38 Burst results for "Tens Of Thousands"
77WABC Radio
"tens thousands" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"If you owe over ten thousand dollars in back taxes or have unfiled tax returns, we can help you take back control. The IRS is the largest and most aggressive collection agency in the world and they can seize your bank accounts, garnish your paycheck, close your business and file criminal charges. Take control of your tax problem now by calling the experts at US Tax Yield and take advantage of the fresh start program and new laws that may allow us to negotiate a settlement for the lowest amount possible. Our team of tax attorneys and enrolled agents can stop collections and get you protected so you can take control of your financial future. US Tax Yield offers a price protection guaranteed quote to get you protected today. US Tax Yield is A plus rated with the Better Business Bureau, so call now. 800 -785 -9132, that's 800 -785 -9132. US Tax Yield, 800 -785 -9132. Coming up every weekday in the 9 a .m. hour, listen for the Fearless Boilers Sid's Take. Sponsored by Fearless Boilers and Pavilion Tankless water heaters. Go to FearlessBoilers .com or PavilionTankless .com for a dealer near you. Fearless Boilers, the world's best built boiler on 77WABC. Resort living can be yours with 361 days of sunshine when the you Residences live at at 400 Central in St. Petersburg, Florida. Now under construction call 727 -205 -8517. That's 727 -205 The Residences at 400 Central in St. Petersburg, Florida. Go to 400central .com, that's the number 400central
Game of Crimes
Fresh update on "tens thousands" discussed on Game of Crimes
"Seinfeld fans know exactly what I'm talking about. So but head on over there. But hey, before we get started into this, we have to give everybody has disclaimers, right? So, you know, consult your warranty, all that good stuff. So but ours is this is a show about crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously. But what we don't we don't take ourselves serious at all. And how do we prove that? How do we prove how do we how do we give people audible proof? I was going to say visible, but it's a podcast. Audible proof that we don't take this seriously. What do we do? We have something special that we call small. Well, no, no, no. What time is it? It's it's time for small town police block. Come on, dude. We've done this 125 times. Surely you've learned it by now. I know what it was. That's what I was saying. Was it time for? It's time for more. That's right. Hey, this is a this is a Christmas themed story that comes to us from Australia and Carlingford, northwest of Sydney, population twenty eight thousand nine forty three. Salute. So Murph, this is this this is a heinous crime. This may this may constitute one of the gravest crimes ever committed in Australia. Oh, what is it? Well, Guy got his van jacked three thirty in the morning. He pulls up to a service station, gets out to fill gas. He has got Christmas themed items inside of his vehicle. He goes in to use the facilities, you know, pay for his gas. And a woman who's being described as of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander appearance in her early thirties with long black or brown hair, wearing dark clothing and carrying a white handbag. She hopped into the van and drove off. So he left it running? No, I think he left the keys in there, though. But in any event, that's that's not the tragedy. The greater tragedy. It contained ten thousand Christmas themed Krispy Kreme donuts. Oh, ten thousand. That that's a major felony. Well, so so the New South Wales police are saying if you have any sweet leads or crispy CCTV footage, donut, keep it to yourself. That's like every cop in the world right now has a tear in their eye. Oh, man. Well, they did they are they did replace the ten thousand donuts, which are handmade fresh daily, according to the courts, they had to get that in there at their intended destinations. We're happy to advise that customers who were intending to purchase who had already orders placed will get their donuts as stock has already been replaced. So and the poor driver, is he looking for a job? I don't know. But I'll tell you what, no greater tragedy than watching ten thousand donuts drive off. Oh, my God. Oh, that's just that. So it makes you want to cry. Yeah. Well, hey, you know, you know how there are whodunnits? Yeah. Well, this is a mood on it. We've done it. OK, comes to us from West Bridgewater. I've got I've got four quick stories, just small town police waters, West Bridgewater, Connecticut, population seven thousand seven hundred seven. So Lou, right. So they get a call. People are, you know, apparently there were some a ruckus going out on one of the ball fields. So police department shows up. Officer shines a flashlight and he catches in the act three head of cattle out on the field. What were they doing? I don't know. But they said nothing to see here, officer. You know, just move along. You know, we're on our way to Chick-fil-A on our way to Chick-fil-A. That's right. Yeah. Hey, another one quick. This one, Bridgewater's a little bit bigger town, but they got a call from a man at a laundromat who reports somebody stole his sneakers from a washing machine. But they did not make a clean escape, though. They were identified. The items were returned to the rightful owner and charges were filed. Very good. Now, where's the where's the catch in this one? There's not. That's just it gets a washing machine, sneakers. They made a clean escape, clean getaway. That was it. That was it. All right. And I'll tell you what.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Left's Sinister Plan: They Need You Stupid and Ignorant!
"In an era of shortened attention spans the left is super tactical politically they need people stupid i mean this they need you dumb and ignorant if you're not dumb and ignorant they can never do what they can do you know what i don't wanna go out of order let's but let's go anywhere jim cut six if you would bill maher uncovered here's what i mean wanted for years to use emergency powers to be able to shut down the economy to show you what they can do when they're in charge fully weaponizing the economy shutting down sectors they don't like they have craved this power forever covid was the perfect vehicle to do it but what's the catch the catch with covid was simple it was never gonna work if you didn't believe covid was the biggest threat to your life ever so they can't have smart people because smart people would like well what's the fatality rate what's the or not how infectious is this that's what conservative ass gas they and were like wait we shouldn't shut the economy down for this thing is bad it's definitely gonna kill some people and that's horrible but this isn't worth shutting down the whole economy cost -benefit dumb liberals were like no way this is the deadliest thing ever it kills a thousand percent of people it's not even possible it doesn't ten thousand percent it's the deadliest virus ever folks it's like hantavirus and Ebola it's like that Dustin Hoffman virus from but outbreak what does that move tapa or whatever the hell it was this is the worst thing ever if you fell for that because you're dumb and because some charismatic lefty told you that you were doing a public good by sitting in your house and while rotting away this virus that had a fatality rate it turns out now which I'll get to later the in show when people under 70 of only 0 .07 they need you to be stupid people like Malay and Trump who cracked through the stupid divide and people start to listen to them they're afraid of that that's why it's not the policies that bother them it's the threat to their power from them play Bill Maher talking about exactly this Bill Maher is a lefty by the way we all know that he's not our friend but once in a while he'll stumble on the truth here's Maher talking about how liberals are just morons that don't know a damn thing about covid check this out but what about liberals you know the high information by the science people? In a recent Gallup survey Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question what are the chances that someone who gets covid will need to be hospitalized the answer is between one and five percent forty one percent of democrats thought it was over fifty percent another twenty eight percent put the chances of twenty to forty nine so almost seventy percent of Democrats are wildly off on this key question and also have a greatly exaggerated view the of danger of covid 2 and the mortality rate among children I'm gonna get back to that point later but I'm serious when I tell you this you you know I know don't like liberals I'm not hiding it liberals listening you don't like me either that's fine we don't have to like each
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "tens thousands" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"In lanham at 7 30. you're listening to wtop washington's news traffic and weather station the wtop producer's desk is wired by ibew local 26 where electrical contractors come to grow evening i'm jenny click thanks for listening rich hunter is our producer the top story we're following the pentagon now is saying a u .s warship and multiple commercial ships have been attacked in the red sea the u .s worship there opened higher in self -defense as part of an hour's long assault according to multiple officials this would mark a matic escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the mid -east linked to the israel hamas war while pentagon the did not say who was behind the possible attacks yemen's huthi rebels later claimed attacks on two ships they described as being linked to israel did not acknowledge though targeting a u .s navy vessel the us central command says it's assessing the situation and downplaying earlier reports that u .s navy vessel was among the targets w .t .p.'s national security correspondent j .j. green joined us earlier with more there been over seventy attacks on u .s. positions in syria and iraq and other places the 24 last hours or so this suggested uh... there might be some changes there u .s. officials speaking on anonymity many said that the attack lasted five hours in the u .s. as carny had intercepted at least one drone during that attack well israel's military says it is expanding its ground operations to every part of israel ordered more evacuations in the crowded south followed by heavy bombardment as it valid that operations there against hamas would be quote no less strong than its offensive in the north the israeli army says it is uncovered more than eight hundred shafts leading to underground tunnels in gaza and the air force has completed ten thousand airstrikes since the fighting began after the hamas attack on october seventh speaking in dubai u .s. secretary of state antony blinken said israel must start thinking about the future of gaza how's it governed where does the security come from how do we begin to rebuild meanwhile israel dropped leaflets telling palestinians to leave parts of hanunis in southern gaza linda gradstein cbs news islam palestinians in gaza say they are running out of places to go the gaza strip bordering israel and egypt is sealed many of the territories two point three million people are crammed in the south after israel ordered civilians to leave the north hopes for another temporary truce are fading after israel has called its negotiators home here in the united states one of three palestinian college students shot thanksgiving weekend while walking vermont in is paralyzed from the chest down a bullet became lodged in his spine twenty -year -old hisham aware tony has launched a go fund me to help the brown university student he should be getting out of the hospital next week his mother tells cnn the fund should help with her son's medical costs air travel for family and other related expenses many parents who sent a child to college say this part wasn't easy talking about filling out a free application for federal student aid but now it looks like that paperwork is being simplified overhauled application will be available to parents and by december thirty first changes include a more streamlined process for submitting tax information in calculate aid eligibility for the first time those who apply will be able to securely and directly transfer their federal tax information from the i r s the formal also reflect updates the student aid calculations and due to eligibility rule changes the education department says pell grants will be available to more students from low -income backgrounds was anderson w t o p news the latest reading test scores are out for one local maryland school system test results for students in early grades in the montgomery county public school system show a positive trend according to recently released data from the school system it's based on the results from the dibbles assessment as it's known short fluency tests that monitor reading progress for kids from kindergarten through eighth grade forty nine point nine percent of kindergarten students achieved or went above benchmark goals for that age group that's up from forty seven percent the year before the percentage also rose for kids in first grade from fifty two and a half percent to fifty eight percent and overall for kids in second grade there was a four point four percent increase the school system says while gaps persist progress is evident in dibbles results across racial and ethnic groups shana steland wtop news virginia governor glenn youngkin says he is extremely worried the about state of our college and university campuses his concern is over what he perceives as a lack of tolerance for free speech he spoke at the summit at the university of virginia which was attended by representatives from every public college in virginia along with leaders from numerous private schools those school reps drafted plans to support free speech in a more proactive way their plans are expected to be reviewed by virginia's education secretary the issue of the top issue of course at the u .s. sponsored climate summit is health for the first time since this summit was first held in 1995 a day has been designated for delegates to consider the impacts climate change has on global health those impacts are severe unfortunately 2022 saw excess deaths of 61 ,000 from heat that's rob butler with the world health organization coming up after traffic and weather is the result of rising interest rates and car prices auto owners falling behind on their loans i'm mark hamrick with details in my report just ahead 736 do people judge you by your missing or broken you teeth should know there is one great solution from the cascade center for dental health and sterling cascades one is a solutionary full mouth implant solution pioneered by dr sri s report earlier with cascades one you receive the highest quality full mouth dental restoration we do it all one doctor one office one price all backed by our amazing guarantee call today to learn more call 866 25 sleep or visit one com dot for most diamond
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Welcomes Walnut Creek's Teri Killgore to Capstone Conversation
"To this episode of The Capstone Conversation. I am your host, Jared Ash. Today, we are joined by Terri Kilgore from the city of Walnut Creek, where she serves as the assistant city manager in overseas economic development. One of the themes of this podcast is to talk about where are our communities going, but it's also important to look at economic development and how cities are continuing to improve post COVID in the new era with increased online shopping. And Walnut Creek has dove into a number of economic development studies and has a plan for the future of its city to grow. So we're going to introduce Terri here to tell us a little bit more about herself. Welcome. Thanks, Jared. It's nice to be here. So I've been with the city of Walnut Creek five years now, and it's been a wild five years with COVID thrown in the middle, as everyone has experienced. It's been a pleasure to serve both as the assistant city manager and economic development director. And while we had to pivot really quickly to help keep our businesses open during the pandemic and that involved outdoor dining and streamlining permitting for HVAC systems and other things people needed to do to survive, it's exciting that we're now back to working on real economic development work is what I would call it, where we're building a strategy and an approach. And we took the intentional path of picking an action plan with a two year horizon. As you mentioned, we did several studies to help inform us on this journey. As you can imagine, most of the data sets that we traditionally rely on, like the census and the American Community Survey, are just really dated and don't reflect the world post -COVID. So we went out to our brokerage community, got some quick updates on the state of the market and different subsectors. And so we think we've built a plan that is going to set our community up for long term success. And the future is bright for Walnut Creek. We obviously have challenges, as does every community. But we're starting from a really strong base. And so we're excited to really dig in and get working on these elements that will really move the ball forward. Awesome. So let's dive in to it. I like the fact that you're talking strategy, short term, long term. A lot of cities are going after just a big fish, right? They looking are to get a company that's going to have five or ten thousand high paying jobs in there. Walnut Creek is having multiple elements into their plans. So let's talk through what did you learn in the study first and then we'll go through elements of the plan. Yeah, the studies kind of reconfirmed a lot of what we already knew about our economy, which is that we are very driven by small to medium companies. We've got some notable headquarters located here as well. But that our bread and butter is really folks who live in the community and work in the community and grow their businesses here. And so there there is one strategy and economic development, like you said, where you go elephant searching and hope to get the one big thing. But that's a really risky strategy. It often takes a very long time to pay off. And so you've got to find a very specific niche where you can market what you have available that meets exactly with these unique needs of these mega companies. And so we looked at it and said that that's one approach. But we already have a nice mix of companies in our economic ecosystem. And I think the growing wisdom over the years in economic development is it's better to do economic gardening, is what they call it, where you help your local companies grow, you try to attract similar industries based on industries that are already present. And so for us, our big market drivers are medical, finance, insurance, real estate, a little bit of tech software, more so. And then a lot of small businesses that thrive in the retail and in the restaurant sectors. And so how do we really help those businesses that are here grow? And that includes reaching out to them and figuring out who do they know, who else might be looking for space, who are their vendors that they wish were close by so that we can continue to build on the existing strength of our market instead of kind of placing a bet on red and hoping everything just lands perfectly.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "tens thousands" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"White house this afternoon followed by that that star studded ceremony will be happening tonight and the president first lady will attend that indonesia's mount marpy has erupted it spewing white and gray ash plumes about ten thousand feet into the air that's according to volcanology and geological hazard mitigation center no one has been hurt but people who live nearby advised been to stay several miles away from the volcanoes mouth authorities have been closely monitoring that volcano for increased activity in recent weeks coming up after traffic and whether some tips for becoming a better negotiator ahead at the blue cross and blue shield federal employee program we're helping you spend less on your prescriptions with f -e the -p medicare prescription drug program eligible members with medicare can pay lower
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Wednesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Wednesday of the 31st week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke chapter 14 verses 25 through 33. Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and say, here is a man who started to build and was unable to finish. Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with 10 ,000 men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with 20 ,000? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way and he turned and spoke to them. If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here intending to build the tower would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he had laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and saying, here is a man who started to build and was unable to finish. Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with 10 ,000 men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with 20 ,000? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way, and he turned and spoke to them. If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making fun of him and say, here is a man who started to build and unable to finish. Or again, what king, marching to war against another king, would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who advanced against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from INSANE Solana Price Prediction! (100X Incoming!)
"It is a great day to discover crypto, everybody. It is one day away from Halloween. I hope you're feeling spooky. The only thing spooky is you're not hitting the like button. We got some insane price predictions from VanEck, one of the largest asset managers in the world. And they have some very, very bullish price targets, but they also have a very bearish price target. We're going to go over those for Solana, plus their nice Bitcoin thesis and why there's going to be a lot of institutional money flowing in, and we're seeing that in the stats as well. Also, we're going to talk about Miles Deutscher. That guy's insane. I've been following his stuff for years. It's really, really interesting. Got some stuff from Ralph Paul as well. Plus, we have a brand new person, an oldie but goodie on the sidecar today. How are you doing today? I'm doing good. First time on the side desk, I think, so I'm going to be testing out, chatting with everybody in the chat. But yeah, when VanEck is pumping your bags, it's a good day to be in crypto. So yeah, I'm loving it. All right. Well, let's look at today in crypto. So we have the crypto market cap. It looks like it's up 1 .7%. I do want to go ahead and hit refresh here. We might need to, I don't know if I have coin, I don't have coin market cap at the time, but we'll look at this. CoinGecko, we do have Bitcoin up slightly. It's about half a percent, so it looks kind of good. But ETH, it's got double the pump, baby. It is up 1 .0 % here. But when we start scrolling down, we see some bigger winners. First big winner we see, well, relative. XRP up 3 .6%. Bigger than that, though, we have Solana. Solana is up 7%. I may or may not have bought Solana this weekend, folks. I may or may not have bought this weekend. That's all I'm going to say. We have Chainlink also looking good. Chainlink is up 3 .2%. Just defying all expectations of a pullback on the short term. And then Avalanche up 4%. But let's look at the biggest ones, the biggest gainers, the biggest losers. I think maybe one of the coins I took profits on, yeah, rollbit, baby. I took profit. I took some more profit. I've taken profit once before. I took profit a second time on rollbit. This is one that we put in the Crucial Crypto newsletter a long time ago. I told you about before the pump sold. I can't remember which peak I sold. I remember going down, I didn't buy more, and now that we're kind of testing this $0 .20 resistance level, I said, you know what, it might be time to exit out. So I put a little into Solana, I put a little bit into USDC. I have a little too much USDC in that wallet, so that's why I didn't go all Solana there. Alright, ThorChain. Look at ThorChain. We did a video on ThorChain. It is up 9 .5%. We did a video on Solana. If you go here to here eight days ago, folks, we did this video. If you haven't watched it, make sure you give it a shout out, give it a like, give it a comment on there. It just made me excited. It made me excited for Solana. Was that the deep dive Solana video? That is the deep dive. Top 3 reasons for Solana pump. I'm not saying we called it, but you know what, if you turn all those notifications, you can get these videos nice and timely. What's your Solana thesis here? No, it's good. I mean, I've liked Solana for a long time. A lot of you guys know I bought it last cycle around $5. It's an interesting layer one. Obviously being pumped pretty hard by institutional money, VC money, something we've been watching for a while. It is a little bit, it's conflicting a little bit when you see these big financial asset managers pumping things because usually when they're coming out screaming insanely bullish predictions that represents a local top or even a macro top. So I don't take everything they say with a grain of salt, $3 ,000 is an absolutely insane price prediction. We're going to get into that a little bit more as far as like what that would actually mean for market cap for it to get to that level. Their base case is a little bit more reasonable in my opinion. But in that video that you did like a week or two ago, it really breaks down the plan that Solana has the roadmap and it's a very strong narrative for the next couple of years. And it's something that people with influence and capital, there's a lot behind it. Jump capital I know is one of the ones behind Solana, a lot of big money behind it. They're going to want to pump their bags and there's a really good narrative around that. So it's fascinating to me when you see somebody as big as Vanette coming out and making these insanely bullish predictions. So it's going to be wild as we get into this. I feel like we're just getting started in this bull market. So keep an eye on who's saying what, but we really need to keep an eye on where the dollars are flowing more than what the headlines are. Yeah. Watch the capital inflows and outflows. We have Love Breakers. DZ, you rule, man. Please listen to our band. Is your band name Love Breakers? We're going to find it. Love Breakers sounds like a UK dating reality show. Love Breakers. Love Breakers. It's like where their mom is like hovering over the date saying, uh -uh, he didn't open the door for you. I'm a Love Breaker now. That's a show. That's a show. Let's go. All right. Let's get back to the show at hand here. And that's looking at the top crypto gainers and losers. We've got a couple more gainers we want to look at. Gala, baby. Gala is pumping. I'm going to put out a short today on gaming tokens. So we have Gala pumping. There's another big pumper today and I want to talk. It's an Axie Infinity ecosystem token. SLP is way up. I'm going to tell you the next two tokens that's on my radar because I see what pumps. What's the next thing to pump? So that's a really good short. You're going to want to make sure you check that out. Probably be out next couple hours. Monero is up 6 .5%. Somewhere Mind Your Biz is feeling pretty happy about that one. That's almost a stable coin, folks. Algorand up 4 .6%. And those who don't know, I mean, let's just, I almost probably can't show it because, Max, I don't know how. Yeah. If you go to the one year chart, that is very unlike most crypto charts. So very, very just kind of trading sideways there. All right. Now it's time for the top losers. Is your coin going to be in there? Is your enemy's coin going to be in there? Is that Jerk Boss, is his coin going to be in here? Is Deezy's coin going to be in there? Let's look. Maker. Maker is down 2 .2%. Then oh, well, yeah, you don't go far. Apecoin. Apecoin is down 2 .1%. But it is up 25 % for the week. Kind of just pumping off this gaming narrative. DYDX is down a little bit. But after that, really, things aren't moving too far down. Decentraland's down. Casper's down. Really, other than that, though, after that, we're in less than 1%. But you're ready to talk some insane price actions. But first, VanEck. They got some other news. They got an insane Solana prediction there. You can see it, 32, 32 .11. What are they saying about Bitcoin? And then we'll get into the Solana stuff. So new spot Bitcoin ETF filing submitted by VanEck is the investment giant. They resubmitted the application to the SEC here. Stitch over there. Oh, look at a little scoochie here. In June, the firm came up with a new application to the securities watchdog for a spot ETF. This came just months after the agency shot down its prior request, though. Is it inevitable though? The Galaxy Digital predicts the much coveted products could attract more than $14 billion. Yeah, we talked about the inflows, potential inflows last week. All right, well, let's see here. And VanEck joins the amendment. Here's the Jeff Seifart. We really got to get a hold of this guy. Him and Eric have just been crushing it lately for Bloomberg. They're the ETF analysts there. But this is the important part. I want to talk about VanEck Bitcoin ETF may use Bitcoin for seed funding. Okay, so why is that important? I thought they all use Bitcoin. No, I'm using cash for the seed investment portion of it. So let's look at this. So according to Scott Johnson, with an extra S there, he speaks Parseltongue, the updated prospectus for VanEck's ETF contains seed funding language similar to BlackRock. However, there's one important difference here. Instead of using cash for seed funding, VanEck recommends using actual Bitcoin. Why do I think that's a good idea? And TJ, I want to bounce this off you. I think Bitcoin is going to go on a largely upward trend over the next 12 months. And so if you do have this ETF, say it comes out in March, say it comes out in January, maybe it comes out in June, maybe it's further down than everybody's expecting here. If you're buying Bitcoin today versus buying Bitcoin in March, well, I happen to feel like you're making a better choice today. So yeah, BlackRock, they're putting in, I'm just throwing out a number here, they're putting in $500 million. For VanEck, they might be putting in the seed amount that's buying actual Bitcoin. Well say we go live in March, who's going to be better off? The people that bought Bitcoin or the people that have cash invested ready to buy Bitcoin? Well I think they're going to be better off buying Bitcoin according to the four -year cycle here. Well, if we look here, what is seed funding? Seed funding is when financial institutions contribute capital to purchase an ETF's underlying assets in exchange for shares that can be traded when the ETF launches. This provides initial liquidity. Think of the rich players getting in on the ground floor. You know, you're going to have, here's how it's really going to work, BlackRock is going to give $10 billion to State Street, who's going to give $8 billion to Vanguard, who's going to give $7 billion to BlackRock, who also gave money to Vanguard, it's just going to be a big circle right there. But then they say, hey, you know, there's no monopoly, there's no monopoly here. Well, VanEck filed for a new application in July 2023, and several other companies including BlackRock, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Fidelity, and Invesco also have filings for potential ETF's before the SEC. I want to see if Jeff has any latest tweet here, because he's always got the new new, the fresh data, and they operate in the morning sometimes, he could catch a tweet like four minutes old. I'm still feeling like March, I guess more and more people are starting to feel January, I'm just going to be the one that goes with the prediction markets. I don't have any inside information with the SEC, I'm not Gary Gensler's nephew, I don't know if they're going to do January, I don't know if they're going to do March, but I will say this, it's increasingly likely that we are going to see an ETF in the next six months, next five months. What odds would you put it that we have it by March? I'm going to put in insanely high odds, you know, I'm really bullish. I'm going to say 85 % plus by March, I don't see it really getting past March. The question in my mind is, do we see it before the end of the year? You brought up several different things there, I think it's fascinating that VanEck's talking about seeding this ETF with Bitcoin rather than with DollarsDZ, you made a good point. Either way, a spot Bitcoin ETF means buying pressure on spot Bitcoin, that's going to be very, very good, it's just a matter of how much buying pressure and when. If VanEck is trying to seed this thing with Bitcoin, the ultimate question becomes, where do they get that Bitcoin? Where does that Bitcoin come from? Because we can see right here, you know, this was put out by Bitcoin Magazine, see if I can back this out just a little bit. Oh, I like the colors there. Yeah, it basically, you can see this is supply on exchanges since May of 2020 and it's just continually dropping, I guess it's auto adjusting my screen over there, but it's the lowest it's been, I think, in about six years. So where is the price, where's the Bitcoin going to come from? Because it's going to create an insane amount of buying pressure on Bitcoin very, very quickly, whether they're converting those dollars into Bitcoin end of this year, early next year, or if they're accumulating all that Bitcoin dramatically quickly right now, it's a good time to be in Bitcoin. And like I said, when you see institutions and hedge funds and trillion dollar asset managers starting to pump your bags, it bodes well for where the price is going. So yeah, I can't wait. Let me, let me crap on my own point here. Here's why it might be bad that they're buying spot Bitcoin versus putting in cash today. Well, imagine everybody's unleashed at once and then, you know, to TJ's point, small amount of Bitcoin on exchanges, what if it was a surprise announcement, Gary Gensler, he knows he's being watched for the one time in his, I'm just joking, you know, he didn't give Goldman Sachs, his cronies, the inside info there. Imagine if every BlackRock employee, Vanguard employee, what if they all just woke up to the same news and they had a spot buy Bitcoin? Well, Vanguard has the Bitcoin already. They wouldn't have to, or VanEck had the Bitcoin already. They wouldn't have to buy it. But if they all had to buy it once, that's when you could see a parabola. That's when you could see that insane amount of just crazy one minute candles, one hour candles, as exchanges just go into FOMO mode as I don't have enough, they don't have enough, I got to hurry up and buy some, I don't care if the price is spiked $10 ,000 in two minutes, buy that Bitcoin now before it goes up $20 ,000. Next thing you know, it is up $20 ,000. That would be the scenario that plays out that way. But people are ready for the Solana price prediction here. I see people talking about it. What do you think? Is it going to hit a new all time high? First, let's get Drew's two cents here. Drew, will Solana hit a new all time high next bull run? What do you say? I'm having to say yes at this point. It's got a lot of the community stuck through it to the really bad parts of the FUD that it ran through with FTX and Sam. He's out of the picture as being handled in courts. I think it's it's going to probably at least hit its previous all time high. All right. All right. I'm tending to agree. I'm more likely than not that we do go above was it 260 or so. So I do think we get strong rejection at three. So we go above it, but barely. That's DZ's two cents here. Where do you come in? New all time high. Yeah, I think I mean, we're basically the previous all time high is about 258. So we're talking that 300 number. I think that was within the base case of Vanex prediction. It it can do that. It's just going to have to keep that narrative. And it's not that's one thing you need to keep in mind when you're investing in crypto. Speculation is part of the game and it's not necessarily the coin that should reach the highest market cap. It's which coin can reach the highest market cap and who's behind it, who's pumping it. All of those things matters. ETF is going to matter. Grayscale, what they're doing with Cardano. You could see how that quickly reignited that narrative. So many people over and thinking Cardano was and I don't know if it'll reach new all time highs. Hey, if you can get institutional money into it, you know, maybe there will be. So, yeah, I think we're going to I think let's see, what do they have? They had the base case at three thirty five, the bear case at ten and then the insanely high case at thirty to eleven. So base case at three thirty five here, which again is just off the bottom of my important note, twenty thirty next bull run. No, no. We're talking about not only the next bull run, if there's still a four year cycle, we're talking about the one after that. It would be a peak in twenty twenty nine if the four year cycle still play out. So two cycles from now, I definitely think a base I would come in at higher than three thirty five conservative. Yeah, I would say three thirty five is slightly high for the next bull run. I would say three thirty five is pretty low for the one following that. This is an interesting number in chat. What do you think of this number? Worst case scenario, ten dollars, ten dollar Solana, not twenty twenty five by twenty thirty. So ten dollar Solana, I feel like that's a little bit bearish. I mean, the chain shut down over a dozen times and it didn't drop. You didn't see huge declines, FTX collapse. And what was their biggest holding Solana by far? They're dumping Solana, they're dumping Solana on everyone's face. Still didn't get what it bounced off ten. Right. And that's as low as it went then. So you're talking about for all time high for next cycle, top ten dollars is a little low. Now let's talk about the bull case number here. I would put this at less than I want to say less than one percent odds, but I would say less than maybe two and a half percent. I would put that it's it's around a one percent chance, maybe a three thousand two hundred and eleven dollars Solana by twenty thirty. I know a lot of people are saying, oh, you have it on the thumbnail. You think it's going to that, don't you idiot? I don't think it's going to go to that. I put it at one percent odds and then that one percent that is you know, that is the hundred dollar gallon of milk, maybe even one percent a little high. What do you guys feel about thirty two hundred dollars Solana? I mean, you got to think they're taking into account a severe impact to the dollar not being as valuable by twenty thirty. I have to imagine that's part of the analysis there. It is fast. It's funny to me when you see Vanek making it couldn't be a more broad from ten dollars to thirty two hundred dollar prediction. You know, you you pretty much covered the entire spectrum there where it's like no matter what happens, you're not going to be, quote unquote, wrong. So it is funny when you see asset managers with more bullish predictions than YouTubers out there. But this is what I think is interesting for the three hundred and fifty dollar mark to be hit. What market cap would be required on Solana? Can you see that? I'll scoot you just a bit. Other way. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. Here you go. So three hundred to get a price of three hundred fifty dollars, you would need a market cap of one hundred and forty six billion, which doesn't say it's high. I mean, that's you're talking about basically a 10 X for Solana, but it's not out of the question when you come over here and you look at that. Basically, there's worse tokenomics. Well, I mean, it's basically getting close to what Ethereum is right now. Ethereum is at 218 and you're asking for Solana to get to 146. So it's like if Solana could get to a market cap similar to where Ethereum is sitting right now, which, again, is very plausible, very feasible. We're talking the entire market coming up. We think the you know, if we move from one point two trillion to a three trillion dollar market cap, a five trillion dollar market cap. Now, again, these would be huge gains all the way around. I do think we'll get back above one trillion for Bitcoin fairly easily. So two, three, four, five trillion for total doesn't seem out of the question and seeing that flow into some of these other top performing layer ones with lower caps right now, it is very feasible to me. So three hundred fifty dollars. It is right in the middle of their insane prediction. Three thousand seems crazy. Ten to your point, Dizzy, I don't see that happening, but right within that, you know, I see it in the pushing new all time highs again, which I think that was 250. So it could easily break new all time highs into the 350. People asking about the leader of Anatoly Yakovenko, I think is how you say his last name, he's the CEO of Solana. If we're going to talk to anyone about Solana, we would probably target him because he would actually know what's happening. All right. Let's talk. All right. We got another article kind of breaking it down to Vanek believes Solana can grow ten thousand percent in value if it on boards. A hundred million users there. So that's a big if a hundred million is a lot of users. That's a lot of people. That's a whole lot of people. That's a whole lot of people stepping for their crypto there. All right. Asset manager Vanek says, hey, we could see a 10K pump there by 2030 if we attract one hundred million users. The most striking prediction is, I guess, is the ten thousand percent pump there. It's only one hundred X, folks. Comparatively, the price target is set at eleven thousand eight hundred. OK, that's for Ethereum there. So, ETH, they're saying going to twelve. Let's go. I like that. I like that for two bulls from now. I would say that's maybe a little bit higher than I'm thinking. But, you know, that's that's plausible. That's definitely doable, especially depending on how deflationary it becomes. You're so everybody feel like it's so conservative this time around. So that's twelve thousand for two cycles. That's because we're hitting these astronomical market caps. You know, I do think we'll get big gains. But, you know, we're talking about Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum, these top ten coins. Once they 10X, it's a whole lot more work to make that 3X. Just because it's going to be a giant boulder. You know, sure, your gaming token, it's a little pebble. You can you can flick it and get a 50X. But when you have this giant boulder called Bitcoin, it takes a significant move just to move at 10 percent. So, yeah, I mean, I do think ETH.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep402: Turn Expectation Into Appreciation
"If you have five listeners and you're grateful for those five listeners and be able to serve them every single week or every single day, but you're sitting there grateful that you can serve these five people, you have a lower expectation and a higher amount of gratitude. You're going to be happy. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. This week I saw a reel on social media. I don't know if they're called reels or stories or what, but this week I saw one and it was profound, if you will. It was an author of a book who was talking about how people become unhappy. Like, what is it that makes you an unhappy person? And he started talking about basically the dynamic between two different things. And I can't quote him and I'm not going to take credit for it, but unfortunately I'm not going to quote him. I don't remember where it was or how to find it. Anyway, he talked about the difference between our expectations and our gratitude. And he basically says like, we're extremely happy people if we have very low expectations and very high gratitude. And we're still happy if we have high expectations, so long as our gratitude is a little bit bigger. And we're still still happy when our gratitude is not very high, but our expectations are even smaller. What is the point? What is the common ground here? The common ground is when you are more grateful than you have expectations, then you're going to be happy. And this I know goes into many, many forms of your life, your podcast. If you have an expectation of I want a million listeners, and then you have a hundred thousand people listening, you're going to be like, I need 10 times that, and you're going to be crying. You're going to be sad. You're going to be depressed. Why? The reason why is because your expectation was set pretty high and your gratitude wasn't there. Now, if, for example, you have five listeners and you're as grateful as heck for those five listeners and be able to serve them every single week or every single day, depending on how often you publish your podcast, but you're sitting there grateful that you can serve these five people. You have a lower expectation and a higher amount of gratitude. You're going to be happy. Now I want to talk a little bit about our title today is turn your expectation into appreciation, turn the expectation into appreciation. So again, if your appreciation or your gratitude is high and your expectations are low, you're going to be great. So when you're dating somebody, you want to have a low expectation. Like if you're thinking, oh, I'm going to get lucky tonight, for example. And you don't, well, maybe you're going to be depressed and maybe you're going to think that it was a bad date. I don't know who you are or what you think, but just let's just use that as an example. Let's say that you are the type of person who definitely wants to get married. And you're with somebody who doesn't want to get married. And the thing that you think is, man, I don't have everything that I want. I don't have everything I want. I expect this. I expect marriage or whatever. You're going to be ungrateful and you're going to have high expectations. So are you going to be happy or sad? You're going to be sad. Let's look at all those people that complain all the time. Think about somebody that, you know, maybe it's more than one person that, you know, but just maybe even close your eyes. If it's safe, think about somebody who is always complaining. Well, that person has their gratitude level is way too low. They need to start freaking appreciating some shit. Don't they need to start looking at the world and seeing how great the world is. Now there is optimists and there's pessimists and you might say, no, I'm neither. I'm a realist. I assume you probably are thinking that you're a realist because everybody says that they're a realist, but really they're either an optimist or a pessimist. And so if you're looking at things and you're always looking at the bright side of stuff, you're probably going to be more grateful. You're going to be happy about any situation. So that means your expectation about things is probably not too high. It might be high and it might be low. That part doesn't matter. What matters is, is that your gratitude level or your appreciation is higher. So when I was years ago and of course, five ish years ago, I started turning this around. I was the father and sometimes it makes me cry to think about this, but I was that dad who had my kids and they always wanted to show me stuff. They were like, dad, look at this. Look what I built. Look what I made. Look what I drew. Look what I can do with my marbles. And I'll be honest, like my expectation was probably too high because they were really young. They were really, really, really young back then. And I was like, okay, you put a piece of wood on and the marble just rolls off and you think that's cool. That's not that cool. And I didn't say it to their face. I wasn't saying that, but I'm thinking like, okay, wow, good job. And here I am being like, man, I just wish I could work more. If I just didn't have my kids and I could really make a lot of money and it's just too bad this. And I was the pessimist. I was the person who had higher expectations. I wanted to be a multimultimillionaire and I didn't have a high enough gratitude. I thought my kids were holding me back. And what ended up happening is I got fat. I got lazy. I got overweight. I got angry. I yelled at the kids. Our relationship got weak because I had low gratitude. Then I turned around and I started practicing gratitude in the morning. So I would end in it and in night and anytime I was stressed. So there was three times that I had to practice gratitude before I got a bad out, before I got out of bed, when I got in bed, before I went to sleep. And a lot of people do this with prayer. Now I don't pray, but I try to express gratitude. I try to have a relationship with God or the universe or nature or many gods or who knows, but I try to spend that time to be grateful. And so in five years ago, as I record this, I came to a day that somebody said, you need to start practicing gratitude. And I did. And my relationship got better and everything else got better. My health got better. I started making more money, et cetera. The points that we're trying to make is I need you to also turn your expectation into appreciation, because when you do that, you're going to have a better chance of actually being happy. And if you're happy, what's going to happen? Your health will be better. Your relationships will be better. Your business will be better and your podcast will be better. So this doesn't only apply to your podcast. This doesn't only apply to yourself. This applies to all of the family that you're around, all of the relationships that you have, business relationships, loving relationships, romantic relationships, family relationships. It's going to increase that because you express some gratitude. Now, I'm not saying that you're going to turn into this optimist that's always being like, oh, everything's great all the time. I'm not saying you have to be like unreal about it. I'm just saying that when you look at the bright side, when you count your blessings, when you see where some people are, maybe you have to think about a different country, maybe you have to think about human trafficking. Who knows what you have to think about? You have a shit ton of things that you should be very, very grateful for. And when you bring your gratitude level above your expectation level, everything else will fall into line. Looking forward to seeing you on the next episode. Don't go anywhere. I'll see you there. Oh, hey, because three of my clients came to me recently looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money, we put together a resource for some of our clients. And I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making twenty six hundred a month. Another one forty five hundred a month. And the third is making between five thousand and ten thousand each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors and hopefully also be making twenty six hundred forty five hundred or between five and ten K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all three of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just going to our website, growyourshow .com, but put in forward slash templates, growshow .com forward slash templates, and then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1444: Prepare for $10M Bitcoin Price Tsunami - Michael Saylor
"Happy stat stack and Saturday. Welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod. In today's show, we have a lot to cover. I'm going to be breaking down the latest Bitcoin technical analysis, as well as breaking news. Eighty four percent of all the Bitcoin supply has not been moved in over six months. Let's frickin go. Also, Bitcoin hashrate explodes higher to five hundred and forty five quintillion extra hashes per second. A new record quoting the high priest Bitcoin. The hash adjusted implied price for Bitcoin is now in the mid three hundred thousand dollars. Send it. Let's frickin go. Also, breaking news. Alex Jones lost ten thousand Bitcoin and a stash gifted by the high priest, Max Kaiser. But Max Kaiser says he can regain it by doing a quiz. That sounds pretty damn good. Wouldn't you say? Also in today's show, Wall Street Journal corrects their article, citing Hamas crypto terrorism funding data, which we all know is nothing more than Bitcoin FUD. Also breaking news. Crypto rug pulls leaves hundreds of Central African Republic investors penniless. That's right. There is a reason why El Salvador is the standard for nation state Bitcoin adoption. You can say that again. Also in today's show, the SEC is considering eight to 10 spot Bitcoin ETF applications. According to their chairman, Gary Gensler, I'll be breaking down the latest updates with when these approvals are likely. We're also going to be discussing the latest from Michael Saylor. He says, prepare for a Bitcoin price tsunami. I'll be breaking down his 10 million dollar Bitcoin price prediction. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Halving 2024! (YOU Need To Know This)
"Stop losing money in this market trading and investing impatiently stop looking at price look at the data We're breaking down a core fundamental principle that will help you navigate this market What's up everybody welcome back to discover crypto, my name is Kelly Kellum here with the bit lab But we're breaking down a core fundamental that everybody no matter where you're at in the crypto ecosystem Needs to know to navigate this market we're talking about the Bitcoin having what is the Bitcoin having and how can it affect my? investment in trade decisions first things first if you've ever heard of this stick around because we're gonna be breaking down several charts that help you Identify the roadmap to give you those ideas about where good Accumulation zones are where you should be likely buying Scaling in to be prepared for the next parabolic run and where you can likely start taking some profits off the table It's all in the charts. It's all in the data. So what is the Bitcoin having? Well the having is Essentially mining rewards that get halved every four years or roughly three years in ten months every two hundred and ten Thousand blocks the having occurs now because blocks get confirmed roughly every ten minutes It extrapolates out to about three years in ten months three years and eleven months depending on the congestion on the network and different factors So we call it a four -year cycle and understanding where we're at in the market cycle helps determine What type of strategy you should be taking to really dominate and navigate this market profitably now? Why do we have the having though? What is it? Well, if we look to this chart right here a dollars worth we can see that this is I mean an absolute Demolished chart of bearishness. This is the value of your dollar whether or not you're in the u .s Or anywhere else in the world. This is the story of fiat currencies for the history of humanity for the history of currency the Devaluation of that currency through inflation now does Bitcoin have inflation it absolutely does but you know, it's different Satoshi Nakamoto Whoever he she or they were we can see they programmed in a known Supply schedule a known inflation schedule we can see with this chart right here back in early 2009 Miners were getting 50 Bitcoin per block mined here we can see and starting in 2012 this cut in half down to 25 and then it cut in half again down to 12 and a half and then it had yet again to where we're at Currently at about six point two five Bitcoin per block mined all the miners on the network They're all agreeing on all the transactions and each block and they say, okay Yeah, that's good and they compete to solve a very difficult cryptographic Problem and whoever wins that basically gets some mining reward from mining that block This keeps the entire Bitcoin network secure. It keeps it transparent. It's what gives the intrinsic value Truly to Bitcoin. So how can we utilize this programmed schedule of inflation? That's reducing by half every two hundred and ten thousand blocks or every four years the four -year cycle well We can utilize it by understanding that there has been a historic trend on how the Bitcoin price has Responded to these different periods around the having it gives us a schedule for bull markets bear markets and periods of accumulation Those periods of accumulations are really what every one of us should be the most interested in But you'll see on these charts in a moment Those tend to be the hardest times To make the decision to buy because so many FUD stories out there so many people are saying oh it's Bitcoin dead Well, all of you all of us that are looking at this for your cycle when everybody else is scared we get prepared That's what we're doing here. So let's go ahead and break this down So let's break down some context and then we're gonna go through some charts and see how on schedule this is Well, we've had massive rallies around each having post having we've never looked back to this prices Bitcoin was When the last having occurred we also see that the digital scarcity that we're having a reduction in the amount of new supply Showing that we have digital scarcity We have the most coveted thing in an asset meaning that you understand what the supply ratio is going to be You don't have to worry about new asset being flooded on the market like the US dollar with all this Out -of -control money printing that we're seeing here in Canada and in the UK and Argentina and everywhere in the world Roman Empire, you know, it's been on my mind Roman Empire This is exactly what this is all about the devaluation of currency and the having cycle on Bitcoin that fixes it Also knowing what our absolute total supply can ever be 21 million This all goes towards having a stronger asset each cycle So the having cycles are also on a four -year basis which happen to line up with the election cycles here in the US Which also helps drive the economy and drives the market and Bitcoin does well when there's a lot of capital in the market So this is a benefit to us then we also see institutional adoption Every having event has historically brought rising mainstream interest and institutional engagement We all are aware of the BlackRock spot ETF on the horizon and grayscale and invest go and bitwise and 21 shares There's so much on the horizon in addition to the having that's coming up here And if you're watching this later There's always going to be a having coming up all the way until about 21 30 or 21 40 when the last Bitcoin is mined So let's talk about this one more step here Unlike the monetary policy of state -issued currencies which unfolds through political processes and human institutions Bitcoin's monetary policy is written into code shared across the network This means everybody's agreeing on it and it's programmed into how things operate where central banks all of our money You know this printed fake money that all of us use the world over Central banks control the money supply and start contrast to bitcoins having block reward the supply of the dollar Has roughly tripled since 2000 so they're printing out of control.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1410: Bitcoin Will Hit $10,000,000 Per Coin - Binance CEO CZ
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis. And also I'm going to be sharing with you a 48 ,700 Bitcoin price target, pre halving according to a top analyst. Also did you know it was exactly six years ago today, China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time and ever since the Bitcoin price action is up 600 % and the mining hash rate is back at all time highs. Also quitting Max Kaiser, Bukele has restored the human rights to 7 million Salvadorians that have been taken away by murderous runts, the British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story of the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele -nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice preach. Also in today's show, Mt. Gox repayments delayed yet again. Creditors are waiting on Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash and Yen payments until next year in 2024. We'll also be discussing, according to this latest report, Coinbase currently holds 5 % of the entire Bitcoin supply in existence. That's right. While Coinbase holds 25 billion in BTC, the exchange only owns around 200 million in Bitcoin and its wallets. We'll also be discussing the catalyst, which will catapult the Bitcoin price action. According to skybridge capitals, Anthony Scaramucci will also be discussing the latest with the Binance CEO CZ setting the record straight on $250 million loan claims. That's right. The US court had recently denied an inspection plea by the SEC. I'll be breaking down this latest FUD and speaking of CZ, the Binance CEO predicts the Bitcoin price will reach $10 million per coin. In fact, a couple of years back in an interview, he said, if all of the major institutions allocate 1 % Bitcoin, we're going to see 1000 X or more growth of the Bitcoin price. And if you run the math, 1000 times today's price action is 26 to $27 million per BTC. 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 crypto news alerts .net. Again, that's crypto news alerts .net and welcome everyone just joining us. This is podcast episode number 1410. I'm your host JV and today is September 23rd, 2023. So welcome to another sat stacking Saturday. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do here each and every day, seven days a week. We can see Bitcoin back in the green trading above 26 .6 and we also have ether back in the green trading at roughly $1 ,600. The market cap is sitting at 1 .06 trillion with roughly 17 billion in volume. In the past 24 hours, we've got Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and the ether dominance at 18 .2 % as Bitcoin continues outpacing Ethereum and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we've got theta lead in the pack up 7 % trading just under 64 cents followed by rocket pool up 4 % trading at $21 .63, followed by chain link up 4 % trading at $7 .18 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, we have WeMix leading this pack up 15%. We have PLS up 8 .2 % and XRD up 11, I mean 7 .4 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 47, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 43 in fear, last week also a 43 and last month a 41 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you have been stacking M -Sats and taking advantage of the recent dip in dollar cost averaging? Let me know. And how many of you are anticipating Bitcoin price action to maybe dip a little further south before packing some new positions? Let me know how you feel with the current status. And also just quick reminder, we're almost at the end of September historically, September is the worst month out of the entire year for the Bitcoin price action, but it's always followed by up tober, which is historically one of the most bullish months for Bitcoin. So we only have another week until we get out of September. So we'll see how this is likely to play out. Let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Bitcoin failed to reclaim 27 ,000, though we came close. It stalled at 26 ,500 as of right now. Meanwhile, the altcoins are in no better shape with minor losses coming from most of the larger cap ones. With Chainlink, the only one with a notable price increase. So last week was expectedly less volatile, aside from the brief spike on Saturday that pushed Bitcoin then to the multi -day peak of 26 ,400. But after failing to continue upwards, Bitcoin retraced at 26 ,000 and spent the rest of the weekend there. Then Monday didn't start all that positively either, but finished the way. Bitcoin went on the offensive and soared above 27 ,000 for the first time in weeks, but then shortly dumped after. But the bulls kept the pressure on and pushed Bitcoin to a new 20 -day peak at 27 ,500 on Tuesday. The next few days were rather calm with Bitcoin maintaining 27 G's, even after the US Fed's decision to stop raising the interest rates. Yet Bitcoin's momentum disappeared by Friday as it fell to 26 ,400. It even tried to bounce off the end of the day, but failed and currently stands at 26 ,500. Its market cap is south of 520 billion, while its dominance over the alts still just inches shy of 49%. So there you have it. And as we mentioned a little earlier, the altcoins, a lot of them are also in the red with the exception of Chainlink, which seems to be outpacing the rest of the major alts. Now for a prediction from Titan of Crypto, here's what he shared on X. Bitcoin 48 ,700 before the halving rocket ship to the moon. You might want to bookmark this one. Fam, never in history the halving occurred without Bitcoin reaching the 78 .6 % Fibonacci retracement level. So first off, first cycle price reached this four months before the halving, and the second cycle it was two months before, and then on the third cycle it was 12 months before. The next halving is now roughly six months away. Bitcoin might reach the 78 .6 % Fibonacci level within this period as it currently lies at 48 ,700, but the million dollar question remains, will this time be different? So as we enter this fourth halving, let me know where you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to hit before we have liftoff. I mean, obviously that would be a bullish scenario setting us up for a perfect price discovery in 2024 post halving. So I cannot wait. I hope the analyst is right. And if you didn't know, it was exactly six years ago. China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time because guess what? You can't ban Bitcoin. You can try. Good luck with that. And ever since the price action on the King Crypto is up 600 % and the mining hash rate continues to hit all time highs. And as you know, hash rate is a good indicator for the strength of the network, meaning the market cap is just north of only $500 billion. And as Max points out here, referring to Bukele, he has restored the human rights of 7 million Salvadorans that have been taken away by murderous runts. The British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story, the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele Nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice. Massive shout out to Najib Bukele and the people of El Salvador. Which country do you feel is likely to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender next? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments below. I feel it's going to be another Latin American country. I'd say a great candidate for that is Argentina, which has hundreds of millions of people. We have Javier Malay, the pro presidential candidate. There is a 70 % chance plus that he is elected as the president. And we already know the likelihood he could make Bitcoin a legal tender, especially being orange -pilled by Max Keiser, who is the senior Bitcoin advisor for President Bukele. As Max has already announced, he can't wait to touch down in Buenos Aires to orange pill Javier Malay. Then we also have Mexico. We have people like Ricardo Salinas, the third richest man in Mexico, very pro Bitcoin, claiming Bitcoin has been his best investment ever because, again, Max orange -pilled him back in 2014. Then we have Brazil and so many other countries that make Bitcoin a potential to become legal tender. And we all know that's going to be a game changer. And that's just another catalyst on top of the Bitcoin halving scheduled in six months in 2024, plus the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. So can you say fireworks lays ahead? Let's go. Now let's discuss the latest more bullish news, meaning Mt. Gox is going to be delaying these payments, which means no crypto is going to be dumped onto the open market anytime soon, which again is good for the hodlers. Check it out. Now we got Nobuaki, the Mt. Gox trustee in charge of the funds owed to the exchange creditors, updated the public on September 21st, two days ago, according to the trustee, because of the lengthy discussions with specific payment providers, he could not make the October 31st deadline. That was the initial deadline, fam. And because of this reason, the repayments will start next year. And so they say, quitting him here. Therefore, with the permission of the Tokyo district court, the rehabilitation trustee changed the deadline of the base repayment, the early lump sum repayment and the intermediate repayment from October 31st, 2023 Japan time to October 31st, 2024 Japan time, respectively. By the letter of the Kobashi details, the Mt. Gox creditors waited nine years for payments. Good Lord. Currently, they're owed one hundred and forty one thousand six hundred and eighty six BTC plus one hundred and forty two thousand eight hundred and forty six Bitcoin cash and sixty nine is that billion yen. Good Lord. I'd love to know what that equates to in dollars anyways, though the delay has been extended. The creditors who have completed their claims might receive the payment by year's end, quoting them again. Rehabilitation creditors who have provided the necessary info to the rehabilitation trustee will see the payments made in a sequence as early as the end of this year, according to the letter. However, this schedule could change. Kobashi also said that due to the high volume of inquiries regarding the process, the rehabilitation team might not respond promptly. Well, that doesn't sound so promising, but I guess it's a good sign that most of this cash is not going to be dumped off any time soon, as there's a lot of FUD that's always circulating. The Mt. Gox, you know, sell off is going to crash the entire market. I think that is very unlikely and is nothing more than FUD. And again, we're gearing up for the most bullish sentiment in the four year cyclical cycle amongst us in twenty twenty four. So versus being in fear, I would be very optimistic about what's to come for the king crypto and the crypto market as a whole. But what are your thoughts, fam? Let me know in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss the largest crypto exchange in the United States. Clearly, it is Coinbase. The CEO is Brian Armstrong. But did you know, according to this latest report, they currently control and own over five percent of the Bitcoin in circulation. That's pretty hefty. And let's break this one down. And how many of you have used the Coinbase crypto exchange before? Let me know in the comments below. Here we go. Blockchain intelligence platform ARKAM recently identified the crypto exchange Coinbase holds almost one million Bitcoin in its wallets like, whoa, the coins are worth more than twenty five billion dollars at the current prices. Now, according to ARKAM, the exchanges holdings amount to almost five percent of all the existing Bitcoin. ARKAM said Coinbase holds a total of nine hundred forty seven thousand seven hundred and fifty five BTC. And at the moment, Bitcoin circulating supply is around nineteen million four hundred ninety three thousand five hundred thirty seven, according to coin info on CoinGecko. And as ARKAM shared here on X, ARKAM now identified twenty five billion of Bitcoin's Coinbase reserves with one million, approximately Bitcoin on chain. This makes Coinbase the largest Bitcoin entity in the world on ARKAM, with almost five percent of all the Bitcoin in existence, almost as much as Satoshi Nakamoto. Crazy, right? Furthermore, ARKAM noted that it has tagged and identified thirty six million Bitcoin deposits and holding addresses used by the exchange. And according to ARKAM, Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around ten thousand BTC. And based on the exchanges financial reports, the intelligence company believes that Coinbase has more Bitcoin than are yet labeled and could not be identified. And while Coinbase holds over twenty five billion worth of Bitcoin in its wallets, the exchange only owns around ten thousand of all the Bitcoin in which it holds, which is roughly two hundred million dollars, according to the recent data. Meanwhile, community members express varying reactions to the news about the amount of Bitcoin on the centralized exchange in which they hold. Some believe it's a sign to withdraw their Bitcoin from the exchanges, warning hodlers not to wait until the exchanges start to halt withdrawals. Others say that since there are legitimate concerns over cold wallets, there is no good way to store your assets. I'd like to chime in real quick. Obviously, if it's not your keys, it's not your coins. So while a custodian such as Coinbase can hold your crypto, you've got to also note that it's not yours. So if something were to happen, hypothetically, like we've seen with FTX and the collapse last year, then not your keys, not your coins, they don't belong to you at the end of the day. So you've got to start to weigh the risk reward with having a custodian such as Coinbase or a centralized exchange hold your coins versus taking the responsibility for yourself and learning how to self custody your own crypto and call storage such as with a Bitcoin cold wallet, such as a treasure. So I just wanted to point that out. There's no right or wrong way to hold your crypto. You've got to do what's in your best interest, of course. So, you know, I mean, just want to keep it real at the end of the day. So check it when it comes to Bitcoin ownership by companies, business intelligence for MicroStrategy still owns most Bitcoin. I believe it's over one hundred and fifty two thousand eight hundred BTC, to be exact, worth over four billion dollars at the time of this recording, making them the largest publicly traded company to have Bitcoin on their balance sheet. Now, another major company that controls over six hundred thousand BTC is Grayscale in their GBTC product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which they just recently had a lawsuit against the SEC with the plan to convert their trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF. So considering they already control the underlying asset in the sum of over six hundred thousand BTC makes them a pretty strong contender. Wouldn't you agree? Let me know your thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the Bitcoin price likely to catapult along with the altcoin to coin to SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci. Let's break this down. Shout out to the Mooch, SkyBridge Capital founder Scaramucci is detailing how one catalyst could have a bullish impact on Bitcoin, as well as the alt. In an interview with the Wolf of Wall Street, Scott Melker Scaramucci says that a spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved in the first quarter of twenty twenty four, which seems to be a ninety five percent likelihood, according to top ETF analyst at Bloomberg, Eric Balchunes. So according to SkyBridge Capital founder, the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF and the Bitcoin halving, which is expected to occur in April of twenty twenty four, could combine to ignite a crypto bull market. No, it's not. It could combine. It will combine. Just saying. Quitting him here as Wall Street or products on Wall Street are sold, they are not bought. And so there is going to be tens of thousands, if not one hundred thousand plus people at these Wall Street firms selling these products to their traditional investors. So people that are in Bitcoin understand the finite supply of Bitcoin, right? We all know there's a finite limited supply, 21 million, and they understand the nature and the quality the Bitcoin has. This will push Bitcoin up. Of course, it will have a dramatically positive effect on the altcoin market because it will lead to more capital into digital properties so people can think whatever they want. They can think short term about the near term volatility of Bitcoin. But these macro positive factors are overwhelming. And according to Scaramucci, the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF filed by giant asset managers such as BlackRock, who controls over 10 trillion in assets under management and Fidelity, that controls over four and a half trillion in assets under management, can see Bitcoin increasing its market cap by roughly 24 times from the current level. We'll send it. Let's go quoting the Mooch here. It is important that now the largest asset manager in the world who started out with some level of skepticism related to digital assets and Bitcoin is now willing to adopt Bitcoin. I mean, I guess they mean BlackRock is willing to adopt Bitcoin, but even more important than that, they're willing to explain to their clients. I think BlackRock now has 13 trillion dollars in assets under management. So for them, seven trillion for Fidelity. While these numbers are higher than I even imagine, while their clients need exposure to digital property like Bitcoin. And so we have a five hundred billion dollar plus market for Bitcoin. So you and I know gold is at 12 trillion ish, depending on where it's trading. But yes, 12 trillion. There is no reason why Bitcoin couldn't get gold. So there you have it. And to watch this video interview he did with Scott Melker entitled 37000 Bitcoin. Can it skyrocket 35 percent? Check the show notes below the video in the description. And I think we all could agree it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin returns to price discovery mode, virtually meaning entering new all time highs. My personal prediction is sometime in 2024, considering the two biggest catalysts, which we just covered, the Bitcoin halving and Bitcoin ETF approval, which we know is going to be a given, especially considering the SEC is not going to be able to push it back and push back that deadline any longer because, you know, they just they have been pushing it back now for 10 years while they continue to approve futures ETFs, which can allow them to spoof and manipulate the market, which is all by design. At the end of the day, there's not new under the sun and three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth. But just saying. Anyways, fam, now let's discuss the ongoing fight against CZ, the finance CEO with this 250 million dollar loan. And then I'll be breaking down his 10 million dollar price prediction and in fact sharing a transcription of him claiming that Bitcoin can thousand X from the current price, which would ultimately mean not 10 million, but we're talking twenty six to twenty seven million dollars per coin. Let's break this down. So here we go. First, with the FUD, the Binance CEO, CZ Shangping Zhao had refuted a recent report alleging that he received the 250 million dollar loan from BAM Management, the company that serves as the holding entity for Binance US. Now, how many of you have used Binance US or Binance before as the exchange? Let me know, fam. The development comes amidst Binance's struggles with plunging trading volume as the world's largest crypto exchange faces mounting lawsuits and increased scrutiny, regulatory which seems to all be by design by the SEC and the regulators. Right. The report published by Decrypt September 19th drew its conclusions from court documents associated with the ongoing lawsuit involving Binance and the United States. SEC, according to the news agency's interpretation, the Binance US legal representatives asserted in the documents that BAM Management US Holdings had issued a quarter billion dollar convertible note to CZ back in December. CZ, however, challenged the accuracy of the report when he tweeted the following. The amount of wrong information is just they got the direction wrong. I loaned 250 million dollars to BAM a while back, not the other way around, and have not taken it back. The Binance CEO clarified that the loan arrangement was, in fact, the opposite of what was reported in the post. The exec explained that he had extended a 250 million dollar loan to BAM Management and asserted that he had not yet received the payment. So there's nothing new under the sun. Just more FUD, it seems like, fam. The legal battle has taken a toll on Binance US, which saw a flurry of employee departures. The US SEC alleged that Binance was not cooperating in the ongoing probe and even claimed that BAM refused to make essential witnesses available for deposition. Concerns were also raised on CEFFU, which happens to be a custody service offered by Binance's international arm, Binance Holdings Ltd. The SEC's filing claimed that the platform appeared to be in violation of a previous agreement designed to prevent the transfer of the assets abroad. And despite the scathing attacks by the financial regulator, Binance scored a small win this week. The SEC's motion to approve an inspection into Binance US was denied by the USDC District Judge, Zia Farokhia. So there you have it. I mean, the ongoing FUD will more than likely continue, as obviously Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world and regulators seem to have a problem with them and want to go after them for whatever apparent reason. So, like I said, hopefully in the end, you know, truth is revealed and the real story versus all the FUD and, you know, the manipulation of the price action and all the shenanigans we continue to witness in the market. And with that being shared, now let's dive into the Binance CEO, CZ and his 10 million dollar price prediction, as well as him predicting that Bitcoin price action could even a thousand X from here, sending the Bitcoin price parabolic to 26 or even 27 million dollars per coin. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Here we go. JV, have you ever heard of him? A crypto YouTube influencer from Crypto News Alerts remembered CZ's prediction. You're damn right I did. The Bitcoin would reach 10 million per coin. JV referred to the statement in a recent video uploaded on YouTube where he analyzes various aspects of the Bitcoin market development. Now, JV looked back at CZ's Bitcoin prediction while analyzing the Bitcoin CEO's recent Twitter comments. And in a Q &A session on July 5th, CZ addressed several issues, including Binance's reaction to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny. He also spoke about the rising interest of institutional investors in crypto currencies, as well as the proposed BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF. CZ made the 10 million dollar price prediction back in 2021. In fact, I have the article already pulled up and I'm going to be reading word for word what he shared. Following MicroStrategy's announcement, allocating Bitcoin for the corporate strategy, CZ based his analysis on the possibility of several corporate companies, major institutions across the world, allocating just one percent of their corporate treasury into Bitcoin. And according to CZ, that would lead to a thousand X growth in the value of BTC. JV highlighted CZ's welcoming approach to institutional investors in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and CZ noted that advantages in traditional finance firms they bring to the crypto industry, despite concerns about their intentions clashing with Bitcoin's decentralized nature. And according to JV, CZ identified two key factors driving Binance's strategy for the next 18 months. They include the upcoming Bitcoin halving event now less than six months out, as well as, you know, we could be seeing a Bitcoin ETF here in the near future. The Bitcoin community expects the next halving to occur in April of 2024. Now quoting CZ word for word from the initial interview he made on Bloomberg Radio predicting a potential 1000 X increase in the Bitcoin price action. So here's what he had to say. Right now, I think only 11 companies again, this is right around the time that MicroStrategy announced putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet. They announced having allocating some talking about Bitcoin, like usually less than one percent of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin. And we think that it is most likely what caused the initial price rise. I think MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor started it first, but there are six hundred and fifty thousand companies in the world, like relatively established companies in the world, and their treasury is huge. Preach. So if all of them talking about these major institutions only allocated just one percent to Bitcoin, we are going to see, I don't know, 1000 X more growth in the Bitcoin price. And if they allocate more than one percent, then it's going to be even bigger. So I think people don't quite get the magnitude of the wave that is about to hit us. Now, let's run that math one more time. Fam, today's price is roughly twenty six thousand five hundred times that by one thousand. He's talking about a twenty six and a half million dollar Bitcoin price action. The potential if they only put one percent of their strategic reserves into Bitcoin, you do the math. If it's five X and five percent, what are we talking? One hundred and twenty million dollar Bitcoin price. Just saying this is coming from CZ, the world's richest man in crypto. So very powerful words indeed. Let's get back to this prediction of what he shared. So the finance CEO estimates that the flagship crypto can go up anywhere from nineteen hundred percent to twenty thousand percent from the current price levels from the time he made the prediction. And he goes on to share with price predictions. It is really, really difficult. I think it can go to, I don't know, one million dollars, ten million dollars. It is very hard to tell. And again, if we literally did a thousand X from today's price, we're talking twenty six and a half million per BTZ. So CZ also reveals that the exchange is onboarding new users as an at an unprecedented sustained rate during the bull run, outpacing its user growth during the twenty seventeen bull run. So again, this was during the twenty twenty one bull run. Here's what he had to share. Just to give people the idea, in twenty seventeen, when Bitcoin hit the peak of about 20 G's, we were seeing three hundred thousand new registered users per day. And that only happened for a couple of days. And that kind of trailed off and became slower. Now we're seeing sustained new user registrations above the peak and sustained like for over two to three months. So could you imagine running the world's largest crypto exchange and having over three hundred thousand new registered users every single day for like 90 days straight? That is insanity. And that's the previous market. I think twenty twenty four is likely going to outpace the previous market as Bitcoin becomes a common household name and as Bitcoin game theory continues in full effect. You have presidential candidates making Bitcoin a big determining factor. We have people like Ron DeSantis, Kennedy Jr., Javier Malay over in Argentina. So naturally, it's just going to create more commotion and positive catalysts for Bitcoin as we move forward into twenty twenty four. So, I mean, fireworks are ahead. Let me know how you feel. We're likely to finish out this year by December of twenty twenty three. Where do you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to be? And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Sunday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Sunday of the 24th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 18 verses 21 through 35. Peter went up to Jesus and said, Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me, as often as seven times? Jesus answered, not seven, I tell you, but 77 times. And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed 10 ,000 talents, but he had no means of paying. So his master gave orders that he should be sold together with his wife and children and all his possessions to meet the debt. At this, the servant threw himself down at his master's feet. Give me time, he said, and I will pay the whole sum. And the servant's master felt sorry for him, and he let him go and canceled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him 100 denarii, and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. Pay what you owe me, he said. His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, give me time and I will pay you. But the other would not agree. On the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for him. You wicked servant, he said, I canceled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound then to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you? And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my Heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart. . What word made this passage come alive for you? . What did you sense the Lord saying to you? . Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. . Peter went up to Jesus and said, Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times? Jesus answered, not seven, I tell you, but seventy -seven times. And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents, but he had no means of pain. So his master gave orders that he should be sold together with his wife and children and all his possessions to meet the debt. At this the servant threw himself down at his master's feet. Give me time, he said, and I will pay the whole sum. And the servant's master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and canceled the debt. Now, as the servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him one hundred denarii and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. Pay what you owe me, he said. His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, give me time and I will pay you. But the other would not agree. On the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for him. You wicked servant, he said, I canceled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound then to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you? And in his anger, the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my Heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more through him, with him and in him, listen to the word. Peter went up to Jesus and said, Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times? Jesus answered, not seven, I tell you, but seventy -seven times. And so the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants. When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents, but he had no means of paying. So his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children, and all his possessions to meet the debt. At this the servant threw himself down at his master's feet. Give me time, he said, and I will pay the whole sum. And the servant's master felt sorry for him, and he let him go and cancelled the debt. Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow servant who owed him one hundred denarii. And he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him. Pay what you owe me, he said. His fellow servant fell at his feet and implored him, saying, give me time and I will pay you. But the other would not agree. On the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt. His fellow servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him. Then the master sent for him. You wicked servant, he said, I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound then to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you? And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my Heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Amen. Amen. .
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep366: How Long Should My Episodes Be?
"Another thing that I'll do to try to keep it short, but also have you have the value is I use stories Sometimes it has to be a fictitious story that I made up now I'll never lie on the podcast most hosts never achieve the results. They hoped for they're falling short on Listenership and monetization meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it Get ready to take notes. Here's your host Adam Adams Hey podcaster one question that I get a lot and I actually just got this week is How long should my episode be and with that? I want to dive in because I know that a lot of people are asking this a lot of people are thinking about this and also when I go on other people's podcasts, I usually teach about podcasting and So they're always asking how long should my episode be? How long should the listeners episode be and so here's the best answer that I've had over the past little while and I want to share it with you today because I know you're probably thinking about it and probably want to know and How long should it be? It should be as long as it takes to give good value So I am recording a few solo episodes today and I block out about a 30 minute I block out on average about 30 minutes for each solo episode and I got five or six that I'm recording today So I can really batch them and record more than I need to produce so I can have a bank account episodes as and I sit here and as I record these episodes, how long am I doing them? well I'm trying to keep them as short as I can as long as My listener as long as you still get the value So I try to cut it down condense it make it fast But also make sure that everyone listening understands exactly what the point was for the podcast. They got takeaways They've got something that they need to do after the podcast when I do that for you It's gonna support you to have a good episode. Another thing that I try to do is I add a little bit of humor So how I do that when I'm doing solo episode is generally I am willing to laugh at myself when I make a mistake And I make a lot of freaking mistakes another thing that I do is I try really really hard to just be myself and not to be stressed or needing to impress anybody by Speaking intellectually because that's not me That's not who I am at all So I try to just have to remind myself and some people say that's weird You shouldn't have to tell yourself to be yourself. You could just be yourself It's not that easy for me and I'm venturing to say maybe for you It also isn't that easy because we tend to want to put on the best face We tend to want to impress people and with that in mind Sometimes when we put up an episode if we make a mistake or if we kind of trip over our words Then we get stressed because we're saying to ourselves. I'm failing. I'm not being perfect. I should stop this I should rerecord and then we record like all of these different things and it takes forever So one of the ways that I do that is I try to be myself Another thing that I'll do to try to keep it short but also have you have the value is I use stories Sometimes it has to be a fictitious story that I made up now I'll never lie on the podcast when I make up my stories I use cartoon characters or cave people I use animals I say the duck said to the bird, you know that the duck didn't really ducks are birds as a matter of fact See, I'm laughing at myself already when I'm going through and sharing stories Sometimes I'll make up a story that you understand that's made up more as a parable and other times I will use a story about a client or about myself or my own business or about my history or what I learned on a YouTube channel I'll share it with you to pull you in to allow you to think through the Timeline of the story and which helps you to be able to take the takeaways and make them a little bit more meaningful for what you're doing So those stories can really allow you to be able to teach your listener and get them Moving along in the direction that you want to take them. So I'll be myself I'll be funny or I'll kid around when I have guests. I'm playful and jovial and I just try to have a good time and that allows my listener that allows you to connect with me a little bit easier It allows you and I to basically feel like we're having a conversation together And I know that that works because most of the time when client a potential client Goes to hire us they say I feel like I knew you there I feel like I've already known you for a long time because I've been listening to your podcast for like a year and I've listened to every podcast episode or I've listened to this many podcast episodes if it's not all of them And so what I'm seeing is that they totally feel that they feel like we're getting along they feel like we're having a conversation and that's important because or that's happening because I Not trying to be somebody who I'm not I'm just trying to share these things and then I bring in the stories so that you can have takeaways and then the next thing That I will do is I will wrap it up at the end. I'll make sure you know what I'm talking about I'll bring it out to light a few times and then at the end I'll wrap it up this allows it to be able to give you everything that you need but be as short as possible So you're asking yourself, but Adam how long does it need to be and here comes the answer it can be five minutes And I've got data and literal like science on this that five -minute podcast is great and valuable I've got data and science that 30 minutes is perfect and great and valuable and we also have data that an hour or two hours Or even three hours isn't too long as long as you're keeping it entertaining Educational fun you're being yourself and you're allowing the listener to come through the journey and get something Actual takeaways and you're not just only shooting the shit if you're being able to do that Then it doesn't matter really the length as long as you do all those things, but there is another consideration So this says with a caveat Saying it starts to matter when you know who your avatar is So if you've got an avatar that is really go go go that really doesn't want the details really doesn't need the data You're probably going to come in with two three four five six minute episodes and be successful with it If you've got the normal avatar most people it's looking 20 to 40 minutes right in that 30 ish minute range And if you've got other avatars that just want to enjoy just want to learn something just want to be fly on the wall Then those two three hour conversations for episodes will work for your listener for your audience So it really matters what type of podcast you have and who you serve and what they're looking for. But in general the Overwhelming biggest part to this is just keep it as short as you can while giving the takeaways I'll see you on the next episode. Oh, hey because three of my clients came to me recently Looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making twenty six hundred a month another one 4 ,500 a month and the third is making between five thousand and ten thousand each month. And so it's been a resource It's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors And hopefully also be making twenty six hundred forty five hundred or between five and ten K Regularly each month with your podcast So this has been a contributing factor to helping all three of those clients Turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them And the way that you can find it is just going to our website grow your show calm But put in forward slash templates grow show calm forward slash templates and Then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Zmirak
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year because of you, ACLJ donors. You get the best attorneys in the world. Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways. Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to what I call Friday. And you know why I call it Friday? Because everyone calls it Friday and I just go with the crowd. That's who I am. This is our one. And it's my privilege in the first hour of today's program to have a dear friend, John Smirack, as my guest for the whole hour. We're going to talk about a lot of stuff. Now, before that, I want to say again, because I have to say it, we need your help with food for the poor. I don't know how else to say it except to say we need your help with food for the poor. There are people suffering if you've ever suffered, if you've ever lost your home, if you've ever. Been unable to feed your kids. Or suffered in that way. You know that any time anyone helps you, you can't even contain the gratitude. Folks, that's the situation. Food for the poor is on the ground in countries where people are suffering. A lot of times we can't handle even thinking about suffering, but I'm here to tell you, God has blessed us to be a blessing. So whatever it is that you can do, all you need to do is find a place where you can trust giving your money. We're supposed to do something with with what we have. And that means being a good steward. So food for the poor. These are the best of the best. If you go to Metaxas talk dot com, you can give there. You can give a little bit monthly. You can give a lot in one shot. You can do what you want, but we need people to help. We're just way behind. I also want to throw this out there that I always say one thing I can do is give of my time. So I will spend an evening if anybody feels that they want to give a ten thousand dollar tax deductible donation to food for the poor. It will be my delight to find a time either here in New York or in your neck of the woods to spend an evening together, have dinner together.
The Mason Minute
Hospitals (MM #4536)
"When I was driving to Indiana over the weekend, I saw a billboard, and if I remember correctly, it was in Indianapolis. And it was for one of the hospitals, maybe Franciscan or something, I don't know, but I don't want to say which hospital it was because I don't remember. But it said, one of the top 250 hospitals in America. I thought to myself, that's kind of a random way to say that, and is that really a good thing? No, I don't know how many hospitals there are. What are there? A thousand? Ten thousand? So let's say you're one of the top 250 hospitals in America. There are 50 states. So that means you're one of the top five hospitals in Indiana, roundabout. Maybe it's three in Indiana and seven in Illinois. I don't know. But wouldn't that be a better stat to say, one of the top five hospitals in Indiana or maybe the top hospital in Indiana? When I saw the number 250, I went, I guess that's something to get excited about. I don't know anything about marketing hospitals, I'm sure I could learn. But the first thing I thought, well, 250 may be a great number. If you don't know how many hospitals there are, how do you know if that's good or not? I couldn't tell you how many hospitals are in Nashville. You've got to qualify it because I don't know if many people know how many hospitals they have in each town, in each state, around the country. If we knew that, maybe it'd make more sense.
The Mason Minute
Hospitals (MM #4536)
"When I was driving to Indiana over the weekend, I saw a billboard, and if I remember correctly, it was in Indianapolis. And it was for one of the hospitals, maybe Franciscan or something, I don't know, but I don't want to say which hospital it was because I don't remember. But it said, one of the top 250 hospitals in America. I thought to myself, that's kind of a random way to say that, and is that really a good thing? No, I don't know how many hospitals there are. What are there? A thousand? Ten thousand? So let's say you're one of the top 250 hospitals in America. There are 50 states. So that means you're one of the top five hospitals in Indiana, roundabout. Maybe it's three in Indiana and seven in Illinois. I don't know. But wouldn't that be a better stat to say, one of the top five hospitals in Indiana or maybe the top hospital in Indiana? When I saw the number 250, I went, I guess that's something to get excited about. I don't know anything about marketing hospitals, I'm sure I could learn. But the first thing I thought, well, 250 may be a great number. If you don't know how many hospitals there are, how do you know if that's good or not? I couldn't tell you how many hospitals are in Nashville. You've got to qualify it because I don't know if many people know how many hospitals they have in each town, in each state, around the country. If we knew that, maybe it'd make more sense.
The Mason Minute
Hospitals (MM #4536)
"When I was driving to Indiana over the weekend, I saw a billboard, and if I remember correctly, it was in Indianapolis. And it was for one of the hospitals, maybe Franciscan or something, I don't know, but I don't want to say which hospital it was because I don't remember. But it said, one of the top 250 hospitals in America. I thought to myself, that's kind of a random way to say that, and is that really a good thing? No, I don't know how many hospitals there are. What are there? A thousand? Ten thousand? So let's say you're one of the top 250 hospitals in America. There are 50 states. So that means you're one of the top five hospitals in Indiana, roundabout. Maybe it's three in Indiana and seven in Illinois. I don't know. But wouldn't that be a better stat to say, one of the top five hospitals in Indiana or maybe the top hospital in Indiana? When I saw the number 250, I went, I guess that's something to get excited about. I don't know anything about marketing hospitals, I'm sure I could learn. But the first thing I thought, well, 250 may be a great number. If you don't know how many hospitals there are, how do you know if that's good or not? I couldn't tell you how many hospitals are in Nashville. You've got to qualify it because I don't know if many people know how many hospitals they have in each town, in each state, around the country. If we knew that, maybe it'd make more sense.
The Mason Minute
Hospitals (MM #4536)
"When I was driving to Indiana over the weekend, I saw a billboard, and if I remember correctly, it was in Indianapolis. And it was for one of the hospitals, maybe Franciscan or something, I don't know, but I don't want to say which hospital it was because I don't remember. But it said, one of the top 250 hospitals in America. I thought to myself, that's kind of a random way to say that, and is that really a good thing? No, I don't know how many hospitals there are. What are there? A thousand? Ten thousand? So let's say you're one of the top 250 hospitals in America. There are 50 states. So that means you're one of the top five hospitals in Indiana, roundabout. Maybe it's three in Indiana and seven in Illinois. I don't know. But wouldn't that be a better stat to say, one of the top five hospitals in Indiana or maybe the top hospital in Indiana? When I saw the number 250, I went, I guess that's something to get excited about. I don't know anything about marketing hospitals, I'm sure I could learn. But the first thing I thought, well, 250 may be a great number. If you don't know how many hospitals there are, how do you know if that's good or not? I couldn't tell you how many hospitals are in Nashville. You've got to qualify it because I don't know if many people know how many hospitals they have in each town, in each state, around the country. If we knew that, maybe it'd make more sense.
The Mason Minute
Hospitals (MM #4536)
"When I was driving to Indiana over the weekend, I saw a billboard, and if I remember correctly, it was in Indianapolis. And it was for one of the hospitals, maybe Franciscan or something, I don't know, but I don't want to say which hospital it was because I don't remember. But it said, one of the top 250 hospitals in America. I thought to myself, that's kind of a random way to say that, and is that really a good thing? No, I don't know how many hospitals there are. What are there? A thousand? Ten thousand? So let's say you're one of the top 250 hospitals in America. There are 50 states. So that means you're one of the top five hospitals in Indiana, roundabout. Maybe it's three in Indiana and seven in Illinois. I don't know. But wouldn't that be a better stat to say, one of the top five hospitals in Indiana or maybe the top hospital in Indiana? When I saw the number 250, I went, I guess that's something to get excited about. I don't know anything about marketing hospitals, I'm sure I could learn. But the first thing I thought, well, 250 may be a great number. If you don't know how many hospitals there are, how do you know if that's good or not? I couldn't tell you how many hospitals are in Nashville. You've got to qualify it because I don't know if many people know how many hospitals they have in each town, in each state, around the country. If we knew that, maybe it'd make more sense.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep360: Get Rid Of Awkward Episodes With These Energy Level Tips
"For most of the people that would listen to this podcast, they're going to be people with normal, good energy level. They're going to be optimistic and excited about life. And you've got to be careful and cautious of the energy level that you come to town with, come to the podcast with. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It is your host, Adam A. Adams. And today we've got something good that we want to share with you that is going to help you. And it is about your energy level. I've got a brand new podcast client. They've been a client for more than two months, and their podcast is about to launch. When you launch a podcast with us, by the way, it takes time. And I need to share that with you now. And then I'll get into the energy level that I was going to talk about with this one podcasting client in mind. And here's the thing is the energy level that you come to your podcast with, I don't know if you remember recent episode called The Thermostat and the Thermometer, where you can either read the temperature or you can dictate the temperature. In this case, you want to dictate the temperature. So you're, again, being the thermostat, the energy level. And let me say that side note thing real quick to get it out of my head so I can move on is it takes a little bit of time when you go ready, fire aim, and you just launch a shitty podcast and you don't give a crap who listens to it. That's what's going to happen. You don't know if you're going to get any listeners and you're just busting it out there, throwing it out without a care, without making sure that all of the things are in place. That's what most people do. 90 % of podcasters really just go ready, fire aim. Somehow, some way somebody learned ready, fire aim, and then they started everybody keeps repeating it and taking completely out of context. Ready, fire aim doesn't mean do something badly. It means start taking action on a thing. It doesn't mean get things going and recorded and published that are shit. It's not asking you to please have bad quality because that's better than having good quality because you did something. No, no, no, no, no. Ready, fire aim is just about taking action, massive action. It doesn't mean to publish bad stuff. It means to take the time to understand, to start working on it, to start learning now, to start connecting with the team that's going to help you now. This is ready, fire aim in its real raw old thing as I understand it. It is for you to take the action, but it doesn't mean to make it crap. It's not what it's saying. So anyway, going to the energy level. Oh man, I am all over the place today. So what am I saying is if you want to start a podcast that is bad, you can just do whatever you want. You don't have to listen to this podcast. You don't have to hire a company to support you. You can just put out the bad stuff automatically and you'll have the podcast and maybe you'll be your only listener. It'll be a diary or a journal. It won't be a real podcast because you got to go ready, aim, fire. You got to spend some time getting behind it. And that's all I meant is some people are surprised that it of podcast another company where they could launch it in a weekend. You're going to come into this two day seminar. You're going to come in on Saturday, not at all knowing what you want to do. And on Sunday, your podcast is published. There's not enough time. That is a recipe for crap. That is a recipe for bad stuff. So something that you don't want to do. You want to spend some time and effort to make it good. So I'll say that now. That's why I said this is a brand new client and they're just starting to launch, finally launching. And it's been a couple of months. They've been working with us. They've been recording episodes. We've been editing them. We've been cutting out on Ums and Us. We've been making sure that we know who the avatar is. We did a really good job with the artwork and we started recording episodes and now it's time to launch. And now it's getting ready to time to launch as I'm listening to some of the first episodes. This is what happened. The music that he picked was so energetic. It had such a high energy level. And not only that, but the voiceover artists. So his music is original theme music. When you launch with my company, we hire real composers to create original theme music. So we did that. And it takes time to things right. And we hired a voiceover artist to record with that music to record the introduction, the 20ish seconds, 15 second intro that the podcast begins with. We chose female voiceover artists between the client and me going back and forth. We decided that even though he's a guy, he should have a female voiceover artist. So here's the thing. The music is exciting. The voiceover artist is perfect. She has an energy level above average. She's inviting. She's warm. She's friendly. She's even a little flirtatious, like in a way that's not off -putting to anyone, but a way that you just, I really like this person. This person seems like a good person. I want to be around them because they seem friendly. They seem happy. They seem excited about the content and they seem smart. It's just how it feels when you listen to this voiceover artist and remember the energy level of the music way up here, the energy level of the introduction by the female voiceover artist way up here, the engagement level on those things. It's like, you're getting excited. And then my client came in on the first two episodes, which are being replaced. The first couple of episodes, he came in, like you hear all this excitement and he's this. And basically it was like, as if he was a late night DJ. Have you heard of a late night DJ? Some of you might be so young. You don't really know what FM and AM radio is. You don't recall what these things are. You never experienced it. You always had wifi and Bluetooth and phones that could hold like thousands of songs. And that's not the case for all of us. For some of us, we didn't have those things. We're old enough to remember when we had to fine tune a big giant radio dial until it hit the exact right mark to tune in to a station from far, far away. And we recall that with these radio stations at night, the DJ spoke a little bit differently. They weren't trying to be your friend anymore. They were trying to stay out of the way so that you wouldn't have to get woken up by their introduction or their music or what they're saying to you. So it was very soothing. It was very calming. And you could actually sleep through this. I used to listen to this classical music. Actually, it's funny, random listening to classical music right now in the other room. And then it's funny. I haven't listened to classical in a while, but I used to compose music and I love it. I love classical. Anyone who knows me from junior high and high school knows that practically the only thing that I would listen to is Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Those are my three favorites. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart and Pachelbel. I like Canon and D. But anyway, getting back on track, I would listen to classical music on something. I don't remember it was 98. It was 89 .1. It doesn't matter. It was late night station that I would sleep to. And I always appreciated that the DJs had their late night voice. I was like, I'm so glad that this guy or the girl wasn't waking me up with their energy, with their higher level of energy. They were chill and they were calm. And they would mention the next song that was coming on and they would do it in a tone like this and they would do it in an energy like this so that it wouldn't really disrupt me while I was sleeping. I don't love it when you record your podcast episode with a late night DJ voice, unless you're specifically trying to help people sleep. That's the case. Do it. I love it now. But for most of the people that would listen to this podcast, they're going to be people with normal, good energy level. They're going to be optimistic and excited about life. And you've got to be careful and cautious of the energy level that you come to town with, come to the podcast with and record with because it can be bad to go above and beyond like it can be bad if you're so over the top, so above average that people wonder if it's even real. People wonder if this is a fake. How can this guy really be this way? How can this girl really be this way? They're hiding something. Why are they so happy? Nobody's that happy. And so you could get some criticism by coming too high of a getting some criticism. You could also turn off your perfect avatar who needs you by going way too above and beyond, way too excitable. That could actually turn people off as well or being the monotone late night DJ voice, the Eeyore, if you will, going to maybe turn other people off as well. So you want to fine tune it. And we've talked about this multiple times on the podcast, but not in this way. In the way that I'm delivering it with you now, it's a little bit different. The energy is a little bit different. My thoughts on it are a little bit different. My analogies are a little bit different, but it still goes to show the part that stays the same is A, you got to focus on your energy. You have to understand your energy. B, you need to come in with the same energy level as your intro. That's your music and your voiceover artist. You got to come in with the same. And finally, you want to stay somewhere in the six to eight numbers. So if five is average and one is just completely dead and two is barely alive and three is Eeyore and four is just slightly below average, five being average, six being about what I'm giving you right now. I am giving you mostly a six or a seven, sometimes maybe an eight right now. And then there's 10, which is like, we'll even say there's an 11. 11 is above and beyond, like way over the top. 10 is your most excited level. And it's probably too much. It's probably too loud. And nine is a little step back, but probably still too much. So it's really that six, seven, eight, that's going to get you the best results for you, the energy level. So let's go back to number two. And that is to imitate, to copy, to mimic or to mirror the level of energy that your introduction comes in with. How do we do this? Well, for this client, what I mentioned to him, and I was like, bro, you know, I love you, right? He's been a friend for a lot longer than he's been a client. I go, bro, you know, I love you, right? And he's like, yeah, what is it? I know you're going to say something. I'm like, I just want to make sure that you got it with love is that the energy of your music on point. It is an eight energy of your voiceover artist. Great. She's giving an eight energy. And then you're coming in with a four and it sounds like something changed. It immediately confuses us. Also, we just noticed that you don't seem excited because when we get you next to those eights, it comes down. And so I gave him three options. I said, brother, going to give you three options. I sound like I'm from Scotland going to give you three options. I don't know if I'm doing a good accent for Scottish, but I do have some Scottish blood going back to my clients. I want to give them three options. They said, I'm going to give you three options. Option number one is that we take down, redo the music and the voiceover artist so that they are coming in with a five and a half or six so that you can come in with a four or five. And people aren't going to notice it so much. I said option number two, we can leave the voiceover artist. We can leave the music because you chose it. You said you liked it. You said it was perfect for your avatar so we can leave it. But you've got to at least start out your podcast and hear me out. If you're listening to this episode, this is a part to listen to and to write down and pay attention to. I said this to him as well. If those are coming out at an eight, you've got to start at an eight. You've got to come in and be like, what's up? It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's John Stockton. It's Adam Adams. It's Carl Carlson. It's Sarah Saracen. Is that a real name? Sarah Saracen. John Johnson, Carl Carlson, Swen Swenson and Sarah Saracen. Sarah Saratops. I'll say that. You come in at the same level. What I told him is you've got to listen to the intro music prior to recording. You've got to listen to your voiceover artist prior to recording. You have to have around that same level. Now, once you establish that level, you can slowly move up and down through the podcast and it will be fine. I said option number three. Option number three is the hardest option, the most challenging, difficult option, but you might want to do it. He's like, what is that? What's option number three? And my response is that option number three is we leave the music, the original theme music and the intro by the voiceover artist. In this case, a woman. We leave those where they are. You still listen to them prior to recording to make sure you're matching and mirroring, copying and imitating and not going too far above or beyond. But you also, instead of partway through your podcast, letting your tonality and your emotion go way below, you would maintain it and constantly you would maybe even write a six or a seven, six, seven or eight on your wall behind your recording. And this would allow you to always say, I've got it throughout the whole episode. I've got to be cordial. I've got to be friendly. I've got to be warm and inviting and flirtatious and helpful and excited and passionate about what I'm talking about, because those are the things that bring your people to you. It's your energy. It's how you come across. Don't forget it. Maintain that energy level at a six, seven or eight, especially if you've got music and a voiceover artist. You want to make sure that you are matching that when at least when you launch or going back to option number one. If you can't do any of that, it will be OK for you to record music that's at a four or five and an intro that's at a four or five if you really need to be at a three, four or five, because then it won't be so drastic. It'll be flow a little bit better. But I need to say again, it's still better to come in a little above average, not over the top, but a little above average at a level six, seven or eight. Got an interview episode coming up. Don't go away. This one was short. I'll see you on the next episode. Oh, hey, because three of my clients came to me recently looking to find a way to have their podcast make the money instead of cost them money. We put together a resource for some of our clients and I want to give it to you as well. It's something that did actually seem to help because one of them is now making twenty six hundred a month. Another one forty five hundred a month. And the third is making between five thousand and ten thousand each month. And so it's been a resource that's been incredibly valuable to them. It's our sponsor sheet template. It's a template of a sponsor sheet and it gives you something that you can hand to potential sponsors and hopefully also be making twenty six hundred, forty five hundred or between five and ten K regularly each month with your podcast. So this has been a contributing factor to helping all three of those clients turn their podcast into an additional income stream for them. And the way that you can find it is just going to our website, growyourshow .com, but put in forward slash templates, growshow .com forward slash templates, and then you can actually download that template and others that could be valuable to your podcasting experience. I'll see you on the next episode.
WTOP
"tens thousands" Discussed on WTOP
"Away ten thousand backpacks at the driving dash this year generosity through the of some wonderful community partners we are able to give away twenty thousand. Matt Kofax reporting coming up after traffic and weather. If you're the boss are your employees taking hush trips I'm Jeff Glabel. Get a Precision AC tune -up for only the time. first Traffic and weather on the 8th. Let's go to Joe Conway in the WTOP Traffic Center. Well thank you so we've been reporting it's been a crazy day on 395 Northbound at the inbound 14th Street Bridge. The crash and police activity ongoing. If you're north on 395 you are diverted at Boundary Channel Drive and you're basically on your own. You've got some police direction there but you have no access to Northbound 395's exit ramp to the Northbound George Washington Parkway. Text 10C the left exit. Southbound George Washington Parkway no access to the inbound 14th Street Bridge onto 395 North at least at last report. Camera's not us showing that at this point. On the George Washington Parkway northbound you can't access to 395 North at least again at last report. That was doable but again under police direction. The parkway was jammed northbound in stretches leaving the airport to get to point. that We had some earlier police activity at Gravelly Point. 395 North in the express lanes that's workable to get into the district as well. If you're elsewhere in Virginia on the Beltway in a delay typical on the interloop out of Tysons route 7 toward the Legion Bridge, Attlelope slowing through Alexandria, Eisenhower Avenue toward the Wilson Bridge. 95 South delays between Lorton and Woodbridge along the way there was a stop truck before 123 in the middle of the road. of 95 North jammed up out of Spotsylvania most of the way toward Stafford into the northbound running easy pass lanes which are helping. Into Maryland Beltway mostly in decent shape some pockets of slow. 270 often on delays leaving I -70 toward 109 in Hyatt's town. 50 west better across the Bay Bridges with three lanes west and two lanes east but if you're on west 50 you're jammed out of Annapolis from Aristey -Allen Boulevard most of the way to a point past 424 Davisville Road where the medical emergency still blocks the left lane. This report brought to you by Fitzgerald. If you're looking for an electric car try the new Hyundai IONIQ Toyota BZ4X or Volkswagen ID4. State and federal incentives are available. Get your next car at fitswell .com and go electric the Fitzway. I'm Joe Conway WTRP traffic. Over to seven news first alert meteorologist Mark Peña. Mostly dry conditions as you're heading out for your Saturday beautiful time for of this year a little hot though a little humid as well we're tracking that chance at a few showers through
Northwest Newsradio
"tens thousands" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Company earlier had slashed 2700 local jobs as part of a plan to cut ten thousand employees globally microsoft will report its fiscal fourth -quarter earnings later this month salt district italian kitchen on seattle's waterfront is closing after today only 13 months in business a note on the restaurant's website called the decision difficult but a best course of action for the business owner e3 also operates several restaurants including metropolitan grill elliot's oyster house and wing dome the dow gained 317 points to close at 34 261 nasdaq rose 75 in the s &p 500 gained this 29 is rob smith with northwest news radio she was in prison for 53 years for murder and now in her 70s a follower of charles manson has been released from prison reports from la leslie van houten walked out of the california institution for women east of la and into a waiting car that took her to transitional housing governor gavin newson had long denied her release overruling florida the parole board which had been recommending she be released but finally the governor said he would no longer block van houten's release she was serving a life sentence for helping manson's followers carry out two murders in 1989 van houten is expected to spend about a year in a halfway house victims families say they're heartbroken about her release alex stone abc news los angeles it's a challenge for many people to manage everyone likes that there may be another option with more hears abc's justin finch obesity rates are soaring in the united states diet and exercise are not always effective in achieving weight goals it can be a frustrating and never -ending battle we go the injections have helped many people reach their ideal weight but some people find a weekly jab unpleasant and there now may be a solution to this problem rebelsis is we go v in a pill form and it's usually used for diabetes but it can also help with the weight loss for people already taking it in recent a study adults from nine different countries in asia europe and north america took the pill for more than a year all had obesity and nine had diabetes many adults achieved achieved weight loss and researchers think the pill produces similar weight loss results as we go v it is best to consult with your doctor before trying any weight loss methods with this medical minute i'm justin finch abc news northwest traffic from the high -performance homes traffic center blinwood north five twenty five is blocked due to a major crash between highway ninety nine in lincoln way traffic is detouring onto lincoln way during this time but there is a half hour delay only a four minute delay now traveling from bellevue to tequila on four or five south looks like a lot of that congestion is thinning out and in olympia patterson street is closed down for construction between apple hill court and eighth avenue are next with us traffic at eight oh four news radio one thousand and ninety ninety seven seven forecast from the northwest crawl space services weather center
WTOP
"tens thousands" Discussed on WTOP
"Helped tens thousands of clients who've been hurt in auto accidents or victims of medical malpractice visit GBLawyers .com and feel better I'm Rita Kessler WTOP traffic. the seven news first alert forecast let's check in live now with Jordan Evans do we still have any of the showers and heavy storms in the area showers are winding down but we're now getting into that with a break because we're waiting for the sun to come back out that will help reset atmosphere for more storm chances about 3 4 p .m. so I think over the next three hours we are staying quiet but once we get toward that late afternoon that evening commute home timeframe that's when I expect more showers and thunderstorms some and of those could be strong with gusty winds hail and some heavy rain and lightning too so just heads up on that 4 p .m. should be done by six or seven o 'clock and clouds will start to decrease tonight looking lot at a of quiet weather for the weekend tomorrow high temperature 84 with low humidity a lot of sunshine same for Father's Day will be a tad warmer at 88 degrees and still with a lot of sunshine as well next week the rain chances have decreased but temperatures will fall back below average into the low 80s are not looking bad too however we do need the rain as the deficit continues to grow rainfall totals today anywhere far from from a quarter to half an inch there could be some spots with a little more depending on who gets the heavy rain showers as we talk temperatures again highs tomorrow in the 80s then we'll keep those low 80s on repeat throughout next week I think today we'll have to see if we can climb a little bit more after the cloud cover if we can get that sunshine this afternoon right now we're still 66 in Bethesda 68 over in Fairfax 73 at Reagan and 69 in Northeast. Alright Jordan thanks. This check of the forecast brought to you by Mervis Diamond Porters, Mervis means diamonds. For the best quality and value nobody beats Mervis Diamonds. Visit Mervisdiamond .com. Time now for this week's
WTOP
"tens thousands" Discussed on WTOP
"Got some important news that could really help. If you're facing ten thousand dollars or more in credit card debt medical bills or other unsecured debt you need to know you may not be required to pay it all back. There are special programs that can significantly reduce the amount you owe if you qualify. This isn't bankruptcy or a high interest debt consolidation loan. These are programs the credit card companies don't want you to know about. Ones that offer Americans struggling with overwhelming credit card debt savings and real debt relief faster than thought possible. Accredited debt relief has a special hotline to learn all about these programs and what savings you can qualify for. They've helped qualified consumers with over a billion dollars in debt and have an A plus rating the with Better Business Bureau. So call the accredited debt relief hotline now for this free information. Call 800 -908 -1144 800 -908 -1144 that's 800 on the number Why are the storms sports in 10 minutes on WTOP? Take a clean commute and get cash back with the Incentrip app by Commuter Connections earn points each time you use the app to commute via ride sharing transit or biking redeem points for cash up to $600 a year. The Incentrip app has real -time navigation to help you choose the best the travel method route and departure time to help avoid traffic delays saving time and money. Learn more about Incentrip and register at commuterconnections .org that's commuterconnections .org or call 800
They Call Us Bruce
"tens thousands" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"And so from that era, I remember collecting just a lot of Lin sanity related stuff. Just because that era has passed now, but I still have hung out to a lot of it. So the weirdest one that I have now, that I don't want to part with, but I don't know what to do with. I'm picking it up, everybody. Is this? The oversized Jeremy had. I love it. It is a fat head as they call it. And it is, I mean, it is humongous. And presumably you bring this to like a game and you hold it up in the stands and ends up on TV or whatever. And it's smiling Jeremy Lin's head and I just, I don't know. Like I said, I don't know what to do with it anymore. I'm not gonna hang up on the wall or anything like that, but I love no way. For a moment for moments like this, just you know, I guess I can hold up to a podcast and just have fun. Just go like this. As if Jeremy is talking. I had to take a screenshot. It was so delightful. Who is this? Sorry. Oversized Jeremy. So I'll just keep this forever, and I don't really know what to do with it. It's just this giant Jeremy lid head. Insanity will never die. And neither will he said it will never die in my heart. Yes. Awesome. Well, my own WTF is actually a little bit more WTF intrinsically. So one of the things I sometimes do is, you know, when I'm on eBay, I'll just sort of look around for artifacts of our Asian American pop culture past, you know, because I like my backdrop here on the clean gorgeous one that Phil has behind him very arranged and everything looks basically like a swap meet as I've been told repeatedly. But one of my prized possessions is this lunchbox I have that I purchased for, I think like $15. It is actually a Charlie Chan and the Chan clan animated TV series lunch box. And for those of you who don't know, Charlie Chan and the Chan clan.
They Call Us Bruce
"tens thousands" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Pop culture figures and Star Wars marvel. Just across the board. And so the thing, the thing about it is I'm a collector. I got to get it's very expensive. It takes up a lot of room. And the figures have gotten really good. Like really great. And so, you know, and so it has become kind of an unwieldy hobby. It used to be easy. It was like sparingly just find the one here and there. And now it's like, you know, I got, I got Randall, agent Jimmy whoo. I got mignon win from Star Wars. I got I'm holding them up for them to see. I got miss marvel of Kamala Khan. I got the yellow of the yellow ranger, you know? And then I have Awkwafina from Shang-Chi. It's like wow. And that's just, that's just the one I could grab within arm's reach from me. I have so many more. And so the bad is that I'm not able to keep up with this hobby anymore because they are just too expensive, there's too many, which I guess is a good thing. I suppose it's a reflection of the growing representation of these figures in pop culture. And that the reason why I started collecting the first place is I didn't get to do this when I was a kid. There were no figures really to collect back then and now, you know, I guess kids, if you're playing with action figures, there's a lot more sort of diversity reflected on the shelf. So that's not bad. You're going to need a whole room to keep your collection on display. At least. That's perpendicular. All right, so in some ways, the bad is not the things. It's the fact that there are too many things and more coming things. Which is also a good thing. Yes, it's 10,000 literally action figures.
They Call Us Bruce
"tens thousands" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"All right, on the second half of they call us Bruce. This is where we do our favorite segment. Our signature segment, the good, the bad, and the WTF. So Jeff Yang, as is our custom, would you please lay down the rules of engagement for this very special 10,000 things edition of good, bad, WTF. It'll be 10,000 good things. 10,000, now just kidding. So this is our round table segment where we take a single topic serve it up three ways. The good, the positive, the bad, the negative. And the WTF, which doesn't have to be good or bad, it could be both. It could be neither, but really it's just something that's still making us go. So as is our tradition, we're going to do this with our guest on a topic that the guest is quite familiar with. And in this case, we're going to play along as well. We want to do the good the bad and the WTF of Asian American things, like things we got. More specifically, our Asian Americans, our own Asian Americans. This is going to be a bit of show and tell, I think, right? A little bit. We'll show in here about, I suppose, for those of you in the audio audience. Let's kickstart it. If you can begin with a good, what is a good thing you wanted to share with us? Yeah, so an object that I have kept since 1998, which is what, like 25 years, it came to me because I took vows of Buddhist refuge with a Bhutanese Llama and as part of that ritual and ceremony. He gave me a white kata, which is a silk scarf that is put around your neck by the teacher when they basically initiate you into their path. And it's something that I have kept for yeah, the last couple of decades folded and stored inside my Buddhist shrine.
They Call Us Bruce
"tens thousands" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Many parents have advised to get a backup of the thing that your kid really loves because you never know and we did and it definitely paid off. That would give that I'm not a big fan of giving unsolicited advice to other parents, but that's when I would cling to, yeah, get the backup toy. Dude, it's part of the reason why I also felt so deeply about this because we have had, I think every parent has had this sort of experience of that first experience of loss, right? Almost like, you know, bless all children, but let us let us hope that their first experience of loss is a toy and not like a loved one, but in many cases for kids, there isn't that big of a gap between the two that because toys, especially something that you sleep with and you keep with throughout the day, in many cases, as a young child, like my own elder son Hudson, a frequent mentioned person on this podcast, he actually was premature by 6 weeks. And the very first thing in the world that he had was a gift I bought him a stuffed dog, not to dissimilar from this one, except it was beige, started out stage. Ended up kind of gray brown. But I wrapped it in saran wrap and put it brand new into his incubator and he had it with him for the 6 weeks he was in the hospital before he came home and he has it today or a version of it today because one of the things that has happened as he's dragged it everywhere it's come to small pieces. We've had to sort of secretly find ways to create a faster identical twin. I mean, all the things, right? So again, that's one of the reasons why this stood out to me, especially the lost element of it. But it also speaks to this, I don't know, in some ways it was emblematic to me because the reason why something that is both, you know, generally speaking, not expensive, right?
They Call Us Bruce
"tens thousands" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Who he is as a public servant and when he ended up donating his suit to the Smithsonian museum because they asked him if he would give it as an artifact that could tell part of the story of that day. It entered into this kind of archive or collection that could then be part of a more collective larger national history. And that to me was very striking because I come from this background of also having a studied and worked in museums. And so that particular object became the focal point of what I wanted to do with the story series that I knew would be about Asian Americans. And even though he is a public servant and a politician, I knew that I really wanted to tell stories about activists and artists who are thinking in innovative and exciting ways. And so that became kind of the basis of the first season. And the pilot episode was actually the episode about the composer Byron oh young whose object was a Chinese English dictionary that had been handed down to him by his father who passed away a couple summers ago. Yeah. It's a really beautiful podcast and wonderfully produced. I would say that it's interesting that a show about Asian American objects would not necessarily lend itself to an audio medium that just this kind of storytelling where you're trying to get a sense of these things that you can hold in your hand a lot of times you can hold in your hands, you can wear, you can see I really like the episode that you did with Anita. But you really wanted to see this article clothing that you spend a lot of time talking about. And yet it's effective. Somehow you get across sort of the textures and the visual sense of or even just the overall sort of sensory experience of these objects through the history through the storytelling.
The Erick Erickson Show
"tens thousands" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"Violence al gum from afghanistan lincoln jesters al qaeda so we can see different statement from the white house. Different from the pentagon. Is there any communication issue from the highest level. No i think you're reading way more into things than you need to make. We're all Cited on the fact that they're still an al qaeda threat in afghanistan And as well as al qaeda affiliates we we know were there nobody has. I've said that consistently There's there's no gap and understanding. What the hell is this. The president of the united states interest the american public. Say ten thousand five thousand five hundred ten thousand so different state. Yes.
Real Estate Disruptors
"tens thousands" Discussed on Real Estate Disruptors
"I mean like popular terms now like real estate big flashing banner. Ads van or ads flashed. I had a company that i i actually had a company. That was That that would that. Would that would create those banners and then we had other people that we are working with that were we had a agreement with that we could run those banners on their site and so i had called banner servant. I had that company for a while. I i actually sold over ten thousand ginsu knives a month. How on ebay ten thousand ginsu knives a month on ebay. Thank my best month. No kidding was over hundred for the year..
No Agenda
"tens thousands" Discussed on No Agenda
"Because imagine you got ten thousand people now. We thought this thing grow. When it's fifty thousand then it goes down and and it's not free to run to make excuses for this kind of this december. This arbitrary decision is onerous specific. Ari i i thought about very long hard..
No Agenda
"tens thousands" Discussed on No Agenda
"Because imagine you got ten thousand people now. We thought this thing grow. When it's fifty thousand then it goes down and and it's not free to run to make excuses for this kind of this december. This arbitrary decision is onerous specific. Ari i i thought about very long hard..
No Agenda
"tens thousands" Discussed on No Agenda
"Because imagine you got ten thousand people now. We thought this thing grow. When it's fifty thousand then it goes down and and it's not free to run to make excuses for this kind of this december. This arbitrary decision is onerous specific ari. I thought about it hard..
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"tens thousands" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Do you owe ten thousand dollars or more on at least two federal student loans. Then.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"tens thousands" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Do you owe ten thousand dollars or more on at least two federal student loans. Then you may qualify for new programs offered by the department of education. These programs can reduce your interest lower your payments and possibly qualify you for loan forgiveness if.