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Latina to Latina
A highlight from How Rebecca Alvarez Story Built a Sexual Wellness Brand
"Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to the colorful world of Skittles. Skittles brings you a jolt of five fruity flavors in every bite, giving you the chance to taste the rainbow like never before. Break free from the ordinary day -to -day with the help of Skittles chewy candy. Skittles is a must in my candy jar, movie snack, even my secret to an afternoon pick -me -up. And I don't even care who knows it. Add a splash of joy to your day with Skittles. There's nothing better than fruity fun that tickles your taste buds. Taste the rainbow. I've been wanting to talk with Rebecca Albera's story for a while. She is an award -winning entrepreneur, sexologist, and intimate product developer. Three titles that do not often go together. But I'm glad we waited for this moment when, like many of my very favorite conversations, we find Rebecca and her company Bloomy, a wellness brand focused on clean, intimate care essentials, at an inflection point, asking the very familiar question, will what got us here get us to where we want to go next? Rebecca, finally, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm glad it worked. I'm so happy to have this conversation. Rebecca, among the things you say about intimacy is that so much of the root of intimacy is unlearning bad sex ed. What was the bad sex ed that you grew up with? My bad sex ed was actually no sex ed to start with. I definitely saw love, and my parents modeled that so well. But in terms of, like, in my community, in my school, did we have sex education? Not really, because it was abstinence -only education in high school. It's wild that someone goes from growing up in an environment that is abstinence -only to, I mean, by the time you are in college, you're very clear that you want to study sex and sexuality. I sit at the intersection of so many things, being Latina, a woman. I was a single mom at that time. I just felt like I could relate to so many people's intimacy journeys. And I wanted to create the spaces where we could talk about it. I didn't know exactly what it was going to look like. But yes, in college, I tell this story, you know, I was apprehensive about sexuality because my first year in college, I was actually assaulted. And I ended up transferring home. I ended up at Cal, a very liberal, very progressive school where I could take so many wonderful classes that were holistic, and I shared with people that it was very healing for me. I had great therapy. I had great all of that. But the education, it just transformed my life. When did it become clear to you that you are an entrepreneur? To be honest, I feel like I've always known this since I was little. I had that spirit of, oh, that should be a business. And why don't we have a solution? I would just see things differently than like the cousins I grew up with, I think. They would joke and say, why do you always have so many ideas? Why are you always so bossy? But it was just little. I was little and I was like taking initiative to create things. Talk me through the evolution of Blumey, because as I understand it, the original idea was a multi -brand marketplace. How did it morph from that concept to a place for education, advice on intimacy with a line of sexual wellness products? I had been in the industry for 10 years. I was working as a consultant for startups, helping them with their product development. And I was coaching both singles and couples, learning so much about intimacy challenges, intimacy goals, and really helping people in a lot of different ways, where at the end of so many of my sessions, my clients wanted solutions. They wanted the book, the product, the toy, the whatever it was. And so I would manually send this to them. I started creating a list, but it was a little bit like it was a lot of work on my end to always curate. And so what I did is I said, I'm just going to put these products that I recommend that are clean, because it's very important that these products be healthy, especially for these areas of the body, put them all on a page. And that was the beginning of Bloomie, where I had multiple brands. They were my favorite clean brands that I would recommend in the category. And then when I developed our first product with our team, it was called Bloomie Arousal Oil. We still sell it. It's a bestseller. That was just the beginning of a pivot for us. And that's why we fundraised and why we ended up really focusing on Bloomie's products, making solutions for products that I wish I had 10 years ago. The question I'm about to ask you seems particularly relevant given the timing of your and my conversation, but I want to take us back to April 2022. Your line is set to debut at Target and your funding falls short. How does that happen? Funding for women of color entrepreneurs is severely lower than what it should be. There is less than one percent of funding that is going to entrepreneurs of color and Latina founders. So I never use that as an excuse. But when I went out and I fundraised, I did everything by the book. I trained, I did accelerators, I did boot camps. I had a cis white male co -founder. I had everything you're supposed to, and I'm using quotes, to have. And we fell short. We wanted to raise two million. We raised one million. So what did I do? I ended up seeing that there is no standard for my industry. This is new. Intimacy companies were not being venture backed at that time. And I just realized I'm going to have to do things differently. So we crowd raised. We basically opened up part of our round to the community where they could invest one hundred or two hundred dollars minimum. We raised almost a million dollars that way, two different times. And then we also I took out personal loans. We had a few angels give us personal loans. I took out a line of credit. Like I did everything to make sure that we could have sufficient capital to meet the demands of going into retail. And even with that, I'll say when founders ask me, what does it take to go into retail? It's so big of a question. I want to sit down and go through things with people. But you have to estimate how much you're going to need to be on shelf, stay on shelf. That's even harder. Mark it and to not plan to be profitable right away.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
Fresh update on "target" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe
"Government shutdown. Being averted watching the moves in bond markets too. We are seeing yields tick up significantly reasonably for gilts. Looking at the two year gilt, five basis points higher 4 .94 while the two year Treasury yield is up by four basis points as well to 5 .08 % Valerie. Now onto our top stories this morning. The UK Chancellor is to use his speech at the Conservative Party Conference to announce plans to raise wages for the country's lowest paid workers. Jeremy Hunt will today say he's increasing the national living wage by around 6 % to at least $11 an hour. The increase comes amid growing discontent within the Conservatives over Britain's record tax burden. But the Prime Minister Ritchie Sunak told the BBC that changing that isn't his top priority. I'm a Conservative, of course I want to cut taxes. The best tax cut that I can deliver for the British people right now is to halve inflation. Inflation is a tax. It's a tax that impacts the poorest people the most. Consumer price inflation currently stands at 6 .7 % in the UK. Ritchie Sunak has pledged to get it below 5 % by the end of the year. But not everyone shares the Prime Minister's view on cutting taxes. The Secretary of State for levelling up Michael Gove says he wants to see reductions soon. Here's what he had to say when pushed on the issue. The discussion about where the tax burden should fall I think is one that we need to take, Could there be a reduction in the tax burden on individuals before the next election? Are we talking the next year? Are we talking three years or are we talking five years? Yes, I would like to see the tax burden reduced before the next election. Those comments from Michael Gove during that Sky News interview come as the Prime Minister's predecessor Liz Trost is also set to speak on the issue. Later today she's expected to call for cuts to corporation tax, something she previously targeted ill -fated many budgets. And the US has avoided a government shutdown. A stopgap spending bill passed by Congress over the weekend will keep the government open until the 17th of November. But it does not include more funding for Ukraine. Bloomberg's Derek Wallbank says politics have proved to be challenging for the Republican leadership. The simple math for Kevin McCarthy the House Speaker through this entire exercise that has he been has had the votes to be able to move forward on a bipartisan government funding bill at roughly existing levels, but that doing so could cost him a chance at keeping his job. Eventually after exhausting all other opportunities, McCarthy took that. Derek Wallbank says the deal also gives financial markets some breathing room. Some analysts though have warned that an extended closure of the federal agencies would spur fresh gyrations in the treasury curve and hit stocks that rely on government spending. Household water bills in England are set to rise by an average of 35 % by 2030. That's as water companies plan to ramp up investment to £96 billion in the five years to the end of the decade, for a series of projects including new reservoirs and fixing leaks. Industry body Water UK says the investment program double would current levels and would be the largest ever in the sector. Wall Street begins a new trading month with plenty of moving parts including a jobs report, several Fed speakers and a number of earnings reports. The story from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. Consumer spending will be in earnings focus this week when we hear from package goods maker ConAgra Brands and retailer Levi Strauss. Rob Smith is senior investment strategist at US Bank Asset Management. We're really going to look for earnings expectations to tick higher. We think if there is a next leg up in this market and our year end price target on the S &P 500 is 4600, but that's really going to require earnings to tick higher. We're also reporting this week's spirits company Constellation Brands and poultry producer Calmain. In New York, Charlie Pellet, Bloomberg Radio. Billionaire Bill Ackman Ackman is reportedly interested in pursuing a deal with Elon Musk's X Corporation as part of a new investment vehicle. Ackman's investment fund Pershing Square has regulatory approval for a new investment vehicle that targets private companies seeking to raise $1 .5 billion or more. He told the Wall Street Journal that X is absolutely one of the options that he's considering. And straight ahead on daybreak Europe, we back at the Tory party conference in Manchester, where Caroline Hefker will be joined by Chris Hayward, the city of London's policy chair. This is Bloomberg. Together, we have the opportunity to build a more sustainable and inclusive future. At the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, we help make this possibility a reality by cultivating new connections among global leaders that transcend geographies, industries and ideologies. Because when global leaders work together, the outcomes benefit all of us. Learn more at bloombergneweconomy .com
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1418: Bitcoin ETF Will Send BTC Price to $1,000,000 - Cathie Wood
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as Bitcoin recaptures 27 ,000. And quoting Max Keiser, BlackRock agrees with my $220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin. Send it. Also in today's show, former US President Donald Trump may change crypto stance dramatically, says ex -SEC official. I'll be breaking this down for you, as well as Gary Gensler explains why the SEC is taking litigation with a heavy strategy to regulate crypto, better known as Crypto Choke Point 2 .0. We'll also be discussing the XRP highlights and the major takeaways from the Ripple victory party. As of recent, as well as Rich Dad, Robert Kiyosaki expects the Bitcoin price to become priceless. Let's freaking go. When the Fed launches their central bank digital currency, which we all know is around the corner, we'll also be discussing, it was eight years ago this week, ARK Invest became the first US ETF to invest in Bitcoin when it was trading between $200 and $300. And Kathy says Bitcoin is still on a trajectory to hit her target between $1 million and $1 .5 million per coin. I'll be breaking down her timeline. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "target" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | Vote if You Want, but Remember Cypherpunks Write Code
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. Cypherpunks write code. We will be using Wondercraft AI Voice for this episode. Vivek Ramaswamy is the latest presidential hopeful with an appeal for the crypto class. Speaking at Mainnet, the New York City -based crypto conference put on by Massari, the breakout Republican candidate said he will soon announce a comprehensive crypto policy framework meant to address current gaps in regulation. And so he may. The mandate is reportedly about three quarters complete. And if the plans are as serious and thoughtful as promised, may Ramaswamy's policies serve as a guiding light for those already in or seeking power. There's a reason he's known as the right's answer to Senator Liz Warren. It has nothing to do with his Indian heritage. And a little wonkism might benefit blockchain's chances on the hill. On a practical level, thinking about crypto politically is almost certainly a waste of time. And more importantly, once you start basing decisions around what the government will allow in reference to crypto, the game is lost. I'm saying this at a time when the sitting US president has more or less declared war on crypto, and when the nation's top regulators are circling the pack routinely picking off choice targets one by one. I know there are legal threats to crypto's existence in the US and real implications of regulatory indecision. Developers shouldn't fear prison simply for publishing code. But engaging in the political process as a means of ensuring crypto's future is to miss the point of crypto so hard it's almost embarrassing to have to write this column. Crypto doesn't need political support. It just needs to be built in a way that rises above politics. This isn't even an ideological argument. It's the practical reality of blockchain as we know it. Projects that rely on staying in the good graces of regulators, executives, and judges should be assumed dead in the same way a vulnerability in code should be exploited. There's a reason why Bitcoin has stayed around, yet projects like LBRY have been wiped off the map. If a project has a vulnerability, it will be exploited. And all crypto projects are exposed to the vagaries of the law. The Biden administration has undoubtedly been tough on crypto, but there is no reason some future president won't be worse. Gary Gensler was expected to be pro -crypto, and look at how that turned out. If blockchains are truly meant to sustain themselves for centuries, why expose them at all to four -year election cycles? I'm not going to say that the work of elected politicians like Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand, who are advancing some of the most pro -crypto legislation to date, isn't appreciated, or that Representative Tom Emmer isn't a true believer in crypto. Lobbyists at the Blockchain Association have argued the short -term success of crypto will be determined by getting pro -crypto butts in seats. However, there is no telling whether pro -crypto politicians or regulations won't do even more damage than crypto's critics and antagonists, like the negative impact that mega -donor Sam Bankman -Fried's preferred set of rules would have had by protecting his likely fraudulent exchange, FTX. At least crypto's enemies help crypto cut its teeth.
Rollye James
Fresh update on "target" discussed on Rollye James
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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Featured Story | Vote if You Want, but Remember Cypherpunks Write Code
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. Cypherpunks write code. We will be using Wondercraft AI Voice for this episode. Vivek Ramaswamy is the latest presidential hopeful with an appeal for the crypto class. Speaking at Mainnet, the New York City -based crypto conference put on by Massari, the breakout Republican candidate said he will soon announce a comprehensive crypto policy framework meant to address current gaps in regulation. And so he may. The mandate is reportedly about three quarters complete. And if the plans are as serious and thoughtful as promised, may Ramaswamy's policies serve as a guiding light for those already in or seeking power. There's a reason he's known as the right's answer to Senator Liz Warren. It has nothing to do with his Indian heritage. And a little wonkism might benefit blockchain's chances on the hill. On a practical level, thinking about crypto politically is almost certainly a waste of time. And more importantly, once you start basing decisions around what the government will allow in reference to crypto, the game is lost. I'm saying this at a time when the sitting US president has more or less declared war on crypto, and when the nation's top regulators are circling the pack routinely picking off choice targets one by one. I know there are legal threats to crypto's existence in the US and real implications of regulatory indecision. Developers shouldn't fear prison simply for publishing code. But engaging in the political process as a means of ensuring crypto's future is to miss the point of crypto so hard it's almost embarrassing to have to write this column. Crypto doesn't need political support. It just needs to be built in a way that rises above politics. This isn't even an ideological argument. It's the practical reality of blockchain as we know it. Projects that rely on staying in the good graces of regulators, executives, and judges should be assumed dead in the same way a vulnerability in code should be exploited. There's a reason why Bitcoin has stayed around, yet projects like LBRY have been wiped off the map. If a project has a vulnerability, it will be exploited. And all crypto projects are exposed to the vagaries of the law. The Biden administration has undoubtedly been tough on crypto, but there is no reason some future president won't be worse. Gary Gensler was expected to be pro -crypto, and look at how that turned out. If blockchains are truly meant to sustain themselves for centuries, why expose them at all to four -year election cycles? I'm not going to say that the work of elected politicians like Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand, who are advancing some of the most pro -crypto legislation to date, isn't appreciated, or that Representative Tom Emmer isn't a true believer in crypto. Lobbyists at the Blockchain Association have argued the short -term success of crypto will be determined by getting pro -crypto butts in seats. However, there is no telling whether pro -crypto politicians or regulations won't do even more damage than crypto's critics and antagonists, like the negative impact that mega -donor Sam Bankman -Fried's preferred set of rules would have had by protecting his likely fraudulent exchange, FTX. At least crypto's enemies help crypto cut its teeth.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "target" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"In Arlington 60 in Gaithersburg 64 in Lanham at 1040 Money News at 10 and 40 past the hour brought to you by PenFed great rates for everyone here's Greg McBride the story of that strange nine -digit number on your checks I'm Greg McBride with a bankrate .com personal finance minute ever look closely at those checks in your checkbook your account numbers there on the but bottom what's that other long number all the way to the left well it's called the routing number also known as the bank's routing transit number or ABA for American Bankers Association number each bank and Credit Union has a unique routing number so that people and machines the process the checks know where the money's supposed to go and where it's to supposed come from there's no confusing institutions with similar names such as Bank of America and American Bank routing numbers date all the way back to 1910 the bankers Association came up with them to help make check seeing easier and safer the numbers became part of electronic check cashing when that came along in the 1960s the bankers bankers trade groups as routing numbers have helped make check clearing almost instantaneous for today's consumers I'm Greg McBride markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong closed for the Chinese national holiday but the real party is in Tokyo where the UK is ahead almost one and a half percent it's 1042 the Turkish Defense Ministry says its planes have carried out raids on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq this follows a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital of Ankara a defense ministry statement on Sunday said some 20 the targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK were destroyed in the aerial operation including caves, shelters and depots earlier a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device there an entrance to the interior ministry entering two police officers a second assailant was killed in a shootout with police Sunday according to the interior minister a news agency close to the PKK says the group has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing Buffalo Bills safety DeMar Hamlin played in the first regular season game of his his season this year it comes nine months after going into cardiac arrest during Monday night
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Su Zhu apprehended in Singapore" Sep 30, 2023
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WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "target" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Mark Levin
Enjoy Two New Episodes of 'Life, Liberty & Levin' This Weekend
"Have and we Senator Ron Johnson and we have Stephen A. he's Smith an old buddy of mine I think it's all very fascinating I hope you do too and if you're not sure you'll be home to watch it we have the old DVR for just pick the time the show and hit the record button and if it makes it easier just keep it on that record button right mr. producer you can record it from time in Memorial down the road record it once set and for the rest of time almost that simple and you have to wait for the night the of show as you know you can record you can set the record right now and I encourage you to do that then you of can course get the Democrat Party hates America at almost every book retail store warehouse store course .com amazon I encourage you to do that too if you're out shopping over the weekend you're buying your 25 pounds of grapes at Costco I love Costco can't help it love and so do most of you that's why you go there it's right there it's a Walmart to BJ's it's at Sam's it's at Target it's at all these stores I personally would not waste your time at Barnes and Noble that's just me but you do as you wish maybe they'll now put the books out I don't know if you want to punish yourself and go into Barnes and Noble it's not
Mark Levin
Levin Criticizes Small Faction Looking to Shut Down the Government
"What's been going on in the past months has has the speaker in the house leadership just been putzing around as gates and the other say no let me read you it to as the Washington Post puts it and keep in mind Washington Post hates everybody everybody on our side first they write folding the pressure from the right McCarthy broke the deal he reached months ago with Biden during the debt ceiling negotiations I would have kept government funding levels largely flexed use me Schumer broke that went through the ceiling went through what was what were the caps in any way they go on instead urging that legislation cut spending for fiscal year 2024 but when house GOP leaders move forward with appropriations bills they move forward with appropriations bills that meant lower spending targets the handful of folks here again objected derailing the defense bill the defense bill McCarthy
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Ether Futures ETFs Emerge as SEC Extends Bitcoin ETF Decision Window
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, September 29th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about inflation, crypto ETFs and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Bitcoin's price jumped again yesterday, accelerating the upward trend. Since the jump, it has been oscillating around $27 ,000. At 10 a .m. Eastern Time, it was at 26 ,895, up 1 .2 % over the past 24 hours. Ether has been doing even better as the first Ether futures ETF starts trading today. I'll have more on this in a moment. Earlier today, Ether was trading at $1 ,669, up twice as much as Bitcoin, at 2 .4%. The boost to crypto market is most likely partly due to accelerated launch of Ether -linked ETFs. These put a convenient wrapper around Ether exposure for retail and institutional investors. It also coincides with a drop in U .S. yields, which suggests that macro considerations are still very relevant. Let's dive into these for a moment. The U .S. 10 -year Treasury yield reached a multi -year peak yesterday of almost 4 .7%, its highest since 2007. We also saw the German bond benchmark yield reach its highest since 2011. The U .K. 10 -year gilts hit levels last seen a year ago during the country's bond crisis. And even Japan's 20 -year government bond yield rose to its highest level since 2014. In the latter half of the U .S. trading day yesterday, however, sentiment seemed to turn. Bond prices started to recover, bringing yields down. This coincided with yesterday's jump in the Bitcoin and Ether prices I mentioned above. Yields in Europe today continued the trend. And then early this morning, we got good news on the inflation front. The U .S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, known as the PCE, came in slightly better than expected. This is significant, as the PCE is the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge as it measures goods and services bought by all U .S. households and nonprofits. The CPI, in contrast, only measures purchases by urban households. The Core PCE Index, which strips out energy and food, grew by 3 .9 % year -on -year in August. This is still above the Fed's target 2%, but it is lower than July's 4 .3 % year -on -year growth. So far, this has been achieved without a strong spike in unemployment. The downward direction of core PCE growth suggests that the Fed might be able to avoid another rate hike this year. It's too soon to tell, obviously, and the tea leaves are going to get more complicated to read given the government shut down that, barring a last -minute save, starts tomorrow. Next Friday would have given us the latest official employment data, a key factor in the Fed's thinking and in investors trying to with a private sector proxy out on Wednesday. This is useful, but the two data points are not always correlated. Moving over to stock markets, on the back of this good news, U .S. stocks seem to be determined to claw back some of their September losses before the month ends. Yesterday, the S &P 500 was up almost 0 .6%, and so far today is continuing its upward trend another 0 .6%. The Nasdaq, which in theory is even more sensitive to interest rate expectations, is up double that. The more industrial Dow Jones is up only 0 .2%. This is starting to look like a risk -on rally. However, today is the last trading day of the quarter for traditional markets, so there could be some repositioning as well as options expiry manoeuvring going on. Europe also got some good news this morning on the inflation front. The Eurozone CPI came in better than expected, with a 4 .3 % year -on -year increase for September. This is its lowest level in two years and is notably down from August's 5 .2 % increase. Stripping out energy and food, the Core Index grew by 4 .5%, down from 5 .3 % in August. Good news there. This has been Boosting Equities. Earlier this morning, the German DAX was up over 1 .1%. A similar story is playing out in Japan, where the Tokyo Core CPI index increased by 2 .5 % year -on -year in September, lower than expected, and lower than August's 2 .8%. A sell -off in the country's bonds continued, however, and the government resorted to unscheduled bond buying overnight to support the market. The intervention was small and could just make traders even more nervous. The Nikkei stock index was down slightly on the day. In commodities, the oil price is retreating from yesterday's highs in response to the respite in bond yields. The Brent crude benchmark is down over 0 .6%, trading at $93 .5 per barrel. Gold was also weaker today as markets adopted a more risk -on mood. Earlier it was trading at $1 ,860 per ounce, down 0 .25%. Over the past month, gold is down just over 4%. Stay tuned, after the break we'll take a look at more moves on the ETF front.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Ether Futures ETFs Emerge as SEC Extends Bitcoin ETF Decision Window
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Friday, September 29th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about inflation, crypto ETFs and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Bitcoin's price jumped again yesterday, accelerating the upward trend. Since the jump, it has been oscillating around $27 ,000. At 10 a .m. Eastern Time, it was at 26 ,895, up 1 .2 % over the past 24 hours. Ether has been doing even better as the first Ether futures ETF starts trading today. I'll have more on this in a moment. Earlier today, Ether was trading at $1 ,669, up twice as much as Bitcoin, at 2 .4%. The boost to crypto market is most likely partly due to accelerated launch of Ether -linked ETFs. These put a convenient wrapper around Ether exposure for retail and institutional investors. It also coincides with a drop in U .S. yields, which suggests that macro considerations are still very relevant. Let's dive into these for a moment. The U .S. 10 -year Treasury yield reached a multi -year peak yesterday of almost 4 .7%, its highest since 2007. We also saw the German bond benchmark yield reach its highest since 2011. The U .K. 10 -year gilts hit levels last seen a year ago during the country's bond crisis. And even Japan's 20 -year government bond yield rose to its highest level since 2014. In the latter half of the U .S. trading day yesterday, however, sentiment seemed to turn. Bond prices started to recover, bringing yields down. This coincided with yesterday's jump in the Bitcoin and Ether prices I mentioned above. Yields in Europe today continued the trend. And then early this morning, we got good news on the inflation front. The U .S. Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, known as the PCE, came in slightly better than expected. This is significant, as the PCE is the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge as it measures goods and services bought by all U .S. households and nonprofits. The CPI, in contrast, only measures purchases by urban households. The Core PCE Index, which strips out energy and food, grew by 3 .9 % year -on -year in August. This is still above the Fed's target 2%, but it is lower than July's 4 .3 % year -on -year growth. So far, this has been achieved without a strong spike in unemployment. The downward direction of core PCE growth suggests that the Fed might be able to avoid another rate hike this year. It's too soon to tell, obviously, and the tea leaves are going to get more complicated to read given the government shut down that, barring a last -minute save, starts tomorrow. Next Friday would have given us the latest official employment data, a key factor in the Fed's thinking and in investors trying to with a private sector proxy out on Wednesday. This is useful, but the two data points are not always correlated. Moving over to stock markets, on the back of this good news, U .S. stocks seem to be determined to claw back some of their September losses before the month ends. Yesterday, the S &P 500 was up almost 0 .6%, and so far today is continuing its upward trend another 0 .6%. The Nasdaq, which in theory is even more sensitive to interest rate expectations, is up double that. The more industrial Dow Jones is up only 0 .2%. This is starting to look like a risk -on rally. However, today is the last trading day of the quarter for traditional markets, so there could be some repositioning as well as options expiry manoeuvring going on. Europe also got some good news this morning on the inflation front. The Eurozone CPI came in better than expected, with a 4 .3 % year -on -year increase for September. This is its lowest level in two years and is notably down from August's 5 .2 % increase. Stripping out energy and food, the Core Index grew by 4 .5%, down from 5 .3 % in August. Good news there. This has been Boosting Equities. Earlier this morning, the German DAX was up over 1 .1%. A similar story is playing out in Japan, where the Tokyo Core CPI index increased by 2 .5 % year -on -year in September, lower than expected, and lower than August's 2 .8%. A sell -off in the country's bonds continued, however, and the government resorted to unscheduled bond buying overnight to support the market. The intervention was small and could just make traders even more nervous. The Nikkei stock index was down slightly on the day. In commodities, the oil price is retreating from yesterday's highs in response to the respite in bond yields. The Brent crude benchmark is down over 0 .6%, trading at $93 .5 per barrel. Gold was also weaker today as markets adopted a more risk -on mood. Earlier it was trading at $1 ,860 per ounce, down 0 .25%. Over the past month, gold is down just over 4%. Stay tuned, after the break we'll take a look at more moves on the ETF front.
The Dan Bongino Show
RedState: Hunter Team Used Threat of Joe Biden to Pressure, Coerce DOJ
"This is really bad. Here, Red State, Banshee. Hunter Biden team used It's the the threat of Joe Biden to pressure and coerce the DOJ. It's happening. This is why Biden's mad, not mad. They're targeting his kid. He's mad. They could be targeting him. He throw his kid under the bus in a what they say in the 80s in a jiffy. Remember the Brady Bunch? They would throw this guy under the bus tomorrow if it would make the political case against Joe Biden go away. Bank on it. Cash that check. Spend that money here. According to Politico, Politico, by the way, which is like to the left of the Communist Manifesto. According to Politico, which examined previously unknown communications between Hunter Biden's legal team and the DOJ. There was an actual threat issued to call Joe Biden as a witness if Weiss, the U .S. attorney, dared to charge the gun crime in question. OK, what goes on? Then he issued a warning if the Justice Department charged the president's son, his lawyers would put the president on the witness stand. President Biden now would be a fact witness fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial. There you go, folks. It's right there. Tell me Joe Biden loves his kid. He loves himself. He loves money. The gravy train dried up. Now he thinks he could find himself in jail if Hunter Biden flips on him. He'd throw this kid if he could.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Buenos Aires launching blockchain-based digital identity service" Sep 29, 2023
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The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
A highlight from #465 Ethereum Futures ETF approved?! New All-Time High incoming??
"Welcome to the Crypto Show. Your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. Are we seeing an Ethereum future CTF coming out relatively soon? Hey and welcome to today's video. My name is Julian. On my channel it's all about making you crypto fit. I discuss the beautiful world of decentralization, blockchain, cryptocurrencies. And today we're going to discuss the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum. We're going to discuss a potential approval of an Ethereum futures ETF. Maybe even today on Friday, but maybe also only beginning of next week. Looks very promising. I'm going to give you some price targets. Some kind of things that I'm going to be looking for. And I'm going to give you a bit of what my course of action is going to be in all of that. So let's dive right in. First and foremost, because of the impending US shutdown, the SEC seems to speed run a lot of those applications. While the Bitcoin ETFs, and these are spot ETFs, all got delayed to January it looks like. And again, this doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be approved in January, but at least the decision is going to happen ready in 2024. The Ethereum futures ETF seemed to be taking a different turn. First and foremost, there is a mixed futures ETF of Bitcoin and Ethereum with a 10 % Ethereum allocation, 90 % Bitcoin. That's going to be switched to 50 -50 next week. And that seems to have been approved already. And we can see this in the market. Suddenly, the futures all started to really jump up and generate quite a spread to spot. So someone is buying those futures and it's, I mean, sure, this can happen by anyone. But it's very likely that we're seeing these futures buying because the market or these players are getting ready to be listed. So it looks very promising. We don't have pure Ethereum futures ETFs yet. We have it for Bitcoin, but not for Ethereum. It's very likely that we're going to see an approval today on Friday or maybe beginning of next week. And this would be monumental for Ethereum. A lot of people are saying, oh, this is going to just crash the price of Ethereum. A couple of thoughts on this. First, if you look back on Bitcoin in 2021, a big part of the massive rally was actually those futures ETFs. Sure, afterwards it totally crashed. But this also has had a lot to do more with M2, in my opinion, getting completely compressed interest rates going up than anything else. So I'm not bearish on the Ethereum futures ETF. One has to be very careful, though, in what does the price do. The best scenario here would be that we are seeing maybe a rally up to 2000 or something, right, like a 10%, 20 % rally. I think that would be fantastic. But I think if we're going to see now suddenly a 50 % or 100 % rally, that would really scare me as well. And I would get very cautious on this. So I think the ideal scenario on this would be a strong bullish trend, but not like a 100 % pump or something. So I hope you understand where I'm coming from when I say, you know, I'm bullish on Ethereum, but I'm also not hoping that we're going to see 100 % kind of massive pump and then afterwards a dump. In general, such a futures ETF is definitely bullish because Ethereum doesn't have any institutional rails so far. And this would really be some rails. Now, suddenly everyone can invest in those ETFs, any pension fund could. So sure, they would all love to have a spot ETF, but futures ETF is kind of the second best here. And so you're going to see massive, massive drive. And you can see this also, the Ethereum price is outperforming Bitcoin at the moment. And this is something that I'm actually expecting going forward all the way until we may see a Bitcoin spot ETF. Until that point, I would be surprised if Ethereum rather underperforms simply because there's more speaking for Ethereum at the moment. We have the futures ETF, we have the dank sharding that's planned for November -ish. So it looks all very promising. And I sent out an email already. If you're not getting those emails, head over to ceonews .bake .io and really have a read on all those kind of strategies and ideas. At the moment, if you are not dollar -cost averaging into Ethereum, I mean, you can also dollar -cost average into Bitcoin. I'm also dollar -cost averaging into DeFi chain. If you're not doing this at the moment, you're either not believing that these futures ETFs are going to come out or you're in general bearish. But, I don't know, I am doing this and I think at the moment it makes just a lot, a lot of sense. By the way, on Bake, we do have a really cool dollar -cost averaging promotion right now where you even have the chance to win a Tesla. So if you want to check this out, head over to bake .io and have a look. Let me know your thoughts. What do you think? Do you think the Ethereum futures ETFs are going to get approved in the next two to three days? Do you think it's going to be bullish for the price? What is your course of action here? And again, I'm dollar -cost averaging. I'll stay long. I may take profits if the rally is too crazy, but like a 10 -20 % rally is not something that I'm going to take profit on. But if this suddenly becomes a 100 % rally, and look, this is possible, right? 100 % rally, suddenly we're shooting up to, I don't know, $3 ,000, $4 ,000 on Ethereum. It's easily possible because suddenly you have this institutional money coming in, then I would take profits, but not if it's like a 10 -20%. That's it. If you love these videos, let me know in the comments, share the video with other people, and I hope to see you soon with some more nice insights into the markets. Stay safe, stay healthy, subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you next time. Thank you so much. It was truly trillion. Bye -bye. Unfortunately, we are already at the end of today's episode. If you find The Crypto Show helpful and would like to continue being a part of it, don't forget to subscribe so you are notified when we have the next episode out. If you want to do me a huge favor, please leave a review. It literally only takes a few seconds, but it helps the podcast platforms to rank this show. Hear you next time. Julian.
Mark Levin
Guy Benson: Looters Justified Their Crimes by Citing Insurance Policies
"So many more. You know what this is? These are Marxists essentially redlining their own communities. If McDonald's, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Target, all the rest of them, weren't going into these communities because they were concerned about crime, they'd be accused of and redlining. But they're having to leave these communities because of the crime that's been unleashed by Democrat Party policies, Democrat Party prosecutors, Democrat Party judges. And generally, the Democrat Party ideology. So the Democrat Party, first in its surrogates very and appendages, are redlining their own communities. People are getting out. The guy goes on, when say a Walgreens location closed down due to crime and deteriorating conditions. Insurance doesn't fix that. It doesn't magically provide new jobs for the displaced employees. It doesn't suddenly furnish local senior citizens with convenient local options to get necessary prescription medication. Doesn't patch up a community that's slowly helping the drain. These are very real costs for real people. And the wages of such reckless policies continue to pile up across America's major cities, the vast majority of which operate under one party That's right. One party rule. And it is one party. CVS is set to close hundreds of stores across the country as it undergoes a complete retail overhaul. As more outlets move online towards sellers amid rampant increases in crime. The major drugstore chain is coming to the end of a policy launched in 2021, which will see 300 stores closed each year, meaning 900 will have shuttered by
Coronavirus
A highlight from Holesky Testnet Goes Live
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Thursday, September 28th, 2023. Ethereum developers successfully launch the Holsky Testnet, Python Network releases a 2 .0 whitepaper, Espresso Systems and Caldera launch Vienna, and VanEck prepares to launch its ETH ETF. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants Round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Ethereum core developers successfully launched the Holsky Testnet, a proof -of -stake testnet set to replace Squirrely. The testnet achieved finality after the 10 initial epochs. Holsky was deployed with an active validator set of 1 .4 million validators and a testnet ETH supply of 1 .6 billion at Genesys. Holsky operates on Chain ID 17000. Holsky allows anyone to join as a public validator. The initial infrastructure includes a faucet from Quicknode alongside support on the Etherscan and Beacon Chain block explorers and an RPC endpoint from ethpandaops .io. Developers can use the testnet for staking and protocol development tests. Ethereum testnets usually have a five -year lifespan. The Pythe Data Association released the Pythe Network Whitepaper 2 .0, a paper that outlines a new cross -chain model for price delivery. The paper introduces a pull oracle architecture, the PytheNet appchain for price aggregation, and describes how update fees, rewards, and governance responsibilities will be managed. The whitepaper serves as a guide for transitioning Pythe Network's implementation and status into a permissionless stage. It aims to create a self -sustaining network, attract high -quality data publishers, and compensate them with consumer -generated fees. Pythe Network provides off -chain price feed oracles with data input from participants such as exchanges and market makers. Espresso Systems and Caldera co -deployed Vienna Network, an OP -stack chain integrated with the Espresso Sequencer. The new rollup was deployed on Espresso Systems' Cortado Testnet and is publicly available for all users on the testnet's public homepage. The release also includes a bridge UI, a testnet faucet, and a block explorer. The Cortado Testnet provides fast pre -conformations and allows users to submit transactions for both the OP -stack and Polygon -ZkEVM chains. Cortado also features a catch -up mechanism. Espresso Systems plans to integrate verifiable information dispersal and a peer -to -peer fallback network in a future release. And lastly, VanEck announced plans to launch the VanEck Ethereum Strategy ETF, coined as eFute. Rather than investing directly in ETH, eFute will invest in cash -settled ETH futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. eFute itself will be listed on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The ETF is structured as a C -corp targeting long -term investors. The price of ETH rallied above $1 ,650 amid the ETF news and successful Holsky testnet launch. In other news, Optimism initiates the process of forming a security council, OP Labs outlines its dispute game design for the OP stack, and Coinbase receives regulatory approval for perpetual futures. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Holesky Testnet Goes Live
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Thursday, September 28th, 2023. Ethereum developers successfully launch the Holsky Testnet, Python Network releases a 2 .0 whitepaper, Espresso Systems and Caldera launch Vienna, and VanEck prepares to launch its ETH ETF. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants Round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Ethereum core developers successfully launched the Holsky Testnet, a proof -of -stake testnet set to replace Squirrely. The testnet achieved finality after the 10 initial epochs. Holsky was deployed with an active validator set of 1 .4 million validators and a testnet ETH supply of 1 .6 billion at Genesys. Holsky operates on Chain ID 17000. Holsky allows anyone to join as a public validator. The initial infrastructure includes a faucet from Quicknode alongside support on the Etherscan and Beacon Chain block explorers and an RPC endpoint from ethpandaops .io. Developers can use the testnet for staking and protocol development tests. Ethereum testnets usually have a five -year lifespan. The Pythe Data Association released the Pythe Network Whitepaper 2 .0, a paper that outlines a new cross -chain model for price delivery. The paper introduces a pull oracle architecture, the PytheNet appchain for price aggregation, and describes how update fees, rewards, and governance responsibilities will be managed. The whitepaper serves as a guide for transitioning Pythe Network's implementation and status into a permissionless stage. It aims to create a self -sustaining network, attract high -quality data publishers, and compensate them with consumer -generated fees. Pythe Network provides off -chain price feed oracles with data input from participants such as exchanges and market makers. Espresso Systems and Caldera co -deployed Vienna Network, an OP -stack chain integrated with the Espresso Sequencer. The new rollup was deployed on Espresso Systems' Cortado Testnet and is publicly available for all users on the testnet's public homepage. The release also includes a bridge UI, a testnet faucet, and a block explorer. The Cortado Testnet provides fast pre -conformations and allows users to submit transactions for both the OP -stack and Polygon -ZkEVM chains. Cortado also features a catch -up mechanism. Espresso Systems plans to integrate verifiable information dispersal and a peer -to -peer fallback network in a future release. And lastly, VanEck announced plans to launch the VanEck Ethereum Strategy ETF, coined as eFute. Rather than investing directly in ETH, eFute will invest in cash -settled ETH futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. eFute itself will be listed on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The ETF is structured as a C -corp targeting long -term investors. The price of ETH rallied above $1 ,650 amid the ETF news and successful Holsky testnet launch. In other news, Optimism initiates the process of forming a security council, OP Labs outlines its dispute game design for the OP stack, and Coinbase receives regulatory approval for perpetual futures. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1415: Bitcoin Will Soon Hit $500,000 - Winklevoss Twins
"Welcome everybody to Crypto News Alerts, the number one daily Bitcoin pod. In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest Bitcoin technical analysis as Bitcoin recaptures $27 ,000 and quoting Max Keiser, the high priest of Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the North Star guiding to the only safe haven asset in the world that protects against inflation, confiscation and censorship preach. Also in today's show, Ethereum futures ETFs can start trading as early as next week. According to top Bloomberg analysts, we'll also be discussing the SEC pushing back the deadline for spot Bitcoin ETF apps, definitely not a good look. And speaking of ETF apps, I'm also going to be sharing the five highlights of Gary Gensler's evasive testimony before Congress quoting Senator Warren Davidson. Gary Gensler's tenure at the SEC highlights two key problems. Number one, Gary Gensler's problem and number two, the SEC's structural problem. That's why I introduced the SEC Stabilization Act to fire Gary Gensler and restructure the SEC. Let's freaking go. Also in today's show, crypto analyst Michal van de Poppe predicts a very positive quarter four for 2023. I'll be sharing his targets in which he outlines. We're also going to be discussing the SEC's inaction on the spot Bitcoin ETF is a complete and utter disaster, according to the Winklevoss twins. And speaking of the Winklevoss twins, I'm also going to be sharing with you their $500 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction, which they say is coming soon. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone. This is pod episode number 1415. I'm your host JV. Today is September 28, 2023 and Bitcoin is finally back above 27 ,000 as we're pumping right when I hit the live button. We're currently above 27 ,100 up over 300 % today and we continue climbing. Welcome everyone in the live chat. I gracefully appreciate y 'all. Yeah, who knows? Maybe we'll hit 28 ,000 by the time today's live stream is over. Let's see. And make sure to let me know where you're tuning in from in that live chat as I'll be giving everyone a shout out towards the end of the show. And with that being shared, fam, now let's dive into today's market watch. As you can see here, every major crypto back in the green. Bitcoin above 27 G's. We got Ether up three and a half percent trading at $1 ,655 BNB, XRP, Cardano, you name it. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, we're currently sitting above $1 .07 trillion with about $26 billion in volume in the past 24 hours, Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and even the Ether dominance on the rise today at 18 .5 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, holy moly, compound up 20 % trading under 49 bucks, followed by Thor chain up 13 % trading at $1 .94, followed by Lido Dow up 8 % trading at $1 .59 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, massive gains, which we love to see, especially after a pretty bearish altcoin season to say the least. We got CompLead in the pack here as well up 20 % and Rune up 13 .4 % and RLB up 13 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 46 in fear yesterday at 44 last week, a 47 and last month, a 39 in fear. So there you have it, fam. How many of you are currently bullish on Bitcoin and how many of you took advantage of the recent dip? If so, let me know. It's good to see we pump in once again. So hopefully those positions are now in the green. Now let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis, check out the charts and why specifically the market is pumping right now. Here we go. Let's get it. Bitcoin hit new weekly highs after the September 28th Wall Street open as markets awaited fresh cues from the US Federal Reserve. And here you can see in the Bitcoin one hour Campbell chart, pretty freaking bullish to say the least. Data from Cointelegraph and TradingView showed Bitcoin price strength staging a comeback, having delivered what some referred to as a classic pump and dump 24 hours prior during the performance. Bitcoin hit a high of 26 .8, which appeared on Bitstamp as a result of 2 % daily gains before Bitcoin retraced all of its progress, then a slower grind higher than took hold with the bulls edging closer to 27 ,000, which we finally just recaptured here a few moments ago. Now GDP for quarter two grew by 1 .7 % year on year below the projected 2%, while the PCE index data for August came in in line with the expectations, quoting analyst Keith Allen, bring on the volatility. Now meanwhile, data from Binance's order book uploaded by Allen showed little by way of resistance standing in the way of the spot price under the 27 ,000 mark. So as you can see, just more bullishness for the king crypto, the macro data constituted just the prelude of the day's main event. Meanwhile, Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve due to the comment later on today, Powell, whose recent words failed to deliver noticeable volatility to the crypto markets was due to speak at the Fed's conversation with the chairman, a teacher town hall meeting event in Washington DC at 4 p .m. Eastern today. Now commenting on the state of play on Bitcoin markets, popular trader Dan crypto trades was a little more optimistic around the strength of the day's move compared to yesterday, September 27th, quoting him here back to yesterday's highs, but with considerably less open interests. No doubt there is longs chase in here, but it is less frothy than it was yesterday. Would still like to see longs chill out and not get to a full retrace later on. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts. Meanwhile, quoting another analyst, right, capital Bitcoin is right back at the bull market support band cluster of moving averages, challenging to break out beyond them. Let's freaking go. Now, elsewhere in the day's analysis, he acknowledged that 29 ,000 could make a reappearance and still form a part of a broader come down for BTC. As he shares here, it's important to remember the Bitcoin could technically rally even as high as 29 ,000 to form a new lower high, which would be phase A and B. He explained alongside this chart. So there you have it. Let me know if you are currently more bullish or bearish on the King crypto and quoting the high priest of Bitcoin, Max Kaiser, Bitcoin is the North star guiding to the only safe haven asset in the world that protects against inflation confiscation and censorship preach. Now welcome to y 'all just joining us in today's podcast. As always, I appreciate everyone's daily support and means the world. And now let's discuss our next story of the day as Bitcoin continues to pump, shall we? We're going to be discussing the Ethereum futures ETFs, which can get approval. They say potentially as early as next week. So let's break this one down, shall we? Ether futures ETFs could start trading for the first time in the United States as early as next week. According to top Bloomberg analysts on September 28th, which is today, Bloomberg intelligence analyst, James Safart said in an ex post, it was looking like the sec is going to let a bunch of Ethereum futures ETFs go next week. Potentially. His comments were in response to fellow ETF analyst, Eric Balchunes, who said he was hearing that the U S SCC wanted to accelerate the launch of Ethereum future ETFs quitting him here. They want it off their plate before the shutdown, he said, adding that he's heard various filers updates on their documents by Friday afternoon so they can start trading as early as Tuesday next week. As outlined here on X. Now the U S S government's expected to shut down at 1201 a .m. Eastern on October 1st. If Congress fails to agree on or provide funding for the new fiscal year, which is expected to impact the country's financial regulators amongst federal agencies. Now neither specified their sources for the latest update on the long list of crypto ETFs in the queue. There are currently 15 ether futures ETFs from nine issuers currently awaiting approval. According to the analysts in a September 27th note, which is yesterday, companies proposing an Ethereum futures or hybrid ETF product include VanEck pro shares, grayscale volatility shares bitwise direction, as well as round Hill. The analysts gave ether future ETFs a 90 % chance of launching in October with Valkyrie's ether exposure on October 3rd, quoting them here. We expect pure Ethereum futures ETFs to start trading the following week, thanks to volatility shares actions. However, we don't expect all of them to launch. So do note that now as previously reported that ether futures ETFs may be approved in October causing the 11 % spike in ether prices and probably why the Ethereum dominance is up as it's been stagnant and down for quite some time. Ether prices are on the gain, currently just under $1 ,700 and we'll see how high we continue to pump, but do note crypto future products aren't as hotly as anticipated as their spot based alternatives. There are already been Bitcoin futures ETFs approved in the United States since 2021, which is a fact, which leads us to the million dollar question. Why have they approved a futures ETFs, but continue to deny and delay all the spot ETFs? We're going to be getting to that a little later as I share with you the highlights from Congress pressing the chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. It's going to get very interesting here in a little bit, but now let's dive a little deeper and discuss specifically the spot Bitcoin ETFs and what is happening and why they're being pushed back and the latest updates of where we're currently at. So here we go and welcome y 'all just tuning in. Make sure to smash that like fam. The US SEC has delayed deciding whether to approve or disapprove spot Ether ETFs. And like I said, we're going to be getting in October potentially get some approvals, but in separate notices filed September 27th, the SEC said it would designate a longer period on whether to approve or disapprove these proposed changes. The commission finds it inappropriate to designate a longer period within which to take action on the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change and the issues raised there within. The delay came the same day as the NASDAQ market filed the proposed rule change with the SEC for listing its mix ETH basically ETF, a combination of Ether holdings and futures contracts and also proposed rule changes with the New York Stock Exchange, ARCA for the Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust, hashtag Bitcoin Futures ETF and the CBOE BXE exchange for the Franklin Bitcoin ETF were all filed. September 27th, that's right. If you're not familiar with Franklin Templeton, there are one and a half trillion dollar asset manager. They're also applying for an ETF. Now the SEC announced September 26th, it would designate a longer period to decide on these spot ETF applications. And as James Safart shares here, here's VanEx delay as expected. So another one, I mean, exactly what we were expecting from the SEC. Now in August, ARK investment manager, founder and CEO Kathy Wood speculated that should the SEC move forward with the spot ETF approvals, it would allow multiple listings simultaneously to avoid giving any single company an advantage over another in the market. Her remarks came before Grayscale Investments won a court battle with the SEC over its spot Bitcoin ETF app, which will likely be reviewed in which they're trying to turn their GBTC product into a spot ETF. So hopefully it happens. To date, the SEC has never approved the spot crypto ETF in the United States, but has allowed the listing of crypto linked futures ETFs and a leveraged Bitcoin futures ETF. Manipulation, fam. The next deadlines for the spot crypto ETF apps from firms, which include the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock, Wisdom Tree, Invesco, Galaxy, Valkyrie, Bitwise and Fidelity are all scheduled for October. So we'll see how this is likely to play out considering October is now only three days away. Are we going to get some ETF approvals by then? Who knows? I think more than likely they're going to push it back again. However, Congress right now is pressing Gary Gensler to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF and ETPs immediately. So now let's break this down. If you missed Gensler, he was pressed by Congress just yesterday. And I know it's on everyone's mind. So let's break down some of the highlights from this recent hearing with Congress and the chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. Let's break it down, shall we? Here we go. Blame for kneecapping capital markets in the U .S. and slam for dodging questions around Bitcoin and Pokemon cards. SEC chair Gensler appears to have had one hell of a grilling from Congress this week. September 27th, the U .S. SEC chief again found himself in front of lawmakers in a scheduled hearing to discuss his agency's oversight of the markets. Here are some of the highlights. First and foremost, you are the Tonya Harding of security regulations. We should create a Gary Gensler diss track, right? One of the more colorful analogies came from U .S. Representative Andy Barr, who accused Gensler of kneecapping the U .S. capital markets with regulatory red tape. Barr referred to the old testimony from Gensler where Gensler argued that the U .S. is the largest, most sophisticated and innovative capital market in the world and that shouldn't have been taken for granted as even gold medalists must keep training. With all due respect, Mr. Chairman, if the U .S. capital markets are gold medalists, you are the Tonya Harding of securities regulations. Ouch. You are kneecapping the U .S. capital markets with an avalanche of red tape coming out of your commission. Preach. Barr is presumably referring to a scandal where U .S. ice skater Tonya Harding, I'm sure you all remember the story, I was a kid when this happened, and an assailant to attack her rival Nancy Kerrigan in the lead up to the 94 U .S. Figure Skating Championships and Winter Olympics. Kerrigan ended up not competing in the U .S. Championships and here is John Dickens who shared it here. Mr. Barr to Gensler, it's hilarious, you gotta watch these clips for yourself if you haven't seen them. So the next highlight, I wish the Biden administration would say, you are fired. That's right, shout out to Warren Davidson who also ripped into Gensler saying he hoped that the Biden administration would fire him. Powerful words. Davidson accused Gensler of pushing a woke political and social agenda and abusing his role as the SEC chairman. Preach. Massive shout out to the senators here doing their job. Damn good job. The U .S. Representative added that he hopes that the SEC Stabilization Act he introduced with fellow representative Tom Emmer could make it happen. Quoting him here, you're making the case for this bill, which is the SEC Stabilization Act. Every day you're acting as a chairman, he concluded, and Gensler wasn't even given a chance to respond. Now next highlight, Gensler reiterates Bitcoin isn't a security. That's right. When asked by U .S. House Committee Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry whether Bitcoin is a security, Gensler eventually relented stating the Bitcoin didn't meet the Howie test. Quoting him here, it does not meet the Howie test, which is the law of the land. Then McHenry suggested Bitcoin must be a commodity, which Gensler avoided answering. Mr. No Clarity Gary, hence how he got the nickname, saying the test for that is outside the scope of U .S. security laws. Mr. Gensler, we're living in a clown world with this guy. Henry also suggested that Gensler try to choke off the digital asset ecosystem facts and refuse to be transparent with Congress about the SEC's connections with the FTX and former CEO SBF facts. Gensler also wasn't given the chance to respond to the claims made by McHenry. Next highlight, are Pokemon trading card securities? Gensler says it depends. Can't make this stuff up. Quoting Representative Richie Torres, I cross -examine SEC Chair Gensler about the term investment contract, which is key to determining his authority over crypto. Gensler struggled to answer basic questions like whether an investment contract requires a contract. His evasions are defeating and damning. Suppose I was to purchase Pokemon card. Would you constitute a security for this transaction? Gensler responded, well, I don't know the context before eventually concluding it isn't a security if you purchased it in a store. And then Torres asked if I were to purchase a tokenized Pokemon card on a digital exchange via the blockchain. Is that then a transaction? And then Mr. No Clarity Gary said, I'd have to know more because I don't know anything. Yeah, you can't make this stuff up. Gensler then explained to it when it's investing the public can anticipate profits based upon the efforts of others. Then the core of the Howie test, which it is, Torres called Gensler's evasions as damning to say the least. And the next highlight, a sign of defiance. Meanwhile, amongst the back and forth cross examinations between Gensler and representatives, the eagle eyed observers noticed a Coinbase stand with crypto logo behind the SEC chairman. Isn't that interesting? The Coinbase led initiative is a 14 month long campaign that launched back in August aiming to push crypto legislation in the United States. Coinbase also ran a stand with crypto day, which took place in Washington, D .C. September 27th to advocate for better cryptocurrency innovation and policy. So again, shout out to Warren Davidson, Tom Emmer, all the senators for holding Gary Gensler accountable. Hopefully they do something about it. What's your thoughts, fam? Do you think Gary is likely to listen to them and follow their instructions and approve a Bitcoin ETF immediately? Or do you think he'll continue kicking the can down the road as long as possible until he leaves his position as the chairman of the SEC? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now let's break down the latest prediction coming from crypto analyst Michael Vanay Pop for some price actions for Bitcoin for the fourth quarter, which we are currently in for 2023. Then we'll break down the latest from the Winklevoss twins and their five hundred thousand dollar Bitcoin price action as the price action of Bitcoin continues to pump, baby. Let's go. Here we go. Let's break this baby down. Crypto trader Michael Vanay Pop is expressing bullish sentiment on Bitcoin in the coming months. Despite the recent struggles in a new video, he says that Bitcoin is on the cusp of reaching levels that offer accumulation opportunities per inch. According to the analyst, the trader Bitcoin could subsequently start an uptrend. Ultimately, Bitcoin is into an area of consolidation here, which makes it very likely we're going to have to retest here at twenty five, six and twenty five eight. If we are having a recess in that region, then there is this zone where I want to start buying my entries because of the recess, which is the ultimate recess. And if we're not going to get that, the flip to twenty six thousand five hundred, that is going to be the area where I think I want to activate my positions as well. And then we can start targeting twenty eight thousand. And then we can also start targeting the higher numbers, thirty thousand dollars plus or even more in the projection of quarter four. That is going to be very positive overall. Let me know if you agree that we'll have an overall positive quarter as we about to enter October. Let's go. Vanay Pop also says Bitcoin's current price action is similar to what was witnessed in the prior pre halving year, quitting him again. As long as we stay above the 200 week exponential moving average, we most likely are going to continue to the upside. And it starts to be very comparable to the period that we witnessed in 2015 and 2016. In this case, we needed it, but we started to consolidate and start to trend up afterwards. It is very likely to this period to slowly but surely the price starts to crawl up. And then we are going to have a case of the upside in the markets overall. And to watch this video analysis, the analyst did check the show notes below the video in the description. It's entitled Bitcoin price. I am looking to buy. So there you have it. And let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts and are you currently bullish on the King crypto or do you think we're going to dip and test the lower levels? Let me know your honest thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day. And the Winklevoss twins on the spot, Bitcoin ETF continuously being basically denied and kicked back and pushed back for the past decade. And then we're going to dive into their half a million dollar Bitcoin price prediction and why they're so confident that the Bitcoin price is going to hit their big target. So here we go. Let's discuss them with the SEC first. This was a story which was, let's see when their tweet was actually, let's scroll down. This is Cameron Winklevoss. This was actually on July 1st, it got 1 .1 million views. Now let me read the tweet. Today marks 10 years since Tyler and I filed for the first spot Bitcoin ETF. That's right. Over a decade ago, the SEC governor's refusal to approve these products for a decade has been a complete and utter disaster for US investors and demonstrates how the SEC is a failed regulator. Here's why. They protected investors from the best performing asset of the last decade. They pushed investors into toxic products like the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, GBTC, which trades at a massive discount to NAV and charges astronomical fees. They pushed spot Bitcoin activity offshore to unlicensed and unregulated venues. They pushed investors into the arms of FTX, subjecting them to one of the largest financial frauds in modern history. Preach. Maybe the SEC will reflect on its dismal record and instead of overstepping a statutory power and trying to act like a gatekeeper of economic life, it'll focus on fulfilling its mandate of investor protection, fostering fair and orderly markets and facilitating capital formation. This would have led to much better outcomes for US investors. Preach. In the meantime, best of luck to all those fighting the good fight to bring the US spot Bitcoin ETFs to life onwards. So much respect. I mean, 10 years of denying this ETF. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. I think they shared perfectly some of the reasoning. It's to hurt the investors and keep you poor and keep you wrecked and keep you desolate and dependent upon a broken government that threw us overboard so frickin long ago. So much respect to the Winklevoss twins. If you didn't know, they're the owners of the Gemini exchange and they were the very first ever to submit the spot Bitcoin ETF app to the SEC over a decade ago. And obviously they're sick and tired of Gary Gensler, his no clarity and his shenanigans. Just like the rest of us, it's time to fire Gensler. If you think Gensler should be investigated and potentially fired, let me know in the comments right down below and I'll be reading your comments out loud here in a little bit. Now for our breaking story of the day, let's discuss the Winklevoss twins and their case for a $500 ,000 Bitcoin price, which they believe is coming soon. So let's break this down, shall we? And welcome to y 'all just joining us in the live chat. Much love and much respect. So here we go. Winklevoss twins' prediction, Bitcoin will soon hit $500 ,000 per coin. And why? And again, shout out to Tyler and Cameron. Let's get, we already know their background, early Bitcoin investors, OGs, early investors as well with Facebook. Some claim that they're the real creators of Facebook and Zuckerberg stole it. But nonetheless, in a recent interview with the National News, the twins explained they remain convinced of the future of crypto. The main reason is the revolutionary and technical properties as well as the potential of Bitcoin to act as a store of value similar to gold. And in addition, crypto has many other advantages, mainly through programmability. Hence, the Winklevoss brothers believe that Bitcoin could even replace the precious metal. In the long term, Tyler Winklevoss shared the following. If you look at the properties that make gold valuable, Bitcoin matches each attribute or does better. The gold disruption story of Bitcoin is super powerful. We believe in it. Tyler Winklevoss explained his reasoning for the $500 ,000 Bitcoin price action, quitting him here. If you do the math, 21 million in the supply of Bitcoin, the market cap of gold, let's say it's 10 trillion, maybe it's 11 trillion, somewhere in that ballpark, that puts one Bitcoin if it disrupts gold and gets that market cap at $500 ,000 per coin. The two brothers did not want to give specific investment tips. However, Cameron reveals the strategy that they use, which is generally the simplest, which is simply HODL. Hold on for dear life, quitting him here. Generally speaking, if you subscribe to Bitcoin being a store of value type investment, then that strategy is HODL. The same way you would HODL gold is you buy and HODL long term investments. So according to the Winklevoss twins predicting the Bitcoin price will hit $500 ,000, they say predictions are difficult, but they believe that Bitcoin will hit the milestone within a decade. And when they were more recently interviewed and asked, where do you see Bitcoin in five years time? Here's what Cameron Winklevoss responded. We usually take a decade view on it. When we wrote a piece on the value that predicted it being $500 ,000 Bitcoin, we said within the decade. And I believe they wrote that in 2020. So they're basically saying by the year 2030, they're anticipating a $500 ,000 plus Bitcoin price with Bitcoin overtaking that of gold as far as the market cap. Now is that in three years from now or nine years? The timing part is hard, but I think the Bitcoin created $1 trillion worth of value in under a decade. That is fact. I believe back in November of 2021, Bitcoin's market cap surpassed a trillion dollar milestone and the total crypto market cap surpassed $3 trillion. But as of today, we're closer to a $500 billion Bitcoin market cap with the entire crypto market cap down to a trillion. Now, it also spawned many huge productions such as Ethereum and the entire asset class. He continues. If you look at the value increases in Bitcoin, it is this punctuated equilibrium where it is steady, steady, steady, and then boom, it reaches a new price level. This is the new normal. So it can happen very quickly. So there you have it, fam. Ultimately saying when Bitcoin takes off, it explodes quick and vast. And especially considering that two of the most bullish catalysts in Bitcoin history were on the cusp of. Six months away from a Bitcoin halving, we all know the Bitcoin cycles every four years, it drives the Bitcoin price up as it increases the scarcity as well as increase demand, basic stock to flow, numbers must go up. And we also have the approval of a Bitcoin ETF likely to take place in 2024, especially with Congress on Gensler's. But we also have the ETF experts such as Eric Balchunes given a 95 % chance probability that a spot Bitcoin ETF likely get approved in 2024. Those two catalysts will absolutely make Bitcoin rip to new all time highs entering price discovery mode like we have never seen before. So how high do you think the Bitcoin price will likely climb by the time of this next halving? Roughly six months out, scheduled to take place sometime in April of next year. Let me know your thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from The Biggest Bitcoin Selling Event Of 2023! (BEWARE)
"But a few urgent pressing situations that we have to deal with quite urgently. I think the first situation that we have to deal with is, hold on a second, James, it won't let me share screen so you could share the screen. So the first situation that we have to deal with is we have to deal with the looming US government shutdown because now the odds of a government shutdown are 90 % and if we do get a government shutdown, Goldman Sachs actually says that this shutdown could last as long as two to three weeks. I think we actually for now need to start preparing for this US government shutdown. The next thing that we have to start preparing for is a massive seller in the market. So this is not a joke. We do have a seller in the market. This seller owns 10 % of all the Bitcoin in circulation and 1 .8 million Bitcoin and they are going to start selling. In fact, what you can see from this chart over here is that they have already started selling a whole lot of their Bitcoin. So we're going to be talking about the seller when they're going to hit the market and why that's going to impact the Bitcoin price and how much that's going to impact the Bitcoin price. Then what we need to talk about is we need to talk about this little price move that we had yesterday in Bitcoin and what it actually means because we seem to be in a position where every time that we get a pump, we get the pump, but then the pump dies and that's exactly what happened yesterday. So we could understand what actually happened yesterday. What took us to 26 ,800 and brought us back down and is this thing going to continue to bring us down every single time we have a pump. Then I want to go through a knock -by -knock account of how Gary Gensler was taken down in Congress yesterday. Regarding your interactions with FTX and Sandbank and Freed, 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 as a co -equal branch of government and is responsive to our oversight duties, or my option is to issue a subpoena. All right, so we're going to go for a blow -by -blow account of exactly what happened yesterday. Gary Gensler was absolutely, absolutely, absolutely destroyed in Congress. And then, and then, and then, I've got a massive, massive story for you, but I'm going to keep that story until the very end of the show. So let's go, guys. Big show. All right, we are back and we've got a massive, massive, massive show for you guys today. And I think the best part of the show today is going to be the show, the part where we discuss how Gary Gensler was annihilated yesterday in Congress, because this guy yesterday was absolutely, absolutely, absolutely annihilated. It's actually not, that's actually not Gary Gensler, believe it or not. So this is actually a true story. Gary Gensler has an identical twin brother. His name is Robert Gensler. I thought that this was an absolute joke, but I actually looked it up and it's true. Gary Gensler does have an identical twin brother. His name is Robert Gensler. No, no jokes. Anyway, Gary was the one that was destroyed yesterday in Congress. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't Robert. It was actually Gary. But crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy that we actually see these things. All right, listen, welcome back, guys. Huge show today. I want to just thank you all. I see we're very, very, very, very, very close to 650 ,000 subscribers. We are 9, 10 subscribers away from 650 ,000 subscribers. When we get to 650 ,000 subscribers, our next move is to catch up to George from Crypto's Ice, because he's like our next target. We've got him in our sights. He was 100 ,000 subscribers ahead of us before the beginning, in the beginning of the year. What is your now? 17 ,000? 17 ,000 in the banter fam, the banter fam are definitely going. We're going to go after him now. He's our next target. We're going to try and catch up to him. All right, let's go. We've got a big show today. If you haven't subscribed, subscribe to channel, like this content. If we get to what is the number of likes we had yesterday? 1 ,500. If you get to 1 ,600 likes, I'm going to show you the biggest Bitcoin seller in the market. I'm going to show you why this seller is actually going to be selling. I'm going to, we're going to decide together whether or not we should be panicking about this seller selling. And it's a serious seller. The seller has 18, 1 .8 million Bitcoin, which is 10 % of the circulating supply on Bitcoin and they are going to be selling. So yeah, if we get to 1 ,500 likes and we beat yesterday, then we're going to get into that story. In the interim though, let's look at the bubbles. Let's see what's happening on the bubbles. So I see Rune is up. Let's just see how Rune is doing. Rune up at 187. I'm actually, I actually have got quite a big Rune position. I see Rollbit at 12 cents. You would be 20 % up if you actually took our trade. You got Ape moving. Remember that you got the whole banter newsroom here on the side. So everything that we, all the places where we get our news from are actually available to you right here. And if you want to follow any of our researchers, there's 44 of them. You can just click and you can just follow them directly from the newsroom. We're also improving banter bubbles. I reckon in about a month, it's going to be the fastest bubble app in the whole market. I'm also watching the Dixie and I think the reason why we should be watching the Dixie today is because we had the GDP numbers. The numbers GDP came in at 2 .1%. They expected was 2 .1%. So nothing, no surprises when it comes to GDP. And I think that when we talk about, when we talk about GDP, we need to talk about it in context of the looming government shutdown because we've got this, this looming government shutdown. It's a real thing now, you know, we were first saying that the shutdown wouldn't happen. But now Goldman Sachs is saying, look, if the White House don't resolve their differences by the end of tomorrow, that would make it the end of Friday. And by Sunday, they would have a government shutdown. Now, that would be, I think, the fourth government shutdown in the last decade. And it would be, it would have a whole lot of effects. I think what we need to do today is actually just look at the effects of a government shutdown. And, you know, do we need to prepare for it? Like, do we need to start stocking up on toilet paper, like we did in COVID? Do we need to start stocking up on food, on rice and oil? We need to, we need to make sure that we understand exactly what's happening. But before we get there, I want to talk about yesterday's little Bitcoin pump. So we had the pump yesterday and then we had a little bit of a dump and it keeps happening every single time. We keep losing momentum. Now, I think the pump is probably expected and I do think we're going to start getting a whole lot more pumps. And I'll tell you why I think we're going to start getting a whole lot more pumps because there is more money coming into the Chinese economy. So remember that China's in big trouble now and the way they're going to get themselves out of trouble is they're going to start stimulating the economy and getting more money into the economy. Well, you can see that liquidity in China is starting to go up because of all these things that China is doing. So I am expecting the price of Bitcoin to start moving upwards because of this liquidity.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep383: Best Morning Habits Podcasters Should Practice - Ahna Fulmer
"Podcasting would be a good option. And interestingly, it combined a skill that I didn't realize I'd been honing, which was interviewing an interesting element of interviewing as well as podcasting. This goes into the next question, but what makes a successful one? And it is learning the art of asking better questions. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And we're with Ana Fomer today, who is a client and a friend and somebody that inspires me. And I think you'll also find yourself a little bit inspired at the end of the podcast. She's got a show, obviously, or else how could we help her? And it is called, I said it wrong earlier. I said, I don't know what I said, but it was not right. It's imperfectly empowered, imperfectly empowered. I love it. And you also are doing something new in your business. It's kind of recent and it's about waking up early and having a morning routine. I think I would like to hear a little bit about, and maybe the listener would, what's important about a morning routine and why did you pick those two things? Yeah, I think one of the first things that's important to clarify is that waking up early is not natural for about 50 % of the population. And I happen to be one of those 50%. And I was, it was about four or five years ago in 2018, I was a busy working mom. I had three kids. My youngest was one and I was a dual certified nurse practitioner working in emergency medicine at the time. I was also the assistant medical director for two stroke programs that I helped create from the ground up. On top of that, we were renovating houses. We were in our second fixer upper at that time. That was like a side hustle for my husband and I. And on top of that, I had just started a home DIY decor blog just for fun because I didn't have enough going on. But it was at that point that a lot of us reach as moms where I desperately needed time for me. I was sick of waking up every morning, rushed and feeling like I was starting stressed and behind before I even got going for the day. And so I decided I was going to start an early morning routine because it was the only time I could find quiet. So I hustled to make this happen. And I fought this news button for about two years and really reprogrammed my biology to fall in love with the early morning quiet. And I fell in love with it so much and realized how many other women desperately want the same thing. But when it's not natural, it's incredibly difficult. And there's no program out there teaching you how to become an early morning person ultimately. So as a health and fitness coach, I ended up leaving bedside medicine and my online presence as a blogger actually turned into a virtual health and fitness professional, which is really neat. Now I help people prevent disease instead of treat disease, which is exciting. But what happened is I realized there was this gap for many of us as women in the health and fitness space because we go hard for six weeks and we transform our life for six weeks. But it's sort of like a bandaid on a gaping wound because we haven't created a habit of life change. And not that that six weeks wasn't important, but what we need is we need another program to partner with those fitness and nutrition programs who are able to also teach people how to create a habit to help sustain and offload some of the stress during our day so that we can really focus on nutritional changes, which is a full -time job for any of you. Adam, you've certainly undergone a lot of health transformation. You know, I mean, tracking macros in and of itself is like a full -time job. So the bottom line is we are in the process of creating this premier virtual program for busy women to learn how to become an early morning riser, establish a routine they can sustain that starts with being not doing. We don't get up earlier to hustle harder and do more. We're trying to press pause and actually be still and renew our hearts and minds in the calm of the quiet. And then we get a time efficient, effective workout done before our kids wake up. So that is early morning habit. If that's not cool enough, we are also an adoption fundraising program. My passion is to help women really manifest the sense that you are worth investing in because you have the power to impact the world because you've been made in the image of God and that alone makes you enough finding your value, not in what you say or do, but in the God that created you and really tapping into that to manifest this idea that you have the power to change the world. The small choices that you make for yourself have a massive impact. So when women successfully complete the program on the app, my company gives them back a significant portion of the money they paid for the program to give forward to an enrolled and adopting mom. Who's raising funds through life song for orphans. We are also adopting. So this is another heartbeat of mine. So anyways, there's a lot going on behind the scenes over here, but early morning habit, we're ready to change women's lives and bring more children home to their forever families. I like it. I have a question on the 50%. You mentioned that there's about half of us who it's not natural for us to wake up early. It's not normal. It shouldn't be normal maybe for us to wake up early. It's not our in our body, but that we can fix it. Is that part's true, right? And you fixed it. I'm living proof of that. Yes. What I'm curious about is who is your 50 % that it's not natural for or is it anybody? It's absolutely anybody. And to be clear in early morning routine is beneficial, whether you are a man or a woman, it's just my avatar specifically for this program. We are really honing in on busy women. And what I have found is it tends to be moms who recognize the need for an early morning routine. And this would have been true of me as well. It wasn't until I had kids. I mean, we think we're busy before kids. And then you have kids and suddenly you realize your time is no longer your own. And so you have to create time. And as there's only 24 hours in a day for most of us women as moms that tends to be before our kids wake up, if we want to maintain our sanity, not to mention our health. So my perfect avatar for early morning habit is really busy women. And a familiar business adage is you are best positioned to serve the person you once were. And so for me, that is I think I'm quoting Rory Vaden. He might have been quoting somebody else I don't even know. But for me, that was the busy Christian mom who wanted to start her day grounded in the truth of God's word, and then wanted to pound out a workout. But I knew I needed to start being still because I was constantly surrounded by chaos and noise of society, my own family, the own expectations I put on myself. So busy Christian moms is the very hyper -targeted audience, but it's really, it's just busy women. Any busy woman benefits from this, whether you're an early morning riser by nature or not, to answer that part. Okay, perfect. I was going to ask again, but no, perfect. So in the two big parts are reading the scripture and getting a workout in. So I've got this friend, he wrote a book about early morning, Hal Elrod. He's got this thing called Savers, and I think that must be like six things to do in the morning. Why do you pick those two? And is there anything else that you might think of adding on to it? It's a great question. And it's an interesting dynamic that a man would create six things to do, and a woman is going to create two. And I'll tell you why I think that's an important thing to highlight is one of the issues we frequently face as women is simply that it's the to -do list. We are constantly exhausted by our to -do lists, and we also feel the pressure in our society, as well as from ourselves, to do more, to hustle harder, and ultimately to be more. We think that we need to prove ourselves and our home or outside of our homes in order to reach a standard of success, however we're defining that. Our family is well put together and our kids are thriving. Maybe that's our definition. Maybe it's financial. Maybe it's the professional goals. But the problem is we are constantly moving, and the reality is, scientifically speaking, socially speaking, all five elements of our health, there are ways to prove that one of the best things we can do ourselves is to actually be still, practice the art of being still. So when we teach our community how to start their day being, not doing, we are specifically honing in on three things. Truth, or God's word, prayer, some people might practice meditation, and then gratitude. And there is a scientifically proven concept called emotionally intelligent gratitude practice, and that is what we teach our community how to implement. Whether you are somebody who prays or doesn't, emotionally intelligent gratitude can change every single aspect of your health and ultimately your life. So between that and a workout, I want women to be able to create a habit they can sustain, and if you go much beyond two things in the morning, I'm already peaced out because I'm looking at my to -do list, and I need it simple and sustainable. I love the simply part. I have a question, emotionally intelligent gratitude. In 2018, it was December of 18, I was overstressed, overworked, trying to do too much, and wasn't making all the best choices, wasn't working out enough, and that's where the health journey that you mentioned earlier came, but it was more like a life journey. There was a lot that changed, not snapping at the kids as much. But it started with something called gratitude. Now I didn't have you in my corner at that time, so I didn't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude was. What I would do is, when I'd wake up, I would try to express some gratitude before I got out of bed. When I went to bed, I tried to close my eyes and express some gratitude before I slept, and almost any time that I got overstressed, things were just compounding on me, and I wasn't sure what to do, and I was thinking about how stressful it was. I was thinking about how bad it was. Then I would have to re -hone during the day a few times and just, I guess, talk about my many blessings, because all of us have so many blessings. We just got to think about them, like the relationship with our kids, the relationship with our sweetheart, the air that we have to breathe, the roof over our heads, etc. So I would, when it was hardest to feel gratitude in my busiest of times, I would also just take a moment to try to close my eyes or even open them and think about what I'm grateful for. It ended up making a humongous impact on who I am as a person, and I still try to do it. Not as much, to be honest. I wish I did. I should. I should definitely get back to doing it more often every morning, every night, and any time I'm stressed. But I don't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude would mean if I was even close to it or not. What would you say to a listener who heard that and doesn't know what it means? Yeah, so I should also clarify emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is a concept that I have created, so this is proprietary to my program, but why I have clarified something, and I've taken gratitude practice and, one, infused a lot more science into the actual practice, so there's more intention to it, but one of the concerns with gratitude practice that I see for a lot of us is that it starts to border on good vibes only, and anyone who's listened to my podcast knows I am not a fan of that concept. The good vibes only concept is detrimental because what it is subconsciously telling us to do is to keep hustling harder and ignoring the stress, ignoring the fact that we're an absolute mess, ignoring the fact that our family is not perfect, that we actually feel terrible, we're anxious, we're stressed, so good vibes only is almost this concept of just ignore the bad, we're only going to focus on the good, and that's not true for everyone practicing gratitude, but it is very, very easy to start to lean to that corner of gratitude as though it is simply only focusing on the good in our life because, if we're honest, we are terrified of acknowledging the fact that we're actually a hot mess. Clearly not the corner I stand in as my podcast is quite literally titled Imperfectly Empowered, I'm all about the concept of embracing the mess, so where we incorporate emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is that in the actual practice of gratitude, before we are even diving into the very specific things that we are grateful for, we are first improving our emotional intelligence. Intellectual intelligence, we're familiar with IQs. It is something that, for the most part, cannot be developed. You have a naturally given IQ. Obviously, circumstances can depress somebody's ability to fully live out or up to that IQ potential, but typically speaking, it does not change. Emotional intelligence is something that can be grown, developed, and worked on, and it has three components. It is number one, being able to identify emotions, and this is where something as simple as an emotions wheel comes in. If you have a kid who struggles with behavioral issues or emotions, I have one of those kids, these emotion wheels come into play because you see like the little happy, do you feel happy, do you feel sad, or there's like these wheels that I like that have all kinds of emotions described on them, which is really helpful because half the time we don't even know how to put the words to what we feel. You're like, I don't know, sad, or it might be more specific than that. So number one, emotional intelligence includes being able to identify what you're feeling, but number two is being able to communicate what you're feeling, which is an entirely different concept. So number one, being able to identify, number two, being able to then communicate that, which is called emotional literacy, and then number three, this is truly where gratitude comes into play, being able to convert uncomfortable emotions, the emotions that we try to suppress and ignore and push down, being able to embrace them, and then convert them into a positive or more comfortable experience. That is the most difficult part of emotional intelligence. But it is also where gratitude comes in. Because what it's saying is basically it's me sitting at the restaurant and feeling really frustrated because my kids have effectively turned the table into a playground.
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"Get the two baggage claim, then went for my rental car. By the way, I don't know if I've told you, I probably have because I tell you pretty much everything. I think my vision of the Statue of Liberty would have Lady Liberty holding a rental car. I associate rental car with Liberty. Nobody is driving me around. Oh God, I can't tell you how free I feel. I was born with a love of freedom. That's why I've always despised the left, not liberals, but the left because they don't value freedom. Never have. There is no leftist regime that has tolerated freedom. Liberal regimes do. Conservative regimes do. It's amazing all these leftists out there. They're all the intellectual elite because they have been indoctrinated into a moral thinking. Like the fools at, what is the latest attack here? Salon. PragerU obviously drives these people out of their minds. Do you know that every single major paper source in the country has attacked PragerU because Florida, Oklahoma and Texas considering just allowing them in their schools. Five minute videos. Watch them. See how wholesome they are. Media Matters for America, which provides the material for all the hate on the left. I really was angry at us because we said communism was evil. As I explained to an audience last night here in Denver, that is how I knew in high school that I hated the left because the left didn't hate evil. That is as true then as it was today. They didn't hate communism. They don't hate evil. You know my favorite verse in the Bible is, those of you who love God must hate evil. It's a command. Hebrew has a command for them and it's in the way it has verbs. There's a command form. We don't have a command form in English. So it does say you must hate evil. If you love God you must hate evil. So therefore the obvious inference is that if you don't hate evil you can't love God. So I'm thinking of writing a piece on that. That it is impossible for a leftist to love God. I mean most leftists don't believe in God. Liberals, many liberals do. I draw the distinction all the time. Unfortunately liberals vote left and they have been co-opted by evil. But I never expect much from humanity so it's very hard to be disappointed. One of the advantages of understanding the biblical view of humanity as deeply flawed, not evil but deeply flawed and therefore it's hard to get disappointed. But if I could get disappointed, liberals would disappoint me. But I knew I wasn't a leftist in high school because I hated communism. If you don't hate communism you don't hate evil. If you don't hate evil you can't love God. These are all logical inferences. Now it may not matter to you whether you love God and I totally get that. You may just be an atheist or whatever and I've admitted to my own difficulties in loving God because of so much human suffering. But I can love him. I'm not disqualified because I hate evil. So therefore hating evil and loving God might be sort of co-extensive. So let's see here. So the latest is We Rival Anything. This is from Salon, another left-wing lying source. Well that's redundant. Just say left-wing. Rivals anything the Soviet Union's most shameless propagandists produced. It's overloaded with right-wing lies debunking them All is nearly impossible. Hats off to the team at Media Matters. See that's what they do. They all they rely on Media Matters. They all just cite them. It would be as if every single conservative source in the country cited the exact same source which just distorts life and that would that would be it. The non-accredited right-wing disinformation mill run by rush limbo wannabe Dennis Prager. This is, Sean is laughing and he doesn't always laugh so it's a good sign. Wow. See it doesn't help. It would be so funny. Imagine if Salon actually described me accurately. A tremendous admiration for Rush Limbaugh. Wall Street Journal asked me to write the piece on him after he died. We were quite close. We have very different styles. He was one a political genius. My preoccupations are not political. So how about instead of run by Rush Limbaugh wannabe what if they actually wrote run by 40-year talk show host founder of PragerU with over a billion views a year author of nine books including three volumes of a biblical commentary thanks to his knowledge of biblical Hebrew fellow of the school of international affairs at Columbia University where he studied Russian under Zbigniew Brzezinski. Imagine that. And of course pen enthusiast. We promote a wide-ranging amount of BS meant to poison children against reality. Wow these people are truly despicable. But obviously we've really bugged them which is a good sign. Better to be hated than ignore it. Anyway if Salon hates you that's a very good sign. You can judge a man or a group by their friends and by their enemies. I am proud to be judged by my enemies. I'm proud to be judged by my friend. We glamorize genocide. Wow they don't explain how exactly. Glamorize genocide. Do you understand any lie that Salon wants to come out with? They do. No one on the left that I am aware of again distinguished from liberals and conservatives no one on the left I don't I truly believe this asks when they write something am I telling the truth. They ask am I being effective. Am I demolishing my opponents not am I telling the truth. Glamorize genocide. What does media matter is that it doesn't want us to hate communism that glamorizes genocide if any of us does. Well let's see. There's a video in which an American bigot compares being criticized online to the plight of Soviet dissidents thrown in the gulag. Why don't they actually give a quote on that? Criticized online? I'd like to see that video. Did you hear about what happened in Spain? The head the president of the Spanish soccer federation vice president of the union of European football associations executive committee has been forced to resign at the moment of of crazy happiness when the Spanish women's soccer team won the the championship just a few weeks ago the president of the team gave a peck really a peck on the lips of one of the players she lifted him up in ecstasy and he kissed her and he touched her lip and he Luis Rubiales.
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"Thing. I actually am glad that we've been able to make such progress. Instead, Sonny Hostin is in this constant mind cycle of how can I debunk what he's saying right now? How can I invalidate the progress that he is speaking to right now? How can I convince both myself, himself, and the audience that we are still in a period of oppression that will continue in this country based on the foundations on which it was built? That's how her mind is working. She's not there to be open, to be possibly convinced, or to at least entertain another set of ideas. She comes having known where she wants the conversation to lead and what end she wants the audience to leave with. And that's truly unfortunate when you are in such a wonderful position as one of the hosts on a show like this to truly entertain difficult ideas for people to grasp or uncomfortable ideas for people to grasp or to challenge modern day narratives. That's not what people do now on television. They have no interest in challenging the modern narrative. They just have interest in upholding it. But I am delighted to see conversations like this being had. At least they entertained him enough so that he could get that point out and that maybe other people will be able to see this clip, hear what he has to say, and look at his story of success and realize that it does not need to be viewed as an exception. What a demeaning way to view people of color in this country that when you see somebody who is successful, you view them as an exception to some sort of rule within the culture or in the community. How demeaning that is. But yet we feed into it. Because it helps our ultimate interest, right? If your ultimate interest is to have a crutch that you can constantly rely on and blame for your shortcomings, then racism and homophobia and transphobia and systemic oppression will that become crutch. Because one, it is invisible and hard to prove, and you can just point to it, make the claim, and people will believe it. You'll notice the audience didn't clap for what Tim Scott had to say. They clapped for the ending of that conversation. They clapped for Sonny Hostin. They clapped for Whoopi Goldberg, who are diverse women sitting on this panel. But I'm glad somebody got to hear that message. And hopefully it sticks for at least one person. All right. Welcome back. I'm your sit -in host, Amala Eponobi. Recently, I believe yesterday, Apple put out a new update for where it is moving with its products, and an interesting piece of technology was revealed, and it is called Apple Vision Pro. I want to paint a picture for you all about what this looks like. It is essentially a headset. It's a set of goggles that you can now place over your face, and it creates what we will call an augmented reality. So you'll be able to see features of your room, but in sort of this virtual reality landscape. And on your eyes, through these goggles, you'll have in front of you a screen where you can access your apps, your messages, you can watch movies through Hulu and Netflix and Disney Plus, and even FaceTime people through these goggles. Now, if somebody walks into the room that you're in, the goggles will go clear so that the people can see your eyes through the screen and you can interact with them, and eventually they will show up in your field of vision as they appear there. This is a new product that is apparently going to be sold by Apple in 2024, and it's retailing for about $3 ,500. That's how much you'll have to pay to be able to step into a new reality and a new form of screen. Now, many saw this, and there was a crowd of young tech bros and girls watching these announcements, and they were clapping and cheering and in awe of how interesting and fascinating this new development is. And I will say, I was in awe. It is shocking to see a product like this that is going to be out on the market. I think it's an improvement on what Google Glass thought that it was going to be. If you'll remember, Google tried to release a set of glasses where you could look at the screen through them and all of this different stuff, and now Apple is doing exactly that with Apple Vision Pro. I would try these maybe once to see what the experience is like. I'm just fascinated by the fact that this is a real product that is going to exist next year. Do I want to own this and have this be a part of my life and an attachment to my being? Absolutely not. Terror is an exaggerated word to use when I saw this, but I was certainly shocked at the amount of people that are excited to put a set of goggles that now functions as a screen on their face. This is the world that we're living in right now. I'd much rather be as directly connected to reality and the real world and the tangible natural world. I'd much rather be connected to that than connected to some sort of virtual reality. But I imagine people do want this form of escapism, and they do want to be able to just constantly have a screen right in front of their face and to be directly hooked in into everything it is that they're doing on technology. We talk about iPad kids. That's the term we have now for young children who are raised in a world of technology and parents who hand it off to them in order to have a bit of comfort for themselves and have convenience and just distract their kid with technology. Imagine now if you can just strap these goggles on their face and your kid can live in virtual reality and look at all their apps and videos and kids' shows right directly in front of their face. There's so many ways in which this goes wrong. So many ways. Psychologically, we're experiencing an epidemic of people who are completely addicted and doped out on technology, and this is going to make it far easier for those people to do that, which I guess would be their free choice. So that is freedom at play. But we're dealing with it psychologically. We're dealing with the effects of blue light on the human health and wellness. We're dealing with just constant dopamine hits from technology and that essentially frying our brains. We're dealing with a lack of human connection. We have some of the highest rates of loneliness, depression, anxiety, and I can't imagine that being connected in this face mask Apple Vision Pro is going to help that feeling. But maybe I'm overreacting. Do I sound like a super old 22 -year -old? Do I sound like a boomer right now? Or is there room for genuine concern when products like this are being created? I'm reminded of that movie Ready Player One where the entire world is just living in this sort of slum favela type situation and people are just connecting to virtual reality to feel something and to escape and to live in some sort of augmented reality where they can live in fantasy and be something else. And while that might be intriguing to some or at least have this momentary intrigue towards those things, what happens when these are implemented in a society where people run to them instead of facing their problems or prefer it to actual reality? I'm optimistic in that I think most human beings need other human connection and that in a world of AI and Apple Vision Pro and VR headsets, people will always want the human touch. They will always want real human emotion. They will always want real human conversation. I just hope that doesn't degrade over time. It's sort of similar to what we talked about with language. You can tell a lie enough that it becomes truth. And what happens when you do that with actual reality? When you make a virtual world more appealing than the real world and you make it a form of escapism that is so readily available to the masses and mix it with all of the division and trouble and horrible news stories of the modern day, maybe people will run to sit behind this. As of late, it's not even out yet. It comes out next year. And it's essentially just a phone that is now sitting directly in front of your eyes. So I'm just talking about us being on the precipice of greater innovation in this world. This is step one, so maybe I am overreacting. But people create these things because they have a broader vision for what we can do with this sort of technology. There are many in the tech world right now that are sounding the alarm on AI and saying that this needs to be a highly regulated facet of our society because they are truly dealing with something that you can't even fathom how far it can go. The things that it can drum up. The human condition that it could possibly imitate and copy in a way that would be imperceptible to us. So if those people, the people who are dealing with the technology itself and creating that world, are sounding an alarm off and warning us about it, should we listen maybe? Should our ears perk up? Or do you have better things to worry about? Are there more pressing matters? I'm sure there are. We live in a world of conundrums, so there's always something higher on the list of priorities. But was this not an update that I expected from Apple, and at least not this soon. For health reasons, I'm avoiding this. For humanitarian reasons, I'm avoiding this. And, you know, if one of you buys this and you try it out, you let me know how that is. $3 ,500. That's a lot of money. That's mortgage payments for some of y 'all. I don't have a mortgage payment yet, but the young people are going to set aside their mortgage payments to buy these Vision Pros..
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"It added a dynamic to their relationship wherein, when they were watching the news, they could have discussions and, you know, go tit for tat over different political arguments, because the political arguments weren't the end -all, be -all for your morality and your value as a human being. But now, more so than ever, it feels as though if somebody disagrees with you politically, they are not a good person, they have no moral value, you should not be friends with them, and I see this more so, if I'm being honest, on the liberal end of the spectrum and on the leftist end of the spectrum than I do on the conservative side. Being a conservative does not mean that you have bad morals. In fact, I think the bulk of the conundrum that she's going to face here is that the reason that a lot of these men treat her so well and are protecting and providing and doing the chivalrous thing is because their politics and morality informs their way of life and their lifestyle. Whereas with liberal men, where she can't find the protection, she can't find the providing, their way of life is also informing their lifestyle. There's a correlation there. And if she's failing to recognize the correlation, then maybe her dating is not going to be all that successful, because protectors' conservative providers often comes with a conservative viewpoint and philosophy when it comes to their way of life. We'll talk about this a little bit more, but I found that to be so interesting, that liberal women are having trouble finding a conservative man. I think it's a problem she's going to continue to face, unfortunately. But best of luck to her. I hope she has more realizations in the future. And we'll talk more in depth about this in the next section. And that becomes pivotal to my story in my youth when I was convinced of the systemic oppression that America was going to place upon me. Hold me down under the thumb of the white man is what I was convinced of. And this narrative continues. We love to talk about systemic racism in America, and particularly the systemic racism that affects people of color. I watched a recent interview and conversation between Senator Tim Scott and Sonny Hostin of The View, where they discussed this at length on the show, went back and forth, had a little bit of a debate. And I wanted you all to hear this clip where they go back and forth. Let's hear it. You have indicated that you don't believe in systemic racism. What is your definition of systemic racism? Let me answer the question that you've answered. Or does it even exist in your mind? Let me answer the question this way. One of the things that I think about, and one of the reasons why I'm on the show, is because of the comments that were made, frankly, on the show, that the only way for a young African -American kid to be successful in this country is to be the exception and not the role. That is a dangerous, offensive, disgusting message to send to our young people today that the only way to succeed is by being the exception. I will tell you that if my life is the exception, I can't imagine. But it is. But it's not, actually. It's been 114 years. Yeah, so the fact of the matter is we've had an African -American president, an African -American vice president. We've had two African -Americans to be secretaries of the state. In my home city, the police chief is an African -American who's now running for mayor. The head of the Highway Patrol for South Carolina is an African -American. Still exceptions. In 1975, there was about 15 % unemployment in the African -American community for the first time in the history of the country. It's under 5%. 40 % homelessness of African -Americans get 13 %.
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"What's interesting, and you may remember from the original Little Mermaid film, is that King Triton has his daughters of the sea. And they're all of Ariel's sisters and they show up throughout the movie. In this movie, King Triton has multiple daughters and he has a daughter of every single race. Now, I am not kidding you guys. He has a daughter of every single race. He has Ariel, he's got a white daughter, an Asian daughter, an Indian daughter, and then this African daughter who's much darker than Ariel. And I found myself wondering, how is this possible? Are we are we saying that King Triton is polyamorous? And he's created all of these daughters of different races. But the way that this movie substantiates his claim to having daughters of different races is that they are meant to represent the different seas in which the daughters were had, I guess, all from the same woman. So a miraculous mermaid has created daughters of all all different races, which I thought was interesting. Outside of that, there were a few other changes. You'll remember in the original 1989 version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel is at the end of the movie saved by Prince Eric, who drives his ship into Ursula's chest. I hope I'm not spoiling that movie. You've had over 20 years to watch it. So you can't be mad at me. He drives his massive ship into Ursula's chest and Ursula is defeated. But we couldn't have that in the modern remaking of this film because a woman always saves herself. There is no longer a damsel in distress in Ariel saves Eric on two occasions throughout this movie, which I found to be interesting. They also swapped out some lyrics. There is a lyric that the evil sea witch Ursula sings to Ariel upon taking her voice from her and stealing that from her and saying, you know, body language will get you through it. Men don't like a lot of chatter. They avoid it when they can. If you're a woman who's demure and doesn't speak that much, he'll love you all the better for it. And they've removed these lyrics because they, I guess, didn't want young women to hear that men want somebody who's demure and quiet. What they've forgotten is the context of Ursula being an evil witch. She's lying to Ariel. Men want a woman with personality. I think we all can acknowledge that. So there were a few changes in this Little Mermaid remake that I was not too fond of. But overall, I'll say it again. It wasn't the worst thing that Disney's created. So check it out. But I myself, I did enjoy myself, but I'll be sticking to the original 1989 version. That's my story. And I'm sticking to it. You can check out my Little Mermaid review on my YouTube channel, Unapologetic Life. Alright, good morning. I'm your sit -in host, Amala Epinobi. I came across a video on Twitter recently that was just so interesting for me to watch, and it sparked a lot of contemplation. It's a young woman and a young liberal woman sitting in her car talking about a problem that she is facing in dating because she wants a traditional man who is chivalrous and opens the door and provides, but she's running into a problem. Let's hear it from her. Do you want to know one of the saddest realizations I recently had was that as a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a man who is willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship in today's day and age, who is not a conservative, a man who wants to pay on the first date, who wants to open your door, who has that want and desire to take care of you and to provide, who is not a conservative. And obviously as a liberal woman, I do want to be respected from an independent, and I do want to have my own autonomy in the relationship and not be confined or conformed to the traditional female homemaker childbearing role. And most of the men that I've dated who do have that more natural provider masculinity about them are normally conservative. So I don't really know what to do because I don't want to compromise my morals and values just to find a man, but am I asking to have my cake and eat it too? You know what? There's some introspection happening there, and I applaud it. She does at least ask herself at the end, am I asking to have my cake and eat it too? Now will I grant that there are liberal men running around out there that would be willing to provide and open the door and, you know, place their jacket in the rain puddle when you're walking across the street? I'm sure they do exist. You might be a little bit harder pressed to find them when compared to conservative men, but she gets into an idea that I think a lot of liberal women have, and it's a caricature that they have of conservative men, that if you are a conservative man, you must think that women should be relegated to being in the kitchen and cooking and cleaning and, you know, bearing children, barefoot and pregnant, running around the house, and that is your only view that you subscribe to women. And this stereotype that she has is, of course, based on a caricature of conservative men. I'll tell you, all of the conservative men that I know have girlfriends and wives, and those girlfriends and wives are pursuing their own passions and their own interests, and they are, in fact, autonomous beings with their own mind and independence, and the conservative men that I know appreciate that. So it must be that this young woman is just getting this stereotype, I think, enforced, and she even says in this video she doesn't want a Republican, which means what she's going through is meeting men who are meeting her social standards, right? They're doing the right thing. They're providing. They're protecting. They're taking care of her. She's gone on dates with them, so I'm sure they're good conversationalists, but what she can't deal with is being in a relationship with somebody who does not share her very same political opinion, which is just a sign of the times, I think. Never has political division been more pervasive than it feels it is today. And I remember knowing couples that were dating who didn't share the same political party, and that was, in fact, a fun thing for them..
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"Everybody. Good morning. I am your sit -in host, Amala Eponoby from PragerU. We've been talking about Pride this hour and a hot topic that's been on everybody's mind is Target. They've recently put out a Pride collection, which they do every year. I will state that this is not new for Target as a company. I think now people are just hyper sensitive to these topics and Target is now in the crossfires for that because they've put out their annual Pride collection, although this one's a bit larger than usual, probably because there's more of a market to be found when it comes to Pride. They put out shirts that said, queer, queer, queer on the front, a big green jumpsuit with yellow letters on the back that said, gay, which is so interesting because all of the gay people that I know and that I'm friends with are fashionable. I don't think that they would be shopping at Target's Pride collection, but nonetheless, it is out and people are upset about it. It started somewhat of a boycott where people said they were going to stop shopping at Target and they're not going to support this Pride collection. I personally, of course, acknowledge that they have every right as a company to put out this collection if that is what they want to do. Will I be shopping there or will I be buying from this collection? No, I will not. I don't take this stance from a religious perspective because I don't happen to be a religious person. I just take the stance that first, this is not something that we need to be focusing on. I don't care what somebody's sexuality is and I certainly don't need companies to sell T -shirts proclaiming what that sexuality is. We live in a hyper -sexualized society where there is far too much focus on what people are doing in their own homes and it's all over the internet and people are constantly talking about it. And thirdly, it's not something that I want to see around children. And a lot of the fire that they got was for having children's -based costumes and rainbow and Pride -based outfits for young kids to wear. Not a conversation that I will be having with my future children at the young age where they are wearing some of the sizes that Target has put out. Now, let's talk about why this is important. A lot of left -leaning people retort back and say, oh, it doesn't matter, you can still shop at Target, just don't buy the Pride collection. Why do you care? One, we care because of the ideology. Two, we care because the sales of these products comes to tangible effects on our communities and different campaigns that are being run within our communities. And I want to talk about this tweet that was put out by Olly London that says, Target's vice president of brand management has been revealed as the treasurer and board member of an LGBTQI plus charity that received $2 .1 million in funding from Target. The charity which received the multi -million dollar donation, GLSEN, encourages teachers to hide the gender identities of trans and non -binary students from their parents. Target's VP of brand management, Carlos Saavedra, is currently serving as the treasurer and board member of the organization, which also provides instructions to schools on making math class, quote, more inclusive of trans and non -binary identities, end quote. I don't know what that means, making math more inclusive for trans and non -binary people. I'll let you guys use your imaginations to figure that out. But when you support a company like Target, who actively puts out these pride collections, a piece of your money could be going towards a $2 .1 million donation to an organization by the name of GLSEN. And if you go on the GLSEN .org site, you will find a multitude of interesting posts that they've made and resources that they've put out for LGBTQ youths. They say who we are championing LGBTQ issues in K through 12 education since 1990. This has been in the works for quite some time. An inclusive curriculum with comprehensive policies. They're developing supportive educators, which when you get those educators who are throwing pride flags out in the classroom, maybe the GLSEN organization is helping them do that. And if the GLSEN organization is helping them do that, Target is helping them do that. So not only are they selling products that you may not approve of. Of course, you can ignore these products, go to the other aisles, just turn a blind eye to this. Your money could be going towards organizations that completely hate you and your values. That's why it's important. That's why people are choosing not to shop at Target..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"target" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"They go take a job and consulting or invest making they never become entrepreneurs, even though that was what they wrote their essay about. And that was what they're excited about. So I added to the class a whole part on, okay, wait a second. What is it you really want to do with your life? How would you make a plan to go do that? What are your limiting beliefs? What are the things? What are your fears? So we have a whole thread. Probably 25% of the class is on those things because I'm like, what's the point of teaching people to be entrepreneurs if they don't become entrepreneurs? Right. So I've invested a lot into personal growth and that's a really, really fun part. So tell us a little bit about your approach, what's your process like to finding a potential acquisition target and since we look at both private and public markets, what do you think of in terms of valuation? How do you come up with a number? Yeah, great questions. We have a large team that looks for potential companies. We have actually 52 people at Alpine and in our portfolio companies are looking for deals. 52. 52. Oh, so that's a lot of people. How big is the firm overall? Overall, if you include the CEOs and training and your ten 99 consultants, we probably have roughly 200. All right, so that's a decent size. The 52 also includes a number of people that are working at the company's doing sourcing, but they're doing the same thing. They're calling companies looking for investments. So we have 52 people looking for deals and then a lot of those conversations are directly with founders. And what we're trying to do is figure out the way we think about it is we can pay a price that we can hit our target returns, which I can't talk about on, but we can hit our compliance requirements. So we can pay a price that we could hit our target returns with like a 70% base case, and then we need there to be a lot more upside to that than downside. So we want there to be a case where we could hit many multiples of our target returns. And so based on that, we kind of back into a price. And then where we get in trouble, or where things get turned down, investment committee is when everything in the world has to go perfectly to hit that target. Because I've been in this business for 28 years and when you start pricing in perfection, that's a time when you realize you're overpaying. So it's that 70% probability and lots of margin of safety thing that as someone who's a little bit more senior at our firm, I have to bring that to the discussions. Yeah, that perfect ten stuff the landing, those are the outliers
Telecom Reseller
"target" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"And and those attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated and the attacking, your email, note to the traditional way of spending a virus, or sending a malicious link, but really listening to your communication via email, understanding who you are in the organization, who I should Target, who can ask for money, who can send money. And those are the type of people that they suck. Into. I mean, if they're looking for money, sometimes they look for other stuff, obviously, like all kind of sensitive personal data, and things like this, but in general and looking for money and then be able to intercept the communication and impersonate the, the receiver of the sender and by doing. So I'm getting into a very, very specific critical point of time. When you asking for money, when you need to spend money change, those your bank details off and then the person just sending it very, very simply to a different bank account without even noticing..
The Big Story
"target" Discussed on The Big Story
"Twelve dot three five eight thirteen. That twenty one. Of course. i'm not saying my real ip address on a podcast because this string of ten or so members can be used in order to triangulate. Your location on monday apple. Put the kabosh on the use of ip address during the opening day of its worldwide developers. Conference what the loss of. Ip address means for privacy and ad tech will be our topic. Jus you're on. The big story will also discuss the highlights of apple's conference. That are the most important parts to know for everyone in advertising joining me. Today is our resident apple identity and privacy expert alison schiff who tuned into the event. Hi i'm blushing and joining. Us is senior editor james hersher. Who was doing a follow up story about apple's changes obfuscating email information as part of its privacy. Updates is there to fund one. Alson you tune dan. So how did apple reveal that. It was pulling ip addresses. Okay so i'll set the scene. Craig federici it's apples. Svp of software engineering. He's in a a well lit section of apple park in cupertino. The sun is shining brightly and pouring in through floor to ceiling curved windows. He's got this big smile on his face because he's talking about ipad. Os and all the cool things you can do. And then all of a sudden his whole demeanor changes he says next. Let's get into privacy. And then he steps on what looks like a button embedded in the floor that opens up into like a man hole in the floor that he jumps into. And then all of a sudden he's in the dark windowless chamber with a black screen behind him and the only word written on it is privacy and then it is very serious tone. He goes into the whole like at apple. We believe privacy is a fundamental human right. You that whole spiel. And then to privacy engineers step out from the darkness from behind the screen and get into some of the details about apple's specific privacy announcements. It was a little telegraphed. He jumped into dark bunker to talk about the evils of ad. Tech data brokers chumps into a manhole. Yeah that's that's very intense and give it to apple for creating that kind of visual cue around privacy..
Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"target" Discussed on Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"One coming up in this episode of target usa. Paul whalen american former marine. He serving a sixteen year prison sentence in a labour camp in russia on bogus charges of espionage for the first time since he's been in custody. There's a real possibility. A presidential summit may lead to some progress on getting him home but his twin brother david while optimistic is very cautious about the outcome of the summit between president biden and vladimir putin. I'm not sure that expected anything. Concrete in relation to paul. I think as many people do. There are generally low expectations for actionable outcomes from the summit next week. David says in addition to being exposed to the elements in an unheeded barracks. There's also crowding there's been overcrowding issues. There's been a work related issues He doesn't speak the language and so he has occasionally been written up for violations of whatever president code there is so he's not sure what that's four and whether he will be eventually put in. Solitary accumulates enough of these little jets that and much more as we hear exclusive information about. What's going on with paul whalen and russian coming up on this edition of target. Usa national security podcast from wto in washington dc. This is target usa. Russia could render huge arm to this north korea's secret missile capable of reaching the whole of the united states dangerous terrorist. Dc is repeatedly mentioned someplace they would like to see an attack cyber criminal decryption. The success america as a target on its back and on this program we investigate the threats the people behind them the agencies fighting them and the impact on you. This is target. Usa the national security podcast. I'm jay jay green. If you follow this podcast. You know we've been following the case so call wayland since december of two thousand eighteen and we haven't spoken to his family on the record for an interview since last year and we caught up with his identical twin brother david this week to find out how he's doing. What is situation as in terms of getting out of there and what kind of expectations. The family has as president biden prepares to meet with russian president vladimir putin next week in geneva. So we haven't spoken to you in a while. would you give me some background on. What's been going on with paul in the last. I think the last time we spoke he was during it was during his trial or sometime around that time frame but You know. We've been in contact but i haven't actually an interview with you but We know that he's now in seventeen. So tell us how he's doing and what's been going on for the last few months the last year. I guess it's been about a year since his trial. Then and then in august he had been meeting with his counsel and then he disappeared and he about three weeks later out in mordovia. It's a part of the russian federation that is about eight hours away from moscow And he'd been delivered by prison train to a labor colony called ak seventeen And since then it's been a very much a you know same sort of routine every day. As far as we can tell he works on garments that are created for commercial purposes. They're they're sold by the prison system. I believe to other people and he does that. Every day. He has Experienced all of the in a wild temperatures of mordovia they have unheeded barracks. And so when it gets down to minus tanner minus twenty They don't really have a lot of Of coverage for their For their health and things. There's a sort of health issues you have in that sort of an environment where a lot of people get sick and then for a while. There was a time when one barracks was being kept just for the second. All of the other prisoners were being. Moved into the other two barracks so there's been overcrowding issues that has been work related issues He doesn't speak the language and so he has occasionally been written up for Violations of whatever prison code there is so he's not sure what that's four and whether he will be eventually put in solitary if he accumulates enough of these little chits. I think it's a very uncomfortable situation to be. Because as i say you have to not only navigate a culture. You don't speak the language of but it's a prison culture and the prisoners run a lot of the internal workings of the prison until about december. It was very difficult for him to get phone calls out But since then he's been able to speak to our parents regularly. and so that has been really a lifeline. We've started to see see the messages that he shared with. Our parents were very consistent with the messages he was sharing with the consulate and so that sort of consistency has helped us that confidence that he's able to share when he needs to share with people whatever's going on in his life. Yeah that was. Those are some of the things i was going to ask you about specifically Now is he keeping in touch is. Is it safe to say that. His parents those phone calls with them on the only ways you're getting any really relevant and current information from him. Yes he's still able to write letters recently. Sent hit over a number one thousand because he has numbered all of the letters through his Two and a half years in the russian detention so we still get letters they go to my folks but as far as current information day to day some of the calls have been very similar to what he would have done When he was driving home from work in novi michigan he might have given my parents a call while he was in stuck in traffic. And it's the same sort of day to day. You know this is what's happening in my life. How's your how's your day. Been sort of thing getting to that point of regular communication for my folks. I think has been a huge benefit and probably has been a good mental benefit for paul. Because there's a degree of normalcy that your life outside of the prison outside of this horrible situation is still accessible. So you've Reported or at least a you mentioned in a note this morning that the russian news is reporting that the public monitoring commission is making its regularly scheduled visit to i k seventeen. Which is the prison camp where he's kept. What do you expect to happen. then there. It's difficult to know when he was in la puerta held in the pre trial detention facility in moscow for the first eighteen months of his arbitrary detention the public monitoring folks come in and we check in on him and actually ask him questions about how he was doing and they would get a sense and sometimes we would get a sense for the first time. That paul is having issues or had you know had a negative interaction with guard or whatever so. We don't really need that sort of communication now. But i'm interested to see if the public monitoring folks will speak to paul and ask him if he's got questions because we we do have questions about whether he can get support for asking for clemency from president putin and brother things and it's not really clear how paul would avail themselves of that without knowing of the russian language. Yeah you know His attorney think it was vladimir zero bank off Some interesting things happen to him And it's not clear exactly wha- what he's able to do now. What.
Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"target" Discussed on Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"You. Jj for the Questions and the real key interest you have in this. That's it for this episode of target. Usa coming up in our next episode. That hijacking of a plane over belarus unprecedented and unacceptable. Peter stagno the lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy with the european commission. That's the executive branch of the european union. Well we have seen that. Headband is absolutely something. That doesn't belong to europe of twenty-first-century and steno says there will be consequences and we are also already on the necessary just to ban overflight of the airspace by bill russian airlines sanctions and an investigation are underway details on our next episode. If you have any questions or comments send me an email at j. green at w. t. o. P. dot com. That's the letter. J the color green one word and whiskey tango oscar papa dot com j. green at w. t. o. p. dot com. Also we invite you to follow us on twitter. We're t usa podcast. That's at tango. Uniform sierra alpha podcast. Also we would like to invite you to subscribe to our podcast and if you want more national security information. I've got a newsletter. It's called inside the skiff and you can sign up at w. t. o. P. dot com slash alerts. I'm jay jay green and this is talk of the usa national security podcasts. Now stay tuned for the latest headlines from the associated press..
Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"target" Discussed on Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"Is that the right thing to do. Yes we have. We have the tools necessary. Because as i mentioned they want a normal relationship with the united states and if they could see the path to a normal relationship with the united states because that will give them the international legitimacy that kim jong un and his father and grandfather wounded so dearly and so we we could move in that in that direction to give them a path to a normal relationship with the united states but again with that would come the security assurances economic development assistance and everything. They need so yes. We have deliverables to provide north three given only give the fact that a north korea has persisted to retain its nuclear weapons and to not only retain them but to enhance their nuclear weapons capabilities missile delivery system capabilities. And and you know whether cyber whether its chemical whether it's biological pursue those other If you will a weapons of mass destruction that are inevitable to our national security but also through the national security of our allies in the region and is one of the things that's absolutely necessary in order to engage with north korea's having the right team in place you've been on one of those teams and i'm curious to know. Forgive me for asking in this forum but have you been asked to be a part of that team and if you were would you well let me. Just say this. I think the team that the president biden has a very strong team. And i think appointing ambassador soon. Kim as special envoy was a very smart. And i will say this necessary move because ambassador. Kim knows north korea. He was involved with the six-party process. He was involved subsequent to the six-party process negotiation with north korea. And of course he was the ambassador to south korea so this is a very smart but but also very necessary appointment of a special envoy. Who's going to focus on trying to if you will reconstitute a dialogue with north korea. So the ball then will be and it's been in north korea for some time. They have to. They have to respond to that The team is powerful. I think it's a good team. I think we have the We have the tools necessary to pursue a diplomatic resolution to these issues. And i think the key here also working with south korea because south korea with the meetings On the twenty-first of may with president biting between president moon and president biden gave. If you will not gave. But but but but Reinforced the south. Korea should pursue inter-korean dialogue into into korean cooperation with north korea. They could try to reconstitute the you know if you will. The the visits of separated families from the korean war visits of tourists among a reconstitute. Look at building the connecting the roads and the railroads between the north and south. So so south. Korea has a big part of of the initiatives with north korea. Inter korean relations. So it's a two pronged. Approach is the us pursuing the denuclearization in coordination with south korea. But it's also south korea pursuing inter-korean relations to include humanitarian assistance to north korea. That we'll get to the neediest citizens of north korea whether it's food aid whether it's whether it's vaccines whatever that may be so we have a two pronged approach to in total coordination between both sides so i and now we have a special envoy who's focusing on this and the both presidents agreed that we will use diplomacy. We will be flexible On this i think. I think all the pieces in place to move forward with north korea but the key the key impediment has been has been north korea. If they refused to come to the table we can have all the tools. Necessary older deliverables that north korea wants and a willingness to pursue that. But we have to have an interlocutor. And if north korea's not willing to come to the table and indeed if they if they persist on building more nuclear weapons fabricating fissile material building more nuclear weapons and even missile delivery systems and if they should have a nuclear test or a long range missile launch. I mean this would not only be an impediment it would be. They would exacerbate this relationship in these efforts. And i think we would go in a different direction with greater deterrence and additional sanctions so hopefully north korea. We'll be responsive to the united states and south korea as we both pursue in coordination into korean relations and denuclearization and looking at all those humanitarian issues. So we have the players in place. We have the deliverables that were prepared to deliver. But we need to have an interlocutor. And that's north korea. North korea has refused heretofore to be sit at the table with us so we will see in the next few months. Well that's my next question What's what's the window like the time window to that. That would be most conducive to getting this done you know. Jj i think the window we do have a window. We have a definite window of opportunity right now. Personally i think north korea will respond to that window. But i believe that window will close after three to four six months that when those going to remain open for a period of time but if north korea continues to refuse to come to the table and indeed continues to build nuclear weapons and missile to resistance. I think that windows going to close so we so a lot depends on obviously north korea at this moment. And and and if that window does close What do you expect to happen. I would expect to see a greater Nuclear greater deterrence writ large in in the region When you talk about nuclear. I think there's an impetus now to look at the possibility of even introducing and i am the possibility of introducing tactical nuclear weapons as part of the deterrence package For a north korea. that's being hostile. That's building more nuclear weapons missile delivery systems so i can see a significant deterrence escalation where we would reinforce our military capabilities in support of are okay and other allies and partners in the region i could. I would envision additional sanctions if north korea continues to violate u. insecurity resolutions and build more nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems and indeed if they should have a nuclear test or a long range a medium range ballistic missile launch. I think there will be Sanctions that will That will ensue. Thank you so much for your time. Today i appreciate The opportunity to go over these things that are very important details to consider when the us is Looking at improving the situation in that region and south korea's a key partner. In doing that. And i thank you for explaining to us. What's important about this. Thank you thank.
Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"target" Discussed on Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"Then they certainly do with the united states it's there's major south korean Investments in china. But there's a lot of money that goes into south korea from china with tourism With with investments etc so china has some very economic Leverage with south korea significant economic leverage with south korea. That's a given and the fact is that they live in the same region If there's tension between south korea and china it it and we saw this with thad with the when we operationalized or our missile defense system in south korea how china us economic the economic leverage. They have to make it difficult for south korea. They shut down many of their companies You In in in china that did business in china. They stopped the flow of visitors to south korea. So that that that revenue was not available. They use a lot of economic tools available to china to make life difficult for south korea. That's on the economic side. There's also political side if there is tension between china and south korea. China can make things difficult for south korea. So there's a little pressure on south korea and that's why it's important for the united states to do with president biden. Did on the twenty first of may is to re affirm our allied relationship our commitment to the mutual defense treaty and that we will always be there and indeed the thirty nine billion dollars of south korean investments in the us our joint efforts on vaccines on pandemics batteries for the climate Related issues to not only re-confirm and our are allied close allied relationship but solidified in economic and g and geopolitical terms soon include our if you will mutual defense treaty and our commitment to provide extended deterrence assurances to the republic of curry. Okay so let's talk a moment about the threat from north korea to south korea and all of its neighbors in the region Essentially north korea has this nuclear capability And has made it clear to the world that had it has it and one way or another. And there's this threat that sort of hangs out there that they could do it at any time if they don't get what they want. So what is it that. North korea wants right now well. North korea wants a few things one of the major things they want. Is they want a normal relationship with the united states and acceptance as a nuclear weapon state. They they want both. And so that's that's a given on the question of reunification. Ultimately the north korea would would move towards if they do move towards reunification would be on their terms and indeed if we ever accept them. We should never do that and i. I don't believe we will ever accept north korea. That would be a disaster. We did you mean accept north korea as a nuclear power as a nuclear weapons state as a nuclear power which is what they want right on normal relationship with the us and acceptance as a nuclear weapons state. And we should never do that. You say i. I think that would be. It would be a terrible mistake. It would be a tear. It would be a mistake. Certainly for the region because other countries will then you know pursue their own nuclear weapons to include south korea to include japan but the element of proliferation. Where some of these nuclear weapons in north korea or the fissile material for dirty bombs could be sold to terrorist organization rogue states. So so it would. Accepting north korea's nuclear weapons state would lend itself to instability significant instability not only on the peninsula the korean peninsula but in the region As a whole ambassador you've dealt directly with north korea's leadership on its nuclear weapons and its interest in normalized relationships with the us and the west And the things that they present each time just non starters because of the way in which they present them you know. Let north korea possessed nuclear weapons. While north korea continues to threaten verbally very demonstrably the us and the west you know using videos and other techniques hacking cyber attacks etc. What is it that. North korea needs to be changed. What is it that. North korea needs to change in order to be taken seriously in terms of trying to get to a point where it's recognized. By the west well north korea needs to commit to complete verifiable denuclearization of obviously. They have their demands if they give up their nuclear weapons which they see as a major deterrent to the united states and others who may seek regime change. But they need to commit to that. And in shane's obviously we've committed often to give them the security assurances economic development assistance in a path to normal relations but the key here is denuclearization in a verifiable manner. They need to change and they need to do what you just said. They need to stop their illicit activities that cyber operations they need to stop counterfeiting our currency our cigarettes pharmaceuticals Methamphetamine they need to stop the criminal activities that they have pursued and they continue to pursue with cyber and they also need to make significant progress on human rights abuses that are going on north korea so there are a number of things. North korea needs to do to be accepted as as a as a normal state State that we can encourage others to invest in foreign direct investments. That could move towards reunification but until they they commit to complete verifiable denuclearization until they stopped there agree gis human rights abuses and until they stop their illicit activities stealing whether it's crypto currency whether it's using cyber go after banks What they did with sony pictures going back to two thousand fifteen was dig into of what they were doing until they can stop those things. They're most countries correctly. Indeed the united states and south korea and others will say. Wait a minute we can't do business with you. You need to make these commitments and you need to start moving towards achieving those commitments and we will give you something in return for that heretofore. We've been unsuccessful. They've built one nuclear weapons. They built more delivery systems. As you just mentioned they're using cyber and they're going after crypto currencies now so they continue with their let's they haven't stopped on their human rights abuses and so forth so there needs to be a significant change from the leadership in north korea. Right so we know what. North korea needs to change. And we know that the us and the west won't that change does the us have in place. What's necessary to make the change. Because i i understand during that summit President biden said that he would be open to meeting with kim jong hoon.
Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"target" Discussed on Target USA Podcast by WTOP
"This is wto p. Original podcast from podcast. One coming up in this episode of target. Usa president joe biden says he's willing to meet with north korea's kim jong hoon but the north koreans are playing hard to get if they persist building more nuclear weapons fabricating more fissile material building more nuclear weapons and even missile delivery systems. And if they should have a nuclear test or a long range missile launch. I mean this would not only be an impediment it would be an. They would exacerbate this relationship in these efforts. And i think we would then go in a different direction ambassador joe detrani former us special envoy to the six party talks with north korea says there's a limited amount of time for north korea to take action. Do have a window. We have definite window of opportunity right now but i believe that window will close after three to four to six months coming up on this addition of target usa national security podcast from wto in washington. Dc this is target usa. Russia could render huge arm to this country north korea's secret missile capable of reaching the whole of the united states dangerous terrorist. Dc is repeatedly mentioned. Is someplace they would like to seek an attack criminal success america as a target on. Its back and on this program. We investigate the threats. The people behind them the agencies fighting them and the impact on you this is target. Usa the national security podcast. I'm jay jay. Green one of the biggest problems for the us for decades has been north korea's interest in nuclear weapons. One of the best tools for dealing with that is the us ally south. Korea may twenty-first south korean president moon jae in came to washington held a summit with president. Joe biden. They talked about a lot of things but they talked mostly about cooperation. Better understand what that discussion regarding cooperation was all about. We turn to joe detrani. He is the former special envoy from the us to. The six party talks with north korea. This was back in the early two thousands so we sat across the table from north korean leadership and understands better than most. What's at stake you ambassador training. We spend a lot of time. Talking about north korea and the korea's With most of the emphasis being on north korea because of its nuclear weapons and it's It's research Into those developing those weapons and propulsion systems and kim jong hoon and many of the theatrics that He has provided the world with in terms of threats to the us and the west but we often Miss or overlook a key component there and that is the work and the existence of south korea's government. And why that's important. There was a summit between President joe biden and south korean president moon jae in last week or at least i should say on the twenty first of may and you are someone who knows better than most about how important south korea is how important it is to north korea and all of these issues that are related. So i'd like to start by asking you to give me your assessment on that summit between president biden. President moon jae-in. No i thought the summit went extremely well. Jj i think the I think president biden and president mugabe and hit it off and It reaffirmed our commitments to the republican career The we talked about the mutual defense treaty. We have with the republic of korea and and how we will You know work to ensure that the extended deterrence commitments to the republic of korea are on the books Valid and we will expand it to cyber space to ensure that everyone understands that. This is a very close alliance is forged with the you know the the crucible of the korean war where we we lost over thirty seven thousand troops and and and south koreans At over seven thousand troops Signed to the us forces in career at that time who who lost their lives also so there's a lot of rich history here. That goes way back to the korean war. So i thought that one well. But i On the on the issue of north korea i think the both countries reaffirmed our commitment for complete verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. And we will work to that end and and Citing the the summit that president former president donald trump had in in singapore and the joint statement with kim who championed kim jong in at that time which spoke about complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. And as we move to transform our relationship so And other declarations of panmunjom doctor spoke about the north and south getting together reconciliation and peace. The south is very important. South korea's very important in this equation because we're talking about a separated korean peninsula where the north has been hostile since the beginning of the korean war. Nineteen fifty towards the south with invasion of the south in nineteen fifty and the significant casualties Throughout that time and then repeated acts of terrorism through the years until twenty ten with the with the sinking of the shonen. Forty-seven south. Korean sale is will kill the time. So there's a lot of history here okay. Very rich history here and and with the goal eventually of of finding peace and the korean war and moving towards a federation and ultimately a reunification of the north and south. This is the goal. But what's impeding at gold significantly. Is that north. Korea has nuclear weapons and they're building more nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems that are a threat and existential threat to south korea to japan and the region and eventually to the united states so until we can resolve this nuclear issue with north korea. We will not see peace. on the korean peninsula. We will not stability in the northeast. Asian region in fact we will see a significant arms race and the possibility of nuclear proliferation in the region. Unless and until we can resolve the nuclear issue with north korea president biden said during a press conference after the summit with president. Moon that The us is committed to expanding cooperation and shaping the shared future between these two countries. So what kind of cooperation is he trying to expand. How does how does that cooperation expand. Well i think those comments that you made was a if you will in the joint. Statement with south korea from those meetings with president biden and the president moon jae in over indicative of all our commitments to the values we both share is countries to writer's so authorization. Let's talk one of those values. I mean we hear those terms a lot and you know we.
The Virtual Entrepreneur
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