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Northwest Newsradio
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"President facing off in their second primary debate tonight. They exchanged barbs on immigration economy and and they the took some of their strongest shots against the man who's now in office. Joe Biden's economic and border plans in were the firing line throughout the debate as the two topics at rank is among the most important for Republican primary voters. Senator Tim Scott in the Fox Business Debate. One thing he should do is finish the wall, reinstate Title 42 and get the job done. Well, taking shots at Donald Trump was mostly off limits in the first debate. Both Chris Christie and Rhonda Santis went after Trump for refusing to debate here. Alex Stone, ABC News and the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. The front runner instead spoke to auto workers in Detroit talking about the UAW strike and about his multiple indictments. I never heard of the word indictment. Now I get indicted like every three days. Mr Trump at Drake Enterprises, a non union auto parts factory. House Republicans tomorrow will hold the first public hearing in their impeachment inquiry of President Biden. They'll call for witnesses, three of them by Republicans. Three days to a government shutdown, the Senate is poised to vote on a bipartisan short term spending plan. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The Senate will now move forward, adopt the motion to proceed tomorrow absent an agreement to do it sooner and keep the government approved. Unfortunately, that is not happening in the house. The Senate spending plan continues funding for Ukraine and that is something that many House Republicans don't want. North Korea state media says leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons. He also wants his to country play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the US in a new Cold War. You're listening to ABC News. Two times the healthy blood pressure support? That's a number to rave about. Thanks to Superbeats heart shoes unique 2x ingredient that helps promote normal blood pressure nearly two times or effectively than diet and exercise alone. Superbeats is America's number one selling beat brand and the only number one cardiologist doctor and pharmacist recommended beat brand for heart health support. A clinical study showed that the key ingredient in Superbeats heart shoes is nearly two times more effective at supporting normal blood pressure than a healthy lifestyle alone and they're part of a brand with over 60 ,000 five ratings -star and reviews so double your potential with a special offer exclusively for radio listeners. Get a free 30 -day supply of Superbeats heart shoes and 15 % off your first order at Superbeats .com with code radio. That's a free 30 -day supply and 15 % off for radio listeners only at GetSuperBeats .com code radio. first it was chat gpt then it was microsoft's bing google's bard and now meta is waiting into the artificial intelligence space at its annual connect conference meta ceo mark berg announcing a new ai chatbot platform let's talk about ai it's a series of 28 chatbots each with its own unique artificial personality an ai sous chef will give you cooking advice for example or an ai travel agent can help you plan a vacation and gadgets divendra hartawara says it comes as the company's metaverse ambitions have largely failed to materialize i'm not surprised that zuckerberg is leaning more into ai now mike debosky abc news new york city mayor eric adams says he's forming a working group to establish what daycare inspector should look for going forward we're you're going to continually modified rules like they have been modified throughout the years uh... to stay ahead of bad people that are doing bad things in where environments our children are it comes in the wake of a one -year -old's fentanyl death at one day care and a police raid on another where they say drugs and ghost guns were found federal health advisors have voted against recommending an experimental treatment for lou garrick's disease hasn't shown to be effective the fda is expected to issue a decision in december this and this is northwest news radio your home for breaking news and traffic
News, Traffic and Weather
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"President facing off in their second primary debate tonight. They exchanged barbs on immigration economy and and they the took some of their strongest shots against the man who's now in office. Joe Biden's economic and border plans in were the firing line throughout the debate as the two topics at rank is among the most important for Republican primary voters. Senator Tim Scott in the Fox Business Debate. One thing he should do is finish the wall, reinstate Title 42 and get the job done. Well, taking shots at Donald Trump was mostly off limits in the first debate. Both Chris Christie and Rhonda Santis went after Trump for refusing to debate here. Alex Stone, ABC News and the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. The front runner instead spoke to auto workers in Detroit talking about the UAW strike and about his multiple indictments. I never heard of the word indictment. Now I get indicted like every three days. Mr Trump at Drake Enterprises, a non union auto parts factory. House Republicans tomorrow will hold the first public hearing in their impeachment inquiry of President Biden. They'll call for witnesses, three of them by Republicans. Three days to a government shutdown, the Senate is poised to vote on a bipartisan short term spending plan. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The Senate will now move forward, adopt the motion to proceed tomorrow absent an agreement to do it sooner and keep the government approved. Unfortunately, that is not happening in the house. The Senate spending plan continues funding for Ukraine and that is something that many House Republicans don't want. North Korea state media says leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in the production of nuclear weapons. He also wants his to country play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the US in a new Cold War. You're listening to ABC News. Two times the healthy blood pressure support? That's a number to rave about. Thanks to Superbeats heart shoes unique 2x ingredient that helps promote normal blood pressure nearly two times or effectively than diet and exercise alone. Superbeats is America's number one selling beat brand and the only number one cardiologist doctor and pharmacist recommended beat brand for heart health support. A clinical study showed that the key ingredient in Superbeats heart shoes is nearly two times more effective at supporting normal blood pressure than a healthy lifestyle alone and they're part of a brand with over 60 ,000 five ratings -star and reviews so double your potential with a special offer exclusively for radio listeners. Get a free 30 -day supply of Superbeats heart shoes and 15 % off your first order at Superbeats .com with code radio. That's a free 30 -day supply and 15 % off for radio listeners only at GetSuperBeats .com code radio. first it was chat gpt then it was microsoft's bing google's bard and now meta is waiting into the artificial intelligence space at its annual connect conference meta ceo mark berg announcing a new ai chatbot platform let's talk about ai it's a series of 28 chatbots each with its own unique artificial personality an ai sous chef will give you cooking advice for example or an ai travel agent can help you plan a vacation and gadgets divendra hartawara says it comes as the company's metaverse ambitions have largely failed to materialize i'm not surprised that zuckerberg is leaning more into ai now mike debosky abc news new york city mayor eric adams says he's forming a working group to establish what daycare inspector should look for going forward we're you're going to continually modified rules like they have been modified throughout the years uh... to stay ahead of bad people that are doing bad things in where environments our children are it comes in the wake of a one -year -old's fentanyl death at one day care and a police raid on another where they say drugs and ghost guns were found federal health advisors have voted against recommending an experimental treatment for lou garrick's disease hasn't shown to be effective the fda is expected to issue a decision in december this and this is northwest news radio your home for breaking news and traffic
The Financial Guys
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"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
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"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 we're going to be talking about how to turn your stress into success. Here's a simple fact. All of us, no matter how organized you are, no matter how drilled down your schedule was, no matter how perfect you think you got things going for you, you're going to experience stress. It's normal, but how you react to the stress that you're experiencing, that is something that you can actually control to a great extent, not 100%. So what we're going to do today is we're going to go through, it's going to be a two -part podcast. We're going to go through a system where you can essentially acknowledge your stress. I'm not going to say manage your stress or manage your time, because those things are often unmanageable, and the very prospect of trying to manage either actually causes you more stress. That's true. Which is ironic. But what we're going to do is take you through a process so that you can really turn what mostly is an unconscious reaction to something external into something that you will find that you can derive power from and focus. So get ready to take notes, and as always, all of our notes are available down below in the show description. If you're on iTunes or YouTube or, hey, we're now on, what's that new video platform called? I forget. Anyway. Something new. Something new where videos actually are also living. And all the other, Spotify, Amazon, everywhere. We're on Google Listen and everywhere. So yes, everywhere that the podcast is listened to, you can also find the notes for our show. We oftentimes will put all of the notes that we're using. Notes are all copywritten, of course, but at the end of the day, we want you to feel free to use these when training your own agents or maybe your small brokerage, whatever. This content is designed to help you first, and then hopefully you're going to help others with this information as well. And while there also, there's a lot of links in the show description below, and you can join the premier coaching program. There's information about our eXp Real Estate Group, which you might want to consider joining all kinds of good stuff. So just scroll down and it's all there waiting for you. So Julie, let's roll into your points. Yes. And it is true that one of the most common questions we get from podcast listeners and coaching clients when you guys text us or reach out, it sounds, you know, it comes in different flavors, but it usually sounds something like this. I feel out of control with my time. I'm spending a lot of time chasing after scarce listings from my buyers, negotiating multiple offers on my own listings, and then putting out fires on my pending deals. So how can I get back into control? You're wondering what's okay to stop doing, or you should be wondering what's okay to stop doing, and what must you never drop when you're feeling out of control. There's an old saying that goes like this. If you're not controlling your time, someone or something else always will. So we're going to give you a multiple step plan. It's a little bit of this is mindset, how to control your, how you're thinking about it, and some action steps. So here are things what to get rid of and what to keep. Well, I mean, just reading your description there gave me a little bit of stress, I have to say. Did you do that on purpose, Julie? No. You'll feel better by the end, I promise. I wanted to share with them something, because the thing that actually drove my stress up a little bit when you were talking about not enough listings, guys, in the next few days, we're doing a podcast that is, I think Julie is now, what, 30 different sources? Yes. I'm actually excited. And in a couple of days, we're going to do a one -part podcast, which is all of the different online sources, resources, other than your MLS, to find listings. And there's quite a variety. We're going to talk about farms, land, ranch, commercial, normal residential, vacation properties, foreclosure, everything. But what we're doing is we're actually giving you guys links of where you can go to find homes that are for sale that are not in the MLS. That's the main thing. So the notes already have, I think it's like 25 or 30 different websites, mostly, well, I mean, they're all websites, where you can click on the link and then you can be taken to a list of a source of homes for sale. Again, these are not in the MLS. And these are almost all nationwide, by the way. Right. And we're going to be doing this the next couple of days. So yes, if you are feeling stressed from not having enough inventory, we're going to cure that in the next couple of days, listen to the podcast. All right, Julie. So part one. You got it. All right. So let's see. What to let go of versus what to keep. So let's see part one. Number one, mindset check. Are you really that busy or are you just disorganized? Take a day to get real about what you're actually managing. Sometimes just dedicating a day or even two days to getting a grip is all you actually need. So don't keep telling yourself you're overwhelmed. Instead, your affirmation is that you are surrounded by opportunity. Isn't that more accurate? This is why this is the first step. When you do that first, you'll realize that your state of overwhelm is actually temporary versus allowing it to become a lifestyle. So I don't, I didn't scan your notes, but did you talk to them at all about the brain dump? I didn't. Yes. You can add it right in here. I was thinking this would be a perfect spot. Bonus point. One and a half. That's right. Bonus point. One and a half. So one of the systems that we've used for decades, especially with coaching clients, is when they're feeling overwhelmed. Take a tablet of paper and I don't know why tablets of paper where you're writing it out is more effective than if you're typing it out. Typing it out almost, I don't know, it doesn't stick in your brain as much. So take a tablet of paper. Take like maybe one of those long yellow legal tabs or tablets and then write down everything that's in your brain. Don't stop writing until essentially everything that's in your mind that you think you should be thinking about is completely cleared out and you can do personal and business and go through every single thing. So that's the first cure because what you're going to find out oftentimes is that you're going to start, like you'll write down maybe 10 or 20 different things and then you're writing them down in different versions. Like you're going to say, take in the dry cleaning and then you're going to realize that you wrote that down as the fourth thing and now you're seeing that you write it down as the 18th thing. In other words, what you'll discover is a lot of thoughts that you're having that are feeling like they're, you know, bogging down your ability to think clearly are the same thoughts. In other words, you don't really have that many things that you think you have more going on in your head than you actually do. So when you write all this down, then you're going to look at this list and there's three filters that you run all these things through and it's called do it, delegate it or ditch it. So the things that you absolutely positively must always be doing are going to be the things that fall into the five categories of the things that make you money in real estate, which is proactively generation, you know, obviously prequalifying, presenting a lead follow up, negotiating, those types of things that we teach in premier coaching. Those are the things that you should not be delegating and you have to do it. So the do it category are the things that you absolutely positively should leave on your list. The delegated category are, there's lots of things you could be delegating, lots of things you don't have to be doing. Lots of things that may be frankly under the delegation category are things that maybe not only not don't have to do yourself, but maybe don't need done at all. In other words, you put them on your list, you thought they were important. Somebody told you they were important, maybe even, and guess what? They aren't important. So get rid of them. And then the last one is ditch it and that's where essentially the lot of the things in your second, you know, the delegated part, they're going to go to the ditch it category and just completely remove them from your list. Or another thing to do is if there's longer term projects or things you wanted to be doing, write them on a completely separate list and then segment your list. But the most important thing is if you want to really get control, and this is a good, this is a really, at the end of the day, this is a mindset point, but if you really want to clear your brain and start feeling a resemblance of control, I did, did this just the other day. Honestly, I had a big, uh, to do list and it was, um, I keep lists. I'm a list guy. I know a lot of people have different systems for it, but lists work for me because I derive immense pleasure crossing them out. Yes, it is very satisfying. That's why it's very cathartic to take a damn thing is bought in that damn list and getting rid of it. Bye bye. That's right. I enjoy that. So that's my payoff. But there's a system. So do a delegated or ditch it, but start out by doing what we call a brain dump and write everything down and then go through it. And then you'll start seeing after you actually write everything on a piece of paper, you will feel better. You will feel some sort of a cloud will lift. It will. It really will. Then you look at all the things are floating around your head and like I said, remove the duplicates first because a lot of them will be duplicates and then go for a do it delegated or ditch it and then you know, move forward. That's a simple system. Well, that's a perfect 0 .1 and a half because remember we started by saying, are you really that busy? Are you just a bit disorganized? Maybe your mind is feeling disorganized because you haven't written it down and done the brain dump, right? So that goes hand in hand. And speaking of the do it part of the do it, ditch it or delegate it. Point number two, proactively generation cannot stop. This is the first thing that agents drop when they get even a tiny bit busy. You must actively pursue new qualified appointments every single work day. And it is the most important action that you take daily, whether you have a, whether you have pending transactions or not, whether you have active listings or not, always on every call, whether it's a home inspector or lender, a past client or a pending ask, you guys should know it by now, whom do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate or Tim's version, which I like even better. What two or three people do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate? So make the commitment to a minimum standard of contacts every work day, even when you're feeling busy, refer to our previous podcasts about how to list and sell the homes that you need to sell your magic number as well as lead generation from best to worst. We've done so much work on this with you guys on previous podcasts and in premier coaching. So I'm going to actually, I'm going to reinforce all your points, but I'm also going to give these guys a bit of a relief valve. I have coached people who are just for some reason wired to be disorganized. They're wired to basically be Liberty Gibbets bouncing here, bouncing there. That's just how they are. But then yet they're very successful. And why are they very successful? Because they always lean back into the things that are going to make them money. And oftentimes they have really vibrant personalities and people like them, despite the fact that they're wearing shoes that don't match and you know, things like that. All right. So how do, what's the solution when you're coaching somebody like that? The solution is not trying to find them a solution. The solution is just making sure they do to the three to five things every single day that they should be doing at a high level and then holding them accountable as three to five things and then giving them permission to be whatever the hell they want to do with their time the rest of the day. In other words, they can't, it's too much emotional stress for them to be held to a schedule for more than maybe two or three hours a day at, you know, in other words, they can only really, let's air quote here, time block two or three hours a day. So what are the things they should be doing in those two or three hours? And Julie and I talk about this on the podcast all the time, but obviously Julie's pointing about proactive lead generation. We want to talk about, you know, if you had a listing appointment, presenting, negotiating, all those types of things we teach in the coaching program. But really guys, if you really want to know how to really feel long -term control of your day, your day should come down to having mastered the art and science of really doing only three to five things every day. And those things are, in our opinion, now you can modify, but this is sort of a holistic approach to this, right? You need to be making your self -determined number of contacts per day as determined by your real estate treasure map, which we give you in the first level of Premier Coaching. So whatever your number of contacts per day, you need to be making those per day. You need to be having done all your lead follow up by the end of the day. I'm giving you a whole bunch and you guys choose which ones. Ideally, when you are very, you know, essentially advanced as a proactive lead generator, you should be setting one pre -qualified listing appointment per day. Julie and I are huge advocates of doing some sort of physical workout routine every single day, taking some kind of supplements every single day, showing overt gratitude. You know, I love you Julie, I love you Tim. You know, showing overt gratitude to the people that mean the most to you every single day. If you just basically write down the things that you have to do every single day, the accumulative effect of doing those things every single day will pay off in ways that you can't even understand. It's a multiplication effect. There's a compounding of duplicating those efforts. The obvious one being is that if you're working out and you're, you know, hopefully taking care of what you eat, you're going to see, not right away, but over time, your energy level increases, your physicality increases, same goes with making contacts. But the key to making this work is do those same things every single day and then often will come down to doing what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it at the highest level, which by the way, is the founding principle of our coaching program, but also of anyone I've ever met in life who's successful at any level. They knew that they had to do what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it at the highest level over long periods of time. And that's what we're prescribing to all of you guys as well, because it does pay off. So really, if you're wanting to get in control, but you're absolutely one of these people that can't be in control as your coach, I give you permission not to be in control for anything other than those two or three hours, ideally in the morning, because when you get those three to five things done every single day, even if the rest of the day is like a, you know, high speed roller coaster, it does not matter because you did the most important things. Well, that's right. That's the most important thing that you said is what you do with those two to three hours is what's critical. What you're not doing is giving them permission to just say, well, I'm just a disorganized person or go on Instagram or make a bunch of TikTok videos or do a bunch of passive lead generation or go on Facebook and take a bunch of surveys. All this silliness that doesn't lead to anything. That stuff doesn't count. Okay. So we're talking about what to keep and what to ditch. Point number three, deadlines cannot be ignored or procrastinated. You can lose a deal by losing track of time or having misunderstandings with the other side. So remember that people scan through DocuSign without really realizing what they're signing or remembering it or being able to even find it again. You can't be part of that. So use a transaction coordinator if that's getting out of control or if you're your transaction coordinator, you have to be careful with your earnest money deposits, contingency releases, inspection dates. Don't let those fall behind just because you're behind. Get clarity and or get help. And I'll tell you what one of my coaching clients does is when she does new transactions. Yes, of course, that's all in DocuSign and transaction management and transaction coordinators and all that. But in also her alarms, in her phone, she gives herself two or three day warnings. There's a contingency coming up. You've got to release that so that even if she's really super busy showing houses, maybe she's got somebody coming into town and it's a really intense appointment weekend. The alarm is going to save her butt. So that's just a backup plan. There's lots of different things that you can do. But this is one thing that you really can't blow off because it could cost you a deal. Well, I'll give you some exciting news. I know because you and I are investing some frankly, some money and time into developing some A .I. bots and apps for our different businesses, that there are absolutely people that are developing A .I. right now to work directly with the major CRM or transaction management platforms. So agents are going to be able to have an A .I. bot that's essentially going to act as a real live admin who's going to oversee the entire process. It's amazing. And ChatGPT4 and Bard and all these others, this week, ChatGPT4 is releasing a version for their paid users where essentially it's going to start using voice. So remember we were talking about on the podcast yesterday about all this? Well, the technology is here. So you're going to start having a voice. In other words, it's a real human voice. It does not sound like an old fashioned answering machine. That's good. And you know, I just laughed at myself because how many people? They don't know what an answering machine is. Right. Anyway, so back to 2023 or 2024 when you're listening. So the moral of the story is that there are going to be massive advancements in this A .I. technology that's going to make your lives a lot easier, which will give you a lot more room and time to spend on the things that matter most. That's assuming that you know what those things are and you actually know how to do them. That's what coaching is all about. And yeah, a lot of this technology is going to be coming through. I shouldn't maybe necessarily say this, but I know eXp Realty is working on developing a lot of these A .I. bots. Glenn Sanford is unbelievably intelligent about creating these technologies that streamline a lot of agent processes. And really, there's no downside. The experience is better from the customer's perspective, the agent's perspective, the broker's perspective. So all that's coming to a brokerage near you, assuming you're with Juli and I at eXp Realty. There you are. All right, now our final point for today is maybe one of my favorite points in terms of getting agents and brokers really organized and giving you peace. And that is point number four today, keeping your visual accountability, your whiteboards updated. You can't ignore that. You can't put it off, update it every day. In order to know if you are on track ahead or behind, keep that updated. Don't ignore your boards just because you feel like you're currently on track or ahead or hide out from them if you feel like you're behind. Not tracking your business is what will make you behind in a matter of days or weeks. Now, there's a rule in aviation called the one in 60 rule. When a plane veers off its course by just one degree, it misses its target destination by one mile for every 60 miles it's flown. Isn't that interesting, right? It is. You think it's just one degree. What's the big deal? I can find the airport, but maybe it's not the airport you were looking for. You're the plane. Stay on course. Visual is accountability the dashboard of your business. I have to say, Tim, I know you've had this experience too. Once agents start really embracing the visual accountability, and yes, we know you've got all this kept track of in a spreadsheet or your broker tracks it or whatever. We're talking about in your office on whiteboards in front of you. It works because it is visual. They'll say, oh, my gosh, I just feel so much more peaceful knowing and seeing I've got this many listing leads. I've got this many active listings. I've got this many pending, and I've got that many closed, which means I'm exactly three deals ahead of where I should be based on my treasure map. A lot of the stress in real estate really in life is just not knowing stuff, right? Not knowing about your finances, not knowing about what's going on inside your contracts, not knowing whether you're on track ahead or behind. It will give you peace to know. Well, the dry erase boards are the reason that obviously we know about all the technologies and all the widgets that give you creative dashboards that show you all your key performance indicators and all those things. We use those things in our business as well, but it's what Julie just said. The problem with all that technology is that you can hide from it, and it hides from you. A dry erase board, especially a large dominant one, and I was thinking when you were talking how when somebody, we get Premier Coaching clients, they'll post pictures of these big -ass dry erase boards, and they'll put them up on their walls. I'm talking about the monster ones, and that's the only way to do it because it doesn't leave any typically room for anything else on the wall. Tell them what the dry erase board should be because not everybody is a coaching client. Yes, well, they should be, and we'll tell them about that in a minute. What should you track? I like to think of it chronologically, right? Every transaction that becomes a closing starts as a lead, so you track your especially listing leads. Right. I'm looking at my wall. I want to know what the dry erase boards are. That's what I'm saying. I want to know which of them are. Okay. The first dry erase board is? Leads because everything starts as a lead. Okay. Then it becomes a listing. That's the second board is active listings. Okay. Then the last one is closings. You have one in between, pendings, and then you have closed. If your goal is to close 24 transactions, your closed board will be one through 24. As they travel through your boards, they land on the closed board, and you can see, are you on deal number three? Are you on deal number five? Where are you versus where you should be? On the closed board, sellers are in red, buyers are in blue. The other thing you can also do, and this is really fine tuning all of the accountability you have for yourself, is write down on the closed board what the price was and what the commission was, and then also really drill down on what the source of the lead was. We've talked for literally thousands of hours on this podcast of the importance of never just going by how the lead actually showed up in your life. You're going to need to ask secondary and sometimes third. What would be it? Cursary? Tertiary. Tertiary. That's right. That same question more than once. You need to ask them, who originally referred you to me? Where did you originally find me? How do we connect it? The story that Julie and I tell that seems to work is we were in our office when we were selling real estate, and one of our chief transaction coordinators was this gal named Kelly. Kelly was using a prequalification seller form, so she had at her desk buyer prequalification for him and seller prequalification for him. So Julie and I were in our office, and she was doing the seller prequalification, and one of the questions was halfway through the script was basically, so why did you decide to call Tim and Julie out for the job of selling your home? I think that was the question. And she wrote down the answer, but she didn't listen to herself ask the question, and she didn't watch herself write down the answer. So she asked the question two times in a row, and the first way that they answered it was like a sign or whatever. And then she asked the same exact question, and then they answered it, and we watched as they wrote down that it was a referral from so -and -so. And so that was the real tip -off that if you don't ask for what like drill down and really dig into where they're or why they're contacting you, you're going to make the mistake of assuming that they basically are contacting you because of Facebook. Because what happens is that you're at Orange Theory, somebody asked you for a referral for a roofer. You're going to say, Jack's roofing, I don't necessarily have his phone number, my phone's in my car, whatever it is. But the person you're going to talk to remembers Jack's roofing in, say, Georgetown, Texas. So they're going to go and they're going to drop into Google, Jack's roofing, Georgetown, Texas. So the first thing that's going to come up is Jack's Facebook business page, let's say, or Instagram or whatever the hell it's going to be. And then you're going to message them through that app, and then Jack's going to get the message from Facebook that you are interested in having your roof fixed. All the while, Jack's going to then assume, hey, my Facebook campaign is working, you know? Of course. Look, I'm going to post more pictures of my lunch every single day, evidently that's generating business for me. Right. All the while, the real reason that Jack got that lead was because it was a referral from somebody you knew at the gym. You guys get the point? So if you're not asking those real drill down questions, you're really going to lose contact with the source of your business. You're not going to realize how much of your business comes from the things that don't cost any money, signs, for example, centers of influence and past clients, for example. People you maybe like, they could be somebody that an old neighbor, oh, you don't even know. You're going to have to ask. And that's what you'll self -discover, what Julie and I have been coaching all you guys for decades, is the percent of business comes from any kind of marketing and advertising is typically less than 10 % because most everyone chooses who they're going to use as a real estate professional, like 90 % based on the things we coach you guys to do, which cost you no money, which aren't anything to do with marketing, branding, and advertising. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Back to the roofing example, had Jack the roofer not had a business Facebook page and that person had gone to Google and tried to search for him, he may not have ever found Jack's phone number to actually make the, you know, to get in contact, right? So it's important that you have a presence online, but you've got to see it for what it is.
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A highlight from Mystery Meat
"Morning. Ashley wasn't kidding. I am glad to be back. I really, really love this church. It's evident every time we go away, and I absolutely love preaching and teaching the Word of God. I get a little jealous when I'm away, to be honest with you, when I see someone else standing behind my pulpit. Just truthfully, I'm jealous over this. I love doing this. It's the greatest privilege in the world. Well, if you're just visiting us, we go through books of the Bible, and we're going through one of the, as if they can be ranked, right? But John has done some incredible work down through history. This book has been used to convert souls, the most unlikely of souls. And so whenever we have taken a little bit of a break, I've been gone for two weeks, and so some of you may have no idea. Some of you can't remember what you did last night, let alone two weeks ago, right? So whenever I'm away for a little while, I like to do a two -minute review of the purpose of the book so that you know why this book was written. In case some of you are here and are not familiar with the Bible and how it works, it's a library. As a matter of fact, biblio means library, and so there are 66 of these books, and each one of them has a different purpose. And the Gospel of John has its own unique, distinct purpose, and here's the job of every interpreter. Every interpreter's job is not to find clever ways to make it mean something that's relevant for their culture. That's not the job of an interpreter. The job of an interpreter is simple. Get in the head of the original author to the original audience. I have to try to find out what John meant. Who cares what we think it means, right? Give me an amen. We want to know what John says it means, and we want to know what John says it means to the first readers. We're not the first readers. This was written to a unique people group a long time ago in the Middle East. And so let's start up again by reframing our mind according to what the author says he wrote this for. At the very, very end of the book, it's 21 chapters long, and at the very, very end of the book, he tells us flat out why he wrote the book. Here's what he says. He says, Jesus performed many other signs, miraculous signs that is, in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. In other words, you're going to have to go somewhere else for those. These, the contents of this book, these have been written so that, here comes the author's purpose statement, so that you may, say the word, be. So that's purpose number one, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And there's a second purpose, that believing you may have life in his name. This, what you're reading, is a true, historical, eye -witness account of the life and ministry of a man who lived in the Middle East, who rose from the dead. That means, if someone raises from the dead and defeats something that you can't defeat, you should probably listen to what he has to say, don't you think? John says, I'm recording every word that man who rose from the dead had to say, so that you can, two things. One, believe, and two, live. Here's the point of the book. The point of the book is to help people believe an eye -witness account to the life of a man who died, and then three days later, got up and walked around. But it's not just so that you can say, okay, I believe. No more John. No. It's so that as you experience seasons of doubt in your life, you come back to John and say, oh yeah, this is why I should keep on believing. And when I'm struggling to believe, John will help to reaffirm your feet on solid ground, so that you go through your whole life saying, I believe. Tomorrow, I'm going to believe again. The next day, I'm going to believe again. John is for the person sitting here who's not a believer. And they know they're not a believer, and someone drug you here. You're here on purpose, and John is written for you. But John is also for the person who's been a believer for the last 66 years. And you know John, but maybe you're in a season of doubt. Maybe you're struggling because you just lost your spouse. John is a book for you. So, before we go any further and dive back into John, we are in, I started in April. That's about five months ago. We're in the fourth chapter of 21 chapters, and we're about halfway through the fourth chapter. And so, I'm sure that all of you remember exactly where we left off, but just in case there's one person who can't remember, let's repurpose our hearts. Let's go before God, every individual. I'm not going to do this for you. You're here as a worship service. That means there's a part for you. You're going to go before God right now, and you're going to say, Lord, I'm here to hear from you. And you spoke through John, and so speak to me through your servant John. Let's do it together. Father, I'm just a tool to act on behalf of the people who are here to meet with their God. As Craig said, you are a living God. No one else can claim that, but we can because Christ is alive. And so, we put our faith in you. I pray that you would help every person here to commit their heart and mind to not just listening to the word of God, but doing what it says. Lord, speak to us, for we are listening. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Fourth chapter of John, it reads like a movie script. I read it again. It's like the 20th time that I've read it just this month. And this week as I was preparing, I read it, and I'm like, some chapters read like a movie script, and some are not like that. Fourth chapter of John, it literally is set up for a producer and director to just go and put this on film. And I couldn't help but this week as I was reading it, my mind went back to a show that I watched when I was growing up. It was the original Batman show with Burt Ward and Adam West from the 70s. How many of you know what show I'm talking about? Just curious. I had a feeling. I grew up on that show. My mom would put it on for me when I'd come home from school. And there was this thing that they did in the show where whenever they would transition to another part, the narrator would come on and say, meanwhile, back in Gotham City, or meanwhile in the Batcave, and then you'd see the transition. The screen would roll, and you'd hear the doodle -a -doodle -a -doo, remember? It's showing you what's happening at a different part at the same time. John 4 is written like that because the text we're going to start with opens up in a meanwhile in another part of town, and my mind just went back to the old Batman as I was raised on. Here's what you're going to learn. If you've been here for a while, then you know that we're in one of the most beautiful dialogues that really I've ever taken in history. It's between Jesus and a promiscuous Samaritan woman, and he is tender with her. Isn't he tender with her? We're going to get back to that dialogue next week, but the writer, the narrator of the story, interjects. He pauses the story, and he wants you to stop thinking about the woman and Jesus for just a moment because there's an absolutely important lesson that Jesus wants to teach his disciples, and it is a major, major pause. And so this morning, I invite you to turn in your Bibles to John 4. We're going to start in verse 31, and we're going to go down through 38. Not very much, but it's a meanwhile, so you can see the screen roll in your head, and here's what it says. John 4, 31 through 38.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from An Introduction to Acts
"So good to be back again on a Wednesday night. Good to see your faces and appreciate your prayers so much. As I was talking to Pastor Nathan, what's on my heart, I'd like to begin a series of studies from the book of Acts with you tonight. The Acts of the Apostles, or more appropriately, the Acts of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ and through the Apostles' labors. We want to remember some things before we try to delve into the text, actual text. We need to remember that Luke, the beloved physician referred to in Colossians 12. We know that he traveled with the Apostle Paul and most commentators that I've read claim that Luke was a Gentile and that as a Gentile grew up in Antioch of Syria. And if you recall in Acts chapter 13, remember the Apostle Paul and Barnabas were members at the church at Antioch. So that's where the relationship actually began. And Brother Luke is a special character in the tapestry of God's witnesses because he in the gospel narrative that is bearing his name chronicled historically the birth and ministry of Christ as well as his death, burial, and resurrection. And I want to go to Luke chapter 24 and show you how Luke ended his gospel message that was written about 60 to 62 A .D. and connected to the first chapter of the book of Acts. Here we find Christ appearing to his disciples and verse 45, he opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures, which would relate to the Old Testament. Remember that's all they had at that time. They had the Old Testament Scriptures, the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi. That's the reference here to Scriptures. And he said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem, and ye are witnesses of these things. Now I just want to make this note here. It's Brother Luke that mentions that the gospel is to go to all nations. Now that includes the Gentiles.
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Preaching in the Valley of the Drum
"Well, standing in my usual place and about 50 hours down there's a group of people with a loud amplifier who are doing karaoke in the town centre. Of course, I'm not going to interfere with that in any sense, but it could make it harder for people to hear the gospel or they might prefer karaoke to the truth. But I commit this to the Lord and the Lord, and it's a good time to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that you have mercy upon this town of Kidderminster. I pray, Father, that conviction of sin would come upon the people. I pray that a hunger for God would come upon the people. I pray that they would gather together to hear the word of God, that this world and its sidelines, its attractions, its music, its karaoke, its songs would mean nothing to them, Lord. That they would have a concern for their souls, that they would be awakened to their lostness, their ruin, their damnation. I pray, Father, that you would use the preaching today for your glory, and I pray, Lord, that you would have mercy upon those who are perishing in their sins. Lord, I pray that they would be awakened. I pray that they would find Jesus Christ. I pray that they would find mercy. I pray that they would seek Him with all their hearts and repent of their sins and believe on Him to the saving of their souls. And Father, I come in weakness, and I can't do this work except by your help and by your Holy Spirit's going on, and ask that your name would be glorified, that your grace would be magnified, and that your gospel would be faithfully, fully, and powerfully preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. And I ask for forgiveness of my own sins. I trust in Jesus Christ alone. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you, Father, for sending your Son into the world to be my Savior from sin. I pray that His name would be glorified now. Amen. Well, good morning. I pray that you would come crucified and to declare that there is salvation in no other name, under heaven, given amongst men, whereby we must be saved. Jesus is the Savior of the world. The Lord Jesus came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost, and that was sinners like you and I. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot deliver ourselves. We cannot by any means cleanse ourselves from sin or redeem our own souls We need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is the Savior of all those who put their trust in Him, the Lord Jesus, who came into the world and died in the place of sinners, loving sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for sinners, and the Bible tells us, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you're saved from your sin and you have everlasting life. If you do not know Jesus Christ, your sins remain upon you. You are lost and damned and ruined and under the wrath of God. Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn from your sins. Seek Him with all your heart. He is not dead. He is risen. Jesus Christ is raised from the dead by the power of Almighty God, and He is seated at the right hand of the throne of God on the throne of heaven, and He will save you from your sin and deliver you from the wrath to come if only you come to Him. Now if you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. You cannot be saved. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot escape the fires of hell. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, then the wrath of God abides upon you, and on the day of His wrath you will be charged with your sins. God knows your heart. He knows everything about you. He knows your sins. He knows your corruptions. He knows your wickedness. And incidentally I should add, in a day when many people are becoming addicted to vapes, He knows your heart where you do not care about addicting people to something which is harmful to them. I say that because a man who owns a vape store opposite was listening. And vapes harm people. They've replaced smoking but they harm people. And they're addictive. Jesus Christ is that Saviour of the world who will save you from your sins, deliver you from the wrath to come, and give you everlasting life. This world will very soon end. Very soon. All the signs are that very soon the clouds of heaven in all that glory and all that majesty that belongs to God alone. God alone is the Saviour of the world and He is the Saviour of all those who put their trust in Jesus Christ. So if Jesus were to return on the clouds of heaven today and you do not know Him, you would be cast into hell for eternity. That is the plain teaching of the Bible. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught us. Hell is a real place, a terrible place of terrifying fiery torment for eternity. Yes, that's right, yes. Well if you listen, if your swear words are foul, why should God allow somebody that swears like you into his heaven? God will never let a swearer like you into his heaven. You must repent and all the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. All the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes, but there we are. Two very small children went into the vape shop. Am I okay? I'm fine. I'm preaching the gospel. What was that boy saying to me then? That's what he said. I'm not going to repeat it because it's foul. I'm not going to repeat that. Was it a bad thing? Oh yes, very bad things. People hate the gospel. They hate Jesus Christ, but if you find Jesus Christ, he is the savior of the world and he will save you. It doesn't matter what he said to me. He didn't like what I was saying and I'm talking about Jesus saving us from our sins. Okay, so say one thing in here. Okay, Jesus said, okay Jesus said unto them, this is in John's gospel in chapter two, he said, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Now there was this huge temple like a great cathedral in Jerusalem and the Jews thought that Jesus was talking about destroying that temple, but actually he was talking about them crucifying him and nailing him to the cross. Yes, of course. Okay, so I believe in God, but Jesus Christ is God, so we must go further and we must believe in Jesus Christ and if we believe in Jesus Christ, then we've found God. Now that there is one God, but there are three persons within the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. You won't find that in Islam. Jesus is God the Son and God's love was so great towards us that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world to die on that cross, to be the savior of the world. Now I've got some gospels here, I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Sorry, my foot's stuck in there. I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Yes, of course. You can keep it. Yes, yes, of course. I give these out to people. So you can share that and that will tell you more about the Lord Jesus and what he did. Thank you very much. The Lord bless you. God bless you. So you'll hear the drums and as they started, those two girls were distracted from the preaching, but I was able to give them the gospel. Father, I pray for those two girls and for the man who swore and I pray, Father, that they would find mercy and I pray that they would find the salvation which comes from Almighty God. And Father, I pray that you would silence the drums because the drums are silencing the word of God. And I pray, Lord, that because you are the Lord of heaven and earth, that you would silence the drums, maybe by the batteries running out or maybe by heavy rain or something, Lord. But I just pray, Father, that you would work and that you would, Father, that this is your word. I pray that you would ensure that it goes forth to the glory and honour of the Lord Jesus Christ. For people are distracted by drums just as they were distracted in the valley of the Son of Him and when they were offering their children to sacrifices, to idols. So I pray, Father, that you would deliver us from the drums and I pray, Father, that the gospel will be faithfully preached because my voice isn't strong enough and my frame isn't strong enough to compete with the drums, Lord. And people are drawn aside. Lord, again, have mercy on those girls and that man. In Jesus' name I ask and pray. Amen.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Featured Story | What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Hello, this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. I'm Noa Latcheson here with your weekend story. On today's show, we're taking a look at how crypto fund management has changed over the past few years and how it is different from traditional fund management. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Today's featured story is by Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer at ARCA, titled What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer at ARCA, says crypto funds still need to find a balance between adopting professional Wall Street practices and taking advantage of crypto's unique opportunities. I've been running a crypto fund for 1 ,825 days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five -year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years, and with 24 -sevenths trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As Chief Investment Officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times, and constant innovation. The five -year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. 1. Tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an oft -inaccurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions, and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early -stage venture funds, where many of these real -time market -related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models. 2. Interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 -sevenths globally does not necessitate 24 -sevenths trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented, global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after -hours equities trading post -earnings, these initial knee -jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one -third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. 3. Careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 -7 workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions, while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a $30 billion ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over this 72 -hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period, and we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor, who lacks that full set of information, because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge handoffs and documentation.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Hello, this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. I'm Noa Latcheson here with your weekend story. On today's show, we're taking a look at how crypto fund management has changed over the past few years and how it is different from traditional fund management. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Today's featured story is by Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer at ARCA, titled What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer at ARCA, says crypto funds still need to find a balance between adopting professional Wall Street practices and taking advantage of crypto's unique opportunities. I've been running a crypto fund for 1 ,825 days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five -year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years, and with 24 -sevenths trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As Chief Investment Officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times, and constant innovation. The five -year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. 1. Tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an oft -inaccurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions, and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early -stage venture funds, where many of these real -time market -related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models. 2. Interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 -sevenths globally does not necessitate 24 -sevenths trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented, global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after -hours equities trading post -earnings, these initial knee -jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one -third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. 3. Careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 -7 workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions, while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a $30 billion ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over this 72 -hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period, and we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor, who lacks that full set of information, because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge handoffs and documentation.
The Breakdown
A highlight from How the Crypto Investing Landscape Has Changed
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 24. And that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to Long Read Sunday. Today we are getting into a topic that relates to maybe one of the biggest themes that we're watching right now, which is capital fun flows and the institutional engagement with the cryptosphere. Now, our piece today comes from Jeff Dorman, the CIO of ARCA, who has some really interesting insights to share about the time that he has been running his fund. The piece is called What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. And because I am recording my sixth podcast of the day, I am going to enlist a little help from AI me, but I will be back as regular old NLW with some wrap up thoughts at the end. I've been running a crypto fund for one thousand eight hundred and twenty five days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto, we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years. And with twenty four seven trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As chief investment officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times and constant innovation. The five year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. One tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an often accurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early stage venture funds, where many of these real time market related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models to interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 seven globally does not necessitate 24 seven trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after hours equities trading post earnings, these initial knee jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. Three, careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 seven workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a 30 billion dollar ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over the 72 hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period. And we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor who lacks that full set of information because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge, handoffs and documentation for balance between short and long. In debt and equity markets, quiet periods of time, summer holidays often lead to slow grinds higher in price. It is expensive to stay short and dividends and coupons continue to accumulate, adding more buy interest to the market. The opposite is true in digital assets, since the majority of crypto projects accrue value through network activity, slower periods of time tend to slow momentum of an asset. And since most assets have no distribution of cash flows, the cost to short is minimal. As such, negative price action tends to be more prevalent when markets are slow, leading to difficult decisions with regard to hedging and long exposure. As a result, active management continues to trump passive indexes. Rules based passive index strategies simply cannot keep pace with the innovation and changes to these markets. Similarly, these indexes can't take advantage of the volatility, which creates quite a bit of alpha. Over time, this will likely change as the market matures, but we're not there yet. Building a good team is fundamental for success and incredibly challenging. I've worked for seven different financial firms over the past 25 years. I've seen thousands of resumes and have interviewed hundreds of people. I've worked personally in just about every financial department, banking, trading, research, sales, business development. If a TradFi Wall Street firm asked me for a candidate, I could find them one pretty easily that best fits their needs. Five, hire people passionate about the industry. But what are the best attributes and qualifications for a research analyst in crypto? What makes the best trade ops person? Who is best suited to handle investor relations? These are still not easy questions to answer in crypto. During the first few years of our fund, we took what we could get, which is to say, whoever wanted a job. The pay sucked, the hours were long, and the future was very uncertain. Anyone who wanted a job in this industry in 2018 shared a true passion for blockchain success and was willing to learn any part of the job necessary to succeed. Most people who joined this industry pre -2020 are still working in this industry, and their job responsibilities evolve in real time. But in 2021, I could have handpicked any person I wanted from every major bank, brokerage, and hedge fund, who all had zero crypto experience but saw big money ahead. The resumes were pouring in. Many of these employees didn't work out. In 2023, we're back to the passionate souls who will do anything to work in this industry. Six, everyone wears multiple hats. This is a very hands -on business where research analysts have to test functionality of applications, challenge status quo financial modeling, and network live with other industry veterans at conferences. Traders have to navigate back and forth from US macro to Asian currency markets to crypto -specific on -chain wallet movements depending on the current correlation du jour. Back office employees have to test new service providers every three weeks to keep up with changing regulation, best practices, and LP demands while navigating constant bankruptcies, closures, and hack attempts. The common denominator seems to be a real willingness to test new theses. If you give 10 equity analysts the same inputs, they will give you largely the same answer and will present the same homogenous modeling techniques to arrive at this answer. If you give 10 crypto analysts and traders the same inputs, they will most likely give you 10 different answers using entirely different analyses. That's refreshing and often leads to outsized alpha, but also creates challenges when it comes to creating a repeatable formula for success. Seven, trade ops is the most important department. When I worked at credit and equity funds, the back office was overlooked. They were usually young kids eager to move into a real trading role as soon as they could. The job was basic blocking and tackling. Make sure trades settled, make sure your brokerage statement was accurate, and make sure the fund admins did their job. Compliance teams were there simply because they had to be. We all knew the rules, we obeyed them, and if there was any doubt, we checked with compliance but knew the answer would be, don't do it. We should be so lucky in crypto. Trade operations is the single most important job in crypto. You have to touch the assets every single day and a single mistake could cost the firm millions of dollars. As a result, not only do these need to be the most trustworthy people in the firm, but they need to build redundancies that can still operate even if they themselves vanish. Getting into a trade ops role is more glamorous than getting out of trade ops, and those who build their careers in this subset of the fund business end up learning the most about blockchain. Similarly, compliance is not an afterthought in crypto. Unlike in TradFi, it cannot be assumed that your employees know the rules, as most come from completely different backgrounds than Wall Street. Constant education and monitoring is a must. Further, a compliance officer can't just read the rules and assume compliance since there are few clear rules to follow, despite Gary Gensler telling us otherwise. To do your best as both a fiduciary and a law -abiding company is a Herculean effort. 8. The sell side is getting better. In traditional finance, the sell side offers a pretty valuable role. They underwrite new transactions, create novel financing ideas, advise companies on how best to participate in the capital markets, facilitate trading in existing securities, write research on new and existing securities, and pass along market color between participants. Both full -service investment banks and niche broker -dealers exist, but regardless of whether you use a one -stop shop or piecemeal the services with multiple firms, the services themselves are all covered. While the sell side is getting better in crypto, it is still incredibly fragmented and many of these services still do not exist. As a result, fund managers are often on an island, forced to manufacture its own deals, structure its own financings, and do its own research from scratch. Written research from OTC trading shops has greatly increased in volume and improved in quality, providing a necessary channel check on the state of the markets. But the trading itself continues to be very exchange -based, black box, and therefore lacks natural axes between investors. Trading color about flows and activity has improved, but there are fewer market participants to glean information from. There is still no full -service investment bank, and in fact, true investment banking services for underwriting and advisory of token launches is probably the biggest white space going forward. I'm constantly shocked at how few well -known Wall Street capital markets tools are utilized within crypto. Most token launches are doomed from the start. From low float, high fully diluted valuation, FDV token launches, to direct listings at insane prices, to poorly written tokenomics, token issuers, who are often developers and lack financial knowledge, continue to have to come to market without the assistance of those who know how to do this best, which subsequently leads to worse investment opportunities for asset managers. Some service providers are getting a lot better, like Custody Solutions, OTC Trading, and Options Liquidity. Still, others are getting worse, like fund admins and auditors, who in the wake of FTX are pulling back from these offerings. On the tech and research side, it's amazing that Bloomberg's crypto services continue to be irrelevant. The coverage list, their index, and all functionality is still from 2017 and does not take into account how much this industry has grown and evolved. Fortunately, newcomers like Nansen, Masari, Glassnode, Dune Analytics, Telegram, and others have innovated fast enough to take this corner, and we are grateful for these companies. It is entirely possible to run a crypto fund in 2023 without ever logging into a Bloomberg terminal. Overall, fund management is still challenged by the lack of sell -side tools. As the sell -side improves, so will the number and breadth of funds. 9. The investor base is getting smarter. When we began our fund five years ago, we knew the educational journey for prospective LPs would be slow. We were learning constantly as we invested and doing our best to educate interested investors in real time, but it was not practical to expect anyone who wasn't focused full -time on this industry to keep pace. Questions from prospective LPs tended to focus more on how we invest versus what we invest in, and there was definitely a bit of a leap of faith by investors. Fast forward to today and the script has completely flipped. LPs are getting much smarter about the asset class and the investment universe, thereby asking better questions. In some cases, the LPs now know more than we do as they are exposed to different areas of the industry that may not be in our everyday focus. That said, the amount of bad information that continues to flow effortlessly through the media and influencer accounts continues to reach LPs as well, often surprising us in regard to certain topics of interest that we deem irrelevant, but our investors believe are topical. As investors start to become more digital asset savvy, they want far more control over investments and specificity has increased. Asset managers in this space have launched highly specialized funds based on investor demand, including DeFi focused funds, NFT funds, etc. Many asset managers, including ARCA, have started creating funds of one inch that allow for more specificity, but provide the professional team to manage the investments. In 2018, if you asked us, we would recommend going with a professional investor, but as information is more readily available and UI UX of projects get better, we encourage retail investors to research and invest. However, to generate alpha where information asymmetry exists, it's still valuable to have professional fund managers who can take advantage of the 24 -7 news cycle, market volatility, and a murky regulatory environment. Overall, running a fund in this new and innovative space has been incredibly rewarding and we look forward to the next five years. Fund managers will continue to straddle the line between becoming more TradFi -like and adopting best practices of Wall Street, versus finding ways to take advantage of crypto -only opportunities, yield farming, airdrops, testing new applications. The most important factor for success in the digital asset space is faith in the future. We have to believe we are at the frontier of building a new financial system that has the capacity to transform society. While we fully expect bumps in the road and pushback from incumbents benefiting from the status quo, we know that as long as we continue to move forward, fight for the necessary changes, and adapt as needed, this industry will succeed. Okay guys, back to regular old non -AI NLW. The thing that stands out to me after reading that article, as trite and as cliche as it sounds, is just the how early we are theme once again. Every cycle it feels like we see it as the mass flow of new institutions into the space and to some extent it's true. We obviously got a lot more market participants from the traditional sector last time around than we had before. It feels, however, now that we're inching ever closer to a period in which those traditional actors aren't just tourists, but are long -term participants in the space. Certainly right now you have an interesting jockeying for position where the Blackrocks and Fidelities and Franklin Templeton's of the world are laying the foundation for what seems like a much more proactive end -to -end from the beginning of the cycle on through whatever happens after kind of approach. I've said before and I'll say it again that I think Blackrock's ETF application will mark a significant pivot inflection point of this cycle when we look back at it historically. I think we will see it as a firewall that stopped whatever further slide might have happened and reinforced for market participants that crypto, despite being as down as it was in every sense of the word, was going to come back. And so I think about Jeff's next five years running a fund and how different they'll look. The different participants that will make up the market. The different ways in which people will engage. It's pretty hard to imagine from where we are, but it's certainly interesting to think about. Anyways friends, that is going to do it for today's Long Read. I hope you are having a wonderful fall weekend wherever you are. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 09/22 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Yesterday was arguably not a great day for Sam Bankman -Fried. First, the judge overseeing his case rejected all seven of his proposed expert witnesses, questioning at least one's qualifications and saying some others really wouldn't be relevant to the case. Shortly after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bankman -Fried's appeal of Judge Lewis Kaplan's ruling to revoke his release on bail. These are both mostly procedural losses. I don't think the appeal denial is a surprise to anyone. Judge Kaplan even joked about his record on appeals in the August 11th hearing where he remanded Bankman -Fried into custody, and indeed the three -judge panel wrote that they discerned no error, much less clear error, in the district court's detention decision. What this means is Bankman -Fried will remain behind bars as his trial begins. Judge Kaplan's ruling is a lot more interesting. On the face of it, yes, he granted the Department of Justice's motion to bar all of the defense's proposed expert witnesses from testifying. But this is more of a mixed bag. The defense can still try and call for the witnesses provided they fill out better disclosures at least three days before they're supposed to testify. The DOJ can still object to the witnesses as well. We already know the DOJ plans to call witnesses as soon as the week of October 3rd, and while we haven't seen a full or final list of witnesses, we do now have some greater clarity about who we can expect to testify over the course of the trial. Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison, an FBI agent, and Peter Easton, a University of Notre Dame professor who will apparently explain FTX's financials, for starters. If the defense successfully calls them up, we may also hear from Thomas Bishop to rebut what Easton says, Brian Kim who may rebut the FBI agent's statements, and Joseph Pimbly to respond to a DOJ witness on FTX's software.
Over the Next Hill Fitness
Jennifer Robbins Bell Describes Her Best and Worst Marathon Experiences
"Tell me the best race that you've done so far. What's been your favorite? What city, state, whatever? That's a tough question. I loved the St. George Marathon out in Utah. It's just so, the scenery is just so different from where I live in Massachusetts, the Red Canyon. It's just so, I love that area. Like, all the canyons. I think it's beautiful out there. I haven't done that one. But I have done Crater Lake in Oregon. And it was like that for me. It was just breathtaking. Yeah, that's my favorite. It's very cool to go somewhere that's just so different. Absolutely. What was your least favorite so far? Was there one that you're like, oh, I'll never run here again. I don't know if I should name it. You can just describe it. You don't have to put a city name on it. How about that? What was bad about it? So I was almost done with running my 50 states. And it was one of my last few states that I had to do. So I signed up, traveled, flew out there, stayed in a hotel. And we got up in the morning, started running. And then a storm rolled in. And I got to mile four, and they canceled the race. That's the worst. It was awful. Yeah, they don't understand that all the money, all the money, the flight, and the hotel, and probably a car rental, time off work. Oh, that's the worst. I was just like, it's not that bad. Just let me go. Yeah, it should be optional, honestly. I mean, let me sign a waiver quick during this downpour that if I get stuck by lightning, it's OK. It's my own fault. Yeah. Oh, man, that's the worst. But then there wasn't really very many options in that state. So I actually had to go back and run it anyways a couple of years. The next year, I had to go back and run it. Man, oh, I feel your pain. I haven't had one canceled while I was there. I was supposed to do Jekyll Island, Georgia last January. And they were worried about the hurricane things. So they let us know a few days ahead of time. And so we were able to cancel the flights and all that. So I got the vouchers and stuff. So at least I hadn't actually wasted my money and had to do that part again. But it was still disappointing because you're really all jazzed up to go in three days. And I mean, looking at the weather, I know they don't know for sure. Yeah. In that day, it barely rained. It was fine. We would have been fine. Yeah, I've had two cancellations. One was when I was at mile four. And the other one is I had just landed in Philly. And they canceled the race. And I was like, ugh, I'm not going to go all the way to the, I was out of my layover. So I just went up to the airline. I said, I'm getting back on it. I'm going back home. Oh, wow. So they were very, the airline was really, they understood. They were very nice. They just got me on another flight. And I just turned around, came right back home. Because they said, what I'm going to do, sit in a hotel? Yeah. So yeah, that happens to us. And we got to kind of take the good with the bad. It's almost more disappointing than an injury when they do that.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from The Web3 Nonprofit Episode 3 - Black Women Blockchain Council
"We feel that as we're building this ecosystem, there's a need for so many different hands to be involved so that we can build it the right way. I see blockchain as a revolution. I see it as an opportunity to rewrite the wrongs of the past, or at least try to start with a fresh start and create opportunities for everyone and not just a select few in tech. Hi there, welcome to the Web3 Nonprofit, a special 10 -part crypto -ultrism podcast series exploring stories of nonprofits who are leveraging Web3 technology for good. My name is Drew from Crypto -ultrism .org. In this series, we will chat about the highs and lows of being a nonprofit in the world of Web3 and how organizations of all sizes can leverage this transformative technology to grow their impact. So let's dive right in. Welcome, welcome to the third episode of our new very special 10 -part podcast series. In each episode, we will be highlighting a different nonprofit organization that is innovating with Web3 technology. Now before we dive in and welcome our guest, I want to give a special shout out and thanks to Endowment for their partnership in helping bring this to life. So before we get started, I wanted to share a special message from their team. Hey, it's day. So as you know, Endowment lets you gift over a million US nonprofits and thousands more globally and you probably want to support a lot of them. You might be like, I want to support five different organizations. Does that mean I'm going to get five different tax receipts and have to bring them all to my accountant? And I've got something that I think can help. It's called a donor advised fund. You might hear it sometimes called a DAF. Think about it as your personal giving account where you can make one donation and get one tax receipt. Oftentimes you can write off the full amount and then take your time. You can grant to those five orgs, 10 orgs, however many you want all from one place. And because Endowment funds are all on chain, they're faster than traditional DAFs, they're way more affordable and they're transparent. You can follow the money all the way to its destination. So if you're ready to simplify your giving life, go to app .endowment .org and click the start of fund button. And now a word from Larry at the lawyer box. Endowment does not give financial advice that is a job for a licensed tax professional. I love that. Definitely head over to endowment .org that's E -N -D -A -O -M -E -N -T .org to learn about their incredible work. Okay, now the moment we've all been waiting for. For the third episode, we're excited to highlight the work of Black Woman Blockchain Council. An organization incredible with a mission to create a safe space that inspires, trains and activates a talent and economic pipeline of Black women pursuing professional and entrepreneurial careers in blockchain and fintech, including inspiring and educating the next generation of diverse and inclusive blockchain leaders. Today, we welcome to the podcast, Olayinka O 'Danneran, founder and chairwoman of Black Woman Blockchain Council. So let's dive right in. Okay, Olayinka, thank you so much for being here today on the Web3 nonprofit podcast. So excited to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. I'm excited to be here with you as well. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And, you know, really excited to learn about the fantastic work you're doing with Black Woman Blockchain Council. I've been following it for a while now. You're really doing some really great stuff to just build up, you know, inclusion and to make sure that it's a really positive space to build in. And so to start things off, I'd love to hear your story of how did you end up working in the nonprofit sector? Well, I have to go back a journey to how did I even get involved in the whole blockchain space, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So it was around 2015, I wanted to do a startup and I met up with a guy that I had reached out to simply because his name was in a magazine that I was reading about a local startup and she had referenced his name, so I was like, okay, he must be a great person to reach out to. I ended up reaching out to him. We met in D .C. and he was talking about Bitcoin and every time that we met, he kept talking about it. So it piqued my curiosity and I started going down the rabbit hole and fell in love with the technology more than the cryptocurrency and actually got myself involved in the ecosystem as an educator through Black Women Blockchain Council since 2018. That's been going as a benefit LLC, but more for for profit. We really wanted to build a lot more programs in this space to provide access and resources to the black community, especially black women in this space and young girls as well. And so we figured going the nonprofit route would make sense for us to be able to tap into our networks and get them to feel incentivized to donate money so that we can bring a lot more of our programs to life. And that's really how I got involved in 2021. We started Black Women in Blockchain and since then, it's been a great journey that we've been going through. We've had several great sponsors and donors of our effort and brought forth some programs and we're looking to bring forth some more. Definitely. And I'm excited to learn more about those programs, including the training and mentorship and stuff that you offer. I think that's so important and I'm really excited to hear about that. So maybe to start things off, can you please just like at a higher level, introduce listeners to Black Women Blockchain Council, including your mission and impacts? Yeah, so Black Women Blockchain Council, we're here to provide education and awareness about the blockchain technology. Our goal is to make sure that no one gets left behind in this ecosystem that we're building and that there's plenty of resources that are presented to the Black community as well as underrepresented communities within the space. So that way we can continue to grow and really create solutions that can be social impactful. I love that. And I want to dive now a bit more into your programs and on your website, you mentioned how your organization is committed to empowering Black women through comprehensive training, mentorship, networking opportunities, and visibility programs, which is great. Love that, super important. So tell me about the programs you offer. Tell me more about this. Yeah, so we have educational programs. We have a two -track certification program that we created with ConsenSys, which is part of the Ethereum Foundation. They're a huge organization out there and they're really diving in into helping a lot more people get involved in the blockchain ecosystem, in particular, the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem that they're working under. And so with them, we've been able to create these certified programs to allow individuals to one, understand the foundation of blockchain, two, dive deeper into the realms of being a developer. In this space, there's still a lot more people that are just understanding the basics, but not really understanding how to create the technology or build the technical code, I should say, the technology, right? So we want to make sure that women in particular have access to that. And our goal is to bring on board half a million Black women blockchain devs. And that's an ambitious goal by the year 2030. We feel that, you know, as we're building this ecosystem, there's a need for so many different hands to be involved so that we can build it the right way, right? I see blockchain as a revolution. I see it as an opportunity to rewrite the wrongs of the past, or at least try to start with a fresh start and create opportunities for everyone and not just a select few in tech. I love that. And, you know, that's something I've heard consistently when I've spoke with builders, you know, especially builders from communities have been like traditionally excluded from like traditional tech circles and those sorts of things is that like, it's almost like this feeling of like it's wet cement, you know, we can just kind of build from the ground level, have a say in the development of this new ecosystem and learn from the mistakes of web one and web two and build from that and build a more equitable ecosystem. So really appreciate the work that you're doing. I think that's fantastic. So let's say that there's someone listening right now that wants to get involved in that course or take part in the certificate program. How would they go about doing that? Yeah, they can go to our website, bwbc .io and click on BWBC Academy. That will take them directly to our LMS learning management system that we've created specifically for this course and also for individuals to interact with others who are taking the course. They can do it that way. Or they can go to community .bwbc .io forward slash sign up and they'll be able to quickly sign up for the course that way, too. Very cool. I love that. And so you mentioned earlier that you're a public benefit LLC, a nonprofit benefit LLC. Tell me more about the structure in the community behind the organization, because I'm you know, I'm not as familiar with this this type of structure. So tell me more about this and why you chose this. Yeah, because, well, the the it really starts with what the intention of the organization was. When I came into the scene around 2015, not a lot of people were talking about blockchain. And, you know, it was it was a tech space for tech bros. Right. And so you you got surrounded by that. And but then at the same time, you saw opportunities around 2018. There was a huge uproar about a Bitcoin conference and that created avenues for women to really stake their feet into the space and let it be known that there are women in here. I started seeing opportunities being passed around and my fear was that we were in the verge of recreating Silicon Valley in the sense that only a certain group of people were known as the builders of tech. Right. And so I didn't want to repeat what I feel was a mistake. I saw it as a way for us to be able to create an avenue, as I mentioned before. So with BWBC, the intention was really to go into it, creating an opportunity to be impactful into the ecosystem that's being built, as well as the black community. So our intentions wasn't really to generate money, but really create avenues that allow people to to gain the sources, gain awareness. And so the benefit aspect is really what drove that. And so we wanted to make it clear to people that we're not just a fly by night. We really want to have intentional, beneficial programs for the community to get involved. And that's where Benefit LLC came from. Yeah, that's amazing. That's really cool. And, you know, you'd mentioned around, you know, a woman building in Web3 and blockchain. You have a really beautiful piece of artwork in the background there that says the future is female. Love that. That's beautiful. So, you know, what advice, I guess, would you give to two women that are looking to build in the Web3 ecosystem that are maybe hesitant because of this perception of like, you know, that it is maybe reality to some extent, too, that it is, you know, just a tech bro dominated space. What would you say? What advice would you give? I would tell them not to consider it that way. I would tell them that there's a lot of women in this space. One of the things that I've been privileged to have in this space is surround myself by women left, right, front, back, you know, and they're everywhere. So I don't know that type of tech space where there's no women. I know the tech space where there are women because I've been fortunate to be surrounded by them. And I want to let other females know that we're out here. We may not be as vocal. We may not be the one that are pushed to the front, but we're the one that's building. We're the one that's educating. We're the one that's creating community because, you know, you can't have blockchain without community. And Web3 is solely based on community. And the people that are actually taking the time to build that foundation to make it sustainable are the women. And so there's a lot of us here and we're coming from various backgrounds. You could be tech adjacent. And when I say tech adjacent, you know, attorneys are needed more than ever in this space. As educators like myself that are in this space, you know, we have a lot of hackers going on. So if you're in cybersecurity, you're needed in this space. Policymakers are needed. So like these are avenues that women tend to, you know, gravitate towards. But for some reason, they feel that they can't be in tech. Yes, you can be in tech. There's a lot of opportunities and positions for you. And I would say don't let the fear stop you because you just may end up realizing that you love it and you love being here and this is where you need to be. Because right now we're still in the build phase. And so we want you we want all voices to be added to how the structure is being built and what type of foundation so that it can be sustainable. We have so many different, you know, negativity that are coming our way that we're trying to build something sustainable and impactful to society. And women are important in that. Yeah, definitely. And I think, you know, what you said there, too, really stood out to me around, like you don't have to be, you know, a developer, a coder. Right. And I knew that like a lot of people have this perception that you need to have a computer science degree or background and be some super coder to be able to engage and be successful in this new ecosystem. But I think you're 100 percent spot on that, like anyone, no matter what your background can find a place in Web3. Right. If you're a lawyer, an artist, an accountant, you know, a creative. Right. There's just so many opportunities in this space for you to join it and to have an impact, which is great. So I'd love to shift now, if that's OK, a little bit, you know, because you mentioned earlier that you've done some fundraising in the space to be able to raise funds to help get this off the ground. I'd love to hear about your experience fundraising with crypto and, you know, what advice you'd have for other nonprofits, whether it's, you know, a benefit LLC or a charitable organization that are interested in engaging in crypto fundraising. Yes, so for me, it was easier to transfer into fundraising through crypto because I'm in this space, I know how it is. I've been able to meet individuals like Alexis Miller, who works with Endowment, that was able to bring us on board to their platform, which made the exchange from, you know, crypto to US dollar really easy. So I suggest that, you know, this is not a plug, but it kind of sounds like it. You know, Endowment was a lifesaver. The fact that they had such a platform in place really was helpful. But, you know, it's it's just it's just preparing yourself for the future. Right. As a nonprofit, we got to think of avenues, different ways of, you know, fundraising and different ways that people are going to show up with their funds. There's a lot of people that, you know, a couple of years ago made a lot of money in crypto, knowing the IRS is now looking at that and they're thinking, you know, long term capital gains or, you know, taxes, the word taxes is now introduced into this space. A lot of people are looking to actually, you know, find ways to assist them in being deducting their taxes. But I want to say that they're looking for ways to donate, you know, to a really good program or something that's social impactful. So, you know, this is an avenue that a lot of nonprofits are missing out on because they're not looking at crypto. I think it's it's it's just being more sustainable in this space, you know, to be able to take different resources and different funds as a nonprofit and as a new nonprofit. You know, we we can't afford to be closed minded to the way the funds are coming. Any opportunity for us, we're going to research it. We're going to look at it and see if it's viable for us. And it just so happened that crypto was something that we definitely were able to receive. Yeah, definitely. And Love Endowment as well. Huge fan of the work they're doing. Excellent platform. And Alexis, I think it was actually who connected us as well. So shout out to Alexis. Thank you for the work you're doing. But yeah, that's great advice. And I think that, you know, like nonprofits, a lot of nonprofits that I've worked with are struggling to kind of like keep afloat and keep up with all the tech advances and everything and, you know, really relying on kind of their traditional donor base and everything. But that donor base is also really, you know, aging out as well. And, you know, they're really struggling to, I think, attract new donor bases. I think what you said around like it's a great way to like future proof and like, you know, I think, yeah, definitely spot on. And, you know, I think fundraising, too, is just one piece of the puzzle, right? When it comes to the benefits of blockchain and crypto. And so I was wondering, like, you know, beyond fundraising, what are some of the ways that other impact organizations like Charities, B Corps, whatever it is, can leverage blockchain technology to grow their impact? Yeah, I mean, like NFTs, non fungible tokens, right? A lot of people have heard of NFTs, you know, a couple of years ago when people were making ridiculous amount of money, all for what they deemed to be PFPs or profile pictures. Right. But these NFTs can also be a way to incentivize your donors by giving them something, an NFT, an artwork that are either created by the people that were impacted by that donation, by the program that, you know, a symbolism of, you know, a thank you for helping us obtain our goal. I think a lot of people will find value in using NFTs in a way that will be more commemorative of actions that donors have done. And yeah, and it could also be a way to make it fun for especially the younger generation, because they're all into NFTs. So, you know, imagine if a sponsor or sorry, a donor, imagine if a donor decides to present you with some crypto currencies, right? And you send them an NFT just simply as a thank you. That's really impactful for them. And also they will keep it within their portfolio or their gallery. And others can see that NFT. And once they see the NFT has your name, it's another way of marketing, you know, that's nonprofit. So if someone sees it, they can click on it, see the name and then decide to research it, look into what you guys are doing and consider donating that way. So it's it's an ongoing gifting platform or avenue or vehicle that you can use. Yeah, definitely. I know and I think NFTs are so fascinating because a lot of people like look at them and NFTs are just no JPEGs and whatnot. But I think that there's such a cool opportunity there for like nonprofits to use them to engage donors, like you mentioned, right. You know, to recognize and reward them. It can be like a really cool like badge of like a proof of impact. Right. Proof of impact, yeah. Yeah. I've also seen like dynamic NFTs where, you know, it can be updated, you know, as you donate more. So like there's some really creative use cases there. And you're right, too. It can also be a way for the nonprofit to tell a story or to raise awareness of the work they're doing, too. So, yeah, I think that nonprofits should definitely not be so quick to discount NFTs. I think they can be a very valuable tool for them in their in their yeah, in their growth. So, you know, obviously, a lot of nonprofit leaders are skeptical about Web3 and many rightfully so as well. Right. You know, there's been a lot of unfortunately bad actors that I think have kind of tainted the space a bit, you know, which has resulted in a lot of negative coverage, that it's a lot of scams and, you know, bad actors and those sorts of things. So nonprofit leaders are skeptical. So for those that are skeptical to get involved in this new and emerging space, what advice would you give to them? Oh, if you're skeptical, I would say, you know, read up on the technology. Right. Because I did come in being skeptical of crypto, one aspect of, you know, the technology and decided to read up and started seeing, oh, there's so many different possibilities in this space. You know, my background is also in cybersecurity, so I know about hackers and vulnerabilities and all that stuff. And I want to say that just to say that, you know, the breaches and incidents that do happen in this space is not only isolated to this space, it happens elsewhere as well. It happens with fiat, you know, US dollars as well, you know, so you're not really going to prevent all kinds of, you know, vulnerabilities. But however, that should not be the reasons why you decide to stay away. Another thing is, you know, regardless of the things that are happening when it comes to the vulnerabilities and the threats and incidents, so many different industries are already incorporating, you know, the different type of use cases. We have Visa, you know, that just stepped up, you know, their game again. They issued NFTs, now they're doing, you know, USDs, you know, stable coins. And so, you know, there's a lot of people that are slowly changing and things are changing around you, you know, you don't want that negativity to stop your progress into what the future is going to be. And the future is coming. The future is tech, you know, and it's female, but, you know, the future is tech, you know, and it's important for nonprofits to stay up to date. Every single time when people ask me, you know, about why should people be concerned about, you know, crypto or not using crypto, I always think of Blockbuster, right? They were a well -known company when I was younger, you know, used to be able to go to their store, rent out videos and all that stuff. And everybody thought that they were going to be here forever. All of a sudden they're gone, right? They're replaced. And the younger generation have no idea who they are only because they didn't change with time. So as nonprofits, we have to change with time. We have to be kind of one step ahead, you know, wear multiple hats. And I hate to say it, but kind of experimental, you know, in our approaches, in our marketing and in everything, right? Because if we get to the space where we're just stagnant and say, this is the only way that we're going to receive, we're going to be left in the dust. So you do have to conform to tech. You know, even A .I., nonprofits can't be close minded to A .I. is very helpful to a lot of people. The same thing with blockchain technology. You have to be open minded to it. Yeah, definitely. Wow. Great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. Yeah, I think, you know, it's the future, right? And to stay afloat, to stay relevant, to stay impactful in the future, you got to, you know, stay up to date with these new technological trends and movements. So, yeah, that's some great advice there and great advice all around, some great insights. I appreciate everything you've shared and obviously weren't able to cover everything about the work you're doing. So for those that are listening and that want to learn more and get involved and support the work that you're doing, what's the best way for them to do that? Yeah, so you can go to BWINB .org, which is Black Women in Blockchain, and find out more about us. We are doing a fundraiser right now. And, you know, you can check out our fundraiser. Our goal is to raise money for programs that we want to implement. One of them is a mentorship program for the younger generation, high schools and college students. It's an 18 week course that we're trying to launch. And this 18 week course will allow these younger generations of females to be able to tap into careers in the blockchain space because there's several different careers and give them access to mentors within these different careers so that they can have the opportunity to maybe transition or look into the possibility of transitioning into these wonderful, lucrative careers that are happening in the blockchain space. And there's plenty of them. It's not just developers. You have influencers. As I said, you have regulators, policymakers, lawyers, attorneys, educators, so many different positions and roles. Yeah, definitely. Thank you for sharing that. And of course, those listening in, all the links will be in the show notes so you can follow along and get involved in this incredible movement. And to end on one final note of inspiration, if that's OK, I'd love to hear a recent success story or win that you've had at a Black Women Blockchain Council that you can share with the audience. Yeah, a recent success story was our ability to provide a fellowship program to college students to attend one of our conferences that happened earlier this year. It was the Women of Blockchain, the International Women of Blockchain Conference, which is an annual conference that we put together. It gives you access to different women in this space. As I mentioned, there's a lot of us. And you get to hear from them and what they're building, how they're showing up in this space. And it's a three day conference. So we were able to provide free room at the hotel as well as their travel expenses. And that's something that a lot of conferences don't oftentimes do. They will lower the price for scholar students. But I remember being a college student, you know, I remember not having the resources, but I want to attend. And so we made sure that they were that they had the opportunity to attend for free without having to worry about how they're going to come up with the money and gave them access to a lot of networking. And to this day, a lot of them are finding success in this space. So I'm really excited about that and the potential of what's to come for them. Yeah, totally. That's amazing. I love that. What a great opportunity for those for the scholars to be able to join that conference. And yeah, I think back as a student, I would have never been able to afford to and transportation hotel and, you know, all that stuff to go to a conference. Right. So that's so important and so inspiring for those individuals that we were able to go. So thank you so much for all you do to uplift and build in this space. And thank you for sharing all the fantastic advice you have today for those listening and definitely check out the show notes to follow along. Hopefully you can also support this movement because they're doing a fundraiser right now. So thank you so much for being here, Olga. It was a pleasure to have you. And thank you for the work you're doing. Thank you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. A huge thank you to Olga for joining us today on the Web3 nonprofit podcast. Make sure to check out the show notes so you can learn more about their work and consider making a donation to this incredible organization. They're actually running a fundraising campaign right as we speak. A big thank you again to Endowment for their partnership in this podcast series. We couldn't have done it without them. So thanks for listening in and make sure to join us again in a couple of weeks for next episode. Also, feel free to head over to cryptoautism .org to learn more about our work and feel free to shoot us a message if you'd like to chat. Until next time, let's keep showing the world the good of crypto.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from With All Confidence
"Let's turn together to the triumphal ending of the book of Acts this morning chapter 28 verse number 11 to begin with Not feeling so triumphant so the Lord's wants us to learn today that despite our feelings this this stuff is true. Amen so acts chapter 28 verse number 11 After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the islands remember they were on the island of Malta a ship of Alexandria with the twin gods Castor and Pollux. These are the gods the patron gods of sailors with the twin gods as a figurehead putting in at Syracuse we stayed there for three days and From there. We made a circuits and arrived at Regium and after one day a south wind Sprang up and on the second day. We came to Puteoli there. We found brothers believers and were invited to stay with them for seven days and so we came to Rome and the brothers there when they Heard about us came as far as the forum of Appius and three taverns to meet us on seeing them Paul thanked God and took courage and When we came into Rome? Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews and when they had gathered he said to them brothers Though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers Yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans When they had examined me they wished to set me at liberty Because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case But because the Jews objected I was compelled to appeal to Caesar though. I had no charge to bring against my nation For this reason therefore I have asked to see you and speak with you since it is because of the hope of Israel That I am we're that I'm wearing this chain and They said to him we have received no letters from Judea about you And none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you But we desire to hear from you what your views are For with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against When they had appointed a day for him they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers From morning till evening he expounded to them Testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and from the prophets and some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved and Disagreeing among themselves. They departed after Paul had made one statement The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet Go to this people and say you will indeed hear but never understand and you will indeed see but never perceive for this people's heart has grown dull and with their eyes they can barely With their ears, they can barely hear and their eyes their eye and their eyes they have closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear their ears and Understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles They will listen He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without Hindrance and to all these words God's people say Well Here at the end of acts we have moved from a huddled mass in Jerusalem back in chapter number one To the masses of Rome the capital city of the Roman Empire the center of the world as they saw it so from a little huddled group of 120 in that upper room in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost all the way to Rome where millions upon millions of people lived Let alone pilgrimage every single year and this is all just as Jesus promised Remember back in chapter 23 if you will when Jesus was Testifying before the Sanhedrin before the Jewish Council sometimes called the Jewish Supreme Court chapter 23 verse 11 The Apostles said the following night the Lord stood by here our looks at the following night The Lord stood by him Paul and said quote take courage for you for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem So you must testify also? where in Rome So Jesus has promised To Paul that he was going to go to Rome to testify of the gospel so he's Moved from the center of the Israelite religion in Jerusalem The temple was and now he's moved to the center of as the Romans described it the center of the world And in fact, this is this is in fulfillment of what we saw the very very beginning Of the book of Acts in chapter number one if you go back there all week the beginning verse number eight Remember Jesus promise and his call and his commission To the earliest church and he told them that they would receive power the power of the Holy Spirit who would come upon them to be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea that's the larger region Samaria.
Bankless
A highlight from Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum For The Future
"Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. And today on Bankless, we're exploring some new frontiers about the future. I think quite frequently in the crypto Web3 and Bankless content sphere, when we talk about the future that crypto brings, we use frames of references from the past, TradFi, to talk about the future of finance, DeFi. We want to fix Web2 with Web3. But today on Bankless, I want to bring this conversation that we had at Permissionless with Vitalik. The opening day, the final day, day three of Permissionless that we had with Vitalik that we called Ethereum for the Future. I think it's very easy to imagine use cases like DeFi, like Web3, like NFTs, when we have previous correlates to understand as a frame of reference to think about what a new form factor for these things could be. But what about the things that Ethereum can produce, that Web3 can produce, that don't have a historical form factor? What about the new use cases, the net new things that can emerge because we have the new properties of what crypto can bring to the table? This is the theme of this episode and the conversation that I had with Vitalik Buterin. The sibling technologies, AI, decentralized science, synthetic biology, lots of the things that happened and went down at Zuzalu, but really just as a meta theme of understanding the new things that will come out of crypto, the things that we can't articulate. I asked questions to Vitalik like, if he could duplicate himself and start a startup, which industry would he start it in and how would it relate to crypto? What does he want the Web3 builders of the world to focus on that they might be under indexing on because imagining an unspoken future is hard? How will Ethereum be a platform for all of these new future use cases that we can't yet imagine? And knowing that Vitalik has gone down these rabbit holes of different industries, different technologies, how has that exploration changed what he thinks Ethereum can do for the world? Like I said, this talk opened up the third day at Permissionless where a lot of people's minds and imaginations were already opened up to some of the future things coming into the crypto world. We have the Solana virtual machine. We have 4844 and scale and dank sharding and we have account abstraction and EIP 4337. A lot of things that can really make the future of Ethereum tangible from a technical perspective and I really wanted to bring this conversation to the foreword with now that we have this technology what can we do with it and can we imagine some new things rather than just reimagining the old things. Reimagining old things is definitely why we're here but there's also going to be some nice surprises that we won't be able to articulate and hopefully Bankless Listener, this conversation with Vitalik from Permissionless can open your mind to I as well. Let's go ahead and get right into this conversation with Vitalik Buterin but first a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible. Extra thanks to Kraken our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023 whether your dollar cost averaging into crypto to prepare for the bull market or you're taking profits out of crypto be sure to do it with Kraken the newly designed Kraken Pro makes it super easy to do both your basic financial transactions while also taking your trading to the next level Kraken Pro is truly the trading UX that you've always wanted. 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So whether you're on arbitrum 1 for DeFi NFTs or arbitrum Nova for Web3 gaming or a new frontier on arbitrum using an arbitrum orbit chain there are so many opportunities to sink your teeth into but as we know the Ethereum roll up centric roadmap produces all kinds of layer twos and mantle is one of the newest layer twos on the scene with some of the newest technology that Ethereum layer twos has to offer in the year 2023. Mantle is built using the OP stack but uses eigenlayers data availability solution instead of the expensive Ethereum layer one reducing gas fees by 80 % compared to other layer twos with billions of dollars standing by from Bitdao to invest in mantle make sure you stay ahead of the game by building and growing your on chain footprint on mantle.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Evangelism to the Glory of God
"Good morning everybody. Good to see you. Glad you're here. And our first Sunday school in our new place and thankful for that. And thankful for last week and for Kenny and Christine being here while Sandy and I were away. And so we did a little rearranging of the furniture here, but I think it feels a little more comfortable. It might not look as good, but it feels a little more comfortable. So, let's start with a word of prayer. Father, thank you for this morning. Thank you for those that are here. We just pray that you bless our Sunday school time. Be with the children downstairs as well and think of those who may still be coming that you bless them as they travel. You know some folks are not feeling well so we pray that you'd raise them up as well. So thank you for this time. We can be together in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright, so we are continuing our Sunday school lesson and the series is called Is Our Church on Target. And we want to look at the overall goal of our church is to do everything to the glory of God. And that's what we're all to do. All to the glory of God. Now I know that that is what we're supposed to do in our life. You know, why are we here? What is the reason that God created us? Why am I here? Well, we're here to bring glory to God. But remember, in the context of this Sunday school class, we're looking at it from the aspect of in church and while we're here at church. How do we do everything for the glory of God? And we learned already what is the glory of God and we saw how many times in the Old Testament the glory of God was his presence, the Shekinah glory. We saw how John said that we beheld his glory, even the Lord Jesus, of course on the Mount of Transfiguration. And so how do we accomplish this? And that's what we're going to begin to dissect now. And even though our one overall goal is to do everything to the glory of God, over the next few lessons we're going to look at six specific areas that we glorify God in. The first being evangelism. So today's topic is evangelism to the glory of God. Then we're worshiping to the glory of God, praying to the glory of God, and equipping the believer for ministry to the glory of God. And then there will be one lesson that will kind of be a conclusion to that. So today, evangelism to the glory of God. So the first of the six objectives, again, which are all to be done to the glory of God, is evangelism. This was the main message that was emphasized by the Lord Jesus during his 40 -day post -resurrection ministry just before his ascension. So we're told in 1 Corinthians 15 that after Jesus raised from the dead the third day, for 40 days he was seen by over 500 people. And of And during that time, he, I'm sure, said and taught many things. But in all four Gospels, as well as Acts, we're told, basically, Jesus' last words.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1403: This Will Send Bitcoin to $1,000,000 - Max Keiser
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as breaking news just in. The former SEC and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Norman Reed, announced as the new CEO of Binance US? Like, what? Serious? We'll also be discussing the latest from Max Kaiser, who recently shared, we helped boost El Salvador's bonds 90 % this year. We can help Javier Malay escape the IMF, central banking terrorist, and get Argentina's economy rocking. Hope to be landing in Buenos Aires soon. Let's go. He also says that President Bukele plus Bitcoin have reinvented the nation state. Governance is being redefined in the Bitcoin age. A true meritocracy and universal economic freedom is rising in El Salvador. Socialist ideas are on their deathbed. Can the Bukele model of Bukelenomics be exported to another country? We will go to Argentina and discuss this with Javier Malay. Can't freaking wait. Also breaking news, Mark Cuban loses $870 ,000 worth of Ethereum in his MetaMask hot wallet with a hack. Rough. Also in today's show, Gemini legal team accuses DCG, the digital currency group of gaslighting Genesis creditors. We'll also be discussing BitGo and Swan unveil plans for a Bitcoin -only trust company. That's right, the trust company will target institutional investors in the United States as asset managers line up for the Bitcoin spot ETF. Send it. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin price all -time high will precede the 2024 halving according to this latest prediction by Bitcoin. Quitting him here, no, Bitcoin is not going to top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024. And yes, the target price is around $250 ,000 per Bitcoin. I'll also be sharing the latest predictions from Max Keiser with the Bitcoin price action I recently transcribed his most recent interviews. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1403. I'm your host JV, and it is stat stacking Saturday. So let's get it. It's September 16th. So you already know we're halfway through the September before October. So let's bring it. Let's start with our market watch. As you can see here on the screen, we're back in the green. Bitcoin up a half a percent for the day trading back above 26 ,500. We also have Ether trading above 1600. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, we're sitting just above that trillion dollar milestone with roughly 22 billion in volume in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin dominance is 48 .9%, and the Ether dominance is 18 .6%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, TonCoin leading the pack up 17 .5 % trading at $2 .42, followed by ThorChain up 9 .5%, trading at $1 .91, followed by Flow up 8 .5%, trading just above 46 cents. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, we have a sea of green, which is a beautiful omen for the altcoin market. We have coins such as TonFlow, Rune, and Ave all pretty up between anywhere from 8 to 13%. And yeah, so there you have it. How many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto, and how many of you are anticipating a further dip? Let me know your insights. And at the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud as we do each and every day in the Q &A session. Now, let's dive into some technical analysis from Glassnode, one of my favorite analytics platform. The past few days have been relatively positive for the price action for the king crypto, which has been increasing since Tuesday, September 12th. At the time, Bitcoin is sitting just above 25 ,600. Now in this prediction, the co -founder of the popular crypto analytics resource, Glassnode, outlined that the US CPI jumped by 0 .6%, which led to some fluctuations of the Bitcoin price. And indeed, the core CPI, which excludes more volatile sectors such as food and energy by design, has noted a yearly increase of 4 .3%. But interestingly, the CPI itself clocked in at 3 .7%, while the estimations were for it to be 3 .6%. So initially, the news didn't really have any impact on the price, which beyond the expected initial turbulence, settled at where it was trading just before that. So here's some price predictions coming from the Glassnode co -founder. He pointed out that crypto reclaimed the support above 26 ,000 and is now eyeing a potential break beyond 27 ,000. This would help it escape a multi -week range. He went on to share, risk signals nose dive into the 60s around ,400 27 and 28 ,200. But this climb seems poised as a step before tackling the psychological barrier at $30 ,000. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts. And are you currently more bullish or bearish on the King crypto for the short term? Please do let me know. And breaking news just came in before I went live. And I'm like, it's hard for me to even accept this, but this is what it says. Former SEC and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Norman Reed, is announced as the new CEO of Binance US. You can't make this stuff up. Folks, what is the SEC doing? Now, Max Kaiser recently tweeted, I'm sure you know, there was a Tucker Carlson interview with the pro Bitcoin presidential candidate of Argentina, who's currently winning the polls for the presidency. And fantastic, almost 400 million views within the first day. Max went on to share, we help boost El Salvador's bonds 90 % this year. Facts. We can help Javier Malay in Argentina escape the IMF central banking terrorists and get Argentina's economy rocking. Hope to be landing in Buenos Aires soon. So the million dollar question, do you think Max Kaiser will orange pill Javier Malay? I sure hope so. He even recently tweeted here, President Bukele plus Bitcoin have reinvented the nation state. Governance is being redefined in the Bitcoin age. A true meritocracy in universal economic freedom is rising in El Salvador. Socialist ideas are on their deathbed. Can the Bukele model of Bukele -nomics be exported to another country? We will go to Argentina and discuss this with Javier Malay. And quoting El Salvador's fearless leader, Bukele, old ideas and institutions crumbled and a new generation is called on to remake the world based on the human right of financial freedom. Preach. Now, Max also shared in regards to this headline, Janet Yellen says Ukraine aid is the best boost for the global economy. Now this is hilarious and also sincere at the same time. Bitcoin monetizes war and violence by being finite and uncomfortable as this ugly, what? Illustrates money monetizes war by violence by turning humans into disposable garbage central bank Ponzi scheme. Preach Max Kaiser. Greatly appreciate all the work you're doing. You're truly doing God's work. You and Stacy's a massive shout out. Now let's discuss the latest with the hack from Mark Cuban. Now this is alarming, but at the same time, it's Meta Mass. I've been telling you guys to stay away from the Meta Mass wallet for quite some time. And also they didn't hack Bitcoin. They hacked Ethereum. I personally don't trust Ethereum or Meta Mass. So interestingly enough, so to read this story, let's break this down. Check this out. Nearly $900 ,000 worth of Ethereum was reportedly drained from one of the hot wallets belonging to investor in Dallas. Mavs owner, Mark Cuban, the man that once said Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and that bananas are more valuable. Yeah, right now, independent blockchain sleuth was the first to spot the hack September 15th at around 8 PM. So that was last night after they highlighted suspicious behavior. What one of Cuban's wallets that the 65 year old had an interacted with for roughly five months as he shared here on X LMAO did Mark Cuban's wallet just get drain wallet inactive for 160 days and all of the assets just moved. And according to the transaction history on Etherscan, several batches of assets such as USD coin, USDC tether, and Lido staked Ether were suddenly withdrawn from the wallet within a 10 minute window. Now adding complexity to the matter, another 2 million worth of USDC was also withdrawn and sent to a different wallet, leading Woz to suspect that Cuban may just be moving some assets around. However, a few hours later, Cuban confirm to DL news that he had gone on metamask for the first time in months and vaguely suggested that the hacker or hackers may have been watching and waiting for the moment to pounce. Cuban added that he had transferred any remaining assets to Coinbase custody, essentially confirming that the $2 million worth of USDC transaction was indeed him. But in terms of the hack, members of the community were quick to point out that the opposed to the hackers watching Cubans activity, he must have done something that led to the security breach. Some suggested that Cuban may have mistakenly signed a malicious transaction while others asserted his private keys were compromised given that the funds were directly transferred out of his wallets. What do you guys personally think chat? Please let me know in the comments below. This is not the first time Cuban has been taken a hit on the crypto market. Back in June of 2021, Cuban Lawson unspecified amount of capital on what he called a rug pull after the algo stable project called iron finance imploded amid a supposed bank run. So there you have it. Mark Cuban has a bad track record in crypto. Just pointing out the obvious fam, how many of you guys think that it was a legitimate hack? Let me know your thoughts or how many of you think he maybe have just moved it around and don't want to claim it. Who knows? I mean, there's infinite possibilities. No one really knows, but I'll be keeping you posted with the latest developments. We all know Mark Cuban is a multi -billionaire. So obviously a $900 ,000 loss is not going to affect him. He's not going to lose any sleep over it. But what if you were to get hacked worth of $900 ,000 of crypto? So again, red alert, be very careful with wallets such as MetaMask. Just saying. Now for the latest between the digital currency group in Gemini with the ongoing saga as it continues, lawyers representing Gemini Trust have pushed back against the plan proposed by DCG for the creditors of Genesis Global in the filing yesterday, September 15th in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District in New York. New York, where you at? The legal team accused DCG of gaslighting Genesis creditors through contrived, misleading and inaccurate assertions and a recovery plan. Now the plan filed in Bankruptcy Court September 13th, three days ago, claimed unsecured creditors could have a 70 to 90 % recovery with a meaningful portion of the recovery in digital currencies, while Gemini earned users would expect an approximately 95 to 110 % recovery for their claims. This seemed like a red flag when I initially read the story. I'm like, how are they going to get back 110 %? Does that make any sense? So now I'm starting to understand maybe they were gaslighting. What are your thoughts, chat? According to the legal team, DCG was attempting to bait the Gemini lenders into accepting the deal that would allow the company to pay less than it allegedly owed. Lawyers called on the firm to significantly improve the terms of the loans provided to Genesis and not use Genesis' bankruptcy proceedings to cover for justifications of the recovery plan, quoting them here, to distract the Genesis creditors from the inconvenient facts of its facially inadequate and inequitable proposal, DCG touts proposed recovery rates that are total mirage, misleading at best and deceptive at worst, said the filing yesterday, September 15th. Make no mistake, Gemini lenders will not actually receive anything close to the real value in terms of proposed recovery rates under the current agreement. In principle, so a bunch of more shenanigans, to say the least. The legal battle involved entanglements with crypto exchange Gemini and DCG over the Gemini Earn program. How many of you have lost crypto from Gemini Earn? I'm curious. Please let me know in the chat, fam. Financed in part by Genesis, Genesis halted withdrawals as we know November of 2022 in the wake of the FTX collapse, citing unprecedented market turmoil at the time and filed for bankruptcy later on in January of this year. According to the court filings by Gemini, Genesis owed more than $3 .5 billion to its top 50 creditors at the time of their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The crypto exchange filed the claim in May, aimed at recovering more than $1 .1 billion worth of assets for roughly $232 ,000 Earn users and filed a lawsuit against DCG and their CEO, Barry Silber, in June alleging fraud. Barry was not the only architect and mastermind of the DCG and Genesis fraud against the creditors. He was directly and personally involved in perpetuating it, said Gemini co -founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss back in June. The US SEC filed a civil suit against Gemini and Genesis in January for allegedly selling unregistered securities through the Earn program. The two firms filed a motion to dismiss the case in May, but it is still ongoing at this current time. How do you think this is likely to play out? I just hope that the investors get their money back as they deserve because we all know with lawsuits, the biggest losers are always the investors. The biggest winners are the lawyers and the courts. That's just facts. So we'll see how this plays out as well. And again, they're attacking and going after all of the yield programs for crypto with Gemini Earn being a pretty large one. Why? It undermines the banks, right? If you can earn a five or 10 % yield putting your cryptocurrency on their platform, it basically tells you that why would you even waste your time with fiat currency in your bank when you're losing more than the actual appreciation of interest because the interest is virtually nothing while you're losing 20 % in inflation on an annual basis. It just makes no sense. So it seems if I had to guess, that's why they're attacking all of these yield programs. But what are your thoughts, chat? Please do let me know. I'm going to read those comments out in a little bit. Now let's discuss the latest with Bitcoin Trust. That's right, BitGo and Swan unveiled plans for their Bitcoin -only trust company. This is breaking news as well. The US may soon have a Bitcoin -only trust company according to plans disclosed by BitGo and Swan yesterday, September 15th. The joint venture is pending regulatory approval, the company said in the statement. Now I love the word joint venture because hey, JV, just saying. The forthcoming entity will handle similar activities of a trust company, including Bitcoin custody, administration and management on behalf of its beneficiaries. And according to Corey Clipston, CEO of Swan, the solutions intends to offer Bitcoin custody without the risk of having other altcoins under the same roof. As you know, Swan is Bitcoin -only and they're pretty much anti everything, not Bitcoin. Quoting him here, for years, we have heard from major clients, partners and other Bitcoin companies that they would prefer a Bitcoin -only software and services stack that is focused strictly on the best custody and leverages of Bitcoin's unique features. The companies are in contact with state regulators about the plans, but have yet to file regulatory approval. Clipston told Cointelegraph we're evaluating acquisition options first, he disclosed as he announced here through the Swan Bitcoin team on X. As part of our long -term vision to advance Bitcoin adoption, we're announcing a major step forward for Swan and the entire Bitcoin ecosystem. BitGo and Swan announced plans for USA's first Bitcoin -only trust company. Let's go USA. BitGo offers digital asset security and custody, supporting over 700 cryptos as per its website. And in contrast, Swan's business is fully dedicated to the king crypto, allowing users to only invest in Bitcoin via a one -time and reoccurring purchases, with custody of records held at Fortress Bank and Bakkt, while BitGo acts as a cold storage for Custodian. Now, didn't Fortress Trust just go bankrupt or get acquired by another company? Was it Ripple? You guys let me know in the chat. I know there was something major with Fortress Trust. Now, the new venture will target institutional investors such as asset managers, pension plans, and family offices, along with governments and company treasuries. It will offer cold storage, fraud prevention, anti -money laundering, and know -your -customer protocols, amongst other Bitcoin -related services. Institutional investors in the crypto space are at a fast -growing market in the US, especially as the world's largest asset managers seek regulatory approval, which includes BlackRock, the largest. For a spot Bitcoin ETF, we also have several large Wall Street players offering crypto custody solutions to institutional investors, which include the Bank of New York, Mellon, as well as Deutsche Bank, quoting them here. We believe there is a high likelihood that several ETFs are approved in 2024, and thus a new round of entrants to the Bitcoin market seeking mature, reputable, technology -proficient partners for a range of needs, explained the Swan CEO. The SEC delayed decisions on the spot Bitcoin ETF product. Analysts predict the regulatory regulator may postpone a decision until early 2024 as the deadline fast approaches, quoting them again. Our teams have worked closely together for nearly a year on stronger, qualified custody models. Early in 2023, we recognized the opportunity to establish a Bitcoin -only custodian, combining the unique capabilities of each company and supporting the innovators that will be at the forefront of pushing Bitcoin adoption, noted the CEO of BitGo. So there you have it. I am curious, by a show of hands chat, how many of you have purchased or acquired Bitcoin using Swan Bitcoin, and how many of you are familiar or ever used BitGo? Let me know in the chat. Now let's break down our next breaking story of the day, and that's the Bitcoin halving, which should be on everybody's mind, because it's only six months out, estimated to take place sometime in April of 2024. Now guess what? What if we hit a new all -time high pre -halving, because that's what this prediction suggests. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Bitcoin has a $250 ,000 target for after its next block subsidy halving, but a new all -time high will come sooner. Let me know if you guys agree. That is the latest Bitcoin prediction from BitQuant, the popular social media commentator who sees a rosy future for Bitcoin. In his latest post on X on September 15th, synonymous central banker and Bitcoiner revealed a pre -halving target of 69 ,000. That's what makes this individual interesting. He is a central banker and a Bitcoiner. I didn't even know that was a possible combination, fam, just saying, but he wrote, no, Bitcoin is not going to the top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. Now Bitcoin has just over six months before the halving, the event that cuts the miner rewards, as we know, per block by 50 % every four years. Analysts argue that the resulting emission restrictions have a cathartic impact on the Bitcoin price performance, acting as something of a springboard in advance of Bitcoin seeing new all -time highs. But for BitQuant, the analysts, that alone is not bullish enough. Not only will Bitcoin beat its current record set in 2021, which we all know the current all -time high is 69 ,000, before next April, it'll go on to hit $250 ,000 per Bitcoin after the next halving cycle begins. That's what he says here. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024, and yes, the target price is around 250 ,000, which is outlined right here in the chart. Let me know if you agree or disagree with this crypto analyst, BitQuant. Now, market participants are highly divided when it comes to how the Bitcoin price action will play out into the halving and beyond. Some agree that the higher levels are possible by April, but plenty of conservative voices obviously remain, especially bears, right? Last month, Bitcoin investor and author Jesse Myers dispelled any idea that Bitcoin will be trading at six figures between now and then, and in a subsequent interview, meanwhile, Philby Philby, the co -founder of Trading Suite, decent trader, gave a pre -halving Bitcoin price ceiling of 46 ,000, quoting him here, assuming no Black Swan event, around 35 ,000 by the end of the year, and possibly as high as 46 ,000, sometime pre -halving in quarter one of 2024. So there, you freaking have it. And as he shares here, I'm going to read you his particular post on X coming from Bitcoin. Again, this is the central banker slash Bitcoiner. He says, no, Bitcoin is not going to the top before the halving. Yes, it is going to reach a new all -time high before the halving. No, Bitcoin is not going to 160 ,000 because the magnitude of every pullback is large. This means it will peak after the halving in 2024. And yes, the target price is around $250 ,000 per coin. So there you have it, fam. Again, let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts and where do you feel the Bitcoin halving, which is around the corner, is likely to take us. As you know, the two most bullish catalysts in the market, Bitcoin halving as well as spot Bitcoin ETF. I hope they both get approved and take place. We already know for certain the halving will take place, but there's a 95 % chance of the spot ETF approval in the United States, according to top ETF analyst, Eric Balchunes of Bloomberg. Now for the moment you have all been waiting for, the latest from Max Kaiser. I recently transcribed, actually today, his most recent interview in Bitcoin price predictions, very powerful words to share. So let's break this down. So first and foremost, he says, the world is a very different place and everyone will say nobody saw it coming, but it is clearly been brewing now for many years. And it's like every single day you can just see the catastrophe inching toward the abyss. You know, it's we're at the zero line preach. He also says it is a global fiat money game and you see different countries where fiat money regimes are collapsing in real time, right? Facts. Argentina, you know, the countries like this or like Lebanon recently had a complete collapse or a central bank collapse. That's right. And inflation is definitely an indication that your fiat money regime is in dire straits and inflation is breaking out in a big way. It is not going to return to where it was before this latest inflation break inflation and the collapse of fiat money is here. Now people are feeling it right now. And the quality of life all over the world is being impacted by it and it's being impacted in the United States. You know, people can't buy a home. People can't afford food. The economy is starting to ramp back up again. So it's playing out right now. And there is nothing that can be done to stop this inflation because the economy is completely out of control. So even the interest on the debt in the United States is now over one trillion dollars. So I think it is the biggest line item on the budget, bigger than the military. What we were told for decades was, oh, you know, it's trickle down economics or what you have, what not. I mean, and he goes on to share with Bitcoin. It's kind of the end of price discovery because everything will be priced in Bitcoin preach. eventually Everything goes to zero against Bitcoin. And so for someone like myself, who has been following this for 40 years, finance markets, technology, Bitcoin is the holy grail. It is the end all. I would say my compatriot in all of this is the one and only Michael Saylor. When you hear Michael Saylor talk, he talks about the aesthetics of Bitcoin, the beauty of Bitcoin. And he speaks about it in a way that I think carries the torch from the Max and Stacey from 2011. He started buying it, I guess, when it was 10 or 12000 a coin or so in 2020 era. So we were from 2011 to 2020. I think he's kind of carried the torch from 2020 in a lot of ways and introduced Bitcoin to massive pools of capital. I am surprised that more companies haven't followed his lead, giving up the break in inflation we have had exactly as Michael Saylor predicted, the melting ice cube, as he called it at that time, is exactly what happened. Well, I guess we can say now we're in a new era where BlackRock and those other major institutions are now looking at Bitcoin. So his work on the institutional level, I guess, is now bearing fruit. Three years later, I see in the Middle East, they are starting to recognize Bitcoin. So that's a huge pool of capital. I think all of that oil money will find its way into Bitcoin and be a huge catalyst for the prices. It is a natural way for the oil industry to diversify their portfolio because Bitcoin is essentially energy and the energy eventually gets priced in Bitcoin. And there is a marriage between these two in a big way. So I think that's kind of the answer. I have always been fascinated by price discovery in markets and the architecture of how markets work under the hood. And Bitcoin is such a pristine, perfect money. And I think it is something that humans have been searching for since forever. And now we're seeing it change society on a really fundamental level with the introduction of Bitcoin. And a lot of people are freaking out because of it, because it destroys the status quo. And a lot of people who have been waiting for it to come along have had the faith that humanity can be saved. They see Bitcoin in those terms. So you have this split going on, which is very exciting. So it just continues on and on. And you cannot, how could you not be interested in it? I think the people who were into it earlier and just walked away just never got it from the beginning. Once it's characterized as an asset class, we have nothing to do except position ourselves in this asset class. Either we are going to be a small position or a big position, but we cannot ignore it. We cannot not have a position. Now check this out. So even 1 % of that multi -hundred trillion dollar funds available moves the needle on Bitcoin and it moves it up considerably. He's referencing the 700 trillion dollar plus total addressable market. And he continues, so if we get into the 5 to 10 % range, then you start to really see it raise ahead to the seven figure type predictions that people have been making, including myself, because Bitcoin is an asset class preach. And on the flip side, we have what we saw in the gold market, which is the ability to control the price discovery and manipulate the prices. It's real through the derivatives markets. So the price of gold has been lagging inflation for 20 years because the governments around the world don't like gold making their fiat money look bad. That's right. So they make it easy for the huge funds to manipulate the price of gold and to scalp it, to continuously skim profits off of gold, which is what they do almost every single day. You can watch it and see it. That's pretty clear. And they are very good at keeping the price of gold and silver down. There's something like for every ounce of silver, there's probably 50 ounces worth of derivatives floating in various exchanges around world that are used to keep the price of silver down because governments don't want gold to race ahead and draw capital out of their fiat money scam into gold. He's preaching. Now with Bitcoin, we have the ability to pull our private keys, which is not really available with gold. Technically people can take delivery of gold on these exchanges, but there has never been an organized attempt to do so. We tried to do it a few years ago with crash JP Morgan, buy gold and silver because after the 2008 financial crisis, when JP Morgan ended up buying Bear Stearns effectively for nothing, they inherited this huge multimillion short silver position that Bear Stearns was managing at the behest of presumably the government. The government likes to stay involved. And so I did some calculations and it became clear that if this short position was not covered, the price of silver could go to 60 to $70 an ounce, and it would bankrupt JP Morgan Chase. Take that Jamie Dimon. So we started this crash JP Morgan buy silver campaign, and we got the price of silver from $15 up to $50. So we got it up to $50 level. And then the Fed of course came in, they changed the laws overnight to make it possible for these banks to have and carry a much greater short position and silver. So they printed up a lot of paper, silver derivatives, and they stopped the run on their bank. And the price of silver went back down to $15 or so. So we've seen that it is possible to force capitulation in that silver market. But at the end of the day, because the ability to pull private keys is not like it is Bitcoin, I don't think it'll ever succeed. Whereas with Bitcoin, you can pull your private keys. Now, I mean, he is speaking facts right here. Warren Buffett and his own words has said, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. The central bankers are using it to manipulate the markets. That's what they're doing with silver. That's what they're doing with gold and precious metals. And Max makes a great point. They don't want the gold and silver prices to rise up. It undermines the US dollar. They're trying to keep a strong dollar, right? So that's why gold has been pretty stable at like $2 ,000 and unable to really climb much above it. I think it's been pretty stagnant virtually for the past decade. So with the dollar inflating from them continuing to print trillions of dollars, the fact that gold isn't just continuously going up, it proves that the market is manipulated. You also got to consider as well, there is no scarce asset like Bitcoin. Bitcoin has a finite limited supply of 21 million coins. Yeah, gold may be rare or scarce, but they dump a new supply every year into the market. They can control it. They could invest more into discovering more gold. As Jack Mallers pointed out, Elon could maybe discover more gold on Mars. Who knows? Bitcoin, you can't say the same thing. Bitcoin is perfect money. It's incorruptible. It's unconfiscatable and the list goes on and on. So if you had the choice to put your wealth somewhere, what asset class would you choose to put it in? Let me know, fam. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from BUILD CONFIDENCE - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"You cannot consistency. The person who does what they're supposed to do day after day, regardless of how they feel, is going to be the person who wins. The people who are the most successful in the real world, the people who wake up every day and work. If you're the person who wakes up, does work, is fantastic at it, but then takes three days off, you're going to lose. They say that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And it's completely true. You have to be consistent. You have to decide, are you the kind of person who wants to make a lot of money in this life and live a life of freedom? Or are you the kind of person who wants to look back when he's 30 on his 20s or 40 on his 30s and look at that decade and go, what did I do with that decade? Well, I didn't get rich. I didn't travel the world and live like they do and take confidential. What did I do? Well, I had a day off here, a day off there, a bunch of nothing days amalgamated to this decade of nothingness. And you're just wasting your time. If you want to win, you need to be consistent. You don't need to be the smartest. Not at all, but you have to be the guy who's there day after day. And I guarantee you, I will guarantee you right now, IQ has nothing to do with how successful you are. What is going to determine how success you're going to be is, are you there every single day? Are you doing what you're supposed to do day after day? I can also apply this to sales. I knew guys who were terrible on the phone back in my day on sales. You start to call companies. I was smooth. I was the best. We have some other guys who are smooth that land the deal, go buy a nice car, whatever, take a few days off, take it easy. We had people who were terrible. When I say terrible, I mean, they had a thick Indian accent, didn't speak English that well, didn't know the script that well, didn't know the answers, but they were always in the top 20 percent of the company because they just hammered the phone. They just were on it. They needed to feed their family and bang with it. They didn't give a fuck. They were just calling. That's it. Day after day. When you're on lunch break, he's on the phone. You can win with hard work alone. That's what's amazing about the universe. And I say that God will give you anything you truly want. If you truly want money and you truly try hard and truly listen to us, you are going to have as much money as you can possibly have inside. But if you think you want money, but you kind of want something else, or you're arrogant or you're lazy, you're going to end up somewhere in the middle. If you're lucky and talented and you're not talented. Why on earth are you going to go through life and believe you're an unlucky individual? I don't see how that can benefit. Why would you think it's kind of crazy? Because I say this, the number one thing people don't have control of in their lives is their mind. But what's funny about that is the only thing in life you can truly control is your mind. Can't control other people. Can't control the world. Can't even control your health. Your heart might stop beating. You don't make it beat. It just goes. So it's going to turn off one day. The only thing you can control in your life is what you think in your mind. So if you're going to sit there and go, I'm sad. Well, you you can change that if you actually try, but you don't. You just accept it. Right. So people have lost control of their own minds. And I don't understand why you would allow your mind, your own mind, to take power from you. Why would you believe in your let your own mind convince you? You're not a lucky person or I'm not this or I'm not confident. Why would you let your own mind sabotage you? Why wouldn't you reprogram your own mind to be on your team? Should be your ally. Right. Like I don't ever feel like I'm satisfied. I never like won the world title. Yes, I'm the champ now. It's just like, OK, next, next, next. I was kind of always like that. You know, what's amazing? Lots of now I have money. Lots of people always ask me, how do I get rich? And I say, when's the last time you've talked about money? When's the last time you sat down with your friends and refused to talk about anything else but how to make money? How are you making money? How are you making money? How am I making money? How can we make money together? How's that guy making money? How's that coffee shop there making money? Is that coffee shop making money? I don't know. Do they sell cake? No, why don't they sell cake? Everyone in here is a businessman. If they had a cute young waitress, a girl instead of a guy, they'd probably sell more coffee. Like no one analyzes anything. They just want to get rich. Right. I want to be rich, but they have no plan to get rich. And a hope and a plan are very different things. I explain this to people all the time. Everyone has a dream, but no one has a plan. And nothing good is going to happen on accident. Right. I didn't become world champion on accident. I didn't wake up and someone go, how did you become world champion? I went, oops, you have to plan for it. So a lot of them, the male instinct to conquer Earth is financial. I think this is why men work so hard is why men are so obsessed with money. Or they should be. They absolutely should be obsessed with money. Some men are born with something else inside of the fire inside of them, which cannot be extinguished by beans on toast, TV at night, nine to five, sitting around with a wife. I know me as an individual. I could not be satisfied with that. That doesn't mean I look down on the people who are absolutely congratulations. But my time on the planet, I guarantee will be more eventful. I will die with more stories. I would have made a bigger ripple in space time because I refuse to comply with just the average. This is OK. You'll be happy with this. Take it. There's always been that class of person even since the dawn of time. There's been the normal guy and then there's been the dude who insists on conquering the world. There's been Napoleon who says, no, fuck you. I'm taking this and this and this. It depends what you're born with. Right. I think a man should have absolutely no interest in whether he's actually happy or not. If I wake up and I'm unhappy, I will do the exact same things as if I am happy. I will go to the gym the same. I will work the same. How I feel has no impact on how I live my life. I don't think happiness as an index is a healthy view for a man to have on life success. Women are different. Women just want to be happy, right? Women just want to smile. They don't care how. They don't care if they deserve it or not. As long as they get to smile, women are happy. That's women. But I think for a man, if you're waking up and going, oh, am I happy? Am I not? You're looking at life wrong. I think of a man, if you put happiness far, if you move it down the scale, right, and you start looking at am I, am I successful, am I competent, you know, am I achieving things? Am I respected? If you start to look at these indicators of your life, you're going to end up being happier without actually analyzing if you're happy or not. So for me, I understood very, very well that half a million dollars a month is good, but a million dollars a month is better. And I also very, very much understood that as soon as you stop pushing forward, as soon as you go stagnant, you're dying, right? As soon as you stay in one place, you're slowly on the way down, right? If you were to if you're if your podcast, if your channel now were to stagninate in views, you'd be worried. That's effectively dying. It has to grow at all times. So every business has to work. So for me, I was under enormous pressure. I didn't think, oh, I have plenty of money now. It was a complete opposite. I wanted to work harder, more hours. I found the tap.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/15/23
"I thought I was having a stroke. I think, is that me talking again? That was the previously on the Mike and Mark segment, because we got through all the important stuff, because there have been some things going on. But then I didn't really get to the part where our plane got hit by something during our sojourn in New York. What did your plane get hit by? What kind of thing hits planes these days? A bird? Bingo! Bird strike. Now, here's the good news. We were not on the plane. So what do you mean, our plane? So we're at DFW, getting ready to board for New York on Thursday afternoon last week. And then the word comes from the gate. It's never a good thing like, flight, we got a special announcement, draw near, light a fire, here we go, we got info. And it was, there would be a delay because on the way in the flight, which usually would turn around in about 45 minutes, yeah, that wasn't going to happen because there was a bird strike on the way in. And it was American. And listen, you've done a lot of travel and I have too, somewhat less, when they tell you the delay is going to be an hour and a half, you know it's going to be five. You know, you may not get out that day. Actually, the delay really wound up being about close to an hour and a half and American actually handled it very, very nicely. I'll tell you what they did, they put us on another plane, which I'm thankful for because I believe that the technicians and the workers would all get in there and make sure there's not, you know, a nest of birds in the turbine engines or so. I mean, but I was glad to be on another plane. But that gets me to question number two for my travel oracle, Mike Gallagher. You're both a travel oracle and a dog lover, right? We all love travel and dogs, correct? At the same time on the list of things we love travel. So it's a fixture now. Everybody's got, and I'm not talking about a support peacock or any of this idiocy, but actual service dogs are a common thing. And I love that when I see somebody, I know they got something going on and it just makes me feel, you know, empathy and love toward one. I sat in front of one yesterday, beautiful dog, well behaved, and a lady with special needs. You could tell she, I think she was with her daughter and that, and it was a big dog, but they were at her feet and just sleeping all through the flight and just as docile and peaceful and beautiful as can be. So here's the question I have, where do they poop? If you've got a service dog and it's like, well, it's going to be four hours. Now, some airports, DFW among them have places, I think, where you can go take the puppy when puppy has to pop a squirt. I mean, I totally get it. Lord knows if I do, it's right there. But what if a Rover has one in the chamber and I mean, we're sorry, your flight is going to be four hours. How in the world? And I've never, now that you mentioned with all the travel I do, I've never, ever heard of any kind of an accident on the plane with a service dog. Well, maybe, maybe they just have doggy bags. Would people have carry doggy bags with them? And they're able to scoop stuff up. You know, I mean, you talk about travel challenges though. My friends, Joey and Peg took three days to get back from New York to South Carolina. This is what they do. Walk. No, it was the flights were canceled because of weather on Sunday. Then they were all sold out on Monday. Then they got back on a plane Tuesday, and then it stormed again on Tuesday. They finally got in a car, tried to drive from New York to South Carolina, made it to Philly, and then were able to get on a flight from Philly into South Carolina. And that's a normal thing, though. When you say an hour and a half, believe me, tell that to Joey Hudson. It took three days. He would have killed to take an hour and a half. One of the last thing, truly last thing, because this ties into technology you talked about yesterday. We were talking about the wonderful story of the electric vehicle caravan that just was destroyed by the facts of life and Jennifer Granholm because they couldn't find a charging station, blah, blah, blah. And you talked about the Tesla experience where the, where your car knows where the charging stations are, knows how many people are at the charging station. And so that put very front of mind the notion of modern technology and how it knows where people are. Surely you've done this. That was my first experience. Again, at DFW, one of these stores, it's run by Amazon. It's called Grab and Fly, which is a very uncomfortable title where you walk, you go bloop, you scan your credit card. Then you go through a turnstile, walk in, buy, pick stuff up and walk out. And it knows what you have and hits your card. And I asked the woman, I said, how does it know that I have a magazine and a bottle of water? It just knows. And it knows where you are. It senses what you have. It senses where you are. It follows, it tells you, it tells you how long you were in the store to the second. I mean, cause, cause I just experienced my first Amazon pop -up store last week in New York. They have one right across from the hotel. You feel like you're shoplifting because you don't even walk out. You don't even have to put it. You don't even have to, or you could just carry it all out under your arms like a shoplifter. Like you're in San Francisco. It's another day in New York city. I mean, you'd walk out and then about five or 10 minutes after you leave the Amazon store, you'll get a note on your, you'll get an email and you'll get a notification on your Amazon app. Okay. You had a 33 ounce bottle of water. You had a bottle of two bag of chips. You have it. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. I totally love it. I love it until this technology is suddenly turned against us, which could happen at any moment. I'm thinking so. Now, speaking of technology, how much have you done with AI? How much have you done on air about artificial intelligence? Have you talked about it? Okay. In terms of talking about whether the answer is a little in, I can give you a 30 second summation. I'm fascinated by perfect framework because I'm fascinated by it. There are parts of it that are really cool. I think it's making students lazy cause they're getting it to write compositions for them, but you can always tell when AI has done it because it's kind of passionless and unartful. I farted around with a stupid chat GPT thing. I remember I had it write a promo for your show, which was actually pretty good and et cetera, et cetera. But the whole notion of surrendering to artificial brains, all manner of things is a little daunting to me. Now, when you asked me about it as a topic - Well, let me tell you what I'm getting to. When I bring it up - Instead of your dissertation, let me tell you why I'm asking you about it because we got a big problem on our hands. I'm going to tell you right now, and your indifference to it has been my indifference to - I'm not indifferent. No, no, no. I don't mean indifference, but I'm with you. I'm exactly the way you've been. It's like, oh, okay. It's kind of cool. Let me tell you something. It's bad, and they're holding hearings on Capitol Hill, Mark, and let me tell you how it hit us yesterday, a dose of reality that applies to what we do for a living because this is not chat GPT. This is real potential for some serious mayhem and Armageddon. Let me tell you what happened. I'm on the show yesterday, and I can see, I don't know how your setup is in your studio in Dallas, but I can see the incoming calls that Tracy is getting when they call the show. Line four lights up. It's Los Angeles. I see Tracy because we're all on camera in this setup we have, and I can see her eyes get real big. She puts the guy on hold. She says, oh my gosh, it's Bill Maher on line four. I said, Bill Maher? She goes, yeah, and I look up, and she's got Bill Maher on the screen, line four, Los Angeles. I said, it's not Bill Maher. She goes, I'm telling you, I'm talking to him. I know what he sounds like. It's Bill Maher. I say, Eric, talk to the guy. See if it's Bill Maher. And supposedly, he's calling a few select talk shows that he respects to explain why he's bringing his show back to HBO despite the writer's strike. And he is bringing his show back despite the writer's strike. That's a story. Good for him. It's a cool story because he's telling them, you know what? I got people that got to pay the bills. And here we go with 46 % pay raise, and they want to work one less day a week and 90 weeks of vacation. Oh, yeah. Other than that, they're fine. I'm going to take the labor side in a minute, but finish. Oh, please. Well, let's not get distracted with that crap. A little bit. Go ahead. A labor side. Yeah, you take the labor side. I'm going to have some love for the law workers. You go demand, Jeff Mitchell, you want a 46 % pay raise tomorrow. Give me a break. Give me a break. It's not the same thing. Don't be a pro -union. Come on, give me a break. I'm the last person to do that, but those workers were told certain things and had certain things happen and they've been screwed to a degree. But they want a 46 % pay raise. They want a 32 hour work week. They want 40 hour pay for 32 weeks of work, 32 hours of work. They want, give me a break. They're greedy. They might be entitled to something, but they ain't entitled to what they're demanding. Don't take the side. Okay, Richard, Jimmy Hoffa, knock it off. Don't squirrelly on me. Oh, golly. Focus, focus. So Bill Maher. Well, yeah, you tell him good. Be pro labor. Yeah, you'd be pro labor. So anyway, Bill Maher. So I say, Eric, get on the phone. Talk to the guy. Eric has been at this for 25 years. Yes. He is a veteran. He comes back to me, eyes bugged open. He said, Mike, I'm 95 % sure that's Bill Maher. I said the final. It was responsive. He asked it. He asked it questions and he asked the question and the guy answered. Now I say, finally, we see the number on the screen. We have caller ID. I said, what's the, what's the number? We ran it. We run a check on the number. Oh, it's, it's Bill Maher. So the guy, so I'm thinking, I think it's him. So I went on the air with him. Listen to what it sounded like. No. Okay. Listen to what? Well, listen, why not? Bill Maher's calling the show. Because you know, it's fake because I don't know it's fake. Bill flipping Maher is not going to cold call radio stations. He's going to have three, three production assistants call your people and that's how it's going to go. Okay. So listen to the exchange. Listen, listen to the exchange. We're all mystified by this. I'm going to, we're going to probably get burned on this. Uh, I got, and the problem is I got 30 seconds left in this segment. So we're all, we're all taking bets as to whether or not you are really Bill Maher. Is this Bill Maher? Yes, it is Bill Maher. Thanks for letting me come on.
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"The First Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Presentation in the Temple Sorrow as sharp as a sword shall pierce Mary's heart because of her child. Mary is in the temple, having come with Joseph to present the child to God. They meet Simeon, the holy man, and Anna, the prophetess. Simeon takes the baby in his arms, saying he will now die in peace because he has seen Christ. Then he foretells the sorrow to come. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the affliction of your tender heart at the prophecy of the Holy and Agent Simeon. Dear Mother, by your heart so afflicted, obtain for me the virtue of humility, and the gift of the holy fear of God. Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Worn in sleep by an angel, Joseph takes Jesus and his mother Mary setting out for Egypt, where they lived in obscurity and poverty until it was safe to return to Nazareth. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in the anguish of your most affectionate heart during the flight into Egypt, and your sojourn there. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of generosity, especially toward the poor, and the gift of piety. Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen. The third sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The loss of Jesus for three days. When Jesus is twelve, he is taken to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover. On the return journey, Joseph and Mary find at the end of the first day that Jesus is not with them. Racked with anxiety, they search for him. Nobody in the streets, not even the beggars, can tell him where he is. Not till the third day do they find him in the temple. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, in those anxieties which tried your troubled heart at the loss of your dear Jesus. Dear Mother, by your heart so full of anguish, obtain for me the virtue of chastity and the gift of knowledge. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The Fourth Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Way to Calvary Mary has known fear and sorrow, but none so great as seeing her beloved son stumbling under the weight of the cross. She hears the jeering shouts from the crowd and has no power to help him. Pity and love are in her eyes as she gazes at his blood -stained face. To many around her, he is no better than a criminal, and her heart is breaking as she follows him to Calvary. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary, most sorrowful, in the consternation of your heart at meeting Jesus as he carried his cross. Dear Mother, by your heart so troubled, obtain for me the virtue of patience and the gift of fortitude. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Jesus told her, truly her heart is pierced with sorrow. Her beloved Son is dying and she shares in his suffering. She does not ask God to take away this agony. She is his mother, so close to him that his pain is hers too. And now he speaks from the cross, Woman, behold thy son. Jesus gives his mother to John and to us. For all eternity, she is our mother. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary, most sorrowful, in the martyrdom which your generous heart endured in standing near Jesus in his agony. Dear Mother, by your afflicted heart, obtain for me the virtue of temperance and the gift of counsel. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. The Amen. Sixth Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Descent from the Cross It is over. Dark clouds have appeared in the sky and upon the world. Jesus is dead. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus take down the body from the cross and Mary receives it in her arms. She is filled with a sadness that no human heart has known. This is her son. Once she had cradled him in her arms, listened to his voice, watched him working at the carpenter's bench. Now he is dead. She does not weep. Her grief is too great for tears. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary, most sorrowful, in the wounding of your compassionate heart, when the side of Jesus was struck by the lance before his body was removed from the cross. Dear Mother, by your heart thus transfixed, obtain for me the virtue of fraternal charity and the gift of understanding. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Hastily, the body is wrapped in a clean linen cloth. Nicodemus has brought myrrh and aloes, and the body is bound in the shroud with them. Nearby is a new tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea, and there they lay Jesus. Mary and John and the holy women follow them, and watch as the great stone to the sepulchre is rolled. It is the end. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. I grieve for you, O Mary most sorrowful, for the pangs that wrenched your loving heart at the burial of Jesus. Dear Mother, by your heart sunk in the bitterness of desolation, obtain for me the virtue of diligence and the gift of wisdom. Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. O afflicted Virgin, O soul great in virtues as in sorrows, both the one and the other spring from that great fire burning in thy heart for God, the only love of thy heart. Mary, have pity on me, who has not loved God, and who has so greatly offended him. Thy sorrows, it is true, assure me of pardon, but that is not sufficient. I wish to love God. Who could obtain for me that grace if not thee, who are the mother of holy love? O Mary, thou consolest to everyone, favour me also with thy consolations. Amen.
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"25. Powered by Red River. Technology decisions aren't black and white. Think Red. At 225 We've got Steve Dresner. Way to go Neil. Great story. Want to take you back to that magical year of 2019. That's where the Nats made everything work and eventually captured their first World Series title. Everyone in lineup the stepped up, bullpenned to the bench players, and that included timely pitching from Steven Crossberg. Earlier I had a chance to spend a few minutes with Nats broadcaster Bob Carpenter, and a great take from Bob about Steven Crossberg's mark on that championship run. Until the Nats win another one, he remains our only ever World Series Most Valuable Player, and he was amazing in the early part of that series, and then again in game six in a must -win situation in the Nats. Well put from Bob Carpenter. We'll hear more from him throughout the day here on WTOP Nats. Continue the road trip Miami. in This evening it will be a 640 start as the take on the Maryland Johanna gets a start over on 1500 a .m. Steve Driesner, WTOP Sports. Thanks Steve. Coming up here on WTOP after traffic and weather, what an agreement on Virginia's state budget will mean for taxpayers wallets. 226. Looking for a beautiful and functional upgrade to your home this summer? Three Day Blinds covered. has you At Three Day Blinds our free in -home design consultation makes it easy. A Three Day Blinds design expert will help you find the window treatment solution that works best for your home's needs and style. We bring the showroom to you loads with of samples giving you an idea of how different fabrics look in your home. Your designer also provides measurements and helps coordinate installation.
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"A three -day weekend for many around here and on the menu for many Marylanders, crabs over the weekend. It was a really busy at day one iconic seafood company in the area. I'm gonna get some medium female crabs. I'm gonna get a half a bushel of large females. At Captain White's Seafood in Oxon Hill, the line wraps around the business. Dozens waiting to buy crabs and once the line shrinks it grows again as more people show up. I kind of knew it was because they haven't sailed on today on crabs and it's a holiday so I kind of expected the line. The business moved here last year after being a DC Southwest waterfront for decades. Owner Sonny White says it's nice to see that the new location is thriving now. You know after 50 years of good service, good crabs, we have a lot of customers. In Oxon Hill, Nick Einelly, WTOP News. Good Tuesday morning, June 20th, 2023. Welcome into WTOP. Time now is 2 .08. Glad you're with us. Get the DC tune -up for only $59. Michael and Son. Traffic and weather on the And when it breaks, let's check it out with Rich Hunter in the WTOP Traffic Center. Our work continues on the Beltway and Maryland on the Interloop beginning after Connecticut Avenue past George Avenue to a point just beyond the interchange at Colesville Road. Single file left. Now get you by the paving project and the ramps to both northbound and southbound 29 from the Interloop are closed as part of the paving project. The ramp from northbound 29 Interloop to the is open. You do get on beyond the work zone. If you're traveling on the Interloop in Prince George's County beginning right near the exit for the Green Bell Metro and extending to just after the interchange for the Baltimore Washington Parkway single file left gets you by there as well. All the ramps on and off are open however you will occasionally run into delays especially on the ramp from the Baltimore Washington Parkway to join the Interloop at the Beltway so be careful. Now if you're traveling on the outer loop of the Beltway from the Woodrow Wilson Ridge around through the 95 interchange then and west through Silver Spring, Bethesda and across the American Legion Bridge. Nothing in your way at this hour. Still working on 70 eastbound in Washington County east of exit 35 for Maryland 66 Boonesboro. You are down to a single left lane to that work zone. Reportedly an emergency work zone so be aware still you see a little bit of a slow down there as a result. Thinking about an electric car? Plug into fitsmall .com and your find electric ride today. Check out the Hyundai Ioniq, VW ID4 or Chevy Volt at fitsmall .com. That's the Fitsway. Rich Hunter WTF traffic. Moving through the early part of the day scattered showers a little bit of patchy fog then by afternoon our skies mostly cloudy with a shower or two temperatures in the mid 70s to around 80 degrees we could see
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"The fed will be on as monetary policy path. From 5.07% to 4.47, some 60 basis points in about three days of trading, what are you seeing with other haven place? Yeah, so we still see as we were hearing on the markets run down a little bit of strength in the yen still and as far as Frank, those have been the places where people have looked for protection in the last 48 hours of trading more or less. But today, the FX market is still telling more of a risk on kind of a story. We have lots of strength in the Australian dollar, for example. Maybe you also taking a little bit of feel good factor from the continuity that we saw with some of the Chinese officials in the reshuffle that was announced that the weekend. I think, you know, kind of otherwise stocks is going to be very interesting to see how the market reacts there. Yes, this kind of should assuage some of those nerves and we see the U.S. futures up that at the same time, you know, tech and the pain that it's fell from this in the startups and the exposure and the potential for less access to funding from banks as they become more cautious. You know, there are still plenty of snags there, basically. These issues are still there. I mean, this is just one bank. The depositors have been bailed out, but the issue is still there. All throughout the world, people took these lower interest rates. Borrowed money and invested it in securities that are not worth as much as they thought there would be. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's really been the story of the last over the last year, much more exciting than the losses in the stock market has been the losses in the bond market and the bigger implications that that has globally. And the reset to a higher interest rate environment, which can't be done without breaking
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"Lead boldly slash WTO. This is WTO P news, it's 5 54, an awards ceremony will be held in Mexico for the first time ever. The 50 best bars awards are heading south of the border. This year, ceremony will be held in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico on May 4th. There's a good reason it will be held in Mexico, the country currently has 11 bars on the 50 best list. The ceremony was held in New York City last year. This year celebration when the 50 best bars in the world will be announced, will last three days. Wendy Gillette, CBS News. A Maryland lawmaker working to prevent cyber flashing or sending unsolicited sexual images through online platforms, so she's now a victim herself. Delegate Leslie Lopez says she received the sexually explicit image through a message on Twitter, recently she sponsored a bill that would create a task force to figure out how to respond to and prevent the harassment. This effort began when my Friends reached out to tell me that she had been receiving illicit images and asked what protections might be in the law. Well, what I found was that there were no protections, but instead there was a large gaping loophole that has a huge impact on women. Virginia already has laws on the books against cyber flashing, meantime in D.C., council member Brooke Pinto recently introduced legislation that would punish people who do it. A case of James WTO news. Money news at 25 and 55 brought to you by pen fed credit union. Great rates for everyone. This is a Bloomberg money minute. Computer chips are found in just about everything we use from cars to appliances. But with silicon semiconductors, near the limit of their efficiency, it may be time to move on. Scientists are racing to perfect replacements called carbon nanotubes. A carbon nanotube is a material made entirely of carbon atoms, universities of Wisconsin, professor Michael Arnold. The carbon atoms are arranged in a tube, which is about 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of an eyelash. And use less power and handle much more data faster than silicon chips. In addition, carbon nanotubes are easier to produce than the chips. So what's the delay? Aligning the tubes on a silicon wafer to make them usable has been a challenge, but they're getting closer. If we can overcome these challenges if we can make these aligned attitude wafers, the major players in the industry were really jumping this field and it could just progress at that point can be very rapid. From the Bloomberg newsroom, I'm Steve potus. On WTO P, traffic and weather just ahead, 5 56. We buy any cars any any any trading in or selling your car truck or SUV, we buy any car dot com takes the hassle out of selling in three easy steps
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"Over the weekend, President Biden's attorney says 6 additional items, including documents marked as classified, were found in Biden's Delaware home on Friday, following a Department of Justice search, the documents appear to be related to Biden's time as vice president and from his tenure in the U.S. Senate per Biden's personal attorney bob Bauer, Bauer says they were found after Biden's council offered full access to the home. New details are emerging about the 6 year old boy who recently shot his teacher in the chest at a Virginia school. Criss-cross has the latest. Last month the child opened fire with a handgun in what police called a targeted attack. It's now been revealed the same child had previously written notes claiming he wanted to set his teacher on fire and watch her die. His teacher Abigail's Werner took the notes to the school who told her to drop it. Other teachers at richneck elementary say zorner had asked for help multiple times regarding the boy's outbursts, but her concerns were dismissed, sworn or was shot in the chest but survived the shooting is currently being investigated as intentional. I'm Chris coraggio, representative Nancy Pelosi is giving an update on her husband Paul's health following the brutal attack on him almost three months ago in an interview with CNN set to air on Sunday, Pelosi said that Paul was doing okay, but that it would take, quote, a little while for him to be back to normal. Paul Pelosi was attacked in late October after a man allegedly broke into the Pelosi's home, in search of Nancy, then attacking Paul with the hammer, and illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border are hitting record highs. Customs and border protection said, it stopped more than a quarter of a million migrants along the Mexican border in December. That's a 7% increase compared to November and reflects a 40% jump from December of 2021. I'm Jim Forbes. A former top official with the U.S. border patrol is under investigation after his alleged involvement in a sex scandal. Tony Barker served as the acting chief of the law enforcement operations for the border patrol, but abruptly resigned a few months ago after several women made disturbing claims against him. One woman said, when she tried to end a consensual relationship with Barker, he began threatening her to get her to perform sexual favors. After she came forward, other women began making similar complaints about being pressured into sex with Barker. He left his post in October, but was quickly rehired to work on the southwest border command center. A man dies after jumping in front of an approaching subway train in The Bronx, David folk Thomas has more. It happened around ten 15 Saturday morning at the pelham Parkway station. The man was seen leaping into the path of an approaching southbound two train on the elevated tracks. Police and EMTs responded to the scene and the man was pronounced dead. His identity was not immediately available. Service was disrupted in both directions while the NYPD investigated the incident. Buckingham Palace is revealing plans for King Charles the third's coronation, the festivities began on May 6th with a coronation big lunch and coronation concert the next day, capped off by an extra bank holiday on Monday. The coronation will be a solemn religious service, according to the palace, but will reflect the monarch's role today and look toward the future. And Beyoncé is performing live again, the global icon did her first live show in over four years in Dubai on Saturday as part of the launch of the new Atlantis royal hotel. The event was invitation only with the singer performing for over an hour which included a duet with daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, the performance comes two weeks before the Grammy Awards, where Beyoncé is nominated for 9 awards. I'm Jim Forbes. And now this Bloomberg sports update to the National Football League, it was divisional round. It was in Philadelphia and it was all Philadelphia third time in the last 41 days that the Giants hooked up with the eagles and unfortunately it looked like a carbon copy again. They often say it's hard to beat the same team. Three times in one year, but the eagles made it look easy 38 to 7. In fact, they raced out to a 28 nothing lead earlier in the game their quarterback, Jalen hurts, he was a perfect 7 for 7 in the first quarter. He had three scores, including two passing touchdowns. His counterpart, giants quarterback Daniel Jones, who made his playoff debut, intercepted once no touchdown passes, and he was sacked 5 times giant still finish the season at ten, 8, and one. They have a few months to regroup before the draft, which will be held in late April. The eagles, meanwhile, they host the NFC title game coming up on Sunday, it'll be against the winner of San Francisco and Dallas. In the AFC, Jacksonville came into Kansas City, riding high have won 6 straight games, including cardiac like fashion towards the end of that streak. Then again, they'd not played Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. They had last week off. They were the AFC's top seed. Patrick Mahomes, the all pro quarterback went down with an ankle injury. He rebound delete his team to a 27 20 win throwing two touchdown passes. Kansas City's in their 5th consecutive AFC title game. On Sunday, it's the bills hosting Cincinnati followed by the forty-niners hosting the cowboys. NBA nicks and nets were both off the Knicks. They'll be on the road in Toronto on Sunday. That's they're at Golden State. College basketball number 20, marquette. They beat up seat and hall 74 to 53 on the frozen floor. How about the islander as they lose at home at UBS arena 5 to two to the Carolina hurricanes? Devil Sosa penguins on Sunday. With your Bloomberg sports update. I'm rob busker. This is a Bloomberg money minute. What's in your kitchen trash can right now? If you're like most people, there's a lot of food waste in there. In fact, uneaten food is the most abundant material in landfills. It warms the planet, and it wastes money, but what if your food waste is someone else's food? 13 years after helping create connected home company nest, cofounder Matt Rogers is connecting with the farm, cutting farmers costs with chicken feed from your kitchen
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"Just gone 7 30 in the morning right here in Hong Kong and in Singapore It is a 7 30 in the evening on Wall Street I'm Rashad Salah And I'm Doug prisoner at the Bloomberg interactive broker studio in New York We've got a holiday for the next three days I should say in Japan trading will begin in Sydney and Seoul at the top of the hour and in two hours time trading in Hong Kong after a holiday We'll take a closer look at markets in a moment when Brian Curtis joins us right now a few of the sours top business stories Rich Yeah but Elon Musk said to be looking for additional financing for his purchase of Twitter Reuters claims that Musk is Musk is trying to spare some of his own wealth in the $44 billion deals been speaking with private equity firms and hedge funds about more financing Apollo global management and Arizona management are among the firms in talks with Musk in my schools are said to be talking with major Twitter investors about retaining equity in the new ownership instead of cashing out Citigroup may be facing some challenges as it moves to exit retail banking in Russia the question is whether financial sanctions will make it difficult to find a buyer last year Citigroup did announce plans to exit retail banking operations in 13 markets across Europe and Asia CEO Jane Fraser says Citigroup still intends to sell operations while serving corporate clients in Russia Here she is speaking at the milken global conference today in Los Angeles We are selling our consumer and our commercial banking franchise on the ground there and we're in active dialog around that And then what we've also been doing is focusing on helping the multinationals on the ground because.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"three days" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I believe you know we're down for three days and I'm sure those were three long days for you What lessons did you take from that as you scale and grow Would you consider partnering with an AWS or a Microsoft one day to use their cloud capabilities Yeah so we took this very seriously and you're exactly right This was three long days We're going to publish an analysis of what happened and share what we're doing to make sure this never happens again We were really surprised by the outpouring of our community and support And when that outage when we came back up we didn't lose any of the people on the platform which was very gratifying But it highlighted the responsibility we have with our community to be a 24 7 utility really for them So we'll share more about that in the future We took it very seriously Adopt me is now the most popular game on roadblocks I believe you can raise virtual pets there I think my kids use this 64 million players every month What are your favorite games on Roblox Dave Oh this is really fun It's almost like asking me which is my favorite child right Except that I would have millions and millions of children And all of these are created by our community ranging from hobbyists who are just starting out or learning to code to large teams that can have 30 40 50 people were soon approaching the time when one of the teams on Roblox is going to make a $100 million a year And some of the most creative people in the world are working on the platform I personally have a affinity for railroad simulation type experiences There's a lot on the platform But pretty much anything we could imagine will probably find some experience like that on roadblocks Well speaking of kids I'm a parent and even though you've got these parental controls I still worry I still worry Are my kids safe Are they developing healthy habits Are they engaging with Roblox and this technology in a healthy way What advice do you have for parents and people like me out there who are still trying to understand how we should moderate our children's experiences Yeah I think this is twofold We're being very very thoughtful and that we're very optimistic over time more and more as people that come together on platforms like Roblox will be helping with civility and we'll be giving nudges and hints to actually we like to make the world a better place through that For parents please talk to your kids This is always a discussion that you can use Roblox and other forms of media to have a great discussion about this So we always recommend close communication thank you for that advice robots cofounder and CEO David bazuki great to have you back with us Appreciate it And that does it for this edition of Bloomberg technology can make sure you tune in tomorrow We're gonna have my exclusive interview with Adam so let's get his CEO of Amazon Web Services and Sundar Pichai the CEO of Alphabet and Google just another day here on Bloomberg tech You don't want to miss I'm Emily Chang in San Francisco This is Bloomberg Take a not so random walk.
The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"three days" Discussed on The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"He put in three 20. Three 20, okay? Yes. That's like a nice perfect C like average yeah size, not crazy big, not crazy small, just sort of like give you a good proportion. That is precisely what I wanted. That is exactly what I wanted. And that's what he gave me. He's not like some of these doctors. I've heard numerous times doctors sticking in bigger ones because they thought it looked better. And then the patient being horrified. That happened to a couple of my friends, actually. I've heard stories and when doctor, I remember at a plastic surgery meeting, and he said, and he was joking, but maybe not really. He was like, go big or go home. I was like, well, that's not really what all of us want. Some people sure. That's great. You know, a lot of us just want to be curvy in a natural way. Exactly. And so that's really nice. Yeah. Now, did he give you any instructions of things to do, specifically or not to do? I see him in a week and that's when he said he's going to give me the instructions on how to massage the muscle. So he's going to give me another week of healing until I can start pressing down and doing these massages. I guess 5 times a day for 5 minutes or something like that. But that's next week when I see him so one more week. And then what does he have you wearing? Like, do you have a special bra that's? Well, I have the very sexy. Nude colored bra that it hooks in the front. So it's really easy to put on. So there's no back issues. Not stretching back there. That makes sense. And then I have a little bit of gauze, but today I put on a dress with no pads just my boobs and this little garment that I have on. And I have a figure and I'm like, oh my God, this is awesome. I'm never gonna have to deal with the pads again. My whole life, pads, pads, pads, pads. Everything padded. And I'm just so thrilled that that's so cool. Yeah, right? Be like, that's incredible. You say you got to see them yesterday. Tell me her first reaction. When you take all the dressings off and my first reaction was, wow, that's what I'm supposed to look like. That's what my breasts are supposed to look like. Not these small kind of saggy breasts that I had before . When he first opened it up and said, do you want to see? I'm like, yes, I do. I am totally okay with seeing any kind of stitches. And I looked and I was like, these are the absolute perfect size for me. How did you know? And I guess he had doctor saltz in there with him. And they were like bouncing ideas off of each other about shitty put a bigger one on this side and this side and it turns out that they put exactly the same size in both breasts. Oh, interesting. Yeah, because some women do have to have most of us have some asymmetry. So one side's bigger than the other. So a lot of times somebody might say oh, I had three 50 here in three 25 there. And that's something that I think people don't realize. You know, we've got a group practice. We've got 5 amazing surgeons, and they do collaborate. And they do talk about things with each other to make sure it's like, you know, what would you do? And what technique would you use? And so obviously there are experts in their own right, but having that extra eye. Yeah. Yeah, is a really nice thing. So I was so honored because doctor Swiss and first of all, having him, I'm honored, but doctor saltz, I know that she's like the boob queen. I know several people who have gotten breast implants from doctor salt. So I felt so honored. She was in there as well. Oh, that's neat. Okay, so we're going to talk to you again and let's say in about three weeks. So maybe a month after surgery. So if you were going to make a prediction about how you're going to feel at that point, what would it be? I'm going to feel so confident and so happy that I'm going to be able to accomplish anything, really. There's going to be no part of my body that I'm ashamed of. How about that? Oh, I love that. That's awesome. Okay, so now Laura, tell everybody where they can follow you. You guys can follow me at Laura Kane after dark on Instagram and Laura Kane after dark on Facebook and just plain old Laura Kane on YouTube. And I can't wait. This whole thing has been videotaped. She even came into the OR and I'm really excited to see how all that turns out. Yeah, yeah. I can share some of that on my YouTube page. That would be absolutely. Yeah. So what we're going to do is we're kind of filming the whole journey so that then at the end of it, we'll put together like a little itty bitty movie. Of your journey. So yeah, that's in process right now. Oh yeah. Well, wonderful. And if you're listening today and you have questions, you need information about scheduling or financing, reviews or before and after photos check our show notes for links and thank you again, Laura. Don't go crazy because you feel so good, right? No, please tell me that again. Please don't go crazy because you feel so good. Okay. Because you don't want to set yourself backwards. There's nothing worse than feeling really good in overdoing it and then all of a sudden feeling like you did on day two. I think that's the biggest caution really is that patients, I think feel better than they thought they would. And then they're like, okay, let me go to this or not feel like running errands and doing this and picking up that, but I can't pick up my dog. I know I can't do any of this stuff. So I'm trying to be good. So I will. Thank you for telling me that again. Maybe your mom. Make sure I'll just be texting you, Laura. Take it easy. Okay. All right. Thanks everybody.
The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"three days" Discussed on The La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
"And today is your third day. I guess the surgery was Tuesday in today's Friday. So welcome back. First of all, thank you. And so we won't keep you for long because you're post-op, but don't worry about it. I feel like I could do anything. I know I'm not supposed to. But I feel like I'm organizing drawers and I'm getting all the stuff done. I feel 100% like I never even had the surgery. It's weird. I mean, you look gorgeous. She looks like perfectly ready to go to a party. So tell us about that day. How did your day start? How are you feeling? Give us a little rundown. Okay, well, because my surgery was in the afternoon. I couldn't eat from midnight on. So I was really hungry. That's the only thing that bummed me out as I was super hungry and thirsty. I was like, dying, but other than that, I was really excited. I wasn't nervous because doctor smithston gave me every single detail. I mean, he's so detailed. And he sits with you for so long. He's so good. So I wasn't nervous at all. I was a little anxious because I'm just excited and I didn't know what they'd feel like in my body. That was kind of making me a little anxious. But I get to la Jolla cosmetic and immediately they took me back in and then he marked me up, and he said, well, on this side, we're going to do a mini lift. So we don't have to do the lollipop lift. We're just going to move the nipple around. And then the other one, we're going to put in a fuller size because so they'll match. He was telling me all these things. I'm like, just do what you look. Just do whatever to look just to make it look good. I trust you a 100%. And so they mark me up and then walk me into the OR and I'm kind of a freak because I love surgery stuff. I think it's all so incredibly interesting. Most people would probably pass out, I was digging it. I'm looking at those big giant lights that they use and all the tools that they were going to use and I'm like, oh, and the anesthesiologist was great. Good. Do you remember his name? Gosh, darn it. If you gave me a couple names, I would know. So we have doctor young, doctor Hanley and doctor saltz. Doctor sulz husband is our one of our anesthesiologists. Oh my gosh, I think it was doctor saltz. He's such a great guy. And he was so nice. I said, you know, I might need more anesthetic to put me to sleep because I woke up during my colonoscopy. And I'm just afraid I don't want to wake him up during. He's like, we've got you covered. Don't you even worry? So then I just went in and they put the little thing on my mouth and next thing I know, I'm waking up and I want to go back to sleep. So I went back to sleep. And I vaguely remember doctor like an angel appeared above me, and he was like, are you okay? His sweet little face, you know? And he's like, what we did was this and this and that, of course, I don't remember anything, but he told me during my follow-up. But he's like, it looks great. You're going to do great. Don't worry. And then the anesthesiologists followed up with me. And I only took ibuprofen and acetaminophen, it was very I want to say there's pressure, but it doesn't hurt. Oh, interesting. It doesn't really hurt. Even though they cut the nipple and cut underneath, it's taped so well. That I don't feel shooting pains or anything like that. I thought I would probably be hurting because they cut me, you know? Yeah, yeah. But I'm fine on those met. And then I'm on the antibiotic. And then I went in for my follow up yesterday and he took it off. I'm like, oh my God, I'm scared. I'm scared 'cause I didn't really look like there was anything there 'cause it's so bandaged up, you know? And then he took it off. I'm like, oh my God, I have food. It's so hot. It was so fun and it didn't look gory to me at all. It just looked like, and then so he showed me another patient's progress photos. And he showed me the before, and then he showed me two days after, and they she had gotten quite at large implants. But that's not to say that the same thing is going to happen to me, but they were a little bit high. He says the muscles kind of angry because it has this foreign object in it. And so it calms down as the weeks go by. And he goes by 6 weeks, they're going to look like this. And they looked great and they're down and they look great now. I'd be happy if they stayed this way. But he said the muscle gradually relaxes and they fall into place. That's what he said. And so I'm like, I trust you, whatever you say, I believe you, but I am so happy. I am just thrilled. I love him. And he's a good dresser too. My little nappies. And he snappy is the perfect word is snappy. The last time he came on my podcast, which was last week. You know, I'm seeing it on Zoom. And I'm like, loving the shirt. It was just this cool print with two different prints and a jacket. I'm like, wow, he looks great. I love that. It's fun. It's fun. So that night, after surgery, so you was at Linda who took you home? Yes, my friend. God, bless her. She had a blanket in the car for me. She went and got me a jamba juice. I guess I was mumbling all the way home about something. I don't know. I go, why didn't you videotape me? That's funny stuff. And she's like, oh, I didn't want to embarrass you. I was like, since when? Okay, why stop now? Why stop there? But we got into bed, which wasn't a problem. I slept for like a whole day pretty much. And it was a little sore to moist myself up, but I had one of those wedges. I ordered a wedge and one of those little pillows that you can sit up against. So I had both of those. So I slept kind of in an incline, and it was very comfortable. It was very fine and so you just slept on your back. Are you a back sleeper or a side sleeper or a tummy sleep? I'm a side sleeper, but I didn't have any trouble sleeping. I think now I could probably sleep on my side very gingerly. I was very careful. But he didn't give me any restrictions as far as sleeping and sleeping upright. I just did that because it felt more comfortable. He said I can start bending my arm back against a door to sort of stretch those pectoralis muscles. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, I wash my hair today. I had no problem lifting my arms up, not one good, oh, good, good. Now, I do want to share what kind of implants he put in and how big and you know what? They give you a little card to keep in your purse. Just so you know, but they're the natural. They're the soft touch and.
WGR 550 Sports Radio
"three days" Discussed on WGR 550 Sports Radio
"Three count them three days until the start of the 2021 National Football League season. Thursday night in Tampa Bay at Raymond James Stadium. The defending champion Buccaneers, led by Tom Brady will a 7.5 points as they get set to defend their crown against Mike McCarthy's Dallas Cowboys, which got Amber and I'm thinking, what are you and what are we most excited about heading into this season? Especially Coming off the primary. That was week one in the college football season. We're taking your calls on this Triple eight, Say ESPN that triple 87293776 Amber. Got a world of possibility at your fingertips. What's got you the most excited for this coming season? The NFL season is finally here. It's finally upon us. I'm a Miami Dolphins fan. So for me what I was actually looking most forward to a couple months ago. Coming into the season, anyways, was the New England Patriots. Not being good. They missed the playoffs. Last season for the first time since 2000 and eight and a few months ago, I felt like, hey, the era is done. Their dynasty is over. This is the bills time and this is the Dolphins time to try to compete with the bills at some point in that division. And then the Patriots. You know they do the thing where they actually spend money in the off season, which was very discombobulating for all of us, right. It was like have Bill Belichick and the team. There is spending spending money and like big big money in the off season, and they're actually bringing in these pieces that frankly, they really needed and they got a lot better. And then, of course, you have the guys who opted out not to play last season, they'll be obviously available this season. And then with that 15th pick, they move up and they draft Mac Jones because, you know, I didn't feel very confident about their quarterback situation. I was looking forward to that Mac Jones comes in to training camp and preseason, He starts blowing everybody away. And for a while there, it looked like it was a tight race between him and Km. But then, of course, they end up getting rid of Cam. And then you Here are these things that are coming out these rumors and different things that are being said, where Mac Jones was actually helping Cam learn the playbook there, and that Mac is doing all the right things behind the scenes and People are ready to give Mac Jones the gold jacket. People are so sold on the future of this kid, and all of a sudden it feels a whole lot like the New England Patriots are going to be good again. And like I only got a one year break from it. So what? I was looking forward to Not sure I'm any longer looking forward to at this point, Joe. I mean, you're in Miami Fancy. You still have the Hurricanes and the Marlins, Right? Oh, ouch. I'm actually a gator. Just so you know, but Ouch. Nevertheless, it was a good win. I do appreciate Dan Mullen trying to cover the spread late in that game. If you follow point spreads, and you're watching the end of Florida, and what was it Florida Atlantic. Well, there's no reason for Mullen to be doing anything he was doing unless he was trying to cover the point spread, which he desperately tried to do, but came up just short. I think the number one storyline for me coming into the season is the NFC West because I think that's the stomping ground for the Eventually NFC champion. I think you've got to go through there and you look at Matthew Stafford taking over with the Rams. He's 20 to 1 to win the MP award. I would make that bet Stafford is going to put up huge numbers inside that offense, and there's going to be a great narrative around his season with him, finally getting out of Detroit, finally having competent head coaching an arsenal of weapons at his disposal and elite defense. The Rams are a team to keep a very close eye on for the division, the conference and the Super Bowl and with Matthew Stafford at 20 to 1 to win the M V P. What's going to happen between Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance in San Francisco? I think Garoppolo gets them off to a to start. It's not saying much. You're at Detroit and at Philadelphia to begin the season, But when do you get Trey Lance? More involved. The Seahawks should Operative. Word should be good under Russell Wilson. But a lot of people forget that Russ passive aggressively tried to get himself traded out of Seattle this offseason. That's a red flag to me and then Cliff Kingsbury in Arizona. He's got all the weapons he needs to win games. Does he have the ability as a head coach to manage those games late when the key decisions need to be made to put them over the top Because last year, he showed he is not up for that task. The Miami game comes to mind the New England game comes to mind. If his game management doesn't get better. They're no better than eight and 99 and eight inside that division, Josh in Georgia, Josh, We appreciate the phone call. Thanks for joining us and the doctor Pepper call in line. What are you most excited about the start of the NFL season in three days? Well, I know, like the college was the NFL and watching college football over the weekend and all the NFL fans. I just think they're ready to get the stadium's rocking Sunday. And, uh, going forward. Seeing fans in the stands was incredible. Friday night in Blacksburg, Enter Sandman for Virginia Tech Coming out Amber and then going into the fourth quarter of the Wisconsin Penn State game would jump around in the entire student section, trying to bring Camp Randall to its knees. It was awesome to see that over the weekend, it was really wild. I mean, I said earlier in the show. I don't think any sport benefits. As much as college football does from fans in the stands. It really is a necessity in that sport to have fans in the stands. I feel like really part of it like the really part of the product and they really affect I feel like what happens on the field, frankly, as well in the emotions of it all. It's been a great experience this weekend. Have some sense of normalcy, even though yes, we're still in this pandemic, and the players are still dealing with covid protocols. But the fans are back in the stance. Sam in New Hampshire. Sam joins us on the Doctor Pepper Call in line. What do you got? What are you most excited for for the upcoming season? Sam. Hello. Talk to us, Sam. That's all right, so excited, couldn't get the words out of his mouth. Thousands have been affected by Hurricane Ida and they urgently need support. Donate at red cross dot org slash ESPN red koras dot org slash ESPN to help the Red Cross respond to and help people.
KTAR 92.3FM
"three days" Discussed on KTAR 92.3FM
"Stressful. Three day is that 10 year? And is there any problem out here in an RV already that I hate? By the way, I'm on Jordan. Come on, Jordan. Oh, wow. No, You better take me to a nice dinner tonight, Dad. Gum, right? He better I'm gonna tell you what the most expensive stinking restaurant national lawyers. I'm going to set up the reservation. That's what that's what Dave Ramsey does. That's it? Oh, my gosh. That's so fun. No seriously, because you said that you start dancing as she got on the same page at some point. Yes. Yeah, we did. When was that? Selena? That was awesome. It goes back and forth. You know, sometimes I'm good, sometimes not. But I'm grateful that it's gone on this path. Yeah, this way. All right. Wow. It's so good to have you guys. How does it feel, though, too? I mean, 130,000 just stuff everywhere. Debt is gone. Feels amazing. You know, we feel that we have so much opportunity now ahead of us and do Ultimately give back, you know to people that needed and to also do things like this trip where we could just Get an RV that we never used to camp anywhere. We didn't You know, we just basically used it to drive here, but we have plenty of space. And yeah, it's so relieving. And I thank you guys. So much for all the work that you do here. Ramsey Solutions. You guys are true light for a lot of us out there. Well, we're honored by that. And you guys are you guys are heroes. You absolutely did what it took to go when I'm so proud of you. What was the what was the hardest part for y'all? Hardest part for for us was the when we got to the larger debts you got to the cars you got to the student loans and you just grind and grind in and the advice I can give to people out. There is listen to the debt free screams every day. Listen to the stories because You're going to be one of them one day and just keep chipping away. You know, I even have a little turtle stick around my dashboard and on my driver's, um part of my desk when I just kind of look at it because the tortoise speech, the hair just have to slowly pack away And that was hard because everyone's doing all these different things and consuming things all around. You going on trips and going out to dinners and We're sitting there, you know, just chugging along and you don't have $130,000 for the death that they do. I'm so proud of y'all. We got it. We got a copy of the legacy journey for you. That's what you've done is change your legacy. Bring the kiddos, intelligent names and ages. We have Savannah, who's eight. And Abigail, who is six. We call her cookie. All right, Bring it, cookie. Alright, sweet girls. They are beautiful. And we got a copy of the total money makeover for you to give to someone and pay it forward and get their journey started because it started the journey for you guys. Thank you very much. Your friend having people around Yeah, sure was huge. Way to go friends. Father was here and my my friend Pedro from Rochester came down. Way to go, Pedro. Good job, man. All right, Count it down. 130,000 paid off in 45 months. Make it 1 20 to 1, 50, Jordan and Selena counted down. Let's hear a debt free screen that's ready. 321, where they're free..
600 WREC
"three days" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Three days in of the Senate impeachment trial. I'm Eric or study. Fox News House impeachment managers say former President Trump used the word fight and his speech in D. C on January 6th and that helped incite the riot at the U. S. Capitol. Trump Defense Attorney David Showings speaks out on the impeachment trial. Saying the word fight was taken out of context. If you analyze that speech that that's the first one, and no services could be incitement, it's a powerful speech. But when you hear this is the word fight most of the times during the case, it's clear he's talking about legislators fighting for our rights. People fighting the advocate and, you know, everyone likes to overlook the word peacefully in there. The Trump legal team will make its case Friday and Saturday. Meanwhile, President Biden met with a bipartisan group of senators to talk about how to fix the nation's potholes. And aging infrastructure. But it's not clear how they plan to address the increasing cyber attacks on the nation's public networks, especially its water supply on Capitol Hill. Cyber experts debated who is responsible for the cyber attack on a small Florida town's water treatment facility. The hack in Oldsmar, Florida last Friday took place just 12 miles from the Super Bowl stadium and occurred just two days before the big game. It was thwarted by an alert plant supervisor. The hacker was in and out within five minutes. Fox's Jennifer Griffin, plus at least six people are dead after a major pile up on a Texas freeway in Fort Worth, officials say about 133 cars were involved. This was an unbelievable scene from the perspective of not only The scene safety issues, the multiple casualties that we had. It was dark. It was freezing cold. It was raining and freezing when the rain hit the ground, Ambulance service made Star spokesperson Matt Savitsky speaking, police say a preliminary investigation suggests that ice was a factor. 65 people were taken to the hospital. America.
WCBM 680 AM
"three days" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
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PodcastDetroit.com
"three days" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"On my day of fasting. What fluids can have okay. You can have water. You can have hot water hot water with lemon in it. Okay don't put any sugar or honey or anything like that. You're going to have tea. You're going to black tea green tea but don't put any cream but don't put any sweeteners including donating pudding stevia. You can also do bone broth bone broth or hot stock. Like even going and buying the one that is the msg free don't have any machine whatsoever and that just put in the remember. Those old coffee vending machines sometimes chicken broth or beef broth have chicken or beef. Broth is really very wonderful. But again use it as your base to make all of your vegetables in it so you're cooking this stuff up. You're eating cooked foods so go. What about the salads. Aren't they better. Well when you're cleansing yourself you wanna make it really easy to digest. Yes you lose some of the vitamins and cooking but it's combined together and actually many of these things when you put the cabbage and the carrot celery and these things the cooking actually mix them together and we produce even more this new mixture of kind of or nutrient type of combinations. That truth be told. It's not bad to cook. In fact it makes things better many times. Sometimes what you lose out you increase in absorbed ability so many times you're getting much again. It's it's very soothing in warming for the gut which also improves. What's called thermo genesis. Because she could do some workout with this. And i recommend if you do any type of workout don't do don't get on the treadmill from an hour. Don't ride your bike. Don't do that would you do is use this time. You do hit training basically high intensity and anyone can do they even graham and consider. Okay sit in your chair grandma. Do arm lifts okay and do you like as fast. You can go for like five seconds. Okay go grand mcgraw taste and then take a rest then take arrest case. If that's walking you'll do like for instance on the treadmill you'll do a quick sprint for fifteen seconds and then maybe a minute to two.
PodcastDetroit.com
"three days" Discussed on PodcastDetroit.com
"You can do what be called the kito which is the meat and greens and meat and vegetables but also this will work for people who are saved vegetarian vegan. Which is there's a vegetable way to do it again. That's the common l. heating. Everybody's just eat lots of vegetables. No the starts off with anyone wanna get their best running start on changing their body. Losing weight detoxing always start with a day fast. Always take a break like again you. After our big christmas we all scattered around the next day. Oh i couldn't eat anymore. Wife was like. I can't believe you're eating because literally you know you could. You could basically just do water or water and you could even do black tea. But don't you're locked onto your coffee type of thing. Basically in herbal team would be better. Everybody can do this. Everybody could pick a day on a weekend or whatever and to say. It's not eaten today. You know. I'm going to take fluids if there's some supplements that you're on you can take supplements if you are medication. You guys down the medication. Okay if you're a diabetic or something like that okay. You got to be more careful about this some of these people. There are some kinchen conditions. Where a person can't because they have well so what they do. Is they fast as much as they can't up to that point. Just go without eating. Which then you know if you're able to do let's say the day a full day. Then your body converts into out of or some people go. Partito means are automatic in fiji means eating. It's part of it. So what what instead of eating food your eat yourself so you eat. A fat reserves eat obliged preserves in your in your liver. You eat some storage in your muscles and stuff like it. You're not gonna die so it's a good way to do the first day right so the first day is doing kind of fluid and not eating them. When you get into eating you get into basically one way would be. Let's say the kito and kito would be low koerbel hydrates in. I don't recommend doing these kito bars and stuff like just making stupid. Pretend this was like nineteen thirties. Grandma how she going to do that. You know it's literally.