until we have nothing left. And that's when we move on. Ain't no way in hell you gonna sit here and tell me a woman, because you're not acting right. You don't get like 10 chances before we move on. Well, you got to play your cards right. You got to play your cards right. Well, listen, I got a response, but I'm letting my man go first. Go ahead. No, go ahead.
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"And it kind of it's just thirty minutes. It kind of follows. These three women young women chefs well. Well shaft one butcher. You're in one is the candlestick maker. She wanted this is a farmer. But you're a baker candlestick maker and whole thing. Yeah no but it was nice. It was a nice documentary. It was well done and then they were. They ask candice to be one of the members of the panel so that people could ask questions. Audience can ask questions they ask you questions. There were three of you guys up there and you killed it. Well well my point of bringing up a real it was. It was unusual. It was For the in the middle of the immense right the senior pga. We're doing this. We're doing this focus on women and we're going to be doing a demo on saturday. Had the kitchen kitchen the kitchen and they've done a really amazing job setting up that ten and like you know this lead up. I mean it's been like a year and a half that we've been talking to though since two thousand nine hundred dollars early twenty asking and they're like you know and it's an attention. They make it sound so rugged and it's not rugged all got air conditioning in like in super well done very nicely. Done so yeah. We're kind of glad to be a part of that. It's kind of cool to see even though we don't like golf. I mean i don't know about you guys out there but every time especially since the fucking senior pga. All i think about as happy like i just i just think of that kinda shit. It's not going to be that entertaining as a young teenager. I love that fucking moves. Eight shack caddyshack is your is your. That's my version of yes and it just cracks looking for for bill. Murray out there out. Rodney dangerfield i did is he. That doesn't surprise me. But bill murray. He's not he's not they're not dead he's not dead but he is older than me. But it's kind of cool. They've got everything set up and It's definitely very legit super legit well and the other part of it is is this is the senior. Pga this year and then in may i think in may of twenty twenty two. They've got roller. Pg the real the real young the younger golfers tgi to call that the sent to kansas. When we were there i was like i don't really know much asset. I'd have a really stupid question. I was like a much about golf. I go when it's called the senior. Pg a is this like the old guys are these like are they physically old men. She's like yes. I was like okay. I don't know what else that they were professional. Golfers been professor at officers. Their whole life is just that they're veterans. they're retired. well. I don't know how many well i guess a retired in the sense of. They're not playing the usual circuit for the younger golfers. But i think there's a whole circuit for senior golf. Yeah i mean you know movies do not done and i mean i like say that all the time. That's me too. I mean if you play golf your whole life. What the fuck you gonna do when you're fifty when we're well. Yes because what was it that my my brother-in-law you always say a day without golf is like a day without sunshine. That's incorrect. Yes.
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"And more gadgets. This is not a single fork working for for king for king. Harking work is not a gadget forecasting italian. And i'm candace and you know what i realized that we did. We did talk about the difference between tools and gadgets at the end of last year. We did yeah okay. I just wanted to make sure that we didn't forget yet. Because i asked i was like is a knife tool or gadget. Because they didn't want to just talking about knives because they have the best but yeah yeah and the thing is is people. You use gadgets to avoid using knives our tool. But i feel like they use all gadgets to avoid using something else unless like i said unless it's something that does a multi function like item. The funny thing that in the and the reason why we kinda got into this conversation was that natalia was grilling something and using tongs. Yes at the kitchen. Yeah at the kitchen and we noticed the night before what a hard time. This is in general but it came to light that night. What a hard time. People have with tongs. There are three things that i think that every like every kitchen. Every person that cooks a spatula heightened spatula tongs. I forgot the third one nine a knife. Thank you help me coughing. Those are three things that are very important very vinyl. But i don't think most people. I think the men and women grill are a little more used to tongs but even those tongs don't mike bounce back no but also people who grill use those grill forks all the time and spear their food. No damage do which is so. It's so bad so bad so bad. We'll talk about that another day but yes it's bad anyway. Tongs are great yeah. People have a problem with tongues. Fly out of their fucking hand. Yeah the hold him and then they go king and they're not mike. This isn't my high treasury. They're knocking spring loaded now and they'll fly off their out of their hands onto the floor and i'm like yeah and these are people with you know. These are not baby people. They didn't and they don't have any kind of physical challenges. These are these are just people that are everyday people. yeah obviously. Don't use tongs to cook with all the time. An expensive one no tongs. They're great extension of your. They are but if you don't know how to use it and you say please bring out of your hand i learned. How the fucking place. Great to pick things up and move them around their great to flip things over in a pan. And i don't understand what are people use. They use they use a knife. Oh god they do that in class. Okay okay we're getting waste rave segment of our program. So i started last time so you start this time. Okay so so. This item that. I'm going to discuss the day. Did not bring with me. Because i do not have one and i hadn't gone to a friend's house who had random shit on their countertop. I'm indifferent about this. And you're going to argue with me when i tell you about it but then i haven't an argument for you okay. I'm ready the garlic press When we get people in in candace has to discuss with them. What real garlic is. And then we chop it up into little pieces. And they're like a god. I never do that. So i always use my garlic press..
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"Because we want people to cook more at home and feel more comfortable doing and enjoy it. Yes not make it. No we try to take the stress out of cooking for people so that is how not a single forecast possible so you go to school dot com and you see a calendar of our classes that are coming up and you sign up right there exactly and you can find us on facebook. Chef canas connolly. The girl can cook if you are in our vicinity were found in the rose district which is a historic district in downtown broken arrow oklahoma. And we're there to entertain and teach you all kinds of fun cooking skills. It's a fun night out. It's lucky.
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"I'm starting to think we spend too much time together. Why do you think that well. I know wife with another reason why we probably too much time again a couple of days. We've both said the same thing exactly the same way at the same time and it's like what what's happening here. Yeah well i mean that is so not a single for gas. And i'm candice connolly on italian danjaq and we're going to wrap up season six. We're just gonna take a look back and remind you what it is about and go from there. Okay let's do it so season. Six was all about how the pandemic affected you the ever changing world of the pandemic and i hope that when people were listening to the previous episodes that you thought about it for yourself as you for sure your world change. Everyone's did the even the people that we talked to that their work schedule didn't necessarily changed. It does change. There were a couple of that things were still different at home. Things are still different when it comes to your food world. Yeah i mean well because we're so. I think we're so restaurant centric or grab and go kind of thing. Yeah yeah yeah. And we're so dependent on other people feeding us that when we have to feed ourselves that becomes a whole new world. Which i sometimes i would really like someone to feed me just by hand. Well i don't know it sounded that way when you were talking about it. I think that'd be really fucking disgusting. I do not want someone i had people try to. I know we talked about. That is crazy making nobel just like me dinner and let me sit on my ass and do nothing well. There's i think that there's beauty to that there is. Yeah because we cook a lot a lot. Yeah so we had what. Let's say five interviews. We ginger ginger. She's so funny and witty and like her banter. I mean none of that. I don't think. I need to tell you guys this but like none of that was like rehearsed practiced written down. God no unscripted. We are but she was. I mean she is every every demand that people do. We do that she added. She's like very talented at it. Yeah well she has her own podcast to yes. Oh she just kind of goes with the flow. Yeah so yeah so so the thing about ginger. That i i loved about her was there. Were a couple of things. When was the while liver anyway but the experimentation yes dairy open to what salmon i mean. Salmon a bucket. Salmon the bucket. Jesus christ rice in the bag r-maine salmon and a bucket same thing. That was pretty funny..
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"The kitchen. Yes and doing our facebook lives because she's Yes mess that one day. One day soon coming soon yes i would say look force in the fall. Perhaps with our next like facebook. Live some questions for the ginger. I don't have any questions at all. And if he's okay here yeah then. We get drunk already started doing that. No no no. I was lured here based on alcohol. Ooh yeah we have wine well. Some people whose lives were affected by cova. Did they started doing things that they never had time to do. So there were. There was a lot of free time for a lot of people. Did that happen to you. Did you say like. Ooh all these people are. They have to stay at home. And so now i have extra time and so i'm going to take up this either maybe cooking or some other activity. We're we're looking for anything. That could possibly be interested. It's fascinating please get the fuck out of your someone back. That has something. I'm you know. I actually because of pre covid coming to hang out with you guys and helping you with your social media. I learned all these really cool cooking tactics and new ways of doing things. And how to actually legitimately do things right. That i had just been bullshitting. I'm lot pictures of for result all the time. She's like this. You guys helped me with this. I can't tell you how badly i fucked that up prior to knowing how to actually do it because i came to hang out with you guys. I've been making risotto And cooking before. But i feel like you have like stepped up your game and like you're more comfortable and like you experiment quite a bit like with new things like it doesn't scare you to try new things match cocktail motherfucking turkey turkey turkey. No awful turkey. I cut it spine out with a knife yet. Well in scissors probably the inappropriate pair of scissors. But i mean i wa turkey turkey and smoked it now and i mean took pictures the entire way because if it doesn't happen on facebook we all know it doesn't happen and black garlic okay. All tells about what garlic so besides watching crime shows to inevitably be able to kill someone properly. I also watch a lot of cooking shows and cooking facebook's like there's some link between that don't you think that cooking yet knives knives i what am. I don't know what you might get could be dog food. There's a higher than normal probability that there's at least a little in their dog hair o'hare dog here. It's just it's everywhere. it's my favorite accessory. Did you see this black garlic on cooking show or did you just like randomly. Find it at the store or like at three. Am when i wake up watching cat videos. This whole thing comes across my timeline about how to make black garlic. Oh oh yeah yeah. It's time consuming process. The first of all. I literally am the kind of person that would forget my child at daycare okay. It's not okay hold on just a sidebar story. One day i went over. Is this about huge house. Take care about your toast darkness. So she said she. So i go over in the morning and it just smells like shit. It's been on fire. And i'm like on and i look and there's like three pieces of toast and like four bagel like half's on top of her stove and they're all fucking crusty and burn. She's like i forgot. I put them in the oven and then they burnt and then i've forgotten. Did it again on the find this bitch a toaster for christmas. I bought her a toe circassian and now scares her because she forgets that she put the toasted and then it pops up. Oh really scares the shit out of me every single time. I toast something. Yeah and only walk by at the moment it goes off. Yeah he'll be in the living room and hear it and think there's an intruder but have burned toast. I had no more serious. You have saved me at least fifty bucks a month in brunei bare minimum. I can't tell you probably at least two pieces of burn a day every day. So this black garlic thing like how long you said this time. Concerning is it like months or days or like ours schick. Even watching videos time consuming. I don't even think i'm the biggest attention span is is. I forgot what we were talking about prior to toasting into he was like you can put it in your roaster bang would like the little roaster things that sit on the counter. What are those like a slow cooker this little editor things trustor of surrounding your things. It's an oven. What does that call for counter. It's like you can put it in there or you can put it in your pressure cooker and you have to there for like nine weeks or so like forever on like every single day. When i can't even remember to toasts that i put in five seconds ago that i would have to somehow remember to monitor this machine and make sure it doesn't turn off for nine weeks. That's an awesome. Yeah no for you. So i was really bummed. Because i really wanted to try this thing called black garlic and it's like a superfood and it's really cool looking. It looks like a little lack. Gummy garlic does so lo and behold i was at the big box stores and like it had an entire of this stuff. Its own because i because i saw it. You gave me something to play with nike kansas. One for her to play with the two but like is it. Its own kind of garlic. Click is a specific kind of garlic now with now. now it's just regular garlic. It just says like a call it.