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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.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "this week" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Quiet. If that is the case, this area is probably not the best. We're not the worst, but if you want some semblance of peace and quiet without giving up the convenience of city living, well the DC region might not be for you. Retirement Living ranked the top 100 loudest cities in America and DC came in at 24. Baltimore 26 and Arlington 46, the study gave the greatest weight to the amount of noise pollution in a city, is which influenced in part by traffic. The number of car accidents and internet searches for terms like noise ordinances also influenced a score, as did the number of outdoor pickleball courts. The noisiest city America, in Los Angeles. The quietest was that bustling metropolis of Winston -Salem, NC. John Dohmen, WTOP News. 304, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's administration has acknowledged this week that it
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 10-04-2023 15:00
"This week is the week of Perks at Potbelly. Think of it as a delicious sandwich holiday from October 2nd to October 6th, where Potbelly drops a new gift every 24 hours, exclusively for Perks members, which means a new festive way to enjoy legendary toasted sandwiches at Potbelly. And no, it's not a religious holiday, unless your religion is sandwiches, in which case, it's the most religious holiday there is, Potbelly. We bring the hot. At Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Business Week, insight from the reporters and editors who bring you America's most trusted business magazine, plus global business, finance and tech news as it happens. Bloomberg Business Week with Carole Masur and Tim Stenebeck on Bloomberg Radio. And a very good afternoon, everybody, live from the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio streaming on YouTube. And of course, oh, he's on Bloomberg Originals. It is Wednesday, October 3rd, 2023, Carole Masur along with, nope, not Tim Stenebeck. He is off today. But joining us is Bloomberg News economics editor Molly Smith. And Molly, it's a day where it does feel like the markets, both the equity side of things and the bond side of things, taking a little bit of a breather from some of the trend lines that we've seen as of late. Right. I mean, yesterday was brutal. I mean, some of the scopes on some of those bond yields, I mean, recessionary levels. So I think everyone's taking a bit of a breather today, but still a bit on edge. Yeah. I feel like very data dependent, which is something we're going to get into in just a moment as well. Also coming up, we've got a great check on the global economy. We've got Brad Jacobs with us. He is executive chair, founder of the logistics and trucking company XPO, understands the corporate culture. So we're going to talk about the economy. We're going to talk about some of the big trends when it comes to running a business. We're also going to talk to him about his next acts.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "this week" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Who Will Be The Next House Speaker?
"Breaking news. This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as Speaker of the House. The yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, history was made this week as a small group of Republicans partnered with all the Democrats in the House to end McCarthy's leadership. I would say that my conversations with the former president leave me with great confidence that I'm doing the right thing. What happens next? Here's Mike Gallagher in the Relief Factor studios. Oh, boy. Well, here we go. Chaos reigns supreme in Washington, D .C., and now the Republicans lost their Speaker of the House thanks to the efforts of eight Republicans who decided it was time to tear off the Band -Aid and make a change. Now, we've got a lot of challenging bad news to tackle with these eight Republicans who sided with all the Democrats, really, realistically, all the Democrats sided with the eight Republicans, and shame on the Democrats, but on the other hand, you're not going to count on them to get the Republicans out of the way of themselves. So this is a Republican headache, and boy, is it a massive headache. If you saw that Patrick McHenry, the acting Speaker, slam that gavel down, how that gavel didn't break is a miracle. That's got to be the sturdiest gavel in the history of all gavel manufacturing. People are livid. People are enraged. Newt Gingrich calling Matt Gaetz and the others traitors for what they did, traitors. And when you go down that path, we know what happens. We all know what the penalty is for treason. There's a lot of heat right now and a lot of confusion, especially Nancy Mace. Who saw that coming out of South Carolina? If it weren't for Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Mace doesn't have her seat in Congress, and she stabbed him in the back. So before we try to sort through the many challenges we face, let me give you some reason for some optimism. Close your eyes for just a minute and fantasize about this. I've now heard from a number of people. I know for a fact Donald Trump has been contacted about possibly him being an interim speaker. Is that a reality? I don't know. He'd be great. But actually, I want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. If he wants to be speaker, I want him to be president of the United States. He's still going to be running for president. That's where we need him is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If he wants to be speaker, then that's fine, too. Wow. Can you think of a wilder scenario than acting Speaker of the House, Donald J. Trump? Oh, my gosh. Just a thought. Just a thought. All right. Let's get into the brass tacks. Whenever there's a huge historic story like this, I don't like a ton of talking heads. I want to hear from the American people. The Ph .D. weight loss and nutrition line is open to you, 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. It seems to me that there are certainly two sides to this argument. The side that supports Matt Gaetz and the seven other Republicans argues it was time to rip off the Band -Aid, McCarthy didn't fulfill certain promises he made in order to get elected in the first place, our spending is out of control, we're funding Ukraine, we're not doing things we promised to the American people, and good for them. Now, the other side of it is it's a bad idea to do this when we have so much momentum. The timing is terrible. It puts the Republican Party in disarray. It creates absolute pandemonium, and it's not a very productive thing to do. That's the other side of it. Or you could go under the third rail and do what others on air and in print are doing. Matt Gaetz is a moron, and he's a monster, and there's some ethics thing that he's hiding, and there's bodies buried, and Ralph Norman will never win again. Even though Ralph Norman voted for Kevin McCarthy, he got thrown under the bus with the rest of them by a lot of the establishment Republicans because he even entertained the thought of dumping Kevin McCarthy. None of them are ever going to win again. They're finished. We should kick them out.
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 10-04-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. 24 hours and we thank you for our signature panel here at Bloomberg Politics Contributors. Rick and Jeannie, I'm Joe Matthew in Washington, Kaley Lyons is on the way in next, we're just getting started. Hour 2 of Sound On starts right now. This is actually what will decide this race. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy and perspective from DC's top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaley Lyons on Bloomberg Radio. We have a race for speaker. Welcome to Hour 2 of Sound On as Congressman Jim Jordan and Congressman Steve Scalise, the majority leader, announce runs for the gavel just a day after Kevin McCarthy lost his. Got a week left to a scheduled election in the House and we'll talk this out in just a moment with Terry Haynes, the founder of Pangea Policy, was a senior staffer in the U .S. House when the continuity of government plan was drafted and something we'll talk to him about straight ahead. Later, we'll look inside the race for speaker and the role that Donald Trump made.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "this week" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Bongino. Okay, it's going to be one of my favorite blocks this week. We're going to cover it in depth, but you know, I never bury the lead. Miranda Vine, who is a great author, wrote a book. I published a laptop from hell, which went nuclear because it described Biden the Hunter laptop. So she's really smart, Miranda. And she sent out a tweet the other day and the gist of the tweet, which I'll read to you after the break is what the hell are they doing this open border stuff for? It doesn't make sense. That's politically. Even liberal states are ticked off. Biden could shut the border down tomorrow by instituting remain in Mexico and get in the National Guard and the military down there. We could fix this situation, Marty, yet they won't do it. So she had a bunch of questions in this tweet. I've got answers for you. I'm going to give you the immigration real story. Hey, Jim, do we have that super cut of the demographic destiny thing that you put? Oh, you do. Good. I'm going to play for you exactly why and produce the receipts in this next segment. What the open border policy is really about. And let me give you just a quick hint. If you think it has anything to do with compassion or, oh, give us your tired, your poor. It has nothing to do with any of that. It has everything to do with the census. It has everything to do with congressional allocation seats. The allocation of congressional seats, I should say, and the electoral column. Democrats don't care about anything else. I have them on
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.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Boxing with Chris Mannix - Canelo is back
"The volume. Just a reminder that you can catch me recording this podcast live on AMP. AMP is the new live radio app that lets you call in and chat with me in person while I'm recording. Get the app on Apple's App Store and make sure you follow me at Chris Mannix to get notified when I go live. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix. I heard somebody punch him in the face. Anthony Joshua is a composed and ferocious finisher. Watch this. Andy Ruiz is the heavyweight champion. Hosted by S .I.'s Chris Mannix. That was my moment. Now with interviews, analysis and everything going on in the world of boxing. When you have talent, you are given another chance. Here's Chris Mannix. This is Boxing with Chris Mannix, part of the Volume Sports Podcast. Now we're going to welcome in everybody listening live on AMP. You can always get the first listen of this show and all the volume shows on AMP. Make sure you subscribe to the volume feed on AMP. Subscribe to my feed on AMP at Chris Mannix as well. Got a great show lined up for you this week. Eddie Hearn, the promoter of record for this weekend's Lee Wood fight against Josh Warrington over in the UK joins me to talk about that fight. Plus, Eddie always has a few opinions on everything else that's going on in the world of boxing. We'll get to that a little bit later. But it was a busy weekend in boxing. Canelo Alvarez successfully defended his 168 -pound titles. What's the future for him? What's the future for Jermell Charlo, who quite frankly didn't show up in this fight? I thought it was an embarrassing performance by Jermell Charlo who talked a good game, made us believe or made some people believe he was going to win or at least compete, and then just moved around the ring for 12 rounds to survive a decision. We'll talk about that and much more with Keith Idec, senior writer with BoxingScene .com. He was out in Las Vegas. Keith, let's just start there. Compare your expectations for Canelo Charlo with how the fight played out. Chris, what did you think of the way that fight played out in the ring? Chris, I'm not in any way surprised that Canelo Alvarez won. Of course, Charlo was moving up two weight classes. Canelo, although he hadn't looked all that great in his previous three fights, said repeatedly that he would look better because his surgically repaired left wrist was now 100 percent. He could train with it, et cetera. So I felt like Canelo would win the fight. But I did think honestly it was going to be a competitive fight. And the thing that really surprised me more than anything, Chris, which I think you just alluded to, is Jermell Charlo simply did not come to win this fight. He seemed to come to go 12 rounds with Canelo to avoid getting knocked out. And the reason that surprised me more than anything, Chris, is because that's not who Jermell Charlo is. That's not who he has been throughout his career. He has fought and promoted his fights and done interviews with a chip on his shoulder that never goes away. And it has served him very well because he's always been defiant and disproving sometimes imaginary enemies. But, you know, he has always used that to motivate him. And in this case, he really didn't. I thought that he would be able to flip that switch on fight night, although throughout the promotion he sort of behaved the way that he behaved once the bell rang. Like he didn't really believe that he could win the fight and that, you know, this might have been too much for him in the sense that he was moving up two weight classes and fighting a big puncher and a dangerous guy. And that's the way he approached the entire fight. You know, Derek James was on him between rounds. Hey, you're losing this fight. You need to do more. You need to pick it up. And he just never really responded to that. And again, I can't really emphasize enough, Chris, how surprised I am that he didn't try to win. Because, you know, this is a very prideful guy. This is a guy, again, who has repeatedly proved people wrong or tried to prove people wrong and used that as a way to drive him to great heights. Because, Chris, he's the undisputed 154 pound champion, the first one of the four belt era. He has avenged the two blemishes or the two previous blemishes on his record. He's avenged both of those. He knocked out Tony Harrison in their rematch. And although in his first fight against Tony Harrison, I didn't really think that he lost. It was a very close competitive fight. Didn't necessarily think that he lost. But he came back and avenged it with an 11th round knockout. You could certainly argue that he'd lost his first fight to Brian Costanio. But then came back and knocked Costanio out as well in his rematch. So he had taken care of the two blemishes on his record. This is just something that's just going to, you know, it's a blemish on his record that is never going to go away. And it might, unfortunately, be for him, the fight that people remember him for most. Because he just did not come to make this a competitive fight. And there's really no excuse for that. Unless he was hurt and he's not using that as an excuse. Unless his left hand really wasn't 100%. Because it was his first fight since he broke two bones in his left hand last December. Unless that was a factor and he's just not using that as an excuse, which would be commendable to hide that if that is the case. Just didn't look like he came to win the fight. And there's really no two ways about that. I don't really see how you could have seen that any other way. I spoke to Tim Zu yesterday. Did an interview with him for his upcoming fight with Brian Mendoza. And he echoed, we basically agreed on everything that Tim Zu said. And he felt, he was less harsh on Charlo than I thought he was going to be, honestly, because they have this rivalry. But he said the same thing. He was just surprised that we didn't get the A -level Charlo that we've gotten in most of his fights. And the kind of, you know, tenacious, ferocious guy that we usually see. Yeah, Charlo wants credit for going the distance. He doesn't get it in my book. He wants credit for not getting knocked out. He doesn't get it in my book. If you take on a challenge like this, I don't care if you move up one -way class, two -way classes, three -way classes. You have an obligation to try to win. Like, people are paying money to see you try to win. People are buying, spending 85 bucks on pay -per -view to see you try to win. He didn't do that. And I agree with you. When his career's over, you know, if it's corrected tomorrow, this would be the fight he's remembered for. For going up two -way classes and, quote, challenging Canelo Alvarez, but not really challenging him. I'm not surprised that Canelo dominated. I'll say that, Keith, because I've been saying that since that fight was made. I never believed Jermell Charlo could compete with Canelo because, and I say this about every Canelo opponent. To be competitive or to beat Canelo Alvarez, you have to throw with him. You have to be willing to let the right hand go. And since like 2018, when Canelo became this sort of middleweight and above destroyer, only two fighters have done that. Gennady has Golovkin done it, and Dmitry Bivol has done it. Both those guys have been willing to throw punches with Canelo. They have not been fearful of the artillery that was coming back. But every opponent other than that, that I've seen Canelo go up against, whether it's Callum Smith. Billy Joe Saunders had a different game plan, but eventually Billy Joe kind of succumbed to it. And now Jermell Charlo, they just, you know, they were trying to, Caleb Plant, I put on that list as well. They were just trying to jab and, you know, move and try to outbox him from the outside. You can't do that. You can't beat Canelo Alvarez unless you're willing to throw something big back against him. And, you know, Jermell Charlo was kind of an oversized example of that. You know, just the way he fought was just, I thought, just awful. Just a really weak performance from Jermell. But a kind of a continuation of guys that, you know, show up believing they have a game plan to face and beat Canelo Alvarez. But they just don't. And that kind of brings me to my next question, Keith, of who does at this point? You know, I think we'd all agree David Benavidez, at least on paper, is the most competitive option for Canelo Alvarez. I don't know if he's a realistic option for May of 2024. Terrence Crawford's out there saying he wants a piece of Canelo. I love Terrence Crawford. I think it's a marketable fight. But you're not going to convince me Terrence Crawford's going to stand in the pocket and trade with Canelo Alvarez. I just don't believe it. Jermell Charlo, don't get me started. There's no market for a Jermell Charlo -Canelo Alvarez fight. Less so after watching Jermell, the smaller brother and the more active brother, lose to Canelo. What is realistic right now for Canelo Alvarez as we look to the second fight of this PBC deal? Chris, the last time we spoke about this on the podcast, I remember telling you that the people who wanted to see him fight Terrence Crawford next, better hope that the Jermell Charlo fight is at least competitive, because then how do you sell a fight against an even smaller opponent in his next fight? And here we are. I'm not saying Terrence Crawford won't go in there to win. He certainly, based on everything that I know about Terrence Crawford, yet I also thought similar things about Jermell Charlo. I would think Terrence Crawford would go in there with a real attempt to win the fight. He's got a lot of pride. He's a very talented guy. He's one of the best pound -for -pound fighters in the world, coming off an incredibly dominant, career -defining win. But like you said earlier, Chris, when you get in there and you fight Canelo and he starts touching you in the beginning of the fight, people tend to realize, well, this is going to be harder than I thought. Canelo said that throughout Fight Week last week. He said watch when the fight starts and then you'll see Jermell Charlo realize that he's in there with a guy that he hasn't, the type of guy that he hasn't been in the ring with before, and that obviously played out. The same thing could be true of Crawford. Now, it is a marketable fight, Chris, and I think the public reaction to it, to me, has been somewhat surprising because it's been relatively positive. People want to see this fight. I can't stress enough. This guy would have to move up 21 pounds to fight Canelo because Canelo has repeatedly said, I am not doing this in a catchweight. It's not going to be at 164, 162, something where you might then think that Terrence Crawford has more of a chance to win. I really don't see as great as Terrence Crawford is, and as much as I commend him for wanting this challenge, I don't see this as a fight that he can win.
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.
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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.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Are NFTs securities?
"Welcome back everyone, I am Cas Pianci. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime. We've already recorded one today. I'm not going to play pretend and say, I haven't asked you how you're doing. You're doing good. I'm doing good. We're going to be talking about NFTs and whether or not they're securities, or at least whether or not the SEC thinks they're securities, when they think they're securities and why they think they might be securities, right? And the reason this got brought into everyone's sort of line of sight is because an NFT collection called Stoner Cats that had been started, or at least co -founded by Mila Kunis, and I think Ashton Kutcher was in on that as well. I'm not, I don't remember. I think Mila Kunis was the face of it, but I think they were both involved. And some other co -creators created this thing called Stoner Cats. And now Stoner Cats was this collection of images of what it sounds like. Stoned cats. I am cool. Haha. Super, super awesome. Weed and cats, very funny. And they decided they were going to do a show, a web series based on this. And they, I went through the documents, actually, they'd, they'd promised some pretty specific things, including that they were going to do at least one episode for three seasons, something like that. Obviously they, they didn't do that. And part of the issue appears to be that the way these NFTs work, and many NFTs for that matter, is that they offered royalties to the initial founders and creators of these NFTs. What that entails is that every time someone buys one of these NFTs, they get like a 2 .5 % kickback on that sale, which doesn't sound like much right out the gate, but considering volume and all of this other stuff, you end up going like, oh, they made like a half a million dollars in royalty like that, which it's a lot of money. They also sold out of all of their NFTs when they put them on the market, whether or not they bought a bunch of those, I think is up for debate, but basically the SEC said, Hey, you guys are doing these royalties on these NFTs. This is a security. And to be clear, the people who did this said, Oh no. Okay, well we're done. You win. We're not going to admit fault. We're not going to admit guilt here. You guys can just take some money. We'll pay the fine and we'll stop doing the sonar cap. For what it's worth, I don't think you can actually buy them anywhere right now. Maybe it's just because there's none up for sale. After the SEC took this action, the floor price increased 250%. It's still up 175 % since before the SEC action. And the volume went up, I think almost 3000%. So everyone started buying it and trading it and moving them around. As soon as this SEC action was, was pushed out. I think this kind of SEC action is similar in my mind to the EOS action that took place in case anyone is unfamiliar with EOS. This was a Brock Pierce and Daniel Larimer project from years ago that was going to change the financial system and raised $4 billion from their ICO and then got fined by the SEC, I believe it was $24 million. Who gives a shit? No one cares about that $24 million fine when you've raised billions of dollars. And I think everybody understood that when it happened. And to me, this feels kind of similar, right? So these guys raised, I believe it's something like eight to $9 million, including these royalties that they got. And they were fined, I don't know, a few million. They made a profit for sure. They profited on this 100 % sure. And what they're getting out of it ultimately is that they don't have to fight the SEC now. They don't have to pay legal fees. And the SEC gets, oh, look, see, they're not willing to fight us on this. So this means NFTs are security. That's not the full story, Bennets. Why don't you jump in here now? What's interesting, so Stoner Cats is the second NFT case that the SEC pursued. Like a week or two weeks before they pursued Stoner Cats, they went after Impact Theory, which was a smaller NFT project, less illustrious names involved. And the creators of that NFT project kept telling their investors that they could get tremendous value and that they were going to make sure that we do something that by any reasonable standard, people get a crushing, hilarious amount of value. And they even told these people buying their NFTs that these NFTs were the mechanism by which communities will be able to capture economic value from the growth of the company they support. This one, again, settled with the SEC and may more clearly be a security than Stoner Cats. And I think this is what kind of gets interesting here is even in the Impact Theory case I just discussed, there were two SEC commissioners who disagreed. Commissioners Peirce and Ulleda did not support this and wrote their own digression. And they highlighted that the SEC does not routinely bring enforcement actions against people that sell watches, paintings or collectibles, along with vague promises to build the brand and increase the resale value. And what I thought was interesting and what you and I had a brief conversation about is Preston Byrne, who we've had on the podcast before, wrote a blog post taking a look at these two cases. And his stance was basically that the Impact Theory I, when I just discussed, did seem more clearly like a security in the way it was marketed, in the way it was sold, and in the expectations investors reasonably had. But he thought that the Stoner Cats one was less clearly a violation of securities law. Peirce and Ulleda again highlighted that this was an example of fan crowdfunding. And Preston pointed towards how this was not presented in that same way to purchasers. And so I think Stoner Cats is one where they kind of wanted to go after it because there were so many celebrities involved. Mila Kunis was involved, as you mentioned. Ashton Kutcher was an actor. Chris Rock was an actor. There were names involved here. And you want to discourage that caliber of name from doing this type of projects. You go for a ticky tacky settlement. But more broadly, what we're looking at in both these two cases is that making your badly formed project in which you hope to return value to people who give you money, an NFT instead of some other form of token, does not mean you'll avoid the SEC's attention. And so I think a big part of this has been the royalty aspect the SEC has been honing in on. And I want to be clear here for everyone, because I think it's a pretty important distinction in my mind. And we'll see, I don't know if this will actually play out in court. It might be that what I'm saying is totally off key and wrong. Again, we are not lawyers. Two industries that instantly come to mind when I think of royalty, and that is TV and movies and music, right? In those two industries, royalties play a pretty big role. We're watching a WGA strike, a Writers Guild of America strike go on right now, particularly because of royalties. The writers can't get royalties on streaming anymore, because these streaming services don't offer the market data to even give them any of these royalties, right? But this has been livelihoods for decades for actors, writers, producers, whatever. They all have been able to make money on these royalties forever. There's a fair argument to be had that if your NFT is a TV -like thing, which I guess you could argue Stoner Cats was, that the royalties, in a sense, make sense. I think that you need to do more probably than seven episodes. I don't know. It would be up for debate. I don't know where that would come in. But the second one that I want to talk about is musicians, where like, again, record sales indeed do give you royalties for the rest of your career if you have the rights to the songs and all of that. And I know someone on that I follow on Twitter, who actually I like a lot of the songs that he puts out there, Jonathan Mann. I follow him. I find a lot of his music entertaining. It's silly. And he turns a lot of it into NFTs. He does royalties as well for that. And I get it. I actually get that. I'm like, oh, well, that makes sense. Counter to this is the sale of art pieces, is the sale of painting. If I buy a painting from a painter, you know what happens when I resell that painting? Whether I resell it for a profit or a loss, do you do you want to guess how much of the money I make on that resale the painter gets? Zero. Zero. They do not receive anything for it. Collectibles, you want to talk about Pokemon cards? How much does Namco get when I resell a Pokemon card? Zero. Sure. They don't get anything. So the royalties in that aspect, I do understand why they're trying to say they're a security. It's a dividend. And Preston highlights part of this in the blog post. And like, imagine I paint a picture and there's someone who wants to buy it for $10 ,000. And I say, what if instead I sell it for you for $1 ,000 and 10 percent of any of whatever you end up selling it for in the future? Right. That doesn't make the painting itself a security. Right. And I think... How many of those agreements exist? I would love to know, because that is not a common agreement. The answer is probably non -zero. Right. And often that's not how artist kickbacks work, right? The way it generally works is an artist sells some pieces to a collector at a lower price and then one like Halo piece at a higher price, which then re -values the entire collection. So then the collector is able to make the money on that. And the artist is then able to sell future pieces at a higher price. Not that that's a good... Changing the terms of that arrangement in the way I describe make it necessarily a security. The art market is bred for money laundering and tax evasion. Like that's that's what the art market is for. I mean, we literally just described market manipulation. Yes. That's what I just said. It's just not illegal because it's a collectibles market. And the tax, the tax shit, donating it to museums, doing all the all sorts of weird scammy shit in the art market. I'm not trying to deny that at all. But if we're going to try to make kind of strict lines in the sand about what a security is, I do want to say that when you're getting kickbacks on every sale of a painting, that sounds so much more like a dividend to me and a securities offering than it does the way a normal art market works. And royalties don't sound that way to me. They really don't. Right. It's a dividend, but it's not. It's not. It's basically saying like, OK, you did this work in this thing years ago. And if you have to repay a whole team because it's not it's not an individual taking full credit for it. It's writers, actors, producers, directors. It's the grip. It's the lighting guy. It's everybody. And the same for a musician as well, usually. I think that's democratized a bit. But for a musician as well, you're going into a studio, you're working with a producer, you're working with a whole band, you're working with all of these different people who hopefully are going to be receiving some sort of monetary compensation forever for the work that they've done for this thing. And again, the art market is not the same as that. Maybe we see some changes in this. Maybe it becomes less regulated. Maybe they or they regulate the royalties aspects of these industries further. I don't know, but I'm trying to explain there is there is a difference between these industries in the real world. Sure. I think kind of just to put a cap on this, there's two things I want to kind of accentuate. Stoner Cats to me seems like the SEC trying to make a case, like we said, because there's these names involved and they want to discourage that kind of thing. I think the art market gets away with a lot because everyone involved is probably like an accredited investor. The SEC's rules, they're already kind of loose, so they're not they don't really care. This is open to retail, you know, so they care a little bit more. The other thing I want to emphasize is there's some amount of ambiguity here in terms of whether or not this type of structure is or is not a security. But broadly, many NFT projects now need to deal with the reality that they may be considered a security by the securities regulator and need to deal with either litigating that or otherwise dealing with the consequences. Well, that's going to do it for this episode, everybody. If you want to support us, obviously there's doing the normal thing of like liking the video, rating it and reviewing it. But alternatively, we're putting out a new Castcoin Cats collection. It's going to be an NFT thing. It's really cool. Cost 10 Castcoin each for every Castcoin Cat. And what you get is unlimited access to the new Castcoin Cat TV show. Anyway, there's a 10 percent royalty that gets kicked back to CCC. So we're going to be seeing a ton of money from that. And we're kind of banking on that for the future of the show. Remember, look it up on on Blur and on OpenSea. OK, guys.
Unchained
A highlight from The Chopping Block: Michael Lewis Swindled, SBFs Effective Altruism Ruse, Ethereum Protocol Enshrinement - Ep. 552
"The claim that Michael Lewis makes is that he thinks that Sam lost his way, but fundamentally he was more or less the same guy. He never really believed in crypto. He always saw crypto as instrumental. And that, I think everybody who's ever met Sam agrees with, is that Sam was not a true believer. He didn't really care that much about the industry. He saw it as an opportunity to make money. But it wasn't because he loves cars or private jets or whatever. Not a dividend. It's a tale of two quants. Now, your losses are on someone else's balance sheet. Generally speaking, airdrops are kind of pointless anyways. I named trading firms who were very involved. DeFi protocol is part of the antidote to this problem. Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Chopping Block. Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together and give the industry insider's perspective on the crypto topics of the day. So quick intros. First, we've got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes. Next, we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur and Tsar of Superstate. Then we've got Tarun, the Giga Brain and Grand Poobah at Gauntlet. And finally, I'm Haseeb, the head hype man at Dragonfly. We are early stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see ChoppingBlock .xyz for more disclosures. Okay, so just for context for everybody listening, we are recording this on Monday morning, US time. The news by the time this drops, I'm certain is going to be 100 % about the FTX sandbankment free trial. So I believe the trial starts on Tuesday. So by the time this goes out, I think it's going to go out Wednesday morning. And so we're televising this from the past, basically. At the end, we should make our predictions and then our listeners can listen to whether we're horribly wrong or not about what will happen. Okay, all right. All right. We'll end the show with some predictions about how the trial is going to play out. The trial is going to take multiple weeks, so we'll have plenty of time to do the play by play as the trial is actually playing out. But in the lead up to the trial, all eyes have been on Michael Lewis. So Michael Lewis, a very famous finance writer. He was the author of the Flash Boys book, if I'm not mistaken, yes. And so he, long story short, he was kind of embedded with sandbankment freed for something about a year and a half since 2021, before FTX collapsed, basically more or less lived with him in the Bahamas and was writing a book, didn't know what the book was going to be about. And he's dropping the book tomorrow. So the day the trial begins, Michael Lewis's book is going to drop. It's called, what is it called? Finding Infinity or something. So I don't know, something like that. And he appeared on 60 Minutes to give something of a preview of what the book is going to be about and his perspective on sandbankment freed. And this interview has got the entire internet in a tizzy. I watched the entire interview. The first thing I'll say about 60 Minutes is it's really weird that 60 Minutes is not 60 Minutes long. Like if you watch it, it's like 27 minutes long, which is like, there are so many commercials on TV. It's crazy. There are multiple stories within an episode. So in aggregate, it's 60 minutes long, but you're right that the content is only like Oh, I didn't realize it wasn't the only story. Okay. You ever see 60 Minutes? Yeah. It's like 40 minutes of, I do not watch 60 Minutes except at very, very brief snippets when something important is on. To be fair, the ads definitely make it less than 60 Minutes, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Well, I watched it on 2X. It was 13 minutes for whatever the period of that 60 Minutes was. So there were a few snippets from the 60 Minutes story that got the internet really excited. One of them was this anecdote that apparently near the end of the FTX, right before FTX collapsed, Sam Beckman -Fried, in part of his effective altruistic mindset and thinking about ways to ameliorate risk in the world, he believed that one of the biggest risks in the world was Donald Trump. And he knew that Donald Trump was going to be running in the next election. And so he contemplated paying Trump not to run in the upcoming election. And so apparently word of this got to Trump, Trump named a price, which was $5 billion, and SPF, at the time that FTX collapsed, apparently SPF was trying to figure out the legality of paying Trump not to run in the 2024 election, but then FTX collapsed and this never happened. Kind of an insane story. I don't know what you guys think of this. Obviously, there's no way he had the liquidity to be able to pay $5 billion in cash to Donald Trump. So this feels like kind of a harebrained story. Well, Alameda had the customer liquidity. And I feel like at a certain point, when they were doing the math, they did have access to $5 billion. I mean, there was also other stories where he was trying to invest multiple billion dollars in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Like when these multi -billion dollar opportunities came up, I assume they looked at the metaphorical piggy bank, saw that there was high single digit, low double digit billions of dollars available and thought, well, what are the craziest things possible with this? It's not the first time there's stories of him using multiple billions of dollars potentially on something. So I believe it. I believe he probably tried. I'm sure that's not legal. Maybe it is. I doubt it. I can't see why that wouldn't be illegal. Not to rib a sieve like I did at that time, but you know who was doing all of these deals of trying to pay billions of dollars for both Twitter and Trump was McCaskill. So apparently the book describes the McCaskill piece as the interlocutor for all of these kind of ideas. So apparently he was the one who came up with the idea.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from 3 Reasons SBF WILL Go To Prison! (Bitcoin Pump Halted)
"Good morning. It is time to discover crypto's 10 .33 am. It is October 3. We started on this time on purpose because it's October 3rd, 10 .03. So, we want to start at 10 .33. How are you doing today? We got a special guest, everybody. What's up, babies? Thanks for having me, Deezy and the team, man. You sometimes got to start a little late, you know? Greatness has, yeah, sometimes you got to wait for some... It took us 180 seconds. That's not that bad. That's not that bad. Appreciate everyone who stuck around. Rodney, how's the journey so far? What was it like coming out this way? Oh, real easy fly. I live in Charlottesville, Virginia. So, it was about an hour trip on the smallest jet, but the person next to me was just so unpleasant, you know? Okay, why were they unpleasant? Did they think a person wasn't real in the back? They're just using both of the armrests, which is like... It's faux pas. It is. Yeah, yeah. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I'm a big guy. It is, yeah, with the shrinking seats and everything. Yeah, I have my own flight nightmare, you know? I don't want to reiterate the story here, but yeah. I heard about that. Yeah, I watched yesterday's show. I say it at the end. It was the worst flight experience I've ever had, and it was Delta, too, and even one of those crazy ones. All right, guys, make sure you follow Rodney here. He's over at Crypto Journeys RS. So, if you're looking at it here, Crypto, and then the shoe store, followed by RS. No, no, it's Singular. It's Journey. Crypto Journey RS, not Crypto Journeys. Do you like the band Journey? Uh, no, no. You just heard Small Town Girl. I love good music, so... Journey is good music. I don't care what you say, all right? I will die on that hill, as well. Let's see. Okay, I just watched One Punch Man. Is this related? Oh, One Punch Man. So, it's an old meme coin called Saitama. It is kind of related, but just in the name. Just in the name, just in the name. Yeah, I watched that just three days ago or so. Five days ago, something like that. You like it? It was pretty good. Second anime I've ever seen. I've only watched two. Well, it's crazy. It's like a different superhero. He's too strong. You know, he doesn't get strong. He's just too strong. Ah, it's a cool, it's a cool... Yeah, yeah, it's, you know, he's... Anyways, let's get back to Crypto, folks. We're going to talk about Crypto. We're going to talk about Sam Bankman Freed. We got some charts we're going to look at. We're going to look at Bitcoin reserves. We got some CFTC stuff, as well. Who's Satoshi? And some Smash or Pass. One of Deezy's coins. It's going to be a good one, folks. We got the lab rats in the chat. All right, let's see what we got with the Crypto market cap. I'm going to go ahead and refresh here, because it's too scary, folks. It is way too scary. It is down two and a half percent. Well, I made it worse, folks. You can blame me. It is now down 3 .1%, so I just wanted to tank the market. 24 -hour volume, $47 billion. Gas, 27 Gwei. And Bitcoin dominance is down a little bit. It was up to 47 .9. Here we have Bitcoin. It is down 3 .3%. Ethereum's down 3 .7%. BNB and XRP down around 2%. Lido staked Ether down 3 .6%. If we go down, though, we do see Solana in the green there, and so is Polygon. Matic is in the green. So we got some of these BizDev VC coins. They're moving on up. I say that in a good way. All right, now we're going to look at the top gainers. And if you have Gala, you're having a Gala? I absolutely love Gala games. There's a lot of different parts to Gala, but mostly games. And the game Spider Tank, it's really good. I played it just to play it, and it's really good if you like those three -on -three shooter games. It's a really good game. So I love Gala. Extremely bullish on Gala. All right, now we have an existential crisis. Is it Gala or Gala? This is really what people want to know, because I hear Gala, I think Gollum. I'm thinking of what DC is like. I get my Coinbase app, I look at my chain link, and I'm like, my precious, my precious. And then I buy 0 .3. One day I'll have four. I have 3 .7 right now. So I plan on DCing this week. I'll have four whole chain link. It's going to be lit. It's going to be lit, like Torren said. All right, so Gala, my thesis on Gala is Gala just needs one game to really pop when we get some positive price action. But the tokenomics could leave a little bit to be desired. There's a lot of people, they got these expensive nodes and it's just creating more Gala every single day. A lot of these people, it seems like they sell. I don't know. Oh, and there's a lot of drama with the co -founders right now. They're suing each other right now in court, unfortunately. So it's like a mom and dad kind of fighting issue, suing each other for different things. But yeah, you don't want to see that. But when you just play the games, I mean, they're good, you know, especially Spider Tanks. But there's a few others they dropped. It's definitely an experiment in DeFi, you know, DeFi gaming. But I definitely think Gala can be one of the big winners for sure. They had good shows with Kings of Leon, you know, that's great in the bull market.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from An Old Womans Laughter
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Throughout the Bible, there are signs that point us to the gospel. Today, Tim Keller is looking at how we can discover them and what they teach us. The passage on which the teachings base is found in your bulletin. Let me read it to you. Genesis 21, verses one to seven. Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah, as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. At the very time God had promised him, Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. And Sarah said, God has brought me laughter. And everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. And she added, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age. This is God's word. Why, in these morning services here in the fall, are we rummaging around in documents that are so ancient that they're called the Old Testament? I mean, how relevant is that? Very relevant. My wife, Kathy, tore out an article for me out of Mademoiselle Magazine, September 97. Very up to date. And surprising article, because it was by Naomi Wolf, who's a very sharp and pretty well known feminist author. And the title of the article is, Coming Out for God, subtitle, OK, I Pray, So Why Do I Feel So Funny Talking About It? And in the article, she basically says that she has come into a spiritual search. She has decided there's got to be more. And she is looking for God, and she's searching for God, and she's searching for spirituality. And at one point, she says, it's really all coming down to this. And she's not saying she arrived, but this is what she says she's coming down to. She says, beyond it all, I have the increasingly pressing question. This is the increasingly pressing question. What the heck does God want me to do, and how do I figure it out? What does God want me to do, and how do I figure it out? And when you ask the question, how do you figure out what God wants of me, that's the question of sources. Where do I go to find out what God's will is? And really, classically, there's really only two basic answers over the years. The one answer is look outside to some authoritative text, to some authoritative resource. Look outside to the objective. And on the other hand, the other kind of answer has been, well, you look inside. You look to the inner light. You look to the subjective. You look to your heart. You look to your experience. Now, the wonderful thing about the Old Testament that really needs to be understood, besides the fact that it's a book that's considered holy by Jews and Christians and Muslims, is with the Old Testament, you don't have to choose. What's great about the Old Testament is you have authoritative theological teaching, but it's always teaching in the form of stories, always teaching in the form of real human experiences. So last week, we looked at the existential despair of the teacher in Ecclesiastes. This week, we look at laughter. We will look at bitterness. You look at real human experiences, and the Old Testament says in those real human experiences, you've got pointers to God. You've got clues to God, but by going to the Old Testament, you not only look at human experience, you also do it in a way that people have been going to for years through the centuries, the Old Testament. Instead of being self -accredited, instead of just saying, well, I've looked at my heart, now I know what God wants, you're looking into the human heart, into human experience, and therefore into your own experience, but in the Old Testament, a place where millions of people over the centuries have found God. And that way, you can trust, so you don't have to choose, and that's why we're going to these great accounts. Now, in this account, we are looking at a particular experience, and that is a woman laughing because her only child has been born, but it's an incredibly old woman we have here. We have a woman who's 90 years old here, and we're told in the Bible that this laughter is a clue to who God is and what He's done, and how do you find Him? The reason that I read this little section, which many of you may not have even ever heard, even though you may have heard the story of Abraham and Sarah, is I think this is the fulcrum. This is actually the midpoint. This is actually the key, because all of Abraham and Sarah's life and all the fascinating incidents can all be understood in terms of the name of their son, because the word Isaac means laughter, means laughter. God has brought me laughter, and all who hear will laugh with me, and you can understand all of their life, and actually I think eventually you'll be able to understand all of your life, through the word yisak, Isaac, laughter, because there's been three kinds of laughter. If you read the story of Abraham and Isaac, there's three kinds of laughter, and only the last one is the best. They had to go through two other kinds to get to the third. What are these three kinds of laughter? First of all, first you see in the history of Abraham and Sarah, you see the laughter of scoffing, the laughter of disbelief, the shallow laughter of disbelief. If you go way back into the passage, go deep, you'll see back in Genesis 12, God comes to Abraham and says, I'm going to give you a son. A son will be born to you through Sarah, and through that son you will have a descent, a group of descendants will become a great nation, and through that nation, all the nations of the world will be blessed.
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.
The HUMAN Training
How Do We Ensure K9 Culture Trainers Are Up to Our Standards?
"Know, one of the things that we do that you're a huge part of, Julie, is kind of what you mentioned, Wyatt. Now, we have trainers that are working with the dog, so how do we make sure that the trainers are training? How do we make sure quality control standards, right? Yeah. So what do we do there, Winnie? Well, I mean, to some degree, there's some micromanaging going on. There has to be. Yeah. Just to make sure that everybody stays in line, I mean, I guess that's always going to be the problem. When you start to grow as a company and you have more people, you want to make sure everybody is staying to the standard that you're wanting to provide for clients or for people. For us, for me, at least as a lead trainer, my main job is to make sure that they are keeping up to the standards of certain obedience, right, every week and things like that. And so I make sure that they... Because we know average dogs, like Tuesdays, they start on Monday. By Tuesday, they should know how to do X. By Thursday, they should be able to do X, Y, and Z. Do you have them master it? No, but we know about where the average dog should be. Yes. Right. And so we're doing trainer evals. That's really what it's called. We're just evaluating the trainers every week to make sure that they are where they should be, where their dogs. And then we acknowledge that sometimes we're going to get a dog that's extremely anxious or extremely aggressive or whatever the case is. So kind we of change the expectations for that dog, but we still want to see progress. And so it's all about making sure that they're getting where they should be. In a week's time frame, since we do board and trains and the dogs go home on Friday, we got to make sure that in those five days they're making enough progress that they're going to be able to work on some things over the weekend with owners and then move on to something else the next week. Right. Yeah. And stay on pace at the end of two, three or four weeks, whatever the training program is that that dog's in, that we've achieved the goals that the owner has. And people just naturally drift, pick up bad habits. They do. We humans are so good about that. They're saying, screw this training, I'm going to do it my way. They will subconsciously shift their training style out of line with what you want them to do. So our evaluations kind of are also geared to keep that from happening. So that way we're consistently, we're being consistent in how we're training. I do love the evals though, because I feel like it makes the trainers want to do better. It makes them want to do better with their dogs. Kind of in a group format. Yeah. The third weeks and the two weeks evals, they're always in a group setting. Whereas the first week evals, I do those one on one. To see how the dog is doing and things. But yeah, definitely. I feel like it helps them want to do better and do cool things. And then in turn, they end up wanting to show those cool things to the owners. So it's not just about doing obedience and being monotonous. It's also about showing the cool things that their dog can do.
The HUMAN Training
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.
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from S17E6: Recovering From Crimes of the Heart w/ Rory Uphold
"Hi, I'm Yui Xu, and I'm Julie Kraftchick. We're active daters turned dating sociologists here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships. Welcome to the dateable podcast. What's up datables? Welcome to another episode. We are feeling refreshed after kind of a weekend in Joshua Tree. Julie and I had a romantic getaway. We did. We sure did. We've been trying to do a dateable retreat for a long time. And you all know that last time we tried to go to Joshua Tree, a hurricane decided to visit the high desert. So we had to cancel our trip. But we finally got to go this past week. And it was so magical, so relaxing. We got to do a lot in person. It's just so much different in person to discuss everything. And we got to like bond and catch up on our lives. And also on you all are dateable. It really was so magical for anyone that hasn't been to Joshua Tree. I feel like I went a long time ago, and I thought it was cool, don't get me wrong. But this time around, I think because we went at you know, sunset, just how incredible that national park is. It really just felt like, you know, we were like in this far out place that we actually looked up the definition of Joshua Tree. And it felt so relevant to everything that we were going through is like maintaining love and hope. And now I'm like butchering this and what was it positive or faith. That's what it was love, hope and faith. When things are challenging in your lives, you can make it through. So I feel like that was such a testament to where we are both right now. And it was something really sentimental of just googling that and figuring out that was the meaning of Joshua Tree's. Yeah, perseverance in the face of adversity, such harsh desert conditions, these beautiful trees can grow and thrive. In fact, they're actually not trees. They're succulents that are as tall as trees. I went down the rabbit hole. I wanted to know everything about Joshua Tree's afterwards, but they're supposed to emit some sort of spiritual magical vortex energy, healing energy. And I truly felt that we weren't there for that long. But even in like, what, the hour that we spent just taking photos, walking around, I felt this. Yeah, this energy and like a bondedness to nature, to each other. So it was just really cool for. Yeah, definitely. If you haven't been to Joshua Tree, it's definitely worth going to. We also went to a Sound Healing at the Integratron, which is a world famous institution. And that was also magical. I fell asleep so hard I started snoring and Julie had to nudge me to wake me up. So that's a testament to how wonderful that experience. Well, you had to get a buddy, a snore buddy. This is so funny, because reason why is that you're in this sound, like the echo of the sound is that the person next to you only hears like a little but the person that's directly across, they hear that snore come through hardcore. So they told us like, find a buddy, even if you don't know someone, find a buddy. And if you hear them snoring, give them a nudge. So obviously, he was my buddy, and I heard her snore a little and I'm like, For me, it's not that bad, but I'm gonna give you the nudge. Yeah, she caught me right away. It's a perfectly circular dome. So your your sound bounces right off the circular wall and go straight back to the person behind you. So I can't imagine what that person heard. I definitely heard quite a few deep breaths snoring, nothing too bad. But it was like 45 minutes of sound bowls. And we all got to lie down these really comfy pads. And right next to each other. It was like a slumber party with 33 people. So wonderful. And then there is the center of the dome that you could say what you're grateful for or an intention. And what was super cool about it is only you heard it. You said it and it magnified for you, but no one else heard what you said.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 98 - Gensler's Backlash, The SBF's Trial Kicks Off & Pudgy Penguins Hit Walmart
"This is an Equity Baits Media podcast. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to the crypto world, we recommend starting with our early episodes where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll discuss some recent moves by the SEC and some backlash against Gary Gensler. He's receiving it from all sides of the fence. We're also going to take a look at Sam Bankman -Fried and the trial, which starts this week. My name's Tracey and this week it's Blake and I on the mic as Craig is off attending a wedding. So, hey Blake, how are you going? Very well, Tracey. Good to be back and getting stuck into this week's news. There is always lots of news, but before we do get into the news, Blake, let's have a little look at the market. We don't often go through what's happening in the charts, but let's have a little look at what is going on because we've just finished the month of September, which has historically been a red month. Six out of the last seven years, September's been red and it actually finished green. A lot of the traders are very excited. It finished 4 % up and I've already seen a lot of the memes. October is up -tober, as they call it. There we go. Yeah, because apparently October is one of the better months of crypto. I think six out of the last seven has been green. So what do you think? Are we going to have a good month? What are we in for? It's really hard to say. No one has a crystal ball. I knew you were going to say that. What do you think though? How are you feeling? What's happening out there? Well, you know, if we had an up month in September when it's historically down, you know, it could do the opposite in October. Markets like to do what the opposite to what everyone's expecting. So yeah, we'll see how it plays out. But obviously there's a lot happening in the broader economy at the moment. People are very pessimistic about what's happening, you know, with inflation and specifically in the US, but really everywhere, and how that's affecting the broader economy. But hopefully we're seeing less and less correlation with the crypto market in relation to those items. But I still suspect that I can't fully disconnect. All right, well, we'll see what happens with up -tober at the end of the month. Moving on to our first story. It's been a big news item and colour us shocked, but the SEC has moved again to delay the Spot Bitcoin ETF. This one from BlackRock, Valkyrie and Bitwise. Gary Gensler needs additional proceedings to assess whether to approve or deny the proposed Bitcoin ETF. The process includes public comment and rebuttal periods indicating that the final decision may not be reached for several months, but then not even a few days later, and this happened yesterday, he has continued his filing frenzy and delayed the Bitcoin ETFs for Fidelity, Van Eyck and Wisdom Tree. So basically that's all of them because Ark was a few weeks ago. And the pressure is mounting on Gary himself this week, Blake. We saw him in the press. What happened there? Yeah, that's right Trace. Last week there was a US House lawmakers push on the SEC's chair Gary Gensler to approve the Spot ETF. Now they're kicking the can down the road. I don't actually think this is a bad thing, because if it happens early next year around the time of the halving, I think that's going to be maximum effect on the market. Members of the House of Financial Services Committee wrote a letter to him to take urgent action on the ETF. And you know, he's obviously taking his sweet ass time here. Gary actually faced criticism from lawmakers regarding his crypto regulation approach during this House hearing. He was questioned about his classification of Bitcoin, how that compared to other assets like Pokemon cards, and the approval of the Bitcoin ETFs. Lawmakers also expressed concerns over Gensler's transparency with Congress, especially regarding interactions with crypto exchanges like FTX. He was actually taken to task in so many different ways and he came up really short. I saw a few different videos. It was a bit of a train wreck. And what did you think of this Blake? Yeah, it's really interesting actually, you know, watching Gary dodge questions and be as vague as possible. But I think this example about the Pokemon cards really exemplifies the conversation. So one of the senators or one of the members of the House of Financial Services on the committee asked Gary, you know, are Pokemon card securities when they're traded because they are a collector's item. And of course, Pokemon cards are not securities. They're just collectibles. And then the example was proposed to Gary whether or not if those Pokemon cards were then tokenized and put on the blockchain as an NFT, would it be a security? And Gary said he's not sure. So I think the point here is that is the process of tokenization, does that create a security? And I think we can all agree that it doesn't. But the SEC is being quite coy here to keep their options open in order to suit, you know, potential NFT projects. When, you know, for example, you could take a photo of your foot trace to as an NFT, would that be a security? Yeah, look, it was it was a laughable video, that one. We've actually got a link to it as well, folks. So we'll put that in the show notes below. But they were there's four of those senators and they went really hard at him and he certainly did fumble his way through that, much like the videos from his Senate chat a few months earlier. Interesting to see him squirm, ladies and gentlemen, but there'll be more to come on that one. Moving on to our second story. The trial we have been waiting for starts this week with the jury selection today. Will Sam Bankman -Fried, the man who headed up failed crypto exchange FTX, get the comeuppance he so badly deserved? Get ready because your social feeds will definitely be taken up by all the drama that unfolds Blake over the coming weeks. How long will this take? You know, is he actually going to get done here? What are your thoughts? You know, how long is a piece of string really? I think with these scenarios, whoever has the most resourcing wins. We don't know how much cash Sam has tucked away. He could string this out for years. You know, we've seen other court cases. That long you reckon? Well, we've seen other court cases in the sector be strung out for literally like five, six years. So yeah, it could certainly happen. I think the Mount Gox court case for creditors is still going in 2013. You know, so these things can take time and there's many ways for parties to, to push this out. Yeah. In some information that came out today, Tracy, it looks like Sam won't be able to blame his lawyers for everything that happened. Under an advice of counsel defense, SPF wanted to argue that, you know, he was just taking the advice of his lawyers and was working within the legal bounds of the advice that was provided. So, you know, it's pretty interesting that if he was provided incorrect advice, then Sam will have the opportunity to sue his lawyers. But it looks like that you can't use that. You can't do that now. Oh no. Well, he just can't use that as a defense in court, but that doesn't mean that if he did receive poor legal advice at some point in time, he can't go back and sue those lawyers. Right. Interesting. All right. I'm sure there are many things that are going to come out of that as well. You know, this is, you can't write this thing as well, but just yesterday, some of the F that was taken by the hackers, so 2 ,500 F that was stolen as part of that exchange hack last year was moved yesterday. Oh, really? Yeah. So part of that was moved through two different protocols. One of them was the Thorchain router and another one was Railgun, which are private wallets that you can move things through secretly. We still don't know who took that in the hack last year. Yeah. We suspected at the time it could have been an inside job as, you know, the exchange was falling. Someone stole half a thousand Ethereum. Yeah. Yeah. But we still don't know who that was. Another quick one, too, guys, as we wrap this story up, because we are going to be hearing a lot about SPF and FTX. If you do want to catch up, there's a really good two parter out now on BBC Panorama called The Downfall of the Crypto King. And I'll add that in the show notes below. But it just it's a bit of a catch up on exactly what happened with SPF and the FTX exchange. So there's did you know that we are coming up on our 100th episode? I know time flies when you're having fun. And we'd like to invite you to become part of our 100th show and send us an audio question. If you have got something that you'd like to know about a coin, a token or a project you'd like us to cover off in our 100th episode, then send us a voice recording. Record this using a voice memo app on your phone and send it to us via the Facebook community or an email at podcast at get bamboo .io. Time for a break and we'll be back.
This Week in Apps
"this week" Discussed on This Week in Apps
"At friday and welcome to the upside of this week and apso weekly no fluff the first round the perv interesting news and chance about mobile apps and games this area from figures and i five highlights and a lot of thoughts for you today in. We'll start with harry potter harry potter magic awakening. The game launch in china last week and took command of the app stores top-grossing chart very quickly and for quite a while the feet usually reserved for tencent and really no one else given the almost universal popularity of harry potter. I don't find this surprising and with the really well thought out marketing campaign by netties the company behind the title. This success makes a lot of sense in. Its first week in the chinese app. Store harry potter brought in nine million dollars of net revenue for netease and warner brothers. And get this around three point. Eight million dollars in fees for apple according to wrap intelligence. I don't always talk about the fees. I kind of never talk about the fees but it feels a lot more applicable this time round so jesse can see the scher magnitude of this thing. The success was a result of the brand. of course. it's harry potter. I mean who doesn't like harry potter and for those of you who are listening and don't honoring what to tell you. There probably are in that many of you but also the hype that net built around the titles launch. Luckily for them harry potter makes it very easy. The title used pre-registrations to get momentum which we've seen working before but they also made them really really applicable to the game. They include a letter from hogwarts and a sorting ceremony a couple of days prior to the launch and they really made it exciting donaldson revenue reflected that excitement our estimates show that the game added an average of one hundred thousand users in just about one point two million dollars in revenue every day in. Its first week. China's app store has become a new goldmine for international developers as the culture opens up to western content right. Now it's less likely to see non-chinese content in the store. But i'm expecting that the change fairly quickly. We saw how that changed with the launch of louis vitton game early on the summer. We see it with harry potter. And we're likely to see it again. When is launches lord of the rings next week. Now.
This Week in Apps
"this week" Discussed on This Week in Apps
"The largest into two lines. Carnival andro caribbean. But it was one of the first to get hit by the pandemic literally and has been grounded since until very recently since the announcement of cruises resuming. Their loads started climbing so far. This year downloads. For both carnival. Enron caribbean have quadrupled. Bo started the year with about two and a half thousand you dallas per week and that number has been climbing slowly as more things started to reopen and the companies have started to engage customers with the idea of future trips. Now that it seems more possible last week both apps crossed nine thousand downloads almost four times higher than january according to estimates. That's great news for carnival. Royal caribbean and really anyone who's trying to board a ship this year because it's been a while since those happened but there's a lot of sailing to be done before we can get back to pre covid downloads in two thousand nineteen just to give you some context corval in ribian editon average fifty thousand thirty five thousand dollars per week respectively and so we have a long way to go. What do we need to watch. You know what's going to happen. Well i think that if the first few bruises managed to leave comeback healthy meaning outbreaks or anything like that. Then we're going to see that trend. Climb more steeply and if that continues to happen as we end the year. I think it's going to be open season on cruises and we'll see a lot more downloads and we're gonna use those thousands as a proxy for how many people are excited about cruises. Because i think you will download the app in most cases a little bit before you get on a cruise and so that's going to give us clear visibility into how things are getting back to normal and that's it for me. I will end this week by saying happy friday. Thanks for listening if you like any of these insights any see them for any other app your own competitors or anything else on africa's dot com slash intelligence and get them for yourself and that's it for me see next week..
This Week in Apps
"this week" Discussed on This Week in Apps
"What's important here is that tiktok is big and we know take making a lot of money. But that's not really techniques. Main revenue comes from ads. this is not ads. this is users paying creators much which does and we know that which is doing really well. This is interesting to me because it means there's more engagement and the serious in engagement. It means that creators can monetize their presence on tiktok and it means they users want to see more content on tiktok so it's turning into a platform where you can make money and if you think about platforms have you can make money to which on one side and which is really successful. I've looked at which a whole bunch of times over the last year and there is a lot of money there but which is kind of specific games. It could evolve beyond that but i think that's what people know it as and that's the kind of audience that you can expect to find on twitch but on tiktok does not the case tiktok is much more equivalent to maybe youtube than it is to twitch and youtube is the place where creators make money so tiktok building to become pretty stiff competition for that. I know that youtube is trying to make something similar to take. But i don't think that's gonna be the same. I don't think that's going to be similar if you look at what happened with instagram and with others were trying to be tiktok at the Game so whatever happened so we'll be interesting in. I'm going to keep an eye on it. Last not least is a streamer last dream for the week. I promise if you look at the top chart in the us this morning you'll see that there's one streamer top now. It's not the streamer from last week if you remember last week's episode which also concluded with a streaming service this week it's paramount plus one of the latest entrance. I wanna say to the streaming grace here in the us. The app store is very responsive. And i really like that about it so we can see what demand is like almost immediately the chart update really really quickly and we track all that data so if you look last forty eight hours for paramount plus we can see that klein from just about one hundred and third overall so all apps and all games on from wednesday and reached number one just a few hours ago so there's a lot of demand happening for paramount. Plus i can dig in deeper..
This Week in Agriculture
"this week" Discussed on This Week in Agriculture
"This week in agriculture production of the red river farm network with the look at markets. I'm randy conan. Usda raise soybean ending stocks lowered corn ending stocks a little more than what the grain trade was expecting global commodity analytics and consulting president. Mike zoos loafing global supply fundamentals are in play now for this grain market that we're starting to find more of the fundamentals of ample supplies coming out of south america to take competitive The competitive side of the soybean market away from the united states whereas what the corn the usda confirm that. We've got a tighter crop down in brazil specifically and it's going to be a lot more difficult for the corn market to find any kind of meaningful competition around the rest of the world. The biggest competition the biggest nemesis for the corn market when it comes to the export and the feed market continues to be the wheat. Usda lowered old corn. Carry out by one hundred and fifty million bushels raised old crop soybean carry-over by fifteen million bushels increased new crop carrying by that same fifteen million and made no change to new crap usage resulting in a new crop so i being carry out fifteen million bushels higher at one hundred fifty five million bushels. Usda lowered new crop weaning. Stocks by four million bushels on increase feed and residual use usda lowered world old crop corn ending stocks by three million metric tonnes from the may report to two hundred eighty point six million raise soybean ending stocks to eighty eight million metric tons and lowered weeden stocks by about a million tons to two hundred ninety three and a half million world new crop ending stocks. A corn soybeans are all right on the average trade guests total farm marketing senior market advisor. Naomi bloom things. Traders are little unsure how to deal with the increased soybean..
This Week In Google
"this week" Discussed on This Week In Google
"Days. yeah yeah three days to get gasoline. Wow no guests. So i much yeah. That's a little scary. You forget how. Reliant we are. Oh yeah final story. Then we're going to take a break and give Get your picks of the week but Stacy's very excited better pick of the week. This week want audio. Looks like an empty chair. Yeah getting last story. Yeah oh see. That's what i've been delaying for el salvador which used to have Its currency The us dollar they this lazy. We don't wanna make up a currency. We'll just use yours if that's all right They became they have now become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Good for them. That what could possibly go wrong there They voted by a supermajority in favor of the bitcoin law. The price of bitcoin went up as a result. O- rats it was only about five percent uptick so not that prices can now be shown in bitcoin. Taxes can be paid with bitcoin. and exchanges in bitcoin will not be subject to capital gains tax. Speaking which did you see how much tax the top billionaires get me started on this story no no. I haven't new toy. I want to show.
This Week in Startups
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"History. This week ten sixteen ninety two. I'm sally helm bridget. Bishop wakes up in shackles in a stone wall jail cell in massachusetts later this morning a man comes to open the door. He takes off her. Shackles are relief and loads her into a two wheeled wooden cart the outside air probably feels all the sweeter. After the time she spent imprisoned. The cart is open on the sides. So people on the streets look at her as she passes after all her case is meant to be a warning. She passes down prison lane to main street with a procession of marshall's and constables. In the cart stops in a spot of pasture on a hill where a rope is hanging from freshly installed gallos. There aren't any. I witness accounts of bridget bishop's hanging but as she climbed up the ladder to the gallows she would have seen a panoramic view below her fields. Inlets the shimmering atlantic ocean and there would have been a crowd law officers there to read the death warrant ministers to offer last rates and onlookers. Who were just curious to see a witch. According to some villagers there were other worldly beings present at bishop's hanging to one woman said she saw the devil help a man find a perch on the gallos. We don't know what bishop herself said or thought as she walked up to the gallows but we know she would have denied up and down that the devil helped her get there. She insisted on her innocence. Until the very last moment finally a bag is placed over bishops head. Someone binds her petticoats to her legs and she is hanged..
This Week in Tech
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"Into like an autopilot on thirty-seven doc. You forgot that there was a nascar race. It in bad. They're getting they're never getting home. You know never yeah. I know okay. Food pop is next. I hop pop is. Have you seen the. You probably haven't always driven the f one fifty lightning but the new electric ford truck. Now i i mean i've only seen the same they didn't invite me to. I want that. Like that's the one i want is the f. One fifty is essentially its own company. It's almost its own country with the most successful car of all time. I over three deck for the past over three decades. The highest selling vehicle in the united states for the past over four decades. It's been the number one selling truck that is insane. It is it prints money and the idea that and the fact that board decided to make an out of that car pretty that vehicle as is a huge huge huge deal. Because you you pull in a lot of contractors. Who don't drive a lot. You get a lot of fleet sales and then you get that sort of that that f one fifty buyer thinking. Well maybe i can get an e. Maybe they can throw their accept plugs in the back plugs in the back. It's got a franck clegg things in old again franck. Is you get bit flow in the front. You hop wife through flows that that's like that's how big the franck is yes. No i haven't driven the f one fifty. Unfortunately i don't think No biden drove it. Joe biden was the only one that he doesn't i mean when he's at home Great to have all three of you thank you. We had a fun week this week. Tweet i think we have to we. Have we have a little mini. Movie to dramatize simon. Here you go watch amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking users into guinea pigs. Mayor upset about this for all the wrong reasons. I will give you three reasons. You can be upset. Previously on twit security the design is clearly intended to absolutely prevent any possible abuse of the system even amazon hansi into it. The way it's designed by os today. Apple has announced finalists for the apple design. Awards you take a picture of a doodle and then the app brings it to life. What thomas is coming to live pans on tech google photos. Free cloud storage is no more and you might be thinking. Well what if. I wanted to host by photos on my own photo. Cloud floss weekly. Our guest today is brian fox. The creator of the bash. Shell nobody in the planet cares. What technology whether it was open source or not that was used to build the software in your microwave. Nobody thinks about that. So why would you make that software. Suddenly be secret and proprietary twit. Learn something new every day and what.
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"Microsoft and a bunch of startups. Some companies like honeywell all doing stuff right. you honey. Was chris so i know. Isn't that funny. Is it possible that that's just one of a number of paths that forward for instance photonics The that yeah we were coming to the end of moore's law although now we're down to three. Nanometer processors are equivalent three nanometer processors. But moore's law is really kind of a barrier at some point in the future Other technologies besides quantum might be the great leap forward. Is that possible. Do you think could be although You know quantum is not going to replace classical computers. it's going to work alongside up. No it's interesting to be a ton of stuff for which a supercomputer Still make sense and stuff like creating a user interface you still you know. The computers we have now are fine. So you want to build your. You is with quantum technology you have a classical interface and you have the quantum computers thing. That's interesting classical computers can divvy up. Of course the great fear. Quantum computing is that it will break The know fundamental cryptographer. Alker pretty much. Well i'm they're working on right which is why. Ibm was trying to get people thinking about it and experimenting with that now so good for ibm because they're the ones that announced the three nanometer processors as well. They're looking very like oh ibm still in the business. Yeah yeah and if they thought quantum was the next thing they would not be investing. And that's a good point very good point also with us the great roberto baldwin you. You drive a new car every week. What are you driving this week. It's funny because this is the week. I don't have a car at all. I have my car o o. You actually own a car couple. What's your next car. The next you know. I'll be driving. That i can't talk about but i know i can say that i'm going to be driving the brand new s class from his his lover. Yeah so the the new s class. I'll be driving it this week. Sometimes and then after their top of the line.
This Week in Agriculture
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"The <hes> <hes> d. four or exceptional drought classification south western north dakota and northwestern south dakota received well over one hundred fifty percent of normal rainfall this past week but that was not enough to offset drought conditions. Dry conditions have also expanded d. four or exceptional drought classification south western north dakota and northwestern south dakota received well over one hundred fifty percent of normal rainfall this past week but that was not enough to offset drought conditions. Dry conditions have also expanded into southeastern south dakota for the first time this year. Western minnesota is facing abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions. Mother nature turned up at the heat this week. High temperatures are soaring into the nineties and lower one hundreds in the upper midwest north dakota agricultural weather network director dale. Richardson says this heat wave is similar to conditions one year ago last year. Many areas verge ri- but these dry soils young crops were living off a surplus of subsoil moisture from the wet fall of twenty nineteen and so we still had quite a bit of subsoil moisture this year. Of course we don't have that with the heat you know i'm just wondering if we're not gonna lose crops with this heat wave 'cause there's not a lot of soil moisture in that top say three or four inches you know. The crops aren't very mature that can't go down and get where the moisture is in the soil. It's going to be several days At ninety plus for many locations crop stress is going to occur. Would be an understatement. I just hope we don't lose too much with this heat wave and then hopefully the rains that come next week. We'll be in time to save the crop. There are light scattered rains in the forecast over the weekend and next week however dt n. senior agricultural meteorologist. Bryce anderson is not optimistic for big rains in june any moisture. We get now is just going to barely kind of get us by until the next Possible shower event. So i mean we already have a say real wide area certainly very impressive of central n. senior agricultural meteorologist. Bryce anderson is not optimistic for big rains in june any moisture. We get now is just going to barely kind of get us by until the next Possible shower event. So i mean we already have a say real wide area certainly very impressive of central north dakota that is now in drought level. Four exceptional drought much of the remainder of the state is an extreme drought. And and i fear that we're we're just going to see that You know that type of drought Intensifying and and and really cause Some more issues with crop health particularly if these If these very stressful temperature forecasts do come to verification soybeans in the wimbledon north dakota area got nipped by last week's frost farmer. Joe ericsson thinks there's about five hundred acres that may need to be replanted on his farm. More rain would definitely help the crop. The rain we did get we ended up having a rotary hosts being the top. So or get new. This'll crusty that Big slabs of trust were up there so we had to break them up. And i think that worked pretty well. We did a hundred and fifty acres of that. It's been ten of a after getting in so early. We've rarely been done my birthday yesterday and we rarely come by her birthday if ever so we were done supposedly done. But i guess we weren't at barnesville minnesota farmer and rancher jake thompson says the crop is widely variable here on our farm and kind of seeing some poor. Corn stands <hes> soybeans. Some of the early ones. <hes> are up. They looked really good. But we did have a little frost damage to some of those We did put some soybeans in a little bit later Just checked on those yesterday. They haven't poked through yet but A lot of stuff is there subsoil moisture. it's there it's just We're getting a lot of variation and that's been a look at whether this week in agriculture reporting agriculture's business. I'm a megan overby gallon. Usa producers of epat hamsun sunlen permit. Herbicides also produces targa herbicide targets and effective post grass. Control herbicide dry beans. Flax lentils peas soybeans and sunflowers target delivers excellent control of annual grasses as well as herbicide tolerant volunteer corn. When it's time
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"Ever beans that affect a local markets are growing so follow the dry beans seen every friday at twelve. Thirty five right here on this station brought to you by the north harvests being growers association. With a. Look at this weekend news. I'm keira heart for the red river farm network at the end of the week. All j. b. s. facilities worldwide are up and running the recovery from a may thirtieth cyberattack was faster than many expected j. b. s. was able to shut down everything and isolate the hack before it impacted its core systems and backup servers. The fbi says a russian crime organization is responsible for the ransomware attack in an interview with politico. Ags secretary tom. Vilsek advised all segments of the food and farm production chain to examine ways to protect their. It systems from cyber security attacks a series of black swan events coupled with price disparities and now drought are testing. The resiliency of the north dakota cattle industry. North dakota stockman's association president. Jeff schaffer says both cow calf producers and feeders haven't been able to catch a break from poor market prices. It just seems like we're constantly one headline away from from another disaster. So i'm hopeful that we can come with some kind of fix to this market. The price disparity is huge. And we've got to address that. Sit on have that conversation. And it doesn't matter who takes credit for it and we got to quit finger pointing and sit on. Have that conversation and figure out what's going on here. We're hopeful that doj investigation comes to a close farmers and ranchers are starting to call cattle due to the drought conditions in north dakota rugby. Livestock auction barn in rugby. North dakota is getting ready for a big cow. Calf sale on monday year's auction barn owner cliff madison. Got over a thousand pairs lined up for this week for this coming monday because of that was scheduled to sell our way up cows on sunday and in any bread cows on sunday as well. It's it's looking like that pattern. Might continue throughout the whole month of june. So i think that's a schedule stay on devastating up. Were people. that's all they. That's how they did the ranch daughter life and that's all they didn't know what to do and now they're they're forced to sell out to go to senator john. Hoven plans to bring the risk management agency to north dakota to look the drought conditions. I want to get them out here. Not only so that we know our guys know that the crop insurance is there and they can use it as effectively as possible but also because the early haying and grazing we need to get going on that and then just anything else. We can do to help some of those ranchers get. Hey there e short as well as access to water farmers have also been waiting for an update on the plus program and quality loss. Adjustment program looks. Things are going in a good direction. I can't announce anything at this point but secretary of sack is been working with us. Epa administrator. michael. Regan was in bismarck. North dakota on thursday to hear from agriculture energy and water shareholders about the waters of the united states rule climate and other topics most of thursday's roundtable discussion was focused on wellness. But the path forward on pesticides also got attention and analysis of the epa shows the agency mishandled the approval of three dyke campbell herbicides. Epa said. they plan to implement several actions to ensure the pesticide registration. Decisions are free from political interference. Epa administrator michael regan says the agency takes the investigation. Seriously we understand that the i g indicated that there was political interference during the previous administration. That won't happen on my watch and we want science to play out. There is a very good relationship between the state and my reasonably office. I think we're seeing singing from the same sheet of music there. And so. I think we're in good shape on a merger is being considered between at country farm credit services and farm credit services of north dakota a memorandum of understanding has been signed by both boards to consider the merger had country board chair at haglund says a merger like this can increase efficiencies and diversify the portfolio. A country merged with united. Oh about four years ago and that merger really brought some great geographic diversity and some Product diversity of diligence is being taken before a proposed merger would take effect now the look at this weekend news. I'm keira heart for the red river farm network farmers. What do you like on your salad on kind of a caesar salad. Kind of guy myself. Hello this is. Shane with i- reinsurance. Now i know chef. But i would say a caesar salad is way tastier to eat in a corner soybean salad this summer. If you haven't bought your hail insurance yet give us a call. We would be glad to help. But just don't wait too long because it's way more profitable to bring that crop to the elevator than eat at a shredded corn. Bean salad all summer long..
This Week in Travel
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"Do you have a destination. Jen on mute. I do. I have a couple one. I just wanted to mention to maureen since we have her Our london expert A lot of chatter in our household this week about the sky pool in london. This high s. I'm afraid. I'm afraid of heights. So my husband thought it would be hilarious to invite my daughter to to to include to invite her to go to do this with him. There's a skype pool in london at the top of the embassy gardens. I think it's a pool that is in between two buildings ten stories high one hundred and fifteen feet in the air and you see this clear glass bottom pool way up in the sky think it just opened on may nineteenth. Have you heard any. Have you heard any buzz about this morning. Oh twitter yesterday lumped in twitter. Yesterday was talking. nothing outs. Were for a lot of a lot of quite jealous people. So the the patch with this incredible skype little is that you need to be arrested in awfully awfully very expensive flats so the flats air like the one or two slot goes for a boy at more than a million pints for just plots and so yeah. These are incredibly high end properties. So it's on. It's right on the bank of the river thames in the side. So it's kind of. There's no better a symbol van being the swimming around like ten or whatever stories up in the air so it's a great way of saying i am very rich on. I am literally swing okay. I didn't know that i did hear that part. But you ever seen a huge huge interests in that video winner adhered yesterday. But i think the best way to get in there is to meet yourself some influential friends. I stand corrected. Its bottom it's acrylic. It's an acrylic poor. But there's a picture. So i'm looking at the article in travel and leisure and there's a picture of a woman in a red bathing suit and i just think the next time i go to let it. I just wanted to look at this. Or i want to stay on top of blood. What if one of these wealthy residents invited synchronized swimmers or something and you could watch a show from the bottom or something. I think that would be a lot of fun Well exactly this from the ground floor and the yeah you would you would need to be careful like maybe the pedicure before on to make sure that your feet to our vests sincerest money because people on there and getting quite an unusual view yes okay but back to destinations so as we were talking about destinations where you could go live and work remotely. I just wanted to give a shoutout to this very small beach town. In costa rica dominican dominica. L- dominica a little surf town. This is where we did. Our school -cation at the beginning of chorus independent study year. So we were there in october and november and there it can buy. First of all it's jungle meets the beach. There are surf lessons. There is craft brew. There is wi fi where you can work on your own. There are even cafes where you can work from the cafe. Have your breakfast. We did this several days This is at the monaco. Congo in dominica cal. Costa rica and we would corn. I would bring our ipads in our laptops and we would sit there on their wifi and we would just check it out and we'd be looking out at the there would be a guest that would climb up and pick plus a coconut tree for his sister and we were just you know watching the world. Go by open air seating while we were in the middle of covid hanging out not too many people there at all. And so it's really nice when you can find a place that has good wifi and also Good views good vibes and fun things to do marine diva destination honda recommend and yes so this is more kind of flight from my own kind of bucket list of places i'd like to visit but in terms -ly destinations that have introduced. New remote. Working visas are your typical beach please. In such as you know aruba barbados bermuda and so on but one that kind of quite appeal. Smi is a georgia and soon about would be the georgia which is between the black sea and the caucasus rally in southern states. So beth got this new remote from georgia vs which is open to workers from about ninety five countries including the us and the uk. c can live and work there with all of these fort lee c. year. So while. I haven't been to georgia. I have been to nearby azerbaijan and georgia. It's kind of like got be full. Might dinh's story villages greek food and so on so it's kind of fun so let me you know on usual unusual. Please visit but like i have heard pretty good things about it and in terms sloth. Yeah i think travel restrictions. I'm just checking. I and i a. It's is doing okay in terms of couva and so on currently so. Yeah that's kind of one of the more wants. The more striking ones on the list of places are offering excellent and now we are next thing which is the pick of the week. This can be pretty much anything. Just general advice a website a book and i'll start out because i actually purchase something this week Marinas her noise bind you. Sorry i shut the door. T make things better then. I'm in so this week i actually. I have some apple airpods. And i've been using them for a couple of years and the batteries on a finite so got to a point where i could walk for maybe twenty minutes so wanted an upgrade and i purchased the apple airpods pros and these are so much superior. It's not even funny. For starters they have a noise cancellation mode and when you put them in your ears. It just literally everything. All the noise just disappears but they also have a transparent mode whereby you could literally wear these in the car and you could hear the background noise so it's a lot safer in time. 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This Week in Photo
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"Of this week on your host frederick johnson. Today's going to be a interesting discussion. That i've been waiting for for a while. Now this a little bit of a little bit back story on this a. I used to be a you when i worked at adobe. I was in light room. Photoshop team specifically the light room team. So i have an affinity for light room. I member internally at the company kind the wasn't a it wasn't a a rivalry between the bridge crew and the light room crew. But it was definitely a you know you guys are overstepping here. Or why are you putting their feature in. When it's you know it was that kind of feel. I don't know if it's still that way now. This is many years ago. But i as a result of that i definitely have a you know a line in the in my tree rings of light room right. So and not so much a bridge for that reason because it's lightroom is the way forward musing room a photographer. Adobe built it for photographers. That's me. I'm going to use that tool and forsake all others fast forward to some of my conversations with this guy blake brutus. Who doesn't necessarily use light room and just put this in a in a box. I'm speaking with blake. I don't even know if you know this. I'm speaking with matt. Clusky and dave cross shortly. Hopefully they're either this week or next week about lightroom very so we're going talk about. Their experience is going to be very similar to this conversation. But i wanted to. I from what i've learned from our conversations blake route is the evolution and the growth of bridge in its capabilities and integration with photoshop. It means that we should be taken another. Look at it in. If you're a light room that combination bears bear some looking at now especially because of smart objects and how everything kind of works together so all that to say. Welcome blake rudeness to the show. We're going to dive in and talk about. There's blake before we dive in and a lot of people in the audience. Know who you are already. But for the people who don't can you give us a little primer on who the root is sure. Thanks so i'm blake. I'm the host of f sixty four academy dot com and pretty much like a photoshop I dunno addict. if there's a there's a group for people like me then. I would probably be the leader I eat sleep and breathe photo shop in there. All the time and my goal is essentially to make photoshop which is a very convoluted piece of software very simple for people who wanna make their images better and more importantly make experiences for their viewers. And i feel very strongly that photoshop is a place for that so I have never used light room I did once. That was a long time ago. So i've really been on this photoshop kicking because of that. I kind of have married to be camera all because I don't use like so. Yeah let's talk about that before In this just set the stage we're going to use just a little bit of the time with you and i- dialoguing back and forth. And then i'm gonna let you just show your some magic within photoshop to kind of what you're talking about. So the the light room. The photoshop argument. If there is an argument they're set the stage there. So when when i look at lightroom as a again as a former adobe employee and as someone who uses it almost day now i look at it as a tool that like i said before. It was built four photographers and strips away. All the stuff that you don't need in photoshop proper so that you can focus on the photo itself. It's photo specific with its localized adjustment tools in raw processing. You know obviously camera engine but we're a processing all. That stuff is very specific focused. To what i wanna do as a photographer. When i look at the photoshop bridge combination. It makes me feel like okay. I'm going from mom and pop hardware store to home depot or lowe's and i gotta figure out what i wanna do. Can i just go over here and get my mail. You know from from the mom and pop shop. How do you set the stage. What keeps you as a photographer. 'cause you're a very accomplished photographers wills and educator. How do you how do you. How do you reconcile not using a tool that was built specifically for photography versus a hydra like photoshop bridge for sure so we gotta go way back So i've been using photoshop since nineteen ninety eight. I believe seven photoshop. Like twenty three some years. right Lightroom came out around two thousand six two thousand seven and i only remember that because right before i went to afghanistan downloaded lightroom put on my laptop and so i'm going to learn this while i'm gone right so mean afghanstan you do go to war to when you go to war just everyone knows but there is some down time in the other stuff. I'm sitting there in my in my office. I'm trying to learn lightroom on going. Do my pacers there. And as i'm digging into it opened up an image. And i'm like this is all i can do. Why would i want this like. I'm so used to photoshop with unlimited possibilities. When i saw light room it was more like chrome. This is just like a darkroom but they call a light room. That's cute so for the for that reason it was it was very interesting at first Trying to understand why. Adobe made light room when i was so used to photoshop then i started digging into raw files and understanding that light room was basically a conduit To open raw files so that you could then transport those files into photoshop. Which if we look at adobe camera and bridge as essentially the same thing as light room..
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"And keep it free forever because it means more content on its video platform or better content and more content means warn and means more revenue which really far exceeds. What video editor can make. So that's going to be a problem for those apps. Next up is discord. This court didn't sell to microsoft which wasn't actually a huge surprise considering it's very healthy revenue growth but just how much growth are we talking. Here's the thing so far since it started charging money with only few exceptions this court has grown its revenue month over month. It's always been an upward trend. In twenty twenty it grew by five hundred percent from just hundreds of thousands to over three point. Seven million dollars in net revenue. That's net so after apple and google take their cut. If you look at it grossed more than five million dollars. that's a lot of money. The trend continued. That's for one month. And the trend continued in two thousand twenty one at a more moderate pace but still pretty pretty high thirty eight percent so far in two thousand twenty one. The bottom line here is this court isn't here to sell. It's here to grow and their lack of desire to sell to microsoft is probably probably stems from what happened to skype skype sold to microsoft and we don't use skype anymore. I mean who does right so they decided to choose their own to choose their own path. Really and i think that's great news for the millions of people who use dischord because not only doesn't mean that the app is being used it also means that more and more and more resources are going to go into making it better now to me that signals. One thing when really obvious thing and that is that an ipo is coming the market for ipo's is not really doing all that hot at the moment. And i think that's why we're not going to see in the next month or two but at the same time it's going to happen it just has to s- I'm going to look out for that. Also on my list today is citizen. If you don't know citizen it's an app that crowd sources alarming local news. And if you use it. I've used it for maybe a few hours. It just makes you wanna stay at home and never leave. It's kind of scary. And it was in the news a bunch this week because it attempted to assist the police and capturing an arsonist but it got it wrong and had to apologize and that was the whole thing now whether the concept is right or wrong is the matter for different newsletter but what is interesting from my perspective is it's gross revenue which recently crossed a million dollars. It's actually one point two million at this point now. I was curious to see how the app makes money because a while back. They promised that they're not going to sell user data and they're not gonna show ads and the revenue is actually not coming from any of those instead. It's coming from a new service. That is in his testing which offers real time help. In case of trouble think about onstar for cars but for humans. The service is called protect in..
This Week in Apps
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"Fluff data first round the perv interesting news and trends about mobile apps and games. This is ariel from africa's and i five highlights view today but before we jump into the highlights. I saw something that is very interesting. The mobile download index is green across both the app store and google play which means that donald's have grown this week a trend that i have not seen over the last few weeks maybe even months if you curious about at check out. The mobile download index to see which categories are rising in which categories are not a link to it in the show notes below. Now let's start so today. I'm going to start with an analysis of something that i saw. Zinger has announced it will buy chart boost the game. Developer is buying the ad network for two hundred and fifty million dollars. There's nothing really surprising. Here except for the price tag. C. is extremely popular with game developers ranked by installs using oreste. Can't we can see that. It's second only to google among. Us games in rinks five on android that to me maritz a higher price tag considering its rival apple of which i peeled last month i feel at a twenty eight billion dollar valuation and another big name in the industry iron source is about ipo through back at about eleven billion dollar valuation so those are big big numbers and trump's not a big number. Now i'm not making fun of two hundred and fifty million dollars. That's a lot of money. Obviously and i'm sure people will be very happy but if we look at the discrepancy The question why. But let's put this on hold for a second and talk about. Why does inga need to own an ad network. And i say need and not want or not would be nice to have because they really need to in order to stay relevant and the reason for that is that the move to hyper casual games if you think about zinger about casual games back into farmville days on facebook and it wasn't really the first one to do casual games but it was the one that made them they very popular and that lasted for a long time but fast forward about twelve years and the trend is going from casual. Hyper casual if you've been reading between the lines and you've been listening to this podcast. You know that. I don't love hyper casual games. I think they're not exactly what the games should be about but used to run game studio back in a day. So i don't know if my opinion here is the most popular opinion. And if you look at the numbers it's definitely not the most popular opinion because players seem to love hyper casual. Titles zinger in keeping with the times is trying to ride that wave. It's one of its latest hyper casual. Titles called high heels was actually the number two most downloaded game in april in a link to that report and the show notes. As in.
This Week in Apps
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"It's not as high as us before but this is only one day of the week and we're going to see more of this and i have a feeling that now because of covid because of lockdowns were getting to this point where everything is getting consumed through phones. Now i know fans hate it. And i know the The venues hate it. And i know that league hates and the teams hate it. I hate it because being home. All the time is not really as much fun and so as soon as everything can officially reopened safely. I have a feeling everything will kind of go back to normal. But the idea of consuming through app or consuming in ways where you don't necessarily have to be there. That's probably going to continue. The apps are getting better. The type of content is getting better And in general. I think the move. The shift is not gonna stop just because everything is reopening so as this month progresses and i believe as a season will reopen. I think the mlb app is going to see more and more and more revenue. And i think that's good news and that's it for this week. That was fast. If you like the show and you've enjoyed the last few episodes please consider subscribing. Were available wherever you get your podcast on spotify on apple on google and i'm sure a whole bunch of other places. This is also available as a weekly newsletter. Which is sent just before recording this at app figures dot com slash newsletter. See your next week..
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"All right maximum. Welcome to the podcast. I'm i'm excited. Chat with you about the conference in particular but also some of the things that you're also involved in the kind of lead you to want to start a conference. Let's start there. Let's start with a little bit of background on you. Know just sort of who maximum jego is and the kind of things that you do and what keeps you sort of interested in engaging in this crazy world of tech that we have going on my word. Well thank you. Thank you for having me first of all of course that's an i. I usually say that. I've been pretending. I know what i'm talking about since the mid eighties and <hes>. And sometimes in the us because the accident people believe me so been pretending to be understanding things and all these people about things you know. When i was really young. I just became a fan of existence. I wanted to know how everything would. I wanted to understand that. Not because i particularly wanted to change it just because i appreciate it and it turns out that would everything you know when you're a kid you think. Well i know that tea and coffee at different things. Therefore i know the universe but then as you get older you realize oh wait. There's a universe of things out there. And so i become a life long lover of learning and every opportunity. I get to understand something and how it works. I take it along the way. I started to detect <hes>. Some patterns that emerge and <hes>. Some some trends some trends in the world thinking is some trends in the way people some trends in important things to to bring it back around to the conference <hes>. Some trends and creativity and i'll be doing in our <hes>. In our keynote the opening of the conference that a creativity and intrinsic quality of the human experience that you don't learn it cannot be told you because it's already there like breathing and as long as you ought changing and causing change you are creative and so once you start with that you realize wow everybody's trying to express themselves will try to coastal agents. They will want to cost shadow. Have their place under the sun footprints in the snow. We all want our existence to mean something and one of the ways that you existence can be meaningful is by having impact and so when we. When i was thinking about the creativity conference the goal originally was to was to create a kind of meeting of minds. And if you'll forgive me taking up the time with the story there's a please do. There's a beautiful concept that was explained to me years ago and i don't claim to have any connection with the tradition <hes>. But i was told that in the native american tradition. The culture is largely shamanic. Shamanism is rooted in a siberian fire. Religion ancient siberian fire religion. But ultimately suppose you'd say that it's <hes>. It's a religion that focuses on nature with a capital n so there is a small end nature which trees and bushes in that kind of thing. And then there's capital nature where which is closer to the concept of aptness. But there's a right way to do things that's appropriate under the circumstances and of course it's natural with a capital n us as a species spend time in nature with a small pen. But i'm going off topic so the when when <hes>. Native american shaman is holding a very large ceremony. There may actually be to shaman the perform the ceremony and the first is the one who performs the ceremony they speak the words. They perform the ritualized aspects of the ceremony. The second shaman will be that to hold the space. It creates an environment in which that's a good work done. Whatever it is. And so. When i had this idea for the creativity conference originally it was intended to be held in reykjavik in iceland on the concept is simple. We get cool people together. Who are passionate about really being alive really participating in this thing called life and give them an opportunity to share ideas and connect and so i described it as a meeting of minds and my goal was never to be a speaker. I was never going to be if you forgive the parallel the shaman holding the actual ceremony. I wanted to be the one holding the space so my goal was to create an environment where everyone felt safe and included and welcome and it was meant to be kind of campfire chat where people say one person says the other person. Oh you do that amazing thing. Don't you tell me about that. Amazing thing the second person would say. Oh well thank you for asking. Actually is the essence of his the heart of the matter. Let me tell you how it really works. And in that safe environment people would learn and grow and connect. I hope and develop projects together and be more impactful in the world and healthier and happier more whole and i think ultimately creativity is about self realization. Our goal is to take whatever is the essence of you in the world. Whatever is truly you not the nurture the nature if you believe that people have a soul soul if you believe that it's the id and the ego and the superego. It's that that ina part of you. The observer that has no opinions and is simply experiencing an existential is. They would call it a passenger but whatever that being is i think. Creativity is an opportunity for that being to to manifest itself in the world