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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Greg Dickerson Interview - Fed Continued Rate Hikes Impact on Bitcoin, Crypto, Stocks, Real Estate & Inflation
"So the Fed is finally convincing markets that they're serious about taming inflation, that they're going to keep rates higher. The interesting thing that what Powell said, so at the recent meeting last week, he said four things that were very impactful to the markets and very impactful to investors and their outlook moving forward. One. Link to please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews with me today is Greg Dickerson, who is a real estate investor, a consultant, entrepreneur. And Greg, there's so many titles, but you obviously have a huge knowledge of the markets. Yeah. Yeah. Tony, it's good to see you. Well, Greg, you know, as the Fed continues their tightening and cycle they've had some very interesting updates where they pause rate hikes and they went back to rate hikes. Now they're pausing again. I would love to get your thoughts on what is the Fed doing here as best as you can tell us and their strategy. Is it still they're going very aggressive against inflation or they're ramping down? Yeah. So, you know, you and I have been having these conversations for, I don't know, about two years now. Right. I think so. Yeah. You know, pretty much during the entire Fed hiking cycle since inflation, you know, went out of control. So we're seeing disinflation, inflation's come down a little bit, but we still have a ways to go. So the Fed is finally convincing markets that they're serious about taming inflation, that they're going to keep rates higher. The interesting thing that what Powell said, so at the recent meeting last week, he said four things that were very impactful to the markets and very impactful to investors and their outlook moving forward. One, he said we're going to carefully evaluate the data and our policy moving forward. He said carefully a number of times because he understands the impact that these higher rates, the longer they stay higher can have on the markets, especially the credit markets. So that carefully was a very interesting thing that he said. The other thing he said was neutral is much higher than where we are from here. And he was asked the question, well, where is neutral? You know, that R star, that neutral Fed funds rate. And he said, we will know it by its works. So what he's saying is it's higher than where we are now. We don't know how high that's going to be, but once we get there, we'll know it by its works. In other words, it's going to put a lot of pressure on credit markets, you know, moving forward. The other thing he said was, you know, a lot of what we're experiencing in inflation being sticky at this point, he said, we have seen a lot of progress. He said, however, the economy is strong, the job markets are strong. So that's kind of keeping inflationary pressures higher for longer. So, and that was the last thing that he said was, he said that there may be a time when it's appropriate to reduce rates, but that time is not now. So, you know, those were the, you know, things that he really said that were really impactful to the markets. So what was happening is along the way, markets were pricing rate cuts like every quarter. So the Fed would hike and they would say, well, next quarter, they're going to cut. That pretty much happened up until the last meeting. And what we've seen now is the markets are pricing out rate cuts into September of next year and have pushed them out. So I think the markets have finally gotten serious about taking the Fed at their word and not fighting the Fed. You don't fight the Fed on the way up and you don't fight the Fed on the way down. And the markets have been fighting the Fed the whole way on the way down. The markets have won that fight to this point. So now we're at that critical mass because the Fed is really handcuffed. So a lot of people said, well, Powell seemed, you know, visibly unnerved at that meeting that he didn't seem his usual polished, smooth self, but he seemed a bit rattled. And the reason is, is because the Fed knows that they're handcuffed. With inflation where it's at, if they take the foot off the brakes at all, so they have the brakes on the economy right now by raising interest rates. When the economy runs hot, you raise rates to cool it off. When the economy cools off or, you know, runs hot, you put the brakes on. When it's, you know, when you want it to speed up a little bit, it starts cooling, you lower rates and you put the foot on the gas. So what he knows and what the FOMC know are that, we really can't control the inflationary environment that we're in now. Energy, jobs, things like that. Their policy has had no effect on that. They can't really control that food prices, those types of things. So we get into a situation where the credit markets start to crack again, carefully monitoring financial conditions and the environment. There's really nothing they can do. They can't cut rates because inflation will just skyrocket again and run through the roof. So they're in a very difficult spot.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "week" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"As a little history. Yes, that's our Skorigami Sounder. Philadelphia's 25 -11 win over Tampa Bay was the first time that score has ever been posted in NFL history, so quite a moment for those who are into the Skorigami thing. There was a scored a game Sunday. There was one earlier this year as well, so it's happening all over the place for rare scores. Eagles are one of three unbeaten teams in the league after three weeks. Four teams are winless after Cincinnati left their ranks last night by beating Los Angeles Rams 1916. Meanwhile, the commanders are looking to figure out what's coming up next after a tough loss to Buffalo. They face Philadelphia this upcoming Sunday. Major League Baseball Nationals and Orioles meet the next two evenings at Camden Yards, the worst of times and best of times in tale this of two cities. Nats almost assured of a fourth straight last place finish in the NL East. O's magic number to win the American League East is three. And I explain why tonight's game is the one to watch in this week's Nats notebook on the sports page at W -T -O -P dot com. Dave Preston, W -T -O -P Sports. Alright Dave, and coming up after traffic and weather, we are just days away from a government shutdown, so what's happening in Congress? It's 926. Here's Jose E. Griffiths, the president of Dakota State University, on the discussion developing the future federal cyber workforce, sponsored by Dakota State University. If campuses can open their world to government and not just to the big tech companies of the world. Then we will be able to get more people out into the public the public sector as well as the private sector, making the connection and networking becomes all important here. Listen to the entire discussion on federal news network. Search Dakota State University. The future cyber. of Lies where you'd least expect it. A powerhouse on the plains. Dakota State University. As an NSA center of academic excellence, DSE
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep382: Don't Be Afraid Of Giving Value
"Don't be afraid of giving value. Don't be afraid of giving actual tangible value that somebody can grab hold of and do something about because that's how people are going to share things. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And we are going to be talking about not being afraid of giving value. Here's the thing. I had a conversation recently with somebody who's starting a podcast and it's for their business. And he and I were talking about what he could talk about. And we're outlining a bunch of ideas. He's a coaching client. We're outlining a whole bunch of ideas that he could do episodes on. I started by asking him, what does your perfect listener need to know? What is that perfect, perfect listener? The same person that you would actually do business with. They would hire you and you would be able to support them. They would be able to go further and faster. The investment with you would be nothing to them compared to how much they would make because they did that. I asked him, who do you serve? How do you serve them? And what do they need right now? And he starts giving me some options, some ideas. And one of the ideas, he was like, oh, well this. And I was like, that's great. And he goes, yeah, but I mean, I can't give him all of the details of that. And I'm like, okay, I knew where this is going, but I go, why not? What do you think is going to happen? And he goes, well, if they know all of the things and they don't need to hire me. And so I got to hold some things close to my chest. You don't freaking need to keep anything close to your chest. I wanted to say, I didn't say it like that. I should have slapped him up the side of the head, but he was virtual and I couldn't. So he goes, yeah, I've got to keep some stuff close to my chest. That's private stuff for my coaching clients only. I thought about it for a second and I go, what's the worst that could happen? A couple of them use it and they get successful. Why not share it on your podcast? And I mentioned, I've had other coaching clients in the past few years. I've been helping people with podcasting since even before my company launched in 2019. And I let them know that, hey, when I was doing my real estate podcast that I sold, I sold it back in 2020. When I was doing my real estate podcast, I gave all the goods and people came to me in droves. They flocked to me and I made a lot of money. I was able to raise a lot of equity for my real estate deals and find great deals and be awarded or win deals that I wouldn't have because I gave the good stuff. And I'm talking to this guy and just letting him know that don't be afraid of doing that. That is just some fear that's inside of you. And I thought to myself, because this wasn't the only time I ever had this conversation, I've had this conversation many times, especially when I'm being interviewed on other people's podcasts. When I'm being interviewed on a podcast about podcasting and people are asking me like, you know, what should I do? I'm constantly saying, don't be afraid of giving value. Don't be afraid of giving actual tangible value that somebody can grab hold of and do something about because that's how people are going to share things. I'm thinking right now in my head of this guy named Dave Ramsey. Dave Ramsey, he's kind of famous for teaching people that debt is bad. All debt is bad. I don't agree with it and that's okay. But he tries to share like the paid off mortgage is the new status symbol of wealth replacing the BMW. So he basically says and I hear the wisdom in it. He's basically saying like, instead of having a house that's not paid for and a BMW that's not paid for and now you're shit out of luck if the economy goes bad, pay off the house and maybe just have a Toyota for a while, have a Honda for a while and then graduate to a BMW when you can pay it all in cash. So you don't need that status symbol. Well, Dave Ramsey gives all of the goods. He gives all the goods on every freaking time. He basically only has four things to talk about, but he talks about them in full depth each and every time. And what that means to you is if he's making millions and millions of dollars, if Adam's able to do just fine and work only a few hours a week and have good revenue coming into the business, if other people are able to do this and give away the goods so that you have to keep things like my coaching client said close to the chest, nothing, give out the goods. It will come back to you probably tenfold. So today, this episode is about not being afraid of giving value to anywhere, anyone in anywhere, give the value, even if you're not getting paid for it. And it's going to come back to you. By the way, this was a pretty short episode. I have a lot of these podcast episodes that are solos that might only be three, four, five, ten, fifteen minutes. And that means what I'm asking you to do is rather than turn us off, check out the episode that I've got queued up for you. I'll see you there. You're not alone if you're ready to either get your very first affordable microphone or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to some legit podcasting studio equipment. Because on all of the forums over the last few months, I'm seeing this all the time. Even my own personal clients that work with my team, they're ready to get that next microphone. They're asking us for it. Additionally, when I'm on discovery calls with potential clients, they're always asking for this stuff. Hey, what mic do you recommend? Hey, what lighting do you recommend? What webcam should I be using? So many questions. And so what we did, my whole team has put together a PDF so that if you're one of those people who is looking to either get your very first affordable microphone or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to more professional podcast studio equipment, whether it's soundproofing or whatever, we've got you covered by going to growyourshow .com forward slash PDF, and you can download the PDF for free or right there on the webpage is everything that you would have and you don't need to download the PDF either way. Just go to growyourshow .com forward slash PDF, which will put you to the podcasting that me and my team have personally vetted. I'll see you on the next episode.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Week" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"To go if you the want biggest selection of e -bikes. Ride it, love it, take it home. Visit Strictly -ebikes .com. I'm Rita Kessler WTOP traffic. And here's 7news first alert meteorologist Brian Vandegraff. start A damp to the morning and some spots. We're looking at very light rain chances throughout the week. We can't rule them out completely but even if we to were get rain it's not going to be more than a tenth of an inch through the entire week. It's just more of a pesky nuisance situation. A cloudy day, cool. Temperatures will be only in the low to mid 60s so well below the average of 77. 50s tonight, tomorrow a little bit better chance of a drier day with some peaks of sunshine. Highs back in the mid and upper 60s. I'm 70s meteorologist Brian Van Der Graaf in the First Alert Weather Center. Checking some current temps for you. have We 58 degrees in Ashburn, we're at 55 in Northwest DC and in Virginia 59 degrees in Annandale. Money news at 10 and
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Unplugged | Analyzing Market Headwinds and Tailwinds
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. This is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. Since I'm out at a conference today, this episode has a different format than usual. Rather than talk about market performances, I'm going to give my thoughts on the main tailwinds and headwinds currently affecting crypto markets. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not give investment advice. We all know that markets have been range -bound recently. For many, this is surprising given the potential upside of a spot Bitcoin ETF approval. For others, the resilience is unexpected given the downward pressure from higher interest rates. Both are strong forces and there are others in the mix as well. What we are seeing is positive and negative trends largely cancelling each other out amid a general lack of interest from new large investors. So, let's step back and take a look at some of the main positive and negative narratives and then I'll talk about how they are affecting new investor interest. Starting with the tailwinds. The most significant is the potential boost in demand that would come from approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF. Why would demand increase? Because an ETF that trades on US markets is a convenient wrapper for Bitcoin exposure. It makes it much easier for retail investors to add a small Bitcoin position for diversification purposes and many institutions can only invest in listed products. With an ETF, they would now be able to diversify their funds or even take a speculative position. The eventual demand for a spot Bitcoin ETF is likely to be greater than for the Bitcoin futures ETF. It's a better product in that it involves less rollover costs and therefore should deliver better alignment with the Bitcoin price. How likely is approval? Bloomberg analysts have put the probability at 75 % by the end of this year. 95 % by the end of 2024. So, not a sure thing, but pretty likely. I think it will happen and it is not yet anywhere near priced in. Other tailwinds. Activity on the Bitcoin blockchain is picking up. The 30 -day moving average of the number of active Bitcoin addresses on any given day is more than 20 % up from the local low in May, almost 15 % up since the beginning of the year, according to data from Glassnode. That suggests the network is broadening. Adoption of the Lightning network is likely to start picking up as Coinbase moves to adopt its fast and cheap Bitcoin transfer technology. This could end up boosting demand for Bitcoin as greater liquidity on Lightning brings in more users. And long -term holders of Bitcoin are still accumulating. Yesterday MicroStrategy revealed in a filing the purchase of a further 5 ,445 Bitcoin. Back in August, the company had suggested it was ready to accumulate even more. For Ethereum, approval of the first listed Ether futures ETF is likely within the next few months, with a probability of 95%, according to Bloomberg analysts. Again, not a sure thing, but the odds are looking good. Although it is a futures product, it could boost demand for spot Ether, much like the Bitcoin futures ETF launch in October 2021 that propelled the Bitcoin price up to $69 ,000. And finally, sticking with Ethereum, the network's next major upgrade is expected early next year or possibly sooner. This will improve Ethereum's scalability, potentially increasing its use and therefore also demand for Ether. Now this is far from a comprehensive list. There are many more factors supporting the crypto market, but in the interest of time, let's move on to the headwinds. One of the more significant headwinds is the regulatory cloud in the US, specifically the lack of clarity on what is and isn't a security. The general fear that the SEC or the CFTC will launch actions against a project is dampening activity, and the potential impact on the price of tokens that become the subject of regulatory scrutiny and or find themselves delisted out of necessity or caution. That's most likely enough to keep investors away from smaller tokens. It even impacts Ether, the second largest crypto asset by market cap. Ether's transaction volume is not totally dependent on DeFi activity, but they are related, and DeFi activity is down. According to data source DeFi Llama, total value locked on Ethereum -based DeFi applications is at its lowest level since January 2021. DeFi interest is dampened at the moment in part because of regulatory uncertainty and in part because of some recent high -profile exploits that have reminded investors how new this all is and how relatively untested the different attack vectors are. Another big headwind is the outlook for US interest rates. I say US interest rates because they are one of the key levers for global liquidity. This lever acts through the cost of lending and also through the price of US government bonds, the assets most used as collateral for short -term financing. US interest rates also act on the US dollar. Higher rates generally means that the US dollar will be heading up, and this influences liquidity in any country that imports goods priced in dollars or that has issued dollar -denominated debt. There are even more channels than this, but the bottom line is that higher US interest rates do tend to dry up global liquidity. This affects the flow of funds into higher volatility low -income assets such as tech stocks and crypto assets. Suffice to say that expectations are settling in that US rates will be higher for longer, and macro investors are likely to be more inclined to take advantage of the high returns available in safe bonds, especially when fears of an impending recession are gathering momentum. It's a fascinating time in crypto markets, even though the price movements are not particularly interesting. Bitcoin and Ether historical volatility are at their lowest point since January, which itself was a multi -year low. It's fascinating because I don't remember a time when you have this tug of war between such compelling narratives. The market is telling us that the headwinds and tailwinds are more or less evenly balanced. There are days when optimism is winning and we see clear signs of a pickup and accumulation activity. There are days when price movements bring out more sell orders. How long will this continue? That's hard to answer, since a bad economic read, a bank in distress, further climbs in the oil price, or a spike in geopolitical tension – all those things could happen at any time and they could send interest rate expectations hurtling up or down. We could also get some more unwelcome moves from regulators at any time. On the other hand, we could get some positive price moving news in the form of a new fund taking a crypto asset position, another nation state supporting Bitcoin mining, or of course a Bitcoin spot or Ether futures ETF approval. Any of these, or something I haven't thought of yet, could drop at any time. The uncertainty is dampening price movements while contributing a veil of suspense. Meanwhile, progress on network applications across the world is changing. The headwinds facing the crypto market at the moment will eventually dissipate, perhaps to be replaced by others. The tailwinds will change too, and new ones will emerge. It's up to investors to decide for themselves which type of wind will be more powerful in the months to come. And that's it for this week's show. If you liked the show, please leave us a five -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso, with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noah Lacheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Week" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Unplugged | Analyzing Market Headwinds and Tailwinds
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. This is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. Since I'm out at a conference today, this episode has a different format than usual. Rather than talk about market performances, I'm going to give my thoughts on the main tailwinds and headwinds currently affecting crypto markets. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not give investment advice. We all know that markets have been range -bound recently. For many, this is surprising given the potential upside of a spot Bitcoin ETF approval. For others, the resilience is unexpected given the downward pressure from higher interest rates. Both are strong forces and there are others in the mix as well. What we are seeing is positive and negative trends largely cancelling each other out amid a general lack of interest from new large investors. So, let's step back and take a look at some of the main positive and negative narratives and then I'll talk about how they are affecting new investor interest. Starting with the tailwinds. The most significant is the potential boost in demand that would come from approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF. Why would demand increase? Because an ETF that trades on US markets is a convenient wrapper for Bitcoin exposure. It makes it much easier for retail investors to add a small Bitcoin position for diversification purposes and many institutions can only invest in listed products. With an ETF, they would now be able to diversify their funds or even take a speculative position. The eventual demand for a spot Bitcoin ETF is likely to be greater than for the Bitcoin futures ETF. It's a better product in that it involves less rollover costs and therefore should deliver better alignment with the Bitcoin price. How likely is approval? Bloomberg analysts have put the probability at 75 % by the end of this year. 95 % by the end of 2024. So, not a sure thing, but pretty likely. I think it will happen and it is not yet anywhere near priced in. Other tailwinds. Activity on the Bitcoin blockchain is picking up. The 30 -day moving average of the number of active Bitcoin addresses on any given day is more than 20 % up from the local low in May, almost 15 % up since the beginning of the year, according to data from Glassnode. That suggests the network is broadening. Adoption of the Lightning network is likely to start picking up as Coinbase moves to adopt its fast and cheap Bitcoin transfer technology. This could end up boosting demand for Bitcoin as greater liquidity on Lightning brings in more users. And long -term holders of Bitcoin are still accumulating. Yesterday MicroStrategy revealed in a filing the purchase of a further 5 ,445 Bitcoin. Back in August, the company had suggested it was ready to accumulate even more. For Ethereum, approval of the first listed Ether futures ETF is likely within the next few months, with a probability of 95%, according to Bloomberg analysts. Again, not a sure thing, but the odds are looking good. Although it is a futures product, it could boost demand for spot Ether, much like the Bitcoin futures ETF launch in October 2021 that propelled the Bitcoin price up to $69 ,000. And finally, sticking with Ethereum, the network's next major upgrade is expected early next year or possibly sooner. This will improve Ethereum's scalability, potentially increasing its use and therefore also demand for Ether. Now this is far from a comprehensive list. There are many more factors supporting the crypto market, but in the interest of time, let's move on to the headwinds. One of the more significant headwinds is the regulatory cloud in the US, specifically the lack of clarity on what is and isn't a security. The general fear that the SEC or the CFTC will launch actions against a project is dampening activity, and the potential impact on the price of tokens that become the subject of regulatory scrutiny and or find themselves delisted out of necessity or caution. That's most likely enough to keep investors away from smaller tokens. It even impacts Ether, the second largest crypto asset by market cap. Ether's transaction volume is not totally dependent on DeFi activity, but they are related, and DeFi activity is down. According to data source DeFi Llama, total value locked on Ethereum -based DeFi applications is at its lowest level since January 2021. DeFi interest is dampened at the moment in part because of regulatory uncertainty and in part because of some recent high -profile exploits that have reminded investors how new this all is and how relatively untested the different attack vectors are. Another big headwind is the outlook for US interest rates. I say US interest rates because they are one of the key levers for global liquidity. This lever acts through the cost of lending and also through the price of US government bonds, the assets most used as collateral for short -term financing. US interest rates also act on the US dollar. Higher rates generally means that the US dollar will be heading up, and this influences liquidity in any country that imports goods priced in dollars or that has issued dollar -denominated debt. There are even more channels than this, but the bottom line is that higher US interest rates do tend to dry up global liquidity. This affects the flow of funds into higher volatility low -income assets such as tech stocks and crypto assets. Suffice to say that expectations are settling in that US rates will be higher for longer, and macro investors are likely to be more inclined to take advantage of the high returns available in safe bonds, especially when fears of an impending recession are gathering momentum. It's a fascinating time in crypto markets, even though the price movements are not particularly interesting. Bitcoin and Ether historical volatility are at their lowest point since January, which itself was a multi -year low. It's fascinating because I don't remember a time when you have this tug of war between such compelling narratives. The market is telling us that the headwinds and tailwinds are more or less evenly balanced. There are days when optimism is winning and we see clear signs of a pickup and accumulation activity. There are days when price movements bring out more sell orders. How long will this continue? That's hard to answer, since a bad economic read, a bank in distress, further climbs in the oil price, or a spike in geopolitical tension – all those things could happen at any time and they could send interest rate expectations hurtling up or down. We could also get some more unwelcome moves from regulators at any time. On the other hand, we could get some positive price moving news in the form of a new fund taking a crypto asset position, another nation state supporting Bitcoin mining, or of course a Bitcoin spot or Ether futures ETF approval. Any of these, or something I haven't thought of yet, could drop at any time. The uncertainty is dampening price movements while contributing a veil of suspense. Meanwhile, progress on network applications across the world is changing. The headwinds facing the crypto market at the moment will eventually dissipate, perhaps to be replaced by others. The tailwinds will change too, and new ones will emerge. It's up to investors to decide for themselves which type of wind will be more powerful in the months to come. And that's it for this week's show. If you liked the show, please leave us a five -star rating on whatever platform you're listening to us on. Markets Daily is produced and edited by Michelle Musso, with executive production by Jared Schwartz. I'm Noah Lacheson for Coindesk. We're back tomorrow with more market news and insights.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "week" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"With a high near 60. Right now it's 54 in downtown Seattle it's 526 from ABC News tech trends starting today a Windows 11 computers are getting an AI flavored update Windows users will soon see an official intelligence tool called copilot crop up on their computers PC world's Mark Hochman says it's similar to how Microsoft integrated AI into its search engine Bing you can go ahead and open your Xbox and type in anything you want to Bing chat without the need to open a web browser and it can also control your computer's settings and habits switch to dark mode you can have it take a screenshot copilot will also show up in Windows apps like Outlook edge even Microsoft Paint Hochman says it comes Microsoft after put guardrails on its AI technology after some high -profile missteps earlier this year people got into some weird conversations with it and Microsoft just pulled out all the personality so Windows copilot is a very bland conversational search bot with tech trends I'm Mike Debosky ABC News if all goes according to plan Hollywood writers could be back at work very soon the tentative agreement between writers and Hollywood studios could face a very important test today WGA leadership is expected to vote on the deal and if approved it'll then go to the full WGA membership for a yay or nay a process that could take a week or so but while the members are voting they're allowed to go back to work so that means the production machine could start cranking up this week with late night talk shows and daytime talk shows the first shows to be back on air at ABC's and Jason Nathanson Sinker feeling emotional about their reunion at a big music festival over the weekend in Las Vegas lance best revealed were there a lot of tears of joy when they got back together in the studio he added it was a beautiful moment and it feels right for them to be together and sinks
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Has A New Super Whale! (2024 Bringing Explosive Gains)
"Good morning, everybody! It's time to discover crypto. It is September 25th. It's 1133 A .M. Eastern Standard Time. It took us a few minutes to get ready today, Tim. Was it your fault? Probably, yes. It's probably his fault. We got Drew on the ones and twos. And, Tim, how are you doing today, Drew? Oh, I'm doing great. Couldn't be better, honestly. Alright, me and Drew were talking. We might try to get that MRV video out today. Folks, I might also put out my cold plunge footage. I got to upload that and everything. So, it's going to be a good, good show. Today, we're talking about MicroStrategy. Just bought more Bitcoin. We're talking about how much Bitcoin does Coinbase hold. It's a whole lot and it's a lot more than you thought. Also, we're talking about the Expiry on Friday, Tim. Yeah. Now, what are your thoughts on the Expiry? I mean, it's going to be a little... It's a lot larger than the last one. I think it's about 4X the amount of money that's in this week's. Yeah, it's a very large one and it's going to tell us a lot. There's two things I really take away from it. First of all, it kind of gives us a good indication of what price is going to do this week. And then we got to wait to see what happens on Friday, but we'll talk about that level later, I think. If we don't get to that level, we could see that move below $25 ,000 we've been talking about for a while. And also, we're going to talk about Chainlink, everybody, and some fake Aptos floating around. So, that's going to be a pretty fun story there. Alright, let's refresh. Make sure we got the freshest crypto pricing available. And it looks like the market cap is down, folks. We are down 0 .8%. We're coming in at $1 .08 trillion, 24 -hour volume, $32 billion. And Bitcoin dominance coming in at $47 .2. Gas is almost triple what it was Friday when we were doing this. It was 29 Gwei today. It was 11 Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is bouncing a little bit on the hourly. Same for Ethereum. They're up 0 .5 and 0 .3. But down for the 24 hours, you see Bitcoin down 1 .4%. Any levels you're looking at, Tim? We got Mr. T .A. Tim here. For Bitcoin specifically or for anything? Yeah, for Bitcoin. So, again, we'll talk more about those levels. But there's something about that options expiry and that level being $26 ,500. I'm not expecting price to go too much away from that. I think there's even a point where in the week we could get a little over that, then come back down. This happens a lot when there's a big number for options expiry. Price doesn't get that far away from it because the traders want to keep it right there. But then watch right before the expiry happens. My suspicion, Deezy, is it's going to be below. It's going to be bad. And I think we might have a good little fall on Friday. And, well, depends where we're at because a lot of times it acts as a magnet. It wants to pull the price to $26 ,500. Right now, we're at $26 ,200. So I expected to end up getting pulled to that price like a magnet towards the end of the week there. We have Rice hanging out. Hey, what is going on, Rice? Rice in the chat. Hey, make sure you go follow. If you see him in the chat, go click on it. You see his channel. Make sure you're subbed if you're not already. We have ETH down 0 .6%. We have BNB down 0 .8%. XRP leading the losers of the top 10. It is down 2 .3%. And Cardano, in a weird way, besides Solana, performing pretty decently here. It is only down 0 .2%. Solana is actually up 0 .3 % while Ethereum is down 0 .6 % and Bitcoin down 1 .4%. But let's look at the top gainers here. Oh, I see a good juicy Chainlink pump. What is going on, Drew? Yeah. You're feeling good about it. I'm feeling good about it. I've been telling people to buy Chainlink. My 3 .2 should have been 4 .2, man. I'm missing out on that one Chainlink pump. I know. My heart goes out to everyone distracted by drama because Chainlink is crushing it. Yeah, yeah. Me, I'm focusing on crypto prices. I'm focusing on crypto news. And I'm focusing on bettering my situation as we get closer and closer to the halving and then beyond. I think the next 12 months after halving will look pretty good for Bitcoin. All right. Well, let's look at the top gainers. We have Aptos leading the way. Aptos is up 3 .7%. There were some counterfeit Aptos tokens. Is this, you know, maybe the team, the community pumping the token? That way, if you see, oh, a bunch of bad Aptos news, let me look into it. Oh, it's the best gainer of the day. Oh, it must not have been anything. Maybe there's a little element of that going on. Number two, though, we have Chainlink. Chainlink pumping up 3 .2%, up 8 .2 % for the week. Frac shares up 2 .9%, and ImmutableX is up 2 .2%. Was 3 .7 % just an hour ago. I actually have two of the top four coins here. I can't believe it. I'm assuming I'm going to have zero losers in the biggest losers of the day. Can I get any thoughts on SEI from JA? Get forward. Well, one, you got to get a Chevy or a Honda. That's your first problem. SEI, I don't really have any. We'll look at it as the top losers and the top gainers. All right. After that, though, we're seeing ImmutableX, then ThorChain, then Law Enforcement Officer token, then we have Bitcoin Cash up 1 .7%. But after that, it's going below 1 .5%. Really not seeing anything too crazy. Now we're going to the losers. We want to make sure your coin is not in the biggest losers of the day, and the best way to make that happen is to hit the like button. That's what I've heard. I don't know if it's true or not. Whoo! Radix is down, and it is down heavy, folks. It is down 11 .9%, and WeMix is up 65 % for the week, but it is down 8 % for the day. You can see it just cracking in the top 100. That's why we haven't really been used to seeing WeMix. It looks like it's just now getting in the top 100. Then we have Render, then we have Optimism, then we have EOS, then we have XRP. I have a small bag of XRP, but I have nothing in the top 5 there. Radix, have you been ever trying to trade? Radix get in and out. You always see it in the losers and gainers. No. So one of the problems with trading altcoins, especially when you're using TA, is some of those altcoins, they can move very quickly without TA helping them. So those ones, you definitely have to get in, be aware of what's happening with adoption, be aware of what's happening with stories. The charts still help, but the charts can't give you the complete picture. And I don't do a lot of digging on little altcoins like that. Yeah, Radix down 12%, but up 6 % for the day. So people got in a week ago. They're still looking good, even though they're down almost 12 % right now. Let's see. So what was that? The Super Chat coin there again. SEI. SEI. I don't know how to pronounce it. I always see it up there. Well, it's a newer coin, correct? Yeah, it's a newer coin. I mean, it's a new coin. It's going to be too soon to kind of give it any real data if we click. I just want to get that spike off the axis there. I mean, it looks like it's bouncing off that level. I mean, very, very limited TA. Looks like market buyers are buying it when it hits that level. So maybe they'll continue to buy it, but maybe they'll quit buying it. Maybe it falls through that support. Yeah, the charts. There technically actually is a little bit of bullishness about it going on. Definitely hitting in a place flashing oversold.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "Week" from News, Traffic and Weather
"It had been raining a lot up there. It's now 5 10. It's time to get to the Beacon Plumbing Sports Desk. Eric Heintz is here. someone Will tell the Mariners time's running out? That's true man. Yeah, good morning. The Mariners losing streak is now at four games with less than a week of the regular season remaining as they were shut down by the Astros last night 5 -1. loss, With a the M's are now one and a half games behind the Astros for that final American League wildcard spot. Manager Scott Service has asked our starter Justin Verlander was just too sharp. He was outstanding. He really was going into the game and we've seen him so much here in the past. We talked, you know, you need to get on him early and once he gets a in groove. He saw it tonight. He played extremely well. Verlander struck out eight M's and allowed just one run on on three hits over eight innings. The series continues tonight at 640. Wash State Cougars Cameron Ward quarterback is the Pac -12 Offensive Player of the Week. He completed 28 of 34 attempts for 404 yards at four touchdowns and the Cougars win over Oregon State. Seahawks safety Jamal Adams is back. Head coach Pete Carroll says Adams has covered from his torn quad muscle and will play against the New York Giants on Monday night football. Last night in a doubleheader the Eagles took down the Buccaneers 25 to 11 while the Bengals edged out the Rams 1916 and the Kraken split their split squad games against Calgary last night. They defeated the Flames 5 -3 in game one in Calgary while losing game two 3 -2 in a shootout at Climate Pledge Arena. Sports at 10 and 40 past the hour, Eric Eitz, Northwest News Radio. Thanks Eric, 11 minutes past five o 'clock we'll check back with Kiara, get you up to date on your ride to work and school in just a few minutes. First a Northwest man has created some innovative footwear as he changes the way you step through Hey, your day. this is not your average shoe. I, I launched a month ago at Omsi. We did some events. Back from New York Fashion Week. It's been a busy time for Tara Kaduri. His latest endeavor is rooted in his past. I come from a high performance sport and material innovation background. He had an idea to create a shoe. I just noticed all these athletes didn't have the tools to really warm up and properly perform. So I went out and tried to find something that could like activate the foot and really move people so it's comfortable and like no pressure. Eventually the Link L -I -N -Q purity was
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 1
"FTX collapsed this week from crypto king to criminal suspects. The less generous view is that you have committed a massive fraud. I mean, I'm deeply sorry. Saying sorry means nothing. I made a series of mistakes that seem they don't just seem dumb. They seem like the type of mistakes I could see myself having ridiculed someone else for having me. I'm Zach Guzman. You're listening to the SPF defense podcast, an exclusive coinage investigation. I've met SPF in person three times. Once when he just bought the naming rights to the Miami Heat's arena, once in the Bahamas at their huge extravaganza with Tom Brady, and once at his parents' home under house arrest, ankle bracelet included. In fact, I was the last journalist to interview him before he was sent to prison for breaking his bail agreement. I showed up to his parents' house near Stanford's campus on a Sunday and was immediately greeted by a security guard who informed me I'd have to leave all my electronics with him outside. I had interviewed Sam plenty of times, just never after being wandered down with a metal detector, and certainly never while he was under house arrest. Three hours later, Sam agreed to answer questions from the coinage community and surprisingly handed me about 50 pages of documents outlining his defense strategy, and exactly what he says led to FTX's downfall. After reading it through and realizing neither myself nor anyone at coinage is an attorney, we brought in the best person we could think of, Mark Litt, the government's lead prosecutor in his case against Bernie Madoff. This is part one of our series investigating SBF's upcoming defense. In this episode, Mark Litt provides his unique insight on the unanswered questions surrounding the relationship between SBF and Caroline Ellison, his girlfriend turned cooperating witness. You were one of the former lead prosecutors on the Bernie Madoff case, one of the biggest Ponzi schemes, not the largest Ponzi scheme in American history. When you look at that case and compare it and contrast it with what's being alleged that Sam Bankman Fried did to St. Alameda and FTX, what do you see? Here, the government is alleging among other things that promises were made to investors and promises were broken, and the promises were material. So there's a couple of charges relating to derivatives, trading fraud and conspiracy to commit that fraud. There's one I think for conspiracy to commit securities fraud and the substantive count of securities fraud. There is money laundering attached to those. So it's not a Ponzi scheme, but it's fraud. It just happens to be in a wrapper of cryptocurrency, which is novel. Well, just start on what you would do if you were Sam's attorney. Well, what I would have been doing and what I would be doing right now is developing whatever I can to cross the cooperators who are going to be critical to the prosecution. When you look at what's happening here and the fact as this goes to trial that you're going to need to convince 12 jurors that a crime was carried out, how does that element of cryptocurrency or the fact that maybe it's not as simple as an outright Ponzi scheme, what does that do to the prosecution side, defense side when you think about what's going to happen in this case? I don't think it changes it all that much. In a trial involving an equity stock or a bond, you may have to do some explanation to the jury about some of the terminology they're going to hear about. Cryptocurrency is newer. You might have to do a little bit more of that to provide context. But the case isn't about cryptocurrency. It's about, again, representations made and not kept. It's about taking money from one pocket and using it for purposes of another company in another pocket without the investor knowing that. That's not hard for a jury to understand. The defense may want to make it about cryptocurrency and go off on a tangent about the intricacies of trading and all of that, but it's not really relevant to the charges.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. 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. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. 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. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. 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. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. 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. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Mystery Meat
"Morning. Ashley wasn't kidding. I am glad to be back. I really, really love this church. It's evident every time we go away, and I absolutely love preaching and teaching the Word of God. I get a little jealous when I'm away, to be honest with you, when I see someone else standing behind my pulpit. Just truthfully, I'm jealous over this. I love doing this. It's the greatest privilege in the world. Well, if you're just visiting us, we go through books of the Bible, and we're going through one of the, as if they can be ranked, right? But John has done some incredible work down through history. This book has been used to convert souls, the most unlikely of souls. And so whenever we have taken a little bit of a break, I've been gone for two weeks, and so some of you may have no idea. Some of you can't remember what you did last night, let alone two weeks ago, right? So whenever I'm away for a little while, I like to do a two -minute review of the purpose of the book so that you know why this book was written. In case some of you are here and are not familiar with the Bible and how it works, it's a library. As a matter of fact, biblio means library, and so there are 66 of these books, and each one of them has a different purpose. And the Gospel of John has its own unique, distinct purpose, and here's the job of every interpreter. Every interpreter's job is not to find clever ways to make it mean something that's relevant for their culture. That's not the job of an interpreter. The job of an interpreter is simple. Get in the head of the original author to the original audience. I have to try to find out what John meant. Who cares what we think it means, right? Give me an amen. We want to know what John says it means, and we want to know what John says it means to the first readers. We're not the first readers. This was written to a unique people group a long time ago in the Middle East. And so let's start up again by reframing our mind according to what the author says he wrote this for. At the very, very end of the book, it's 21 chapters long, and at the very, very end of the book, he tells us flat out why he wrote the book. Here's what he says. He says, Jesus performed many other signs, miraculous signs that is, in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. In other words, you're going to have to go somewhere else for those. These, the contents of this book, these have been written so that, here comes the author's purpose statement, so that you may, say the word, be. So that's purpose number one, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And there's a second purpose, that believing you may have life in his name. This, what you're reading, is a true, historical, eye -witness account of the life and ministry of a man who lived in the Middle East, who rose from the dead. That means, if someone raises from the dead and defeats something that you can't defeat, you should probably listen to what he has to say, don't you think? John says, I'm recording every word that man who rose from the dead had to say, so that you can, two things. One, believe, and two, live. Here's the point of the book. The point of the book is to help people believe an eye -witness account to the life of a man who died, and then three days later, got up and walked around. But it's not just so that you can say, okay, I believe. No more John. No. It's so that as you experience seasons of doubt in your life, you come back to John and say, oh yeah, this is why I should keep on believing. And when I'm struggling to believe, John will help to reaffirm your feet on solid ground, so that you go through your whole life saying, I believe. Tomorrow, I'm going to believe again. The next day, I'm going to believe again. John is for the person sitting here who's not a believer. And they know they're not a believer, and someone drug you here. You're here on purpose, and John is written for you. But John is also for the person who's been a believer for the last 66 years. And you know John, but maybe you're in a season of doubt. Maybe you're struggling because you just lost your spouse. John is a book for you. So, before we go any further and dive back into John, we are in, I started in April. That's about five months ago. We're in the fourth chapter of 21 chapters, and we're about halfway through the fourth chapter. And so, I'm sure that all of you remember exactly where we left off, but just in case there's one person who can't remember, let's repurpose our hearts. Let's go before God, every individual. I'm not going to do this for you. You're here as a worship service. That means there's a part for you. You're going to go before God right now, and you're going to say, Lord, I'm here to hear from you. And you spoke through John, and so speak to me through your servant John. Let's do it together. Father, I'm just a tool to act on behalf of the people who are here to meet with their God. As Craig said, you are a living God. No one else can claim that, but we can because Christ is alive. And so, we put our faith in you. I pray that you would help every person here to commit their heart and mind to not just listening to the word of God, but doing what it says. Lord, speak to us, for we are listening. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Fourth chapter of John, it reads like a movie script. I read it again. It's like the 20th time that I've read it just this month. And this week as I was preparing, I read it, and I'm like, some chapters read like a movie script, and some are not like that. Fourth chapter of John, it literally is set up for a producer and director to just go and put this on film. And I couldn't help but this week as I was reading it, my mind went back to a show that I watched when I was growing up. It was the original Batman show with Burt Ward and Adam West from the 70s. How many of you know what show I'm talking about? Just curious. I had a feeling. I grew up on that show. My mom would put it on for me when I'd come home from school. And there was this thing that they did in the show where whenever they would transition to another part, the narrator would come on and say, meanwhile, back in Gotham City, or meanwhile in the Batcave, and then you'd see the transition. The screen would roll, and you'd hear the doodle -a -doodle -a -doo, remember? It's showing you what's happening at a different part at the same time. John 4 is written like that because the text we're going to start with opens up in a meanwhile in another part of town, and my mind just went back to the old Batman as I was raised on. Here's what you're going to learn. If you've been here for a while, then you know that we're in one of the most beautiful dialogues that really I've ever taken in history. It's between Jesus and a promiscuous Samaritan woman, and he is tender with her. Isn't he tender with her? We're going to get back to that dialogue next week, but the writer, the narrator of the story, interjects. He pauses the story, and he wants you to stop thinking about the woman and Jesus for just a moment because there's an absolutely important lesson that Jesus wants to teach his disciples, and it is a major, major pause. And so this morning, I invite you to turn in your Bibles to John 4. We're going to start in verse 31, and we're going to go down through 38. Not very much, but it's a meanwhile, so you can see the screen roll in your head, and here's what it says. John 4, 31 through 38.
Mark Levin
Caller: Impeaching Biden Is a Great Idea, But Harris Is Just As Bad
"As bad as making speeches as he you is hear that speech which she made you know about time well there's something about time well we have time and there's i mean what in the world are you talking about she's as bumbling as he is yeah i i now hold on now come on let's be realistic here she she's not the smartest chick you've ever seen in politics but she's not as dumb as joe biden is right now all right let's let's dial back the crazy joe biden's on a different scale right now with with not being able to put together coherent sentences but this idea as klyburn says that you know hey this is a guy that are you know 31 percent of americans have a favorable view of kamala harris even lower than biden it's because she's quote a woman of woman color to and be vice first president so she'd be just fine as the president look if you're at the white house tonight you're concerned over this uh in a way that would make many of you very very i i mean you got to be sitting around going we need a vice president to bring something to table because there's no way that you can vote for joe biden this election not think hey there's a real chance his running there's hate okay a real chance that his running mate is going to end up being the president of the united states of america and i also say this i know why kamala harris was picked it's because she looked at joe biden on stage and called him a racist this is the same guy by the way just called an african -american l l o o j a boy this week right so it's real like the racism is real and they basically like all right crap we gotta we gotta go with this right like this is what we're gonna have to do we're gonna have to we're gonna have to find a woman get kamala harris on here so she'll shut up about the race baiting all right that's gonna shut up on the race baiting and that'll be it well that'll
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER WANTS TO BLOCK COINBASE IN CELSIUS NETWORK BANKRUPTCY RESOLUTION (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review it supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start off by talking about scumbag regulator, Gary Gensler and the SEC blocking Coinbase in their role in the Celsius network bankruptcy restructuring. This is big news, folks, because it once again shows that Gary Gensler does not care about retail investors or investors at large. He just cares about power and his next job. And the SEC has fallen far from their core mission of protecting investors. Let me give you the details. Here's the headline being reported. SEC raises concerns on Coinbase's role in the Celsius network bankruptcy restructuring. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed papers raising objections to crypto firm Celsius Networks plan to distribute digital assets to customers as part of a reorganization plan through Coinbase Celsius, which filed for bankruptcy more than a year ago, will seek bankruptcy court approval for its restructuring plan in the coming weeks. Under Celsius's proposed plan of reorganization, Coinbase will provide brokerage and master trading services to Celsius, engaging in activities that prompted litigation by the regulator, which is still ongoing, according to court papers filed by the SEC in the Celsius Chapter 11 case on Friday. The regulators sued Coinbase earlier this year, saying it operates an unregistered securities exchange. So once again, folks, we see that Gary Gensler doesn't care about you or other investors. This is about his power. We know he's unfairly going after Coinbase. The SEC greenlighted Coinbase to do an IPO review their business and much more now is trying to sue them for the same business activities that is asinine. But we know the goal, folks, what we've been talking about for a very long time is that Gary has been weaponized by the tradfi incumbents who want to stomp out crypto startups like Coinbase and others, right, kill them, kick them out, not kill crypto, but rather push these startups out so that his friends on Wall Street, BlackRock and JP Morgan and so forth can come in and take over. Because in parallel with the enforcement actions that Gary has been putting forth, we see BlackRock entering the market, right, Citadel, Charles Schwab and Fidelity launch a crypto exchange and many other big players getting involved. So how can these two things be happening in parallel, right? One hand, Gary is saying this entire market's full of hucksters, scammers, yada, yada, yet I see the biggest institutions in the world and from Wall Street launching crypto services and exchange services in custody and much more. It doesn't add up. So it's clear as day what's happening. And the fact that he's trying to block this, right, when it will help the Celsius investors to make them whole, it shows he doesn't care about the investors. He doesn't care. He just cares about his fake lawsuit here against Coinbase.
Mark Levin
Karine Jean-Pierre Plays Blame Game Over 10,000 Illegals Crossing
"This administration has done so since May 12th and so we've president taken has action secured the he also secured record funding and that let's not forget this record funding that the president fought for over the last year or so was was opposed by the House Republicans this is something that they opposed and didn't want to see and so what it allowed us to do is actually hire about 25 ,000 more bring on CBP agents and really do something that was historic that we hadn't seen and so a broken system it's been broken for the past couple of decades the last administration certainly gutted the immigration system for four years that's what they did you had speaker McCarthy and the Republicans in Congress who continuously continuously take step to time what is currently happening trying to undermine getting border security we saw that this week we saw with that the with the CR where they put forth another piece of legislation to cut to cut to propose continuing to cut cut some important resources that's needed whether it's CBP 800 fewer CBP is what they wanted to do 50 ,000 pounds of cocaine that's what it would that's what it would hurt right in in in tried to prevent that from coming in we think about more than 300 pounds of fentanyl we think about more than 700 pounds of heroin more than 6 ,000 pounds of methamphetamine to enter the country that's what they were trying to prevent from the work that we're trying to do prevent from coming into the country let me just stop there does anybody believe this crap because I like don't that the border is total border and I truly believe that this is why Joe Biden right now is in a deficit the way that he is in a deficit I truly believe that
Mark Levin
Gov. Kathy Hochul: Telling Migrants to 'Go Somewhere Else'
"Of the people in our shelters today are from Venezuela they are literally from around the world in West Africa South and Central America they're coming from all but over we have to let the word out that when you come to New York we're not going to have more hotel rooms we don't have capacity so we have to also message properly that we're at our limit if you're going to leave your country go somewhere else but the smarter thing is to apply for asylum before and you'll have a different you experience leave your country when you arrive I love this right like we're at our limit New York's at their limit they're at their capacity what because they got a hundred thousand people there that they didn't want we're at our limit don't come here you leave your country don't come to New York and and this is as we're watching on TV and this is why these poll numbers are changing large groups that are coming across Eagle is Pass dealing in a day what New York is dealing with in in a month or two months or three months per day of illegal immigrants coming across the southern border listen to Bill Mallujan reporting on the largest mass illegal crossing that we have ever caught on video we've ever seen happening this last week. I can tell you that early this morning in Eagle Pass we witnessed one of the largest mass illegal crossings we have ever seen in the last two and a half years of covering our southern border we'll get right to this video take a look at this stunning footage border patrol sources telling telling us just after midnight about 2 ,500 migrants crossed illegally into Eagle Pass you can see this lengthy line of them stretching from shore to shore in the river this video perspective coming from the Mexican side of the river in Piedras Negras one of our contacts over there shooting this video as as they essentially bum -rushed Eagle Pass last night bum -rushed that's what's people's changing minds here
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Our Mission at EBCC
"September historically has been the kickoff month for our new church year. In the past, this month was when his kids on Wednesday evening began and when we also started up our prayer meeting on Wednesday nights after taking the summer off. But COVID kind of put a crimps on his kids as well as Stanley's stroke. And Wednesday night in Bible study actually was moved virtually before COVID but then it became virtual during COVID and has since moved to Zoom. So, you know, we still kind of consider this month as our traditional historical, our month for kicking off our new church year. This last Sunday, a past Sunday in September marks my anniversary year as your pastor here. Last week I finished 26 years of ministry here and I'm starting my 27th year. Where has the time gone? Except I see some people that I knew when they were real little kids and now they're now they're grown and married. I had part in marrying them, you know, so I do know I'm getting older but, you know, I thought about this over the passing of time with COVID and we've had deaths in our family and we've kind of been apart and now we're together again. It's very easy for us to forget why we are here, why we exist. In the midst of all the activities, we lose sight of our mission. So, on this Sunday that we have dedicated to missions with our multicultural mission event planned for tonight with Curt and Carol here with us this morning and tonight, I want to spend a few minutes this morning refreshing our memories. You know, Peter talks about refreshing memory in second Peter chapter one, about bringing back to your remembrance things I've taught you in the past. And so, I want to spend a few minutes this morning refreshing our memory and what is our mission here at EBCC? Why do we exist? Well, our mission is simply this. It's to share Christ and to build believers, to share Christ and to build believers. This is our mission statement. This is why we exist. We're here to make and build true, genuine, fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. But how do we do that? How are disciples created and built? Now, I find this question, how are disciples created and built intriguing on two counts. First of all, we who have accepted the invitation to come to me that Jesus says, all you who labor in a heavy laden and I will give you rest. We are now Christ's disciples and we are in the process of being made or being built up in Christ.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Dennis & Julie: Exciting versus Enduring
"Hey everybody, Dennis Prager with Julie Hartman, Dennis and Julie. One of my favorite hour and 12 minutes of the week. Me too. Isn't that amazing? Yes. And what's also amazing is that we actually do probably three or four Dennis and Julie's a week that are not recorded because we talk on the phone so often. And sometimes, I don't know if you think this, sometimes when we're done speaking, I'm like, wish that were recorded. Really? Yes. That's an interesting point. But you know what's also great? We are very personal on this show. There's really, I can't think of many things that we talk about privately that we wouldn't talk about publicly. I think people understand that. That's why that guy called me and I've talked about this a lot, said, I have a great word for you Dennis, transparent, because I decided early on in my career that as unnatural as it seems, because people obviously hide parts of their lives from others, I thought I'm going to hide as little as possible. That's why people say to me more often than any other things when strangers meet me, you know, I feel like I really know you and I'm sorry and I say, you do. I can attest to that as someone who knows you off the air as well as on the air, listeners really do know you. It's also just easier being transparent because I can imagine that it's difficult to have to think, oh, did I say that? Should I say this? That's right. It's just kind of your default. It's like it's easier to be faithful than have an affair. Aside from all the moral issues and the hurt of my spouse, all of that stuff, putting aside that they're all real. A major reason not to have an affair is because of the amount of hiding you have to do and lying. It is not possible to have an affair and not become a serial liar. Well, one lie begets another lie, which begets another. It has to. I mean, if you say I was at the doctor's and they say, how was it? And then you go, yeah, let's say your wife runs into the doctor. You know, like it just it's this tangled web of of deceit that's I can imagine difficult to keep up. You know, in that regard, it's amazing how our conversations just developed. So I'm going to say something that will strike people at the outset as odd at best and maybe even bad at worst. So when I meet somebody who's having an affair, because people open up to me, in most instances, my first reaction, I may know more and change my reaction, is I feel bad for them. I obviously feel bad for the spouse, that's a given. But my sense is, and by the way, I believed this when I was your age, well before I was ever married. I sensed that most people who have an affair, it is not because they're bad. And oh my God, I can't believe I'm saying this to you. One of my favorite Bible commentaries is by Richard Elliot Friedman. He is a brilliant scholar, University of California, San Diego now. I think he's at the University of Georgia, a major biblical scholar. And if I say that, you can believe me because I know my Bible. And he's written a commentary on the Torah, which I love. I love it. And obviously I'm writing my own. So I refer to his. Under adultery, in other words, the commandment, thou shalt commit adultery. He wrote, I wish I had the entire, I could find it, but we don't have breaks during Dennis and Julie, but I would like to read it exactly. But he wrote, and I just read this to my synagogue this past Sabbath, I read his line about this. That good people commit adultery, and he italicized good. And I thought that this guy's human. And I've been faithful, so I have no self -interest in this. But to assume that everybody who commits adultery is evil is beyond simplistic. You commit murder, okay, if that's not evil, you could say, well, you could say a good person could commit evil, could commit murder. It's a bit of a stretch. It could happen, but generally speaking, that's not true. But anyway, good people who commit adultery, and by good, I mean the non -serial adulterers people who just go from affair to affair, I have no defense of as a human being. You mean like a one -time thing? Yes, or fell in love. If somebody falls in love with somebody else while married, it usually means there's a lot problematic in the marriage. People in love with their spouse don't fall in love with another spouse. Okay, this is such a good topic, and I want to pause and say what we always say. We had no idea that we were going to discuss this. I love that about this show. It just blossoms. Because it's real. It's real, and it's incredibly spontaneous. Okay, a lot of questions. This is where I'm going to evoke the, what do you call your radio show, the Human Laboratory? This is where this is particularly useful. So most people who tell you about their infidelity, I'm assuming most of them are male? Or is it even? Yes, that's correct. What would you say the percentage is? Of those who tell me? Yes. It's high. It's 75%. Male? Yeah. Okay. And usually, do they tell you that they're unhappy in their marriage? Yeah. And what is the most cited reason for the unhappiness? They don't feel loved by their spouse. Loved in what way? You're tough. I'm not trying to be tough. She is tough. All right. Maybe, okay. You don't want to go there. No, no. There's nowhere I don't want to go. Anyway, even if I don't want to go, I go there. That's true. So, okay. For the record, generally speaking, a man who feels sexually fulfilled with his wife is going to stay faithful. This is so foreign to women that they just have to take my word for it. That's not how women think. Women do not have affairs because they're not sexually fulfilled by their husband. Some might, I fully acknowledge, but they don't feel emotionally fulfilled. That's much more a woman's reason, and I have just as much sympathy for her as for him. It's not, all I'm saying is, and I don't even remember how we got on this, but it's amazing that we did. How did we? Yeah. It's funny. I usually remember the genesis of a subject, but all I'm saying is when I meet people, my first reaction is not, wow, that's evil. If I met a murderer, yeah, or not even a murderer. Frankly, doctors who give hormone blockers to 10 -year -olds are doing evil. I have much more contempt for them than for somebody who had an affair. Okay, so let me ask you this. Let's say you got a call from a guy who was five years into his marriage. He has three or two young children, and he calls you and he goes, Dennis, I am not happy in my marriage. It's not awful, but I'm not happy, and I have my eyes on another woman. What do I do? Do I stay in my marriage that's unhappy, or do I leave because I'm unhappy? I'd say do everything possible to make yourself happy in your marriage, which by the way involves obviously working it through with your wife, but it also involves working it through with yourself. So, I'm a guy's guy. I'm male as as they come. So, men really relate to me. Happily, a lot of women do too, but it's not the same thing. Male -male is not the same as female -male. Okay, so I understand men really well, and I explain men to women. So, both sexes have to adopt the Prager notion of not having too many expectations. I think it's fair to say, nobody says this, because sex is ironic. We have a sexually drenched society, and yet people never talk honestly about it. That is very well said. It's mind -boggling. It's mind -boggling. You're so right, and people get upset when you talk about it. That's right, because I'm honest. So here is something I would say to men, guys, just know you are not going to have the sexual life you fantasized in the vast majority of cases. It's just the way it works. You mean when you get married? Yeah, when you get married. I'm sorry, that's right. I wasn't clear. Yes, when you get married. And therefore, you enjoy what you have. Now, obviously, I'm not going to give it a time factor limit. It's different when you're 25 than when you're 55 or 75. All of that is real. But I remember when I was in high school thinking, wow, to be married, you have this woman anytime you want. Oh, gosh. Such a male thought. Exactly. This was worth the entire broadcast. My comment and your reaction? I think I represent all women. Yes, exactly. Watching and listening. And I represent all men. That's the point. So that was my fantasy in high school. Oh, my God, it must be the greatest possible situation being married. She's there whenever you want her. So men… I just looked at the camera. So men have to understand it's not going to be that way. Are there exceptions? I'm talking in general, of course, there are exceptions to every rule in life. So I really ought to, if I had the time, I would write an advice book to men. Oh, you really should. Who is it? George Gilder wrote that man book? That man book? Sexual Suicide and the Naked Nomad. He deeply influenced me. So, men need to understand… By the way, we all need to understand… I don't know what women's fantasies are about marriage. Her fantasies are not likely to be fully realized either. So it's best probably not to have fantasy… I don't care if you have fantasies, it's fine to have a fantasy life, but in the sense of directing you in your emotional reaction is not a good idea. And in your reality, it can't direct your reality too much. That's right. So I have told men, I'll tell you where I feel for men. And that is, if they're married to a woman, I'm just talking the sexual arena now. If they're married to a woman who doesn't take care of herself physically, that's given the power of looks in the human species, it's the female that attracts the male. I know there are gorgeous men who attract women, but most men are not gorgeous. What attracts women to men is not that they're gorgeous. they're Certainly when reached by age of 30, a high school girl is going to go, Oh God, is he gorgeous? Oh God, you know, that's fine, it's part of life. But one of the biggest ways you show you love your husband is by taking care of yourself physically, trying to look good. And the proof is you tried to look good when you dated. Why did you stop trying once you got married? That's not fair to him. You're right, and it's not fair when men have B .O. and also don't take care of themselves, which I know you recognize. No, of course, but that's not the same thing. The B .O. holds for both, but looking gorgeous or as gorgeous as you can, I mean, looking cute. In peacocks, the male attracts the female. In humans, the female attracts the male. It's just the way it works. And if she succeeds in doing it, he gets aroused and they make the next generation. That is how human sexuality works. I really love what you said a few minutes ago about we live in this over sexualized society that also gets so upset when people like you and me talk about sexual matters, not to overhype our importance, but people who are brave enough to talk about sex within with a Judeo -Christian good values worldview are so valuable. I don't understand. Yeah, but a lot of them do, but they're not real. A lot of the religious people who talk about sexual matters are not rooted in the real world. So what is an example? Masturbation. Wow, welcome to Dennis and Julie. But the proof is nobody feels that they can talk about it. Yes, that's true. I mean, I debated a guy, very religious guy, seen by hundreds of thousands of people on the internet. He said, masturbation is evil. And he's speaking from a religious point of view. Evil? I said, I looked at him and I said, evil? I mean, if he says it's a sin, fine. Every religion has a whole list of sins. But evil? And I challenged him. I said, are you serious? It's evil? I mean, child molestation is evil. Genocide is evil. I know. Masturbation is the charge. Of course it does. So religious, you're right about the Judeo -Christian values perspective. Unfortunately, a lot of religious people have made religion look silly and people have therefore rejected it. You know, you're right. I think a lot of people point to something like that and go, that's just, that's too far for me. It's too far, exactly. It's difficult, the job of being religious, because you obviously want to promote good values, but you also want to be real and recognize that there are certain thoughts and proclivities and actions that a lot of human beings partake in. And so it's about mitigating the, I was going to say mitigating the harm of those, but allowing them to happen as long as they don't go too far or as long as they're not harmful. Yeah, that's right. So people should read a book by an Orthodox rabbi, Shmueli Boteach, who's a well -known rabbi, B -O -T -E -A -C -H, in English, Boteach, but it's pronounced Boteach, and it's called Kosher Sex. It's a great book. That's a good title. Great title. And whole his thesis is, you keep sex within a marriage, but within a marriage, do whatever the hell you want, providing the other person agrees, obviously. And, you know, as raunchy as it may sound to the outsider, if you two agree to it, the only restriction is that it's not with another. You know, God, of course, I forgot my train of thought. I just I really marvel at how real this is. And sometimes when you make these comments, I think, God, he is gutsy. He really goes there. You know, I am gutsy. I want to tell you, this is very revealing about me. People will take it for what it's worth. I decided very early in my life, if I want to do good in this world, that's all I've ever wanted to do. I will not shy away from putting myself out there and knowing I'm going to get slapped. And that's the reason I do it. It's not fun to talk about masturbation, but I know how many people are traumatized by the message you're doing evil. And it makes religion and God look bad, and I don't like that. Mm hmm. And here's the thing, also, it's uncomfortable to acknowledge, but it's the truth. People do the like I mean, this is the whole point of the conversation. People do these things. What are we going to pretend like they don't exist? We have to deal with them. And I think it's cowardly to run away. Look, I have told you, Dennis, that I grew up in a house that didn't talk about these matters. And I'm grateful, actually, because I think there are certain boundaries that ought to be respected. And I there's a time and a place to discuss things like this, but we do have that forum to do it. And I don't understand I don't understand when people deny reality. We are seeing the harm in the United States today of denying reality, including in the sexual arena. I mean, that's this whole hookup culture thing by by contorting reality to make women believe that they want sex as much as men is harming women. Plain and simple it is. Is it uncomfortable to acknowledge the reality of males extreme sexual proclivities? Yes, but we have to because we're seeing the consequences when we don't. So I applaud you. And I do think sometimes I'm like, wow, he he's really going there. He's gutsy. But but people need a good role model for these matters. Well, you don't make a good world if you're not gutsy. True. You can't build a good world on cowardice. And it's so hypocritical because people people have sex. People do these things. And I don't I don't I dislike the people that that are on some kind of moral high ground when they talk about this stuff. It's like, please, you do it to your human being. Don't act like you don't partake in these things that you decry. Right. And some of them probably don't. But my question is, are they better human beings in general? You know, I talked I said to you what Richard Elliott Friedman said, that a lot of people who commit adultery are good people. It's because it's it's weakness more than anything or or something else. I'm not talking about serial adulterers.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Saylor Now Own's Almost 1% of All Bitcoin, BUYS MORE | EP 831
"Yo intro first You're against freedom Yeah, we're gonna salute Bitcoin live we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution for breaking news culture manic warfare We will be your guide through The separation of money and state. I hope everyone had an amazing effing weekend I did I got to chill, you know everyone on the weekends like man like like what'd you do? What like, you know, what did you do anything crazy news, whatever? No, man I stayed home and I chilled and I relaxed because the week, you know, it's the Bitcoin rollercoaster making Bitcoin media You know, it's a grind. I'm not gonna lie It's very purposeful and I'm very very grateful and privileged Opti and I are and the rest of the simply Bitcoin crew But but it is it is quite a bit of a grind. So on weekends, I get to chill. Anyways enough of that breaking news Michael Saylor buys Even more Bitcoin the man or micro strategy better said now owns almost 1 % of all Bitcoin sky talk about Conviction this is conviction Michael Saylor is proving to the world and this is something that I've been saying guys in the next two or three years it is going to be Undeniable, it's gonna be an undeniable fact that naim bukele's Bitcoin strategy and Michael sailors strategy on the public company level is Going to be an alternative than holding fiat currencies on their balance sheets Especially with the FASB rule changes, especially with the Bitcoin ETF around the corner there They're gonna they're trying to do whatever it takes and I believe it's politically motivated I'm not the only Bitcoin or that has said this by the way That they're you know, they're trying to slow this down But it's gonna be undeniable and they're gonna have a very hard time Debunking this that Bitcoin Itself, it's just a better money It's just better money and governments are gonna have a hard time disputing that and the reason they're gonna have a hard time Disputing that number one is because they're always going to do they're always gonna want to debase their currency They can't afford the endless wars. They can't afford sending billions of dollars to Ukraine If they didn't have the money printer, so they're gonna have a really hard time explaining that away and number two Censorship, of course, right and the control on money itself, right? A lot of the reasons that the BRIC nations have sought alternatives to the US dollar Not only because the US government is printing a ridiculous amount of money but also because they've politicized the money they've weaponized the money against their political opponents and Fine, you could you can make the argument. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make those judgments the government of North Korea are bad Okay, and the government of Russia is bad the government of Cuba is bad. I'm not gonna get into those arguments, right? but let's talk about The vast majority of people that live in those countries that are not have nothing to do with the government They're just like you and you and me. They're just trying to get by they get caught in those sanctions they have nothing to do with it and The system that they want you to live in is if you live in a certain if you were if you happen to be born in a certain country You happen to have certain political beliefs. You are not entitled to have to open a bank account You are a danger. You're a risk. Well Bitcoin is for you Bitcoin is your money it works. So they're gonna have a hard time and this is why we call it the separation of money and state This is why we bring up the book the sovereign individuals so much because it absolutely Hit the nail on the head this what we're living through right now, but it's not only money It's also the disintermediation of information which is happening at the same time. You're seeing it with the Russell Brand stuff You're seeing it with the Tucker stuff Independent content creators are now getting more views and more traction than the legacy corporate media of which they cannot control and that freaks them out too, so After we got over this hill after we endure this this this bumpy transitionary period and if we win the race to avoid the war I Agree with Corey Clifton from swan I think that there's a bright orange future ahead of us and I've never been so pumped about it But I got to say one last thing before I bring up my legendary co -host Michael sailor Please leave some Bitcoin for the rest of us. Anyways Opti. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great man doing great. I also unplugged this weekend. It felt good I was literally joking with everyone in the spaces. I literally lived the meme. Did you guys catch the game this weekend? I unplugged completely what game did he catch? I caught all the games. I didn't do anything yesterday I literally did not a thing yesterday, but watch football Throw tomatoes all you want, but it was it's a great weekend It's good to be a big corner and then also guys mad sailor leave some Bitcoin for the rest of us she It's almost like you taking it all it's almost like you trying to buy all the Bitcoin. Yeah. No, he definitely is bro He he owns 1 % he almost owns 1 % of every Bitcoin. We're at that point. We're at that point in the movie, dude Well, I think this is the PSA where we tell everyone to stop selling your Bitcoin to Michael sailor and huddle onto them coins We're in the dark it actually I saw a good tweet before we go on Nico I saw a good tweet this weekend and it was something on the lines of like Dang, I wish I could remember but it was something like Willy. Woo is bearish Someone there is another part and then it's like and Bitcoin maxis are watching d3 football like if you can't tell that this is the deepest parts of a bear market Like are you even watching there? It was a great tweet I wish I could say it off the top of my head But as you can tell we're in the deep parts of the bear market I hope you guys are stacked and I hope you guys are getting your cash flows up and Just you know getting your body right mine, right? This is the time to get your UTXOs in order to make sure that everything is copa static as we move into a crazy Bull run. Anyways, Nico, we were gonna have a guest today But I'm kind of glad that they didn't show up because I wrote an article for once guys And I'm actually really hyped on this one so I'm gonna read it for you I'm gonna do my best guy Swan impersonation today, and I I think you guys are gonna really like this one So, I don't know it. It's got a lot of soul. It's got some spirit in it It gets me hyped up and maybe I'll give you context for it. I'll just read it and see what Nico thinks He I don't even think Nico seen this yet So I'm excited to get his response his reaction to we're gonna do a reaction video on today's simply Bitcoin Anyway, you go let's get into the show. Are we gonna get a Nico Jones take today? Are we gonna get a wild Nico John? I think so. We got something spicy for the numbers, bro. Let's jump in today. 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Dollars realized monetary inflation one point seven five percent the market capitalization of Bitcoin 513 billion dollars with the B Bitcoin verse gold market cap three point nine nine percent All right, everybody so Opti said Nico Jones ran potential Nico Jones rant What what is this potential Nico Jones rant gonna be about? Well, we've talked about the you know It comes from like the political front this this this saying but I'm gonna apply it to Central bankers, I'm gonna apply to politicians Right, and there is something in the in the political Rhetoric recently and it's called the iron law of something projection, right? So we're gonna take away the political rhetoric because we believe on simply bitcoins not left versus right, right? It's a party of orange versus party of green party of central bank digital currencies nihilism poverty slavery versus a party of freedom Bitcoin Prosperity opportunity optimism, right? So that's really what it's about But I'm gonna take that rhetoric because it is very very powerful rhetoric and I'm gonna say the iron law of central bank Politicians projection never fails it never frickin fails let me introduce you to senator Mendez of New Jersey and let's take a look at what he has to say about Naeem Bukele of El Salvador We have an increasing challenging situation in El Salvador one that threatens both the future democracy in the country and bilateral relations of the United States Over the last two years president Bukele has presided over a number a number of alarming setbacks for democratic governance undermining judicial independence intimidating opposition lawmakers by using security forces to occupy the legislature negotiating political pacts with gangs regularly attacking journalists and media outlets and In addition to these actions Bukele has also repeatedly used his network of Twitter trolls to attract and to attack And threaten not only government critics within El Salvador, but also United States officials We have an increasing challenging situation in El Salvador one So this is just internalize everything everything that this guy said right, you know senator meant You know, he sounded so legitimate.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GENC : Innovation at the Core of Marketing with Alyson Griffin, Head of Marketing at State Farm
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, I have to play you the new intro that I just made for Gen C. So here it goes. Edge of my seat. All right. So you might've noticed that was me not speaking English, but I am going to Portugal next week. So that was me speaking Portuguese. And how did I do that? Well, both you and I have been experimenting with, Hey, Jen's video translation software that utilizes AI to speak in multiple languages. You added an amazing piece that you put up on LinkedIn the other day. If you speaking Hindi, I don't know if you actually speak Hindi or not. Very limited. Very limited. But I just want to throw this stat out before I want to get your thoughts, which our is old friend, Mr. Beast, 50 % of the people who watch his videos don't speak English. And so what he does is hire voice actors all over the world to be the Mr. Beast in their local areas, because he knows that for him to go as global and get as many views as he needs, he has to be in language. And so what do you think about, Hey, Jen, and some of these new tools that are coming that will allow for video translation that is not only only, audio but as you and I have both been playing with, it also literally changes your mouth movements to be speaking the language that you've selected. Sam, thank you for turning me on to Hey, Jen. My first thought was that I was going to use it to connect my grandparents along because we do have a language barrier. And while I was sad to see that Telugu was not a supported language, I was like, it's okay. I'll do it in Hindi. And I sent it and they actually thought it was real because, you know, not everybody is familiar with powers of AI, especially with this sort of intonation, which is amazing. And then I started playing around with it a little bit more. And I want to call out Hey, Jen, but also 11 Labs, which is the voice translation that is powering all of this. Hey, Jen is sort of bringing that video, but 11 Labs does the audio. And we've been working on a couple of little things with 11 Labs in different capacities. I'm really impressed with what they're building. And it's critical because only 14 % of the world speaks English, yet 59 % of the world's digital content is in English. So if you're a person who doesn't speak English, much less, God forbid, is not literate, then you can't access the amazing, wonderful world of the internet that we all know today. It's a massive thing. I think it's early days. And of course, everybody rightfully so has questions on where is this data going? Who owns it? Who's storing it? Hey, Jen is an LA based company. And 11 Labs has raised from a number of investors, including Andre Sinso. We've done some diligence on them, but I think it's early days. But this technology is insanely powerful for brands, but in the immediate term for content creators. If I was a content creator, I would be using this immediately for my target languages, because it'll expand your reach so much, enable you to connect. And by the way, it's not going to be long before that's happening on demand. In real time, I mean. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I did the same thing you did. I recorded a video that I translated into French and I sent it to my friend in Paris. And I said, I've been working on my accent. What do you think? And he gets back to me and goes, oh, like, you're really nailing the language, you're really nailing the accent. Like, you've come a long way. I don't speak French. Because the intonation is like you, right? Right, exactly. It's cloning your voice. It sounds like a white person speaking Hindi. Like, there's some things that are colloquialisms that a local person would never say, but it sounds like how you would speak Hindi if you were very good at it. Yes. I will also say what was fascinating to me was Angelique Vendette, who I also sent the video to, responded and say, okay, here's the problem. It's speaking French Canadian. It's not speaking Paris French. And then I had other friends who because I had put it up on Instagram and for the one in Spanish, I had tagged Mexico and I said, can't wait to get back to CDMX. And someone tagged me and said, no, this is speaking European Spanish. This is not speaking Latin American Spanish. So I do think there is like a lot of nuance that still needs to get worked out in it. But just the fact that I could record a 48 second video that people in Paris and people in Mexico didn't recognize that it was AI at first. I thought it was fascinating. I think you hit it exactly, which is, oh, yeah, if I was a content creator, if I was a brand marketer and I was doing shorts, I think this is a perfect way just to get more reach for your content at a 30 to 90 second level, which should be labeled as AI also. Agreed. Definitely. Cross -country transparency, 100 percent. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But I do think that anyone who hasn't played with the page and video translator or there, you can now do it just by uploading a photo and snippets of your voice powered by 11, as you mentioned. So you can actually create yourself saying anything without even having to record a video at this point. You could all do it by text. So it's pretty fascinating. I'm very excited for where this stuff is going, because this is the kind of use case that I think you and I look at this and we're like, this has a very tactical, tangible opportunity. And I think the stat that you just mentioned, only 14 percent speak English, but 60 percent of the content is in English is such a big business opportunity when you really think about that. So, so relevant. Let's pivot from there to a very related topic, which is I don't know if you saw this week, but TikTok has started using AI labeling and Reddit and Reddit. Right. Exactly. For TikTok, anytime you use one of the filters that utilizes AI, now it's going to be labeled as AI. They also are doing auto detection for people who are utilizing AI software and they want anyone who is utilizing AI for their content to have a label on it. I think this is a step in the right direction. I would love all news content also to be labeled like this, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I read an obituary that was driven by AI about a basketball player who had passed away and it said the basketball player is unliving. So that was the way that AI described him being dead, was that he was unliving. And so clearly there's a lot of stuff that needs to get worked out. But from a brand perspective, from a creator perspective, I think that the idea that we should know when things are being modified feels like the right thing. But do you think that affects the creator economy in any way? I think it's similar to how we do hashtag ad, like trust or transparency is key. We just need to be transparent about using these things. I've thought that for quite a while as it relates to Instagram and TikTok filtering because people get unrealistic like body images. I mean, yes, some of this happens in like magazines and photo shoots and all of that stuff it has for a long time. But I'm all about trust or transparency and the digital ecosystem. Agreed. And I also think there's a healthy respect for knowing when someone might be utilizing a tool. It's a productivity tool. It doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. It doesn't mean it has to be less interesting. I think our enterprise brands, though, we're still at a place where like we can't just use 11 labs like at scale right now. It's not ready yet. It's like a proof of concept. This is how it could be going. And back to what we've talked about before, it's building the muscle for when this really hits scale, we're going to be ready. Correct. And in terms of just going back to Mr. Beast, who has these 13 actors that play him around the world, he said, our team is very actively looking because it's not cheap to do that. And he said, our team is very actively looking. He thought from his perspective and when their research that it's going to be still a couple of years before we actually see it being good enough where he's comfortable. What he said, which was interesting, is they've done some AB testing where they use the voice actor and then they'll use a cloning. And he said every time he does a cloning, people are calling out that something sounds wrong and it distracts them from the content in the video, which I think for someone like him is just really important to make sure it's landing. Totally, totally agree with that. Yeah. All right. Final story before we get to an amazing guest is Crossmint and MasterCard are going deeper together. So Crossmint powered this artist portal that MasterCard released a couple of months ago. It actually brought one hundred thousand people into blockchain. It was primarily based on music and that was also powered by Crossmint. And it seems that Crossmint and MasterCard are getting in bed together even more with an eye toward small business, which I thought was kind of interesting. Just the idea of easy ways when you think of utilizing your MasterCard to pay for something and then thinking about a reward system that can be on chain, that feels like it makes a lot of sense, right? I hit my 10th time at the coffee shop. I get a little NFT that says I'm a 10 timer and maybe that gets me a free coffee later. But this feels like a very natural, easy way for blockchain and brands to get together. And I want to know if you have any thoughts about that. Yeah, well, I love Rodry and the team and of course, Raja and his amazing team at MasterCard and everything that they've done in this space. So recently connected with Raja and he was like, I'm still very bullish on Web3. And one, I love him for saying that because there's so many mixed reactions right now. And it's amazing to hear leaders who continue to invest, continue to launch programs like their startup accelerator and continue to support these sort of Web3 native businesses, massive bands of what Crossmint is doing. And I think that a partnership between a payment processor and a minting tool makes a lot of sense because you're likely going to be paying maybe not thousands of dollars, but a couple bucks for some of these things. And having that super integrated is a great fit. And shout out to MasterCard for continuing to innovate in this space. I see them. I see Visa. I see the banks really continuing to lean in and identify these enterprise use cases that can make their customers both B2C and also B2B customers lives a little bit easier. Well, we have asked Raja to be on the podcast 27 times, so we're going to continue to ask until he shows up. So, Raja, if you're listening, we're coming for you. Avery, after the break, we are going to come back with Allison Griffin from State Farm, a big brain marketing thinker, so excited to hear her perspectives on marketing, on the metaverse, on Web3, on innovation in general, because she's such a great thinker on that. So we will talk to her after the break. Sounds great.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal, look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Mataxas. Folks, welcome. I've spoken previously on this program to our friend Rabbi Jason Sobol, who has certain many books. The new one is called Signs and Secrets of the Messiah. And last time, Rabbi, you were telling us some of these amazing correlations between the Old and the New Testament and the Jewishness of the New Testament, which people should know, but sometimes they forget how profoundly the New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament and points us back and how the Old Testament points us forward over and over. And last time you talked about the paralytic or the man who was unable to walk for 38 years. And you said that that relates to the Israelites wandering in the desert for 38 years, and you explained about how they had been prepared by God for two years, but then they wandered for 38 years. I just find that kind of stuff so fascinating. So I know the new book is called Signs and Secrets of the Messiah. What other things like that do you mention in Signs and Secrets of the Messiah? I mean, we get into so many miracles and, you know, God is in the details, right? So if there's a detail in the Bible, it's there for a reason. So, you know, again, the first miracle we talked about last time I was with you is the first miracle we talked about in Signs and Secrets, which is the water into wine. Well, there's a detail there. It says that he said fill six stone pots to the brim. Well, the question is, if it says six stone pots, what's the significance that there's six stone pots? Why not seven? Why not eight? Well, some of the significance there is that we have to understand there's a lot. Man was created on the sixth day. In Jewish thought, we fell on the sixth day. When Jesus comes and he gives his life for us on the cross, OK, he dies on Friday, which is the sixth day of the week. He dies on a cross. Why? Because the first man and woman stole from the tree. So God puts Jesus, who Paul calls the second Adam, back on the tree for you and me with the crown of thorns on his head. Why? What's the sign of the curse of creation? The ground produced thorns and thistle. He takes the curse on his head to break it and restore the blessing. And so when Jesus dies on the same day man was created and fell and he does his first miracle with six stone pots, he's saying, I am restoring the fruitfulness that was lost at creation. And I don't want you to any more live out of the lack, but to live out of the overflow. And by the way, the number six in Hebrew is written with the letter Bob. It's the conjunction and it's a letter that connects heaven and earth. When we sin, we broke the connection. Jesus comes back to restore it, that we might experience his blessing. That is some heavy stuff that is absolutely amazing. Say that again about the letter when you write the number six in Hebrew, talk about that again, because I want to make sure I catch that. Yeah, absolutely. So Hebrew is alphanumeric. So there's no Roman numerals in the Bible. Both Hebrew and Greek have an alphanumeric component, meaning that if I say open up the chapter one in your Bible, I'll say open up to chapter Aleph, because it's the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value of one. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the Hebrew letter of love. It's the most used letter in the five books of Moses, and it's the conjunction. And the first place the letter of love occurs in the Bible is in the first verse of the Bible, Genesis one, one. And in Hebrew, there are seven words in Genesis one, one corresponding to the seven days of creation. The sixth word of Genesis one begins with the sixth letter. God created the heavens. That's the fifth. And that's the sixth. And Earth is seven. When we sin, we broke the vow, the letter, the number six, the letter Bob that connects heaven and earth. When Jesus dies on Friday and does the miracle with the six stones pots, he's restoring the connection and the blessing that was lost in the beginning.
What a Weird Week
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"Hours. 30 four minutes. Two. Number two, ten year old kids working at McDonald's in Louisville, not getting paid. It's against the law for ten year olds to be working in a fast food restaurant. It can be dangerous, but it had to make our top ten, you guys, because it is bonkers. What a weird story. In this day and age, where we have labor laws and all that stuff, how can a ten year old be working in a fast food place? Story based on the findings of the U.S. Department of Labor, they were looking at a different franchise locations where young people worked and they discovered this unpaid ten year old working the night shift situation at this fast food place. Someone in the story explains the kids were just visiting a parent. Parent worked the night shift and mom or dad let them work the drive-through. Also let them work the cash, let them have some fun, cleaning the floors, mopping the floors. And the fry machine? I feel like if my mom or dad worked at a fast food place, see all my shift, I would be in there on the mcflurry machine, trying to invent a mcnugget mcflurry and, you know, by now I'd be a millionaire. You got protein, you got the deliciousness of mcflurry, Canadian invention, by the way. It was invented in my home province, you guys. I could have taken that to the next level. I started working on my concoctions at age ten, so jealous of these kids. Wait. One. Okay, number one, art theft because he thought it was lunch. Actual headline from CNN is student eats artwork of a banana duct taped to a museum wall because he was hungry. Their headline is better. Darn it, CNN. So jealous, I don't get art so much. Sometimes I see art and I'm like, oh, this is nice, but sometimes I feel like the artist is playing a joke on me. Like I don't understand it and the artist is hiding behind a curtain somewhere laughing at me because it's a banana duct taped to a wall. Anyway, after removing this happened in Seoul, South Korea and art student at this museum there removed a banana that was duct taped to the wall, you know, the art and then after removing it ate it and then restocked the peel onto the wall. If this sounds familiar, it's because this is the artwork called comedian, somebody already ate it once before. It had sold for $120,000 in 2019. And somebody ate it shortly after that. And it gets weirder. The artist was also accused of stealing another artist's idea for duct taped fruit. The other artists like to work with duct tape and fruit. I don't think that's been settled as near as I can find the last update I had was to be continued on that. And it gets even a little weirder, you guys. Weirder than a duct tape banana and then another duct tape banana and then the lawsuit about that duct tape banana because no, no, wait, that was my idea. You know, all of that stuff. Okay, well, it gets a bit weirder because the duct tape banana artist who sold comedian for a 120,000 is the same artist who made a gold toilet art piece that was worth $6 million and it was an actual working toilet made of gold and it got stolen. A few years ago and it's never been located. So there's some weirdness that follows seems to follow this artist. By the way, that empty shell of the banana. You know, the banana peel, after the art was consumed in the banana peel was stuck to the wall, they just replaced it with a fresh banana. They do that every few days at the museum, wherever this exhibit is, the deal is they replace it with a fresh banana every few days. So it doesn't get gross. How is that art, guys? What is happening? Is it a joke? Okay, before I have too much of an existential crisis there, let's wrap it up. This has been the what a weird week podcast on the headset, live off the floor this week. I appreciate it when you listen, you stream your subscribe, your download, all the things. Show notes that page if you want to get the show notes. The link for the YouTube. Perhaps give a 5 star review. 5 duct tape bananas, would you do that for me? I appreciate ya.
Here All week
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"Even steaks. Oh, yes. You know when I read this, I immediately thought of that shop that when we did our out and about in Las Vegas that had the rhinestone as well. My computer is covered in spit. I know that on certain parts of that audio, I buried the needle. I was going so forcefully. I would say that three quarters of that list is things I have seen in those shops. And unfortunately, they are a dying breed, like the tasteless Emporium, which would have been a better name for that for that ad, by the way. The tasteless Emporium is kind of a thing of the past, but it used to be in every mall in Las Vegas. They would just be this glittery gold looked like Donald Trump vomited in a store where. If you had just won a jackpot, you could dump all that loot and more on the ugliest things in the world. Well, it's kind of like the one store that advertised it. I believe it's in the, oh God, is it the Venetian forum shop Caesars for I can't remember. It's one of the shopping forums. But Michael Jackson would buy all his crap from there. And they had pictures of him hanging up saying Michael Jackson was our favorite customer. He would buy those horrendous statues, the big tigers, the just and you walk by, it's such awful tchotchke and there are people in it who are having serious, okay, all right, everybody has their own taste. I have to be kind, be kind, is the motto of the show. People have their own taste, but it always amazes me that there are people in serious conversation as they're looking over at. A rhinestone studded lion holding a sword thing. Like, you could serve food off of this at a party. And I'm like, wow, no. What party do you think you're going to have? Where would you put that? Where were you? I have seen some good art in those shops. I have seen some great photos in those shops. They're not impossible to find, but mostly it's like the playing card melting in the martini. Yeah, it's some fascinating stuff that wow, this is actually made, and there is an audience for it. So we made this. That's a good name for that shop too. That's two better names. Tasteless and for you. Next door to its sister store. Somebody made this. We'll be seeing, I'll reach out to both of those places for ads in the weeks to come. Excellent. My list of stuff I would never put in my house has only begun. Oh, excellent. I am looking forward to our sales and marketing team bringing those clients on board..
Here All week
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"I'm calling an ambulance, and he's been in the hospital now for three days with what he says is a recurring back injury, sustained during the military. He's like, I can't tell you how I got it. But it's knocked him out for three days now. It's a terrible shame. And so we're having a long conversation about how old we are. Oh, poor guy. Some secret, some secret run. Yes. I'm sure he was saving our country from whatever. From poutine up in Canada, he was up and he was up in Toronto like defending the world from French fries covered in cheese curds, and somehow gave himself a spasmodic recurring back injury. So awful. So hats off to Anthony, he's at my house now. He showed up just after I left to eat pizza and hang out with my wife. Anthony, take care of yourself. Seriously, I don't know if I don't know if it's heat or ice pack. What is it? Ice pack? I think it's both. You're supposed to alternate left right left right left. One long rest while the other breathe sets or something. I don't know medicine. Luckily, I don't have this problem. I gargle with advil until all of my pains go away. That seems to work. Excellent advice here. Armchair doctors here on the here all week show, if Kelly and James, we will speculate injuries and figure out cures of such. Your sprayed your ankle just turn it off and turn it back on, wait 5 minutes and see if it boots. Yep, put it in rice, see if the moisture, if it dries it up and to be able to work again. But yet always check with your personal physician before taking any of our advice. Thank you so much. Oh, God. Check, don't take any of our. No, just don't, there's no before. We were joking. We're joking even when we think we're serious, even when we personally, if you asked us, no, that was honest and true. Don't even believe that. Don't even believe. We get all of our news from the Internet and all of our opinions from the dark place beneath us. Yeah, don't even believe it. We're just a couple of chuckle heads with microphones in front of us. Yeah. You don't want to take our advice. Let's take a break, James. This episode of here all week is brought to you by Marco's House of everything, the gem of the Las Vegas Strip..
Here All week
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"Based on all these answers here, what do all of these films have in common? Kevin Spacey. Let's see. Excuse me. Wow. Would it be would it be useful to relist the names so that I can figure out, of course, King Kong? Vanilla sky. The Lord of the Rings, the two towers, Superman returns. The matrix. Die hard, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. The fugitive, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Avengers. I'm going to guess flying. You know, you are so close. It is flying with gravity helping all of these films include a scene where at least one main character fell from a great height. Falls from a great height, okay, falling from a great height. Well, I haven't seen three of those movies, so I'm going to go, yeah, flying is just jumping towards the ground and missing, isn't it? I think so. I think, okay. Douglas Adams, I believe. Judges, let's oh, okay, you win the dinette set. Good for you. Oh, I got second place at this time. I like the second place. It's just like first place without all the responsibilities. I don't have the tour of the country and give speeches and use that crap on my face every morning. I can just take my die night set and go back home and watch those videos. I haven't seen. Back home. Second place, set of steak knives, third place you're fired. Third place brings you a fire. Put that coffee down. That's why I haven't seen all these movies is because I've seen my favorite movies ten times each. And over and over again. The one I've been binging on for a long long time is interstellar, just because. Oh my God. I finally saw that the second time. You got to watch the Chris Nolan movies twice. There's so much going on in those movies. There's a ton going on, but it is my go to film. I don't know why. I don't know why. I just think I don't know why. Literally. I wonder why an angel Murphy didn't cut this bad. It's because whatever happened with it. Can it happen? Will happen? Yes, those of those of our listeners who haven't seen these movies that we're riffing on have already tuned out and moved on to our next episode, which they should be doing. They should be doing so many episodes of this number 88. Is this 88 keys on the keyboard? This is 87. This is episode 87. I think, okay, let's check that again, because I think the 88..
Here All week
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"About our most outlandish ideas. Brushed up, cleaned off and presented in a style that makes anything sound good. You know what? I think we ought to charge rent for time in the break room. Great idea. Here's a line from Jim Collins that makes that garbage idea sound like a brilliant cost saving measure. Cool. And hey, is there any reason my IT guys can't push a broom while their software is compiling? None at all. We always say if there's time to compile, there's time to clean. Aces. You know what else? My family needs to spend a week in cancun. Can I borrow the corporate jet and fly them down there? Yes, you can. But wait, do you even have a corporate jet? You know what? That was my next question. Should we get one? Absolutely. Look at this slide. It shows how a corporate jet is great for everyone's morale, and here are some cartoon pictures of palm trees. Compliant isn't like those other consulting firms who waltz in and try to tell you how to run your business. Nope. We know you know best. So we're just here to listen and repeat back everything you say. That's not all. Compliant has laser pointers, tasty snacks, and the patience of saints. Also we can help you shall managements outlandish ideas. Um, you know what? I think our third floor space should turn into a mini golf course. That's perfect. And didn't you say that a weekly karaoke swim would be a great team building opportunity?.
Here All week
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"They no, no. No, they do. There's things that get downgraded to level three and level two, but right now there's a ton of ton of cities that are on level four and they just keep adding it to it. So let's see. What is it? It's now swelled to almost 140 places, and it's basically showing the surge of the omicron variant around the world in early January there were around 80 destinations there. So now it's a 140. So the destinations added to level four, as of today. Pencils ready? Azerbaijan, Belarus, Comoros, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and michelo and South Korea. So there we go. I think in some of those cases, they might have been places that the CDC just remembered that they exist. Oh, right. I forgot there was a French Polynesia. I thought it was awesome. You know, I don't know if that's fair to those cities. I've never, I've never heard of half of those places, and I'm certainly not going there. As long as you tell me that Fort Lauderdale is off the list, I'm still going to go take out a you know? Get on a cruise in two weeks. You know what? I don't know. I can do some dig. I'll get back with you. I'll get back with you on that one. Yeah, when I keep seeing world health organizations of general stripes saying eh, omicron is not that bad. It's everywhere now, and people don't listen anyway. So screw it. Everything's on. Do what you're going to do. I think and I guess I need to back this up, but I think Las Vegas just lifted their mass mandate. And because they're just sick of it. And there's no science behind it. They're just sick of sick of the virus and let's just pretend it's gone. Oh, James, I'm so sorry. I just been handed this bulletin. I'm so sorry. Cruz travel has been at level four since December 30th. Of course it has, but it's been a level four since two years ago..
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"Grab the market by the bulls, Kelly. One of the lines in this, by the way, was uttered by a marketing person with complete sincerity at a marketing meeting at a large corporation that shall remain nameless, but you might be running some of their software on your home computer right now. They were talking about marketing games or products I don't remember what products they were in to European markets dividing them up by country and literally said the English market is strong, but the Spanish markets are passionate and have great penetration and I was like, you have got to know what you just said. Wow. That's hilarious, but nope. Nope, they just kept on going. And I just sat in the back, you know, laughing and writhing. I was exhibiting some body language. I bet you were. I bet you were the shoulder shaking, the hand over the mouth, the stifled laugh. It's the stifle laugh. I don't think that's funny things. Since we had our sponsor of money shots, I thought James money trivia would be perfect for today. Well, I sure know a lot about money. I had to look up all those big words for that ad. I had, as we were recording it, I had trouble doing it as folks. There's some words engineers, wow, that threw me for it. I think every ad from this point forward is going to have some stupid version of engineer in it. I just think that's I think that's great. My favorite thing about all marketing. Okay, here we go. Money trivia. What was the first country to use printed paper currency? Um, I don't know the answer to that. The first country to use printed paper currency was let's say it was England. The UK. That's China. China was the first country to do China, of course. Oh, that's right, because China was the first place that did printing. Right. Correct. Duh. Spanish silver dollars originally called the Spanish peso, were each worth how many Spanish reels? Reales. Reale, sorry. I don't know. 8. Is that like pieces of age? Oh, pieces of 8. I don't know. I know that pieces of 8 were so coined as it were because it was literally a I think a gold coin, but a metal coin that was perforated and you could break it off. Pizza into 8 little slices and each one of those was still a coin. And it was worth one 8th of the total because it was very much a gold standard based on the metal content of the coin. And I mean, originally, I don't know. I'm starting to talk smoke here, but that's a Vader literally coins you can fracture into 8 pieces. That's all right. Please, even though we're a 100% correct on this show, if we have been misled in any way, please let us know. Welcome to the armchair history channel. The only more dubious thing we do than science. What flightless bird is featured on New Zealand's $1 coin. Is it an auk? No, is it a penguin? Is it a puffin? I give up. Is it an email? I'll go with the kiwi. It's a kid of course, that's a kiwi. What the hell is wrong with me? The New Zealand. It's been a long day, Kelly. Of course, it's I know. I didn't know that kiwis were flightless, though. I mean, I guess they are since the pandemic lockdown. Here all week folks here all week. What was the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach a 1 trillion market cap? 1 trillion. Oh, was that was that Facebook? I'm going to ask something that you just it's Apple. Of course, it's Apple. Right, right, right, right, right. And that's fairly recent news, right? Fairly recent, yes. Within the last couple of weeks last month, or something like it hit a trillion, something like that. Yeah, right when they forced me to buy a phone, I didn't need. They hit of course. And that's all it took was just you. You were the piece of the puzzle. It was you. That's why I feel like every vote counts because when I do something, the world changes. Of course, of course, but I, are you doing the butterfly effect thing? Is that what you're doing the chaos there? Yes. When I flap my wings in Hong Kong, there is a typhoon. Or something like that. Something like that. Before the introduction of the Euro, what was the name for the basic monetary unit used? In the Netherlands. The florin the guilder. Or it was one of those things. Now, florin and guilder are the names of the kingdoms, the two warring kingdoms and the princess bride. Yeah. Gilda gilda. Which president of the United States is on the $1000 bill. Taft, I don't know. Grover Cleveland. Is it Grover Cleveland? Here? Far. How did they run out of interesting presidents before they ran out of denominations? I don't know. I couldn't answer that. You know, that would be a really good thing if we could get someone from the mint on the U.S. mint. Let's talk about minting. Right. And we'll ask him questions about money and he'll give that same answer that my friend from AT&T gave about airplanes. We'll ask him like, so why isn't there a more interesting president on the $1000 bill? And he'll say this. Okay. And then he'll give a reasonable explanation that makes sense if you work for the mint. And one more asking about the names of currency, what was the name of the currency used in Spain before the Euro. In Spain, I don't know, it wasn't the peso, I guess that's Mexico. Pesa. Yes, pay close. Close. Very close. James, thank you so much. Let's see our prize for today. Models? Oh, it's a new washer and dryer set. There you go. Congratulations. I'm cuffing again here. So, you know, I'm speaking smoke, but I think the reason that the dollar sign is an S with two lines drawn through it. Is that that's actually the sign for the peso, that's a P and an S combined into a shape that then turned into the sign for dollars for no apparent reason. Wow. So first I heard that. It was weird. Things is weird. You're still in Vegas. What's going on with you? What are you doing? I am here for one more week, and then I will fly home. I'm not gonna say I extended this trip. I've only been here for a couple of weeks, but I stayed as long as I have because I know I won't come back for another two months and I just wanted to not leave everything for too long. I had planned to do some plumbing work while I was here and then it turned out that my faucet sort of stopped leaking and so I'm like, well, that seems safe. I'll just ignore it. And you know, take my car into the shop and do the sort of things maintenance things that people do. So that is why I am here, but I come back on Saturday and rejoin the basement to life. Of Seattle, where I presume it's warm and sunny and balmy and ready for me to return. Am I right? If you consider warm balmy and sunny, gold gray in about 42, then yes. Yeah, it is. It's.
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"TV channel. Tonight's conversation started comes from science of people dot com, their first was a familiar in a bad way. Tell me about you. And then, and then my favorite one, how do you know the host? That's good. Let's go to Starbucks, and that's what I'm going to break the ice with. How do you know mister starbuck? But let's get to the meat of the matter. Kelly, when you were growing up, what was your dream job? I can say this with all sincerity. My dream job. Was to be an executive secretary who sang in a nightclub in her off hours. And I believe I have achieved that dream. I believe I have. Awesome. Yeah, very vivid imagination growing up. I had a name. Her name was Marcia Collins. I asked my grandmother for a blond wig for Christmas. This was late 70s, early 80s, so is that fair fawcett flippy wig? Marsha was a blond. I had. Would that be the ever patient wife of Tom Collins, the mixed drink? You know, Marsha was a single independent money making woman. She didn't need anybody. However, what fueled this play, this imaginary really vivid and rich story of Marcia Collins was my father would bring home old computer punch cards and old office papers and I had a red lacquer phone on my desk and I made appointments for my boss and shuffled papers and I had a boom box that I put to the easy listening station. So when I had to put when I had to put people on hold, I would say hold please and I'd set the receiver in front of the speakers so they had hope music. And there you go. That's perfect. Yeah, and then she sang once work was over. She went home. She changed and she was a nightclub singer. So I have achieved all those dreams, so my dream jobs have come true. How about you, James? Well, first I wanted to be a McDonald's and then I wanted to be a dinosaur. When I was in fourth grade, I learned to say architect because it made people happy. And because it seemed like a decent conjunction of art and math. And little did I know that game design was also such a thing, but paid so much less. So much less. Game design is very architectural. Yes, you are building things. I am an architect of experiences. Yes, you are. Yes. Please send us your confessions of pre adolescent ambition. And while you're at it, please join our bakers doesn't care and Jeff and Eric and supporting us on Patreon,.
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"This week in agriculture production of the red river farm network with the look at markets. I'm randy conan. Usda raise soybean ending stocks lowered corn ending stocks a little more than what the grain trade was expecting global commodity analytics and consulting president. Mike zoos loafing global supply fundamentals are in play now for this grain market that we're starting to find more of the fundamentals of ample supplies coming out of south america to take competitive The competitive side of the soybean market away from the united states whereas what the corn the usda confirm that. We've got a tighter crop down in brazil specifically and it's going to be a lot more difficult for the corn market to find any kind of meaningful competition around the rest of the world. The biggest competition the biggest nemesis for the corn market when it comes to the export and the feed market continues to be the wheat. Usda lowered old corn. Carry out by one hundred and fifty million bushels raised old crop soybean carry-over by fifteen million bushels increased new crop carrying by that same fifteen million and made no change to new crap usage resulting in a new crop so i being carry out fifteen million bushels higher at one hundred fifty five million bushels. Usda lowered new crop weaning. Stocks by four million bushels on increase feed and residual use usda lowered world old crop corn ending stocks by three million metric tonnes from the may report to two hundred eighty point six million raise soybean ending stocks to eighty eight million metric tons and lowered weeden stocks by about a million tons to two hundred ninety three and a half million world new crop ending stocks. A corn soybeans are all right on the average trade guests total farm marketing senior market advisor. Naomi bloom things. Traders are little unsure how to deal with the increased soybean..
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"Emily grime who's chief diversity. Officer of the group was on coffee break. But they're still not breaking out ensued disciplines ave so they can't say well out. Pr firms are 'cause. I remember for our agency Declined to give that diversity numbers which you know talk a little bit Misguided to be honest. But it's still not doing that. Stolen breaking them out like that. I not that we have seen and not that they have made public in any way and i agree with you. It's disappointing That they're not doing that. And it you know it's disappointing for us. Journalists to you know we are trying to tell the story of of how these agencies and i think sincerely are trying to diversify their workforces and some of them are finding it difficult. And you know. We're we're trying to catalog this as it happened. So it's a frustration for us as journalists to official and then there's sort of related story. The american airlines. The who was on set was the southwest flights but the the the flats sore book he was reading on white privilege and they go chatting and then a year later. He ended up attending a weddings. Kind of and what's kind of heart warming about it. Which was she had no idea he was the. Ceo of american airlines His book and he struck up a conversation with her about her. Mother is actually At american airlines employees At i think reagan international in washington. And you know they kept in touch and i. It appears he got a lot of good advice from her They kept in touch a year later. she gets married and the ceo of american airlines Goes to a wedding. So it's it's a it's a terrific story and and you know these kind of conversations are are really what's needed and folks like him who are in positions of power. You need to listen to people who have different experiences than he might have had an ad. That's that's how progress starts. It's good to see him doing that. Sean technology generally As being synonymous with great diversity the weather in terms of gender or ethnicity. How is the comes tech space in that regard. Because i gotta be honest. We put dash twenty five lists together and sometimes it is for hard to find. Non white male pit names to put on that list yet. agreed stephen and yeah. Obviously that's something that i think. Everyone is sincerely trying to you. Know to to to move ahead on wonder whether some of the data there frank that you're sharing is representative of companies of different shapes and sizes. Like your. i mean we're a little bit smaller. His sleeping on the couch here at on collusive United states we have probably considerably different profile in terms of gender ethnicity. It also silicon valley based company. There's generally between the markets that we you know we exist it. Just i think generally more diversity but My feeling is that certainly some of the sort of earlier stage Businesses like ourselves that are really relying diverse input backgrounds. I think you probably see a slightly different mix. Frankly the president's zone. I think he's first overseas trip. Isn't it For spins yes when it's the g. Seven summit in coolum role in the west of ingram. She's lovely the well-behaved made his first Speaker raf milton whole Yesterday which was interesting contrasts. Shall we say with the previous incumbent. And but also. Cicadas mini nearly delayed. The whole thing so took Yes yes and he He also just did an appearance with the of pfizer about The the number of doses the us government And other country partners are buying to donate around the world So yeah the trip is off to a busy start it was not op too busy stark. Where the press plane that was carrying journalists overseas to cover all biden first trip abroad because it was delayed for a number of hours the other night after our swarm of cicadas filled the plane's engines and then caused mechanical issues which is honestly pretty. Terrifying bird sizes. It's it's it's not a it's not a very comforting thought ma so they've also been blamed for at least one car crash and digestive issues impacts which i don't wanna get into any doubt i know people are eating them Recipes for. I guess you'd deep fry them if that's related to in berkeley enough for me. Promise market. I haven't seen them yet. I've been told that if you're allergic shellfish you should You should also avoid them. Which i guess makes sense Anybody wants to send us a review of what they taste like. Happy to take a look at it. There's certainly in abundance. That's what i'm hearing is that there's billions if not trillions of cicadas. Coming about the ground right now and a one of the most fascinating elements of that story related to the to the white house. Press trip rip. Was that there. Were so many cicadas. The doppler radar was actually picking them up almost as as atmospheric. I mean it's just uncanny we can dig into biden's performance services. It was interesting to see how he framed his speech obviously as a military family and talking about his sonnen talking about that empathy with military families in the another experiences. That go through. It was very interesting. And i'll be honest. He was quite refreshing on. I'm not gonna lie so that was that we can seif for another show. Maybe just to finish. We got acres of people move. So i mean one. Trent doesn't it that we've been seeing. Many many more people move than normal and it seems to be a trend. I don't know if it's easier to attack people when they're working from home and you can have a quick twenty thirty minute conversation with them but just around us through the through some pretty significant moves. Yeah it seems like it is easier. The executive job market is pretty hot. Right now New leader of corporate affairs at bristol myers squibb That's michelle wiese. Who replaced catherine metcalf. Who rent back to. Cbs health Earlier this year. Sheamus guest on the podcast. That's right. She was previously general secretary for north america At danone Impossible foods chief communications officer. Rachel conrad has stepped down from the company She's been she had been there since the possible. Burger was born back in twenty sixteen She's going to start a consultancy that works on. That really works in the space of non animal based meat plant based meat environmentally friendly foods. Things like that. Just still be fine in that consultancy. Yes ataman has a new global chair of integration has kristof backer And this is interesting considering all of the things that adamant has launched this year you know the launch that intelligence unit the aksai alongside content studio Battlements shows yes very true and so he part of his job is bringing all of these things together. for clients he used to work gyro the or many hero depending on. That's your from this another hobby perennial of the podcast. Is.
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"The regular weekly roundup of everything that matters in the worlds of pr and communications steve. Bart's editorial director to wake and a guide. You gently through another show as we pick up the big trends not a busy week. We got a great guests this week. Sean nail who's president of ump. Lucid gonna come talk to us about comes tech ada and sean doing well. Thank you steve. Good to have you on the show and our regular correspondent. Frank wash kit makoto host executive at. It's how you doing. Frank i'm doing well. Thanks for having Busy week business. It might be some of but were still bring away okay all week towers or in day down domestic towers. Yeah yeah so. We got the whole offend event this week. We've got up up towards Deadlines with with doing our weekly Edition on thursday earlier in the week. Now because we've started some of friday so a few programming notes stab anyway shortlist get on a chat so you tell us a bit about it because it was formerly known as at pr and then it was became a new company. Following an acquisition took his threatened how things have developed since that acquisition in two thousand nine sheriff hill. Thanks gave me a little bit of background on on us so inclusive actually been around for ten or so years for the first chapter the business. We were called air. Pr so some folks may remember us as as air pr. Yes you mentioned. Steve back in two thousand nineteen. We acquired a san francisco based technology company which broadened our capabilities and we just use that as an opportunity to to rebrand the company to on inclusive and the concept behind name inclusive by the way is that it means that we are inclusive in everything that we're seen around the media and also helping you draw a conclusive some point of view and coming to conclusions. So that's a little bit about the the plan. Words named therein collusive hasn't changed over. The last decade is really our decision For the communications industry in in what our mission is Know the company was founded on this idea that you know a communications and the content that's being generated by the communications team is actually the company's most valuable content right when you think about earned media and how trusted and influential it is certainly compared to commercials and paid advertising You know the reality is. The pr team is responsible for deserves the credit for generating your company's most valuable content. The problem is it's very difficult to prove that right at bally's actually notes seem never been able to measure it properly. That's exactly right so the proof points have been elusive for for many many years. And as a result. I think frankly the the communications pr functions have been undervalued in underinvested but more importantly they've not had the same sort of set of data. You know other marketing functions have had to to really improve their performances. Well and when you think about the digital transformation that the rest of marketing has gone through over the last fifteen to twenty years which has been of course catalyzed data and technology Not only helped him. A drastically improved their performance. Drive more growth for their organizations but it's also changed the way that the marketing functions perceived within organizations today right the cmo you know a decade ago was one of the least tenure executives in the organization you know now. They're one of the longest tenure executives in the organization. They're no longer just thought of as a cost center. Marketing is considered to be a growth driver. Now the reality is shown but we did actually assist assist to title campaign. Did a cmo fifty list this weekend. It's still footsie months. I think the average tenure of a chief marketing officer so that's still still a challenge in their area and that's with If you look at i guess martic. That's more of a billion dollar industry whereas comes tech as as traditionally being as sort of a. I don't know you tell me. Is it a five four five billion dollar industry these days getting wrong. Hundred billion dollar amount second about her billion comes tech and what china's how your products because you if you'd like the modern face of media monitoring Data signs give us an example of a way. That yo- now monitoring media coverage in makes him more effective for that chief communications the go-to that c. Suite and say look. This is what the value of this is. This is what it's doing force. That's exactly right so at this point in. Yes steve. I appreciate that description. I do think that we've been on the forefront of of modern technology in the space and at this point. It's fairly obvious that there is just a now a general trend in the communications industry of embracing data science artificial intelligence and while terms like ai and machine learning and natural language processing. Can range anywhere from buzzy to outright opaque the battle the bottom line practical matter. Is that technology you know is in the process of transforming the way that communications teams are planning executing measuring their work in now yes. There are barely advanced software applications to assist in every aspect of that workflow rights of some of the very specific benefits. That technology are bringing. I'd say a couple areas one is automation right which has doesn't sound as sexy but simply put machines are now able to accurately and efficiently perform tasks which historically required large groups of humans to execute Infrequently now with superior results right so couple examples. I is in the area of media. Analysis right You know if i'm a reasonably sized organization that receives you even a moderate amount of press coverage or let's say an early stage company who has some major a bit like an ipo. In any given time period. I could have received hundreds if not thousands of press mentions in given the continued expansion. I mean the explosion of digital media blogs influencers cetera right You know many of these mentions could be occurring in really small obscure outlets so of course the first challenge is monitoring all these mentions right but the bigger job is reading every article interpreting every article helping to understand the nature of all that coverage and in this fragmented digital media world that we're living in a. It's nearly impossible to do this manually. Any longer right without sacrificing some large swath of that coverage and with the army of human readers. You would need to perform this analysis. You're sure to have inconsistency across the analysis so this is where. Ai comes in right. The automation frees up those pr professionals from all that route work. Let's focus on what they're really.
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"Just as king county larger as we get climate refugees i think beliefs at least efficient form of public transit to put money into his probably the ferry system which might be the saving grace for the for for some of the islands in that you know for people who really enjoy not living in a dense place. They could remain that way. But i think we're going to put money into public transit. i think. Investing in sounder rail or in high-speed buses or in light rail that can connect ever to tacoma than in a building up. The transit corridors along along five essentially is is for the sake of building denser. Housing in places like federal way is probably a better use of infrastructure money in that might know then. That doesn't help people in the islands in any way shape or form on the peninsula in any way shape or form. But you know just in. I think if we're if we have to. If we have to choose priorities i think ultimately that's just the easiest way to do density. Look at it that way josh. We might make it annoyingly hard to get to where you are. Yeah we'll true are you. You're making the carbon argument. Essentially right that these the vessels. I'm burning diesel. I'm on a part of that. I would. I would counter with the fact that you're right The certainly there's a reason that the kids'll isn't as developed as much as say Snohomish county pierce county or at least as as quickly It is happening now. Definitely say that but there are developments. for instance right now Kitsap transit has a foot. Ferry that runs from puerto trudeau. Bremerton smaller vote. It is a diesel hybrid a so it has bank batteries on board. Those charged out goes across. Is more fuel-efficient burns far less Amounts of fuel and i would add washington safer also has a has a hybrid varies In in development they're also There's a lot of research being done around Hydrofoils and and ways in which donnelly wake can be cut down just essentially operating the vessels more efficiently. I need to unload this boat at the dock here so we can wrap up. We can review if you're if you are in the shipbuilding industry. Maybe whoever builds a state ferry. I will be entered into a drawing to win a million dollars in an xbox. Let's let's end on anything any reasons to smile that you had this week that you can share with us any nominees. Because i one is that hugo house. Seattle's literary arts center which has really been leaning into the pandemic. They've been asking writers and musicians to riff on the four horsemen of the conquest war. Famine death and tonight's performers include seattle's amanda winter halter. Who in her thousand nine hundred nine songs cemetery picnic proposed to her sweetie and a graveyard name..
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"The <hes> <hes> d. four or exceptional drought classification south western north dakota and northwestern south dakota received well over one hundred fifty percent of normal rainfall this past week but that was not enough to offset drought conditions. Dry conditions have also expanded d. four or exceptional drought classification south western north dakota and northwestern south dakota received well over one hundred fifty percent of normal rainfall this past week but that was not enough to offset drought conditions. Dry conditions have also expanded into southeastern south dakota for the first time this year. Western minnesota is facing abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions. Mother nature turned up at the heat this week. High temperatures are soaring into the nineties and lower one hundreds in the upper midwest north dakota agricultural weather network director dale. Richardson says this heat wave is similar to conditions one year ago last year. Many areas verge ri- but these dry soils young crops were living off a surplus of subsoil moisture from the wet fall of twenty nineteen and so we still had quite a bit of subsoil moisture this year. Of course we don't have that with the heat you know i'm just wondering if we're not gonna lose crops with this heat wave 'cause there's not a lot of soil moisture in that top say three or four inches you know. The crops aren't very mature that can't go down and get where the moisture is in the soil. It's going to be several days At ninety plus for many locations crop stress is going to occur. Would be an understatement. I just hope we don't lose too much with this heat wave and then hopefully the rains that come next week. We'll be in time to save the crop. There are light scattered rains in the forecast over the weekend and next week however dt n. senior agricultural meteorologist. Bryce anderson is not optimistic for big rains in june any moisture. We get now is just going to barely kind of get us by until the next Possible shower event. So i mean we already have a say real wide area certainly very impressive of central n. senior agricultural meteorologist. Bryce anderson is not optimistic for big rains in june any moisture. We get now is just going to barely kind of get us by until the next Possible shower event. So i mean we already have a say real wide area certainly very impressive of central north dakota that is now in drought level. Four exceptional drought much of the remainder of the state is an extreme drought. And and i fear that we're we're just going to see that You know that type of drought Intensifying and and and really cause Some more issues with crop health particularly if these If these very stressful temperature forecasts do come to verification soybeans in the wimbledon north dakota area got nipped by last week's frost farmer. Joe ericsson thinks there's about five hundred acres that may need to be replanted on his farm. More rain would definitely help the crop. The rain we did get we ended up having a rotary hosts being the top. So or get new. This'll crusty that Big slabs of trust were up there so we had to break them up. And i think that worked pretty well. We did a hundred and fifty acres of that. It's been ten of a after getting in so early. We've rarely been done my birthday yesterday and we rarely come by her birthday if ever so we were done supposedly done. But i guess we weren't at barnesville minnesota farmer and rancher jake thompson says the crop is widely variable here on our farm and kind of seeing some poor. Corn stands <hes> soybeans. Some of the early ones. <hes> are up. They looked really good. But we did have a little frost damage to some of those We did put some soybeans in a little bit later Just checked on those yesterday. They haven't poked through yet but A lot of stuff is there subsoil moisture. it's there it's just We're getting a lot of variation and that's been a look at whether this week in agriculture reporting agriculture's business. I'm a megan overby gallon. Usa producers of epat hamsun sunlen permit. Herbicides also produces targa herbicide targets and effective post grass. Control herbicide dry beans. Flax lentils peas soybeans and sunflowers target delivers excellent control of annual grasses as well as herbicide tolerant volunteer corn. When it's time
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"Ever beans that affect a local markets are growing so follow the dry beans seen every friday at twelve. Thirty five right here on this station brought to you by the north harvests being growers association. With a. Look at this weekend news. I'm keira heart for the red river farm network at the end of the week. All j. b. s. facilities worldwide are up and running the recovery from a may thirtieth cyberattack was faster than many expected j. b. s. was able to shut down everything and isolate the hack before it impacted its core systems and backup servers. The fbi says a russian crime organization is responsible for the ransomware attack in an interview with politico. Ags secretary tom. Vilsek advised all segments of the food and farm production chain to examine ways to protect their. It systems from cyber security attacks a series of black swan events coupled with price disparities and now drought are testing. The resiliency of the north dakota cattle industry. North dakota stockman's association president. Jeff schaffer says both cow calf producers and feeders haven't been able to catch a break from poor market prices. It just seems like we're constantly one headline away from from another disaster. So i'm hopeful that we can come with some kind of fix to this market. The price disparity is huge. And we've got to address that. Sit on have that conversation. And it doesn't matter who takes credit for it and we got to quit finger pointing and sit on. Have that conversation and figure out what's going on here. We're hopeful that doj investigation comes to a close farmers and ranchers are starting to call cattle due to the drought conditions in north dakota rugby. Livestock auction barn in rugby. North dakota is getting ready for a big cow. Calf sale on monday year's auction barn owner cliff madison. Got over a thousand pairs lined up for this week for this coming monday because of that was scheduled to sell our way up cows on sunday and in any bread cows on sunday as well. It's it's looking like that pattern. Might continue throughout the whole month of june. So i think that's a schedule stay on devastating up. Were people. that's all they. That's how they did the ranch daughter life and that's all they didn't know what to do and now they're they're forced to sell out to go to senator john. Hoven plans to bring the risk management agency to north dakota to look the drought conditions. I want to get them out here. Not only so that we know our guys know that the crop insurance is there and they can use it as effectively as possible but also because the early haying and grazing we need to get going on that and then just anything else. We can do to help some of those ranchers get. Hey there e short as well as access to water farmers have also been waiting for an update on the plus program and quality loss. Adjustment program looks. Things are going in a good direction. I can't announce anything at this point but secretary of sack is been working with us. Epa administrator. michael. Regan was in bismarck. North dakota on thursday to hear from agriculture energy and water shareholders about the waters of the united states rule climate and other topics most of thursday's roundtable discussion was focused on wellness. But the path forward on pesticides also got attention and analysis of the epa shows the agency mishandled the approval of three dyke campbell herbicides. Epa said. they plan to implement several actions to ensure the pesticide registration. Decisions are free from political interference. Epa administrator michael regan says the agency takes the investigation. Seriously we understand that the i g indicated that there was political interference during the previous administration. That won't happen on my watch and we want science to play out. There is a very good relationship between the state and my reasonably office. I think we're seeing singing from the same sheet of music there. And so. I think we're in good shape on a merger is being considered between at country farm credit services and farm credit services of north dakota a memorandum of understanding has been signed by both boards to consider the merger had country board chair at haglund says a merger like this can increase efficiencies and diversify the portfolio. A country merged with united. Oh about four years ago and that merger really brought some great geographic diversity and some Product diversity of diligence is being taken before a proposed merger would take effect now the look at this weekend news. I'm keira heart for the red river farm network farmers. What do you like on your salad on kind of a caesar salad. Kind of guy myself. Hello this is. Shane with i- reinsurance. Now i know chef. But i would say a caesar salad is way tastier to eat in a corner soybean salad this summer. If you haven't bought your hail insurance yet give us a call. We would be glad to help. But just don't wait too long because it's way more profitable to bring that crop to the elevator than eat at a shredded corn. Bean salad all summer long..
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"There will be quite a number of them so That'll be rolling out throughout the month. And you can check that on the pr week website. Stay tuned for more on that as the month continues. Want to single out kathy. Renna to who was one of the the first folks that we honored on this list because kathy is just a real trailblazer and she has been working on. Lgbt communications crisis communications. You know all of these things for for decades And she's terrific and she's been a guest on a podcast And you know wait. We love having her on and she has such a great point of view. Happy to honor her with one of the first thoughts on the list this week so sabrina the question for you here and and this is just about marketing during june marketing during pride what what should brands do. What shouldn't they do. How do they not get accused of rainbow. Wash enterprise washing. Yeah that's a really interesting topic. Because as you mentioned in past years especially jones e. has accused brands of rainbow washing everything and being performative about their allies ship. So this year proud of answer returning in a limited capacity and whether events will be virtual or in person vary on a state by state basis but nonetheless there are opportunities for brands to show up in different ways but as a result of what had previously mentioned. The consensus is based on a campaign. Us poll that brands need to do more to support lgbtq cosc- organizations including putting their dollars towards their words So comments on twitter. The public is not really responding well to companies that put out rainbow merch without advocacy and additionally consumers want to seem more. Lgbtq support year round as opposed to just one month out of the year. So those are just some of the things that i'm seeing online and from the people that have spoken to just more consistency with advocacy also putting their money where their mouth is absolutely some good advice there. I want you to us inside another store that you did this week. And that's about Clubhouses creator i program. Tell us what that what that is about. Yes so clubhouse launched its critter pilot program back in march and it partnered with fifty influencers to create programming native to the platform. So pierre week has kept in touch with clubhouse about the program and a story that i just published inside clubhouses creator. I program details their strategy for developing content and connecting brands to influencers. And it's a really interesting story. Because in recent weeks people have speculated that clubhouse moment is over because people are spending more time outside. And you know it's sort of being reflected in a decline in downloads for the app despite it launching on a android recently So that's on the website and it just sort of walks through how they're thinking about this This new program and You know they seem to be diving in despite the decline in ratings. So that's the story. Sabrina what do you think clubhouse here to stay or.