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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
"up 25%" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
"Twenty twenty three was filled with global challenges. What are the tools we need to build a more resilient future? Find out how in the next episode of the risk opportunity series brought to you by Bloomberg Media Studios and Zurich Insurance Group. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg.com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. Economists will tell you inflation is slowing. American consumers will tell you otherwise. When we talk about winning the inflation fight, that doesn't actually mean prices go down. It just means that they're rising at a slower rate. Reed Pickard wrote the story for Bloomberg News. When you talk to actual people and you ask them why they're so angry about the economy, they're angry because prices are so so much higher than they used to be. Case in point, grocery shopping. If you look from January 2020 to now, grocery prices are up 25%. And it's not just inflation of the supermarket. There's not really many parts of the household budget that have been spared from this. Whether you're looking at car insurance up 33%, restaurants up 24. And Pickard says while many Americans have seen their pay rise rapidly since 2020, much of those gains have been gobbled up by inflation. I'm Charlie Pellet, Bloomberg Radio.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Mason Minute
Stamp Collecting (MM #4638)
"Day, The other the U .S. Postal Service announced the new stamps that were coming out, the new designs that were coming out for 2024. And it took me back to a day when, gosh, I was probably what, 12, 13 years old, I collected stamps. And I got into it pretty heavily for a brief time, but I thought, does anybody collect stamps anymore? There used to be stamp collector shops in malls, just like coin collector shops. You don't see those anymore. I don't even know if it's a thing anymore. Since the Forever stamp came out, stamps, there aren't as many of them. Prices, while they do raise, they don't look any different. The Forever stamp doesn't have a price on it, so the same stamp no matter what the price is. That was the one thing about stamps. You could have a six cent stamp, or an eight cent, or a 10 cent, or 25, or whatever we're up to now. 50, 60, I don't even know what we're paying anymore. I got my Forever stamp sitting here, and I only use one or two a month. I don't mail anything anymore. But it's interesting, a hobby that was so big and so popular for so many years. I had so many people giving me stamps and helping me out, and stamps from all around the world. It's kind of sad to me, something that was so cool and so interesting, thanks to the world we live in, isn't quite as cool as it used to be.
The Mason Minute
Endless Shrimp (MM #4637)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Since COVID, many restaurants have struggled to get back to the profit levels they once had. So they're trying everything they can to get people to come back in and go back to restaurants. But the economy has been shaky for some, and some are just holding back and not spending the money they were. So they're looking for value. Red Lobster answered that with their endless shrimp promotion, bringing it back this summer and keeping it on the menu. In fact, I went to Red Lobster for the first time in forever back in August. I wasn't the only one who went to Red Lobster and had shrimp. In fact, they had a bad quarter, not because they didn't sell enough. They sold too much. They basically brought the endless shrimp back at $20 as a loss leader, and they lost money. So they've had to raise the price. It went from $20 to $22, now to $25. The good news? It brought people in. The bad news? A lot of people ate shrimp. Red Lobster is learning a valuable lesson. It's good to have something that people want, but you've got to make sure you price it properly. But it got people back in the door, and that's what they're hoping it will keep doing. In the meantime, it'll stay on the menu. You're just going to have to pay a little bit more for it. That's okay. It is pretty tasty.
The Mason Minute
Endless Shrimp (MM #4637)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Since COVID, many restaurants have struggled to get back to the profit levels they once had. So they're trying everything they can to get people to come back in and go back to restaurants. But the economy has been shaky for some, and some are just holding back and not spending the money they were. So they're looking for value. Red Lobster answered that with their endless shrimp promotion, bringing it back this summer and keeping it on the menu. In fact, I went to Red Lobster for the first time in forever back in August. I wasn't the only one who went to Red Lobster and had shrimp. In fact, they had a bad quarter, not because they didn't sell enough. They sold too much. They basically brought the endless shrimp back at $20 as a loss leader, and they lost money. So they've had to raise the price. It went from $20 to $22, now to $25. The good news? It brought people in. The bad news? A lot of people ate shrimp. Red Lobster is learning a valuable lesson. It's good to have something that people want, but you've got to make sure you price it properly. But it got people back in the door, and that's what they're hoping it will keep doing. In the meantime, it'll stay on the menu. You're just going to have to pay a little bit more for it. That's okay. It is pretty tasty.
The Mason Minute
Endless Shrimp (MM #4637)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Since COVID, many restaurants have struggled to get back to the profit levels they once had. So they're trying everything they can to get people to come back in and go back to restaurants. But the economy has been shaky for some, and some are just holding back and not spending the money they were. So they're looking for value. Red Lobster answered that with their endless shrimp promotion, bringing it back this summer and keeping it on the menu. In fact, I went to Red Lobster for the first time in forever back in August. I wasn't the only one who went to Red Lobster and had shrimp. In fact, they had a bad quarter, not because they didn't sell enough. They sold too much. They basically brought the endless shrimp back at $20 as a loss leader, and they lost money. So they've had to raise the price. It went from $20 to $22, now to $25. The good news? It brought people in. The bad news? A lot of people ate shrimp. Red Lobster is learning a valuable lesson. It's good to have something that people want, but you've got to make sure you price it properly. But it got people back in the door, and that's what they're hoping it will keep doing. In the meantime, it'll stay on the menu. You're just going to have to pay a little bit more for it. That's okay. It is pretty tasty.
The Mason Minute
Endless Shrimp (MM #4637)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. Since COVID, many restaurants have struggled to get back to the profit levels they once had. So they're trying everything they can to get people to come back in and go back to restaurants. But the economy has been shaky for some, and some are just holding back and not spending the money they were. So they're looking for value. Red Lobster answered that with their endless shrimp promotion, bringing it back this summer and keeping it on the menu. In fact, I went to Red Lobster for the first time in forever back in August. I wasn't the only one who went to Red Lobster and had shrimp. In fact, they had a bad quarter, not because they didn't sell enough. They sold too much. They basically brought the endless shrimp back at $20 as a loss leader, and they lost money. So they've had to raise the price. It went from $20 to $22, now to $25. The good news? It brought people in. The bad news? A lot of people ate shrimp. Red Lobster is learning a valuable lesson. It's good to have something that people want, but you've got to make sure you price it properly. But it got people back in the door, and that's what they're hoping it will keep doing. In the meantime, it'll stay on the menu. You're just going to have to pay a little bit more for it. That's okay. It is pretty tasty.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
"up 25%" Discussed on The Café Bitcoin Podcast
"All right. Next topic. According to the White House, apparently Thanksgiving was the fourth cheapest ever. Did you guys hear that? It wasn't cheap for me, but I took my family out for a dinner. So, you know, I didn't do it the right way. What are you going to do? I don't know if there's a right way. What is that statistic based on? How much turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce cost? That was directed towards Alex. Do you know what that statistic is based on? Here's our data from the shelf. Okay. I have a suspicion. Basically what they do is they have this group of analysts that provides all the actual data and they look at the data and they go, okay, screw that. We're not actually going to tell the people what's actually happening. How do we gaslight the shit out of them? And then that's the message that they prepare. Is it like CPI where they like take out the most expensive things or like, ah, you don't need turkey this year? Something like that, right? I mean, turkey is so old school. Like who needs turkey for Thanksgiving? So Sam Callahan had this tweet. He goes, Bloomberg shared some evidence of the cost of living crisis many Americans face today. Since 2020 groceries are up 25% home values. Home prices are up 42% electricity bills, up 25% natural gas, 29% rent, 20% used cars, 35% car insurance, 33% childcare, 32% food at restaurants. Chicken dishes are 32%. Can you believe that? Holy cow. Burgers plus 23% pasta pizza, 14 and 17% respectively. So, but Paul Krugman says that we've won the war on inflation and we're back down to reasonable levels and I don't understand. It's because DVD players have gone down in price.
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nova Hardscapes' Nasir Acikgoz on Thriving in Uncertain Times
"Think right now the way the economy is the way things have let's say slowed down the way interest rates have risen Politics, okay world governments and all this stuff that's going on They they you know, I feel it in the air that people just want to like curl up, you know And and they don't want to continue to push in a certain way It's kind of like let me hold all my money whatever I have left and I'm not gonna let it go, you know But you have to invest to create if you don't invest you can't create don't be scared to do that when it comes to what he's selling but My question for you is all of this stuff that's going on and you are full throttle you have I see you in the venture 36 -foot venture with quad 500 Merc's And you're flooring the throttles Why do you feel that way? When it comes to that, are you scared about anything that's coming up or you just go based off of off of what? Opportunity vision what I I don't stop I go full throttle all the time and What drives me that when I wake up I think I said I mean God has a plan and I believe in God and I I in he says it work be honest work and it's gonna happen and In this country opportunities are limitless. I mean, there's no limit. There's no There's no product you're gonna say all about people are yes, they're they're holding off They're not gonna they're you know, they're not gonna spend I will never think that way I still keep bringing and I'm gonna bring it We're gonna invest as a matter of fact The green industry has an advantage one of the biggest advantages that I've noticed is if the people are stressed They're stressed with things politics and all that how do they relax of course they go they do sports and stuff One of the things they'd relax is they work in the garden. They work in the backyard They work, you know, they do things or just looking at plants to look at plants. What did what does it do to you relaxes you? One of the things that I'm realizing because we do a lot of pool pools and you know Like we sell a lot of natural stone for pool pool decks and pool coping like for pool products That business is still booming because During the pandemic, obviously people were spending time outside and whatnot But also after the pandemic still that kept going it never stopped And the green industry picked up right right during the the pandemic. Yeah, it keeps going crazy boom Yes, it's still going. Yes. It's a little bit see slow down a little bit, but it's not gonna stop Nobody's gonna stop buying things. Well, we saw wasn't normal first of all. Yeah, it was out You know, it wasn't normal normal growth, you know normal growth year over year at least for me was 20 20 percent growth Correct, maybe 25. So I was able to do 20 to 25 percent more than I did the previous year Let's say that's normal. That's normal average, you know, but you have guys that went up a hundred two hundred three hundred percent in two years You know, so it's just a lot like even the the smaller landscapers they were used to doing, you know Three four hundred thousand dollars to say a small landscaper and a lot of them crossed a million in in two years I know, you know the Amelia 1 .5 to 2 .5 and how did that happen because of this crazy boom? So now what they're seeing is the slowdown effect a lot of people weren't prepared for this to slow down They weren't they didn't let's say understand what was going on or see what was going on And they didn't think it was gonna, you know finish so I hope everyone put you know something away for For this if not, you're gonna learn the next one. You need to yeah, you need to save obviously I'm not saying you need to spend everything but you know It's a cycle then the economy is a cycle four years five years up and then four year five years down four years So if you don't invest when it's down Obviously within your you know budget and and and means and means You're not gonna gain when it picks up again So what I'm doing is when it's up you keep investing anyway when it's down you keep going Obviously, I'm not in I'm investing. I'm actually reinvesting per se Not so aggressively as I did it during the pandemic because the demand was huge. Yeah, you saw it's still going I'm still going like I'm like, okay, so I was adding maybe five products back then but now I'm adding one two But I keep adding because I'm trying to prepare myself for the next rush. Yep, you know Hopefully we'll see those numbers again, but you know, it's gonna be tough. You'll see those numbers as more people use
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Recovering Food Addict Colleen Y. Shares the Ups and Downs of Her Journey
"On the podcast, our guest is a recovered food addict, Colleen Y. Welcome Colleen. Colleen Y. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Susan Branscombe Yeah, it's great. I heard about your story. I've read about your story and I'm looking forward to sharing it with our listeners. We're going to talk about your story and how you found recovery from food addiction. I understand you became abstinent at 55 years old in 2018 when you joined a 12 -step food recovery program. Talk about that and what brought you into recovery. Colleen Y. Yes, it was late getting into. I had never heard of any 12 -step recovery programs. I had never heard about food addiction. I was just a person who thought I had a moral issue that I needed to diet, that I didn't have willpower, that that was the only way that I could overcome the excess weight. I was getting up there. I was 250. I was up to 300 pounds when I finally went into the rooms. So up until that point, I just thought that I just had no willpower. But it got to the point where all I could do was think about the food. I could not function unless I was thinking about food. So that's what brought me into the rooms. Talk about you got into recovery when you realized that you needed help in this way. And then you relapsed after two months. What happened there? Well, actually, it was after five years. I was in the program for five years. So for the first two years following the program, I was good. I followed it. I lost weight. I was working the steps in the program. But then I thought I didn't need it anymore, that I knew what I was doing and slowly started deviating from the program to the point where I left it and just started doing diets again and the weight started creeping back on. But I was still not eating the sugar flower wheat. So that's what I considered as still being abstinent. But the weight came on. I was still eating high fat. And then finally, after five years, I just couldn't white knuckle the diets anymore. And I relapsed. And in that two months that I relapsed, I gained over 25 pounds and really came to believe that I had a serious problem with food addiction. I just could not function at all over that two months. And I just did not want to live anymore. I just did not want to wake up in the morning. It was a brutal experience for two months. For critical level food addicts, some of us can get suicidal, where we just can't see a way out and that we're always going to suffer from this and food controls our lives. Yeah, I prayed every night that I wouldn't wake up in the morning. And that was the thing. And then I'd be so devastated that I had another day in this disease and that somehow I had to function. So talk about this history then. You got into recovery, five years, doing well, lost weight. Then you relapsed. Tell me about the weight that went off and came back on. You said you gained 25 pounds. You got up to 300, but were you close to maintenance weight during that five years? I had never been a normal weight my entire life, never. So I got close. I had lost, by this point I started at 300, so I was probably down to 170, which was just absolutely new territory for me. Then I gained some weight back, but then I knew I could not get abstinent on my own. It didn't matter what I did, I could not keep it. So I tried to go to Renasant and Renasant was running an outpatient program and I signed up for that. And then just before they were going to run it, they contacted me and said that they weren't prepared to run it anymore. And I was devastated. I ended up getting in touch with Dr. Vera Tarmon, who is a director at Renasant, and she told me about, in fact, was going to run their intensive for their students. And Esther usually does it in Iceland, but this time she was actually doing it in Ontario where I'm from. So it's like three hours away from me, I had this opportunity. So I jumped at it and I went and did that intensive where Esther Helga had Amanda from Shift come in and run the intensive. And it was mind -altering. It changed everything about the way that I looked at food addiction, totally, totally opened my eyes.
The Doug Collins Podcast
"When Is Later?" Doug's Lovely Wife Lisa Shares Her Travel Advice
"People today, and you mentioned COVID and I appreciate you doing that. Um, because people, you know, beforehand we're traveling COVID sort of shut a lot of that now, uh, right now, is it safe to say that travel is back to people ready to go and get out again? Uh, definitely people are ready to go out and see the world and realize that, uh, they may not have tomorrow. And so they want to experience all that they can today because we have no problem. Oh, you know, that's an interesting statement. I hadn't thought about that. Lisa is we, as we talk about this, you know, people, we, we sort of wait, we sort of wait, we sort of wait and, you know, we'll do it eventually, do it eventually. And you know, you and I both come from small towns in Georgia and, you know, we have been, you know, able to go a lot of places in the world, but you know, even we've talked about times where we'll, we'll do that later. Um, what would you say to somebody right now? Who's maybe thinking about, you know, traveling and they say, well, we'll do it later. When is later? Later never gets here. Yeah. You think never get, you know, later never gets here. Does it? No, we always fish it off. So never have enough money, never, you know, and the biggest thing I can say for those people is go ahead and plan it, plan it out. You know, you don't have to pay it all at one time. Uh, you can budget it out over a year. I mean, there's, you can make reservations up to, you know, through 20, 25 now in a lot of places. So you, you can do 18 months out without any problems.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market & Beginner Q&A with Tone Vays, D++, and Ant - November 14th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Good morning. What is up, you Cafe Bitcoiners? What up? Hey, Alex, can you hear me? Yeah, man. Damn, the service is amazing. It's fantastic. I was going to have you co -host today, but if you have terrible interwebs, then we'll have to do it again a different time. Yeah, I'm sitting solid right now, but it's my last day in El Salvador, so it's touch and go, but it feels good right now. It feels real good. I people hear laughing and enjoying themselves in the background. Man. Yeah, that's Blake just got out of the surf, and now the homie Paul's taking my fish out, got a session in. I mean, this place is next level, but don't come here, the surf sucks. How you been, man? How's everyone doing? I know I've been off for a little bit, but keeping track of everything and saw that the SEC got dealt another, what looks like a little legal blow. Their legal department is, are they even batting 500 at this point? I don't know. I didn't hear anything. What are you talking about there? I thought I read some about Binance getting granted a confidentiality ruling that basically blocked a bunch of information from the grasp of the SEC for clients. I don't know. I just headlined Reddit, so don't quote me. Didn't dig a lot into it, but saw that that had occurred. Yeah, I didn't hear that. It would suck to be Gary Gunzler right now. Yeah, dude. They're sporting like city attorney type numbers, just getting mopped up, but I don't know. What do you mean? I'm sure he's gotten a job offer for BlackRock. He's sitting pretty. Oh, that's a good point, actually. Anybody want to take odds on Peter's thought there? I think Peter's probably right. I would say the likelihood of that is probably fairly high. That's a hell of a trifecta there. You should take that with Joe Carlos, sorry, Peter, like a ETF still within 2023 on top of a BlackRock job acceptance from Gensler thing. It's got to be like a hundred to one. Yeah, the theta on that is pretty high right now, so no. Yeah, that's like Buster Douglas numbers. It's wild. You know, we were joking in here the other day. Joe came in and we were talking a little bit about the ETFs and Joe was like, I don't understand why we're not seeing an ETF where you can see the actual addresses for the ETF you can verify on chain and then you have redemption directly to shareholders from the trust. And I was joking. I was like, man, somebody is going to do it. We should do it. Me and you, Joe. Let's do this thing. So people were tweeting at me like, is Swan going to do an ETF now? And it's like, dude, I was totally freaking joking about that. That's classic. Where's American HODL this morning? He was caffeinated up on fire yesterday. Dude, he was cracking me up and that guy is funny as hell. I was trying to hack a coconut up in El Salvador and I almost chopped my pinky off. Mickey Koss, good morning, Shelly. Good morning, Terrence. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. So we're going to have a pretty chill day today. We're going to be doing some beginners Q &A. We have a couple of news items to discuss. There's a lot of Bitcoin mining rigs getting plugged in apparently. Also, we're going to revisit. It's fun to, you know, the Internet's an amazing thing. You can come back and revisit stupid shit people said about Bitcoin. You know, Bitcoin is dying. This is dying. That's dying. Bitcoin is going to boil the oceans, all that. There's some interesting comments from Dave Ramsey that we're going to bring back up. Apparently, the central bank over in England wants all systemically important stablecoin firms to back their issuance with non -interest bearing central bank deposits. I mean, that's like a full on lizard move, in my opinion. We'll discuss that a little more too. But yeah. All right. Let's do the intro to the show. You're listening to Cafe Bitcoin. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 476. Shout -outs to supporters on Fountain Nosterness. Our mission for the show is to provide signal in a sea of noise, teaching the other seven billion people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today is November the 14th, Tuesday, 2023. Man, we're on our way to the next halving. It's coming up. Where's Ant when I need him? Here he comes. Yeah, man. I think, Ant, I'm going to just like lead off right with you if you're ready. I don't know if you can hear me right now, but we should start with some stats. Let's get some orientation. We haven't done stats in a long time. So let's begin with the stats and get an idea of where we are. Ant, are you there? Are you ready? Yeah, I got some stats. I got time chain stats up right here. Let's go. Taco, talk to us about this impenetrable freedom force field. What's it at? Current USD price, $36 ,587. We are at block height, $816 ,745. Current hash rate, seven -day moving average is around 435 exahash per second. Let's see, mempool transaction is still full a little bit. We got $211 ,000 climbing. The fastest fee right now is around 79 sats per v -byte. Good news, we got 161 days about to the halving, and we are currently up 25 % on the 200 -day And right now, let's see, sats per fiat dollar, is that how you say it? It's 2 ,732 sats per dollar right now. The last block was found by Antpool, and the total subsidy and fees was just over 7 Bitcoin. And I think it was around 10 % of that block was fees, so very interesting. We're 88 % into the halving. $23 ,254, we just hit a block. Block's left. And that's pretty much it for now. I think that's it. Sats per dollar. You can buy 2 ,734 sats per dollar. I didn't hear you if you said that, so I'm just saying it. That's okay, it moved. Technically two different data points. And we have also, there is also 93 .05 % of the total supply of Bitcoin that will ever be mined in the history of mankind has already been mined and distributed. So you might want to get some just in case this thing catches on a little bit. Hey, Ant, if you're in a stable situation, let's get you up as a co -host, my man. Okay, I'm going to switch networks. Okay, you let us know when you're ready. D++, good morning. Thank you for joining us. I know it's super early for you over there on the West Coast. Good morning. I have a huge smile on my face because I'm actually driving over to Club Lab here in Austin, and I feel like I just got the weather report. I felt like I was experiencing the future in real time for a minute there, hearing all of the stats on what Bitcoin's up to. I want that every morning. It's so good. Isn't it cool? You know, to me, it's like an orientation thing. It's useful to know where you are to figure out where you're going. You have to know where you are to figure out where you're going or how you're going to get to where you're going. But it's also really useful because when I started hearing stats like this when I was a newbie Bitcoiner, I didn't know what they meant. I was like, you guys are saying all these words that I don't know the meaning to. And it caused me to look them up, which forced me to learn about it, which was awesome. Also, 435 ExaHash is crazy. Last I checked, it was 420. And it's just so crazy to me how the hash has completely decoupled from the price. I mean, going on for probably a couple of years now, ever since we left China, it's just wild. But the big news for me today is I am driving to PlubLab. As you guys know, it's the Bitcoin startup accelerator and community accelerator in Austin. You have to come through if you're ever in town. And what I'm so excited about is I am enrolled in Nifty Lisa Nye's Taproot class. So I'm taking her Taproot class. She's pretty much one of the only people on the planet that can teach it because what we're doing is we're taking the spec, which is to say the BIPs, and we're implementing them, which is to say we're creating our own library that makes Taproot happen. And she's one of the only people that can really do this because she's one of the only people who can translate from the BIPs into the code because there are certain things that are kind of missing or glossed over. Obviously, it's all in there, right? But it's pretty hard to take the BIP and to just translate it into creating your own Bitcoin library. So it's so fun. It's very challenging. Definitely, this class is for experts only. But if you ever wanted to learn how Taproot works, I highly recommend taking her base 58 class.
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A highlight from Chinese Communist Bitcoin Miners? And Lobbying For Bitcoin Mining W/ Dennis Porter
"Welcome back to the mining pod on this week's show. We're joined by Dennis Porter of the Satoshi Action Group to discuss Bitcoin mining and Politics we're mainly focused on the national security concerns when it comes to Bitcoin mining So we discussed with Dennis about moving into state houses and lobbying on behalf of the Bitcoin mining industry as a note Dennis is throwing a dinner at the end of this week on Friday at the North American blockchain summit Be sure to use promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you down in Fort Worth Do you have dinner plans November 17th? Well you do now down in Fort Worth, Texas at the North American blockchain summit Satoshi Action Group is hosting a dinner along with a lot of our friends in the Bitcoin mining industry You can join us November 17th at 6 30 p .m By going to Satoshi dinner calm and using promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket again That's Satoshi dinner calm use code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you there Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks check out make more money mining dot -com for information on bits 300 and 301 a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through side chains and merge mining called drive chains increase your mining revenues And learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting make more money mining dot -com Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements check out activation dot watch see what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community? Developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many bits up for consideration activation dot watch Is your mining operation happening ready take control of your own future with the right energy strategy Link coin energy training platform is a tool used by miners to design monitor and seamlessly orchestrate sophisticated energy strategies within electricity markets such as or caught New York and PJM avoid penalties Participate demand response programs and capture hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt per year by deploying the right block and index strategy secure your competitive edge at link coin calm Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies the minor mag brings you free data and analysis from all major Nasdaq listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out check out visualize metrics and data dependent stories at the minor mag Welcome back to the mining pod. Dennis is joining me today. Dennis Porter. Welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm doing excellent. Just coming back from a break. So are ready to dive into a jam -packed week of back -to -back calls Yeah, nice and tan back from your travels, right? Yeah, this is as tan as I get too So it's like, you know, ten days ten days in the Sun and this is as good as it gets So just everyone's prepared for that Are you ready to jump back into the Bitcoin grind or did you like really stop when you were vacationing? I oh, I never really truly fully stopped working the tweets keep coming, huh? Yeah It's an unfortunate byproduct of working in a 24 -7 365 non -stop nascent ever faster moving Industry that is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining when it combines two crazy worlds the one that I work in which is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining side which is the 24 -7 365 thing and then it's the Political realm which is just a total mess all the time. So it's a great combo. Yeah, I remember talking I want to stay sane Yeah, exactly my point. I was about to make you took the words out my mouth I remember talking to you like a year ago about the political side of things I was like, I don't know why anyone would ever want to get in that world at all. You're like, oh, I love it I love the I love the pool. I love being in the midst of it and still today don't get it Probably won't ever but I'm glad there's people like you who care about it And we you know agree on most things when it's firstly when it comes to Bitcoin mining so glad that's there Okay was transition over to Satoshi Action Fund. So you're the president and CEO you founded it. It's been two years Or so, it's a little over a year. We launched in June of last year and I am yeah I'm the president CEO I say CEO and president of Satoshi Action I'm there are two organizations now actually one is Satoshi Action Fund and one is Satoshi Action Education one I'm the CEO of and one of the president of so for simplicity's sake we just say it's all under the Satoshi Action umbrella But yeah, it's been going really really well We've had a ton of success and I'm sure we'll jump into that But I launched that in June of last year and we've been off to the races ever since Yeah, let's go into a little bit and then we have much more talking to show specifically We brought you on to talk about all the recent headlines with like rural Bitcoin mining and like the pushback We had a New York Times article about that there's some stuff in Arkansas going on So we'll get to that probably towards the second half of the show But let's talk about Satoshi Action Fund some wins recently and then maybe like a little more Flushed out what you guys are trying to to work on is like the product if you could say that for I guess a lobbying organization Yeah, yeah I mean it's good and that's that's probably one good area to start though with when it talk what comes talking about Satoshi Action is The one big difference between us and let's say like a lobbying organization or even a trade association Is that we don't we don't actually like do most of the lobbying. In fact, we hire lobbyists and we don't have members We have donors like more or less the premise of Satoshi Action Is that if you believe in the mission that we have pursued which is to make the United States? One of the best places in the world to be a Bitcoin miner or to be a Bitcoin er Then you want to support us if you agree with you know having the opportunity to stay here in America That's thriving off of this new technology versus being forced to move abroad You know that again is why I created Satoshi Action I think it's why people buy buy into the vision and the mission of what we're doing but we're very very structured very very different from from any of these other organizations that you might see out there and Once we launched Satoshi Action, the first thing that we wanted to do was try to go out there and show Right off the bat. What could we do? How could we be successful? How could we show that we can be effective because one of the most dangerous things that you can do with a political organization is You know get out there do all this, you know, make all this noise and then you don't produce any results You can do that a couple times you can even do it for years But eventually people will grow tired and they will move on and they will want to hear from someone else They will want to see someone else produce results There's definitely two the unfortunate part about politics Is there sort of two things you have to do one is you do have to produce results and the other is you have to? market your results market even what you're trying to do so that you can get people to buy into that they should buy into what you're trying to accomplish and fund essentially fund your operation because 100 almost 100 percent aside from our like You know, two three little s19 miners that we have plugged in that were donated to us The vast majority of our money comes from either donations or people that we get to come to our events was essentially a form of a donation So we rely a lot on on our donors to support the work that we do on a constant basis But right away we wanted to make sure that we were proving to our donors that we were having success So we said, okay, what can we do? We we got to the drawing board right away We brought on Eric Peterson who is our current policy director. Who's a wizard on the policy world and We had my two co -founders Mandy and Syria and we sat down we were like, alright, what are we gonna do? We started crafting public policy model policy For the Bitcoin Bitcoin mining space and what that means is that we created sort of like this like, okay here is a Example of a bill you could pass in your state that helps you advance this industry You know what we would do is we'd go in we'd say okay We have this great bill that we wrote up and we think you should pass it It'll really help you and they'll say like, you know, why would you want me to do that? Like we go in we pitch we say okay Bitcoin mining is great for jobs Great for local investment grid stability environmental cleanup the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects really any energy project But policymakers particularly like when you can help solve some of the problems with green energy And then we win then we give them that bill the most popular of those bills that we did We know we have four of them Two of them have sort of moved or I should say three of them have moved around like have been introduced Or been worked on at the state level So far only one has passed into law which is a very big accomplishment but not to say only one but yeah I'm pretty yeah, it's pretty big deal Yeah, just one. It's just one of dates. So yeah so in then, um that bill ended up being called our right to mine bill initially originally was called the Digital Protection Act and then it transformed into becoming the rights mind bill and essentially that bill just protects Bitcoin miners from various forms of discrimination We saw real -time discrimination taking place across the country and we created real -time protections for that form of discrimination And we ended up being able to pass that bill into law in two states, Arkansas and Montana in fact in Montana is one of the states where Two things happen one. We actually saw some of the discrimination taking place where I don't know if you heard of the Missoula County there Where they changed the zoning laws and they like went drove a twenty million dollar bank when mining operation completely bankrupt because of it so Completely wiped them out all because they were concerned about things that were not true about Bitcoin mining, you know environmental concerns Oftentimes we see at the local level not necessarily in Montana But a big one is a concern is around Chinese mining particularly CCP mining I should say not Chinese owned but just that they're concerned that the CCP controls them So we saw real -time discrimination taking place in Montana We solved that problem the other problem. The other thing we discovered while we're there that we learned is That we can add things to this bill And we'll get into sort of like where we got to from that point But it was an important moment in the history of Satoshi action We added in a ban on any additional taxes on Bitcoin when uses a form of payment Which is critical because in the state of Montana, you know If you let's say you sell me a car like they'll tax that like peer -to -peer transaction Let's tax it like right off the top. So if I just sell you some Bitcoin or pay you in Bitcoin They would do the same thing. They'd be like, oh are we you owe us a tax for that? So we banned that which was great. And um, yeah, we'll talk about a little later but that was our big initial success huge success a small tear came down my eye when I When I passed my first bill into law Eric was like, you know done 10 ,000 times So he didn't he didn't really care as much but it was it was a big moment But I was like, we've done it. We've done it, you know, like he was like, ah Alright now I'm time for the next one right? So yeah right to mine. How'd you guys come up with that? It's like a very it's very catchy right and it's hard to argue against that Yeah, I don't know. I just can't use Brilliant top ahead. Okay, I came up with it sent it to I sent it to someone and said hey You should call this right to mine. I didn't even we didn't publicize it a really large news account I said hey just call it right to mine. That makes more sense. Yeah, and they did and then it just took off. Yes It was interesting for sure it's very amenable in a good way Okay, so you guys have passed some bills you're creating like this donor network to be able to to move it forward You've told me about a few wins here. I want to hear about some of like the obstacles which you already kind of alluded to so and we'll get to that later in the show the discrimination which we're seeing pop up right now, whether it be Chinese Bitcoin miners who are being Unfairly maligned for being associated with the CCP or not. And then also just like other Bitcoin miners who are unwelcome in certain areas But to the obstacles, what are some things that you've sort of like learned about why you come through this process creating Satoshi Action Fund and moving forward into these different these different State houses to lobby on behalf of Bitcoin Yeah, I would say that an overarching theme to the work that we do is that Things can go wrong very quickly and can be can be unrecoverable. They can be recoverable, but they can also be unrecoverable You know politics is very much like the real world so when real -world actions occur, there will be Consequences or there will be you know, either good or bad, right? You'll have good things or bad things happen because of real -world actions I'll give an example of a positive real -world example that Leads to us to do where we are today having a lot of success and that is the current consistent worry and fear around central bank digital currencies, so for some reason Which I definitely am aware of I Can't share too much on the story but definitely aware of a lot of Americans became very very concerned around central bank digital currencies and so Eventually, what happened was you had governors across the country including Governor Noem and Governor DeSantis eventually Working to ban central bank digital currencies at the state level There was this big huge kerfuffle around it and everyone was like doing everything they could to like stake their claim Literally Governor Noem took out like a steel Stamp of like a veto stamp and was like like stamped it into the bill. Like it was very it was very cool Actually, I loved it. Um so all of a sudden this like firestorm picks up where central bank digital currencies become this thing that Generally, I would say conservatives are against or Republicans are against but like really really opposed to like hyper opposed to it more so than I have seen anything in the The crypto space broadly I would I would consider CC central bank digital currencies to sort of be adjacent to the to the crypto space and because of that fervent Fear and concern around central bank digital currencies we've actually been able to use it as an effective way to demonstrate the value of Bitcoin because What happened was initially when they said Oh central bank digital currencies are a problem people started to say oh Well Bitcoin is a digital currency Is that also going to have the same problems as a CBDC and of course, we know we started education right away No These things are like way way different and then we just started to realize that it was best to classify them as polar opposites because they literally are like one is You know authoritarian sort of at least you when used on the retail level go ahead Yeah, send a CBDC between a bank or an institution. I don't I don't care at all force it on individuals In the United States without proper regular regulations and regulatory frameworks and then all of a sudden you have something that could be used in a way that you know is Sort of unimaginable to some extent to manipulate human behavior. So We started saying okay, these things are opposite and now when we're going into these states and we're saying okay, you should pass this bill It's pro Bitcoin. Also, it's anti CBDC people are like, oh hell yeah, let's go like we want to pass that bill So that's what that's one positive example of like how real -world things have had a really positive impact on what we're doing There's a lot of headwinds around creating or doing anything that you can to oppose CBDCs and so and as we pitch Bitcoin Bitcoin mining and You know all of our digital asset policy where there's always that thought in mind of how can we tie this into? Concerns around CBDCs which are valid and are linked We are not making some sort of leap here Bitcoin and CBDCs couldn't possibly be more more polar opposite. Gotcha Tell tell me about the some other stories Involving I have one video in mind of you going to Montana and speaking in front of Yeah, and there was someone before you who was just like going off and like kind of rabid It was good. And then you came in after and like kind of calmly presented some is Counter information this typically how the process is? Because I just think you are basically working in like the Parks and Rec version of Bitcoin. You have to like go deal like these Officials and like they don't know anything about it and they're like China bad Bitcoin bad That's that's my understanding every time I see this which is a really unfair characterization of it, but it's also it's stuck in my mind So lay it on yeah. No, it's it's you got you got it. You nailed it, right? Is the funnest example of Just how wild that can be out there So we go and we are getting ready to testify and every time we testify You know Especially because it's around Bitcoin mining we do get some sort of pushback usually at the local level typically from environmental groups Which is unfortunate because there's so much. I mean everybody knows in the mining space There are so many benefits from the methane component to balancing renewables to balancing the grid there's so many benefits that the You know Bitcoin mining space can offer to those that have come from even staunchly environmental the staunchly environmental realm so Needless to say there was two Opponents strong opponents to the bill one was a gal from an environmental group. She didn't get too out of control but the second guy he was a young a young gentleman from from Montana not originally and he worked at UCLA and he Was very opposed to Bitcoin and he started to go on this like speech like this really long drawn -out like monologue and Eventually at one point he says that that Montana will will like Die on the cross of Bitcoin essentially, right? It'll burn on the cross of Bitcoin I can't remember the exact word he uses but it's like very extreme very dramatic and Then he goes on to say that people are dying because of Bitcoin mine houses. I wish the camera was on me There's these cameras in every single Hearing room generally speaking every state Capital building when you're testifying in front of these hearings like they have cameras just like DC but obviously a lot lower tech But I just remember when he said that people are dying because of it He was so people are dying because of Bitcoin. He was so serious about it I just remember looking down my notes and just my face looked looking up at him was like So confused and I just wish the camera would have caught it because it would have been a perfectly it would have been a meme Like forever, but yeah, fortunately, there's a lot of great policymakers out there and actually, you know sometimes you love to rag on these guys, but You know, they do a good job a lot of these guys. They do a good job one guy asks him he says You know, he tries to run out actually that's part of the stories and this is important part of the story So let me backtrack so he finishes his speech. He tries to leave right away, which you don't do never do very rude tries to leave And as he gets to the door one of the people was like hey before you go even you usually we do questions at the End let's have you do some questions right now. We want to be able to talk to you a little bit Bring him back up to the podium He's like now son You made some pretty egregious claims there around Bitcoin mining Do you have anything to back up the statement that Bitcoin mining is killing people and the guy just is like well I don't have it here with me, but I can I can get it to you and He just like this this guy just is like, I mean you gotta remember this you see you sell a guy's like 22 years old he's a kid. Yeah Great great on him though. Great. Love the love the getting active at a young age, but he's just like son if You're gonna come in here and make egregious claims. You better have something to back it up and The kid just was like so upset like cuz he just got he's gave this great speech And he wanted to just walk out like drop the mic and walk out So he just blew him up I was anyways, it was it was definitely the most entertaining moments in the entire history of my experience And it's only been a year and a half So I I'm really looking forward to other stories that I can tell in the future Please catalog all these because I just like very Specifically remember watching that entire video and laughing pretty hard because it was it was pretty funny Okay, let's keep diving into this a little bit more. What have you been seeing in a lobbying front? That's been sort of helpful that you would encourage other people to look at we've had the call lines We've had the emails. We've had people going speaking to people I Think for the Bitcoin community we can all take like a breather and be like a lot of what we've been doing has not been working What has been working to speak with these people in state houses who need to learn about Bitcoin because Bitcoin's coming their backyard What has been working from your year and a half of doing this actively and putting boots on the ground? The things that have helped the most are Well, first of all getting clear of FTX collapse. I mean that is this is what I just tweeted this out yesterday. It's like I Still can't believe that we passed two bills into law in the middle of that collapse and it was a very testy time in the space so getting clear of FTX is Only gonna help us the other is just the way we Approach the conversation around Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the way we pitch it is that we really focus on the benefits We do not talk about the technical side We do not try to explain how Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining works We give a very brief overview if they want more information Of course, we will dive deeper with them and we are very good at doing that you always have to be ready for those questions, but It's very important to just keep it as simple as possible Most of these policymakers have not made up their minds at all about any of this stuff They hear it in the news over there. They're their nephews trading crypto You know, like they're it's like they've got stuff all over the place, you know, you got some hardline anti -crypto anti -bitcoin Democrats You know, you've got some vocal Republicans, but they're not really like hardline yet. Like there's just not a lot of like really built -in statements or viewpoints on this on this technology and So what we do is we just go in and we say okay like Out of everything you've heard a lot of some of it is true some of it is not but most importantly what we're here to do is try to explain to you the value of Bitcoin mining for your state so we pitch Bitcoin mining and we it's a five benefits I mentioned earlier it can bring jobs local investment great stability Environmental cleanup and the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects and out of those five No one ever says anything bad about it But out of those five usually a policy maker will say oh What kind of jobs does it make or like, you know, oh I I didn't know it could clean up the environment it's like an instant like gateway to being able to have a conversation about something they care about because usually you're hitting on something there like if it's not the economy if It's not the environment if it's not energy like at the local state level like those topics are huge Because the vast majority of energy policy is set at the state level. The vast majority of job creation is done at the state level And then a lot of this these like sort of decisions around how much green energy they're going to be building done at the state Level a lot of environmental stuff done in the state level Yeah, DC throws around big pockets big buckets of money at everybody and they certainly have regulations But a lot of these decisions are made by local state policymakers And so they care if they care a lot about these issues probably themselves, but also their voters care a lot about those issues Particularly the jobs one comes up a lot because we we know in the mining space that we create a lot of rule And jobs and jobs and economically depressed zones where it's very difficult to create jobs nearly impossible to create like long -lasting jobs So the moment you say oh we create jobs in rural areas. They're like boom the brain turns on like well How do you do that? Because that's really important to me As an example in New Hampshire, we've I've been there a few times now In the there's an area called the North Country. There's like no jobs It's a whole thing like they call it jobs for the North Country is like one of their pitches So when we go there and we talk about Bitcoin mining, we're like jobs for the North Country jobs for the North Country It's because it's true and it's something they care a lot about so that yeah, that's that's generally how we pitch it We do not talk about Too much about Bitcoin in the past We haven't talked too much about Bitcoin to the extent that it's like oh you're gonna need this because it's good as hedge for inflation or XYZ like we sort of stay away from that and focus on things that Like mining that we know will deliver value now, we've expanded our policy. We've expanded the way that we that we talk about it But we haven't gone into this new legislative cycle yet So yeah, that was all done everything that we just talked about that we've done and that we have done It was done in early 2023. We prep for it in early 20 or in late 2022 Now we are prepping for 2024 in late 2023 So we got we sort of have an idea of where things are gonna go and what we're gonna do and we're in a really Great position. In fact, we could be active in up to 20 states we probably won't be active in that many but we have the opportunity to be active in up to 20 states and as a Form of context we only introduced law or excuse me introduced policy in seven states, so we were only able to actually convince seven states to Try to pass our bills Whereas like this cycle, I think that number will be closer to like 10 or 15 only seven states That sounds like a lot of airline miles to me so it can be yeah. Yeah, this seems seems like a lot of work Okay, so we got a lot of that laid out Let's go and talk about some of the more aggressive headlines We've seen recently and we're speaking about the New York Times article that dropped to believe a week ago for listeners Check out that in the show notes will include that I think we also talked about the news roundup last week Essentially, there's a Cheyenne Wyoming based Bitcoin miner They are owned and operated by a Chinese national group that has some ties according to the New York Times to the Chinese Communist Party essentially the story boiled down to Microsoft is near this plant it's Bitcoin mining plant the US government has a missile siloed nearby an Air Force base nearby and Microsoft is worried that this Bitcoin mining base could be used for foreign intelligence reasons Then we also have the story down in Arkansas, which we'll get down to in a second But let's start with this first one this this thing with Chinese nationalist groups Bitcoin mining obviously to to you and I is more of an energy game and it's very simple, right? It's just like plugging machine. Let it hash I'm gonna collect some Bitcoin and then there's those five benefits you talked about to outsiders though. They're not thinking about that They're thinking about all these people coming into rural areas and even foreign investment Has that been a struggle when you've been talking to lobbyists groups or talking to people in state houses have they brought this up to you? Yeah, definitely it's um, it's a major concern I would say Most Americans like average American especially rural Americans care a lot about the encroachment of the CCP on on the United States from from a physical perspective so like from a geographical perspective they don't like the idea of a CCP owned controlled or even highly influenced business You know being next to them and then definitely not being in and around me sort of military installations I believe the location in Cheyenne is near a Also, is that the one that's also near a nuclear plant or a nuclear missile site as well? So yeah, something like that Yeah, so I share the concern like that I think the premise is like Do you want foreign adversaries to be in and around any sort of? Military installation any sort of critical infrastructure You know generally I like my stance is like I'm very like pro people coming here starting their businesses You know trying to accomplish the American dream, but at the same time We also have to be concerned about whether or not those businesses have strong links to You know the CCP or you know A lot of people care a lot about also like Russian oligarchs and their ability to influence America American politics American infrastructure you know the big argument today is that the electrical infrastructure is a critical part of national security and That we need to be doing everything we can to protect it and I agree I think that's important all of those things are important that we should we should keep an eye on them The the thing that I don't like is when the New York Times tried to spin this article as if like Bitcoin mining was some sort of like really powerful tool in the hands of the CCP like next to these sites I don't think it really matters what business was there.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Mindful Gifting for Caregivers and Dementia Navigators
"Remember the joy of unwrapping a thoughtful gift that was just the right fit for you? Well, being a caregiver doesn't diminish that need, it just changes it. Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, who brings with her an array of gift giving ideas for caregivers and those living with dementia. Our conversation zigzags through a spectrum of unique gifts, focusing on both physical items and shared experiences. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I. However, I know it's working because of one simple change. My sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. My brain always wanted something sweet. Now fruit usually did the trick, but not always. 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I was on your show a while ago, but you haven't been online. Yes, vice versa. Yes, I love Fading Memories and I love that it's part of the whole care network. Definitely, so. We're all part of the same family. So you've been podcasting for six years as well, right? Yep, I'm in my sixth season. I launched in November's National Family Caregivers Month. So happy National Family Caregivers Month, everybody. And that was a launch. I try to do some kind of special every year, but I think I don't really have a launch this year. Just keep on keeping on. I've been really focusing on the speaking part of my business and really trying to get out there as far as reaching different companies and organizations to scale the caregiving support. Yes, it's definitely something we need. So where should we start? Do you wanna start with gifts for caregivers or gifts for people living with dementia? Let's, I mean, I'm always one to put the caregivers first. So like - Sounds like a plan. Yeah, so I think when it comes to buying gifts for caregivers, anything is probably going to be appreciated, right? We're just so grateful that somebody has been thinking about us and has us top of mind. But there's a lot of different things you can do, I think, for a family caregiver. And of course I also like self -care focused ones because not only are you giving them a gift, but you're giving them a tool of something that can help them mitigate burnout. So anything from like stuff that they would use like every day, we just had this in the fall, we have a sister's weekend and we do this favorite things party. Have you ever heard of that? Where we decided we were gonna each bring three things. We were gonna be $25 or less. This might be a great idea for someone to do as a swap exchange for their book club or their caregiver support group or whatnot. But I brought three of the same things. We kind of presented them, they're not wraps. But I got a lot of good ideas there this year for things like we had the things to clean our glasses, which would be a good thing for, they're called peeps. They're good for caregivers and for care recipients. Anybody who's wearing sunglasses even because they get grody, right? Very practical gift constantly. And then we had things like I'm wearing it now, actually. I love this Maybelline Lifter Gloss. It's affordable, it tastes good. Not that you're eating it, but you're gonna get some in your mouth on something. Smells good, it stays on decent. So I had brought that as part of mine. And then there was some cool body scrubs and lotions from, I think it was called La La Licious. So I think anything that can help us, oh, a boom stick was another one. It was like stuff that, this would be a very handy little makeup tool for a caregiver because you can put some quick color on your face, you can use it on your lips. Like it's one of those try it anywhere type of things. That's something you could like throw in your purse or your bag and when you look in the mirror and go, oh, it kind of looks so painful. Emergency, emergency. Yeah, put it, throw it in your self care tote. So I think little things like that, everybody's got different budgets these days as far as stuff that you can use. We did this, I do a Happy Healthy Caregiver virtual cafe is kind of every other month I do different kind of support where I wanna do some kind of a unique event for caregivers and introduce them to something. We had a Zentangle consultant come and teach us how to Zentangle. And it's basically like you're creating patterns. It's an abstract art, but it's very meditative. And she had given away as part of a prize this Sakura Zentangle artist tool set, it's like $20. But the thing with Zentangle is you use these little paper and you use like a micro tip pen. And so it's the little kit for that. And I like it because it's portable. You could throw it again in a self -care tote bag and pull it out just to kind of like, I need a mindful moment quick. Cause I'm a journaler, I love my journal of course, but I got that here too, the Just For You daily self -care journal, it's a prompted journal. And this is one form of meditation and doing that, but the Zentangle and an art journaling is another type of where it just gives you calm and peace. I can tell you, I felt very differently at the beginning of that session than I did at the end of the session. So something creative there. But I think too, when you're given a gift for anybody, whether it's a caregiver or care recipient, like just thinking about that person and what they naturally like and what they care about or what they maybe have mentioned to you in conversation could be something that would spark something. I was thinking, unless you know for sure they have a green thumb, don't give people a plant. They don't need something else to take care of. Yeah, I think as caregivers, right, we crave less things to take care of. The only exception I have to that would be the, I did get an AeroGarden one year, it's like for herbs. Right now I have basil, my basil is like taken off. And even if I can't use it in what I'm cooking, cause I'm not like this huge culinary chef, I learned this tip from another caregiver, Lisa Negro, where she said, she rubs it in her hands and smells the basil on her hands. I've been using it to freshen up my garbage disposal. Like I literally take some leaves off of it and put it in there to make it smell better. That's a really good idea. And I have a good idea cause I have the same issue. I have two pots with basil in it. I mentioned the other day, we needed to do a pasta dish with pesto. My husband was like, why? And he's like, oh, nevermind, I know why. Cause the plants are like big. It's pesto time. Yeah, it's like, and that's not something we normally eat a lot of anyway, cause you know, a lot of olive oil, it's not the healthiest sauce, but it is tasty. But I have been making basil mayonnaise and you basically just grind up, I think it's like half a cup of mayo and a third a cup of basil. I just do it to taste cause when I did it per the instructions, it needed a little more basil and I had a little more basil, so I threw it in there. And I am telling you, that is, that makes lunch just - Oh yeah, it's just like a little extra special and all you need is, you know, food processor or you know, maybe a blender, I don't have a blender. So I just use the food processor, grind it up and - Sounds yummy. It is really good and it's, you know, I throw just a touch of lemon juice in it just to kind of give it, you know, a little extra, what do they call it? Brightness, which that's a very strange culinary term, but yeah, it's delicious and it's, you know, you just plop in however much mayonnaise you need and then keep adding basil until it tastes the way you want it to taste, super easy. Never thought to use that. I think like little things like that, where you take something that people are doing all the time and you can maybe elevate it a little bit. So think about like, if someone's a tea drinker, you know, how could you make that special? Like, you know, tea, splurging on teas that they might not buy for themselves or the presentation of it and packaging it all together, maybe with some biscotti or something like that. Like it just like treat them, treat them to something spectacular. I also think anything pampering, like a massage gun or a silk pillowcase or a obviously nail appointment for their, you know, find out from their person where they go for those types of things and a gift certificate to that. I'm a big reader. So like reading is really fun for me, but sometimes, you know, there's lights now that you can get. I don't wanna hold a flashlight at night. I don't necessarily like reading a Kindle book all the time. So, but there's lights that you can light up and I can think of caregivers using that cause sometimes we're doing those things in very precocious types of places. What else would be good? I mean, any kind of activity that you can help encourage. I'm into pickleball recently. Have you tried to explore pickleball, Jennifer? No, there is a big pickleball teams in our community. I have very wacky vision. So I don't have depth perception. I have blazey eye and it wasn't corrected until I was four. So I could very, very much understand my mom's visual processing problems because I have similar ones myself. I don't realize, I know I don't have depth perception, but it's been this way my entire life. So, it's not abnormal for me, but I don't like balls getting hurled at me cause I'm ducking and I'm not trying to hit it back. I could probably play with the hubby, but you'd have to hit the ball gently towards me or else it's not gonna be very fun. Yeah, yeah. Well, I love it cause it's an accessible sport. It's definitely geared, it's for all ages, frankly, but something like that could be fun. Like, hey, let's, I think experiences are amazing. Let's take a pickleball lesson together. Let me take you on a hike. I got you this fun little hat and I looked up a hiking trail, something where you can really be someone's self -care cheerleader and have some kind of an experience together, a cooking class, a lesson of some sort where it's kind of a twofer, right? They're learning something and they're getting away from the caregiving world for a moment. And if you're looking for cooking classes, I did one through King Arthur Baking. It was called Pizza Perfected and it was on Zoom cause they're in freaking Vermont. So I'm not getting there anytime soon. Totally want to go, I use tons of their recipes, but yeah, it's like, I don't know how we got into just really, we really like to make our own pizza at home. We haven't done it for a while cause life, but it's not that hard, especially when somebody walks you through it and they sent you the video after, you know, like the next day. So you got to do it live and I think it was like 40 bucks. It wasn't expensive and it was at least two hours. And I have the video, it's saved in my Dropbox files and I can access it if, you know, cause there's some techniques that you don't necessarily know, you know, and I mean, just learning that technique was worth the 40 bucks, but it was a nice experience. So if you can't get out or, you know, I don't, I live in the Sierra foothills, so I don't live near things, even though I'm only an hour north of the state Capitol. It's like, there's some pros and cons to smaller air, quieter areas, depending on the day, sometimes the cons outweigh the pros, but yeah, there's, and I'm sure there's other places that do online cooking. I bet there are. And even, you know, maybe your person, your caregiver is not a person who enjoys cooking at all. And then, you know, I know for me, I used to dread the question as a sandwich generation working caregiver, like what's for dinner? And I'm like, oh, why do these people have to eat all the time? So something like that could be, you know, a subscription to like the green chef or some kind of prepared meals, or even like a Uber Eats or a DoorDash gift card for those, what are we gonna eat emergencies? I think all of that, I mean, just putting yourself in the mind of all the things, if you're a caregiver listening, like what you wish you had and what would have been helpful for you, having someone mow the lawn, like, or I'm gonna do your laundry this week. Like there's a lot of things too that even if you don't have a budget, like just showing up for someone else and doing something, taking something off of their plate would be amazing. Yeah, you could offer to help put up decorations for the holidays or you could offer to help do some deep spring cleaning, which the only reason that's coming to mind today is my golden retriever goes to the dog park regularly and the dog park has its own lake.
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A highlight from Mindful Gifting for Caregivers and Dementia Navigators
"Remember the joy of unwrapping a thoughtful gift that was just the right fit for you? Well, being a caregiver doesn't diminish that need, it just changes it. Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, who brings with her an array of gift giving ideas for caregivers and those living with dementia. Our conversation zigzags through a spectrum of unique gifts, focusing on both physical items and shared experiences. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. When I learned that despite eating as healthy as possible, we can still have undernourished brains, I was frustrated. Learning about neuro reserves, Relev8, and how it's formulated to fix this problem convinced me to give them a try. Now I know many of you are skeptical, as was I. However, I know it's working because of one simple change. My sweet tooth is gone. I didn't expect that, and it's not something other users have commented on, but here's some truth. My brain always wanted something sweet. Now fruit usually did the trick, but not always. One bad night's sleep would fire up my sugar cravings so much they were almost impossible to ignore. You ever have your brain screaming for a donut? Well, for me, those days are gone. I believe in my results so much that I'm passing on my 15 % discount to you. Try it for two or three months and see if you have a miraculous sweet tooth cure, or maybe just better focus and clarity. It's definitely worth a try. Now on with our show. Hello, hello, you guys are gonna love today because we're talking about gifts and gift giving for people with dementia. And it's a perfect day to discuss that because today is my daughter's birthday. So I would wish her a happy birthday, but she's not a listener. So what I will do is thank Elizabeth Miller from the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast for coming on and sharing her gift guide and her knowledge. So thanks for joining us today, Elizabeth. Thank you for having me, I'm excited to be here. Awesome, I know we haven't done one together. I was on your show a while ago, but you haven't been online. Yes, vice versa. Yes, I love Fading Memories and I love that it's part of the whole care network. Definitely, so. We're all part of the same family. So you've been podcasting for six years as well, right? Yep, I'm in my sixth season. I launched in November's National Family Caregivers Month. So happy National Family Caregivers Month, everybody. And that was a launch. I try to do some kind of special every year, but I think I don't really have a launch this year. Just keep on keeping on. I've been really focusing on the speaking part of my business and really trying to get out there as far as reaching different companies and organizations to scale the caregiving support. Yes, it's definitely something we need. So where should we start? Do you wanna start with gifts for caregivers or gifts for people living with dementia? Let's, I mean, I'm always one to put the caregivers first. So like - Sounds like a plan. Yeah, so I think when it comes to buying gifts for caregivers, anything is probably going to be appreciated, right? We're just so grateful that somebody has been thinking about us and has us top of mind. But there's a lot of different things you can do, I think, for a family caregiver. And of course I also like self -care focused ones because not only are you giving them a gift, but you're giving them a tool of something that can help them mitigate burnout. So anything from like stuff that they would use like every day, we just had this in the fall, we have a sister's weekend and we do this favorite things party. Have you ever heard of that? Where we decided we were gonna each bring three things. We were gonna be $25 or less. This might be a great idea for someone to do as a swap exchange for their book club or their caregiver support group or whatnot. But I brought three of the same things. We kind of presented them, they're not wraps. But I got a lot of good ideas there this year for things like we had the things to clean our glasses, which would be a good thing for, they're called peeps. They're good for caregivers and for care recipients. Anybody who's wearing sunglasses even because they get grody, right? Very practical gift constantly. And then we had things like I'm wearing it now, actually. I love this Maybelline Lifter Gloss. It's affordable, it tastes good. Not that you're eating it, but you're gonna get some in your mouth on something. Smells good, it stays on decent. So I had brought that as part of mine. And then there was some cool body scrubs and lotions from, I think it was called La La Licious. So I think anything that can help us, oh, a boom stick was another one. It was like stuff that, this would be a very handy little makeup tool for a caregiver because you can put some quick color on your face, you can use it on your lips. Like it's one of those try it anywhere type of things. That's something you could like throw in your purse or your bag and when you look in the mirror and go, oh, it kind of looks so painful. Emergency, emergency. Yeah, put it, throw it in your self care tote. So I think little things like that, everybody's got different budgets these days as far as stuff that you can use. We did this, I do a Happy Healthy Caregiver virtual cafe is kind of every other month I do different kind of support where I wanna do some kind of a unique event for caregivers and introduce them to something. We had a Zentangle consultant come and teach us how to Zentangle. And it's basically like you're creating patterns. It's an abstract art, but it's very meditative. And she had given away as part of a prize this Sakura Zentangle artist tool set, it's like $20. But the thing with Zentangle is you use these little paper and you use like a micro tip pen. And so it's the little kit for that. And I like it because it's portable. You could throw it again in a self -care tote bag and pull it out just to kind of like, I need a mindful moment quick. Cause I'm a journaler, I love my journal of course, but I got that here too, the Just For You daily self -care journal, it's a prompted journal. And this is one form of meditation and doing that, but the Zentangle and an art journaling is another type of where it just gives you calm and peace. I can tell you, I felt very differently at the beginning of that session than I did at the end of the session. So something creative there. But I think too, when you're given a gift for anybody, whether it's a caregiver or care recipient, like just thinking about that person and what they naturally like and what they care about or what they maybe have mentioned to you in conversation could be something that would spark something. I was thinking, unless you know for sure they have a green thumb, don't give people a plant. They don't need something else to take care of. Yeah, I think as caregivers, right, we crave less things to take care of. The only exception I have to that would be the, I did get an AeroGarden one year, it's like for herbs. Right now I have basil, my basil is like taken off. And even if I can't use it in what I'm cooking, cause I'm not like this huge culinary chef, I learned this tip from another caregiver, Lisa Negro, where she said, she rubs it in her hands and smells the basil on her hands. I've been using it to freshen up my garbage disposal. Like I literally take some leaves off of it and put it in there to make it smell better. That's a really good idea. And I have a good idea cause I have the same issue. I have two pots with basil in it. I mentioned the other day, we needed to do a pasta dish with pesto. My husband was like, why? And he's like, oh, nevermind, I know why. Cause the plants are like big. It's pesto time. Yeah, it's like, and that's not something we normally eat a lot of anyway, cause you know, a lot of olive oil, it's not the healthiest sauce, but it is tasty. But I have been making basil mayonnaise and you basically just grind up, I think it's like half a cup of mayo and a third a cup of basil. I just do it to taste cause when I did it per the instructions, it needed a little more basil and I had a little more basil, so I threw it in there. And I am telling you, that is, that makes lunch just - Oh yeah, it's just like a little extra special and all you need is, you know, food processor or you know, maybe a blender, I don't have a blender. So I just use the food processor, grind it up and - Sounds yummy. It is really good and it's, you know, I throw just a touch of lemon juice in it just to kind of give it, you know, a little extra, what do they call it? Brightness, which that's a very strange culinary term, but yeah, it's delicious and it's, you know, you just plop in however much mayonnaise you need and then keep adding basil until it tastes the way you want it to taste, super easy. Never thought to use that. I think like little things like that, where you take something that people are doing all the time and you can maybe elevate it a little bit. So think about like, if someone's a tea drinker, you know, how could you make that special? Like, you know, tea, splurging on teas that they might not buy for themselves or the presentation of it and packaging it all together, maybe with some biscotti or something like that. Like it just like treat them, treat them to something spectacular. I also think anything pampering, like a massage gun or a silk pillowcase or a obviously nail appointment for their, you know, find out from their person where they go for those types of things and a gift certificate to that. I'm a big reader. So like reading is really fun for me, but sometimes, you know, there's lights now that you can get. I don't wanna hold a flashlight at night. I don't necessarily like reading a Kindle book all the time. So, but there's lights that you can light up and I can think of caregivers using that cause sometimes we're doing those things in very precocious types of places.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Is Solana The Next Ethereum Killer
"Can a Solana overtake Ethereum? We're seeing a lot of metrics that have a lot of people, their heads are spinning. They're surprised. They don't know what's happening. They don't know why Solana keeps continuing to pump, or we're seeing a lot of positive numbers. We're seeing active users skyrocketing. And also we're getting listed on Perpetual's futures on a very major exchange. You're going to want to check this out. This is Discover Crypto. Thank you for joining everybody. Welcome back, Rodney. We're talking about some altcoins. And now we're not going to talk about ranked 8 ,000 meme coins. Is that okay? We're talking about Solana. I guess we could talk about... Everybody's talking about Grok, I thought. That's right. Grok. Well, yeah. It was like, what? Maybe a top 200 at this point. Hit $186 million market cap. I just saw Kyle Chasse tweet, or Chasse tweet. He's like, I bought the top. Ah. You know, so it happened. As they do. Did you get in on Grok, Rodney? I did not get in on Grok. I faded Grok at 20 million. Sorry. Excuse me for not buying a meme coin. You know. It went up to 150, right? So you missed out on about a seven and a half X. It's still sending, yeah. All right. So you're only missing out on a 10X so far. So far, it's a 10X. But Rodney, you just got in last night, correct? Yes, sir. Yeah. How was that? How was it flying into the Atlanta airport? I heard it's... My fiance, she has Follow Atlanta now, and they're shutting down the whole airport. Apparently, it's like, you know, entire hallways are like two foot wide. What was your experience? Well, I actually drove here from Charlottesville, Virginia, so it was an eight hour drive, but very nice. Got to listen to Joe Rogge on the way here. Some of my favorite cryptocurrency channels. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, speaking of cryptocurrency, let's just get right into the stories here, folks. We are going to talk about Solana in a bit, but first, let's look at the crypto market. We have Bitcoin down about 1%. Let me go ahead and hit refresh just in case we're getting a little bit fresher. All right. Bitcoin down 1%. But Ethereum is up about 2 % right now, XRP down 2 .5%. Solana is cooling off, folks. Solana is almost down to 5 % along with Cardano, but both of them had a positive week. Solana just had a 10 times better week than Cardano there, 38 % to a 3 .8 % pump there. So if you're holding Solana over Cardano, you're feeling pretty good. If you're holding both, you're wondering, you're looking at your Cardano bag, poking it with the stick, like the meme, come on, do something, do something. It'll happen eventually, folks. Just trust me. Then we have Chainlink down to 5 .5 % as well, but Matic is up. But we look, look at Celestia, Tia, Tia is up. We were talking about Tia, Tia is up 25%, 125 % for the week. Now, TJ, did you see any Tia actually, you saw Celestia? I mean, I know it's Drew's wife's name, so he's been big on it, but he actually, I think was talking about Celestia. Yeah, we did a short on it a while back. We noticed it when it very first popped out. Obviously it's strong in some of the Asian markets, a competitor, so to speak, coming out of nowhere. We're seeing, we're moving up very quickly through the top 100. I think it's ranked 65, 68, something like that right now. I mean, it was under 100 a week or two ago when we first covered it. Definitely something to keep an eye on. And this is something that's important that I wanted to mention on today's stream. As we're getting into a new bull market, there's a lot of different ways to look at different altcoins and value different things. When you're building out your portfolio, there's something to be said for projects that have been around for a little while that you know are going to perform into the bull market. Again, we've looked at them a lot. They're in the top 20s, top 50s, the Maddox, the Mutables, the avalanches, the Solanas, kind of the big performers of the last cycle. However, the ones that tend to have the most explosive gains can be the things that are launching around this time, the newer things. It'll be interesting to see if that trend proves through in this cycle. But Tia, Celestia would be one of those ones that it looked like tech had been around for a while, the team had been around for a while, and they were waiting for the right time to launch to really capture attention in this bull market. So watching how those perform over the next few months, I do think is going to be key. We're going to be doing a deep dive on Celestia coming up in the next week or so. I have some of that going into the works. But watching layer ones, layer twos in the narratives, obviously, in this cycle, I think is going to be a good strategy if you're looking to make those gains. All right. But speaking of gains, we also have the other side of the coin, and that's the losses, folks. The biggest loser is Rollbit for the day, down 10 percent and then Kronos. But if you look at the week here, the biggest loser is Trust Wallet and then followed by XRP. Oh, no. XRP was the number two loser for the week, folks. So it's just interesting to see a top five coin be one of the biggest losers right there. Nio, Nio as well. Nio is down now. Nio is on a video I'm working on right now, the top five coins out of Asia, everybody. And Nio is one of the five. So that might be one. All right. I'll be joining in in a second here. But I think it's time for us to talk a little Solana here. Now, Rodney, what are your broad thoughts on Solana as a sign in real quick? Yeah, well, I think that could be one of the bigger comeback stories of this next run, because really the reason why it dumped down so much, because look at everything dumped during the bear market. But the reason why it dumped down significantly was the negative association it had with Almeida Research, Sam Beckman Fried and stuff like that. But now that we're putting all that stuff behind us, it's probably going to recover. I mean, beside what the occasional network outage is, it's actually a pretty solid project. So a lot of people bought that dip understanding that the reason why it was down wasn't because of function. It was because of the negative publicity. Just like Elon Musk going on Joe Rogan's show, smoking some, you know, green and then dumping Tesla stock. Yeah, I always talk about that podcast. I saw that podcast and I remember thinking, oh, wow, this guy is incredibly bright. I would want to own Tesla stock. A lot of people say, oh, yeah, let's dump it. Well, Solana is overtaking Ethereum by active users after a 70 % spike. Everybody let's look at some of the numbers here. So this is according to Arnimix, they had 356 ,000 unique users on Saturday beating Ethereum's 330 ,000. So beat them by 26 ,000 right there. The milestone was driven by a sharp uptick with the network hosting only 200 ,000 just one week ago, less than a week ago. So it was $100 ,000 less. For comparison, ETH consistently holds around 300 to 350 with two brief spikes above 400k in a surge of more than 1 million wallets. But the price of Solana has plummeted. Is it still more than 96 % from 2021 high of 250 bucks? Does that sound right? I don't know about 96%. Yeah, no, no, that's not right. At one point, at one point when it fell to $10 in January, active addresses on the network shrank 85 % from over a million, 1 .28 to around 200 ,000 this September, according to the block. But Solana refused to stay down and now it is up 145 % just in the past four weeks. So everyone holding on to the profit feel good. And then some analysts have been quick to pronounce that Solana has flipped Ethereum by active users due to the recent uptick. However, the ecosystem has expanded beyond its base layer with the majority of ETH activity now taking place on layer two. So Solana may surpass Ethereum, but there's a giant asterisk because if you want to incorporate little activity, two well, Ethereum, the EVM as a whole greatly surpasses Solana there. But TJ, what do you think about Solana ever surpassing Ethereum as far as, you know, being the number one chain? What odds would you, would you put it less than 5%, less than 1 %? No, I think what you just said really matters there by what metric, right? You know, so you've got transactions, you've got daily active users, you've got a market cap, you've got volume, you know, there's so many different metrics to measure a chain by. So I could see it passing it in transactions one day. That's what it's designed for, right? If you get some good, if you get some good games running on it, you could see it hit higher active users, higher transaction or, you know, but volume, probably not, you know, like DeFi is going to most likely live on Ethereum for the foreseeable future. We talked about that a little bit last week. The ecosystem really matters there. And so I think what we're seeing right now in price gains in the short term, sure, it could, it could outperform there. And I think part of what we should talk about here today is why we saw all that price movement happening over the weekend. And I think, I think you've got my screen here, BJ, you can pull it in here, but some of the factors that came up on this article on Cointelegraph, why Solana Price woke up this week, it really has to do with, you know, obviously FTX getting reopened back up. A lot of people thinking there's less likely for Alameda and what's held on the FTX balance sheet, less likely to dump.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Crypto News Updates: Solana, XRP & ADA Pumping!
"Are we back? Altcoins are pumping, stablecoins are getting an upgrade, and the NFT community is joining hands. I'm Hannah and I'm going to fill you in on this week's events in cryptocurrency. Chainlink is up 34 % this week and the hype surrounding LINK is something to pay attention to in my opinion. The Grayscale Chainlink Trust, GLNK, has been trading at a 200 % premium to the spot price of Chainlink, LINK, indicating strong institutional demand for the cryptocurrency. This is the highest premium that GLNK has ever traded at and it suggests that institutional investors are bullish on the long -term prospects of Chainlink. The fact that GLNK is trading at a premium to the spot price of LINK suggests that there is more demand for shares of the trust than there is for Chainlink tokens themselves. The strong institutional demand for Chainlink is a positive sign for the cryptocurrency overall as it suggests that institutional investors are becoming more and more interested in investing in digital assets. And they think that Chainlink is a valuable one. XRP surged nearly 10 % this week and surpassed Binance Coin BNB to become the fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap. This pump was likely due to two key announcements from Ripple, including approval to operate in Georgia. The National Bank of Georgia selected Ripple to develop its central bank digital currency or CVDC. This is a major win for Ripple as it shows that governments are increasingly interested in using Ripple's technology. Ripple also received approval to offer its services in Dubai. This is another major win for Ripple as Dubai is a global hub for financial services and crypto. These two announcements show that Ripple's technology is in high demand and this is likely driving the recent surge in XRP's price. Ripple is also facing a number of positive legal developments which is further fueling investor confidence. Overall the outlook for XRP is very bullish at the moment and I think XRP is worth paying attention to. Cardano has also pumped 10 % over the past seven days and this is due to a number of factors including a recent conference, the Cardano Summit, that was held in Dubai. Circle, the issuer of the popular stablecoin USDC, has recently announced a new upgrade to the USDC and EURC smart contract. This upgrade, known as V2 .2, includes a number of improvements that will make USDC and EURC more efficient and user -friendly. One of the most important changes in V2 .2 is the addition of support for EIP -1271. This will allow smart contract wallets to authorize transfers of USDC and EURC which will improve support for account abstraction and make it easier for users to pay network gas fees in USDC and EURC. Another important change in V2 .2 is the optimization of the block listing check. This will make it significantly cheaper to transfer, transfer from, transfer with authorization, receive with authorization, burn, and mint USDC and EURC. These improvements are likely to boost the adoption of USDC and EURC, especially among developers and users of Layer 2 blockchain solutions. The Layer 2s that are used by USDC and USDT, such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and Matic, are likely to be the most relevant. Okay, so how will this impact the further adoption of stablecoins into the geopolitical landscape? This is likely to be accelerated by the improvements in V2 .2. This is because stablecoins offer a number of advantages over traditional fiat currencies, such as speed and efficiency, low cost, and transparency. Overall, the improvements in Circle's USDC V2 .2 upgrade are a positive development for the stablecoin industry, and these improvements are likely to boost the adoption of USDC and EURC, especially among developers and users of Layer 2 blockchain solutions. The co -founder of Yuga Labs and board ape yacht club Gordon Goner on X is single -handedly saving NFTs. This guy is a Chad. He mentioned in his bio that he's taking a break for health reasons from Yuga Labs, but he still claims to be an ape until he dies. Now that Gordon has parted with Yuga in some ways, he's decided to show love to the NFT projects that have been building during the bear market. Gordon posted photos of his newly acquired NFTs over the past week, and some of the projects include CryptoPunks, Pudgy Penguins, Sappy Seals, Goblin Town, and many more. Shoutout Gordon for bringing good vibes and a sense of community to crypto Twitter amongst all of the chaos. Grok is a new AI assistant developed by Elon Musk and his company X. It is designed to be able to answer questions in natural language, even about complex topics. Grok has access to real -time information via the X platform, which might give it a significant advantage over other AI assistants. Grok is currently available as part of an X premium subscription service that also includes other premium features on the app. However, Musk has said that he plans to make Grok available to everybody for free in the future. Musk has said that he envisions Grok being used as a general -purpose AI assistant that can help with a wide variety of tasks. Grok is designed to be witty, funny, and sarcastic. Elon Musk has said that he wants Grok to have a personality and to be able to interact with users in a fun and engaging way. For example, when asked for a step -by -step guide to making cocaine, Grok responded with a tongue -in -cheek answer that included suggestions such as obtain a chemistry degree and set up a laboratory in a remote location. I've been seeing a lot of screenshots of Grok interactions on my timeline, and it's cracking me up. Grok is still under development, but it has the potential to be a powerful and versatile AI assistant in the future. OpenAI engineers have allegedly come out stating that Grok is mocked in machine learning and AI communities and is analogous to a third -grader CS project. Would you place your bets on Sam Altman's ChatGPT or Elon Musk's Grok? Let me know in the comments below. The Simpsons is a popular animated sitcom that has been running for over 30 years. The show is known for its satire humor and its ability to predict the future. Over the years, the show has made a number of predictions that have come true, including the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency and the COVID -19 pandemic. In their 2023 Halloween special episode, The Simpsons predicted the rise of NFTs. In the episode, Bart Simpson becomes an NFT artist and his creations become incredibly popular. The episode also parodies the NFT community, showing how it can be full of scams and hype. Does this mean that NFTs are about to go parabolic, die, or does it mean nothing at all? Place your bets in the comments below. The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer is coming out next month, confirmed by Rockstar Games on November 8th via X after announcing that Rockstar Games is turning 25 years old in December. We have been waiting for the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer for nearly 10 years since GTA 5 was released in 2013. This announcement has everybody on X very excited. Which blockchain will Grand Theft Auto partner with first to bring the metaverse to the masses? Could GTA be the catalyst that onboards traditional gamers to Web3 or is there no possibility? Finally, I have a question for you guys. If you had 10k to spend right now and you had to pick one, would you rather put it in Chainlink, Solana, Cardano, or XRP? Comment down below. If you watched this whole video, I appreciate you. Please hit the like button if you haven't already and subscribe to the channel to be notified when we post a new video. I'll see you all next week.
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"In this short talk episode I speak to Jonathan Jay about his experience in buying and growing businesses over the past 25 years. Jonathan bought a total of 53 businesses over the course of six years with five being before the pandemic and 48 during the pandemic. In this conversation he shares the top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when buying a business and the importance of identifying game -changing acquisitions based on the financial numbers, knowing when to sell business at its peak and the value of not being emotionally attached to the business. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Jonathan Jay. How you doing Jonathan? I'm very good thank you Judith, thank you for having me on. No thanks for coming on board. Now tell me, what's your favourite thing ever? I was expecting this to be a question about buying a business. My favourite thing ever? Oh my goodness, that's such a broad... my daughter, there you go. Can't get better than that. No you cannot, I bet she's gorgeous when she smiles. Even when she's grumpy she's fairly gorgeous. Brilliant. Jonathan tell us a bit more about you. Well this coming year, 2024, is my 25th anniversary of doing buying, selling, owning, growing and all those sorts of things in business. I've actually been in business longer but my first business was sale in 1999, so coming up to the 25th anniversary and it feels like yesterday in some ways and it feels like a very long time in other ways and I'm going to take it a lot easier from next year onwards, spend a little bit more time doing things other than businessy things. Interesting, so when you buy these businesses do you onboard a management team or do you become the CEO for a while or what do you do? Well it's an all depends answer on the different situations. I'm not particularly interested in operations and I'm not very good at it either. I'm not really the people person that's required to do that sort of thing so I always prefer other people to do that. Okay it's always good to know so many CEOs, founders as well they sort of get trapped into running it when they're not the right person. Well yes that's right because at the beginning you do everything yourself don't you? You are the business in every way possible so it takes quite a mind shift change to say that's not going to be me and there aren't any rules about when it stops being you. Does it stop being you after 12 months or 24 months? There's no rule so it just ends up being you all the time because at the beginning you can't justify anyone else being involved. You can't afford anyone else usually but it is a trap so the work on your business rather than in your business, massive cliche now but when Michael Gerber wrote The E -Myth over 35 years ago I think, it was quite a revolutionary change in people's thinking and he encapsulated it so well with that phrase work on rather than in and now I say to people work above the business so you become the investor rather than the doer or just the owner. And how easy is it to do that? I've never heard of anyone talking about being above the business. How easy is it to get there? Well there are very few things in business that are easy because everything takes discipline, effort, hard work, dedication and all of those things but I think it's important because if you do get dragged into the day -to -day you become the bottleneck in your own business and the growth of your business is going to be throttled by your time and your energy and to have boundless energy in our 20s and 30s past the age of 50 maybe the energy level is not quite what it used to be and we look forward to an early night and a good night's sleep so therefore capturing the energy and enthusiasm of other people allows you to do far more than if it was completely dependent upon you. Okay that makes sense. So in the last three years you've bought 48 businesses so tell me about that journey. Yes it's more than that actually, 53. So yeah I did a buy and build in 2019 which is what's that like that was five years ago actually five years back that I've been thinking about for a year prior to that so it really goes back about six years and I bought five of these businesses before the pandemic, 48 during the pandemic and it was stressful at times. I've got to admit that it wasn't plain sailing, very few people I've ever met have done that. There's only one person I can think of who's done it that aggressively and I ran out of energy. I was helping my daughter with her spelling homework and she was reading through the words for her spelling test that coming that coming week and one of the words was unhappy and she looked at me and she said that's you. Wow. And I said oh okay okay I let it go and the next day I said why did you say that and I said what makes me unhappy and she said work and I thought I've just suddenly become a very poor role model and at one point I was hospitalized. I'm not trying to put people off buying a business, I'm trying to put people off buying 53 businesses in like it was actually two and a half years. The stress started to get to me so no amount of money or no obsession with business is worth your health, your relationships, your family and all of those things and I think that early on in our careers we put everything behind our business and our career and then I think again when you tip into maybe when you tip into your 40s then you tip into your 50s you realize that you've got to get your priorities right because you start saying life is too short way too many times you've only yourself repeating that again and again life is too short life is too short so I think it's getting that work -life balance again yeah that was a kind of a new phrase 20 years ago and now it's work -life balance this that and the other but it's but it is very important. So you risked your health doing what you did but why did you do that? No one had a choice to be fair it kind of crept it kind of crept up at me I wasn't intentionally doing that. I had these stomach pains that wouldn't go away and one particular night you know I just didn't sleep the entire night I was just such agony and I was googling appendicitis and that was actually on the other side so it wasn't appendicitis I thought I couldn't figure out what it what it was I always thought my stomach was kind of in the middle and it's not actually it's to the to the side so I figured it was my stomach so I went to the doctor which I don't you know not something I've ever done on a regular basis and the next day I was having a colonoscopy which is not my favorite medical procedure out of all the medical procedures there are available a colonoscopy is not my most favorite one and they couldn't find anything which was good in some ways but what what was causing these the the stomach pains and it was all stress related so that was when I decided I've got to make a bit of a life lifestyle choice here and however big the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if I'm not here you know because I'm as long as possible and I can't risk um you know I can't risk my health sort of suffering because of something which is let's face it financially based so um so yeah yeah it's a very common trait though isn't it entrepreneurs pushing themselves far too far um because I suppose you just get used to it and then it makes then it becomes harder to let it go oh I mean I I I have been and to a certain degree even now addicted to my phone I mean it's like it's like I get uncomfortable if it's not in my hand or I can feel it in my pocket which is bizarre I mean I shouldn't be looking at my emails at the weekend should I I mean it's like what's happening at the weekend nothing's happening at the weekend so so why am I even looking um so so it's but but I but I also remember the very very first day back in I think it must have been the mid -2000s when someone showed me how I could actually get emails on my phone and it was like oh my goodness I don't have to sit at my desktop to get my I can actually get them on my phone and you think that um you know if you if you again if you go back 20 25 years where we didn't have Facebook and we didn't have social media we didn't have um phones of any description but we still managed okay actually this is going back 30 years we still managed okay and we managed with a fax machine and uh you never hear anyone saying they make more money now than they did back then because they've got phones and technology yeah it it it is meant to improve communication but I don't remember anyone ever saying communication was was bad it was just you worked with what you've got and you didn't expect an instant yeah people these days you send them a whatsapp message and you don't reply instantly it's like a it's it's it's considered to be rude um where you know no one ever got upset when you faxed them and you didn't fax back immediately had it changed for the better not necessarily yeah why did you buy all those businesses in such a short period of time and it was in opportunity um that uh it was an opportunity to grow a grow a a pretty sizable group the fourth largest in the sector um within a short space of time and the pandemic was good in some ways business -wise bad in other ways um and one of the ways it was good it was because there were we just went for it um what it was it was just opportunistic that's all what type of businesses are they are these were all uh child care oh wow okay that made do you do you still have those no well my my business partner took over when I I I decided like I said the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was not was not as enticing as I thought it was going to be so she took over um uh and and she was the child care expert I I was just the guy with the idea so my contribution was I had the idea and I knew how to do the deals and get the deals done um apart from having a child I I don't really know anything about uh how to run a child care business it's all highly regulated and you know I'm not qualified to do that anyway okay that makes sense so how did you know which of those businesses were good businesses to buy next to other businesses that you didn't buy uh because I looked at 500 so I looked at 500 first and it was kind of like a one in ten um of the of the 500 uh despite that you know some of them were better than others because they're not all created equally um and and some had some inherent cultural issues uh some had reputational some issues had financial issues uh you never get a perfect business right every business something that isn't appealing to someone else um maybe as the owner you live with it but to a new owner they wouldn't think it was um a good thing uh so so yeah so so the the bottom line was having choice of looking at looking at 500 in quick succession so if somebody was sitting there and they were thinking I need to I want to buy a business yeah is there any key things other than the fact that obviously you know the financials if you take the financials out is there any key things that people should be looking at well it is actually the financials the largest part because you want a business that's that's making good money and if you're going to buy a business why would you buy a business making 50 000 a year when you can buy a business making 500 000 a year with the same level of effort um as actually is easier to buy the larger business and the smaller business the larger business is going to be a better business than the smaller business um so they're uh yeah so the financials actually are are absolutely critical uh it's got to have enough staff enough people because you always get some when you buy a business you always get some people you want something that if you've if you've got a business with five members of staff and two leave you've got yourself a big problem uh if you've got a business with 50 members of staff and five leave or six leave it you know you don't notice yeah sometimes they were surplus to requirements anyway uh you've got to have a business that's big enough to be able to afford some good people to run it because you don't want that if uh it if it if it's you and you just bought yourself a job uh and even though it might be a well -paid job yeah we've kind of created that bottleneck that we were talking about earlier yeah and how did what sort of weight do you put on things like the culture of the organization well the that's the hardest part so you know if you buy two businesses one has a nine to five you know you walk in at one minute to nine you leave at one minute to five and then you've got the other which is work hard play hard and you know we're on call we're available anytime we'll do what's required to grow this business you try and put those two groups of people together and they won't mix so that cultural match is is really difficult and getting the staff on side is really important and that you know we did it really well and we did really badly yeah so and everything in between and sometimes it's practice slightly outside of your control as well so um you know you you might have a seller who who is a reluctant seller and some for some reason doesn't want the buyer to be successful and definitely doesn't want the buyer to be more successful than they were doesn't want to show doesn't want to be shown up so they they spike it a little bit with the staff and it's amazing how many people sell a business and then keep in touch with the staff and want to know everything that's going on they can't let go oh i suppose after 20 years of ownership i get that i understand that but uh that that makes things a little bit tricky so the the people aspects are typically the hardest okay thank you that's really that's really a good point so what are you doing now then um i go on holiday a lot and i take my daughter to school i pick her up from school um i watch uh dancing uh uh shows uh gymnastics competitions the other night last night and uh and i i do that i i i fill my day um helping other people buy businesses and benefiting from my experience over the last 25 years so uh these are either business owners already who want to expand by buying another business or they're entrepreneurially minded people quite a few property investors recently are not getting a very good return on property um and uh and see an opportunity in business so it's a it's a combination of all of uh all those different types of people and i i have sort of groups of business owners and entrepreneurs who come together and i guide them through the business buying process so they don't make all the mistakes and there's a lot of mistakes you can make and i've made all of them so i can help people avoid them that sounds really good so is there a top five mistakes that entrepreneurs make when they're trying to buy a business yeah um this is in no particular order because it's off the top of my head but uh definitely uh letting uh emotion rule the decision so ahead so it you turn into a motivated buyer you want to buy it and therefore you've got to make the deal work even though the deal shouldn't work it actually would help you if the deal didn't work um buying a business that's too small so you end up um getting involved because you have to and the business can't afford anyone to replace the exited owner um another mistake is using your own money you should never use your own money when buying a business why would you do that um you know we can we can finance the the acquisition without you having to reach into your own pocket and that's why people can buy multi -million pound businesses without being a multi -millionaire uh you don't need the money to to do that you just need the knowledge and the three mistakes that people make uh mistake number four um is that uh let's see um they uh get the numbers wrong so they don't do sufficient due diligence to understand exactly how much profit the business makes uh what the business will continue to make under the new ownership you know they rush the deal they rush this part of it because it's not very exciting due diligence um it's a little bit like waiting for the house survey to come back when you've already want to buy the house and even if there's a hole in the roof and you're gonna buy that house so people ignore the due diligence or skimp on it that's four thing four mistakes that people make i've done a video i've done actually done a video series of 12 mistakes that people make uh and uh so let me think of one of those for number five for you um so i i think going into an acquisition without enough knowledge of what to do so feeling as though you can make it up as you go along you can pick up bits of information of the internet i mean goodness me if you spend enough time on the internet you'll you'll be so confused because people say different things what you need is a process you need a system to follow you need to say like this is the first thing i do this is the second thing to the third thing and every time i see someone follow the system they get the result if they don't follow the system they don't get the result and it becomes frustrating or it becomes expensive or they end up just not doing it so i think it's really important to follow that process follow that system so there you go there's five mistakes that people make they're really good ones actually and they're things that you don't automatically think of and that i like the idea about not being a motivated buyer because you make mistakes because you just need and like you say you just need to buy it when it's been going on for ages so it's just like i've put i've already invested x amount of time so now it's i might as well just do well it um yes or i've spent x amount of money and yeah i feel as though i i have an obligation to follow through uh which is just not some not a good idea uh at all you you are looking for a motivated seller you're looking for somebody who wants to sell because if they don't want to sell why you know what you're going to do you're going to try and persuade them to sell to you does that sound like it's ever going to be a good deal so you want someone who wants to sell and you'll find that the more they want to sell the better the deal for you so out of all though millions of businesses out there i think you're probably better off finding someone who really is motivated to sell rather than someone who doesn't want to yeah and i suppose the other thing to think about is if you've got another business or other businesses is how does this one adds to the portfolio or does it distract from the portfolio i guess another one isn't it exactly and and it becomes a distraction it becomes a bad distraction if it's small and it sucks up time but doesn't give you anything back uh it's a good distraction um if it's a game changer acquisition and that and that's what uh um that's always what we're that that is a game changer or just something that you want to do how do they how can they tell the difference uh it's usually down to the numbers right okay to give an example a father and son duo who just bought their first business recently with my help um eight million of revenue 1 .1 million of pre -tax profit that's a game changer deal where you know you buy a business 20 that makes 000 pounds a year well that's never going to set the world alight right it's just like why put the effort in you might as well go and buy the bigger the bigger business okay and do you have any thoughts about knowing when to sell when someone should be thinking about it's time to sell yeah when things are going well but no one wants to sell when things are going well because i say well why would i sell things are going well now that's when you get the um most value and things don't go well forever no business goes up and up and up and up and up and up and up every business you know it goes up and down it's like a roller coaster so you need to know when you're going getting up to the top of the the peak and when you're going up to the top of the peak that's when you sell when you reach the top the only way is down and that's when you get the worst value and that's when you become seriously motivated to sell you should be motivated to sell because the business is doing well not motivated to sell because the business is doing badly. That makes a lot of sense and I guess you need to not be emotionally attached to the business because that's when it's difficult to sell. You get the best value if you're not emotionally attached. If you are emotionally attached your value goes down every single time. This is really useful. Thank you so much for that. Before we finish is there anything Jonathan you want to add or leave with the audience? Can I give a plug for my YouTube channel? Yeah go ahead and do it. If you type my name Jonathan J J A Y into YouTube I've got over 200 videos on buying a business and all interviews with my clients who've done it, me doing presentations to groups of people, all different types of videos and there's some free training videos there as well. If anyone's interested in doing this check out the Jonathan J YouTube channel. Brilliant and I think that will help as you said it's always good to have a bit of a template a bit of a process and an idea of what to expect rather than getting super excited and go I've got some money I can do something. Yeah and keep your money in your pocket don't use your own money when buying the business. Brilliant thank you so much for coming on the show. My pleasure thank you Judith. You're welcome and thank you out there for tuning into the Maverick Paradox podcast. I'm Judith Germain your host and thank you very much for listening to us today. The Maverick Paradox. Judith Germain is an author, speaker, consultant, mentor and trainer and the leading authority on maverick leadership. She is the founder of the Maverick Paradox which supports organizations to enhance their leadership capabilities and to help business owners develop and grow their businesses. Judith enables individuals, business owners and organizations to improve their impact and influence. She is also HR Zones leadership columnist and her expert opinion has appeared in national, international and trade press.
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"Weather Center. We are at 59 degrees in College Park 54 this morning. Fairfax 59 midnight hour on the National Mall up a couple of degrees now to 56 at our nation's capital where the time now on WTOP on your Thursday morning is 12 40. Glad you're with us WTOP. on We bring you money news at 10 and 40 passed brought to you this morning Thursday by PenFed great rates for everyone. Here's Ian. The Labor Department says the producer price index rose last month wholesale prices rose one -half of 1 % up 2 .2 % year -over -year the fastest pace in the index since April resumebuilder .com reports 26 % of the 600 business leaders they surveyed either probably or definitely won't be adding to employee paychecks next year and because of worries over the economy the Dow finishes up 66 the S &P ahead 19 the NASDAQ up 97 Ian Crawford WTOP WTOP News. Checking overseas this early morning midnight hour Asian stikes remain higher across the board this morning at this check the Nikkei is up by 525 points the KOSPI is up 25 the Hang Seng is up 338 the Shanghai is up 25 good morning glad you're with us here at WTOP welcome in with just one touch you can listen live to WTOP on Apple CarPlay or Android Auto download the WTOP app and choose it in your car's display so you never miss the stories you want to know the news you need to know or the traffic you want to avoid WTOP news everything you need every time you listen Apple on CarPlay or Android Auto brought to you by Navy Federal Credit Union where members are the mission visit federal .org insured by NCUA Thursday morning October 12th glad you're with us here at WTOP welcome
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"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Wondercraft AI voice here to give you six crypto markets takeaways from last week. We'll start by taking a look at what happened in markets during the first half of the week. Here, CoinDesk Indices provides week-on-week data over the seven days leading up to Tuesday, September 12th. The culture and entertainment sector, which contains digital assets associated with art, media, and the metaverse, lagged early this week relative to the rest of the market, including ImmutableX down 11%, Apecoin down 15%, and Axie Infinity down 7.8%. The majority of the market was down Tuesday to Tuesday, meaning 159 of the 183 assets in the CoinDesk market index. Bitcoin, however, relatively outperformed, while Ethereum relatively underperformed. Over the past seven days leading to Tuesday, only four protocols in the 183-asset CoinDesk market index saw double-digit appreciation. These include Automated Market Maker Perpetual Protocol, up 41%, Shared Storage Network, Storage, up 25%, Social Platform Origin Protocol, up 20%, and Smart Contract Platform Chromia, up 16%. Stay tuned for after the break, when we'll bring you three more takeaways from the week.
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"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. Wondercraft AI voice here to give you six crypto markets takeaways from last week. We'll start by taking a look at what happened in markets during the first half of the week. Here, CoinDesk Indices provides week-on-week data over the seven days leading up to Tuesday, September 12th. The culture and entertainment sector, which contains digital assets associated with art, media, and the metaverse, lagged early this week relative to the rest of the market, including ImmutableX down 11%, Apecoin down 15%, and Axie Infinity down 7.8%. The majority of the market was down Tuesday to Tuesday, meaning 159 of the 183 assets in the CoinDesk market index. Bitcoin, however, relatively outperformed, while Ethereum relatively underperformed. Over the past seven days leading to Tuesday, only four protocols in the 183-asset CoinDesk market index saw double-digit appreciation. These include Automated Market Maker Perpetual Protocol, up 41%, Shared Storage Network, Storage, up 25%, Social Platform Origin Protocol, up 20%, and Smart Contract Platform Chromia, up 16%. Stay tuned for after the break, when we'll bring you three more takeaways from the week.
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"Meanwhile is looking ahead to next week's speech by Fed Chair Jay Powell in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Cameron Dawson is chief investment officer at New Edge Wealth. We thought about when they gave the title of the global imbalance or the new structure of the global economy that's essentially giving the nod to maybe we should discuss what neutral rates are simply because we've raised rates so much and yet the economy remains so resilient. Cameron Dawson of New Edge Wealth. In an about face, economists see America's economy holding its ground through the end of next year. That story from Bloomberg's Vinnie Dell Judice. It's not robust per se, but it's up. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg now see the U .S. growing economy 2 % on average this year and 0 .9 % in 2024, both above prior estimates. Economists are more optimistic that the U .S. can dodge a recession as inflation rates. Vinnie Dell Judice, Bloomberg Radio. Economists have been growing more optimistic that the U .S. can dodge recession. a Sarah Heughan is head of Europe and America's research at Standard Chartered in London, and on surveillance this morning, she was asked about her outlook for U .S. gross domestic product. Well, it certainly looks as if third quarter is going to stay pretty resilient. We expected it would, given that you have still full employment, job gains are slowing, but unemployment is low, businesses are high, and it looks as if the labor market is still going to be very supportive to the economy. Sarah Heughan of Standard Chartered in London. Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks surged after projecting stronger billings for the year than Wall Street anticipated, easing fears that a slowdown in demand may weigh on results. S &P 500 Index, end of the day, little change down half a point. The Dow was up 25, up by less than one tenth of one percent. As stacked down 26, a drop of two tenths of one percent. Global News, powered by more than 700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I'm Charlie Pellet and this is The New from Bloomberg News and I Heart Radio. It's the big take. I'm Wes The always tense mood between the US and Iran has appeared to lift at least slightly since the two nations announced the painstakingly negotiated deal. Iran and the US will both release prisoners and the US will unfreeze some Iranian oil profits. Washington agreed reportedly on a partial transfer of the Iranian funds logged in South Korean banks under US sanctions via Switzerland. According to a senior official at South Korea's foreign ministry, the US has in effect accepted the plan, though discussions still remain on the exact method. of transfer. But the question is, why is this happening and why now? Bloomberg's Courtney McBride has been reporting on this story, and whether it's a one arrangement -off or if it hints at a broader diplomatic effort behind the scenes. The administration emphasizes that this is a separate issue from any kind of nuclear negotiations, but they are somewhat linked. And later, I speak with Iran expert Ali Vayez of the National Crisis Group. In general, this is a very fragile process, but if it is completed and concluded successfully, I think it is likely to become a more dialogue. Thanks for having me. I'm glad you were willing to talk about this because I have a million questions about this story, even by State Department don't standards. really like They to divulge a lot. They seem to be really cagey about describing what is going to happen. Absolutely. I think both the State Department and the White House are being very cautious. There have been situations previously where they thought they had gotten to the finish line and everything collapsed. And so particularly because you have several American citizens who've been detained for a very long time in Iran, they just don't want to say the wrong thing and upset the apple cart, if you will. Last week, four American citizens were moved from prison to house arrest. A fifth was already on house arrest. And the plan is for those five ultimately to come home to the United States. In concert with these releases, South Korea is going to release six billion dollars of Iranian oil profits that have been frozen since 2019. That money will be transferred to an account that the Iranians can access to buy humanitarian and other goods that are not subject to US sanctions. Once that money is in hand, Iran will allow the Americans to return home. That is expected to happen in September. In a move that the US government is claiming is not linked, is not part of a swap, some Iranians held in the United States are going to be released from prison. Courtney, who are the Americans who've been held in prison? Three of them have been publicly identified and are pretty well known, but two others have requested that their names remain private at the moment. So the administration is not releasing their names, even though been there has some reporting about them. The Iranian government has a fairly long history targeting dual nationals, Iranian Americans, and charging them with spurious espionage crimes. So some of the Americans who are in custody now and have been moved arrest to house have been held by Iran for as long as eight years. So those are the Americans. Who are the Iranians the U .S. is holding? This is another complication or mystery as part of this arrangement is that the Americans haven't indicated which Iranians the government is interested in getting back. The big impetus appears to be the movement of the money. The U .S. has tried through successive administrations to get these people home. The administration emphasizes that this is a separate issue from any kind of nuclear negotiations but they are somewhat linked. Those talks are happening in parallel directly as the U .S. and Iran do not have diplomatic relations. The movement of the money which South Korea is transferring to accounts in Qatar that the Iranians can access is really the piece that allows the Americans to move out of prison and eventually home. And why is South Korea involved. South Korea purchased oil from Iran using waivers from U .S. elections under and the U .S. law that money had to be held in accounts that Iran could use only to purchase certain types of goods. And now the U .S. as you said is saying that this money can only be used for certain purposes Iran but came out publicly and said no they're free to use the money for anything they want. Iran may try to spend the funds in other ways. But not only Iran but any companies or banking institutions that would do business with them are subject to sanctions. And so I any think of their counterparts might be reticent to do any of those transactions. For fear running afoul of U .S. sanctions. Absolutely. What is the US said about the reasons they're doing this. The Biden administration and the Trump administration before it have really emphasized the to need bring home Americans who are wrongly detained abroad. That is the primary and in some ways the only reason that they have stated for trying to bring these folks home. So obviously Iran wanted to get this money unlocked. The U .S. wanted to get these prisoners released. But is there something more going on here. Is this a thaw in U .S. Iranian relations for a particular purpose. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a sense that the nuclear issue which has loomed over the relationship for some time is component a of this deal. While the U .S. in particular is careful to say that the issues are separate. The Iranians have said that this opens the door for wider negotiations. You know the U .S. had tried for for some time throughout the Biden administration to get Iran to compliance return with to the 2015 international nuclear agreement from which the Trump administration withdrew in 2018. Those talks ultimately went nowhere despite a lot of intervention by even the Union European foreign policy chief. But there is some hope it seems on both sides and the Iranians have said this publicly that should this prisoner agreement and the release of the
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"The tape podcast, a conversation with Dan is a web bush securities. We think the video right here. I mean, $500. When you start to look at where this could be 5 to 600 hours, could be fair value, based on the increment opportunity, and then you even streamlined to Microsoft Cool keys. I mean, you could have a stock with a four in front of it because now all that incremental spend, it's going to Microsoft. It's going off, but it's going to potentially Amazon and others. In my view, I, to your question, I view it that now look, execution is clearly there will be issues. Now there's going to be losers, there's going to be AI roadkill as well. Yeah. But this goes back to basically a late 90s type feel in terms of trying to identify the winners. There will be losers from evaluation perspective. I think it's a gold rush because now it really changed the whole paradigm. Here's what I see, having been in this market for more than 30 years. I see the average portfolio manager anywhere in the world saying, I have to have exposure to AI calls up his tech analyst, tech analyst comes back to the NVDA. That's what we're seeing here today. I don't see a $750 billion market cap stock up 25% on anything more than just panic buying almost. But to your point, I mean, you could call it foma but so many ambassadors that sit there and debt ceiling macro valuation, you missed these moves in the video in Microsoft and alpha, but in terms of institutional speaking, you're trying to figure out what font to use in the resume this year. Right. And I think that's where
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"Instilled it in them. And I just went to their Texas game when I was home. And it's really great energy. He's just running up and down, and you can tell his players really play with like for him and he brings out the best for sure. Yeah, that's good, that's not fair. It's a fair one. I have. Yeah. I can see it. And I don't think the basketball world would be surprised. I think they would be like, yeah, like he's who keeps getting here every year for a reason. So yeah, true. But I'm excited about it. It's been really, it's been a really cool tournament. There are some upsets that like, I love the, you know, the credit that Don staley gave Norfolk. You know, I just say that they're not a 16 C because some of these teams, they just constantly get put there because of how we do the tournament, but maybe those things need to change, maybe criteria needs to be different. Yeah, but Princeton, I know prince woman's basketball, I had saw their 7 in ten matchup and I'm like, oh man, that's an upset. And I'm like, man, it's not even, it's not really even an upset. They just play. But it's been definitely fun to watch. So what are your plans for the rest of your season? When does your season wrap up when you guys looking forward to playoffs and things like that? And then the plan to get home. Yeah, so I think mine's kind of a little later than the most of my typical European seasons. We go to like mid may. So I still have like two more months. But it's kind of weird. A lot of these games that I wasn't here for in the beginning of season, they rescheduled. And so we have like ten games in April. We only had like four months and now we were like just cramming it in all before playoffs. So April is going to fly by. We're currently first in the league right now, so we should stay. We have our nice to have our trophy finals kind of like we had our Cup final that we were trophy final and then we have a playoff final. So it's just like what do I get all the trophies, right? They're just like making up tournaments just 'cause, you know? Yeah, yeah. Like a final and then we have finished out the rest of the regular season in April. And then it's only like three games for playoffs in May. Okay, so single elimination. And yeah, we just have three rounds. And so that'll go quick. Once a week and so, I'll be out of here, may 14th. Okay. Awesome. This is like the one time I'm like, can we slow down a little? You know? I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do love it. And I've only been here for, I mean, honestly, the 8 month versus the four month season is just like mentally so much easier and yeah, it's kind of the way to do it. But I can't always do it, but yeah, it's been easy in that regard of like, oh, I'm already about to go home, you know, I just got here. Type of thing. Yeah. It's been good. Well, we wish you the best of luck on the rest of your season. Thanks so much for hopping on dice it up, honestly, it's been mad fun talking to you. No surprise though, that's why we had you on, 'cause I was like, no, do I love you? And I kept the text and part is secret, you know? Out of that little surprise there for y'all. Oh, yeah, yeah. I love it. I love it. But I love you guys up too. That is very clever. I get it. I get it. I appreciate that. This is great. Good to see you as always. Do you think let's do it again? Can't wait to hear the next people you got on here. I'm a follow it out. Mother.
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"Can't believe you believe in us. Oh my gosh. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to go up to Michael. I saw them early in the season of Bahamas, and I'm just like, nah, I'm really a fan. I met you guys. I watched you, I called your games. Like, we're actually cool, like, but I believe in their philosophy. And they've been playing with it. Say it again? So you saw them play Louisville. They played Louisville at that tournament. Yes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Rory Harmon also didn't play in that tournament, but still, it just was a lot of growing for them, but Texas, South Carolina, I agree with Indiana. Even though I haven't seen them a ton, I'm just like, yeah, I feel like they just, they seem like they're comical and collected. Like they're going. But I have South Carolina winning it. Okay. Yeah, I just, I think, I don't know. I just think that they've got, yeah, I think they got a group of some of the best players in just the best system. And I think it's so hard. It's so hard to prepare for. It's so hard to prepare for. And they just wear teams out. So yeah. I like the Vic schaefer, man. I went to text a nim camp when I was really young, and he was there. And we did like, he was just like defense only and his group. And it was like the most intense camp I've ever been. It was just like a camp. I was like an 8th grade or like freshman, you know? And it was like, ta-da. And the ball would get, they were like, and then, you know, you still get the ball even if you're denying sometimes and you're like, do it again. Yeah. Definitely
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"I have, I have Maryland. Over South Carolina, just for because everybody else has South Carolina, winning it all, you know? Are you not betting on that? Don't get into any other bet on that one. It's good. It's good to bet on that because like, okay, all I have to do is bet, you know, a $100 for South Carolina based for Maryland and when that game. And I went like 1300, right? Yeah. Because of the odds. Now, now, what we've seen in the South Carolina a lot is they can easily be down at half and then live in the game. I just spent South Carolina. Like I did yesterday, they were only up I think 6 of them. Only up 6 and a half to win like 31. So then I pivot. They don't always start that fast, but I wouldn't sleep on Maryland. They're kind of nasty. They're so good. But Maryland's always good. I just feel like they're always respectable, but I could just feel like it's been a while since they've hit like that, that next step, you know? Like, yeah. I feel like now we expect them to get to three 16s, which is pretty impressive, obviously, if your Friends freeze. But we expect them to get this week 16s, you know? And then it's like, ah, they don't get to elite it. Like, we're not surprised. We're like, oh, we tried that. Yeah, exactly. You know, one of those, but who else do you have, Dan? Besides, South Carolina or Maryland. I do have Iowa. I would beating my horse. I have Virginia tech. And then the other side, oh, Indiana. I've Indiana winning it all. I think Indiana's most like balanced sound. They are, they are a machine. It's beautiful basketball to watch. Didn't even have my kids me homes last game and still want my 30 against a team that could shoot the ball. Nice. What about you, guys? You said you had, you had Iowa over Texas. To get to the final four, yeah. Yeah, so I picked Vic safer. I just believe in that Texas defense. I just feel like I'm turning in time. Like you always have a chance if you're a big shaper and you have that level of defense. And I just feel like that's what he breathes. Like he brings that. Oh, look at you. I
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"Even with the Stanford losing, we're okay, 'cause they weren't even my final form. I had Iowa. I was in the final four, that's my team. Okay. Yeah, yeah, so don't think they're gonna get past South Carolina, but it's kinda cool. Like what Caitlyn has done, like I was just talking to my friend yesterday at like, I don't think I would be, I don't think I would ever watch an Iowa game, right? Like never in my life when I put an eye on a game, but it was like kind of what she's done that that program and just like how entertaining she is to watch. Like even my European, like my British player teammates are watching her, you know? The last couple of years. And so she's just what she's done and what she's done for herself and her future. It's just like really incredible. So I love watching her, Caitlin Clarkson beast. But yeah, we'll see all these new teams. Indiana didn't attack. I love all of that. You kind of just need new names. People are, I don't know, people might be sleeping on Yukon 'cause they've just got like, it's just Yukon, they always figure out a way, you know? All right, yes. But yeah, it's been fun to watch a lot of these games are at a good time for me because they're earlier in the day. And so I can watch at least the early ones. So I've been keeping up with it, but not so much them inside, but obviously I've seen the upsets and I watched the highlights and stuff. But yeah, I'm locked into the woman's side. Yeah. You know me being me being a proud Jersey girl. I couldn't help but see how it was all the Jersey teams that have sent some of these power 5 schools home early. I was actually calling the Princeton men's basketball games this past season on radio. So I feel like oh my gosh, like this historic run I'm high key part of 'cause like I was there in the building blocks of it. So cool. All right, right, right. That's my guy actually work well. Very cool team is doing that. If you weren't playing now, would you have interviewing and doing the commentary and stuff for these March Madness? Yeah. I 100% think I would have gotten some games, yeah. Which would have been cool, you know, it would have been probably like high, highest stakes games that I've ever called. Like I've done some tournament things here or there. But yes, I feel like that would be pretty cool, but I think that the best thing just about March is like from the basketball mind perspective. How some teams really are just bad matchups. Like you just understand that matchups become everything. Like it's less about scheme and different things like that. And then also the teens who have perfect or near perfect systems. And I'm like, if not always about having the best players, I think we see it all the time, but just like if you get a solid system and the matchups are just a little bit in your favor. Yeah. I even called the upset with Florida Gulf Coast because I'm just like, I remember playing them and they have the exact same kind of system that they run of just like running gun, pulling threes, right? Like $5 driving kick and they're all like they recruit all shooters, you know? And so I knew, and I put them in an update because I'm just like, people sleep on them 'cause they're just like, they don't look athletic, really. And yes, sure enough. I think it was like a 5 or 11 seat or something. If you watched them stay and I was like, yeah, yeah. About that. Just stick to what you know. Hit shots, you know? That's a good little recruiting recruiting model for sure to get some. Head coach, dice it up guest, coach Joe. I mean, just, you know, defense and athleticism also goes a long way. Yeah. I don't care what, I mean, I think scheme was, you can't turn it over three times in the last minute of a game. And the traps, everything was absolutely perfect. Target coach out of her shoes in my opinion. I'll say it. But I just think also the pressures in the level for a lot of these players, even though some of the players that had a lot of mistakes were seniors. But yeah, I mean, there's nothing like it. It's the best. I'm so glad we get to watch. Yeah, I mean, you think about Stanford, right? You think about, you know, how technically sound they are and their system is perfect, but like under what pressure do they really play against the PAC 12? Like, what does a team of the pack 12 that really plays defense like defense first? Yeah. You know? And so it was just like, it doesn't really, when you think about it like that, it doesn't surprise you that an SEC team that's all about defense, which you kind of have to be an SEC, like all SEC teams have that in their DNA. Where they like to defend the South Carolina is the Tennessee's like the Mississippi states. I started rooting for Mississippi. Did you guys see the coach's video? Laura, he was challenging. He was talking to me nice. He was challenging some of the famous people who did not put him on his bracket. So he was a called out Obama. He's like Obama. Talk to me nice. Hilarious. It's gold, it's gold. Was held to under 80 by Georgia, you know? I bet on Iowa to win by ten. Yeah. So super mad about that. But, you know, is what it is. Defense was actually showed up yesterday, too. Holding Michigan under, I think, 45 points. Masterclass. We always struggle. We played LSU every year at tulane. There are rivals, and we always, it was always such a low scoring game with them. Parties and 40s. It was just crazy. We were like, how did we all score four points? Let's go. Crazy. Both teams. It was weird. It was like they did a lot of their zone back then and but it was like an active, weird zone that you still couldn't get a shot off. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And now that they had a player go for like 20 and 20 every game and it's not even a big deal anymore. Yeah, I know she's a beast. This is what's needed to do to win. So we just need you to do it every night. Yeah, I mean, there's some fascinating matchups coming up. I don't know if there's anything y'all are excited for. I mean, I love the thought of LG versus Utah. I mean, Elizabeth is amazing, but you know, going to be hard to be LSU on the board. It's very rare to get beat on the boards, but the guard play from Utah also is just extraordinary. Yeah. I mean, they both play with speed, but I think the amount of three point attempts that Utah gets up is way up there compared to tell us you. Yeah. For sure, yeah, I'm looking forward to a lot of watching like Virginia tech. I haven't really watched a lot this season until literally. How it started and love their guard, the point guard for one, and then but yeah, definitely. What's Tennessee? But I think I'm looking forward to that. Match up. Toledo. Barring something crazy. Oh yeah. Georgia Tech point that Georgia Tech point guard is Australians. Her name is Georgia amour. I was watching a lot. I watched their games in the ACC tournament and they have been red hot. Like they have their last 6, 7 games as a team. They have clicked on all cylinders. I'm talking like beat duke by 2018 that prize themselves on Carol Lawson defense and made it seem like there was they were virtually just running practice plays against them. I would have loved the defense to be a little bit better. I had it under in that game. One 31 and a half. Of course, it's finished in one 32. Oh my gosh. I put on Twitter if this game doesn't go under. I said the night before didn't go on, where I got to get a tattoo. So I got to get a tattoo now. It's been one of those tournaments for the date is not working out, but you know. We're going to go on a run here. Who do you have? Do you have any final four?
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"Finance. I'm curious on your advice to other hoopers that want to get overseas. Because you've kind of managed to put together a life where you do things outside of basketball that make you money, you're able to play. You know, having a little bit of agency with your agent and telling him like, hey, we're going to wait until the best possible thing because you kind of planned out this life and these goals. So what would your be advice advice be to some of these college players that are in March Madness probably going home tomorrow or the next day, but that want to play overseas and want to have a successful career? Yeah, I mean, gosh, just from the beginning, starting from my advice, honestly, refining agent probably wouldn't be good, but I got lucky. I got really lucky. I picked him out of four people that reached out after season. And I literally picked him because he was the only one that I could understand the best through his accent on the phone. Literally what I based it off of. So I got lucky, I'm having literally for 6 years, even when I got hurt, he was able to find me a team and after COVID, he's able to find me a team and he's just been really good and honest I would say kind of ask around just ask other agents and ask other teams about these agents because what I've noticed about mine is people agents love to talk mess about each other. And what I noticed about him is he never really bashes anybody and then other agents actually don't really bash him. And that's like a really rare thing to find. With that. But yeah, just, I mean, at the end of the day, if you have them for a season, right? So if it's not like the biggest decision, you're not locked in for four years or anything. And with the ADD part, but yeah, it's all about having that respect in that having that good relation and that trust. And just communicating, you'll need something. He's working for you and he is going to do and everything is power. And then if he doesn't, you can't, I don't know. I've always just had a lot of grace with it, right? And just like, I know he's working with me and that's just like that mutual respect that comes with it. I don't know if that answered your question. I was more focused on agent part. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. But then outside of the basketball part, I would just like into the basketball court, just like you said, get out and do other things is like my biggest thing. Meet people outside of the team would be one of my biggest advice of don't just stay in your little circle and there's just so many cool people to learn with and they know all the nooks and crannies of the cool little parts of cities are and so just get out like at least like once a week and do something in the city, you know and even if it's cold. This is cold weather man. You just want to like stay inside all day. Yeah, that would be a much thanks. Yeah. As far as like playing like I guess you started in Romania, what's something that you wish you would have like resource and known before like going to some of the countries that you played in? What was the biggest culture shock in each place? Um, that is a good question. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you now and there's this one. This is just the kind of funny story in Romania actually. I didn't know it was like normal to have toilets on the ground and this 12 was just like on the ground with 20 part is like all 8 of my teammates. It was like we were on a road trip and they had all went and got out and went in the bathroom and came out with like no reaction. Like it was normal. So when I get in there, I was just like, nobody wanted to have any comment about this. Yeah, you could squat in this thing 'cause that was like a little like, oh yeah, they're all over the place and I'm like, wow, so that would have been helpful to know. Yeah. I completely remember my first time seeing that in Greece and I was like, what? Oh my God. What's going on here? I think it's called Turkish toilets, but they're literally on the floor. And I just was like, yeah, I think I have to hold it. I don't know. Hashtag Kyrgyz toilets. It's a new segment. Yeah, Google that one. But yes, I completely hear you on that. Yeah, that was that would have been my culture shock for Greece. Oh my gosh. I'm trying to think of any more crazy things. The rules, I would say the rules and basketball have like little I've had a lot of my rookie year, just like a lot of crazy turnovers with like, you can't go back court when you pass the view from the sideline or you can't have like two people on the free throw line. It's like three. Different things like that where it was just like basic rules that you just never really thought. Do your whole life. Yeah, you can't call a timeout. I got like a technical, 'cause yeah, I called my wife. So players can't call them out. Yeah, just like weird things like that little things I wish I knew, right? Oh, the American. Yeah, like, you know, The Rookie. To learn about all that. Yeah, I mean, that's my favorite thing to take advantage of him directly. And of a game where it's a running clock, I'm absolutely fouling. And they're like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm sorry, it's strategy. I don't want to try that hard defense on the foul and waste ten seconds. So funny you would be that guy. That is so funny. Yeah, that is. Right, yeah, he's like, I'm trying to wrap this up. Get a lead on your own. Work hard, the beginning of the game. Yeah, that's me. The whole quarter left just passed them all around and directly. No problem. Yeah, well, they came for a rule the next season. They instituted a shot clock with no real shot clock. It's a guy yelling it out. It's ridiculous. I hope the NCAA watches this and they can implement that. Just have a guy yelled all the time. This guy's getting paid $15 an hour to yell numbers. Yeah. Literally, you probably lose his voice. That's a hard job. And then what do you do when someone gets an offense rebound kick out? Three, two, up. Yeah, I know, right? You don't even know the rules. Yeah. Buddy. That's funny. Leslie, obviously we're in March, so we gotta talk about March Madness. You know, what have you been paying attention to? What are some games that have really shocked you? And I haven't even really caught up on everything. Oh, look at your bracket. Yes, how is your bracket doing? I only get the girls, the girls side. Teammates too, and it's looking pretty good.
The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
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"And who doesn't love New Orleans? God. Have a bachelor party there? I do want to live in that city at some point. That's a fantastic city. Oh my gosh. That's amazing. I've never had a bad time in New Orleans. Yeah, it's funny. You say the food because they literally, you know, it's like the freshman 15 typically. They actually talk to tulane, the tulane 20, 'cause it's just like you can't like any corner you go to, it's just gonna be this good, like southern cooking, Cajun, seasoning, and I actually bring like Tony seasonings out here. Yeah, you just gotta have it. So yeah, it's Elaine looks good to me for sure. And then it's like, it's kind of like a city like this where people are going to come visit. I don't know if it's for you, specifically, but they support you in making trip out of it. So that was a lot of fun just always have people in and out of there. Mardi Gras and all that. Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, I feel like you've been placed in good locations, just generally where you can see a little bit of everything. And then have access to people. I think sometimes like overseas hooper's, you feel like you're really by yourself for 8 months. Because, you know, people don't come visit and you're just focused on basketball so it's really nice that you've been in locations that are accessible, right? And obviously the COVID era like in Hungary, I didn't maybe didn't have the best experience because it was everything was kind of like closed off and all that. So I didn't really get a full experience of it. But yeah, that one, that was the first year I actually lived alone. So I came from Germany where all 6 of us kind of lived in this big house and we were super close and then went to Germany and yeah and you live alone and so it's definitely an adjustment. I'm not saying I don't like living alone or like prefer either way that I kind of just you like having people around with the knee like I became an introvert. I don't know out here but yeah you have to learn how to yeah, just kind of be cool with being on your own and get a book or like yeah you can get kind of like wrapped in just like, oh, I'm just gonna watch Netflix for 8 hours, you know and feel like you're just losing brain power because you're just like I fell down when I get home sometimes but yeah, so you just kind of have to feed your feed your mind with good stuff when you're acting. Well I know from knowing you personally that you run a financial business on the side that you kind of helps you feel some of that time. So talk to us about how you got into that and how you balance it with overseas basketball. Yeah, yeah like you said, it's honestly something I never really thought I'd be doing. I thought I was always just gonna be like basketball so I had to open that side of my brain up to like just kind of want to learn and I did want to learn that was kind of how I got into it of just someone sat me down and I was just kind of like my dad was my money guy and I was just kind of sending, I didn't know what was happening with it and while I was paying taxes and kind of very clueless at the beginning. So I just was like educate me, right? Give me something. I should have known this. I was a business school graduate and should have known more than I did, right? And so yeah, I just kind of like they dumbed it down for me and I was like hungry to learn more and more and just kind of kept doing research and then just naturally started sharing it with my people with you and just kind of like what I learned and yeah, and that's giving me a way to just communicate with people and have that social aspect when you're overseas and zoom in that face to face face to face conversation. And yeah, just kind of build your mind with things that are meaningful for your future rather than like a soap opera, you know? So in this career, this is a good you have a lot of time on your hands out here. It's this team. I've only practiced once a day, like mornings. So I have, I'm literally done by, you know, by the time anyone even back homes awake and so I can move a lot of those, you know, we can make a lot of those calls in those connections and stuff like that. So yeah, it is good money just to have on the side and like a good backup plan. And that's kind of the blessing of the timing of it all as well as I started this when this last summer when I didn't have a team supposed to go in August, I didn't go until end of December. So it was like three months I was okay to like I told my agent like we're not going to just go desperately to go somewhere that I'm I don't feel like I need to. I'm not stressed for money. I have this other thing, right? And so that kind of gave me the peace of mind to wait and the ability to be here in London now, right? Someone got injured and something like that. So I was able to kind of hop right into this, but it wouldn't have had that, right? If I didn't have that, something else coming in. Yeah. Yeah.
The Her Hoop Stats Podcast
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"Nice. And we are here on the other episode of dice it up with a cool guess Leslie boor Paul saying that correctly, yes. You are. Let's go. I think, you know, those listening now are practiced for a good ten seconds. So my head over and over again. A professional hooper out in London. How are you doing today? Doing great. Can't complain out in London. It's a good day. To know that you don't have a British accent, so I didn't have to fake mine real quick. Yeah, a lot of times people are like, oh, dang, you don't have a British accent. Maybe by the end of it, me and ice will come out with some type of accent. Yeah. Yeah, I hope so. I'm working on mine over here. You said in it already. That was a word that they use over here. It's great to see you. It's great to see you. Thank you for coming on the show. Backstory. So I met Leslie this past summer. We did a camp together out in Dallas. It was like a professional and college basketball camp, really select few tight knit group. We got super close from that. Really stayed connected. And she plays overseas. We've stayed on our journeys overseas, but also what we do outside of basketball. And so just a very well rounded person that I felt needed to be on our show so we can highlight overseas who first. Love it. Thanks for having me. It means a lot. Your big time and yeah, and from that camp, I suppose just like one of definitely the more outspoken leaders and drove conversations and really ask good questions and later on found she was like into like, yeah, doing podcasts and commentary and so it made sense. So but yeah. I can work a room and work with Jim. That's for sure. That's a good point. It's fair. Slow down. I appreciate it, Daniel. So Leslie, tell us about you right now we know that you're in London. But give us kind of your background and how you got to where you are now. Yeah. So I'm from born and raised from San Antonio, Texas, and then I went to college at tulane and New Orleans four years there. And then, yeah, hop got an agent and hopped over the water, played in Romania, my first year, tore my ACL that year, so I went back to tulane. I got my master's there, and it was just like a perfect kind of, honestly, it was a perfect timing with everything and going back to my college and doing rehab there and getting my yeah, my master's paid for and then being a graduate assistant coach with my old team. So I really, yeah, I love it was just like a God thing, all that happening all at once on the right time. So then I went back and a year later to Germany and then two years and Hungary and then now here in London this season and so I feel like we're considered like veterans now. You know, 27 and more considered old. So just trying to think in a little, but yeah, it's a little bit about the back. So what were your experiences like in those countries? Because I feel like hearing that group, it's like a lot of different cultures and different things going on. Yeah. So what were your experiences like? To be honest, I am just so thankful, so thankful that I started in Romania because I had nothing to kind of gauge it and I was just kind of this like ignorance was bliss and I was this rookie and I was like, oh great, we have to walk every day to practice in the snow. Like, oh, great. We have to live in a dorm. Cool. And everything that wasn't ideal, right? Now that I'm looking back to it, I just kind of took it with a grain of salt, and I was like, this is just how it is over here. I'm living my dream. But yeah, the culture there is just the people like my teammates were amazing. But the culture itself and just the vibe of it's always gray and it's kind of you kind of feel like I want to say the depressed people of just like the communists just like very I was just very recent for them. I felt like you just like felt a lot of that heaviness still. So yeah, I was at the best. I didn't love it. You ate a lot of like fried cheese and potatoes and that was your pre game meal, you know? Very strange. But then Germany was a lot better, a lot more modern culture. Everyone was super friendly and just always had to be here in their hand, right? Yeah. Best, and there's all these carnivals and very cool experience there. I was in a small small town, which made it kind of cute and unique. And then yeah, hungry. Was Budapest was like one of my favorite cities to ever, and I was in that city, but I would go there a lot very close to it. And yeah, people were great. I spent a lot of the easters in the Christmas with my teammates families and just to kind of feel their little culture out and yeah, the league was on that one was probably by far the most competitive and fun. Every day you're playing against a WNBA player or a couple and yeah, it was never a night off best for sure. So loved the competitiveness there. And then yeah, London is just London. You really nothing bad to say about this. The league isn't as strong. But it's a comfortable place to live. You actually can engage with people and socialize and go out and meet friends and all that. So it's always stuff to do here. I saw a really probably let me do this problem from my top places. People I've already had like three people come visit because people actually want to come visit you in life. Yeah. With Australia. In the flight here was like a direct. So way easier. To get on the side, yeah. Yeah. I didn't tell me that we were having a texting on. I should have stopped it the first word. Yeah. Like, me and my morning. I mean, how much do you miss breakfast tacos? Oh my God. Are you from Texas? I'm from Houston and my wife went to Alma heights. You get it, yes. It's been a month in San Antonio every year now. Oh, very good. I do miss my breakfast tacos. Literally funny story. I told my mom to bring tacos in refried beans. So we make it work. We make it work. It's like a hundred stack in my face. Yeah. I also can't imagine talking about playing in Germany with all the beer. I did two days in October vest. I think my digestive system is forever destroyed. And that one weekend. Yeah, people would always say, I don't like beer. So I kind of was saved in that regard, but people were like, oh, if you go to Germany, you're going to love it. And I tried. I was like, the dark ones, the light ones, every color ones, and I was like, this is awful. Just not like it. People got crazy. October 1st was crazy. That's right. Oh, cool. We'll text it on. Look at us.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"The FTSE 100 is flat. The stock 600 just nudging slightly higher this morning the Dax is now turned negative down two tenths of 1%, but the big action is on bond markets this morning, particularly focusing on UK gilts after that inflation print, the two year yields now up 25 basis points to two spot 39 that is the highest since 2008, it is inverted with the ten year yield, which is up 12 basis points to two spot 24. We are seeing sharp rises in bond yields across the European space, Germany's ten year bond now, 9 basis points higher at one spot zero 5, Italian BTPs also up by 9 basis points to three spot 22. Those are the latest markets. Now on to today's top stories and we'll start in the UK where inflation has hit double digits. CPI accelerated more than expected last month to hit 10.1%. It's the highest rate in 40 years, rising food prices with the largest part of the increase are signed inflationary pressures are spreading beyond energy. The central banking expects inflation to surpass 13% later this year when regulators allow energy bills to rise again. Traders are taking notes of those inflation numbers, investors expressing mounting concerns about the UK's dire economic outlook through an inversion of the key section of the yield curve markets now batting the Bank of England will double interest rates in the next 6 months to grapple with rising costs a half point hike in September is also being predicted for the first time in a month. In Germany, the utility giant uniper posted an at loss of more than €12 billion in the first half of the year, as it struggles to fill the hole left by Russian gas. It comes as Berlin says it will struggle to have enough fuel this winter if Moscow cuts off supplies completely. Bloomberg's max Ramsey has more
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