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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Called to Catch Men
"Well is there not a world of instruction for us here? First of all, do what Jesus says. Do what he says. Nevertheless, at thy word, we will cast down our nets. Keep preaching the word. Preach to myself. Keep casting the net. When doubts come, you resolve them here. When you're tired, when you're frustrated, when you're deposed, when you catch nothing for weeks, for months, for years. It's not easy but it's simple. Do what Jesus says. Keep casting the net of the Gospel. And believe that he has power to bring the fish in. And believe him when he says that his word will not return unto him void. Because he really has power over the hearts of men to bring them into the net or the advance of his kingdom. Those who would catch men must ultimately learn their art here. From the ministry of Christ himself who was preaching the word everywhere he went, to everyone he met. May God give us grace as a church to do so. Let's stand for prayer. O Lord our God Most High, we thank you for the glory of Christ. Some here today have seen it, some have not. Maybe some who have heard the call that comes on the back of it are now shutting their eyes to it. Lord there's something compelling here. That we have to present ourselves like Isaiah and Peter and others. That we would lay our life before you and say what would you have me to do. Too often we come and we tell you what we will do, what we're willing to do. It's not the Christian response, what would thou have me to do. Make our sons and use them for the glory of thy name and the preaching of your word. And we pray that knowing Lord that that might mean huge things for our family. That they could be thrust to the furthest ends of the earth to preach the gospel. And yet we know that such a thing would be good. We pray Lord that you would give us a burden for souls. That we would see ourselves collectively as a church, as net casters. And that we would go forth seeking the lost that we might bring them to Jesus. That you would make us not to be weary in well doing knowing that in due time we should reap if we faint not. Lord, kill in our hearts our stupid notions of building our own kingdom. Crucify them, crucify them O God. And replace that with a burning and singular desire. To seek first thy kingdom, whatever that means. We lay all of our boats and our nets, whatever they are, at thy feet today. And if you would have us continue to use them, we'll use them. We'll be diligent in our calling. But we leave it all at thy feet. We pray that you would lead and guide for Jesus' sake. Amen.
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Zechariah Evangelism
"Good morning. Our third Sunday sermon series through Zechariah is coming to a close here. I'm not sure if we'll have another message after this one. Usually, after I get to the end of a book, we'll go back and do a review message, which was last month, and then a message relating, whatever the book was, to evangelism. So that's today. Zechariah evangelism. And so let's pray that God will bless us today. Lord God, we thank you that all of your Word is an evangelistic tool, for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And we know that we see scriptures that we can identify better as evangelistic, but we know that all of your Word is truth, and truth convicts of sin, and conviction of sin then can lead to repentance. And so we pray, Lord, that you would make us wise evangelists. And so help us in that today. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. The book of Zechariah is a revelation or a revealing of Jesus the Messiah. As such, it is a good resource for evangelism. Today we utilize Zechariah for evangelism in the form of a letter to an unbelieving friend. So I hadn't done this before, so it may seem a little bit strange. It's going to seem a little strange to me. But I have always found that evangelism encourages the saints to say, well, I don't need to come to faith in Christ, but I love hearing, well, it's kind of like the hymn, isn't it? I love to tell the story. I love to hear the story of unseen things above. And so if it just falls flat, then I know you all will still love me. And you'll just say, don't do that again. That was silly. Just send your letter to your friend and preach us a regular message, OK, if it doesn't work out. But I think it's going to encourage you. OK. Kids speak. Kids, what book are we looking at today? Zechariah. What are we going to do with Zechariah today? We're going to use it to write a letter to a friend telling them how important it is to trust Jesus. So I sent you an email with this without anything but the letter. So if you actually wanted to use it and instead of friend put somebody's name, you could do that. Dear friend, would you allow me to share some observations about a certain book in the Bible? I have found this book particularly beneficial, and I believe you may benefit from its content as well. It's the book of Zechariah, the second to the last book in our English Old Testament. God showed Zechariah some strange things, and probably many today would think he wasn't quite in his right mind when he saw them. But all his visions had their basis in what Moses and the preceding prophets had been shown. First, though, a little historical setting for the book. It was written when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon. God had allowed his own people to be defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That was because they had done just about everything he had told them not to do and had stopped doing the things they were supposed to do. As Zechariah reminded his audience, the Lord of Heaven's assembly said, exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen. But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord of Heaven's assembly had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord of Heaven's assembly has poured out to great wrath. You can see that God had given them very sensible directions for treating each other right. Who would not agree that these rules were fair and just? Yet they had turned a deaf ear mistreating one another. And even though we agree that compassion and helping the disadvantaged are right, would it take much digging to where we too have turned a deaf ear to divine instructions? Kids speak. Kids, God gives us the rules for how to treat each other right. But have we broken those rules? Yeah. Do we need God to forgive us? Zechariah had opened his message with a similar reminder. He didn't place the responsibility in the past. Rather, he laid the impetus to respond on his own generation. Therefore, say to the people, the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, turn to me, says the Lord of Heaven's armies, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, this is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly has said, turn now from your evil wickedness. But they would by no means obey me, says the Lord. God told the people to turn to him, even though it appeared that they had already started obeying God again, since they had made the dangerous journey from Babylon to rebuild a burned -down Jerusalem, the walls of which had been completely leveled, exposing them to dangerous enemies. But God saw that their hearts were still not turned to him. Even though they were facing many difficult and discouraging circumstances, God knew that no obstacle could be greater than having their attention divided from him. Kid Speed, if we obey some things, God says, does that mean we obey everything he says? No. All of us probably could say we obey some things. He told them if they turned to him, he would turn to them. Well, that's certainly a square deal. Before God gave them into Babylon's hands, he had spent generations trying to turn them from their misdeeds. Now he was patiently starting over with them again. And how did they respond? Zechariah 1 .6, and they turned and said, the Lord of Heaven's assembly planned to do with us according to our ways, yes, according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us. God told them to turn, and they turned. Zechariah's audience responded favorably to his message of repentance, at least at first. They took responsibility for their waywardness, and they accepted God's gracious invitation to fellowship, that he would turn to them as well. Now they were ready to hear how God would bring them a final deliverance from all danger. It would come through a single man. Kids speak. Kids, the people Zechariah was talking to knew that they hadn't done what God said, so they turned back to him. Is that what we should do, too? Come on, nod your head with me. They were rebuilding Solomon's temple, but Zechariah had a message of another temple that would have to be built if they were going to be finally saved, Zechariah 6 .12. This is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, here is the man whose name is the sprig. He will branch out from where he is and will rebuild the temple of the Lord. They were rebuilding the temple, so it must have been a surprise to hear about someone else who needed to come and build another new one. Ezra and Zerubbabel were leading the present rebuilding effort. Who was this other man in such a strange name, the sprig? But Zechariah and his colleagues had already been told about the sprig. They had already been told that the sprig had something to do with the priesthood. God had spoken to their own high priest, Joshua, not the Joshua of the book of Joshua, Zechariah 3 .8. Listen, high priest Joshua, you and those companions of yours who sit with you, for these men are a sign that I am presenting my servant the sprig. The very fact that God's people needed a new high priest every time the last one died showed that a final permanent priest was needed. The fact that they had a day of atonement every year showed that their sins were not being removed permanently. They needed a once for all payment for sin. That was apparently going to be the work of the sprig. And why call the sprig? Simply because he would start fresh. He wouldn't build onto the existing structure of the Levitical priesthood, and that is exactly what has come about. Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, not Levi. Yet he acted as a priest, offering himself as a sacrifice for sins. Kids, one of the names for Jesus in Zechariah is sprig. What's a sprig? Well, it's a plant when it first starts growing. Why was Jesus called sprig? Because he had to do everything over right from the start. We had messed everything up, so he had to start all over like a little sprig. God then immediately added a new name to Christ the sprig, calling him a stone. For he grew from his small beginning to become the sacrifice for sin, both permanent and solid qualities a stone represents. Zechariah 3 .9. Look, the stone that I put in place in Joshua's presence, on that one stone are seven eyes. And look, I will do the engraving myself, declares the Lord of Heaven's assembly. And I will remove the perversity of that land in a single day. There's one of the strange symbols of Zechariah, a stone with seven eyes. Of course, it's figurative. The mental image of a seven -eyed stone probably confuses us at first, but the stone is made less mysterious in light of the engraving, an engraved stone. The eyes most simply symbolize sight. Really the most elusive aspect of the image is the seven. That one takes a little bit of biblical familiarity. We find by induction, looking at places where seven occurs, that seven connotes completeness. So seven eyes indicate complete sight. The stone then is a figurative way to tell us that the Messiah would be omniscient. To see everything is to know everything. In other words, the Messiah would be God. Kids speak. Kids, another name for Jesus in Zechariah is the stone. Why is he a stone? Because he stays the same, like a rock, when he says he will save us. That word is as firm as a rock. Well, what about the engraving on the stone? Well, in light of the prompt removal of the land's perversity, the engraving is most likely the engraving of the land's perversity into the stone. It's an engraving God does himself. And isn't this what God the Father did when Jesus was on the cross, engrave his people's sins into him? Kids speak. Zechariah calls Jesus a rock that God carves on. Well, what did God carve into Jesus? Our sins. When our sins were carved into Jesus, did that take the sins away from us? Yep, carved onto him. That's how it works. This sprig who became the stone was God's way of explaining to Joshua the high priest what had just happened to him. So rewind to the beginning of the chapter, Zechariah 3, 1 through 4, and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of the Lord, and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. But the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebukes you, oh Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you. Is this not a stick snatched from the fire? And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the messenger. And he answered and said to the one standing before him, saying, remove the filthy garments from him. And he said to him, see, I have taken away your guilt from you and will clothe you with rich garments. The high priest, the man in Israel who presided over the sacrifices for removing sin, he himself stood unclean before God. Satan was there accusing him. But God did not argue the basic fact of Joshua's defilement. No, in fact, God's rebuke of Satan got right to the matter of Joshua's deficiency. He called Joshua a stick snatched from the fire. Joshua was like a stick that was going to burn, but God had pulled him out of the fire. Kids, God said that Joshua the high priest was like a stick that was about to burn, but God pulled it out of the fire. Is that what God does when Jesus saves us? Pulls us out of hell? Yeah. We were headed right for hell. So, wow, we should really thank Jesus, shouldn't we? Ah, dear friend, I can tell you that describes me as well. I was a stick ready to burn, already as good as it ignited. Yes, that has me listening to God's words as closely as I'm sure Joshua was. Remove his filthy garments. Men on earth couldn't see the dirty clothing, but there in heaven we see the reality. Joshua already believed that he needed spiritual cleansing, otherwise he would not have made the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement for his own sins. But now he got to see how his defilement looked in God's presence. Satan didn't even have to lie, though he's good at it. A defiled Joshua was his exhibit A, and he needed no further proof. Friend, if the highest religious official amongst God's people was tarnished by sin, everyone else on earth was as well. The high priest needed the engraved stone to be engraved with his own sins. That's why God showed Joshua that vision, so that Israel's high priest could model for the nation their need to hope in God's final high priest. I have that same hope. I have trusted in Jesus of Nazareth as the sacrifice that covers my sin, dear friend. Kids, if Satan came before God and said, look at Pastor Cain, he's a dirty sinner, how can he be a Christian? What would God say? He would say, but I cleaned Pastor Cain up by what Jesus did on the cross. You can say the same thing for you, right? You may have noticed that I am referring to Jesus as both the high priest and the sacrifice. That is correct. He is both. If our sins were engraved into him, that makes him the sacrifice. But he was the one who offered himself up to be sacrificed. He is also the priest. In fact, Jesus fulfilled virtually every aspect of the temple, the furniture, its procedures, and the priests processing them. He puts the fill in fulfillment. I have been to your ear a long time. Thank you for your patience. I will bring this to an end. Zechariah 12, 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer, then they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him. Jesus was a Jew, and he came to his countrymen first. They passed him by. But one day God promises that they will recognize him. Zechariah 13, 1. On that day, a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. And they will recognize their Messiah. They will recognize what he did for them. Kids speak. Another thing Zechariah says Jesus is like is a well. Why is that? Well, because you can wash with water from a well just like you can have your sins washed away by Jesus' blood. Until then, that same well is open to all men. Zechariah 2, 11. Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. And here we are. Christ's saving message reaches more and more people groups year by year. But the end gathering will not last indefinitely. Christ will return to finalize his work on earth. Zechariah 14, 4. On that day, his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. That was the location from which he left the earth in the sight of his apostles ascending into heaven. That is where he has an appointment to return. Kids, where is Jesus right now? Heaven. Will he always stay there? No. He's coming back here to be king of everybody in the world. Oh, that'll be a great day, won't it? Dear friend, there is a sacrifice that washes away our sins and renews us. Do we need cleansing and new life? Zechariah, like the rest of scriptures, tells us that if we have dishonored God and broken his commandments, we need Jesus' purifying sacrifice. I pray to God that you will join me as one who confesses Christ as Lord and Savior. For the walking wounded, as 1 Thessalonians 5, 14 says, uphold the strengthless. It's easy to forget that when we first came to God, we were complete spiritual invalids. I think most of us continue to think, hmm, I don't think I've changed much since then, but we're supposed to mature. All scripture is profitable for teaching, for conviction. The gospel is good news. May fear not cause me to hesitate in telling it as though it were basically bad news. It does contain bad news, but the gospel is basically good news. If you just tell good news without contexting it with the bad news, unless the person already gives you that and says, oh, I'm a defiled sinner. What can I do? Well, of course, you can just march right into, here's the means of cleansing. But if not, you need to let them know that, yes, we are sinners headed for hell. But the gospel is basically good news, which is how we should present it. All scripture is profitable for correction. I will remember that the good news is what properly contexts the bad news of our sinfulness, our enmity with God, and our coming judgment. God justly put all these aside in the cross. And all scripture is profitable for teaching, conviction, correction, for schooling in righteousness. Nothing wrong with asking God to just drop witnessing opportunities into our lap rather than worrying about segues. How do I get from a regular conversation into a gospel conversation? And, of course, we want to be able to do segues, too. But in the meantime, it's a good thing to ask every day who knows who I'll meet today. Maybe the door will just swing wide open, and I need to be ready to walk in. Wrap up, Colossians 4, 5, and 6. You can see it on the left side there. Walk in wisdom toward those on the outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. And then breaking it down phrase by phrase, walk in wisdom toward those on the outside. God give me a special wisdom like a person on a mission. Redeeming the time, God give me sufficient urgency. Let your speech be always with grace. God give me words that make good transitions to the gospel. Having been seasoned with salt, God give me a bright countenance and inviting words that you may know how you ought to answer each one. God give me increasing sensitivity to see particular burdens in the lives of others that I may point them to the burden -bearer. Amen. Let's pray. Lord God, thank you for your words. We pray, Lord, that you will grant a day of revival when the subject of God and of being right with God is simply part of the national conversation. And we know that you have done this before in days of revival, that people simply become curious again. And you pique their curiosity and we can simply walk right into witnessing situations. But until then, Lord, we pray that we would remember Colossians 4, 5, and 6, that we would walk in wisdom towards them, that we would seek out opportunities, that we would always have gracious speech, and that we would season it with salt and make it attractive. And that you might help us better and better to recognize needs in people's lives that will present the gospel's introduction. Lord, bless these, your people, all your people here on earth, worshiping you today. In Jesus' name, amen.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ken Fish
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas. Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Sean Foyt in hour one. In hour two, which is to say in a few minutes, we're going to re -air my conversation from a few weeks ago with Ken Fish. I love Ken Fish. You need to know what's going on with him. He's amazing. He's doing a conference, a big deal conference coming up that he's going to talk about. But before that, Chris Himes, I thought, you know what? We haven't done Ask Metaxas in a while. Ever since Albin went into rehab, we kind of let that slide. And I thought, you know what? His getting sober has nothing to do with Ask Metaxas. I just have to factually counterpoint here that Albin has not been in rehab. That's actually not true. So he's still on a bender? Is that what you're saying? Well, apparently he's been traveling in Egypt and has written a book. I heard a memo. I heard that. I mean, I heard a rumor that he was in Egypt, but I didn't want to believe it. OK, so we'll talk about this another time. The bottom line is, we have some Ask Metaxas questions and I want to get to them because it's fun to do that before we go to Ken Fish. But before that, got to mention, very important, we are launching a campaign this month with the Alliance Defending Freedom. They are heroes in the battle for religious liberty. There aren't many of these guys out there, folks. The Alliance Defending Freedom is at the head of the pack. They go to the Supreme Court. They fight. If it weren't for them, we'd be living in a different world. So I always say people need to put their money where their mouth is. People need to, many people need to put their mouth where their mouth should be because you're not even talking about this stuff. But the Alliance Defending Freedom are heroes. So I want to exhort you to go to MetaxasTalk .com and give as generously as possible to the Alliance Defending Freedom. When you know what they do, you understand they're in the battle for us, for religious liberty, for liberty in America. And we have to get serious about this. I say everywhere I go, whatever money you have, whatever voice you have, whatever freedom you have, you need to be using it now for these things. Otherwise you will not, in five minutes, you won't have an opportunity. That's what happened in Germany. They waited until it was too late. So please, please, please go to MetaxasTalk .com and do what you can there, please. Okay. Ask Metaxas. Chris, you get to ask. It's time. I have questions for you. All right. Here's the first one. This is from Derek in Stitzer, Wisconsin. He says, hi, I assume you've heard some of what's going on within the United Methodist Church and Disaviliation, et cetera. I'm wondering if you have any insights or opinions on the situation. Thanks so much. Oh, that's easy. The answer is no.
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
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Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from What You Do When Moderate Drinking Fails
"And I tried to moderate and make all the rules, like I'll only drink two times a week, I'll drink beer, not wine, I'll only drink when I'm out, I'll only drink when I'm home. I mean, you name it, I tried it, except for stopping. Hey everybody, welcome to the Addiction Unlimited podcast, where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host, Angela Pugh, co -founder of Kansas City Recovery, Life Coach, and Recovering Alcoholics. To learn more about me, you can listen to episode zero on your podcast app, or find us on the web at AddictionUnlimited .com. Hi Casey, thank you so much for coming on and doing this episode with me. I am super excited to get to know you better. I'm so glad you're here. Yeah, thank you so much. I'm excited to be here too. Yeah, why don't we start with, for everybody listening, just tell everybody a little bit about you and what you do. Yeah, absolutely. Well, so I am a life and sobriety coach. I have a podcast called the Hello Some Day podcast for sober curious women. I primarily work with working moms who also kind of do all the things and then come home and drink to sort of zone out from all the things or stop their racing minds. I stopped drinking seven and a half years ago. For a couple of years, I just wanted it to be part of my life. I didn't want it to be the thing. In my life, I was working at a fortune 500 company. I had two kids. I was just living life without the headaches and the hangovers and everything else. And then I went back to coaching school. And again, I wasn't intending to be a sobriety coach. I was just wanting to be a life coach for pretty much every woman I knew who was 40 and had done all the things you were supposed to do to have a good life and looked up and was like, why aren't I happy? Every woman I knew at my corporate company. So what was your journey like? When did you realize that you had a problem that was bigger than just putting it down and leaving it alone? Like where you realized that you were gonna need some sort of additional support? Yeah, I had been worried about my drinking for a while. I always knew I was a big drinker. I loved it. I didn't drink in high school and I was sort of the hypervigilant, super responsible person. And then I got to college and I joined the women's rugby team, which is like a crash course in binge drinking and figured out that getting drunk turned off all of those worries in my mind, right? And so I would drink heavily and then be brutally hungover. And then after I graduated college, it just still became my main way of coping and not stressing out. I would drink before going on business trips, like to not worry about it, which was terrible because I was brutally hungover. I would drink before job interviews, the night before my dad got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when I was 21. That was kind of a way that I stopped worrying about it. And so I would drink, I would throw up in my 20s for like sometimes hours on the bathroom floor, just throwing up bile and sweating. And my mom was like, maybe you need to reevaluate your relationship with alcohol. And I thought it was a joke. I thought it was a funny punchline at the time, but it definitely stuck with me. So I always drank, I was sort of a 365 nights a year drinker, always open the bottle of wine with dinner, always have a cocktail when you went out. And then I started having the 3 a .m. wake ups and off just the charts anxiety. And for a while I was oblivious. I thought it was, I need to go to therapy and get anti -anxiety meds and anti -depression meds. And they gave me sleep medications, which then I was drinking a bottle of wine a night and taking Ambien, which is so dangerous. And then I wasn't oblivious anymore. Do you know what I mean? When I knew and I tried to moderate and make all the rules, like I'll only drink two times a week, I'll drink beer, not wine, I'll only drink when I'm out, I'll only drink when I'm home. I mean, you name it, I tried it except for stopping. And then I was like, oh dear God, I might have a real problem. I read Drinking a Love Story by Carolyn Knapp. And just when she, the way she writes about drinking and the relationship and how much she loved it, I was just like, yikes, this is me. I sort of wrote myself a letter saying, I have a serious problem with alcohol when my son was like six months old. And then I came back three days later and was like, just kidding, no problem with alcohol. I mean, I was like rationalizing to myself on paper. Right, I like how you were just letting your journal know that you were just - Oh yeah, like just kidding, nothing to see here, no problem, just in case. Yeah, it was so funny. So I worried about it when he was six months old. I took my first serious attempts to stop, go to therapy with someone who dealt with addiction, joined an online group of people who were trying to quit drinking. And a girl from that group took me to my first AA meeting when he was five years old. So six months to five years of trying desperately to moderate when he was five. My first attempts to really be like, okay, I stopped for four months. I got pregnant with my daughter, amazingly felt better. Life got better because I didn't drink for a year. I was like, wow, I'm fixed. Like it was situational, the issue, right? Now I can moderate. Went back to drinking with the intention to just, what we all say, like just on a date night, special occasion, decently quickly, I was back to a bottle of wine a night or more. The whole time I knew it was an issue. I knew too much. Like after you've done some recovery, every hangover, every fuzzy memory, every anxiety attack. So it took me 22 months to stop again for good. The whole time I was writing myself letters being like, I need to stop drinking. This is gonna mess up my life. But then when I did stop the second time, I ended up hiring a sober coach, which helped me so much. I'm sure it's why I became one. But that was my last day once, the day I reached out to my coach and I didn't know it was going to be, but I just kept stacking days in front of each other. And I also knew how hard it was to get started. And I knew that it would take me to that low place. Like I just burned my hand on that stove enough that I could no longer say it's my job or my husband, or I knew it was the alcohol that was bringing me to that point. What did your first year of sobriety look like? Like what did you do different? How was your life different in your first year? Most of my life stayed exactly the same. Same job, same husband, same kids, same friends. What I did do was I took it incrementally while knowing I didn't wanna go back. So I did not focus on forever. I did not spend a lot of time debating whether I was an alcoholic or I had a serious issue with drinking. I just said, okay, I'm going for a hundred days alcohol free. I was unable to make it to day four before then. So this was like the biggest goal I could imagine. And I told everyone in my life that I was going a hundred days alcohol free as a health challenge. I drank every single night. There was not a single person who was going to not notice that I was like ordering something else. So I told my workout group and my work colleagues and my husband and my friends and literally anyone. I told my husband that I needed to get all the wine out of the house. He still drinks, he drinks beer, but seven and a half years later, we've never had wine stain in our house. People bring it and take it away. And I told him to please not bring me wine home when if I had a stressful day, he knew that's what made me happy and that it was going to be really hard for me, but I was serious. So I had my coach, I had my online group that got me through my first 60 days. At 60 days alcohol free, I joined sort of an online coaching program with a group that helped me with even more people, even more knowledge, even more support. At four months, I had a major anxiety panic attack. And that was sort of the breaking point because I really felt like I couldn't cope. I was jumping out of my skin. It felt like I could barely move through the day. Turns out I had an undiagnosed mood disorder, go figure. I never would have figured that out if I wasn't sober, like never. But I went to my doctor and said, basically I can't go back to drinking and I cannot feel this way. So you have to help me. And she did. I got a great EMDR therapist. I got on some medication. I made it through that and then kept adding supports till I felt like I was balanced and solid.
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The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E17: Entrepreneur's Insight on Social Media Future
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Maylone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because reasons, unfortunately. As a rogue -ass, he's from Pennsylvania in the United States of America, and he is an entrepreneur, CEO, and growth strategist of Grow House. Interesting. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Drew Donaldson. Thanks so much for having me today. I really appreciate the opportunity. Welcome. So, how's life? Life's good. Can't complain. You know, it's one of those things that you always look at your life in the moment, and it always seems far more stressful than it really is, and then you look at your life a year ago, and you're like, oh, it's so much better today than it was then. So, I always try to keep that perspective of, like, you know, moment, in the things can be stressful. In the moment, there's things that are, yeah, that's not great, but, you know, in the long term, the trend line is up. Nice, nice. And have you been up too much recently? Yeah, I mean, we've been, with Grow House has been my kind of bread -and -butter business for the past three years, and we're finally getting to the point where it's time to grow beyond me. I really was, you know, kind of the jack -of -all -trades in the business for a long time. I was selling. I was meeting with clients. I was writing copy. I was building websites. I was doing a little bit of everything, and over the years, I've kind of peeled that banana and stopped doing a lot of that stuff and started finding people, and we just hired today, or yesterday, actually, our first sales rep. And so that was a big change because that now unlocks a level of scale that we really haven't had before. Nice, nice. So what is Grow House exactly? So the best way to describe it is that we're a strategy -centric marketing firm, and so we help clients in a variety of ways. We have a marketing club for new entrepreneurs that really need help marketing, but can't afford a fancy agency that's going to charge them, you know, 15 grand a month. We have one -on -one consulting that I do personally with clients that are trying to scale their six -figure business to seven figures, and then we have agency services that work with niche clients with specific problems that we're particularly good at solving. So we're not really the Walmart approach to marketing where it's like you walk in the door and you just pull a bunch of marketing tactics off the shelf. We're really more of the kind of people that, like a personal trainer for your marketing, is the way we used to kind of describe ourselves in our own materials. It's like, you know, we're gonna look at what your business composition looks like, you know, just like a personal trainer would look like, what your body composition looks like, and pick the best marketing solutions for your particular situation.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Bitcoin Resilience in the Face of Macro Turmoil
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto as Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about bond market alarm, Bitcoin resilience, Ripple, jobs, and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. Now a markets roundup. Debt markets around the world are in turmoil. But before we talk about that and why it matters for crypto, it's worth talking about how well crypto markets are holding up. Given the meltdowns and melt ups going on in traditional assets, you'd expect them to be down by even more. According to Coindesk Indices, at 10 a .m. Eastern Time this morning, Bitcoin was trading at $27 ,428, down half a percent over the past 24 hours. Ether was at $1 ,636, down 1 .4%. Bitcoin continues to lead the market. Its dominance index, known as BTC .d, measures Bitcoin's market cap relative to the total crypto market cap. When Bitcoin is outperforming the rest of the market, this goes up. Yesterday it climbed yet again and is now at 50 .5%. Bitcoin now accounts for more than half of the whole crypto market. Bitcoin's strength is surprising given the colossal tightening effect of rising bond yields around the world, a rising dollar and a rising oil price. Tightening especially impacts risk assets, and crypto assets are arguably the riskiest in that bucket. Were typical correlations to hold, Bitcoin would be suffering. But so far, it isn't. It is easily outperforming most stock indices, even those considered less risky, such as the Dow Jones. This suggests that there is meaningful support in the crypto market. But rather than seeing it in price increases, we're seeing it in prices not falling by more. Ripple was a strong outperformer in crypto markets today, up more than 4 % to trade at 53 cents. This boost comes from two pieces of good news for the network's XRP token. One is securing a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, allowing it to keep providing digital payment token services in the region. The other is the denial of the Securities and Exchange Commission's request to appeal a recent call ruling. I'll be talking more about this in a moment. Moving on to strong signals in the macro market. Earlier today, the US 10 -year yield almost reached 4 .9%, while the 30 -year yield broke through 5 % for the first time since 2007. There seems to have been a pullback over the past few hours, but markets are spooked. It doesn't help that Fed officials are out on the speaker circuit repeating the mantra that rates may have to go up some more and at best will be higher for longer. It also doesn't help that global confidence in the US government's ability to function took a hit. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to oust the speaker for the first time in history. It also doesn't help that the higher US debt yields go, the more the US government will be paying in interest expense. This is triggering doubts about the US government's fiscal health. The price of insurance against a US government default has more than doubled over the past month and is now at the highest levels since the aftermath of the banking crisis earlier this year. What we are seeing is not just about rising interest rate expectations. That explained much of the climate yields over the past month. What we are seeing now is more about confidence, or rather, the lack of. The jobs market delivered some positive data this morning, however. This has allowed the bond markets to come down a bit and stock markets to recover some or all of the day's losses. The ADP non -farm employment report is a narrower, private version of the official report we will get on Friday. This morning's release of the employment change for September came in much lower than expected, an increase of less than 90 ,000 compared to consensus forecasts of over 150 ,000. This suggests that the US job market is finally starting to cool down, which means that the Federal Reserve might be able to ease up on interest rates ahead of expectations. The official report due on Friday does not always move in line with the ADP version, but we may get some good news then as well. Over in stocks, this economic data point has given markets some breathing room. US stocks were a sea of red yesterday, with all three major indices down more than 1 .3%. The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 1 .9%, its biggest daily drop in two months. So far today, however, the losses are much more muted, with NASDAQ gaining 0 .3%. The S &P 500 is still up almost 10 % year -to -date, although its gain is rapidly disappearing. The NASDAQ is holding onto its lead with a year -to -date gain of over 23%. And a sobering statistic for those that are still betting on a soft landing for the US economy – the Dow Jones index is now below its January level. Major European indices were also hit hard yesterday, with declines of more than 1 % across the board. Both the German DAX and the broader Eurostock 600 indices are at their lowest levels since March. The yield on the 10 -year German government bond, considered the safest bond in the European market, broke through 3 % earlier today for the first time since 2011. This morning has brought some signs of relief with more muted losses from the main indices. In Asia, the decline in Japan's Nikkei index accelerated in today's trading with a drop of 2 .3%. This brings the accumulated drop for the month so far to 4%, but the index is still 18 % up year -to -date. Japanese investors are not just spooked by moves in global bond markets – they're also keeping a close eye on currency movements. Yesterday, the yen -US dollar exchange rate broke through the symbolic level of 150 for the first time since late last year. Shortly after, the currency saw a sharp recovery, leading many to speculate that the Japanese central bank was again intervening in the market. That's possible, but it would be unusual for the Bank of Japan to do so without an announcement of some sort. Central bank intervention would be a big deal. It's more likely, at least for now, that it was some buying triggered by the decline in anticipation of eventual intervention.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: 10-04 Update
"Welcome to The SBF Trial, a Coindesk Podcast Network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried had a grin on his face as he entered court on Tuesday morning, clad in a black suit and an uncharacteristically tame mop of hair. After nine long months, the disgraced crypto founder will finally have the chance to defend himself against a wide array of federal fraud and conspiracy charges tied to the collapse of FTX, his crypto and futures exchange, and Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm he founded and, according to prosecutors, used to illegally reinvest FTX user funds. The first day of the Bankman -Fried trial was all about jury selection, the process by which a judge, defense, and prosecution worked together to filter more than 80 New Yorkers to a final group of 12 jurors and six alternates. Judge Lewis Kaplan, the judge overseeing the case, peppered the jury pool with questions. Underscoring the trial's location in the heart of New York's financial district and the scale of Bankman -Fried's once -giant crypto empire, the initial list of potential jurors included people whose professions overlapped with Alameda and FTX. One potential juror said she had worked until recently at Signature, the crypto -friendly bank that crumbled earlier this year and had ties to Alameda and FTX. Another member of the jury pool said her employer had invested directly in Alameda and FTX. Did your employer make or lose money as a result of their investments? asked Kaplan. Lost money, said the juror. The goal of Kaplan's questions was to suss out which of the many prospective jurors would be able to serve impartially, a particularly complex endeavor given the headline -grabbing nature of Bankman -Fried's crypto collapse, as the judge acknowledged at the start of jury selection. It would not surprise me if some of you have heard about this case. When Kaplan asked if anyone in the room had seen a recent 60 Minutes segment, an interview with author Michael Lewis about his just -released book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman -Fried. At least seven jurors raised their hands. Most members of the jury pool were stationed in an overflow room on the first floor of the courthouse. Bankman -Fried sat silently between his attorneys throughout the bulk of the jury selection process. Mostly he spent his time pecking away at a laptop keyboard. His attorneys have previously expressed concern that he would not have enough time to review materials or otherwise work on his defense after his bond was revoked in August, and he was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center. Despite the seriousness of the accusations facing Bankman -Fried, his mood from the court's overflow rooms, where press was sequestered, seemed to range from neutral to positive. The judge himself cracked a few jokes during the jury selection process, though he hammered certain prospective jurors who appeared to be trying very hard to avoid serving for the trial. One prospect tried three different sets of excuses, none of which appeared to convince the judge. The judge also spoke to Bankman -Fried directly at the beginning of the day, letting the FTX founder know he had the right to testify in his own defense, even if his attorneys didn't expect or plan for him to do so. The decision is up to you, the judge said, before telling Bankman -Fried how to alert Judge Kaplan that he wished to testify should the defense rest without calling the FTX founder. It's unclear if Bankman -Fried will actually testify. Jury selection should conclude Wednesday, according to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the trial in the Southern District of New York Courthouse. There are around 50 potential jurors remaining, after he dismissed a few dozen during yesterday's jury selection. Of the remainder, 12 will become jurors, and six will be named as alternates, potentially as soon as Wednesday morning. The process will see the jurors talk about themselves and their backgrounds briefly so the various attorneys have a better understanding of who they are, the judge said. The judge expects opening statements to kick off Wednesday. One prosecutor said he expects the Department of Justice's opening statement to last no longer than 30 minutes, while the This means we could begin hearing from witnesses by Wednesday afternoon. A pair of FBI agents were present in the courtroom Tuesday, though it's unclear if they will be the DOJ's opening witnesses. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
The Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Private Portfolio Management
"Hey welcome everybody back to hashing it out and we're about to hash it out with the founder of Rocky Lefteris. How you doing? Hey happy to be here. Good we're all happy to be here we're gonna roll right into it man let's let's get past the you know the standard issue questions of you know give us a little bit of your background and I know we'll take it from there. Yeah so I'm Lefteris I worked in this field since 2014 I think. I worked with Ethereum Foundation on the Solidity compiler and then in the C++ client then I worked on with Christoph Jensson on the DAO which is what closed the fork in Ethereum. Some people may know it. That guy. Yeah that guy. The good old days. Yeah and then helped like three worst months of my life to clean up the mess of what happened there and later I worked in Rider Network which is what is the lightning network to Bitcoin. This is what riding was supposed to be for Ethereum but I mean it worked it still is there but it didn't gain them. Now we have rollups in Ethereum it's the preferred L2 method but in the meantime I also started Rotki which is the portfolio tracking and management tool that protects your privacy. It's a local application that just does tracking and managing your funds. What motivated you? I remember you stopped with Raiden and then you took a hiatus for a bit and then you came back and started a portfolio application. What motivated you to switch to that? Why did you like I'm gonna do portfolio like a portfolio application I can understand and we'll get into this the local first mentality of what Rocky is supposed to be and is. Why portfolio? So the funny thing is that it's not a I didn't stop riding and then go into it exactly. I had the Rotki since maybe after a year after I started working Raiden in but it was just a side project and what motivated me to do it was that I just wanted to do my taxes. It was like pretty simple and what were the choices back in 2016 to do your taxes? It was nothing it was just Bitcoin tax that's what I remember and then I was like okay so I don't waste any time what is Bitcoin tax I go Bitcoin tax where is the application where is the link to download an application there is no such thing you just give us everything and we calculate and that sounded absurd to me that sounded just crazy and so I just made some scripts that helped me calculate what I think I should have paid and then this how Rotki started this script slowly slowly became into what Rotki is today. I guess a question would be like what regions do you support because what I understand you know tax code is different from region to region from country to country so how does it do that? That's a very good question we don't officially support anything the idea is that taxes are very hard and we want to make a tool that is customizable by anybody so we want to support as many rules so to provide configurability to the user so that they can just customize the tool to their needs but we I mean to be correct we would actually have to be tax accountants to be like 100 % legal and have tax accountants that work with us in every single jurisdiction and that alone is a fit to manage to have CPAs in the US and the equivalent in the Great Britain and then in Germany and Netherlands Italy everything it just becomes unattainable especially for a small open source project so we went with a process that you just configure it yourself so we talk with accountants we talk also with people to understand their needs and try to make it as configurable as possible. So there is some aspect of I go to I don't know Rocky's website and I can download the actual application but then there is some sort of consultancy that needs to happen that's human to human? Yeah pretty much so like you you need a tax accountant like we don't know tax accountants you would need someone to ask them what are the rules in your jurisdiction and then you need to configure it appropriately if your jurisdiction doesn't have a configuration that we can do then you talk to us and we will try to do it. Wow so how does it manage all the different or how do you manage all the different financial situations that you can get yourself into with crypto like staking and getting staking rewards and I don't know an airdrop hits you out of the blue you know yay some money like how do you account for those things and how does Rocky do? It's different one so each one is a different scenario like every single one of those is different for example in Germany airdrop is considered I don't remember the word right now but it means that it's just airdropped but if it's really airdropped like it's not taxable just you just came up with some money and that's fine okay good for you but that means if it's really an airdrop if it's something that you have to do something for then that is different. Of course I'm not a tax accountant. This is like a thing that you have to put we actually have it in Rocky when you download it but each one of this is a difficult thing that we have to add new protocols new new situations so like Ethereum staking was a lot of work to add support for but then for example Ethereum staking is like Gnosis staking so Gnosis staking will hopefully be easier then there is Uniswap right and then there is all the Uniswap forks that take the same kind of approach so it's easy to do something that is based on top of a common format but then if it's something like Solana for example that's totally different it's a different one or now with the new stuff like maybe Starkware so like you really need a lot of work there and this is why we go for open source because we can't do everything wrong.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from URGENT! How To Get Your Real Estate Listings SOLD NOW! (Part 2)
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today is day two, how to get your real estate listing sold. So Julie, without any further delay. Yes, that's right. So this is the continuation. We did points one through five. We're starting on six today, about 11 unexpected ways in addition to a price reduction or instead of in some cases to get those listings to move. And remember this is point number six. So if you've not heard the first few points, make sure you go back and listen to those points because they're really critical that you are tuning your mind to the fact that there are a lot of ways to get properties correctly positioned on the market so they meet the buyer's expectation, i .e. priced correctly. And also if you happen to have a listing that is out of alignment with the market's expectation, how you can make it more competitive in addition to or maybe instead of, thank you, a price reduction. So make sure you read our notes. All of our notes from today's podcast, all of our notes from every podcast are down below in the show description. If you're on YouTube, it's very easy. Just click Show More or on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, all the billions of different places you guys listen to us. Scroll down, read the notes. They're all there. We obviously include about 1 ,000 % more in addition to the notes. When you were listening, you were noticing that Julie and I, because in the comments I'm reading what you guys are saying, we often do talk about things that are I think more drilled down than what our notes are. But the notes are there for you to use to remind you to essentially what to say, how to say it when you're speaking with your sellers or buyers or whatever's relevant. But also there's a link for you to join Premier Coaching. Thousands of you have joined Premier Coaching in the last year. From what we understand, it is the nation's number one coaching program. Why are so many agents joining Premier Coaching program? Well, a whole bunch of reasons, but the best reason is because it's a coaching program designed for this new market, for the agents that are willing to do what they don't want to do and they don't want to do it at the highest level. As a result of that mindset, on the other side of that mindset, when you have the skill set necessary, you're going to experience success at levels that you can only dream of because how do I know that's true? Because we have, guess what, thousands of coaching clients that are telling us that. So the link to join Premier Coaching is below. So scroll down and click the link or just go to premiercoaching .com. Take 17 seconds to join. Yes, we've timed it. If you type faster than me, you could probably do it in 10 seconds, but the link to join is right there and you have immediate access to the entire first level of Premier Coaching. All right, so again, this is part two, starting on point number six, 11 unexpected ways to get your listings to sell faster. Now, any of these ways can happen upfront as soon as you take the listing. They can also be added to the comments after you've had the listing for a while, as some of you are sitting on listings you're surprised that haven't sold yet. And we can also do more than one of these points at the same time on those listings. So you have some flexibility on this. All right, so other ways to add some perks and get these listings to go faster. Point number six, add a $1 ,000 commission bonus to a buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. Now, if it is more expensive, you could add a $5 ,000 bonus. You can add a $10 ,000 bonus if it's over a million dollars. If it's over $5 million, adjust accordingly, but add a commission bonus to the buyer's agent if it's pending by a certain date. The builders are doing this. You better do it as well, especially if you have a lot of builder competition. I know, I saw, I think it's from Lenar, it might've been KB homes in San Antonio. There are some agent bonuses as high as a 6 % to the buyer side. That's amazing. And it's not just on one house either. There's like lists and lists of this stuff. Do you remember, Julie, back in 2007, 2008, we had coaching clients who their sellers had like, I remember one in particular is a Lamborghini. It was like a year old Lamborghini and it was during a hard time for the seller and the car had depreciated. The house was, they still had equity, but they wanted to sell the house before the house was worth less than they owed on it. This was a totally different market, not work that we're experiencing now. So they actually included the Lamborghini in the sale of the property and the buyer's agent that ended up buying it, ended up representing the buyer to purchase it, took the Lamborghini in lieu of their commission because the buyer didn't give a rat's, you know, what about a car? I know. Well, I mean way to be creative, right? Right. I recently saw back and forth on one of the Facebook agent pages where an agent was talking about how their broker had invested in some kind of thing where it was like a vacation voucher that they could use on any listing. And you know, I was, what was crazy was the, the other agents on this social media thing like piled on, well, if you have to do that, you must have overpriced it and that seller must be crazy. And what is this, a timeshare? And it was like insane back and forth. And go you, whoever posted that, who said, no, actually we feel it's a smart thing to do to put on all of our listings, to have a little extra something to make sure that we're shown first. I mean, that was a very professional response. There were two vacation vouchers. One was for the buyer's agent. One was for the buyer and they didn't have to use it, but it was like X percent off of their travel. I thought it was pretty crafty. Okay. So along those lines, hopefully we're motivating you guys for what we're motivating you towards is wanting to sell more expensive listings because the tchotchkes obviously are better. Well, they get better. If our first two stories didn't do it, this one might. So Ben Salem, I know you're going to mention this. Yeah. Well, cause he sells a lot of beautiful luxury real estate and he works with a lot of, you know, high end, not in Los Angeles, exactly, uh, buyers and the bird streets and the rest of it. And he's not very, I, Ben's one of my favorite coaching clients of all time cause he's not high profile and yet he sells a lot of expensive homes and he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not peacocking around about his success. He just gets the job done. That's right. So, uh, one of the things he did on a particular really weird house that was owned by a, I won't mention who is, it was a celebrity, uh, well fallen celebrity, I should say a fallen star. In any event. So this property in particular was very difficult to sell, had a lot of condition issues, um, the whole thing. And so what Ben did is he put an incentive on it that he would pay for the buyer's agent. It was all disclosed. Everyone knew about it. Nothing under the table, nothing like that to take a private jet and fly to Las Vegas stay at the wind and he was going to pay like the whole thing. It was just some ridiculous, some sporting thing or something. I don't remember. You know, I think it was not related to some event. It was something. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, that's what he ended up doing and he took a bunch of pictures and it became a big, you know, hoopty do for the buyer's agent. And it was something that got Ben's name on the radar for other listings that may have been a little cantankerous to sell and he got more listings from it. Point being, if you're in a marketplace where something isn't selling, the answer isn't always lower the price or if it is, it's lower the price and do some things that are more creative to hype up the listing, especially true in upper end listings where the house needs a lot of repairs, updates, that type of thing. Yeah, that's right. One of the problems with big luxury homes is there's more to do when it gets outdated and it's more expensive. You know, I can just see, I can just, I feel in the collective unconscious of all of the, you know, worn out buyer's agents from the previous market. They're like right up, you know, about time we get a few perks out of this, right? We feel you guys, we understand. So we were talking about doing a commission bonus. Always do a new seller's net sheet when you're adding any of these sellers concessions to the transaction. Make sure the seller knows how their bottom line will be impacted. Many of these concessions will actually cost less than a price reduction would have or make the price reduction smaller when combined with the concession. But make sure you're translating it into actual dollars so your seller's not surprised. And you know, again, advanced coaching here, but sometimes you can get your title escrow company to actually make those for you. So they're actually seeing all the expenses. I'm not saying your net sheets aren't accurate, but it's a little bit more authoritative in some sellers eyes when it's coming from the title escrow attorney type thing. So another thing you can do to give yourself a more professional veneer in the marketplace where it's the agent has the skill set that's going to get the listing. So don't avoid doing a seller's net sheet just because you don't know how to do it. Get some help. And there are some MLS is that allow you to plug in those numbers and they know how to figure your taxes and all that. But I agree with you. The title or the closing attorney can certainly do that for you. And it's not weird to ask them to do that. That's normal. Okay. Number seven, seller does not require inspections waived. Again, a new concept that replaces the old markets as is requirements. We talked about that a lot yesterday, so make sure you go back and listen to that, especially at how we tied it in at the end of yesterday's podcast to buying a home warranty at the time you take the listing and including seller's coverage and then having the house pre -inspected and having the repairs on the property done. So that when the buyer walks in, they're seeing that the property was pre -inspected, the repairs are done and the house comes with a home warranty. We are trying to position you so that you can compete against not just other resales, but also new construction. Very well put. Point number eight, have your favorite lender create a rate sheet to give away at showings and open houses. The rate sheet should show three different ways of purchasing the home. You can also attach that to your home brochure in your home brochure box. You could do a 30 year fixed, a 321 buy down, a 723 adjustable or a 525 adjustable. All of these can get a lower interest rate and lower payment. My favorite one is to just buy down points like the builders do and to lock in a lower rate for a 30 year fixed. But there are other creative ways to combat higher interest rates. We didn't say this yesterday, we should say it today. When you're doing things like what we suggested yesterday and today and you're being more creative and the seller is contributing money to buy the points down, in the description you can say at list price seller agrees to buy the points down, making the interest rate in a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, this payment range and that type of thing. So at list price, you can buy a little bit of insurance for the seller so that if the buyer comes in low and the seller is even inclined to accept it, that they're not also then going to have to concede to all those other concessions that they used as incentives to get the offer in the first place. Great point because you don't want to sign the seller up to both have to take something lower and to contribute 10 ,000 in closing costs or what have you. But don't be surprised when you do have, especially in a market where listings are harder to sell, where the buyer's agents do come in and they do ask for a lot of different things, you're just going to have to work through it. And again, we teach you how to do that in Premier Coaching, except the old days of throwing a dart against the board to price it and then waiting for the offers to come in over list price or long over. You have to have the skill set now, not just to list properties correctly and get them sold, but also how to counsel your buyers to get the properties. This is a new market. This is a skills -based market. Those of you are willing to learn the skills and do what you don't want to do and you don't want to do at the highest level, you're going to have an unprecedented, massive, unbelievably exciting real estate future. Yes, you brought up a little minor but important point because we're working through the transition of a super hot seller's market on every single listing that hits the market, no matter where you live, to a more adjusted, more reasonable, more normalized market. Now, we've been talking about how to buy down interest rates and do some more creative financing, which freaks some of you guys out. It makes you think, oh, I heard about that during the housing crash and adjustable rates are evil and we can't do that. I've seen some of this manifest in things like a seller will have an offer brought to them by their listing agent where the buyer is asking for closing costs. And the seller and the listing agent, their reaction is, well, if they need closing costs, they must not be a very strong buyer. That's a weak, truthfully, that's a weak agent. But you understand where they're coming from. Totally, completely. You understand why that's happening. But that's a weak agent who did not properly position the seller when they put the house for sale. This goes back to skills, guys. Now, I even have an instance of that, Federico in L .A. had a builder react like that when somebody asked for closing costs, even though they came in at list price doing what the builder asked because they asked for some closing costs. Builder was like, well, they, you know, why would I take that? They must not be very strong of a buyer. Just because somebody asks to get help getting a better interest rate does not mean they are a weak borrower. It means they're actually pretty smart about what they're doing. So you'll have a choice, Mr. Seller. You either lower the price by $30 ,000 or we actually give concessions to the buyer so that they can buy the interest rate down or cover the buyer's closing costs. Because the buyer is using all of their money, they need all their cash basically as their down payment to qualify for the mortgage. Now interest rates went up, they're going to need concessions to basically buy the rate down so they can afford the payment, qualify for it. Or Mr. Seller, you can just lower the price by 30 grand and we can hope and pray that we get another offer six months from now. It's up to you. Right. And in fact, if the seller were to counter it, you know, up for 10 grand and I'm going to pay 10 grand in closing costs, their net, you guys get focused on the wrong thing sometimes. Do the net sheet. The net to the seller is list price minus coming down 10 grand minus 10 grand to closing costs. Isn't that the same as taking a price of 20 grand less? It is. But that's, by the way, one of the techniques we show you when you have someone that's trying to fight with you over your commission is you don't get them to focus on the commission. You get them to focus on what their net is and in a marketplace where what almost all the houses, well, most, most, all real estate in the United States, according to Julie's statistics two days ago on podcast has increased by at least 45, 49 % since 2019, 49 % okay. So here's the thing. If they have to come down 2%, they're probably going to be okay. And if you're having them battle you over price or I'm not paying the $360 for a home warranty, you need to move their eyes to the bottom of the net sheet and circle with a red pen, their net, and then you need to get, have them understand that they've won the real estate lottery. Congratulations. Exactly. Okay. Number nine, find out if your seller has an assumeable mortgage. What's the rate and what are the requirements? Advertise this in your MLS description as well as in your home brochures. all Just note FHA, VA, and USDA mortgages are assumeable and some other loans are as well. All you have to do to find out is call whoever's servicing the mortgage. There are ways to look it up online as well, especially if it's FHA and VA, you can go to hud .gov and look it up by loan number. My beautiful wife, what are you, what assumption are you making? That they even know what an assumeable mortgage is. Correct. You're assuming, you're assuming they knew what an assumeable was. You were making an assumption. Well, I'll explain it quickly. So basically, someone's taken out one of these FHA, VA, USDA mortgages and let's say they have a fixed interest rate of say 3%. And let's say the property is worth, they paid $400 for it and now it's worth $500. If the buyer comes up with $100 ,000 or whatever the spread is between the market value and what they own the loan and they qualify with release, in other words, the FHA, VA, USDA has to, the person has to have decent credit and obviously... They have to be able to qualify for the mortgage. They can assume, they can actually assume the mortgage of that seller. So they themselves can have that ridiculously low 30 -year fixed rate mortgage. Now I'll even make it more interesting for you. Let's say your buyer only has $50 ,000 down, the house is worth $500, the USDA mortgage is only $400, the interest rate is 3%, the payment's obviously a heck of a lot less than it would be if they went out into the marketplace now and got a loan. But the buyer only has $50 ,000, but other than that, they qualify. You can get the seller to give them a second mortgage for the $50 ,000. And I don't want to get into the weeds on that, but this is something we talked about in Premier Coaching and we talked about in previous podcasts, but you can make deals happen where other people don't even see opportunity. That's called skill. Yeah, and that's even better than doing a rate buy down or an adjustable. I mean, potentially it's pretty killer. Just to overview, if you want to, you know, hopefully some of you are having some sparks fly in your minds, what would happen is the seller would give the buyer a second mortgage, I'll stick with $50 ,000, that is an actual lien against the property. So that means every month the buyer is going to be making the payment, now the owner of the new house is going to be making a payment on the first mortgage and on the second mortgage. You can do, and you will use an attorney to do this obviously, but then what will happen is the second mortgage, let's say the first mortgage is 30 -year fixed, the second mortgage might have a three -year arm. In other words, they're going to make the payment on that $50 ,000 for three years and then they have to pay the seller back the $50 ,000 or refinance it or there could even be a covenant in there, a carve out where if the seller agrees, you know, they can continue the mortgage, right? It's not just a balloon payment. It could be essentially... You can write it however you want. Exactly. You can write it however you want and if the interest rate makes sense and the payment's been made on time, I bet you that a seller is going to be more than happy to continue to have that $50 ,000 paid over terms because maybe the interest rate is great and they're making more money on it than they would investing in other places. You have just put a buyer in a house that they normally wouldn't have necessarily been able to buy because they didn't have the down payment and now you put them in a house or they can get the mortgage assumed. The reason that this is very powerful because a lot of the properties that are FHA, I'm not going to say VA, but FHA, well, I'll just lean into USDA. They're going to be more rural type properties and some of them are going to be working farms and small farms and things like that where you're going to have to be more creative to get the property sold. This is the type of information that gives you an unfair advantage and every marketplace makes you more confident, makes it so that when you wake up every morning, you're bouncing off the walls wanting to share with the world your real estate knowledge. I have seen some of these assumables already happening because smart agents have figured this out. I have a question for you. Maybe you don't know. I need to research this. Let's say that you have a seller that has an FHA assumable, but they've owned the house for like five years, which means they only owe 25 years. If I assume that, you pick up a 25, that's another advantage, right? I mean, that's huge. Yeah. You've just shaved off five years that you don't even have a 30 year. You've got a 25. They don't recast the mortgage, Julie. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure I had it right. But the same goes true. Like when you and I started selling real estate, there was a whole bunch, well, they were hard to find, but they were just sweetheart deals. And there were assumables out there where people had paid off half the loan. It was a 30 year and it was 15 years left. You'd pay them their equity and you'd basically have a 15 year loan. I know. It's amazing. And I was just reading, I think on housing wire, that a surprisingly large amount of this recent, you know, when we had all these low interest rates for several years, a lot of those, and some of them will be assumable, because rates were so low, people got 15 year loans when they refi'd or when they purchased in the first place because the payment was, you know, normally you wouldn't do a 15 year because the payment is higher, but with rates the way they were, it made sense to do 15 year. How are you going to use this information? First of all, ask your seller what type of mortgage that they have. Don't assume, here, I'll give you, assume they have an FHA mortgage or a Fannie or Freddie until proven otherwise, or a VA or, you just assume that they have a mortgage where there's a carve out for it to be assumable. And if you're in a marketplace where things are hard to sell, you can find out if they do because I promise you again, your sellers won't know. Find out if it's assumable. And then if it is, you have the ultimate unfair advantage when getting that property sold. A hundred percent. Because again, back to our example from yesterday, if it's that listing, which is an assumable at some outrageously, now outrageously low interest rate, and you're advertising that in your agent comments and there's four other homes that meet the buyers criteria, who do you think is going to get shown first? I'm going to even take this to the next level. If you are smart, which all of you are, otherwise you would be listening to our podcast, you're going to think, well, how can I pick up rental property this way? Because a lot of these mortgages, FHA, VA, USDA, the mortgage criteria to qualify in the first place is a little lower. You can actually use what would have been your commission as a, towards your down payment. And you can assume these low rate mortgages and you can actually start walking into rental properties. There you are. See? All right. So point number 10, use 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE on your for sale signs to generate leads and possibly sell your listing yourself. One of the best solutions to a listing sitting on the market too long is to sell it yourself. 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. So also refer to past podcasts about that system. We're not going to dive too deep into that today, but capture unlisted phone numbers, answer zero transfer calls, or immediately call the prospect back. Secret, many of your initial calls will actually be from neighbors of your listing. Those are also listing leads guys. And that website, by the way, and the product is getting totally revamped. So anyway, go to 1 -800 -HOME -HOTLINE .com. Full disclosure, Julie and I own 50 % of that company. Yes. With a partner with one of our original listings, oddly enough. Actually, he was our first seller, wasn't he? Oh my gosh. We forget that sometimes. I know. Well, it's all related, right? Yep. Okay. Point number 11, use a home brochure box next to or attached to your for sale sign. There is an art to the home brochure. Of course, highlight all the attributes of your listing using 800 -HOME -HOTLINE and including your email address. But in addition to this, there's lots of different ways you can utilize the home brochure to make your phone ring. Now we have a podcast that we've done two or three times in the past called How to Hot Rod Your Real Estate Sign or Your Brochure Box. So there's all kinds of things that we did in a dedicated podcast on that. This is all about the fact that in many cases, you're going to have to sell your own listing because the buyers, agents, you know, a whole bunch of reasons. I'll give you guys a really good example. You'll remember this. It was our neighborhood in New Albany Country Club and there was a listing that was for sale when we moved there, expired, got listed with somebody else and expired again. I remember. And it was like caddy cornered to our backyard and they were moving back to Hungary. I think it was Hungary. Something like that. Yeah. And they're the nicest people ever. Super nice people. So we ended up listing the property and I was shocked the house hadn't sold. Me too. It's a good house. It was great. It was a typical expired where it basically gets a lot of activity when it's new. The local agents, you know, stopped showing it because there's other new listings, the whole thing, right? If you look at the curve on showing activity, it's really, you know, two weeks, three weeks and after that it starts to drop off pretty precipitously and after it's been for sale for 30 or 45 days in virtually all markets, the showing activity stops. Well that's what had happened to this property. But even worse, or I should say better for our advantage, even worse, the local agents were assuming that the house had some sort of problem, otherwise it would have sold. And how do I know that? I had, Julie and I had that listing. This listing I remember was five or 600 grand and this was back in. And so this house was, we had a for sale sign obviously and we had 800 home hotline. There was somebody parked in front of the listing.
The Bad Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Breaks $28,000! - Bad News for October 4, 2023
"Are there signs of life in the crypto market? Is the bear thinking about going into hibernation so the bull can run once again? Or is this upturn just another head fake? We'll take a look at the latest news in the Bitcoin and blockchain world to make sense of it all, and we're going to do it while dealing with the fact that there are less than 7 weeks of shopping days until Christmas. May this coming season find us saying, instead of, oh no, no, no. On our bad news, episode number 698 of the Bad Crypto Podcast. Are you crypto curious? Are you crypto serious? Or somewhere crypto in between us? It doesn't matter. You're in the right place because you are in the Republic of Bad Cryptopia with Sir Lord Joel and Sir Lord Travis. Your guides, your what are what are some of the things we call ourselves? I just went blank. Metaverse morons, web meanies, blockchain blockheads, that's it. I think the best way if we were in Australia would be, hey, we're the crypto cunts. Oh, my God. If we were in Australia, but we're not in Australia, so we're not going to say that. That's like, you know, in America, that is in America, that is such a strong word, right? People that is like one of the most disgusting things you can call somebody in Australia. If go you to Australia, that's like their favorite word. Yeah, they're all that. I love it when they go, yeah, good cunt. Wow, thanks. I don't know. Take that, brother. This episode marked with explicit rating courtesy of Sir Lord Travis, right? Man. So we have news for you guys. And I think it's time for us to get into it. Insert transition music here. All right, looking at CoinGecko .com here, checking out. In the last seven days, Bitcoin's been up about 5%. Yeah, we went about to $28 ,400. I'm not sure what set it off. The current crypto market cap here, time stamping on the 3rd of October, 1218 PM EST is $1 .12 trillion. Bitcoin currently pulling back a little bit. The last 24 hours, about 2 .5 % to $27 ,386. Ethereum also popped up to like $1 ,750 and then took a sudden dive back to $1 ,650. BNB, $2 .13, XRP, $0 .51, Solana, $24, Cardano, $0 .26, and Dogecoin rounding out the top 10, $0 .06. By the way, you may have noticed I've quit saying stable coins that are in the top 10. I think three of them are stable coins or staked Ether. What's the point? Because you know what the price of those is going to be. So let's just talk about it. You just kind of ignore those and you get a couple of other ones. Polygon had a pretty decent week, but Solana had a really big week as well. So there's a couple of things that's popped up on those that we will get to as well. Was there some big winners? There's some big winners. Solana was probably one of the biggest winners. Bitcoin SV was a big winner. Thor Chain Gala also had a pretty big week. Roll Bitcoin that I've never even heard was the big winner this week with about 37 % up. Not a lot of big losers this week though, Joel. Nope. Just some people that I know. Yeah, but we're not going to shout them out. We're not going to say their names, but one name we will say is John McAfee. And this news on protos .com says that the crypto legend John McAfee's suicide has been confirmed by Spanish courts. So there you go. You can trust them, guys. They're saying that it was a suicide, even though that he said he would never be suicidal. And even though Janice has said that he was not suicidal, they're saying that he was suicidal. He literally said, no, that if I hang myself a la Epstein, it will be of no fault of mine. Literally said it. He literally said that on October 15th, 2020, on June 2021, he was found dead. And why is it, Joel, though it's October 2023. Why did it take them, you know, 28 months for them to declare this like that? And why is why does Janice never got the body or whatever? There's a lot of weird stuff going on with that. I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist around this one because there's not really much of a theory. It's they offed him. He had shit he was going to say and they offed him and they call it suicide because that's what they do. Because that's what they do. They suicide you. So moving on, the Daily Hobble says that more more than eight hundred ninety two million dollars were lost in exploits involving Oracle networks. What's the story all about, Trev? So, you know, oracles are connecting blockchains with external data and then it allows the smart contracts to execute certain tasks and defy. It uses oracles to really grab the prices of those particular cryptos.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: SBF Trial | How Sam Bankman-Frieds Lawyers Might Try and Win His Case
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk Podcast Network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. Very dangerous to call the defendant. However, you may be in a situation where the government puts their case on and you are going to lose. There is no way you're winning. You're only shot as a Hail Mary. Okay, let's put them on. The other side of the coin is it's very powerful when a defendant testifies. It makes it much harder for the jury to convict. They're not dealing with characterizations of a person anymore. They're dealing with that person. They have heard the person speak intimately in a courtroom. And even in cases I've had where a defendant testified, even when the jury ends up convicting, it often takes them longer to get there because it's a harder decision when a human being testifies to them. Starting on Tuesday, October 3rd, the day this episode airs, the world will be watching the criminal trial of the United States versus Sam Bankman -Fried. In this episode, my guests Kayvon Sadeghi and Samson Ensor unpack what it is we're likely to see in the trial, starting with what kinds of potential jurors it is that both the prosecution and the defense will want to deselect from the jury poll this week. Why it's even gotten to the point of a criminal trial given that three co -conspirators have already pleaded guilty, what the core of the trial centers around, and why it is they think the fact that it involves crypto won't matter. Plus, they explore the effectiveness of one potential defense from Bankman -Fried's side, the so -called advice of counsel defense that says that FTX's own lawyers approved of the company's actions. And finally, they raise the question that everyone will be looking for. Will Sam testify? Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Plorbs, was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full -time. This is the October 3rd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the Crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the Crypto .com app and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Vaultcraft by Popcorn is your no -code DeFi toolkit for building automated, non -custodial yield strategies. Learn more on vaultcraft .io about how you can supercharge your crypto portfolio. The game has changed. The Google Cloud Oracle, built for Layer 0, is now securing every Layer 0 message by default. Their custom end -to -end solution sets itself up to bring its world -class security to Web3 and establish itself as the HTTPS within Layer 0 messaging. Visit layer0 .network to learn more. Today's topic is the trial for Sam Vangman -Fried. Here to discuss are Kay von Sodegi, Partner and Co -Chair of Fintech and Crypto Assets at Jenner & Block, and Samson Enser, Partner at Cahill, Gordon & Rydell. Welcome, Kay von and Sam. Great to be back with you, Laura. Likewise. Thanks for having us on. So, the day this episode airs is the first day of the criminal trial for the United States against Sam Vangman -Fried, the former CEO of FTX. Before we dive into the details of this trial, why don't we just have you each briefly describe how your background is relevant to this case. Kay von, would you like to start? Sure. Sure. So, I've been a litigator in New York for the last little over 20 years now, I guess, and in the blockchain space since late 2016, so I've been following all sorts of litigation enforcement actions in the space, including things related to the FTX situation, of course. I also know when things go criminal to open people like my friend Sam here, who have more direct experience, so I'll turn it over to him to discuss his background. Sure. Thank you, Kay von. I used to be a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York in the securities and commodities fraud unit, which is the unit that is prosecuting Sam Vangman -Fried. When I was there, I did their first crypto securities fraud cases. So what you're seeing in this case is sort of an evolution of some of the cases that I worked on. The prosecutors in this case are folks that used to be my colleagues. I know them well, both from when I was a prosecutor and now as a defense lawyer at Cahill. I tried a case in front of Judge Kaplan, who is the judge in the case. I know him well, and I've had a case in front of him as a defense lawyer. And the defense lawyers are folks that I'm friends with from both sides. I worked with them with Chris Everdale when we were prosecutors together. And now on the defense side, he and I have worked together on this side as well. All right. So to begin our discussion, why don't we first explain how this trial is different from, say, the SEC's case against Ripple, which secures to even get a judgment that is now being appealed. So how is this trial against SPF even able to start less than a year after FTX collapsed? Sure. I can jump in. For what a lot of people in the industry have been looking at are things like the SEC enforcement action against Ripple, Coinbase, other things like that, which are civil proceedings. And those tend to be preceded by years of investigation followed by, once a case starts, months if not years of discovery where parties are exchanging all sorts of documents, taking depositions, there's multiple rounds of briefing. And we end up with something like a decision on summary judgment, as we saw in Ripple, before you ever get to a trial to decide what's tried. That is a very different process than the criminal process, which involves a lot less discovery up front. You end up exchanging a lot less information before trial, and it's a much more accelerated time frame. And I think for talking about exactly how those mechanics work, maybe we can kick to Sam to discuss a little bit about that criminal process. Yeah, for sure. I think in a criminal case, it is very common to get from indictment to trial within roughly a year, even in a complicated case. This case is unusual in that the prosecutors investigated the crime very, very quickly. It was November of 2022 that I think the market and the public started to see signs that FTX was cracking. It was not long after that that there was an indictment. So they were speedy in the investigation. Judge Kaplan is a no -nonsense judge who does not like to move a trial date. So he is somebody who pushes a case to trial if that's where it's headed. And so that's why we are here. In the criminal context, as Kayvon mentioned, you know, in a civil case, you will get to question under oath that is depose the other side's witnesses. So there are no surprises at a trial. Not so in a criminal trial. The does defense not have the opportunity to... If the witnesses for the government don't want to be interviewed by them, they won't be. They don't have the right to question them. If those witnesses don't want to be questioned, they may not even know who the witnesses are. They may learn that for the first time very shortly before the trial. If you've seen the movie My Cousin Vinny, it's actually a pretty good summary of how the criminal process goes. You're there and you're hearing the testimony for the first time. You have to really be live on your feet to be able to deal with it. And that's something that I think surprises a lot of people who aren't familiar with the system because I think the natural instinct is, you know, civil cases are about money. Criminal cases are about your freedom. And you would think as the defendant, when your freedom's on the line, you'd have more rights to information that you would have more ability to mount your defense and have everything that you would need to do so. But in fact, it sort of works the opposite way that you have less information going into the trial. You have less rights to understand what the prosecutors are going to do than you would to understand what the SEC is going to do when they're bringing a case just for money damages. I think another thing to think about, and this has played out in some of the briefing ahead of trial, in the Ripple case, the defendants, the company and the executives who were named in the suit are not in jail. So they can run their business, they can live their lives, they can meet with their lawyers in a conference room to prepare. Sam Bankman -Fried has been repeatedly asking the judge to release him on bail because he is literally in jail right now awaiting trial. He was out on bail originally. He did things that caused the judge to detain him. And now he's sitting in a jail. What that means is his lawyers do not have 24 -7 access to him. He may not have full access to computers or things to do the stuff he needs to do to prepare. I can tell you on the defense side, I've had clients in jail when I've had to defend them. It is extremely difficult to confer with a client and prepare for court when you have limited access to them because they're in jail. Yeah, one other thing that I wanted to ask is why this even went to trial at all, considering that three of S .B .F.'s own colleagues will be testifying against him and have already pleaded guilty. So I don't really know. I'm not a lawyer. But in my head, it's like when you have that kind of testimony against you, you know, from witnesses that were directly there, does that mean that a plea deal wasn't even on the table? Or do you think Sam declined such an offer or, you know, what happened there? I am sure that if he had wanted to plead guilty, I doubt very much that the government would have been interested in letting him cooperate because he is, so to speak, the kingpin. When the government lets somebody cooperate, that is, plead guilty and testify against others to get a reduction or leniency at sentencing, typically the government wants to get somebody in the middle or the bottom and cooperate them up against somebody higher up in the food chain of a crime. I don't think there's anybody above S .B .F. We could have a discussion about whether he maybe knows things about others who would be peers of his in the industry, but I doubt the government was interested in his cooperation. Would they have let him plead guilty just to have some reduction in sentence exposure for the certainty of a conviction? They probably would have, but I expect they would have wanted a very stiff plea. And I think S .B .F., as some defendants do, they take the position, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't act with intent to the fraud. And when intent is the key issue, what was in somebody's, between somebody's ears when they were doing something, it's very often that that gets tried. White collar criminal cases get tried a lot. And I think people, it is important in a white collar criminal case, when you're talking about fraud, very often, 97 percent of the facts are not going to be in dispute. In other words, the facts of did people deposit money or funds or digital assets on FDX not in dispute? What did the terms of use say, not in dispute? A lot of the activity is not in dispute. The question is, what was Sam thinking when he did certain things? Was he acting with the intent to deceive people and take their money or were other people doing that and he was just blissfully unaware? And so what you're saying is it really could be either that the government didn't offer the plea deal because they wanted to use the other witnesses to get him or that Sam wanted to take that gamble since, you know, it would be harder to prove what his intent was. So you're saying it really could be either? It could be either, but I would expect knowing the, I think if Sam wanted to plead and was willing to take stiff terms, he probably could have. I think that he drives the buck. The government decides whether you get charged, it's really up to the defendant to decide whether they go to trial. I don't expect they were going to be, as you say, it's a stiff plea that would have been available if anything. I mean, there was going to be no light sentence on the back of a plea here. So I think Sam was looking at any plea would have probably been a long time behind bars. And so at that point, maybe you decide to take your chances in his shoes. Because of the sheer amount of money and the number of charges. Yeah. Okay. So the main task at the start of the trial will be to choose the jurors. What do you think each side will be looking for when it comes to prospective jurors? So we've got a, you know, a little bit of a, of a hint from the voir dire questions that each side has put forward. You know, I think - That's the name for the process for vetting the jurors. Exactly. Maybe, maybe it makes sense to start with sort of how that process will unfold. So the trial will start with the selection of jurors and it's very different in a civil case as we're dealing with here or than in the criminal case. So civil case, the lawyers get to ask questions directly of the jurors, particularly in state court and it's a very freewheeling process. In a federal criminal case like this, the questions are handled by the judge and both the prosecution and the defense have submitted proposed questions to the court that will help guide what the court asks of the jurors. And a lot of it is pretty typical stuff that both sides somewhat agree on. And you want to know if people have any connection to any of the parties in the case, any of the lawyers in the case, if they have certain direct background and exposure to FDX or things like that. I think where some of the differences lie is whether people have broader exposure to crypto or the crypto industry generally, if they have views on any of that, or even the financial markets is one of the areas that parties may be touching. And then once we move past that, the defense was trying to, you're asking the judge to get into areas that I don't expect he will, but looking for any exposure to or experience with people with ADHD, any things along those lines that you can tell are sort of teeing up some of their defenses. So I think the defense will be looking for people who will be more sympathetic to some of those additional factors where, as I imagine the prosecution will be looking for people who are probably generally skeptical of crypto overall and avoiding any of those sort of sideshows. I would put it in three buckets. I think the government and the defense will think about the types of jurors into three buckets. One bucket are people who are sort of the quintessential citizen, common sense oriented. They work a job they can convict. Those are the people the government likes. So somebody who holds a job, somebody who is a boss, somebody who's a mid -level manager. So they are committed to society. They have to make decisions. They sometimes have to make decisions on incomplete information. That's the type of person the government would want. Then you've got people who are extremely technical, who want proof in mathematical certainty. Those are folks that the defense would like and that the government might not like. And then in the third category is another group that the defense would like. And those are folks who are more emotional and not necessarily going to be driven by the sort of inferences the government will put before them. So for example, the government likes to strike social workers, very afraid of having a social worker on there who might sympathize with a young defendant and say, you know, maybe a mistake was made here. I'm not sure beyond a reasonable doubt that this person should go to jail. No, wait. Just to go back to people who are either familiar with crypto or financial services, it wasn't clear to me. So it seemed like you were saying that, you know, the government would seek people who were skeptical of crypto. But if you're, if you just are knowledgeable, then is that, it seems like that would be better than for the prosecution rather than for the defense. Am I right in thinking that or? It's hard to read the tea leaves of exactly how that one will cut. You know, one of the defenses that, that we can see Sam Bankenfried would like to put forward and that the prosecution is opposing is an idea of sort of blame the regulators, blame the uncertainty in the industry, all of those sort of things to suggest that this was wild west, it wasn't clear what the rules of the road were, and therefore that should absolve him of some responsibility. And I think that's something the prosecution understandably doesn't want to get into and the judge has indicated, you know, there's going to be a pretty tight leash on anything like that, I think. But people who are very steeped in the crypto industry may have more of those views. They may be, you know, they may think that the uncertainty in the government's approach is partially to blame for what's happened, things like that. And so anybody who's so close that they may have some of those views may not be an ideal juror for the prosecution, but somebody, you know, somebody who's lost money, lost money or knows people who've lost money in some of these scams may be, you know, may be more likely to be a good juror for the prosecution. So it's hard to see exactly how those things will cut. I think it's important to note also, we call it jury selection, but it's actually a misnomer. The right name for it should be jury deselection. You don't pick your jurors. You get a pool of people and you have a certain number of strikes. And so really what you're doing is picking the worst apples and deselecting them and you're stuck with what you're left with. And so it's really, I think when trial lawyers do jury selection in a criminal case, they think about who are the people I have to get rid of? Who can I just, who can I not have on the jury? Government does not want the social worker on the jury. The government does not want, they don't like lawyers on the jury because they fear that a lawyer might just take over, creates unpredictability. Another sort of advantage for the defense is that the government has to get 12 jurors unanimous to prevail. If the jury is not unanimous, that's a hung jury and it's a mistrial, which basically is a victory for the defense. And if the jury unanimously wants to acquit, that's a victory for the defense. So it's the, the, the, the government needs to be able to get a group of people who can agree. Maybe somebody leads them and the rest of the people can go along with it, but they have to be able to reach consensus. That's important as well. Yeah. This is definitely a pretty complicated chess game. It sounds like, so one other thing that will happen or might happen after the jury deselection is that Judge Kaplan, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is the judge in this case, might give a pre -opening jury charge. Explain what that is and why it is that he might give this or why he might not. Sure. So it is common practice before the commencement of the, the body of the trial, which is the opening statements of the lawyers, the presentation of evidence, and then closing arguments. Before the sort of body of the trial, the judge will typically give preliminary instructions to help the jury understand what they're going to hear. So the judge will say, you know, you're going to hear opening statements. These are the lawyer's attempt to give you a preview of what to expect, what the lawyers say is not evidence. And some rules of the road, some general rules of the road, and that's common. What Judge Kaplan does that's unique, he doesn't do it in every case, but he has done it in some, some criminal cases where it's complicated, is he will hone in on what he thinks is a key issue in the case and flagged for the jury. One of the key issues in this case is going to be a dispute about X. Here are the key rules you need to know about the law on how to decide X. Why is that important? It focuses the jury. It gives you a sense of what the judge thinks is the real battleground.
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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Is the Pope Catholic? with Dr. Taylor Marshall and Harmeet Dillion
"Hey, feeling unsure about your finances these days? You're not alone. That's why Noble Gold Investments is here to help. Just hear it straight from the people who they've helped. The Noble crew walked me through everything with no stress. With their help, I could finally sleep easy at night. And now this month, Noble Gold Investments is handing out a free 5 -ounce silver America the Beautiful coin if you qualify for an IRA. Invest in gold and silver with Noble Gold Investments. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com right now. That is noblegoldinvestments .com right now. Hey everybody, it's the end of The Charlie Kirk Show. Dr. Taylor Marshall joins us and so does Harmeet Dillon. We talk about the Pope, we talk about the California GOP, and more. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Become a member charliekirk .com, members .charliekirk .com. That is members .charliekirk .com. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. A high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is an excellent guest, Dr. Taylor Marshall, who is the most popular Catholic YouTuber and has a lot to say about what is happening with the Pope. Dr. Marshall, thank you for taking the time. I always want to make sure I get these facts right because sometimes there could be translation issues for what the Pope says. So let's just, outside of all the media fervor, all the rancor, what exactly was the Pope's position and or statement yesterday when it came to blessing same -sex civil unions? Well, there's been a growing debate and it's really reached, I mean, basically you have five cardinals of the Catholic Church who have written five requests asking the Pope to clarify his position on five key issues. One of those issues is the blessing of same -sex unions by clergy, by priests. Pope Francis has already said that you cannot have gay matrimony, marriage in the Church, because that's between a man and a woman. So theologians have said, okay, well, if we can't have a gay marriage in the Church, what if we have a same -sex blessing in the Church? And this is a big debate coming into a synod of synodality here in October. And the Pope has been very careful about it, but it seems very clear by whom he's appointed and the people he's listening to that he is starting to pave the way for there to be these same blessings, -sex not same -sex marriages, and of course this is creating a huge scandal amongst the over 1 billion Catholics on planet earth. So I'm not Catholic, but I have great respect for Catholics, and something that I've always admired about the Catholic Church, especially in recent years, is some of the strongest social conservatives are Catholic, and there is this kind of promise of dogma that doesn't change, right, that we're going to protect the family no matter how much the culture tries to make us convinced we're going to protect life, we're not going to go along with the trans mafia, and honestly some of the most articulate people in public life talking about the family are yourself, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, right, all practicing faithful Catholics. So this is an issue that I see on multiple levels. Let's take a step back, Dr. Marshall. Remind us of some of the other troubling statements, not the internet, you know, misinterpretations that this pope has made that is starting to pave the way to question and weaken Catholic dogma.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from Apathy Among YSAs
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on leading saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each episode, individual which we will link in the show notes. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Kastrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At The Table. Welcome to the At The Table podcast. I'm Jared Pearson. I'm here with Kami. Hi. And we're really excited today to be having Wendy Ulrich on our show, and we'd like to start with a little bit of introduction on Wendy's behalf. I don't know what's the most relevant here. I'm a psychologist by training, and I've served on the General Relief Society Council for a couple of years. Retired from that in August and taught at BYU, written some books. So right now, teaching institute down for a YSA stake in Provo, and really enjoying that. My husband and I do that every week, have for a couple of months, several years now. The whole time COVID's been running in before, so that's where we are. And met Jared in one of those institute classes and wards down there. So nice to see you again. Let me just say that was a wonderful institute class and probably still is. I need to attend again. But today I think we're talking a little bit about apathy and the YSAs and how to kind of tackle that, what it looks like. And I just want to pose the question first to you, Wendy. Is there apathy in the YSA setting or in YSA wards among both participants or leaders or what have you seen, especially in your assignments, to a ward down in Provo? The ward that we've been involved with, the stake we've been involved with, are some of the most remarkable young adults. I think I know the two people sitting in front of me on the screen that I can see a little of anyway being among them. So you tell me, what do you think about that? You're more engaged in that group with that audience. You've got more connections than I do. What do you think the issue is there? I also have been surrounded by great friends and I've been part of great wards and stakes. At the same time, I have also noticed a lot of those great friends kind of step away from the church or they just have no interest in being a part of the church anymore. And I feel like a lot of the things that I've gathered from them are just social things that are going on. The majority of them have felt like a lot of the things that they want to do that society is offering them are conflicting with their beliefs and they just decide not to have that conflict anymore and they want to do things that feel right for them. And they decide that, in their own words, that the church or the gospel is something that has served them, but not anymore. That's what I've noticed in my experience with my friends and in my community. I've had a really similar experience. Typically, I feel like I've had a very pleasant experience in wards and different activities and I've been surrounded with wonderful people who make me feel really included. On the flip side, I've had the opportunity to both serve in colonies where I'm in contact with people or just friends. We're a little bit disenfranchised with both going to church and being actively engaged in a lot of church -type things. This could be in the form of they get a calling and they start doubting like, why is this even a calling? And I'll be honest, sometimes I doubt it when it's like your calling is to empty the second trash can on the right. And I say, oh, that's interesting. Did you get set apart though? Was that pleasant? And they said, yeah, it was wonderful. It's a little bit weird. And I'm like, yeah, I understand that. On the other hand, sometimes it's, you know, my parents have been really involved in this. I'm doing it to make them proud, but I'm sort of not feeling it. And that's a lot more frequent. I had it in the past, but it's not really doing anything for me now, like what Cammy was saying. And that's more frequent than I feel like finding someone in the church to have problems with. It's just not finding enough there to begin with. And at least that's how I'd addressed apathy in the church rather than like antagonism inside as well. Yeah, I think that's helpful to think about. When have been the times in our lives when we felt most committed and engaged with something and what are the times when it no longer really seems to be serving us? A lot of times there are, I think there's a whole group of people for whom the apathy is really sort of about fear, fear of getting really engaged. Maybe I don't really feel like I'm capable of handling this, or, you know, I don't really find it. I'm a little nervous about really getting involved, but I think more often what I hear the two of you describing is more of a feeling of, this isn't really working for me. It doesn't really seem like I'm as engaged as I want to be. I'm not finding meaningful, purposeful things to do as part of my church experience that really helped me live my values in ways that matter to me or build relationships or develop talents or gifts that are important to me. And that's where I think good leadership can really come in and be really important. As leaders, I think sometimes we're trying to sort of spare people. We recognize how busy young single adults can be and how important their education is or their work or their relationships or things that they're doing. So we're trying to maybe not get them too busy because we don't want to overwhelm people. But on the other hand, sometimes there's just not enough to do to make it feel like a meaningful experience at church. And then people kind of give up. We know a little bit about what helps people feel committed and involved with something and gives us a sense of purpose in our lives, of well -being in our lives. And in a lot of ways, the church is great at that stuff. We know people are getting clearer about their values and what matters to them, what they care about, what they really want out of life. And they're seeing ways to live those values. That's one of the things that gives us a sense of meaning and purpose. And the church can do a fantastic job of giving people a sense of what the purpose of life is, what the plan is, what values will help us find happiness and satisfaction in life. But when those are not aligning particularly well, that can certainly be one of the issues that can begin to create a feeling of, I don't know if this is really what I want and if these values are really consistent with what I care about, what I believe. So helping people get clearer about what do you want out of life, what does matter to you can be an important step in addressing that particular issue. Have you ever had anybody kind of ask you questions about, you know, what do you want out of life and thought about what matters to you, what values are important to you? If somebody were to ask you that, do you feel like you could define that pretty clearly at this point or are you still exploring that? Where are you on those kinds of issues? Because of the knowledge of the gospel that I received a few years ago, I have a clearer understanding of what my goals are, what my dreams are, the things that I want to achieve in life. And for me, the gospel is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me. It came at an age that was a really hard age. I'm an immigrant and I was 16 and my parents had separated at the moment and I was new to the United States, didn't speak the language, and had a lot of questions about my worth, my purpose, and everything about my life. And that's when I met the missionaries were when the gospel came into my life and it me gave all of these answers that I didn't really know I was looking for. And I have held on to those truths and to all the things that I've learned in the church, in the gospel, all these years. And it has given me a new perspective and a new purpose in life that I don't know how I lived my life without all of these truths and knowledge. So yes, if someone were to ask me, I would be able to tell them what my dreams and goals are because of the knowledge that I have now. Kenny, thank you for sharing that. That's really helpful to me and inspiring to me. I think sometimes the apathy can come when we've lived with these things all of our lives and we haven't really explored them for ourselves. We haven't really seen the contrast that you've experienced. And I'm delighted to know that as you came out of a different place from taking the church sort of for granted that you found a lot of answers here and direction and help. And whether we've been in the church all our lives or we're just finding it for the first time, that's the experience every one of us needs to have at some level. I remember as a young woman, I think 13 years old coming into a Sunday school class for the first time and sort of coming out of primary not very long and thinking, is there anything new here? Is there anything I haven't heard before? Is there any reason to sort of hang around here at the ripe old age of probably 13? And coming into a Sunday school class with a really dynamic teacher who knew the gospel really well and taught me things I'd never really heard or experienced. And I thought, I want to know more about this and began to really do a search of my own. So sometimes it takes a really good teacher, a really good leader to sort of wake our brains up and inspire us to feel like some of the questions we have in life are being answered here. We can find direction. We can find opportunities here to find values and goals and dreams that are important to us. I love Whitney Johnson, who talks about, she's got a book on dating your dreams. She talks about dreams and that it's not just, you don't just automatically know what you want to be when you grow up. You have to sort of figure that out as you go. And as you, she talks about the importance of sort of exploring our dreams and trying things and figuring these things out because we have experience with them. And I think that's one of the things that college and work are so helpful with is giving us an opportunity to experience ourselves in different settings, to get the skills that we need to be able to be successful at something really goes a long way in deciding, yeah, this is what I want to do. You can't really know you want to be a concert pianist until you've got enough skill to be a really good pianist. And that takes a long time. And I think we forget sometimes that the gospel and the church can be the same way. We have to get good at it in order to really feel like I can do this. And I love it when I do, when I'm engaged here and I'm involved with this, I begin to realize that this is exciting. There's stuff here that matters to me. I am learning. I am growing. I'm developing some skills that help me feel confident that I can live the gospel and I can be a disciple of Christ in a meaningful way.
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Surviving Covid and Chaos: Looking Back at the Early Days of K9 Culture
"August 1st, 2020, so right in the middle of the pandemic and that was the good old days of... Not the good old days, the days of quarantine in a lot of places, everyone's wearing a mask. Should you wear a mask? Should you wear three masks? Should you wear 72 masks? Oh my God. Six feet away from people. How many boosters should you have? I mean, it was just chaotic. Nobody knew. No, we didn't have shots then. No, there was no shots. We're not going to talk about that. But you had to be six feet away from everyone, which is really nice because the leash is six feet long, so that was awesome. So yeah, we opened up. It was just Laura and I for that first month in our facility here. We did not... God, do you remember? We didn't even turn the lights on in the back three quarters of the building because why? Why do we even need to go back there? It's just the two of us. And so that was the first year, and it was August 1st. We didn't really do boarding trains for a while. We tried to discourage them because we didn't have kennels at that point because when you order kennels, they're usually a six -week lead time, but because of COVID, it was a four to six -month lead time. I mean, everything's lead time was just ridiculous because everyone nationwide, worldwide was not working, working from home, whatever. And just general trial and error, like we did cinder block kennels first. Yeah. So we had to build some cinder block kennels. So we had some. And then once we did have a couple of boarding dogs, once those first initial dozen kennels were built, then we had the ability to board. I guess we always do. So someone's probably listening, well, why didn't you just put the dogs in the crates? We did. We But it's not what we like to do. I don't like dogs sleeping in crates all the time. I don't know. I just, because if they're not training, they're in a crate, and then if they're sleeping in a crate, I don't know. I just. But we did have crates. Yeah. Julie's office was the first kennel room. Yeah. Your office was the kennel room, air quote. Oh, God. I don't even think we had a break room. No. The first couple months. And then the break room we slept in. Yeah. Well, first we slept in Wyatt's office. That room was. A noise. Wasn't too dark. No, it didn't. No, we slept. The first time we slept in the grooming room, but there's ticking because right by the grooming room is. The fire suppression, fire alarm system constantly beeps during the day. You don't notice it that much. But when it's. At two o 'clock in the morning, when there's not a sound anywhere, like what the hell is that noise? So yeah, we made it one night in the kennel room, which is, or excuse me, the grooming room. It wasn't the grooming room at that time. It was just a room. Then we went over to Wyatt's. And then we moved to Wyatt's. Oh, I remember why we only made it one night in Wyatt's office. The way it's laid out, it was too small. You know, you try to get out of the air mattress to the left or to the right, and you're up against the desk or a wall, and I thought, no, this is crazy. we So then moved to the break room, but it wasn't the break room. It wasn't the break room. And Wyatt's office wasn't Wyatt's office either. It was just a room. When the people left this building, they left all the furniture. It was full of crap. Yeah, because they went out of business and refrigerators and they went out of business before COVID. They haven't paid their rent in like a year. Yeah. So there was like a whole bunch of crap here. It was an indoor soccer center facility before. Yeah. We sold all of it. Yeah. Facebook. That was one of my jobs. Facebook marketplace. Just getting rid of all the soccer stuff that was left. We had couches here. We had chairs. Cheers. Scoreboards, goals. Cooking. Soccer balls. Cooking because they had this little bar here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They had that. Freezers. It was interesting. Who was our third person we hired? So the next one that came on was Wyatt. Wyatt! Wyatt came out at the end of August. Still paint the walls. And then a week later. Oh, I forgot about that. We finished. Yeah. We were still paper walls. Wyatt's little baby. Wasn't the baby's two? Make it look like a dog. Alex's like two. Maybe one. He was here riding around doing stuff while we were painting everything. My mom even came and helped paint it. She was 70 years old. It was pretty cool. Yeah. It was cool. I felt bad. We worked her to death. Yeah. We took netting down. It was a lot of work. The building's 47 ,000 square feet, so there's a lot of netting that has to come down. Scoreboards, goalies. Windows to clean. Oh my God. All glass walls. So all of our training fields, they're surrounded by eight feet tall human shatterproof glass. Well there's soccer prints, hand prints, human prints. Head print prints. I mean any print you can think of on both sides of those windows. I know for a fact I spent a whole entire eight hour day cleaning windows and it wasn't even half that. Not even. And then when we got that one with one side we went, oh shit. Now we got to go on the inside and do it. We're not dead. We're only halfway done. And you can't see the smudges until unless you're on the other side of the glass, so you could clean it but not miss parts. It took a long time. And then light bulbs, we replaced over, I can't really count, I know it was over $5 ,000 in the first two months of light bulbs. Oh my God. That's how many light bulbs they had lit. And in the middle of doing this, we're training dogs because Charles sold a few dogs the first week we opened. Right. The first week we opened and they knew they were our first. In fact, those first two dogs, Laney, she was just here boarding last week and that was three years ago and we were just all joking with the owner. I remember when he came in, it was just the two of you. And then Hank. And then Hank after her. Hank. They're both two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've trained. So right off the bat, to this day, they're still two of the most dog aggressive dogs we've had. And they both ended up liking dogs.
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"Know, this is something, and I'm getting a little bit off in the weeds on this, but not a ton, and I'm going right back to your calls, but back when the Obergefell decision was made and same -sex marriage was legalized in America, even though marriage had never been mentioned in the Constitution before, they wrote it in and everybody said, one man, one woman, who says it has to be one man, one woman, and they said that can be changed. Same -sex marriage can apply. We can make it one man and one man or one man or one woman or one woman. And during that period of time and the whole debate over that issue of same -sex marriage, I kept shouting to anybody who would listen that you're neglecting something here. If you're only focused on them changing the words man and woman to man and man, you're neglecting the other part of what that says, and that's the numbers. If they can change one man and one woman to being one man and one man, why can't they change the number from one and one to any other number? That's what I was screaming and nobody would listen and nobody talked about that. And here I have in front of me an article from The Federalist from two days ago on Wednesday as they write about a New York Times story about polyamory puff pieces proving conservative Christians right. That the left has lost the ability to say no to anything that's demanded in the name of sexual liberation. And that means it's not just one man and one man or one woman and one woman. You know, it's just, you know, why are you being so, you know, being so, you know, phobic and why are you being so issed against all of these people who just want to, you know, love wins, you know, two men love each other, two women. And I kept saying, watch it, and here we are. Once again, The Federalist notes we have gone from you're a bigot for suggesting this will never happen to you're a bigot for not supporting it now that it is happening. And it is happening. The piece featuring a town in Massachusetts called Somerville says interest in non -monogamy seems to be on the rise across the country. The conservative alarmists were right and they were right for precisely the reasons they gave at the time. The poly movement's champions see their cause as the natural extension of the LGBT movement, the natural extension of gay marriage. Not just two men, but how about two men, one woman? How about three women, two men? All married, all equal spouses under the law. That's what they're trying here. It's not just polygamy in the old fashioned sense of the word polygamy where one man takes many wives. We're talking about polyamory relationships in which they're literally having groups, group marriages. And you know what comes next. Don't tell me this won't come next because we have been saying this is going to be the next natural expansion and offshoot of this for years and years and years now. No, it won't. Here we are. What comes next is non -humans. You know this is coming. You already have an acceptance because of the trans movement of this therian nonsense where human beings say, I identify as a cat, children doing this, I identify as a dog. And if somebody has to be respected for whatever they feel like in the male -female sense, you know the trans male to female, female to male, if you have to accept that because it's truly what they believe, then you have to accept that they are an animal if that's what their identity is. And if that animal can be married to a human, then we have established that it won't take very long for animals to be able to be married to humans. And yes, to have their marriages conjugated. You understand where this heads? And ultimately and inevitably, it eventually is going to become where human adults can marry and conjugate their unions with children. Pedophilia will be legalized. First normalized, then decriminalized, then legalized. Watch it. Mark it down. They've already taken the first steps. You can't call a predator a predator anymore. You can't call a pedophile a pedophile anymore. You know what they've done? The politically correct term for a pedophile is a minor attracted person. It's just another sexual orientation. It's just like you can't fault a man for being attracted to other men. That's their choice. It's just his orientation. You can't fault a woman for being attracted to a woman. You can't fault somebody who's just born with an attraction to children. Watch it happen, my friends. There is no slippery slope anymore. We're already down it. We're already down it and we're on skates. That's reality. That's what's happening. You don't think this stuff matters. Watch it..
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"this month" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Are you willing to give up watching something that is so grossly and just blatantly hateful of you and what you stand for? Because I will tell you this, if we as Christians and Catholics and our Jewish friends, if we can't stand up to this kind of hate, what do we stand for? What do you stand for? History shows the mockery of Christ, mockery of God has not gone well for the mockers. Are you going to stand up to them? The number is 877 -243 -7776. That's 8PRAGER776. Steve is in Prescott, Arizona. You are on the Dennis Prager show. Steve, Bob Francinegan, fire away. Howdy, Bob. You're doing a great fill in, John, by the way. So I'm a Jew and unlike Dennis, I really don't give a rip about baseball, but I am utterly outraged not only that the Dodgers would even think of hosting this, but that they initially rejected it and then they decided, no, you know what, we're going to flip the bird to the rest of America, especially Catholic America. Yeah, and there's roughly 70 million, there's roughly 70 million Catholics in America and a couple hundred, a couple hundred million Christians. And, and, and they basically said, we're, we are going to take the side of a small handful of deviants who hate Catholicism and we're going to honor them. And we're going to tell the couple hundred million Christians, we don't care about you. It's an astounding thing. Indeed. Bob, while you were giving your monologue, it got me to thinking the Greeks are known for contributing many, many things to Western civilization, but it seems like it just occurred to me while you were giving your monologue that the left has constantly harped on the fact that we are a democracy and not a democratic Republic. Well, it just occurred to me, maybe one of the reasons they're doing it is they like two things that the Greeks gave us. And that is, uh, pederasty and, uh, and democracy and forget all the other great stuff. That's an interesting, that's an interesting, uh, observation, my friend. And I appreciate it. Thanks very much. I don't know whether it's, um, whether it's from Greece or, or not, but I will tell you this, what, uh, what they are doing right now, what they are perverting, uh, is the mind of children. Adults can be adults. And if they want to do things that are, uh, you know, that are considered to be deviant by many people, I don't care what its culture is, go be adults, do it in the privacy of your own place. But to bring children into this, which is what they're doing, especially with pride month is something we cannot abide by. We absolutely must stand up against this. Um, I've got a lot of people on hold. Stay there. We're guest free. This is a completely call in show today on the Dennis Prager show. My name is Bob France. I'm glad to have you here. We're coming right back to your calls next. All right. It is a wonderful world, it absolutely is a wonderful world. But the beauty and the wonder must be protected. The beauty of this world, the wonders of this world must be protected, they must be defended because they are under extreme attack. Welcome, six minutes after the start of Hour Number Two. I'm Bob France sitting in for Dennis Prager live in Cleveland, Ohio. I don't do Twitter well because I always forget to promote myself. I used to have a Twitter account with 40 ,000 followers, I quit it because I kept getting shadow banned before Elon bought it, now I'm back and I've got like 6 ,000. I never tell anybody it's there. It's there, Dennis Prager national audience, it's there, France Rance on Twitter. And there's a reason I'm telling you about it now because it's something I was just made aware of during the break, France Rance, F -R -A -N -T -Z, Rance, R -A -N -T -Z, that's how you find me on Twitter, France Rance. And I was talking last hour right after the top of the show about one of the videos that I'd seen of one of the pride parades from last year, I think it was in San Francisco, it would be on brand if it was, but the sad truth is these kinds of things are happening in small town America as well, all over this country. Anyway, I told you about a video of the pride parade, which is a term that should not exist because they have accomplished nothing of which to be proud. This is insanity, but I just saw another video on Twitter during the break that I was commenting on and I was sharing actually on my Facebook page, you can find me there too, I post publicly at Bob France. And this is what the vile repugnant left, the irredeemably dishonest left does. They took a video of a Target store that had been just completely trashed, demolished, destroyed, robbed, stripped of everything. And there's a video of it, a lengthy video, 30 seconds or so. And the tweet reads, this is what conservatives did to a Target store who put up gay pride displays, still think right wing extremism isn't a real problem? That's what they posted. And the problem is, the video is from the George Floyd riots from 2020. They repurposed the trashing, looting and destruction of a Target store from 2020 for today to use as anti conservative propaganda because conservatives are calling for a boycott. Not a burn, loot, crush, steal, murder protest the way the left generally does. They called for an economic boycott, we have, I have, called for an economic boycott of Target and it's working, $9 billion in losses in one week. It took Bud Light like a month to lose, well, not a month, two, three weeks to lose $9 billion and they continue to lose, now they're in the tens of billions of dollars. We are organizing boycotts of some of these places to stand up for decency, for the wonders of the world that we displayed in there. That's what we're doing to protect this republic, to protect the future, to protect our children, to protect our culture, to protect it all. We need to stand up against this vile hatred and this extreme decadence. This isn't pearl clutching, this isn't, oh, everybody has to walk around saying prayer. Nobody is suggesting that. But to pervert children and to celebrate deviancy and to try to normalize it in the interest of indoctrinating kids into a lifestyle rather than educating kids in the strict Western civilization with, you know, not policy but culture of the nuclear family being the bedrock. Instead, they want to destroy the nuclear family altogether. There's an article I read a couple of days ago in The Federalist pointing this out. You.
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"this month" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"And that's what I've been pondering because we are just a few days away from the beginning of the month of groom. And yes, I have made the official switch. I don't know if I have the authority, but we now have months, January, February, March, April, May, groom, July, August, September, October, November, December. I have officially made the decision and I want everybody to carry through with this on social media. Anytime you refer to the month that follows May, it is no longer going to be referred to as the month of June. It's going to be the month of groom because that is what they have declared it. It's a month, a full month of pride parades, nights at the ball yard, displays in the stores, community parks. It's pride month. But what in reality is the goal of pride month? It's to pull young children into the lifestyle that those who are celebrating with their pride want to do. It is grooming children and that's why I will always refer to the month of groom. For example, I think the Dodgers are going to have their hate festival in which they express their hatred of Catholics and Christians by giving an award called the Community Hero Award to a drag group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. That dress in lewd caricatures of Catholic nuns. This is a group that does the most vile, blasphemous display and utter contempt and hatred for Christians and particularly Catholics that you can even imagine. Decorum prohibits me from reading everything that they do but I'm probably going to go ahead and skip Decorum and tell you anyway in due time. But that group is among the groups that is going to be receiving an award called the Community Hero Award as they take part in the pride event on groom 16th, I think it is, in Los Angeles. Now, the Dodgers are not the only team that are going to have grooming events called Pride Days. In fact, I think all 30 baseball teams are going to do it. I you guarantee it will be on display if you watch any of the NBA finals that extended to June. It will be in stores all over the place, particularly stores that feel like losing massive amounts of money. It's going to be in your community centers, it's going to be in your parks, it's going to be everywhere. So I got to thinking, for those who listened to my Cleveland show this morning, I apologize for the redundancy, but for the rest of the nation listening right now, I had to do this. I found myself last night on Twitter and I caught sight of a tweet. I couldn't help it and I could not help responding to it. I didn't even know what I was going to respond. I just almost started typing blindly without even considering what my fingers were moving outside of my own consciousness and all truthfulness. But there was a tweet that I saw from somebody who says he's an NBC Universal retired executive. Okay, whatever. But the tweet essentially had a huge waving pride flag on it. The tweet did, it was like an animated gif of a pride flag. And the comment that was made by the tweeter was this, you can pull all the merchandise you want, you can boycott all the products you want, you can put in effect all the policies and laws you want, but you cannot cancel pride. We won't let you. And so almost absentmindedly, I let my fingers to start typing and I typed the following response, pride in what? What have you accomplished that deserves pride parades, pride days, pride months, pride displays, serious question, proud of what? Because pride is usually something, as I stated, why we're going to have a prideful celebration on Monday, Memorial Day, pride is usually something that someone feels in themselves because they accomplished something or somebody else that they know accomplished something and you're proud of them. So what, to the community that owns Pride Month, is your great feat, your incredible accomplishment that commands all of this attention? What have you done and accomplished that deserves, quote unquote,.
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"The german startup. Seeing with new interviews and live events helen. Welcome everybody. this is joe from scuttled breaker. They're bringing you another episode of this month in german startups for the people watching this on youtube. They can tell. I'm wearing a hawaiian shirt. So it's these summit episode june twenty twenty one and christmas. They're posing as what. Can you do that again chris. Lewis floral arrangement. Yes and for everybody used just listening to this guys you up very fortunate here and quick reminder. We are doing this. Always christmas and new york. I'm in frankfurt. Frank l. the founder stone. Going on outside so you may hear some background noise. Plus journey is playing a england as we recording this. So maybe you also hear some noises from there as well but nonetheless we keep going here for you guys As i said this is this month in startups june. Twenty twenty one. And we are reporting life from germany's largest unicorn way. Ever we announced two new unicorns for germany. Scalable capital and fourtou formerly known as freight hop and germany's first decacorn. Salinas bellied at eleven billion. You as dollars the twenty nineteen unicorn. We fox race allot funding. Round of five hundred thirty six million years. Six hundred fifty million dollars a about you. Ipo's at twenty three years a share at full building yours valuation which is four point five billion. Us dollars end. Austria become the next most valuable startup with go student. Bellied at one point four billion euros one point six seven billion. Us dollars after. They just had their first unicorn in march plus solarisbank assume to being talks of a one hundred million physi- deal which would make them a unicorn as well to buy up. A competitor especially active in this frenzy of unicorns creation are softbank from japan and tencent from china. We have a special episode on the unparalleled unicorn. Creation which is available on the same channel if you want to know more about the new day cut corn and unicorns in germany austria. You may want to listen to this episode. This well we keep here the coverage of the unicorns. To midi moment this will be last. Recording off. startup is before the summer break. There will be no regular news in july or august. But we'll be back with news at the end of september wrapping up. Summon us and we're so looking for what she the summer you can follow us on link trie and there is just a little bit to say time to brag housekeeping. We will go back to a weekly publication scheduled. This means only one episode each week starting in week..
Podcasts – Telecom Reseller
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"This is the green and on the publisher of Telecom reseller. And I want to welcome everyone back to the Telecom reseller podcast series and today I'm with Bob, Norberg, the CMO of cloud Solutions. Bob, thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me on your podcast again. Today, as we were just bantering about before our podcast, we're going to be talking about a topic. I don't think we've ever talked about on Telecom. Reseller focus on your expenses during National photography month so that's something new. But first off, what is cloud age Solutions? Sure Cloud eight Solutions we've been around for about fifteen years and it really kind of our mission is to help businesses unravel the chaos of their Telecom voices and expenses. And we try to do that through automation up in with Cloud a solution, a couple of years. Now, I've spent my career page uh in a variety of different technical areas. I've done a bunch of Telecom. I've done some insecurity been largely a product guy, you know, been product management, product marketing throughout my career. And um, I've also been like a small company guy. I've tended to be a lot of start-up and above companies, I love the the energy and smaller companies and you know, the experience I have, I think lends itself to kind of to that. And so I've always I've enjoyed kind of all the different stops that you have learned a lot through each of my stops at all these different companies. I hope to bring something fresh to everyone wage. Go to. So as we just mentioning, we have National photography month and I have to admit, I didn't even know there was such a thing that's definitely not a typical podcast app. For Telecom, reseller, I'm really intrigued, I don't understand. You have to help me understand how is National photography month, and Telecom, reseller and maybe saving some money all connected. Yeah, so it is funny, you know, when I, when I came up for the topic for this and, you know, a lot of times with, you know, I, you know, I have to talk about Telecom, expenses in the Telecom industry, and I always think it's helped them sometimes too tied, into a different kind of theme to, to make it interesting. And I think it also helps make parallels, right? People kind of can compare and contrast and they identify with things. And if I happen to find out that like May was National photography month, my son started getting into photography a little bit. And so he and I noticed that it was this month and in fact there's all kinds of months, you know, I went down a rabbit hole of you know what special day or month things were. So as I looked at it so he and I were looking at this and you know I found you know when a beginner you just take selfies you're on Instagram or if you're a professional photographer, you know, doing photography month, they just say, hey you know there are a bunch of things you can do to kind of explain. And your horizons to get better at what you do. And so, a couple of things, you know, I notice they they said, hey, here are some things that you can do and it was very much within a photography context page and it has things like, you know, photographs normal things in life, you know, just kind of take pictures of what you see every day. Maybe from a different perspective. Organize things organized things into a photo book into an album or educate. You know, go take a class, go learn something new, go pick something that you haven't done before lunch..
Telecom Reseller
"this month" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"This is the green and on the publisher of Telecom reseller. And I want to welcome everyone back to the Telecom reseller podcast series and today I'm with Bob, Norberg, the CMO of cloud Solutions. Bob, thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me on your podcast again. Today, as we were just bantering about before our podcast, we're going to be talking about a topic. I don't think we've ever talked about on Telecom. Reseller focus on your expenses during National photography month so that's something new. But first off, what is cloud age Solutions? Sure Cloud eight Solutions we've been around for about fifteen years and it really kind of our mission is to help businesses unravel the chaos of their Telecom voices and expenses. And we try to do that through automation up in with Cloud a solution, a couple of years. Now, I've spent my career page uh in a variety of different technical areas. I've done a bunch of Telecom. I've done some insecurity been largely a product guy, you know, been product management, product marketing throughout my career. And um, I've also been like a small company guy. I've tended to be a lot of start-up and above companies, I love the the energy and smaller companies and you know, the experience I have, I think lends itself to kind of to that. And so I've always I've enjoyed kind of all the different stops that you have learned a lot through each of my stops at all these different companies. I hope to bring something fresh to everyone wage. Go to. So as we just mentioning, we have National photography month and I have to admit, I didn't even know there was such a thing that's definitely not a typical podcast app. For Telecom, reseller, I'm really intrigued, I don't understand. You have to help me understand how is National photography month, and Telecom, reseller and maybe saving some money all connected. Yeah, so it is funny, you know, when I, when I came up for the topic for this and, you know, a lot of times with, you know, I, you know, I have to talk about Telecom, expenses in the Telecom industry, and I always think it's helped them sometimes too tied, into a different kind of theme to, to make it interesting. And I think it also helps make parallels, right? People kind of can compare and contrast and they identify with things. And if I happen to find out that like May was National photography month, my son started getting into photography a little bit. And so he and I noticed that it was this month and in fact there's all kinds of months, you know, I went down a rabbit hole of you know what special day or month things were. So as I looked at it so he and I were looking at this and you know I found you know when a beginner you just take selfies you're on Instagram or if you're a professional photographer, you know, doing photography month, they just say, hey you know there are a bunch of things you can do to kind of explain. And your horizons to get better at what you do. And so, a couple of things, you know, I notice they they said, hey, here are some things that you can do and it was very much within a photography context page and it has things like, you know, photographs normal things in life, you know, just kind of take pictures of what you see every day. Maybe from a different perspective. Organize things organized things into a photo book into an album or educate. You know, go take a class, go learn something new, go pick something that you haven't done before lunch..
WAMU: Local News
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"It's time now for our weekly conversation about ways to explore the washington region. It's called get out there. I'm joined by arts and culture reporter elliot williams and by Somebody wears many hats host and reporter. Rachel curzio welcome to the both of you hey. Hey jonathan wearing fisherman's hat just for you today. All right we will start with you. Rachel is pride month. How is the region going to mark this occasion this year. We'll pride month is all about celebrating and supporting lgbtq plus communities. So you'll definitely see more rainbow flags and brightly colored decorations around the area by way of background. Pride month is in june because police raided new york city stonewall in a gay club in june nineteen sixty nine and patrons fought back for six days so their attentions about the roots of pride month notion that stonewall is a riot and working to embody the revolutionary spirit of stonewall versus what we've seen a lot more at pride in recent years for example parades that have corporate floats. But you know when it comes to the parade. I think a lot of people are excited that it's back this year at all. Capital pride alliance is organizing pride mobile parade on june twelve. That's next weekend when all dc restrictions lift. It's a little bit different than in previous years. It's not following the previous route and it will have decorated vehicles instead of floats but it will definitely still be something exciting and right this year's pride as everybody expects is going to be different from years past elliott. Tell us a bit about the differences. Sure jonathan so most events were cancelled or held. Virtually as you can imagine last year in two twenty twenty so this month marks a return to what pride was like before the pandemic also president biden officially recognized pride with the proclamation this week. That's a major shift from his predecessor. Who refused to acknowledge the celebration. In any way and in the dc region institutions like museums the public library and participating houses of worship will all have pride themed banners and programming. Over the next month there are also a lot of events and exhibits. Starting right now. Let's dig in on that. Those events rachel. What can people look forward to in the weeks ahead. If they really want to celebrate pride month we'll end in june dupont. Underground has an event called dc royals celebration of drag. That's focused on the history in the future of drag in the district and it has a few components. One of them is an exhibit with photos and video interviews from the archives of the washington. Blade which. I just learned his the oldest. Lgbtq plus paper in the country. They're also drag shows in brunches. That exhibit runs from tomorrow through. June twenty-seventh.
Real Talk with Dana | Nutrition, Health
"this month" Discussed on Real Talk with Dana | Nutrition, Health
"Understandable that there would be conditions associated with body size. That would keep us from being able to have body neutrality. And what we want to work on with you guys in hop you guys untangled this month is that is that you don't have to. We can be quote unquote decide to be the nonconformists or we can commit are lies to try to conform to this and quite frankly we want to build a community of nonconformist and we want to give you permission to not have to conform to that in to break down those barriers in breakdown those beliefs that we have because they were made up. Beliefs are made up. Believes that we don't have to carry around with us anymore and so this month is really all about breaking that down. Okay so we also wanted to talk more about health in today's conversation so a big part of what we're going to be doing this month and this is our set. The scene right is to bring on different guests so we can start to detangle the attachment that most people have between weight and health and how these drive our body image. So set the scene right. Put yourself in these in this brainwave. So if and when we believe that health has a size or a certain body shape or you know a look and we believe that we should do something to try and attain that look or that is because of diet culture right which is the same industry that makes us want to attempt to conform to that certain size right they also then provide us with the solution so they are creating the problem and they're creating the solution and they make money off of it and they have created the insecurities that are now implanted in our brains right so this is like a whole cluster of a really unethical just like inappropriate and other a man right yes exactly and so this the reason we wanted to.
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"this month" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Scene with news interviews and live emits. Nobody this is joe from steroid at all your startup. Podcast at youtube. Look from germany. Bringing you today this in german startups april twenty twenty. One and christmas of course will begin. Hey hiding men i. I'm good new yorkers coming back to life it's a very different feeling in your off her you've been to. The cinema are ready to birthday party. What else theater. Indoor dining and. yeah w. vexed. It's the way to go. I got mine in a in a rite aid so to like a really between protein shakes vitamin pills promising. I hope i can announce In september news that i got vaccinated right. Now you're keen including germany does have some problems with getting their hands on enough vaccines but my mother. My mother-in-law half vaccinated and my wife said she's working in In the food industry food and drinks industry. She's also up for backs nation pretty soon. We hope let's get down to business this month in start ups april twenty twenty. Welcome to this month injured startups by setup all in transit use recording with chris city and he joked from frankfurt germany already. So make sure to to down here wherever you listen to this watching this today. Where april twenty one for you. We talked about bags which have me all wage but now they get to work about pretentious for example with so laras back from them and full copter the first three eyeing allegation of more than one billion and we also have Court made.
BIRTH YOUR VISION PODCAST SERIES
"this month" Discussed on BIRTH YOUR VISION PODCAST SERIES
"De steals anita so lives with a still not thrown known chronic condition code and moses a really really chronic condition that actually affects the menstrual cycle in one in ten women on so i am so excited to welcome to wonder who amazing women who will be joining me here today to be more You know about this condition also raise awareness so you know this month. It's about raising awareness. And i have two wonderful women who will be joining me right now. So i'm going to invite counselor nonshedding. Actually join all slow. I'm going to invite the wonderful anita so welcome. Thank you for joining us today. It's a real pleasure to have you on both you'll region kost life. Thank you so much council. Assange ya Anita how are you. Thank you for having us. Yes i'm doing very well today You know happy that look. He's easing very slowly in the sunny siding so yeah a lot to be thankful unbreakable likewise. Thanks very much for having us on. Yes feeding feeding pretty good today on a was saying earlier. Just really uplift the sunshine today. I think you need to. I'm doing good. I'm doing good It's been a good productive day and You know certainly with the condition that we live with when it's a good productive day we are extremely happy. We are tenfold happy than on other days. So it's a good day absolutely so much both joining us on this wonderful occasion and you know the topic today. It's about you know endo tracy's which is a condition that is very common in women and it's chronic. It's painful and you know it gets was steadily and you both You know Two wonderful professional women that actually has had this condition for a while. And it's really nice for us to be able to welcome you to this platform to actually share your experiences and how you've been able to kind of cope and manage in a whilst you know working on also building your career your professional career and also following your political journey as well so I would like to just kick start this conversation by really sharing one or two facts about andrew through moses. So you know. This is a condition that affects women of childbearing age. Although gals and post menopausal women will be affected but in women is very is a very common condition and It's affected you know over two million if not more in the uk and It's a generally recognized condition. And you know it's really Something that affects women especially Women who are of different ages and so really great for us to kind of look at some of the other women who also suffer from this illness of able to look at some research and you know even celebrities also have this condition as well but we will get to that very soon. So you know Counselor sunshine just want to say thank you so much for really coming to this podcast life today. Saturday just wants to start with you. If you can actually just tell us your own definition of watts. is yes thank you. Thank you for this awareness..
Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"this month" Discussed on Startuprad.io - Startup Podcast from Germany
"Low and welcome everybody this joe from celebrated oh again with this month in german startups joined by chris from new york. How you doing man. I'm very good freshly vaccinated. Awesome to hear. We have some this month in german startups for you coming to you with a march twenty twenty one news welcome to this month in german startups by sta though in transatlantic news recording with chris in new york city and mead joe from frankfurt am mine. Today we are wrapping up much twenty. Twenty one for you. We talk about australia's first unicorn. Bid panda and sumba attempt yesterday. Rocket internet zander's at a german tesla specs indoor fawning open positions at twenty six. And much. more you can now full of us all of our social media channels our podcasts as well as our internet radio station plus our newly approved alexa skill with a link tree..
Allow Us to Rethriftrodeuce Ourselves
"this month" Discussed on Allow Us to Rethriftrodeuce Ourselves
"Welcome back everyone. I'm dina. I'm shannon welcome to the third prompt of the twelve months a thrifty challenge last month. We talked all about thrifty vases and this month it is glassware and mugs so this is kind of like a part one ish of this team. We have this first episode where we wanted to kinda share our tips and our inspiration and then we have an interview coming up. We've mentioned it several times with Jualita who run something called picnic for all seasons and she's an avid housewares. Glassware mugs thriftier. So you'll hear how she put that into practice but today shannon. Let's start with one guy. Should people consider thrift ing glassware and mugs. Why not oh my gosh. It's like the easiest thing that thrift. It's so much fun. You never know what you're gonna find you find the flunkeyist cool old fashioned kind of things or quirky mugs are just so easy and glassware to last verse so easy and like why pay full price. Yeah totally. I was at goodwill in lake more. Yesterday we had a thrift meet up for the v. I t. club. Wait until. I show you this video. I'm gonna post it on the first day of the challenge. I mean my jaw dropped it. Will i ll their glassware. I'll from start to finish glasses. Glasses glasses stemware mugs glasses and it was just like this sea of glass and mike. They are the best. I have found the coolest like vintage stuff there like it. They have just milk glass. And you just everything you could think of that is trendy or trendy for you like just so much stuff there so much and from like all of the cool things that you can find and the old fashioned and the quirky and the new. It was just like why wouldn't you. There's so much to go around. And they're usually like fifty cents a piece. Yes it had been a while since i've seen that much in one aisle 'cause sometimes be like gaps. And then they must have just like restocked. It was like back back. And i took this video because i'm like if there's ever reason why you should consider thrift in glassware. This is it there and this is just one aisle in one store seriously. Like if you could go buy a set of something for like five bucks instead of sixty bucks why nine or even like twenty four.
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
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"Hello and welcome to spring steen. Friendship month yet. Set less bruce. This month we will be spending our time talking about people who have bonded over a mutual. Love of bruce springsteen music i had put the call out on social media to see if anyone had a story about their friendship that they would want to share. I have eight episodes two week. we'll be sharing. So we have patricia. Donna susan jin sharing their story of friendship. We have mj ama- creena talking about it Colleen and adele who have never attended a show together but bond over not only bruce Music but their mutual passion for fighting hunger in america. I've got brian and chris who share their longtime friendship. I've got to scots. Who met at summer camp and then later met up after college. And then i have. Jeff levi and ryan who met at a book signing and became friends and then a father son schon gem. Oh and let's not forget. Laura in iras who met across countries all because of bruce music a lot of stories a lot of great things. So i'm excited to share these stories. I hope that you enjoy these. I hope you feel as excited as i am about the way. That bruce's music connects all so welcomed the friendship month. And please let me know what you think. And if you have springsteen friendship reach out to me and let's see if we can get you two or three or four friends together for future episodes for now. happy listening. Stay safe and we'll talk to you soon. Doing a podcast at times can be a one way conversation. And i hate that so please let me know what you like. And don't like about the work. I'm doing you can reach the podcast via email at settling bruce gmail.com. The show is on twitter at settling. Bruce and my personal twitter is at jesse jackson. Dfw we have a website www set. Listen bruce dot com from there. You can find links to other springsteen podcasts as well as other music themed podcast wherever page devoted to our own s. l. b. all star band. These are guests. Who have been on the podcast more than three times. There is a link to our store where you can purchase settling brew shirts as well as a mary. Question t shirt. There is a to our patron page where you can sign up to help. Support the podcast financially. We have different levels and different rewards based under support. If you don't have any extra cash and right now who does you can support the podcast by subscribing via your favorite podcast player and leaving us a review. The more reviews we have the easier. It is for people to find us. And please tell a friend about the podcast. Especially if they love bruce or music because it will make a difference..
Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"this month" Discussed on Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"After bloody sunday i think it was not even a week later. He was onto the next ride. And so you think of just the difference of again like there's no hesitation. There is no discouragement of while this is it. This is The you know the they're trying to stop me. It wasn't any of that. It was a now. I know i believe i notice right and i know what i have to change. Admit ship principal in that taylor. Hundred senate writers you know brent always talks about you. Know how Self-preservation will never change the world. You know John lewis could've stayed up north and he could iran from hard but great leaders. Don't run from heart rate leaders. You know as we always talk about it at all. You can rise above me accuracy. You know we're gonna push ourselves out of our comfort zone. We want to leave a legacy and and and not live again like in a in a spirit of mediocrity wanna really go. mb change agents. I mean that's what guys us to be sought in light to be game. Changing impacts coach appreciate the life of people like john lewis who was very very steadfast in his pursuit for equality and equity for all. So he's not. He was a great man and will always be remembered. Really really less Well jeff i now looking at the time. Here's the thing. I don't wanna stop the conversation here. But so why don't we. Maybe continue this next week and we have highlight a couple more people in ring a couple more people to the table Brandt will probably want to bring in a couple. You know so. We can continue this conversation next week and Later in the month to though for our listeners. We want to continue the conversation of just what we can learn within this month and continue to learn not only when this month but throughout the year in the rest of the. Here's what we need to move towards and what..
Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"this month" Discussed on Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"You brought up the theme because one of the things that again i think there are negatives positives decision media but i think right now just being able to uplift and show and see more. I'm able to learn a lot more just within these this month of being able to see who i follow Who choose to follow. Who i choose to listen from and just some incredible leaders who are opening up the conversation and specifically within this month that might not do that previously throughout the year. And so i think so. So important to I just wanted to encourage our listeners to of seeing here following and if you are on social media and you do partake in that especially not just within this month but then throughout the rest of the year using this month because a lot of platforms are elevated. That might not normally have been before of in these conversations to pay attention to that To see here listening to to follow us a new people To listen simpson to some new ideas and learn some new things that you might not have before But again this month is i think that is just an amazing positive thing about what. This month brings Again so thank you for that. And i did not know about Just the reason specifically within february. That is real cool. I mean again what you said earlier about that made sense out of y'all why is it. Porta was that was and united while taylor. What was so funny. Is you know when i discovered this was after. This is gonna be funny to your lessons. It was after my my senior high school. So i was s j. President of my high school was first african. American s j president mahasamund our ads and so that was cool and so we celebrated black history month for three months. We we.
Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"this month" Discussed on Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"Great leader start. Ross from heart. Great leaders rise above mediocrity. We're gonna push ourselves out of our conference zone. We want to leave a legacy and not live in a spirit of mediocrity. Wanna really go. Mb change welcome back to the chasing elephants. Podcast if life is a journey we want to help you wonder. Well if life is a story we want to help you tell a good one and thanks again for joining us. This is designed to be a weekly conversation where we've come in and talk about life events leadership Things brandt and i might be learning at the time and wanted to share But this week actually. Brandt can be on in so we have the eighteen coming in with jeff wallace so he and i are co host. Today i am so excited to have a jeff again on the podcast This week what we're doing and really this month is we are kicking off at just two series that we want to do on this podcast on the chasing elephants podcast Of just to kick off a black history month. And so jeff and i are so excited to have this conversation today as we are going to walk through a little bit of history of black history month in what we can learn Then just also talking about some historical leaders in figures that have really truly impacted our culture in society and Just justin takeaways of the we can learn from their leadership that i believe in jeff leave or just so important to know as we are continuing to develop a just in learning in our leadership and so again so excited about this conversation. I think one thing that i wanna know before. I just kick it off to you just to start but is that live seeing right now at least on social media or just in my world what some of my friends even talking about In you might have seen it to just probably bet. Just how this is this a month. Where yes we can celebrate and highlight dissimilar. Incredible historical leaders have been In walked in our culture and society but then also remembering that. This is such a larger conversation where we need to into this month of yes celebration then remembering that there is still so much to learn and to make note of and we still have so far to go and side wanna remind just myself and just listeners. Who are listening that. This is such a greater conversation. And it's not just you know where we highlight just in february. But this should be something that yes we celebrate. Yes we learn from and the within this month but then also we are reminded that they are still so much room to go And grow from. And so. But jeff i want you kind of to kick off this episode just kickoff black history month with the history and we have done an episode last february With again we were highlighting some amazing historical leaders and we also had talked a little bit about the history. So if you have not listened to that if you're listening and have not listened to that one. I encourage you to go back to last february. Twenty twenty and listen to that but then and we had jeff on but then also Jeff i know that you when we were talking beforehand had some really cool facts and just some interesting things to bring to the table for Just the history of why we celebrate this and why we have this month every february. So i'll stop talking. You go you take.
Allow Us to Rethriftrodeuce Ourselves
"this month" Discussed on Allow Us to Rethriftrodeuce Ourselves
"Focused on drifting storage solutions for our homes and this month were fifty. Vases you know how. I feel about vases So fun. they're so easy to. They're so easy to find what i thought was like do even have enough to talk about and then the more thought about it like we do yet are so much. Gosh so i think the first thing we would say is why through vases because you think about it and i guess it's like one of those things that we always thrift but we don't realize that we are recycling basis was one of the sustainable things that you can do for your home. Places like goodwill akron can carry a huge variety of vases in all shapes colors sizes textures. Whatever your style is. I'm sure you'll find it. Yeah it is kind of like storage solutions in a way where you're like i don't really think about it. I don't feel like that excited when i buy vases like the average person right. There's a lot to cover. There are a lot of fun ideas fun options and like to your point. About why thrift. Vases i feel like vases. Or one of those things relate if we could stop producing them new. I think we'll be fine till the end of time. A hundred percent agree the first thing. I thought this whole thing should be called is how to save you ten dollars i mean oh my god anytime. You walk into a thrift store. You can find a vase and there are a lot of things that we talk about on the podcast room like thrift store staple right like you can go and you'll almost always find a denim jacket right but this is one of those things where i'm like. No no for real for real. You find vase no question. Maybe find a denim jacket but it might not be in your size but you will find vase. There's so much yes so many cool looking one small ones big ones like anything that you like. See on your pinchers board. You're gonna find it at the thrift store so if you're thinking that we only vases for flowers you're in for tree..