40 Burst results for "Years"
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Creation Evangelism
"Father, I thank you, it's you that changes hearts. And so Father, I just pray that you be glorified this morning. And Father, again, just be with me as I share. I just pray in Jesus' name, amen. So my passion in the creation movement has been reaching young people. So you'll notice I'm kind of young people oriented. So really I'm almost intimidated coming before you today just hoping that I have something of value to offer to you. So that has been my prayer. You know, I've got a friend by the name of Dr. Dan Biddle who is the president of Genesis Apologetics. And a lot of times I'll get phone calls from Dan that go something like this. Good morning. Good morning. Today there's a 16 -year -old girl sitting in biology class. Pat, today she'll hear the evidence that convinces her that evolution is true and that there is no God. Pat, what are you doing today to reach that girl? Is this Dr. Biddle? I love his heart. And so I think in this crazy world that we live in today, I think more than ever we need to stand boldly for our faith. And so today I'll be telling you lots of personal stories. By the way, as I tell you personal stories, it's not because I think I've got it all figured out. In fact, I come before you today knowing that many of you have done so much more evangelism than I have. I'm not a know -it -all. I just want to share with you some thoughts. So I'm going to give you lots of random stories today. And then we'll jump into the word a little bit. But before we do, as I've been here with Figgy a few times, I've gotten to present a talk that we've done on Journey to Nova Rupta. And so Figgy asked if I would just show a trailer to that documentary. This was made by homeschoolers over a span of 10 years. I just wanted to show you that and then tell you where you can watch it for free.
The HUMAN Training
Fresh update on "years" discussed on The HUMAN Training
"It's a problem with dog training. It's very easy to make dogs look good for your little two hour or hour lesson when they take the dogs home and they didn't fix anything. It just window dressing, they'll look good in your house. Dog did everything. The routine you trained us to do, basically trick training, but as soon as they go home or you take them somewhere, they're going to act out. That's why I like the way we had structured our board and trains. We send the dogs home on the weekend to work on some homework and tasks and skills that we've taught the dog because we want that feedback. Hey, how'd it go? If it didn't go great, let us know so we can dial that in. If they knocked it out of the park, great. We can check that box and we'll move on to a new skill this week. It's easy for owners to give us feedback that way. We know as a leadership group what trainers need help with what because if they're always getting the same feedback, dog came home can't sit. Then we know we need to work with that trainer in that skill because we're seeing that too often. Yeah, absolutely. It's also good transparency for owners. The amount of dogs that they're like, oh, the trainer just kept giving me more free weeks. Dog's been training for like eight weeks. We just trained a dog or trained a dog. Yeah, that's why it's in my brain because the owner, the dog got in a fight or something happened and it got injured and he's trying to get the dog to heal before he gave it back. Sketchy. Super sketchy. That's another reason why I like that we are a large facility. There's lots of reasons I don't, mostly because it's super just a pain in the butt because we have so many people. But that can't happen. You know, someone would call someone out here. It just wouldn't happen. So there's an accountability when you work with several people that if we had a trainer just start dinking around, yeah, beating a dog, right. Or didn't feed the dogs, you know, something crazy, they're going to get called out so fast. Something as simple as, hey, this silver pit bull had a metal allergy and it got a couple little hotspots. Let's call the owner and tell them about it and tell them what plan we're going to do to fix it. Not just keep the dog for four weeks in the open. Open heels. It's insane to me. Get ahead of stuff. We're very transparent. We call owners. We probably do call owners too much. And that's also why we do videos every day. People appreciate it. I'd appreciate it. It's also when you think about it from our perspective, like if my dog and buddy was somewhere, I would want to know if something happened. Oh yeah. I'd rather know than just be blinded when I go and pick him up and he's like missing his leg. Well then something that you call, like the dog does X, Y, and Z and the owner says, oh yeah, he does it here too. It is so stressful, like the dog's limping or doing something weird and you're like, I broke the dog. I don't know what I did. The dog didn't limp for a week and now it's limping bad. And then the owner says, oh no, he always says that when he gets rowdy. Oh, thank God. I stressed about this phone call for 10 minutes before I called you and it was nothing. Yeah. He says, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that. I think it shows that how much we care though, you know, how much we care, how much we're concerned that like letting owners know that something's going on with our dog, we understand how it feels. So yeah, I think it's pretty, it's, it's a good thing that we're, that we're like them. When people are willing to, if you're going to spend thousands of dollars on training your dog, it's your child or it's a family member, it's not some dog they just randomly have in your backyard. I don't know why. And I don't know, we, me and Charles have had bad, one bad experience with boarding dogs way in the past, but that I think why we start, we just, that horror story with the, uh, buddy, not buddy, pansy, pansy, our bulldog. Yeah, pan. I was thinking about the, the male, the younger one. No, no. We put it, it was, it was bad. Anyway, that was horrific. So that, that was really what got us always to think, would it be cool to have a dog training and boarding facility that was fun and you trust that your dog's being taken care of. You know, your dog's having fun while they're there. Cause we sued the company, went to court, the judge said, judge was felt really bad, but the contract resigned. They could give us a good dog. He literally said, I want to sign with you, but reading the back page of their contract, they could hand your dog back dead. And you still have to pay. Geez. He said, this is ridiculous, but this is, it was in fine print. I'm like, holy cow. He's right. They could have literally handled this at corpse and we still had to pay for boarding. Yeah. But so that is not good. That's wild. They still just jabbed you at the price, even, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was horrific. So I think that kind of colors how we are so yeah. Coach owners. Yeah. Cause me and Charles are the main people. And we don't have any of that crap in our contract. I mean, of course we have a contract because, oh my God, you're dealing with people. You have to have people. But there's no where as is thus as is is as is, you know, none of that legalese. We literally made it not only is his fricking layman's terms, what's expected of us and our client. Yes. That is very easy to read and understand. And there's no hidden crap in crap. I mean, the amount of like lawyers and people that do literally write contracts like that have read it all while we're sitting there like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's normal. All right. So, uh, we have right at 30 now, right at 30. Yeah. Um, and then this year, I guess February we finished an expansion, so we added 6,000 square feet. Uh, one of our neighbors moved out and so we occupied that cause it butts up against us and now that's our luxury and deluxe area. We almost did what a satellite location. We tried real hard and that just did not happen. But the owner of the building kept moving the goal line and then, yeah, he got really greedy. So we said, no, no, no pulling the plug on that. Which is really odd. This is right after a pandemic kind of shut down. Yeah. And that building is still vacant. Of course. Oh, you wonder why. Yeah. So I guess no one else fell for his, uh, uh, so I would imagine when we start doing this on YouTube, we will be showing people time our facility. You will see. Yeah. Oh yeah. 100%. Yep. And uh, yeah. You'll be able to, you know, yeah. That's a good idea. The most important is you'll get to see Buddy. Yeah, that's important. See our dogs. No, you can see Dolly. Oh, there will be a video making fun of your office. Oh my God. Making fun of it. It's beautiful. Yeah, we'll have to shoot one in there just so people can appreciate. She has more pictures of her dog in her office and I have my kids. There's more coming. There's more coming. I can get behind the pictures. It's the color palette that she changed. Oh, come on Charles. Leave me alone. The custom made calendar, all the other seasons. I'm a professional photographer. Look, it couldn't make sense. I have a dark soul with a little bit of color here and there. There you go. I have never cleaned my office literally in three years. I just put my stuff on the desk. It was in there. You did. And I have not moved anything. Anything. That's so sad. I know it's true. Your office stayed the same. I'm here. You and Michelle make me move my office every once in a while. Well, me and Sammy did it first. My daughter came and helped me with it. I have never rearranged my office. Other people don't. I don't like it. So, we had a, when we started where we slept mostly was, they used it as a conference room or something. It is now the break room. Yeah, they used it as a training room. Yeah, but now it's a big old break room. Now it's our break room. But that is where we slept. And we do have, in case anyone's wondering, well, how did you guys shower? There is a shower here. There is a shower here. But it's a, like a five gallon water heater. So you, Laura, had to go fast, and I was screwed no matter how fast she went because there was no hot water for me. It's fine. Yeah. Now we have a real size hot water heater. Oh, yeah. We do it because of grooming. Yeah, because of grooming. Yeah. It was only because of grooming. We said, screw the humans. Just grit your teeth and bare it. But no, the dogs need warm water. So, we got a real hot water heater just for the dogs, not for the humans. Thank God, though, because that's what saved us through snowmageddon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because, you know, in February. The snow's here for some dang reason. Every February since we've been open. Basically, Dallas has shut down, you know, the roads because of snow. Stupid snow. And the problem is we already have dogs here. So, it's not an option to not come to work. Yeah. First year, I was like, oh, crap, what do we do? Because a lot of our people, they live days away. They're not used to driving in the snow. No. They have snow tires. I guess we'll just get everyone a hotel room and be close. Yeah. We do do that. That's kind of what we do now. We are pretty good. I know. That is what we do. And their water heater broke in the hotel. Oh, yeah. So, we would have been better off if we had all stayed here that first year. Yeah. Because the water heater broke in the hotel. So, it's like, all right, we got a bed, but no hot water. Well, and luckily, I mean, it was like two-thirds of Dallas had no power. Yeah. So, you really couldn't bitch a moat because it was such, I mean, it wasn't a... Three degrees out. It was cool noodles. There was people with icicles in their house. Yes. Now, way off topic, but okay. No, we just... We kind of see that coming every February. We just let everyone know, be prepared because you're expected to be prepared. You're expected to be at work because the dogs are already here. And the owners need to know we're here and taking care of them and training them. So... But we have never lost power here. We have not. Which is nice. This is very nice. It's really amazing. Yeah, we have never lost power here. So, George just took his ball. There's three dogs in the office. Took his ball. And went and hid under my table. So, when we could see us, we could show you George hiding. So, all the dogs are trying to take his balls. So, hopefully, you've enjoyed a little peek behind the scenes of a little bit of what the last three years have been like. It's been a fun journey. It's been a long journey. It's been a growing. We've all grown, I think. I've grown. We grew very fast. Because I've never thought I wanted to be in charge of anybody, let alone 10, 15 trainers. That was never on my play to do. So, hopefully, I'm doing better than I started. Yep, we've all grown. Yes. Very much better. Because, like Wyatt says, we're perfectionists. You have to be. And it kind of irritates me when people are not. I can't take everything personally. Just because that trainer lost a little bit, they're not as good as they were, does not mean they're doing it on purpose. They just need to dial back in. They just need some help. Don't take it as a personal affront. They're being a normal human. It's just like clients. You just can't take it. It's like the no-show. You can't take it personally. It is what it is. And that's what I've learned, too. Because me and Charles do most of the talking to clients when they're not the happiest. Luckily, it doesn't happen often at all. It doesn't happen very much. And most people just want to be heard. That's what I've learned. And usually, it's like literally almost a nothing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll do it. Oh, really? Yeah. We're very reasonable people. Or, yeah, you've got a good point. I know. They always seem like shocked. Yeah. You know that? That's a good point. Maybe that is. Yeah. All the customer service calls I've ever had to make, it's just maybe very few. Very few. Six to 12 in three years. I mean. The only real customer service. Yeah. Real. Other than a question in her head, just wanted to run and see about checking on price. I thought I got a good deal. I thought I got a discount, and I didn't get the discount, so they want to talk to the manager. That's, to me, not customer service. It's just they want clarity in one of you. So, any real customer service issue. Yeah. I guess that's a good point, Julie, is most people are nice. It's almost like they call expecting a fight. They were ready for a fight. There's no fight. I mean, if we're wrong, yeah, we're wrong. Just let me know what we need to do. But if we weren't wrong, I'm still going to hear you. I'm not going to. Yeah. I tell all of you, do we want to be right or do we want to be happy? Yeah. So, there's some times that we are in the right, but we'll still acquiesce because it makes our life happier if we just, you know what, let me make you happy and we'll be happy. I don't need to be right. No. I'm not going to give someone three weeks of free boarding trains for that reason. But most people, yeah, Julie and Neil, once they realize I'm not coming for an argument. Yeah. Yeah. There is no issue. That's just evaporated. Yeah. I like it. All right. Well, yeah. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the weird topic that we had. We just thought it would be, you know, for the last live podcast with us, a little interesting if we talked about little things over the last three years, you know, how we got where we're going. So, now we're 53,000 square feet, we've got 30 employees. We went from day trains to boarding trains. Day trains, now we're almost exclusively boarding trains, almost, you know, about 8 to 10 percent of our training is still day and trains and then we obviously do group classes after the skills. Would you have four group classes? Oh, yeah. When we first started, we only had one group class. Now we have four group classes. And we have puppy classes. Now we have puppy classes. We have grooming. Or regular boarding that we have. And now we have a retail area. Yeah. Yeah. Send in. It's been a lot of growth in three years. So be sure to follow us on our platform as we transition over to a video podcast on YouTube. And again, subscribe to our YouTube channel, Canine Culture DFW. And now you'll be able to see some video of, you'll see all kinds of different stuff. Our dogs, our facility, our ugly bugs, whatever it is that you're wanting to see. Everyone see our puppies. And also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Canine Culture Dog Training DFW is our handle on those two platforms. And until next week, go have fun with your dog.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 688:FTXs Legal Woes, Hong Kongs Crypto Surge, and CFTCs DeFi Focus
"Good evening, and welcome to The Crypto Overnight. I'm Nickademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight, we dive into some tumultuous waters, from the legal quagmire surrounding FTX to Hong Kong's crypto rebellion against mainland China. The CFTC is setting its sights on DeFi, while Kenya grapples with the controversial WorldCoin project. The Ethereum ETFs underwhelm and Chainalysis cuts its workforce. Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride. As Sam Beckman -Fried's trial is due to kick off today, I think it relevant to ask if we're off base on what happened at FTX. Let's start with the basics. FTX imploded last November, and the man at the helm, Sam Beckman -Fried, faces a criminal trial that kicks off tomorrow. He's up against seven fraud and conspiracy charges. The allegations? Misappropriating billions in customer funds. Noted author Michael Lewis defended FTX on CBS' 60 Minutes. He claimed FTX was, quote, a real business, not a Ponzi scheme. But let's be clear, federal prosecutors have a very different view. They questioned FTX's entire legacy, calling it a short -lived venture built on shaky ground. Now here's where it gets interesting. FTX was founded in 2019. By 2021, CNBC reported its revenue had skyrocketed to over $1 billion, up from just $89 million the previous year. But hold on, bankruptcy proceedings tell a different story. By the end of 2021, FTX and its sister company, Alameda Research, had racked up $3 .7 billion in operating losses for tax purposes. So where did that money go? Prosecutors allege that customer cash was mixed with assets at Alameda Research. The total shortfall? A staggering $8 billion. That's $8 billion of customer funds that went missing. Now, Lewis argues that FTX would still be profitable if traders had not withdrawn their money en masse. But let's not kid ourselves. Exchanges are supposed to hold one -to -one deposits. FTX failed to do that. It admitted to not having segregated reserves of customer assets. That's not just bad business. That's illegal. Lewis's defense of FTX has stirred the pot, especially for anyone skeptical of centralized exchanges. His comments come at a time when the crypto community is already on edge about regulatory scrutiny. His statements could be seen as an attempt to legitimize a business that federal prosecutors have labeled as fraudulent. But let's not forget, FTX is one of crypto's largest exchanges before its downfall. What does the crypto influencer cast have to say on the subject? Dan Held, a prominent figure in the crypto world, called it shameful for Lewis to defend Bankman -Fried. Why? Because exchanges can't handle deposits like banks do, at least not legally. The case against FTX and Bankman -Fried is a stark reminder of the risks involved in centralized exchanges. Unlike decentralized platforms, centralized exchanges like FTX hold customer funds, making those customer funds vulnerable to not only misappropriation, but hacks and embezzlement as well. It's also worth noting that FTX's downfall was not just a result of legal issues. The exchange faced a massive withdrawal of customer funds, forcing it to admit that it did not hold segregated reserves. This is a breach of trust that no decentralized system would allow. So what's the takeaway here? FTX is a lesson in the importance of regulatory compliance and financial transparency. It's a wake -up call for those who think they can skirt the law and still come out on top. Alright, you've just gotten a reality check on FTX. From one legal quagmire to another, let's pivot. Is Hong Kong having its own crypto rebellion defying mainland China? Folks, if you thought FTX was a rollercoaster, strap in for this one. Don't forget to hit those like and subscribe buttons for more insights.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Years" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Crypto Curious
A highlight from 98 - Gensler's Backlash, The SBF's Trial Kicks Off & Pudgy Penguins Hit Walmart
"This is an Equity Baits Media podcast. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to the crypto world, we recommend starting with our early episodes where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll discuss some recent moves by the SEC and some backlash against Gary Gensler. He's receiving it from all sides of the fence. We're also going to take a look at Sam Bankman -Fried and the trial, which starts this week. My name's Tracey and this week it's Blake and I on the mic as Craig is off attending a wedding. So, hey Blake, how are you going? Very well, Tracey. Good to be back and getting stuck into this week's news. There is always lots of news, but before we do get into the news, Blake, let's have a little look at the market. We don't often go through what's happening in the charts, but let's have a little look at what is going on because we've just finished the month of September, which has historically been a red month. Six out of the last seven years, September's been red and it actually finished green. A lot of the traders are very excited. It finished 4 % up and I've already seen a lot of the memes. October is up -tober, as they call it. There we go. Yeah, because apparently October is one of the better months of crypto. I think six out of the last seven has been green. So what do you think? Are we going to have a good month? What are we in for? It's really hard to say. No one has a crystal ball. I knew you were going to say that. What do you think though? How are you feeling? What's happening out there? Well, you know, if we had an up month in September when it's historically down, you know, it could do the opposite in October. Markets like to do what the opposite to what everyone's expecting. So yeah, we'll see how it plays out. But obviously there's a lot happening in the broader economy at the moment. People are very pessimistic about what's happening, you know, with inflation and specifically in the US, but really everywhere, and how that's affecting the broader economy. But hopefully we're seeing less and less correlation with the crypto market in relation to those items. But I still suspect that I can't fully disconnect. All right, well, we'll see what happens with up -tober at the end of the month. Moving on to our first story. It's been a big news item and colour us shocked, but the SEC has moved again to delay the Spot Bitcoin ETF. This one from BlackRock, Valkyrie and Bitwise. Gary Gensler needs additional proceedings to assess whether to approve or deny the proposed Bitcoin ETF. The process includes public comment and rebuttal periods indicating that the final decision may not be reached for several months, but then not even a few days later, and this happened yesterday, he has continued his filing frenzy and delayed the Bitcoin ETFs for Fidelity, Van Eyck and Wisdom Tree. So basically that's all of them because Ark was a few weeks ago. And the pressure is mounting on Gary himself this week, Blake. We saw him in the press. What happened there? Yeah, that's right Trace. Last week there was a US House lawmakers push on the SEC's chair Gary Gensler to approve the Spot ETF. Now they're kicking the can down the road. I don't actually think this is a bad thing, because if it happens early next year around the time of the halving, I think that's going to be maximum effect on the market. Members of the House of Financial Services Committee wrote a letter to him to take urgent action on the ETF. And you know, he's obviously taking his sweet ass time here. Gary actually faced criticism from lawmakers regarding his crypto regulation approach during this House hearing. He was questioned about his classification of Bitcoin, how that compared to other assets like Pokemon cards, and the approval of the Bitcoin ETFs. Lawmakers also expressed concerns over Gensler's transparency with Congress, especially regarding interactions with crypto exchanges like FTX. He was actually taken to task in so many different ways and he came up really short. I saw a few different videos. It was a bit of a train wreck. And what did you think of this Blake? Yeah, it's really interesting actually, you know, watching Gary dodge questions and be as vague as possible. But I think this example about the Pokemon cards really exemplifies the conversation. So one of the senators or one of the members of the House of Financial Services on the committee asked Gary, you know, are Pokemon card securities when they're traded because they are a collector's item. And of course, Pokemon cards are not securities. They're just collectibles. And then the example was proposed to Gary whether or not if those Pokemon cards were then tokenized and put on the blockchain as an NFT, would it be a security? And Gary said he's not sure. So I think the point here is that is the process of tokenization, does that create a security? And I think we can all agree that it doesn't. But the SEC is being quite coy here to keep their options open in order to suit, you know, potential NFT projects. When, you know, for example, you could take a photo of your foot trace to as an NFT, would that be a security? Yeah, look, it was it was a laughable video, that one. We've actually got a link to it as well, folks. So we'll put that in the show notes below. But they were there's four of those senators and they went really hard at him and he certainly did fumble his way through that, much like the videos from his Senate chat a few months earlier. Interesting to see him squirm, ladies and gentlemen, but there'll be more to come on that one. Moving on to our second story. The trial we have been waiting for starts this week with the jury selection today. Will Sam Bankman -Fried, the man who headed up failed crypto exchange FTX, get the comeuppance he so badly deserved? Get ready because your social feeds will definitely be taken up by all the drama that unfolds Blake over the coming weeks. How long will this take? You know, is he actually going to get done here? What are your thoughts? You know, how long is a piece of string really? I think with these scenarios, whoever has the most resourcing wins. We don't know how much cash Sam has tucked away. He could string this out for years. You know, we've seen other court cases. That long you reckon? Well, we've seen other court cases in the sector be strung out for literally like five, six years. So yeah, it could certainly happen. I think the Mount Gox court case for creditors is still going in 2013. You know, so these things can take time and there's many ways for parties to, to push this out. Yeah. In some information that came out today, Tracy, it looks like Sam won't be able to blame his lawyers for everything that happened. Under an advice of counsel defense, SPF wanted to argue that, you know, he was just taking the advice of his lawyers and was working within the legal bounds of the advice that was provided. So, you know, it's pretty interesting that if he was provided incorrect advice, then Sam will have the opportunity to sue his lawyers. But it looks like that you can't use that. You can't do that now. Oh no. Well, he just can't use that as a defense in court, but that doesn't mean that if he did receive poor legal advice at some point in time, he can't go back and sue those lawyers. Right. Interesting. All right. I'm sure there are many things that are going to come out of that as well. You know, this is, you can't write this thing as well, but just yesterday, some of the F that was taken by the hackers, so 2 ,500 F that was stolen as part of that exchange hack last year was moved yesterday. Oh, really? Yeah. So part of that was moved through two different protocols. One of them was the Thorchain router and another one was Railgun, which are private wallets that you can move things through secretly. We still don't know who took that in the hack last year. Yeah. We suspected at the time it could have been an inside job as, you know, the exchange was falling. Someone stole half a thousand Ethereum. Yeah. Yeah. But we still don't know who that was. Another quick one, too, guys, as we wrap this story up, because we are going to be hearing a lot about SPF and FTX. If you do want to catch up, there's a really good two parter out now on BBC Panorama called The Downfall of the Crypto King. And I'll add that in the show notes below. But it just it's a bit of a catch up on exactly what happened with SPF and the FTX exchange. So there's did you know that we are coming up on our 100th episode? I know time flies when you're having fun. And we'd like to invite you to become part of our 100th show and send us an audio question. If you have got something that you'd like to know about a coin, a token or a project you'd like us to cover off in our 100th episode, then send us a voice recording. Record this using a voice memo app on your phone and send it to us via the Facebook community or an email at podcast at get bamboo .io. Time for a break and we'll be back.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "years" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Unchained
A highlight from SBF Trial, Day 1: Possible Witnesses Include FTX Insiders, Big Names in Crypto, and SBFs Family
"Hi everyone, Laura here. Tuesday, October 3rd was the first day of the criminal trial of the United States against Sam Bankman -Fried. Unchained will be bringing you quick recaps of each day of the trial, and you can find our coverage not just on the podcast and on video, but also in our newsletter and on our website. Before the proceedings, Bankman -Fried sat with counsel on either side, noticeably thinner than he had looked previously, and his hair recently shorn, so his curls seemed less unkempt than his signature look. He was also noticeably less jittery than normal. I did not see him shake his leg at all. He had a laptop and sometimes appeared to be scrolling via the trackpad. At one point, Judge Kaplan addressed SPF directly and said, quote, Mr. Bankman -Fried, I want to make sure this is something that you understand. You have the right to testify in your own defense in this case, and the decision as to whether or not you testify is the decision solely for you. You are entitled to have your counsel's best advice on whether they think it is wise or potentially advantageous or not advantageous for you to testify, but they can't make the decision for you. It is your call. While the defense has not yet indicated whether Bankman -Fried will testify, he has gone against most legal advice thus far and given numerous media interviews about what happened at FTX. We'll see whether he continues to be as loquacious under oath. Just after this, the government put on the record whether or not a plea offer had ever existed and said, quote, The government early on in the case, after the case was charged, raised the question of whether the parties should engage in plea discussions, and the answer was no, meaning there were no discussions about a plea and the government never made any plea offers. For those of you who listened to the Tuesday episode with Kayvon Sedeghi and Samson Enzer, this answers one of the questions that I've had ever since Caroline Ellison, Gary Wong, and Nishad Singh all pleaded guilty. Why it was that this case went to trial rather than ending in a plea deal. During this period before the jury selection process, the government mentioned that it wanted to ask whether jurors had seen one specific pre -trial news story, which they called, quote, The CBS Special, and which was later revealed to be the 60 Minutes interview with author Michael Lewis, which aired Sunday and has been seen as somewhat sympathetic to Bankman Fried. Once the proceedings got going, the theme for day one was what recent Unchained guest Samson Enzer mentioned, jury deselection. The judge posed round after round of questions to prospective jurors meant to weed out those who either had conflicts preventing them from serving or who for reasons pertaining to their professional position, personal experience, or other factors could not remain impartial. This process did create moments of hilarity, at least for the reporters in the press room. For instance, one prospective juror said that he was currently unemployed and that his lack of income plus a six -week delay in his job search would be a hardship. Judge Kaplan asked him what he did for a living and he responded, Commodities traitor. Judge Kaplan himself was both firm about the purpose of the trial and the duty of the jurors while also exhibiting both patience and a wry sense of humor. A prospective juror who said she could not participate because she was scheduled to fly to Maui before the trial's projected end ended up admitting that she was going to be in Maui for six months because she lives there half the year. Judge Kaplan asked her if she could just delay a week. Numerous jurors had already heard about or read about FTX. One potential juror works at Insight Partners, a VC firm that had invested in FTX and Alameda. Another said he had processed claims for the victims of Bernie Madoff and numerous others said that they had invested in crypto and all of those said that they had lost money in it, including a man who said his twin brother had nearly been financially ruined from those losses. The government read aloud a long list of potential witnesses for both the defense and the prosecution to prevent any jurors with conflicts or ties relating to those people or organizations. Aside from one of the predictable names, such as Caroline Ellison, Gary Wong, and Hishan Singh, some other FTX executives named included Ryan Miller, Ramnik Arora, Constance Wong, Dan Friedberg, and Sam Tribuco, while other names and organizations known in the crypto world included Anthony Scaramucci, Zach Prince, Genesis, Paradigm, Sequoia, Layer Zero, and Ribbit Capital. SPF's parents and brother were also named. The day ended with 50 remaining possible jurors. On Wednesday, Judge Kaplan will narrow it down to 12 jurors with 6 alternates, and we should see opening statements in both sides, with the government projecting its opening to be 25 -30 minutes and the defense 35 -40 minutes. More to come tomorrow.
The HUMAN Training
Fresh update on "years" discussed on The HUMAN Training
"Crazy Laney. Yeah. So we slept here a couple of nights a week because we were the kennel techs. You guys were doing like what, a three hour commute one way? Yeah. Oh yeah. Where we live at that time. That's one of the other reasons why we would sleep here a couple of nights a week. Because God, we'd get done at seven, eight at night and then get home at 10. And then we have to be here first thing in the morning to walk the dogs because that we're staying. We were kennel staff at the time. It's like, do I really want to leave at three 30 in the morning to get back here? Because we were so far where we live was so far away. Oh, I don't even know why my wife put up with six day work weeks for like a year. We took three days off in the first 93 days. That was a gruel. But you know, any new businesses, you know, you put a lot of freaking effort in. Well, in doing day and trains, when you go home changes every single day. Yeah. You never, it's not nine to five at all. Right. And we were doing lessons every single day with every single dog. We had group class. And we did group classes at six 30 on Wednesdays. Oh man. Yeah. It was a lot. So this room here, your office is probably the only office we never slept in. Nope. You wouldn't have either because this thing was ticking. Oh yeah, there's some things that are electrical and we didn't know how to turn off. Plus there was a lot of big bulky furniture in here. There was really no room. Yeah, this was the storage room. It was storage for a long time. Then Wyatt kind of sort of had this room for a second. Yeah. And then now. Then I went to Julie's office and then I went to the one I'm in now. Charles stayed in the same office, same crappy desk that was left here. Charles has never changed anything in his office. I don't care. It works. I took the office next to him. I rearranged that whole thing, came one weekend. I didn't even move the desk. Remember at one point, me and Fabian were there. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Everybody was everywhere. Where? In my old office. Oh yeah, Wyatt's office. Before Wyatt was a salesperson. After you, Wyatt, then Kim came on a week or two later. Yep. Yeah. So then she came on as a trainer. We'd worked with her before in a training capacity. She's now our head groomer. She's still with us. She was a groomer before. Yeah, she was certified groomer before. That was really her background. And then Fabian. And then Fabian. He used to be at Kennel Tech for us at a previous company and then he came over to learn how to be a dog trainer and he's still with us. One of our senior human aggressive dog trainers now. I hope I still have the text messages bullying him to come in here to come work for us. Yeah, he was scared to come talk to us. Oh, 100%. Oh, I never reached out to him at all. He called me first. Oh, okay. Seen if it was okay and I told him he was stupid and needs to get over here right now. Yeah. He kept putting it off. The interview or whatever. I'm like, get your butt over here, Fabian. Yeah. He was a young guy though. He was 18, 19 years old. Yeah, he just graduated school, high school. I think six months before he came on. Yeah. Maybe a year. Something like that. One or the other. He was a young guy. He's still young. I think he just turned 21, right? He was in October, so we've been open about three months-ish, but he came on. He's still here. Michelle, next. So then Julie, you came on in- February. So what? About six, seven months after we were open, I guess. Oh, God. Fabian, Eric. So Maisie came on around the same time you did. She's our senior human aggressive dog trainer now. Yeah. Busy, busy. So then Julie comes on. And for those of you that don't know, Julie and I, behind the scenes, we butt heads sometimes. We're too much alike. It's taken us about a year and a half to figure out how to work together. A little bit. At least we're here. Neither of us can chop each other's arms off. Oh, my Lord. Yeah, it's funny. It's funny. Ha, ha, ha. And Charles, you butt headed with lots. You butt heads with Wyatt because he's your kid. Yeah, if you're not familiar with us, Wyatt's our youngest son. You butt heads with me. I don't care. Only- Yeah, okay. I just hit you with a bat. Keep telling yourself that. I just hit him with a bat at home. No one sees the marks. I don't butt heads with anyone. I'm very easy to work with. You're an angel. I'm very easy to work with. It's called I'm right and you're freaking wrong. So just don't do it. Why are we having a breakdown? But Wyatt was a trainer? Yes. And then he was trainer slash sales. He did that for several months. Yeah, that was a learning curve. Yeah. Don't do that. You need to have one job. Yes. It is hard. It is very hard. The hardest thing for me when we first opened was that first year of doing that because I was training and selling and we had to because it was just us, but you don't feel like you're really focused on either. It's hard. So when you're meeting someone to explain dog training and enroll their dog, it is sales, Of course. Hopefully, we don't make it feel like a sale, but at the end of the day, it is. If there's not a transaction, you can't train their dog. But the whole time, you know this Wyatt, the whole time when you're training dogs still, the whole time you're with somebody, you're thinking about, oh, man, I need to get that dog out and work on X, Y, or Z, so you're kind of in the back of your mind, half your focus is still on the dog that you need to get back out and train and work with and what you need to work on. I thought the hardest part was, say you're scheduled for five evals that day. That's five hours out of your eight-hour day. Right. And then what sucks is you put your dog away for a training session to go meet the person coming in and then they no-show you like, damn it, man, you screwed up my flow with how I was working with dogs. And you got to sit around for like 15 minutes waiting. I think that's what most people don't realize is when they schedule an evaluation with a dog trainer, whether it's us or anybody, that person is literally coordinating their working sessions with their dogs around that person's equation that said they want to talk about dog training. And when they just no-show you, well, one, it's freaking rude and inconsiderate as hell. I just think it's slimy. I mean, really, it is. Just call and say, I can't make it. Or even a text message. I'm happy with a text message. Take the chicken way out because you're literally stopping what you're doing, putting the dog away, and you might've been in a spot, because we've all been in it, where you're having a breakthrough moment with the dog and you don't want to stop. And you're like, man, I wish I could continue for 15 minutes because man, we're almost there, but here's so many coming in. Okay, I have to go do that. Or there's supposed to be someone coming in, you know, it really just irritates the heck out of you. Or they come in 30 minutes late or 30 minutes early. So you just got the dog out, you're getting ready to work, and now they're like, oh yeah, here I am. So FYI to anybody that makes appointments with people, whether it's a roofer, a contractor, a dog trainer, don't matter, respect the appointment that you made as an obligation that you made as a human or text them and let them know you can't do it. Or you're going to be early or late, whatever's going on in your life, just let us know. Just be polite. Just be a polite human being. Yeah, that's tough. We still struggle with it. But the good news is now you are full time just doing dog evaluations. So you're a little more flexible, but at the same point, someone no-shows, it's someone you could have been helping instead of the person that just is a flake.
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB129_DOM BEI: Bitcoin Empowering The Everyday Earner
"To the conservative saver, I found, hey, do you own anything outside of that fiat system? Do you own, like, what is it? You know, do you own something out there? Well, they might say, well, I have gold. No, no, no, no. Gold is not outside of the fiat system. It's also very much entrenched within it. You can look into gold and even gold, gold bugs will tell you that there is some insulation, but it's very much entrenched. What do you own outside of that system? And the best thing outside of that system is Bitcoin. It's not even debatable. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where Average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Thanks for choosing to spend time with two degenerate firemen. In this rip, we're adding a third, Mr. Dom Bay's third appearance on our show. Dom is the king of underselling and overperforming, and this outing is no different. He is equally adept at hitting the high points of philosophical ideating as he is comfortable with a solid joke about someone losing a finger with a Coke fingernail on it. We are slated to join Dom in the Swan Dome at Pacific Bitcoin this Friday at 3 p .m. If you're going to be at Pacific Bitcoin, we suggest you be there. Dom is taking no prisoners in his persuasion tactics to pack that place. The fact that they are going to allow the three of us free reign on stage with no supervision is both brave and short -sighted. It's fortunate for us that this is happening later on the second day. We will get to experience at least most of the conference before they toss us out. We hope to see you there. If you can't make it to Pacific Bitcoin, don't forget about a couple of other upcoming events in the pipeline. Those being Bitcoin Amsterdam later this month and Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville next July. You can use coupon code BCB to get 10 % off either event. As always, a gentle reminder to get your Bitcoin off of exchanges. Get those sats tucked away into cold storage using a cold card Mark IV. The cold card is the most secure place us non -programming mortals can hope to place our Bitcoin. To be honest, even if you are an expert, you should be using a cold card. This code base has been combed over for years and is much more secure than any do -it -yourself setup. If you want to keep yourself from getting rugged by an exchange, and you want to secure your Bitcoin from attack, get that Bitcoin onto a cold card, pronto.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Years" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"7 News meteorologist Steve Rudin the first alert weather center. We're at 68 upon circle 60 in Germantown and Annandale. We're down a couple of degrees to 63 in our nation's capital brought to you this morning of our Wednesday morning midweek October 4th on UTOP. My long fence saved 25 % on long fence tax payers and fences. Six months no payment no interest financing terms and conditions do apply check them out go to longfence We bring you money news at 10 and 40 past each hour. Let's check in with Mr. Jeff Claybaugh this Interest rates jumped sharply higher Tuesday the yield on a 10 -year Treasury is now near 4 .8 percent the highest in 15 years the Dow tumbled 431 points the Nasdaq lost 1 .9 percent we work missed 95 million dollars in interest payments last month it not be able to stay in business. Bright MLS says a home in the DC area that wanted a contract last week on had been the market 18 days on average a week longer than a year ago. Jeff Claybaugh, WTOP checking News. overseas this early morning asian stocks remain mainly lower this hour the Shanghai though is up by three lower in the rest of the stocks this morning the Nikkei is down by 531 the KOSPI is down 53 points the Hang Seng is down 180. good morning larger with us it's 111 WTOP welcome in you don't have to live in Britain to get what the New York Times calls the best of British telly stream the UK's most brilliant series only on BritBox unlock block acclaimed favorites including Vera and Stonehouse starring Succession's Matthew McFadyen plus don't miss upcoming original dramas like Archie the story of Hollywood's greatest leading man Cary Grant lose yourself in Britain's best entertainment only on
Mark Levin
If We Don't Get Truly Conservative Bills Now, That's on Matt Gaetz
"The next few months and that's Mr. on Gates who kept bringing that up bringing it up bringing it up if they don't pass a bill that cuts domestic spending by 30 % that's on Mr. Gates if they don't get not just a bill out of all the appropriations committees 12 of them but if they don't get conservative bills 12 of them across the finish line Mr. Gates there's a lot on Mr. Gates he made a lot of promises like a left he made a lot of assurances like the left is just get McCarthy out of the way and all this get will done okay pal now are you on our radar I'll be right back on a repair costs are up nearly 20 % from last year four times the rate of inflation so when you enroll in a car protection plan through car shield you can look forward to following car shield offers protection plan starting as low as $100 a month with flexible month -to -month coverage no long -term contracts and options to fit everybody's budget they have parent coverage for up to 5 ,000 parts and you have your choice of a SE certified mechanics they have a price lock guarantee this is big meaning the price will never go up no matter how many how claims many you file or even as the mileage on your car increases that's a big deal call car car shield today 800 -898 -6155 or go to carshield .com
Coronavirus
OP Stack Fault Proof System On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023. Optimism releases its first fault -proof system on testnet, Yield Protocol winds down operations, and Dawn unveils its Ethereum wallet. Alyssa Moore starts right now. Optimism released the alpha version of the OP stack's first fault -proof system on the Optimistic Gourley testnet. The system is composed of three components, including the fault -proof program, a fault -proof virtual machine, and a dispute game protocol. The OP stack enables the independent development of the fault -proof program and the fault -proof VM. The isolated design paves the way for the creation of multiple proofs, including ZK proofs. In the future, developers will have the ability to build custom fault -proof systems. Dispute games serve as mechanisms for resolving discrepancies and establishing truth amid conflicting claims. Optimism also included the OP stack fault -proof alpha release in its immunify bug bounty program. Yield Protocol, a fixed -interest yield -forming protocol, announced that it is winding down operations. The protocol will maintain support until the conclusion of the current loan series on December 29th, forgoing the launch of the March 2024 fixed -rate series. Borrowing and lending will be fully disabled by December 31st of this year. The protocol will then be in withdrawal -only mode for a limited period of time. The shutdown comes in response to an inadequate demand for fixed -rate borrowing, alongside regulatory challenges encountered in the U .S., Europe, and the U .K. Users can stay updated by following "@Yield on Twitter." And lastly, Don Wallet unveiled Don AI, an Ethereum wallet enhanced with an AI -driven assistant. The wallet features a chatbot that can manage transactions, engage with protocols, and access on -chain data through user commands and signature approvals. The chatbot also assists users by explaining crypto functionalities and simplifying on -chain actions. While the wallet is not yet released, users can sign up for a waitlist ahead of its launch. In other news, Mint .Fun launches a Create tool, Aztec Labs pays a $450 ,000 bug bounty, FarCaster data is now live on Dune, and Palm Network migrates its testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Ethereum Daily
OP Stack Fault Proof System On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023. Optimism releases its first fault -proof system on testnet, Yield Protocol winds down operations, and Dawn unveils its Ethereum wallet. Alyssa Moore starts right now. Optimism released the alpha version of the OP stack's first fault -proof system on the Optimistic Gourley testnet. The system is composed of three components, including the fault -proof program, a fault -proof virtual machine, and a dispute game protocol. The OP stack enables the independent development of the fault -proof program and the fault -proof VM. The isolated design paves the way for the creation of multiple proofs, including ZK proofs. In the future, developers will have the ability to build custom fault -proof systems. Dispute games serve as mechanisms for resolving discrepancies and establishing truth amid conflicting claims. Optimism also included the OP stack fault -proof alpha release in its immunify bug bounty program. Yield Protocol, a fixed -interest yield -forming protocol, announced that it is winding down operations. The protocol will maintain support until the conclusion of the current loan series on December 29th, forgoing the launch of the March 2024 fixed -rate series. Borrowing and lending will be fully disabled by December 31st of this year. The protocol will then be in withdrawal -only mode for a limited period of time. The shutdown comes in response to an inadequate demand for fixed -rate borrowing, alongside regulatory challenges encountered in the U .S., Europe, and the U .K. Users can stay updated by following "@Yield on Twitter." And lastly, Don Wallet unveiled Don AI, an Ethereum wallet enhanced with an AI -driven assistant. The wallet features a chatbot that can manage transactions, engage with protocols, and access on -chain data through user commands and signature approvals. The chatbot also assists users by explaining crypto functionalities and simplifying on -chain actions. While the wallet is not yet released, users can sign up for a waitlist ahead of its launch. In other news, Mint .Fun launches a Create tool, Aztec Labs pays a $450 ,000 bug bounty, FarCaster data is now live on Dune, and Palm Network migrates its testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1420: Bitcoin Will Surpass $1,000,000 By This Time - Max Keiser
"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
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A highlight from Is Uptober Real? Data Shows What Comes Next For Bitcoin!
"Is October real? Is Bitcoin really going to see an expansionary move in the month of October and for the rest of Q4 or is this simply a fake out narrative and are we going to see Bitcoin come down to that major 25k level and flip bearish for October and the rest of Q4? Well in today's video I'm going to dive into the data which is giving us a telltale sign of Bitcoin's next move and today want to break down what the data is showing from historical past cycles to work out what we might do this October and beyond for the rest of Q4 2023. I've got the bullish case I also had the bearish case and then at the end I'm going to present my argument what I think may happen as well as showing you what you need to know on the charts. So the first thing to note is the current Bitcoin structure that we're in. If you go into the monthly chart you can see that we are currently wedged in the middle of a key range between the 25k region and the 31 .5k region and the real question investors are asking right now is are we going to make a push up towards the extremity of the range high here or are we simply going to come back down and October becomes one big fake out back down to the 25k region and then simply teeter on the edge of a breakdown. So I want to dig into the data now and look at what has happened historically to give us an indication as to whether we will push up towards the top of this range or down towards the bottom of this range as Bitcoin continues to range there are opportunities both on the long side and the short side and of course with altcoins as well to take advantage. The first thing I want to point out is that Bitcoin had a green September it's one of the only times in Bitcoin's history that we've had a green September and actually four out of the five times Bitcoin has been green in September we've seen continuation bullish continuation into the month of October. So most of the time when we do have a green September we also have a green October as you can see here four out of the five times have resulted in not only positive price performance in October but also often that extends beyond into the month of November and December as well and corresponding to that we know that Q4 is Bitcoin's strongest period we have a mean performance for Bitcoin in quarter four of 93 .38 % compared to the other quarters which are only 6%, 33 % and 4 .67%. 60 % of quarter fours end up bullish for Bitcoin so that is obviously in Bitcoin's favor. What's also in Bitcoin's favor is the fact that last time Bitcoin finished up during September of a pre -halving year as Ran points out we had another 70 % rally in the last quarter of that year that was back in 2015 and this is only a sample size of one so you have to take it with a grain of salt but the more encouraging data set here is that green September four out of five times has led to a green October and of course Q4 is typically a good period for Bitcoin and October is typically a good period for Bitcoin but coming in as the second most bullish month in Bitcoin's history on average behind November which is by far the most bullish month in Bitcoin's history. So are we coiling up for an October and potentially an extension into an upvember with November being a strong month? Well there is definitely an argument for this and I want to read this post by Game4One which reads out October a short story which kind of pinpoints the reason why the market could go up in October and he says price up on a random October due to seasonality effects as we just looked through the seasonal data before this repeats one to two times one of these may just be a random coincidence market participants learn a pattern and get programmed to believe up prices during the period aka investors chasing positive returns during Q4.
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A highlight from The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Begins - Everything You Need to Know
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on guys? It is Tuesday, October 3rd. The SBF trial has begun. This is all the background that you need to know. Of course, before we get into all of that. If you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello Breakers. As you can imagine, this is a fairly weird time for me. A year ago at this time, I was deep in the midst of planning FTX's second Super Bowl ad. And yet a month later, I had resigned, the company had declared bankruptcy, and the world had discovered a rotten core of fraud around Sam and his closest consigliaries. Now, I did a very long episode about the experience of the week of the collapse from the inside last November 14th. It was called Sam Bankman Fraud to give you a sense of how I felt about it. Since then, I've been covering the FTX bankruptcy and Sam's legal battles as I would any other crypto story. In other words, just part of the necessary cleanup of the last cycle, but ultimately something that is hopefully for the past and not for the future. When it comes to the trial, I've spent a long time deciding about how to approach it. The reality is, for the next five or six weeks or however long this takes, this is going to drown out a lot of other things that are happening in the space. I have to imagine that most products will choose not to launch during this time for fear of being outshined because everyone is just laser focused on this. The question then of course is how much time to give it. Is there a risk of over focusing on it? You bet. It's going to have lots of drama. But does it need to be covered? I think that the answer is also ultimately yes. This is something that has to get concluded for the industry to fully move on. It is in many ways an exorcism that just has to be done. And on top of that, I think that this trial and everything that surrounds it will have some impact in shaping how much the external world sees the crypto space as itself inherently fraudulent versus Sam as specifically fraudulent. So how is the breakdown going to cover this? Well, I talked to a lot of you listeners and the general request mirrored my own thoughts, which is to every few days do an update, sometimes with a guest discussion. This won't be then an everyday thing. At least there won't be some big feature every day. But you will get all the salient details as they come up. And with that in mind, I thought it would be valuable to try to create a bit of a definitive primer, something that if you haven't been paying attention at all, if you were barely watching last year, you could pick up and listen to and feel pretty well prepared to get into what you're going to see over the coming weeks. What that means is that today we're going to go over the charges, the rough timeline of events, the key witnesses, what we expect from the defense, the latest procedural news and info from the bankruptcy and the trial schedule. I don't think we'll have time to get into people's very strong feelings about Michael Lewis's book that just came out, but I imagine that that will be on the docket for later this week as well. However, where we begin is with the charges of which Sam faces seven. Those include two charges of wire fraud, two charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as well as charges of securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering. More generally, Sam is accused of fraudulently dealing with customer funds in a multitude of ways. The most damning allegation, and the one prosecutors will likely focus on establishing, is that Sam knowingly diverted customer funds to FTX -affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Alameda, of course, served as the primary market maker on FTX. Now, FTX is widely understood not to have been able to obtain bank accounts, and so in many cases used accounts held by Alameda Research to receive funds from customers. The thing that prosecutors will seek to demonstrate is that Alameda not only held customer funds, but that it racked up billions of dollars in debt to FTX, which it could not repay. Evidence has been put forward that Alameda did not have the same risk controls as other entities when it traded on FTX, and that the lack of limits allowed Alameda to continue to operate while carrying a large negative cash balance. To put a fine point on it, the prosecution will allege that this large negative cash balance represented improperly using customer funds to trade and lose on the exchange. Now of course, Alameda had a significant balance sheet of assets held against this negative cash balance, but these assets were crypto tokens largely created by Sam and FTX. They were far too illiquid to realize it anywhere close to their full book value. The SEC summarized the allegations in their separate lawsuit by stating that Sam, Put more simply by Bloomberg's Matt Levine in an article published yesterday, It was pretty much entirely because Alameda had lost it. Now the key to proving these allegations will be establishing that Sam was aware of this financial artifice being run using Alameda. Fraud isn't fraud if it was caused by a mistake or an oversight. Prosecutors will need to show that Sam was either aware of the fraud or willfully blind to it. As the judge put it during a hearing last week, Now let's move on to the timeline of events. Much of the DOJ's case will center around the fateful final weeks as the FTX empire came crashing down. The beginning of the end came on November 2nd when Coindesk's Ian Allison published an expose on the Alameda balance sheet. There had been some rumors of trouble at Alameda prior to that, but with a partial copy of the balance sheet, this piece of reporting blew the lid off the situation. TLDR, what the balance sheet showed was that a huge portion of Alameda's holdings, the were pretty illiquid tokens and in particular, the native exchange token of FTX, FTT. Now in terms of a huge portion of their assets being in FTT, there were also a bunch of other Sam coins from DeFi projects that barely got off the ground, which in some cases had Alameda representing up to 95 % of the overall token supply. According to the Financial Times, just $900 million in assets on this balance sheet could be easily sold. The next major event was the very public sparring between Binance CEO CZ and Sam. Binance had been an early investor in FTX, but at that time had been bought out of their stake for $2 .1 billion. That repurchase, a theoretically pretty good return on an $80 million investment, had been paid out in a mix of stablecoins and FTT tokens. On the Sunday following the Coindesk article, CZ tweeted that quote, Due to recent revelations that have come to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. He said the firm would attempt to do so in a way that quote, minimizes market impact over the next few months. But of course, when you have CZ, the single biggest player in the industry, saying dump FTT and run for the hills, guess what happened next? Within the hour, Carolyn Ellison absolutely pissed gasoline all over the situation. She had taken over as sole Alameda CEO just a couple months prior and tweeted to CZ quote, If you're looking to minimize the market impact of your FTT sales, Alameda will happily buy it all from you today at $22. The market immediately plunged, with FTT's price being very visibly defended against Throughout the week before, FTT had traded around $25 and a market cap of $3 billion. By Tuesday night, with Alameda's traders and balance sheet exhausted, the token settled at $5 and FTX closed withdrawals. Now like I said, I gave my account of being on the inside. And while Tuesday when FTX closed withdrawals was clearly a final moment in the coffin for many of us inside, for me when it was clear that something very nefarious had gone on was on Monday, when I started getting hit up by other friends outside of FTX in the industry who were asking if I had heard anything about an FTX emergency fundraising round. Now of course, as an exchange that was supposed to be fully backed and given Sam's recent statements to the team that we had around $2 billion in cash and liquid assets thanks to trading revenue as well as recent fundraising, the only way in the world that we would need an emergency fundraising round was if Sam had been using FTX customer funds for purposes other than sitting on FTX's books waiting for those customers to reclaim those funds. Anyway, in the middle of that week after withdrawals were closed, there was also a weird sham sale announced to Binance, which they very quickly backed out of. And by Friday, with most FTX staffers having already fled the Bahamas, Sam finally capitulated to bankruptcy. Now to this day, Sam claims that he was forced by external lawyers to place the FTX empire into bankruptcy and appears to continue to be holding onto the idea that the exchange could have raised an emergency fundraising round to make customers whole. For most people, that might be where the event ended, but not so much for Sam. What followed was a bizarre string of press interviews, an incredibly disjointed Twitter thread, and basically an odd media tour that attempted to paint Sam as a wayward and naive CEO in over his head rather than a perpetrator of criminal fraud. This tour was capped off by a live broadcast interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times on November 30th. During that sprawling interview, Sam claimed that he, quote, didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. Authorities disagreed, and on December 12th, Sam was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US government. Although initially defiant, Sam ultimately agreed to be extradited to face charges and was released on bail. Once again, for any normal person, that might be the end of the story until we get to trial, but not for Sam. Although he was confined to his parents' house in California, Sam managed to continuously test the boundaries of his bail conditions. February, Sam was hauled before the judge on allegations that he had used encrypted messaging apps to contact the General Counsel of FTX US as well as using a VPN, which Sam claimed was just to watch NFL games. To the former General Counsel of FTX US, Sam had reached out to see if it was possible to, quote, have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other. The DOJ characterized this communication as an attempt to taint a potential witness. At that point, the judge decided not to revoke Sam's bail, but instead expressly forbid Sam from using encrypted messaging apps and VPNs. And yet, in July, Sam stepped over the line once again by leaking the private journal of Carolyn Ellison to the New York Times. The judge agreed that providing this material to journalists was, at best, an attempt to embarrass Ellison, if not a brazen attempt to intimidate her and discredit her in the public eye. During the course of that hearing, it was uncovered that Sam had held more than 1 ,000 phone calls with journalists, including over 100 with the New York Times reporter who published the story. And thus, by early August, Sam had his bail revoked and was locked up at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to await his trial. Since then, it's basically just been a never -ending set of appeals to try to get Sam out of jail, but alas, jail is where he remains. Next up, let's talk witnesses. What became clear quite fast was that there was a cohort of around four people, including Sam, that seemed to know about the extra special privileges that Alameda enjoyed and the fact that for all intents and purposes, customer funds on FTX were just used as a slush fund for their hedge fund traders. And it turns out that while Sam was still in the air being extradited from the Bahamas, multiple FTX executives were revealed to be collaborating witnesses. Of those, Carolyn Ellison is the one likely to get the most attention. As well as being the CEO of Alameda, Ellison was also Sam's former girlfriend. The couple split prior to the collapse of FTX and there will no doubt be extensive cross -examination which questions Ellison's motives in giving evidence against Sam. Although Ellison was only at the helm of Alameda for a little over two months, recent reporting describes her as essentially in charge of the trading firm for much longer, at least as much as anyone could be in charge of the firm relative to Sam himself. Nominally, Ellison and Sam Trabuco, another Sam in this story, had been appointed co -CEOs of the firm in October of 2021 when SPF stepped away from the role. However, Trabuco had recently been described as almost entirely checked out at that point, leaving Ellison in charge of day -to -day operations. Ellison is expected to give evidence regarding the inner workings of FTX and has acknowledged that she knew about the hole in Alameda's balance sheet prior to the collapse of the exchange. Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are the other two executives known to be cooperating with prosecutors. Singh acted as engineering director while Wang was the exchange's CTO and co -founder. These two basically built all of FTX from the ground up, so anything going on with the codebase is basically going to be mostly just their work. Nishad is expected to give a first -hand account of how the Alameda backdoor was enabled in the code. Nishad was reportedly extremely distressed and wracked with guilt during the final weeks at FTX and was confrontational with Sam during that time. Gary was one of the last employees left in the Bahamas as the exchange collapsed and famously coded almost the entire platform by himself. Some have speculated about how he will be as a witness given that he is notoriously quiet. Now, each of these three key witnesses have already pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges and have agreed to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. Prosecutors will need to demonstrate that each one is presenting an honest account of events rather than merely throwing Sam under the bus to save themselves. There are also complicated personal relationships between each of these executives and Sam, which could be used by the defense. All three cohabitated with Sam in a Bahamas penthouse and were some of Sam's closest friends as well as employees. To give an indication of how hostile cross -examination could become, last week a DOJ motion to prevent the defense from asking questions about recreational drug use was denied. The defense will need to provide notice to the court before asking witnesses about their drug use, but the subject was not ruled to be out of bounds. Another FTX executive who has pleaded guilty to criminal charges is Ryan Salem, who served as CEO of FTX Digital Markets. FTX Digital Markets was the operating company for the Bahamas. Now, Salem was particularly involved in the political campaign side of things for Sam and was charged with violations of campaign financing law in relation to making straw donations to politicians on Sam's direction as well as operating an unlicensed money -transmitting business. Unlike the other three, Salem is not cooperating with prosecutors as part of his plea deal, but could be called to testify as a non -cooperating witness. Alameda co -CEO Sam Trabuco has not been heard from since he stepped away from the company last August. He has not been disclosed as a witness and has not been charged at this stage. The DOJ has also flagged that they have at least two additional witnesses set to testify under a grant of immunity but have not publicly identified them at this stage. By and large, speculation about who those witnesses might be include not only Trabuco who we just mentioned, but Daniel Friedberg who served as FTX's chief compliance officer and who had formerly been implicated in a major online poker scandal, and Constance Wang who was FTX's COO and was described as Sam's right hand during fundraising efforts. Now in addition to FTX executives, the DOJ will also call multiple customers and investors to give brief testimony. Prosecutors have flagged that they will call upon retail customers who traded tens of thousands of dollars on the platform, as well as institutional clients who traded millions of dollars. The high range could imply notable industry figures will make an appearance on the witness stand. Several high profile market makers are listed as top creditors of FTX and are no doubt none too happy about their funds being locked up in the bankruptcy process. Both customers and investors are intended to present their understanding of the FTX terms of service and representations made about the use of customer funds, which could be crucial in refuting possible defenses. Which indeed brings us to that section of this primer, what are the defense strategies that Sam might try to employ? SPF's legal team have flagged a few potential arguments. In a filing on Monday, they sought clarification on a few issues they may wish to present. The filing asked whether the defense could argue that FTX International was not regulated in the US and therefore did not have to follow applicable rules. They also asked whether Sam could discuss the likelihood that creditors could see massive returns from the bankruptcy process. Still, the primary defense expected from SPF relates to instructions from legal counsel. In August, SPF's team flagged a plan to argue that he relied on advice from both in -house attorneys as well as lawyers from Fenwick and West in basically all elements of FTX's operation. Sam sought to introduce advice from lawyers on topics ranging from his use of self -deleting messages, unconventional banking relationships, and intercompany financial arrangements. The DOJ objected to this defense, claiming that not enough detail had been provided, but the judge reserved their decision on this point until later in the trial. The judge said that they would make rulings on individual advice of counsel arguments on a case -by -case basis as they come up. Outside of what indications we've gotten from Sam's team, the industry and the wider world at large have had no problem speculating about how he might defend himself as well. Bloomberg's Matt Levine paraphrased his view of a likely defense as The crypto market crashed, there was a run on the bank, and the run on the bank is what evaporated the customer's money. It was an accident, perhaps a careless accident but not theft. Certainly, in media commentary, SPF has been focused on the bank run, rather than the hole in Alameda's balance sheet as the cause of FTX's collapse. Now, of course, there are some obvious issues with that defense, particularly if witnesses establish that Alameda had effectively commandeered customer funds in contravention of the exchange's terms of service. Another plank of Sam's defense will likely be to rely on prosecutors being unable to In a New Yorker article published last month, the journalist wrote, Going back to his article, Matt Levine again sketched out a plausible way that Sam could brush off an $8 billion balance sheet hole as a careless oversight rather than willful fraud. He suggested Sam could claim he thought FTX had so much money that $8 billion was a rounding error. From Levine's back of the napkin math, at its height, FTX had somewhere approaching $100 billion in crypto assets on its books. Finally, it's also expected that Sam will seek to blame Caroline for mismanaging Alameda. The publication of excerpts from Caroline's journal was an attempt to paint her as a naive child way out of her depths, and some of Sam's leaked writings also showed a belief that Alameda had failed to hedge correctly, as if that was the main issue here. Now, one thing that's important to note is that when considering defenses, SPF does not need to prove his innocence. He only needs to introduce a shred of doubt in the minds of the jury. To convict, the 12 jurors must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Sam is guilty and reach a unanimous decision. Prosecutors often fail to get their cases over the line due to being unable to entirely convince each juror of the defendant's guilt. This can be even more of a difficulty when the case involves complicated financial crime which can be difficult to fully understand. And yet, many commentators are convinced that the case is damning. Daniel C. Silva, a former prosecutor who participated in the BitConnect case, said, Now, in terms of the latest from the bankruptcy, as the trial gets underway, the FTX bankruptcy process is entering its 10th month and has had no shortage of intrigue. The current focus has been on pursuing clawbacks from people and organizations that had been, in the estimation of the bankruptcy estate, unjustly enriched by FTX. On the very top of that list are Sam's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Two weeks ago, the estate sued Bankman and Fried, claiming that they had received over $26 million in gifts from FTX, including a luxury property in the Bahamas. The lawsuit alleges that Bankman was intimately involved in the operations at FTX and used his position to enrich himself. You may have seen the now -famous email where he tried to raise his salary to a million dollars by threatening to involve Sam's mother. Now, speaking of Sam's mother, Barbara Fried is alleged to have directed political donation efforts at FTX. This instructing included Sam on how to structure donations to avoid donation limits. She is also alleged to have knowledge of loans made to FTX executives, which were then used to fund election campaigns. All in all, the lawsuit alleged that the pair, quote, Now, for their part, Sam's parents immediately hit back at the lawsuit through lawyers saying, A last note on the bankruptcy, while current FTX CEO John J. Wray has no doubt been cooperating with prosecutors in providing internal documents, he is not currently expected to testify as a witness. Now, in terms of the latest trial procedural stuff and timeline, today was technically the first day of the trial with jury selection the goal. Both sides have alleged the other is attempting to bias the jury pool. The DOJ claimed that Sam's questions for the jury about effective altruism, political donations and ADHD are intended to paint him in a sympathetic light. In particular, prosecutors are concerned that asking about charitable and political donations could improperly introduce the idea that Sam's actions were justified outside of evidence. The defense, meanwhile, have complained that the DOJ are treating Sam's fraud as an established fact in their jury questioning by omitting the word allegedly. They also claim a question about being stopped or questioned by the police is intended to racially filter the jury in a manner irrelevant to the case. Last week, as I intimated before, SPF placed a last minute appeal to be released from jail for the duration of the trial. Sam's team claimed that his incarceration would be an unreasonable barrier to adequately preparing for each day's hearing. Unfortunately for him, the judge found this argument insufficiently convincing and stated that they consider Sam to be a flight risk. They said, Sam was granted some concessions to be allowed to meet with his lawyers early at the courthouse each day, as well as during jail visiting on off days. Now, while a decision is yet to be made on exactly how Sam can introduce the concept that he relied on the advice of lawyers, limits were placed on what can be said during the defense's opening arguments. Specifically, Sam's lawyers have been prohibited from mentioning any advice of counsel arguments while presenting their case. The judge ruled that this argument may confuse or prejudice a jury when presented without specifics and evidence. The trial is currently scheduled to take six weeks. Jury selection is expected to be completed by the end of today's hearing, although before I was recording this, there were some indications that it might go into tomorrow morning as well. In either case, tomorrow we will likely see the beginnings of opening arguments. After that, the prosecution will present its case and call its witnesses. The DOJ has estimated their case will take four to five weeks. The defense will then have an opportunity to present their case, which they have estimated will be much shorter, taking around a week and a half. Now, the defense is not compelled to present a case and can simply choose not to if they are confident the charges have not been proven. We don't yet have any indication of whether SPF will speak in his own defense. Traditional legal strategy suggests that defendants should never take to the witness stand to avoid giving prosecutors an opportunity to cross -examine them. However, this is no ordinary trial and SPF is no ordinary defendant. Judging from how extensively Sam has defended himself in the media, I would not be surprised if his lawyers have a tough time keeping him out of the witness box. Hearings will be held four days a week with a short break after three weeks. If the trial takes longer than six weeks, it will be extended, but the consensus seems to be that it will be all over by Thanksgiving. And won't that be something to be thankful for? Now, even if Sam escapes a guilty verdict, his legal troubles will continue well into next year. The DOJ will present additional charges related to bribery of Chinese officials, as well as political donation violations during a second criminal trial, which is scheduled for March. Sam will also face civil lawsuits from the SEC and the CFTC after the first criminal trial is concluded. Beyond that, there's still the possibilities of lawsuits from the FTX bankruptcy estate, as well as from former customers and investors. So my friends, that is the lay of the land. That is what we are going into. Like I said at the top, for me, the most interesting thing, the thing that I will be watching most closely, is actually the meta -narrative analysis around this. I want to know how much, especially mainstream media looks at this and treats this like what it is, which is Sam Bankman -Fried going on trial, versus what I fear it might become, which is the entire crypto industry being put on trial. But in any event, this truly is a scenario where the only way out is through. So get on your boots, friends, because we are getting into the muck. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from XEROF - Cryptoassets with Swiss Precision
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges. Yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves? What do you do? Well, copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Mark Taverner. Mark is the CEO and co -founder of Xerof, a financial services provider bringing Swiss precision to crypto assets. I like it. Hey, welcome to the show, Mark. Thanks, Andy. Pleasure to be here. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show. I'd love to hear just a little bit of your personal and professional backstory. What has led you to where we are today, Mark? Wow. Okay, Andy, I'll be super brief. So fresh out of university, I founded a fax modem distribution business. This is back in 92. And the reason I founded that business was because I saw the potential for what we now know as the Internet. Back then, we didn't call it the Internet. It was a bunch of bulletin boards and various other gatherings of individuals using technology to communicate. And many of my friends chastised me, questioned me and asked me the question, why do you want to try and build a business that send faxes to people? They just didn't get the vision that I'd seen about the power of the Internet. So I launched myself into that business using my credit card to buy stock, smiling and darling every day and selling those fax modems I was buying into small companies that were popping them into PCs so that individuals could join these bulletin boards and start exchanging ideas, content and discussions between each other. And the reason I did that was because, as I said, I saw the power of the applications that could be built on top of the Internet for basic things that we really take for granted now, like estate agents being able to show pictures of property to geographically dispersed audiences and all the rest of it. And from that foundation, I became hooked on the application of technology. Shortly after that, I joined what went on to become the world's largest conference call company. I spent nearly 15 years with that management team building that business where we were realizing the vision of an application on top of the Internet, which is the ability for people to collaborate with each other across distance, not just in audio, but in video and using documents as well to work real time in a collaborative way. And it was during that journey that Bitcoin came on my radar. So I retired from corporate life and a knock came on my door one day where the question was, have you heard of Bitcoin, which I had. And in 2014, I jumped with both feet into the world of blockchain and Bitcoin and began working with what became one of the world's largest Bitcoin miners. And then from there, you could say I got the Bitcoin crypto and blockchain bug. So there's just a little potted history, Andy, to speak to your question. Yes, thank you very much. Yeah, and that was Bitfury mining that you were with for a while, wasn't it? Yeah, that's right. And so we'll bring us up to date then, Mark. So Xerof then, give us, I guess, a little bit of background, love to just hear the brief origin story and the vision for Xerof. Yeah, super well, the origin of Xerof really. I guess it has its foundation in the role that I took after I left Bitfury when I went to become the founding CEO of a trade association supported by the European Commission, whose role was to act as a bridge between the blockchain industry and governments who were developing regulation. And at the time, the European Commission, the European Parliament were just talking about a piece of regulation that's now quite well known, called the marketing crypto assets regulatory package, or MICA, as it's known. And I did two and a half years working, translating the requirements of about 170 blockchain companies that we had as members into language that the governments and regulators could understand and vice versa. And around about that point, I was having a conversation with Nick Tigrentakis, my co -founder at Xerof, and we suddenly realized that there was a real need for corporations, individuals and high net worths who had exposure to crypto assets, but wanted that bridge back to traditional finance and vice versa. And that friction point was immense to the point where both myself and Nick, my co -founder at Xerof, were having to wait sometimes up to six months to be able to open accounts with institutions and organizations who were providing that bridging service in a compliant way. So we saw a real space in the market for a company, and this is how we founded Xerof, to lead with a compliance and regulation first approach to deliver professional services that remove the friction between traditional finance and crypto assets in a compliant, professional and precise way. And you could say that the nucleus of the idea that started Xerof really hit us front and center between the eyes. During that period, I spent working at INATBA, the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications, and helping to do that translation between the blockchain industry, government and regulators. We just saw that the friction points were not going away, but we saw the importance of regulation was gathering pace, and therefore we understood that to try and address some of those frustrations that existed between the innovators and those institutions who wanted to gain access and exposure to this marketplace, the timing was kind of right to launch Xerof. Yeah, very good. And so headquartered in Switzerland, hence the Swiss Precision tagline. Explain a little bit about, I suppose, your separate or related target audiences really. Who is Xerof aimed at, and are these different users primarily in Europe, I presume? They can be in Europe, or they can be worldwide, Andy. The thing about the crypto asset business is it's truly global. You're back to the example I gave you of the fax modem business. I saw the opportunity for services to roll out on a global basis. So our customer base operating, as you quite rightly say from our base, our proud base in Switzerland, where we're licensed and where we have a real business with real people in real offices, is to service high net worth individuals, businesses, and corporates who need a solution that simply works. So we provide that bridge between a world of traditional financing crypto assets and some examples of the types of services that we deliver to those audiences could be cross border payments. So we work with quite a large number of businesses who have a need, perhaps because they're commodity traders or they work in supply chain, and their need is to be able to make payments to their suppliers and customers very quickly for low fees and sidestepping some of those traditional frictions that exist in the regular world of banking. So we operate a process whereby to satisfy those cross border payment requirements for commodity traders or supply chain businesses, we might receive a relatively large amount of incoming fiat, that is a government backed currency such as US dollars, and exchange that into a stablecoin like Tether, USDT, so that the customer can then use that USDT, Tether, to pay their suppliers and customers super, super quickly, without any friction and massively reduced fees and thereby increase the velocity of the cash of the capital that they're using, which is majorly important for commodity traders and supply chain businesses, the quicker they can move their capital around, the quicker they can deploy it, and the greater returns they can create. So there's one example, I'll give you just two or three more if that's okay, Andy. Of course.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Fall of Kevin McCarthy? with Kurt Schlichter
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hey everybody, the speaker vote is done and we are in chaos but this conversation is more important than ever with Kurt Schlichter as we go through it in real time. Enjoy. Email us freedom at charleykirk .com. Go to members .charleykirk .com. That is members .charleykirk .com to listen advertiser free and just go to charleykirk .com. You can find members only content and so much more charleykirk .com. Email us as always freedom at charleykirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Email me as always freedom at charleykirk .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter, author of Overlord, eighth in the series. Check it out. I'm hearing great things about it in the People's Republic series. Kurt, thank you for taking the time. Kurt, I was thinking who could we have on the show that's not going to hold anything back. Make our audience laugh about the Shakespearean tragedy and drama that we are witnessing. Kurt, how should we think about what is happening right now as we speak? Motion to vacate of Kevin McCarthy. Well, the whole thing reminds me of the sin of Onam. I think, you know, I'm trying to keep it FCC compliant here, Charlie. I'm an army guy. I want to know what the objective is. I don't like Kevin McCarthy. He's not my pal. I am completely indifferent to what happens to him. He is a tool in every sense of the word, but mostly to be used for an objective. What's the objective? Matt Gaetz. Why now? Why here? Why this? I know what the plan is. To the extent is it starts with vacating the chair. And step two, we're going to skip over that. And then step three is some better situation happens. I don't understand the plan. I understand that we've got a presidential primary going on. While we are talking about this, we are not talking about the lawfare against President Trump. We are not talking about the candidates and their policies. We are not talking about the Hunter Biden revelations that even The Washington Post can't ignore anymore. We're not talking about Jamal Bowman, who can't figure out the difference between a door and a fire alarm. I actually believe him there. I do think he is that dumb. Instead, we've got Matt Gaetz being followed by hundreds of regime media reporters who for the first time ever are thrilled to ask what Matt Gaetz, a hardcore conservative thinks only because they think it's going to cause chaos among the Republicans, which it is. And he appears to be eating this up. He appears to be loving this. He appears to have a personal beef against Kevin McCarthy. Not sure that his personal beef should have any play in here. Look, I'm all about winning. I don't understand how that wins. I haven't had a good explanation of how vacating the chair wins. Again, not a pal of Kevin McCarthy. It's not my favorite guy. I don't like him. I don't love him. But he's over Matt when Gaetz tosses him out with the help of the Democrats, who will never do anything that's good for the Republicans. So you could tell, you know, it's an important indicator. If the Democrats are united behind you in doing something, that's when you think, huh, maybe this isn't such a great idea. So I'm, you know, I'm concerned with winning legislative elections in Virginia, where we have to show people who have doubts about conservatives that we can govern. I'm concerned about winning in Kentucky, where we have a very important governor who's very likely to have to replace Mitch McConnell, whose health is failing. I want to, you know, is this going to help those things or hurt those things? What's the answer? I don't you take a giant leap to do something that hasn't been done in 113 years. You know, I'd like to know what the plan is. Am I crazy? No, no, there is no plan. And I understand the anger from the base. I'm going to read some emails here, though, Kurt. And I know and I get it because we have been betrayed on every major issue. So I get it. I feel the same way. I'm not even trying to do happy talk. I'm not trying to do. I'm just asking, guys, before you storm the Bastille, what's next? And there is this there's this amazing dialog that happened. I'm trying to remember what New York City liberal was, but it was the Black Panthers. I think I think I had you on once and we talked about this. So the Black Panthers came to some sort of white liberal cocktail soiree and all the white liberals were like fawning over them, the Black Panthers, best thing ever. And some brave soul, you know, listens to the speech and the Black Panthers say, we're going to burn it all down. We're going to do this. And somebody asked the question, they said, but but what next? And the Black Panther responds, he says, well, you can't know everything, man. It's like, OK, hold on a second. Like, let's climb up, like let's I get the anger. I understand it. But here's let me just read some of these emails here, because, again, I have received thousands of very nasty messages, not even because I'm saying we shouldn't be doing this. I'm saying that this has probably not been thought through, like just what the one, two, three, four is. Right. So I'll read one of these emails here. Right. Charlie, the time has come to burn it all down. They're all the same. It can't get any worse than what we have. What is your response to that, Kurt? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And I think we need to sugarcoating it with our people. OK, I've been in the ruins of a civil war. It gets a lot worse. We have problems here, you know, and I find it interesting that guys like you and I, who no one is going to mistake for a squish unless they are actively stupid or think the listener is actively stupid, are saying, wait a minute, stop it. We need a plan. We need a direction. We need to figure out what the heck we're going to do. And it can't just be, well, let's just see what happens. Let's toss this guy out with no idea who follows. You know what's going to happen? A bunch of Republican squishes, the same one the base is infuriated at, are going to get together with a bunch of Democrats and they're going to put in a squish Republican speaker like they got down in Texas, the same kind of creep who was behind impeaching Ken Paxton. And then they're going to go, I can't believe it. You know, I keep thinking of that meme, the guy riding on his bike and he's saying, dang, these Republicans, they're screwing everything up. He sticks some between the tusks, folks in his wheel. He raps, he goes, oh, they're really annoying. Look what they did to me. The anger is understandable. And yes. And but so some I could read I could read, by the way, the audience is ninety nine percent in the direction of vacate storm, the best deal, take the head and all that. But let's let's just go through a fact, which is that the people that will be voting for motion to vacate, you know, they say they've been live to him betrayed and I'm going to take their word at it. Right. I'm not there. They are. I'm not going to. But they will they will vote with that. They will vote for every Democrat. So is it correct, Kurt, to say that this is a gift to the Democrat Party? Well, the Democrats sure think so. Democrats are excited about this. Every single Democrat wouldn't be voting for this thing if they didn't think it was good for the Democrats. That hold on, hold on. You know, that sounds obvious, but time out, time out. Say that again, because that that that that's not Barry the lead. OK, hold on. I want you to repeat what you just said. Say it again. Every single Democrat would not be voting for this if every single Democrat did not think this was good for the Democrats and bad for us. That sounds so obvious, but because the Democrats never vote against their own interest ever. No, no, they don't know about their political party interest, not the interest of their constituents, of their power. No, I look I think you're right. And I, you know, I'm. I understand people are frustrated. Grow up. We have a four seat majority of one house of the Congress. OK, there are a bunch of reasons why that's true. Many of them the fault of our own party and our own choices and actions. But that's where we are. You know, I can't believe why isn't he decreeing blah, blah, blah. Because, you know, maybe you should have paid more attention that that Schoolhouse Rock. I'm just a bill thing because it's it doesn't work like that. We have got to make incremental movements. We are not going to make this is this is not going to be a giant sweeping cavalry charge. This is going to be bayonet fighting inch by inch. And sometimes you're going to lose ground. Sometimes the bad guys score points. The goal is to move forward, but you never move forward by losing. I don't want to make any broad proclamations, but we will. It looks like we're not going to have the House next year. I'm just going to tell you right now it was this is not making it more likely for most of our audience doesn't care. And they're telling us and that's not what they will. But they will. Once they abolish the Electoral College, I'm going to get a lot of e -mails. Yeah. Well, I can't believe I'm doing this. Well, believe it. And you thought it was a great idea. No, I would rather not be in the I told you so mode. I know I get it out. I know when when Washington, D .C. becomes a state, I don't want to have to replay this segment. I don't. Yeah, exactly. Guys, think. 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Bankless
A highlight from Most Important Macro & Crypto Trends in 2023 & Beyond with David Duong
"Bankless Nation macro is on the menu for the special live stream that we are doing. Whatever happened to the recession is the question on my mind and on David's mind. We're going to ask that of our next guest. Was it delayed? Was it canceled? Or maybe it's already here and we just don't know it yet. David, we have the head of research on from Coinbase and our guest's name is also David. So I am between two Davids on today's episode. Introduce this topic for us. I don't know yet. I can't wait to experience the David effect, but why are we talking about macro and who do we have on today? The time for macro for 2022 was the year of macro. That macro has you all flustered. Yeah, it has me all flustered, right? And for a while it was the theme that we wanted to talk about. It's macro, macro, macro. The last time I think we talked about macro was the Silicon Valley banking crisis. I don't even know if that's considered macro, but all of a sudden macro seems to have been gone from the limelight. And so the question is like, why are things so quiet? Are things, are we in the all clear? Did we get the soft landing? Is that what this looks like? Or are things a little too quiet? Why are things quiet? Like there's many different things to talk about that are going on in the macro land. The state of inflation. Why are equities so high? Is what's the Fed going to do when they meet in a few weeks here at the end of this month? And what's the deal with the correlation between crypto and stocks? Yield and dollar at all time highs. Can we start to pattern match some of these things? And what can it tell us about Q4 2023 and 2024 and beyond? Yeah, I feel like this is, things are quiet, a little too quiet. I feel like this is the part of the horror movie where everything is quiet and you're just in the suspense. You're just waiting for the next shoe to drop. So maybe that's part of it. David, before we get in though, we got a quick PSA and this PSA is for ourselves. This is all about becoming a bankless citizen. So you're listening to this episode of bankless, which means you are an enjoyer of the podcast. At least we hope you are. You're not just listening to this out of pure hate. There is the potential for you to become a bankless citizen. We don't often talk about this on the podcast, but there are a slew of tools that you unlock by becoming a bankless citizen. One of which is the premium feed, the citizen premium feed, we call it. This is a dedicated RSS feed with bonus episodes and it's completely ad free as well. And you get that as a result of becoming a citizen. There's also some really cool features that we've added here lately, including the token hub, which is our bearable neutral rating on our website for various tokens. We've just rolled out an airdrop hunter is an opportunity to see which, which air drops, which potential quests you can go on and potential protocols you can test out for airdrop eligibility. And I think this is probably my favorite new feature. This is a bankless claimables. You put in your ETH addresses. Basically it tells you what you can claim on chain. I didn't know this actually, but I've just recently looked at this. I have apparently $103 in one of my ETH addresses here that I can go claim.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Nobel Prize Loser
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 10-03-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand, yeah sand, you get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. From Oklahoma who chairs the House Rules Committee speaking live on the House floor after we witnessed the vote here on the motion to table and breaking news this hour, Kevin McCarthy has lost that important test vote. We will now move on to a motion to vacate before midnight tomorrow. It could happen at any time when Kevin McCarthy decides to call for that vote. We have learned that the rebels, as I read on the terminal, do have the votes to oust him as speaker. The first time in a hundred years we've seen a motion to vacate. This time might be different in that it may well pass. We want to send things to New York now. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. I appreciate you walking through all of this with me today. Carol Master and Simone Foxman standing by in New York for Bloomberg Business Week. Guys, this has been a remarkable afternoon in Washington. No doubt about it and this is a critical vote and we will find out what ultimately is, Joe, the future of the U .S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. As you said, though, it does not look good at this moment. We're going to continue to monitor what is going on on the House floor as they consider removing and McCarthy ultimately see where that leads in terms of do we get a new House Speaker and what that means for policy or whether or not somehow Kevin McCarthy is able to woo more to his side and maintain his position. It is a critical day, once again, when it comes to U .S. politics. We are live in the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio streaming on YouTube and of course Bloomberg Originals live here at Bloomberg headquarters. Carol Master along with Simone Foxman. We know Joe and the team continuing to track this. They'll come back later at 5 p .m. Wall Street time on Bloomberg Television certainly to continue.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/03/23
"Not just any Fleetwood Mac record, little secondhand news, first track when you put the needle down, when that little Rumors album was released, you heard this, you heard the great Lindsey Buckingham, who is 74 today. Mike, you've caught, you've caught the Mac a few times, have you not? Oh, sure, sure. Love Fleetwood Mac. What a sad, what a sad story because he's so, he's a genius. He's a total genius. And they fired him like four or five years ago. The chemistry was just terrible. He does solo tours now and does some, some Fleetwood Mac stuff, but I just hope he's just not... These stories, these stories about these guys all breaking up and fights and all that. The Eagles, of course, had an epic, epic battle. You know, who they fired, they fired, I guess, the, I mean, they had a big, the two of them, the two founders, I guess, of the Eagles. They broke up and then they came back and, you know, it's like, hey, life is short, you know? That's it. You know what it makes you think about? It makes you think about Aerosmith. Same five guys, 50 years. There you go. You got to get Steven Tyler well again because he like blasted a vocal cord. But anyway, speaking of people who've been together for a long time, here's my buddy. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. I'm just trying to make sense out of the, the rage that the establishment Republicans and the Rhinos and the squishes are exhibiting towards Matt Gaetz. Now, I, I think there's a lot of merit towards the frustration over what Gaetz is trying to do in, in ousting Kevin McCarthy personally. I think Kevin McCarthy has done a great job. I think he's, he's fine. You know, it's a tough conference. It's a tough coalition. You got to hold it together. McCarthy did a great job in helping to identify strong candidates in California and New York, in New York. And without those victories, Marc, we don't have, we don't have a Republican majority in the House. Now, we have a slim majority in the House, slim, four, four people. That's it. All right. So I want to present, and I get it, you know, this is probably giving the Democrats a lifeline. It's ceasing our momentum. This is probably not the most productive thing to happen right now to try to have this crisis over the Speaker of the House. But what the establishment types are saying in their rage, and man, are they mad. I mean, Marc, they're not agitated. They're not, they're livid. I mean, I, I heard this morning, I, I never knew Switzerland could be so angry. Man, for Switzerland, Switzerland's got the knives out in the show before yours. Geneva is on fire. Oh, my gosh, Switzerland is burning. This is a reference, of course, to the always even -handed, neutral, and presidential matters, et cetera, our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who has decided to take a couple of sides, take one side on this. Not so neutral on this issue, is he? I mean, it's just like full -blown, Gates is a clown, he's a fraud, he's a traitor, he's a this, he's a that. I saw a tweet last night that got me thinking, and this is, I think, a reasonable thing to have as part of this conversation. Has Kevin McCarthy fulfilled the promises he made in order to get elected speaker in the first place, or hasn't he? It's a reasonable thing to talk about. It was, you know, Gates and Lauren Boebert and Eli Crane and all these real, you know, sharp -elbowed Republicans got concessions from McCarthy in his bid to become speaker. Remember, I'm old enough to remember that wasn't so easy. That was not long ago. Exactly. And it wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that easy, right? Well, he promised they would pass 12 appropriations bills for a budget, in other words, fiscal responsibility in the budget. He'd give members at least 72 hours to read legislation. Now those are not, that's not onerous and that isn't crazy. So those two promises, well, both of those promises were broken this past weekend. And Gates is saying, you broke your promises and we're going to hold you accountable. Now, does he have a plan? It doesn't really sound like it to me. I don't know who you replace him with. Thank you. And it does hurt the Republican momentum we have. There are over 200 Republicans who are solidly in McCarthy's corner. But Mark, we expect some accountability. We do expect disruption. We do expect people who are warriors and fighting for what we believe in. So it just seems to me that to turn on Matt Gaetz all of a sudden and, P .S., insult the millions and millions of Americans who are rooting for him isn't very productive. Are they rooting for, first of all, your sound, sound logic throughout. Are they rooting for him in this particular tactic or they admiring the lofty standard that he has? And it may not even be all that lofty is like, hey, you made us promises to become speaker. How about keeping those promises? There's an old adage that it's possible for multiple things to be true at the same time. Here are the two things that are true at the same time. Kevin McCarthy has been a very successful, very impactful speaker and deserves a lot of conservative praise for the things he has been able to do. There's thing number one thing. Number two is he might have fudged on some of these things, seems to have fudged on some of these procedural things, and I don't say that to be dismissive of them. Some of these things that he promised the Gang of 10 or whatever they were that were that were holding him up. So in what form is this the only accountability? Is this the only way to call him out? Because all I would ask, and I'll give this back to you in the following way, is if Gaetz tactics are so great and if they are to be admired, what is the end game? What is the plan? Trump's have disruptions a plan, and it's a wonderful plan. Various other people who are disruptors, there's a place they're trying to get you to. Here's what I want to do that is specific. Here's the goal I'm trying to get to. What exactly is the Matt Gaetz end game? I don't know, and I don't know that he knows. I'm not sure he does. I would suggest, I would respectfully submit that the way to deal with these differences is behind closed doors, not to burn it all down. I mean, again, make no mistake. I don't agree with the Gaetz tactic right now. I don't want anybody to be lost on that, but I also strongly disagree with disparaging the spirit with which he's doing it. And again, savage millions and millions of Americans in the process. So listen, I guess Cal's out of the barn. He's called for the vote. The vote's going to come today or tomorrow if they oust McCarthy, which is possible because Democrats are quite capable of adding to this misery right now. Right now, Gaetz needs some Democrats. And if he gets Democrats to support him because they like to sit back and see this kind of dumpster fire, well, McCarthy's out, Mark. Is there an irony there in that Matt Gaetz needs Democrat help to oust a speaker whose worst sin is doing something with Democrat help? Yes. That's a great irony with a capital I. Great way to put it. It really is. And I heard a congressman, you know, a RINO New York congressman on Hewitt this morning and they are again, they are on fire. As you said, Geneva is burning. But this guy pointed out, well, I don't think any of the Democrats are going to want to be associated with this guy, Matt Gaetz. Don't be so sure. Strange bedfellows sometimes. Well, AOC of all people said this week, hey, we're not going to it's not up to us to bail the Republicans out of the mess they're in. Believe me, they're enjoying this. I do agree that this benefits the Democrats. I'm sorry for that. And I hate it. But I also don't like seeing, you know, somebody called a nihilist. I mean, nihilist. You know, it's like and he's anti -American and he's got his daddy's boy and daddy was the Florida. I mean, they're just attacking him personally. I mean, it's it's kind of wild. To see it. There are bigger fish to fry. I want to share with you. You mentioned earlier I was listening to you talk about the plight of the big cities. Horrible story out of Philadelphia. There was a young journalist, an LGBT journalist who was very prolific on X and social media mocking conservatives for being concerned about crime in big cities like his city of Philadelphia. And this guy was even mocking the idea of having a gun to defend yourself in your home. He was mocking and taunting Republicans for criticizing cities like Philadelphia. He loves this Jim Kenney, this sanctuary city mayor. Markie was shot and killed in his home this week. He was murdered seven times, seven bullets put in his body. And of course, the ghouls on social media are dancing on his grave and they're mocking him. Can't do that. But but you must understand that this is life or death, that things are happening in these cities. And I hate it. I hate it for his for obvious for him and for his family, his loved ones. And again, a well -known journalist in Philly, apparently in the LGBT community. But the bottom line is a day before he was murdered, he was literally, you know, poo pooing the idea that we got a crime problem in Philly, mocking the people who are trying to draw attention to the issue to make it better. And it's funny. So did you hear the two things when I was talking about the conversion of Dallas mayor Eric Johnson? He said, listen, we need Republican mayors in our big cities, so I'm going to become one. We also need to elect more of them. And that seems like a ridiculous long shot. How do you get a Republican elected in most of America's big cities? And I don't know the answer to that except to try. A lot of people don't even want to try. We have given up. We have ceded the cities to Democrats. Is that helpful? 70, 80 percent of Americans live in these big cities. Is that helpful to just give up or should we try to it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's an uphill steep climb to try to get some sensible Republican mayors who can save our cities. You spend so much time in New York. I grew up in the suburbs of D .C. I'm in Dallas and Fort Worth all the time. You're in Tampa all the time. Big cities are beautiful. There's no more beautiful city in America than San Francisco. It breaks my heart what happens out there. Should we try to save American cities or say, screw them, get buried under your own bad policies? I'm inclined to say you own it. You live with it. You've got to you inherited this. There's a great column by Douglas Murray of the New York Post called The Fall of Lululemon. How stores have surrendered to looters. He tells the story of how Lululemon fires employees who try to stop shoplifters from walking out with the high end material and merchandise from Lululemon. And a lot of stores are doing this. They're firing any of the employees. They're saying, let them go. Let them walk out. And guess what? When you when that happens, when you encourage it. I mean, it's not a sane society anymore. I mean, call us old fashioned. Law and order is an important thing. It's one thing that people want to steal, but for businesses not to mind being stolen from. Well, but I'm intrigued by the employees thing. And for those that don't know, Lululemon is high end athletic wear, mostly for for women, but not exclusively. And so there's some some an arm load is some serious cash if you're going out the front door. Thousands and thousands of dollars. What do we expect? I mean, if I'm an employee, I'd love to say, well, I'm not going to let this happen, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes these people might be armed. I mean, what these what these stores need is armed guards to prevent this, not employees trying to try and try to go vigilante. Two female Lululemon employees in Atlanta confronted three masked men who pillaged the store. All they did was call the police. Right. I mean, one of the systematically said, you know, what do we want them to do? What do we want? They did call them. They were fired. They were fired for for for OK. Pardon me. Confused host for for calling the police or for not doing more for calling the police. No, they did too much by calling the police. One of the fired employee told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we are not supposed to get in the way. You're supposed to clear the path for whatever they're going to do. And then it's over. You scan a QR code. We're not supposed to call the police. We're not supposed to talk about it. And Douglas Murray says Lululemon isn't the only company in America that has taken this completely lax approach to its own stock. Well, guess what? Lululemon's on the verge of bankruptcy. They're going out of business. And Douglas Murray writes, you know what? I'm sorry. Count me as one who's not real sympathetic. We're in post consequences America. And this is how Congressman Henry Cuellar gets carjacked. Or it's not the specific because of this, then that because crime is going to happen. But we're going to get more of it in cities where people know they'll get away with it and know that punishment does not await them. And there is a choice that Americans get to make. Republicans are law and order. The Democrats are certainly not, no matter how mad Switzerland gets. Look at that. Look at that call back. Happy Tuesday. And the Mike Gallagher Show lies ahead. Everyone knows that putting money aside and savings is really important. But then what? Should you keep your savings locked in a CD for a higher rate or keep them liquid in a money market? Can your checking account help you save, too? 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Revision Path
"years" Discussed on Revision Path
"Celebrate and recognize because, you know, I was inspired by these people. I was a working black designer. I had my own firm. I wanted to showcase the work that we were doing. And so I just started reaching out to strangers since my friend said no. Most of these people are my Friends anymore, but I started reaching out to strangers and, you know, that's kind of what the first few people that had come on revision path, and these were people I did not know, I reached out completely blindly. They had no idea who I was. I was nobody, you know? Just saying, hey, would you like to do this? Can I interview you for this website that I have where I'm trying to celebrate black designers, right? And I did that for a few months when I started and then someone reached out to me. And I want to say it was like May or June of 2013, someone reached out to me her name was Raquel Rodriguez. She was a queer Afro Latin designer from Chicago. She wanted to be on revision path and she told me that she was going to be down in Atlanta and wanted to record our interview as a podcast because she was a podcaster. She had a podcast that she did in Chicago. And I was like, yeah, sure, we could do that. Now, I didn't have any podcasts here. I didn't have a mic, I didn't have anything. But I did have a mobile phone with a microphone and an audio recorder. It was the first Google phone, the one from T mobile with the little track ball and the flip up screen. And that's how the first episode of revision path was recorded. We went to one eared stag and inman park and sat in one of the back boots and recorded it. Now, I still keep that audio up even though the quality is terrible. I have tried to salvage it over the years, it's a lost cause, but I keep it up to show that you don't have to start from perfect. Like start where you are and just like build and iterate from there. And you know, speaking of not starting from perfect, you have to talk about one of the interviews that I that I managed to land, which was with Emory Douglas. Emory Douglas is the former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party. He's also an AIGA medalist. And I saw his designs are just like browsing the web is designed. I saw they were being licensed on skateboard decks. From a skate shop in Oakland, and I reached out to them, I asked if they could put me in contact with him and it turns out that the guy who ran the skate shop was a family member of his, and so he put me in touch with him, and then like on a Sunday afternoon, we had a phone call, I recorded the interview using Google Voice. And the rest was history. So when I started recording interviews with guests, I was giving them the option to either do an email interview or to record. Keep in mind, 2013, people were not really, I would say the general public did not know about podcasting or was podcasting in the way that they are doing now. Like even access to the gear, like microphones and such just wasn't really as commonplace as it is now. And most people were still choosing to do email interviews, although a couple would want to record and so when that happened, I would record those interviews, I would publish those interviews. But I didn't do it as like a submitted podcast. You basically still had to go to revision path. And just see it like on the website. There was no way you could really subscribe to it because I wasn't even calling it a podcast back then. And I wanted to kind of do other things with revision path to bring more of that magazine feel to the platform. And so there were two things that I started to do in 2013. One was the holiday gift guide, which I do every year, and that's just like a list of products some of them are from black designers or some of them are just cool things that I liked that I think other people would like. And I would do that, you know, kind of put that list together every year. Also, most of those things are affiliate links so it was kind of a way to bring in some revenue for hosting costs and stuff. I also created a series of social media graphics around the 7 principles of kwanzaa. But I was tying those principles to current modern day things. So I remember the first year like for, which is cooperative economics, collective economic sorry. There was a picture of Oprah, but was rendered like the supreme logo. Kumba, which means creativity. That was stylized like Beyoncé's self titled album that came out that year. Nia, which means purpose was associated with Nelson Mandela, who passed away that year, so I always tried to sort of tie it into what was going on in the zeitgeist with these graphics. 2014 came along and with revision paths starting to get some attention, I launched a new project connected to it, which was a sister site called 28 days of the web. Now 20 days of the web features a different web designer, graphic designer, or web developer, every day for the month of February, in conjunction with and celebration of black history month. And for leap years I'd add an additional person. And so I wanted to do this one because the first year that I started revision path, I started it at the end of February. So I didn't really do anything for black history month when I started revision path because it started during black history month. And so because of that, when I would tell people about it, they've thought it was like a glorified black history project. Or at least that's how they would treat it that's how they would talk about it. But what I also really wanted to show was that if I could find 28 black designers 14 men 14 women, showcased them alongside revision path and really kind of give a bit of a middle finger to design media, specifically, that if I can do this as one person, then why can't you do it with your mastheads full of staff? You know, full of staff writers and things of that nature. Like, how am I able to do it as one person, and you can't do it as a team of ten or 20, right? So that's kind of, I guess, a little bit of the reasoning behind why I wanted to do 28 days of the web. And it's taken off. I mean, we just had our tenth installment of 28 days of the web this year, we've showcased well over 200 people. All of the information that I use to put those together is publicly available, you know, there's their photo, they're social media and everything, all of that is all provided by them, so none of it is stuff that I'm creating, so that's an even better part about it. Also, in 2014, I redesigned the site, site got a much needed redesign. And we started to do more international interviews. In 2013, I think I only did like one international interview. That was episode 6. With makoko, McCoy, mokana Ana, was his name. But I was able to interview some other international folks. I remember that year, I interviewed Kevin caron, who was episode 24, who's a designer out of Nairobi Kenya. And also speaking of which 2014, march of 2014 is sort of technically when the podcast began. And when I launched it, I launched it, I had 15 episodes that I had already recorded. Again, when I was asking guests if they wanted to do email or record, some would record. So I kept those as episodes, and so when I launched officially in march of 2014, we launched with 15 episodes. Episode 16, which kicked off the weekly cadence is with Alicia Randolph. And so that's kind of where the podcast was born from. 2014
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"To ourselves but in some ways that is what it has become every couple of months the mercian vineyard association and publishes its own journal called the grapevine we've had two or three mentions in these pages and until the last one we were quite happy just to get any mention at all given the modest scale enterprise for the last publication. The editor had asked for any stories what she called as i recall natural disasters so obviously i sent her a reference to my blog about our misfortune with the burs and the eating via grapes. Well eighty percent of them. I'll return to the remaining twenty percent in a moment. In the most recent issue she referred to misfortune and recommended that people go to the blog for the whole story. She described it. As and i quote hilarious. I was happy with that as you know i do. Try and write in an amusing fashion if possible. It was only as bribes through the rest of the jail and found a report from our nearish neighbor. That in the words of the song. The smile dropped away from my face. There was a few pages later. A report of how successful they had been with that crop and their winemaking and not to beat about the bush. It pissed me off. Sheldon florida was everywhere. They had set this small vineyard up at the same time as us. So comparisons were inevitable. It felt like. I certainly saw her role in the world of english. Vineyards to be the source of fun for others right from the first training. Course i have a went on about setting up a new venue. On and i described the of his own the cost the location and ambitions of avignon and people laughed and suddenly. They felt a whole lot better about their own uv in yards. I suppose the rotting was on the wool. Then the signs were that we were bordering on the freaks of yorkshire vineyard world. Now you may think that the man who sets out to be amusing in his writing would welcome any kind of fame and be pleased that he was making. The people. Smile now misfortune. But it didn't feel like that. Just this moment on sunday our small group of vine grows winemakers meet including the full mentioned colleague. And i have no doubt that all the vigna people will bring examples of their wines recently made which raises an interesting issue. We did make some wine after the greatest we have left. But as i've written elsewhere we had to pick the grades before they were ready. Oh we would have had no grapes atole. So i know the wine i made. It's likely to be unimpressive. The fact that we made only red wine when most sensible people made white was an added disadvantage when we already had enough in the negative column. I'm now going to stop writing this blog. And go into the other room where we have stored our wine along with a kit wine and the orange wine that i referenced in elliott blogs by the time i write my next woods i will know. Just how much of a laughing stock i am about to become. My wife has suggested already peeling the label off a supermarket bottles. Deceive fellow winemakers bataille vetoed this idea so far at least i'm now going to get the wind an hour or two later. I'm back do you want to know the good news about news. Let's get the bad things out of the way. The wine made from grapes. Alone tasted crap or to be more precise. It tastes exactly like what it is. Wine made from. Grapes put when they were not ripe. For reasons. i've already explained the orange wine when tasted it alone. Israel than ice although rather like spirit and slightly petulant sparkly. The melo is fine as kit wines. Go on the site of spaghetti. Bowl organized would be perfectly acceptable. But of course neither res wines. We made to stand independently. They were created to enable us to make a drinkable blend from grapes. So the good news when blended approximately and i mean approximately one third of each. It tasted not too shabby tool question. Entrusting middle number not exactly like normal wine but an interesting version of something similar unto vertu. Our ambitions all those months ago. We always knew that trying to produce red wine that would suit the tastes of people that could buy decent butler chilean for about two five. And it's never gonna work now that we intend to sell our end but if we did it would clearly need a usb unique selling point. And that that missus soma half's nickname for my wife and myself tasted on physiologist. I'm definitely that all that remains now is to decide whether we have the courage to take a bottle of our blend blending. Wine is on honorable business. In the big wide world of winemaking to be subject to the scrutiny of his on sunday. I doubt we will. I'll let you know so early sunday morning. I blended and bottled three versions of our wine. Our writing covers the thirds. Shen the fifty fifty our wine in the merlo and two-fifths hours to fish smell on one fifth orange cooped and label them only with playing labels. We don't have a proper label as yet put them in a box. Slow to them in the land rover and took them to yorkshire wine. Meeting is pleasant meeting some interesting thoughts about how wind breaks increase the effects of frost generally chatty and even fun. We'll showed where we were up to in very different ways yes A neighbor did bring out his ones and unfortunately they were pretty good which leaves us with our wines. Did we have the courage to expose our efforts before this quite learners and certainly experienced group following the weight neighbor and say i stayed county. Been your retirement. Project goes on just getting new goods issues advantage. The vineyard is written and recorded by peter galvin produced an edited by pw osama house. She is production. Available on all good podcast directories apple google stitcher and blueberry. Thank you for listening to this episode of the vineyard years. If you enjoyed this one the plenty modem on this podcast and of course you can read every episode on my blog. The somehow she is all. If you'd like ole seventy in the same place does my e book and paperback available from amazon and titled. You've guessed it the vigna is..
Zero Blog Thirty
"years" Discussed on Zero Blog Thirty
"Navy subpar football team on this one. I kind of agree with it but they sort of do it already everyone. There hasn't passed the pt test in the last three years. Get retired automatically do this. Yeah they do They'll they'll they'll push out. Your body can't be fat so someone said the ba- disgruntled boats disgruntled. Boats said the band. Now i like the ban. I kind of agree with them on this one like. Why is the band that what he had that. Many bands like every base needs a band. Who cares like if you're if you're at a marine corps ball and there. Do you really care if somebody's there on the trumpet. Playing the marine corps him as opposed to just a tape. It's like when you see live music versus listening ear car. It definitely just slaps different okay to old people right exactly two old right. They've did a lot for this country. I keep the bans brett brett tavern papa anyway said four and basis that are overstaffed close unnecessary basis. The us has over eight hundred military bases in seventy countries. I'm not fact checking that. But i wouldn't be shocked. It's true why i'll be strategic. I love the thought of some. Like low-lying caribbean base. Where everybody straight chilling shut the brett pretty good time down here pro. Shut the fuck up talent movie with tom. Arnold mikhail's navy. Yeah that's basically the same thing. He's he's got a great setup. Wretched shut up man and finally..
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"They say pruning enables the vine to be well organized on the trellis so that the plant can capture the maximum amount of light particularly important in cooler climates. Leaf bunching is avoided. I too many leaves shading certain bunches. You don't want your bunches ripening at different rates. Also reducing disease and increasing yield and quality. The notes go on to say unproven. Vines produce many short shoots further and further away from the trunk. Many small bunches of high acid low sugar. Barriers irregular yields a. You get the idea. Let me say there are a lot more knows this. I'll try and narrow the whole thing down after it simply you need to know your canes from your shoe spurs from your buds. You need to know how many buds to leave on the one k. And you have. This is called the charge. It didn't tell counting. How many healthy canes you have on the plan before he still pruning on this number of kane's roughly tells you how many buds to leave on the shoot infused. Well i have to admit i was a bit this confusion of feeling like a rather stupid schoolboy is something i'm getting a big tide of in my quest for greater knowledge seal so just classes and blogging and dogs. There's so much opportunity in my retirement planning to feel thick. I didn't feel help to buy to to like. Oh very knowledgeable. People he did not as they say where his knowledge likely in his proper job. His lecture on a vine-growing course which shall remain. Nameless guessing. He's used to token to students and the devil may care fashion. I'm also guessing either you. The participants knew more than.
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"Champs twenty.
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"Victory from defeat kind of november. Two thousand fourteen. I wrote in vignon. Prague nineteen about setback to put in mildly. We had received in winemaking ambitions. Take note next year. Make sure that we protect the grapes from the we had one. Value shoe winemakers meetings a couple of weeks ago and high on my agenda released was how to protect the grapes from the bloody birds. The general agreement was that the strategy would be around counts. It seems there are a number of different options here. And i confess. I haven't checked how these option yet. But i will. Soon apparently on this could be a steep learning curve. You need to be able to identify the type of bird and then by your match to kite which then flies above the vineyard tethered by an invisible line and so scares the jeep is have the birds such that. They go elsewhere for lunch being no kind of ornithologist. I've absolutely no idea what kind of buzz they were. Except that they seem to be basically blackish. My farmer neighbor thinks they were crows. But he's no expert either and of course bloody birds aren't around to casually ask. What kind of bird are you i- chilly. And if they were bright birds brought it up to the graves before take them. They would probably lie anyway. We're mike buys me. No you know. Mike pilots light. And that's not you and your mates and so on anyway whole. This is for later date as to the meeting. This was office site in laurel wind set. Open eight in east yorkshire. Let me say it was bloody impressive. So impressive and so far out of our league it wasn't even depressing in has gone about the whole business in such an utterly professional manner that it is impossible to do anything other wish him the best of look which having seen his setup he's not going to need accepts and it is a big except in the grape growing winemaking business. You do need a fair amount of look particularly in the grape growing bit. I said last time that i was sick of hearing what a great year it had been seemingly for everybody else as opposed to a terrible for us. But in an chris jillian over yorkshire heart had how that problems as well. And although when you've got five thousand in his case and ten thousand chris vines respectively as they have losing. Some grapes is not a complete disaster. When you have customers in salsa local restaurants lined up it is a serious matter. Losing any grapes in had had three problems. Frost powdery mildew on his otago vines and a car is remember the third but they were proper problems reduced his yield the midem admittedly not by the eighty percent or so we suffered significant nonetheless by the way did are really say my last block that we had quote a bloody big shed after visiting in i now realize what a bloody big shot looks like a photo i took the time in no way gives an accurate impression of ish shed if he had told me that it was a hanger for several chinook helicopters from nearby seconds field. I would totally believed him but he massive. It was in the meantime on the home from we have been trying to salvage what was left about. Fifteen to twenty percent and make some wine with these grapes. Unfortunately as i reported in my last video blog to stop the body birds getting we had to pick them before. They were ripe ironic. I think you will agree. Ripened up for the birds to eat but not to make wine anyway. We we pick them and did the best. We could to make some wine and surprisingly in my tasting. It felt a little thin in the mouth where else so then as reported. Last time i had a brilliant idea. I would blend most not all of my one or keep. Say off a dozen bottles of iowa just for the hell of it with bought from the shop. Kit wine this is given his eight demi jones about fifty of buffalo's worth and all of a very different hues. If you read the last blog you will. If you like me will not remember that. This is a damage on of orange wine. Which i used to make wine with an orange flavor. This you will remember. I was in our quest to find a us. P. our wine even though we never intended to sell it so in a few months time i shall attempt based on no knowledge at all the blending process. The professionals do it. So i don't see why low those should not do the same just need to balance in some way our wine the kit wine and the orange wine piece of cake we even bought buffalo's at a very good price from in cokes and a coca from wilko's once again like you we're investing big time in the equipment necessary to make top class wine. Mississippi house is in the process of designing label. Again just for the hell of it full when we do battle and chris and jillian have commonly offered to print his off a limited number of labels probably as suggested about fifty bottles in not massive. But at least we should look committee and have something to an hour at how we continued to try and acquire the skills to go alongside the equipment. Although i fully admit that making as much wine as we've got was a bit like stumbling through the dog one skills the mom of pooped in college which runs the only full-time winemaking in the uk are ruining a number of courses at york yoshahara vineyard. I'm going to warn in december home winter. Pruning this basing of course is here. Must be tested. Made to the growing importance of yorkshire vineyards now as being the exception of course they have ruined and are ruining other courses up here selling wine online. Not yet for us so maintenance etc and good on them for making this phone booth as the tutu's at the law school i attended yoshi puts it. It's a bloody long way up here. Plumpton college from wednesday came. He's base. I think in devon and there we have it for november next month. Our report on the u k. Va vision and strategy meeting. And i'll let you.
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"The very thing that was meant to be the downfall like rightness was the damsel in a completely different way ripen for the birds so that we were with the bloody great crucial december stem unsympathetically small quantity of gripes. Put through it. Nevertheless that's what we did. It was simple really. We had no choice but to carry on with what we had. And that is what we did. This is where we needed to be creative. Uncreative is what we were quickly realized through limited tasting of the great news it had to be limited. We didn't have much that. I was going to need to blend our juice with other jews. My first idea was to buy some table graves which would presumably be sweet and fruity and at some point. The two together when the idea of it despite having found on the internet recipes for making wine from table graves where mrs has pointed that this would be costly. My next idea was to buy a kit of mellow. That's the word as it turned out. He was mellow from my local winemaking shop again. Quite expensive forty five pounds but it reportedly made thicky bottles of wine. After all. I already had all the other bits. And bobs including a bloody big shed where the wind would be made. Anyway i bought it and so alongside our half book of wine happily bubbling away. Was the full book. It of kit wine. The my next idea admittedly effectiveness yet to be proved was a crack. It was to make orange wine from a recipe. We found again on the internet. I had always thought that it was silly. Trying under asa consensus to make what qualify for a red wine white solaris for whatever reason police next to no graves so even the birds went hungry on that side of the vineyard. What are why needed. I reasoned way back. When was some kind of usb unique selling point not that was planning on selling it look maybe not remains to be seen would have it the observer supplement. I think it was had an article about our age wise a few months ago it sounded interesting and i followed the information away just in case a now here. We were very much in case so we decided to experiment you will remember. I have described the vineyard project as experimental just in case we failed little. Did i know that. And he were largely failed so back to the origins which we bought a thousand unfortunately not like the chop on the website who bought his at least market which more autism but they were pretty. We only bought twelve oranges. Which demand said was enough to make offers bottles. We didn't think it wise at this point to make much more because we were at all. Show that this aspect of the grand expert mood work we still on but now alongside our line and the kit wine. We have a partially filled book of orange wine. I've racked transferred our wine into damage jones and are waiting for kit wine and orange wine to stop a blink to do the same. Although we're going to need mode emmy jones then at some point in the next few weeks i will try and blend all three ones into something. Both interesting unique might be risking internet and above all drinkable. I have absolutely no idea what proportions. I will blame it. Three sources and whether we can still call the final concoction a product trapping hill vineyard. It's not as if we're selling them still whether we will ever transfer bottles which will mean buying the bottles the cool and the coke machine and even designing our own labels.
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"Disgust strikes october. Two thousand fourteen. It really irritates to keep reading. What a great year. It's been for grapes. It rankles to here on the radio that there are fifty percent more vineyards this year than last. Well you say you sound it. Dow and i am. I haven't been looking forward to writing this blog..
The Vineyard Years Podcast
"years" Discussed on The Vineyard Years Podcast
"That goes makes. It reminded me of an idea. I had a while ago about how wine is made in turkey and georgia. I think it was on the other way. Round the observer reviewed what they call orange wines reviewed the end product very favorably. Assuming you like a taste of origin. Your wine set me thinking if our wine. If and when made a little thin lacking in fruit than we might legitimately are different kinds of i wrote down at the time orange pips spice cherries notes. Pez in this way. I would be distinctive. I do realize that the would distinctive can mean many things good and bad but still it was an idea and he came back to me after the first period of thinking. Should we wasted our time be creative. I thought i even thought about making the one in amphorae buried in the ground. As i remember they did enjoy. You visited there until i looked at the price and also contemplated how big the vessel laws and how small our amount of grape juice. So maybe not this finally and again trying for the good news front. I started checking on the internet from local. That is what was the lowest sugar level. They would recommend picking rondo again reasonably encouraging the figure of seventeen on the brick scale was mentioned and this is significantly below the twenty four point five to be exact suggested by a us. Jim not that far off the figure of nearly fifteen some of aggravates registering and we had another three or four weeks if the weather stayed good before we needed to pick them so far now. Nearly the end of september the weather even up at the top end of nitto has been kind to us a relative term. You understand on the less good front. We have hens and chickens. If you were thinking as a non buying grow you might say oh. That's an ice. He's taking up keeping livestock because he's grapes on growing. If you are fine row you will know that. I'm talking about great variability in size and rhyming. The grades i big ones. Little ones in abundance does not help picking on the winemaking process toll. It's not impossible but it probably does me picking out all the on rhyme small graves before trying to make wine with what's left so that's not great but hopefully not insuperable if that his word the other thing we've done this month is to get the soil analyzed again at fourteen pounds of sample and sake samples. This is not something to be undertaken. Likely i decided to do it. Because some of the leaves were showing some classic signs of mineral deficiency. We doing okay. On the potassium phosphorus and magnesium front but there are important elements work here again more reading on the internet about what might be happening and sites talking about the problem with the carbon nitrogen bonds back to our first comprehensive soil analysis to read about the need for boron and zinc application saw quite anxiety provoking and is probably not the right time of year to be applying any additional chemicals easy to put on the backburner until next year. Assuming there isn't actually so there. We have it. September progress report about bits. You'll never make any wine quite a bit by bit and your soil needs treating and the good bit says well while we're keeping on with the dream we have three or four weeks for the weather to remain good and our grapes to ripen at hence for us to make some wine of some sort retirement so many opportunities to trusting the vineyard written and recorded by peter galvin produced and edited by w.
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"Jumped eighteen september. Two thousand and fourteen as charles dickens wrote. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times sums of this month quite well. Although perhaps the best of times was bit underplayed. Let me start with bits. And see if i can end on a positive note. Visit a couple of weeks ago from an osce. A knowledgeable man already mentioned with his own vineyard in western australia. He told us he makes four thousand liters a year just above hobby status. He suggested but to it was quite impressive as he is when he talks about the winemaking process he undoubtedly knows his stuff which is why what he had to say about. Our video was really quite depressing in a nutshell. He looked at alvin yard. Says you want to make wine than by some grapes. Because you're not going to get across of any so from what you've got here. We were quite devastated while we knew what we were doing. A risky business. Not business dole. Just a hobby. Nevertheless we had hoped that grapes. We had on our rondo. Vons we do have a fair number. Would right in the next four weeks when we could at least have a go at making your own wine which meant the bits and bobs equipment. We have been buying the last couple of months. Crooked east emma fermenting booklets press refractory to high-drama to not to mention the winery shed star of last month's blog et cetera. Actor would be money well spent but here we were feeling the whole thing had been a complete waste of time effort and money a very odd moment it left me disinclined to buy any further equipment like demi johnson buffalo's. I suppose what was clear. Was the good news in a perverse. Oh to hawaii nothing to be done on. We could only go on maybe onwards down. What's on woods nonetheless. There's no turning bike and that is what we have done in the last couple of weeks. Since obviously since left the first thing i did was take a measure of what level of sugar we had inaugurated choosing the aforementioned refractory to this was my first time of using this piece of equipment and it was some relief to get a reading of any sort mentally some way below the ideal. Well a long way below the figure my trillion showman suggested we needed twenty four on the brick scale. We had twelve point five so not go but as i say at least you're on the blasted scale. I also started googling what to do with unripe. Grapes make vinegar was a common suggestion. French court as you vege- use green juice. Not what we wanted. I don't agree. But something. At least and i specifically asked google whether it was possible to make wine from unripe grapes tentative very tentative yes by following a recipe for making gooseberries wine so again a ray of hope when we look this up. It didn't seem particularly complicated. It suggested adding a few gripes..
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"Vineyard years jap to fifty. There's an awful lot to do. But i guess that's good july twenty forty. Let's technically is my june blog. But we've been so busy actually working in a venue. I haven't quite got around to writing about it. I have heard it said that vineyards on average require a day a week every acre of vines wall. We have half on a plan to in our experimental vineyard as we like to call it to allow for complete failure. This should be in half a day a week but at the moment we're putting in two or three days a week on tasks like planting nouveau lines devoting diese quering time down up pruning streaming raking grass weed killing fertilizing ground on leaf and now adding news trying to wire to most of the rose. Okay we didn't do much at all. During the winter of the pray our vines would survive. And of course praying can't be hard work but basically that average all manso and about now is heavy going hence not having time to write about. What's happening. I had planned to ride this blog about being very excited about my new item of in your equipment. This being my wi- applies this piece of kit promises to do all manner of tasks in the wiring department it cuts pulls out staples knocks them in twist wire to improve the attention of each wire and offer eight pounds plus three pounds. Postage and packing from amazon. I can assure you that the packing alone was worth eight. I don't know whether that run out to the right sized boxes but this one was like first round of pass the parcel. While the pliers were the last small gift is up looking winners receives fan of amazon or waste in the world unnecessary packing. Then you'll be unimpressed. But i was ready to be very impressed. Indeed possibly the first purpose built to. I have both of the vineyard bound to be an exciting moment. Buying the pliers was all to do with actually realizing that how vise had grapes. They hadn't although what we certainly look like small grapes. They were in fact only flowers. Ignorance in this vineyard project knows no bounds. Anyway the point is that we thought we had grapes which meant that. We thought we need to seriously review our wiring arrangement. We have this far took only as much wire as we needed at each stage. No point spending large sums of money on why we might never need because given allocation we would never get any grapes but now we do rather don't but think we do so we need the rhonda wire near the bottom wire at the moment. The gap between bottom and top wire is about metoo too big for the vines to make the league. So we're in the process of putting third wire about a foot above the bottom line.
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"Who could blame them for largely staying within the tube because it was buddy freezing out in the open but it was so cold that we had to stop after an hour or so because our fingers was so frozen. They wouldn't work so we plan to return to finish it off this weekend. I tell you all these people who according to a survey in this weekend's paper will not pay more than six pounds of buffalo have no idea of the suffering that goes into making english wine as it now is talking of the survey it feels a little in decent having taken latour from the french now to be rivaling them as one produces the survey said that france was the country from which the british consumer preferred to buy wine. As i looked round. The table is formidable group of wine yard owners taking the piss out of each other. I thought that was pulled french. People they don't know what's coming actually. That's not quite true. What are really thought is bloody hell. Will we agree on anything. We did agree. We agree that we should proceed without planning to continue to set up your show wines website coming to a computer near you quite soon. We decided that as well as promoting various It would have how to underneath page. And as i was the only person who could right i was elected as editor of the news section. I think you'll agree. That's news that certainly was to me. The rest of the meeting was aided and abetted by information from ian at laurel vineyards about the cost of bottles twenty five people want to know forty five p. sparkling the discussion about the cost of labels fell apart of it because there are so many options we did look at some very attractive labels. He had event. You continues on friday. We drove over to heather and henry foam in east yorkshire or whatever. It's called now to pick up. One hundred willow trees in inverted commerce this out on ending search for wind protection. I have to say rush. Why is that. I always thought of vineyard scenically the best but having seen extra vineyard i may need to reconsider. Let's just say they're both beautiful. We pick took the willows. Which henry had kindly cause heart because otherwise we would not have been able to get them underdogs in the land rover. The defend ninety doesn't have lots of space in the back to begin with but when you put in a permanent dog cage there's even less so instead of having a hundred to plan. We had two hundred. We planted all two hundred last saturday. It was whacked but not to call relatively speaking mostly. They were easy to plant you. Just push into the ground. Some of them didn't want to go in but we made them. They don't look very impressive just yet but henry assured me that they grow about ten feet in a year. We will have to monitor their progress carefully. Otherwise the greatest little vineyard the view will.
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"Chatree left the should february two thousand and fourteen. I suppose it. Say something about our ambitions for our vineyard. When i tell you that the only building to the vineyard concept so far is shared. This was last winter. This is not in any way to denigrate. My shed hinted that elsewhere person these shadow something similar either virtual or actual in my case mind is admittedly a rather flimsy shed. Tony costs three hundred pounds. Not like some house of the title which is a solid thing showed look nice and pert on the lot. The same house. Rest snugly in the back garden protected and safe online the shed not only. Is it a bit on the light. So but being in the vineyard on as you will know from previous vineyard blogs is todd exposed in the blog. That was a photograph of what the sheds luke like when i placed on the land. I love mississippi. He painfully skills to protect the shed against elements. Little it it now when it left being q. what a life. It was heading for probably thought he was going to be. Somebody's potting shed maybe with a capital and mugs and a neat suburban guard with some old guy listening to radio for rum. I place my shed. The one i had always wanted. Contrary to the sensible advice of my foam a neighbor at the bottom of the vineyard. He said i needed to place it behind the bomb where it would be protected but i knew better of course. What did he know that up into detail. He only lived in foam there for forty plus years so placed the shed where i thought it looks nice where the view was best so that when i sat in my writing cabin composing great works and imagining avenue. In years ago. I would be able to stay idly out of the window without any need for explanation. So the idea is a writing. Cabin was its initial use. I mean just look you can see right down. The valley and i have a telescope for that purpose. I have bolted chair. Cut down a found table. Put one of my favorite books on that table and plan. Were to hang my maps of the world. I also bought a rod and natty kabul radio from leeds art gallery show up. I thought it very cool but not as cool as it was about to be bought. The radio i listen to radio four while wiling away the animals in my very own shed and then last winter the snow cave. The snow covered the shed way down by the snow the shad assumed a boy or trapeze him. Searching might longo knowledge of joe mature here kind of shape the perspex windows shattered the roof and part of the shad flew off. I was found in the next failed. Cozy writing cabin place to plant. Vineyards strategies did not look so flash. I felt a little foolish. Ask him asking my neighbor if he would reconstruct my potential winemaking in house but my neighbor kindly did reconstructed in the rest of the venue. The plastic tubes very in the parents so just sticking out of the snow and some sticking out a tool but where the snow had drifted completely. Buried them still live. Incidentally as i've said all this happened about this time last we had a couple of worrying months. Oh wondering what is late. Blizzard might have done to our vines. This winter was at the end. Of every i some very wet one. You'll recall so they haven't had the best out. There is book on. We go which is a bit more than the radio did. It was buried under several feet of snow in the wreckage. Shed what had seemed like a cool thing to put in the shed ten national road foolish a more than a little misshapen. I tried to open it out of it restore it to its original pristine condition. It doesn't look too bad when photographed can tell you. I was pretty chastened. Lives a bit crackly. But then he always was bit on the fragile side. Sound wise even when unblemished by several feet of snow. So we've given it a more. Domesticated homework can be more like the radio. It wanted to be like the neon itself. The radio does live on. We await the coming of a second spring to see how many of our vines have survived. The things you do in retirement. Thank you for listening to this episode of the lake. venue ideas. If you enjoyed this one there plenty more to come on this podcast and of course you can read every episode a my blog. The semi house is all. If you'd like old seventy in the same place does my e book and paperback available from.
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"We miss them yet. Yesterday morning. i could cheerfully strangle them now. They said overnight. Stay said before while said it again. This retirement business thrown wyche his. Just some predictable. Finally by way of another digression. I had one conversation with a female female. A i shall coa about in. What's his name. The bardo barnsley. Who writes a column in the saturday. Yoshua post since i've started blogging on a regular basis. I have grown to admire those radio columnists who pretty some kind of story every week. I quite liked ends column on the rare occasions. We by the ocean pose but mike companion did not being the bottom bones. Likud no is with her. Never tells you anything. She said he meets. Somebody in shop never tells you anymore about now normally conversational this would be simply light chatting. But in this case aramark reminded me of my own modest writing efforts admittedly. I don't expect to receive money from efforts but there is no doubt that so many of my books definitely flimsy. I fully admit that this was in my mind. The evening with my new colleagues would produce for me abroad in my vineyard series blocked. Hannity's would be flimsy judge for yourself incidentally and definitely finally. I have not put names to this report. Not because i intend to anything unpleasant about my colleagues but just because it gives me more license to embellish the events of the night we writers need to be able to embellish as it turns out. I haven't needed to thank you for listening to this episode of the vineyard years. If you enjoyed this one plenty more to come on this podcast and of course you can read every episode online blog. The somehow she is or if you'd like old seventy in the same place. There's my e-p-o-c-h in paperback available from amazon entitled. You've guessed it. The vineyard the vineyard is written and recorded on peter galvin produced an edited by p w summer house. She is production available. On all good podcast directories apple google stitcher and blueberry..
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"Vineyard. Welcome to the year. Two thousand and fourteen curate's egg. It was good in thoughts but mostly it was just challenging. It started with us. Buying and planting more vines on then continued with us. Buying and planting two hundred willows as wind breaks media we erect to the second shed on optimistically named it our winery. We follow this up with some equipment to go in it. Croatia de stem a great press. Which was my favorite bit of kit. Made me feel like a real pro. Probably about the only time that i did. And the grip la. You'll have to look Says we get grapes raw. The birds eight eight two percent of them boo this like to at first attempt at blending we what was left interesting but not wildly successful. We finish the year with learning how to prune so yes a year uh definitely had its ups and down but it did at least give us unofficial mission statement which was from adversity kim's quality. While we have not chapter ten a night at the hotel but no opera january two thousand fourteen. You might say this was an historic meeting. The first one was time anyway. A powerful force of yorkshire fitness gathered together to plan our strategy for will domination mel. Not quite in a number of ways. The first problem was me. The thing is that there is a part of my soul. That does believe i do not believe i am not a believer. I do not in my heart of hearts believe that we will ever get grapes. Ever make our own wine which is kind of okay we always. Oh the project has experimental that it makes meeting with yorkshire vincent colleague slightly oakwood a bit of another experience in fact allies of changed in the last few months retirement. Dogs though the things that we fail were on shifting sounds and it seems to me a very fine line between shifting sands in quicksand and i do. I like this one only adds to the feeling of. We're not in kansas anymore. Toto but also as i've written before in these vigna blogs i feel a fraud all of us except one of us if i may use that. Ona have much bigger acreage than we do. Making wine or at least seem to have a fair prospect to doing so. Well i'd say nice but my room didn't have sky sports. Even though that ubiquitous item the guess directory said we did. Apparently you only got it in a superior room. But i digress. So he we were on a sunday evening. Ten of us all united under the common heading of vine grows so much was discussed still though none of it related to vignettes as one colleague. Put it. you'd think we didn't like vignon. It's any inclination to discuss. Yorkshire vignon strategy was negligible. The thing is this is the second issue we're over a different big and small vignettes ten thousand to two hundred long established at least in uk terms to very recently planted professional hard-nosed business people to amateurs lycos will have quite different talkie patients with. Oh there is a strong theme of self employed business people my good self excluded that is probably more divided by differences than united by any common interests. This would explain why the compensation range to cross topics as varied as gulf holidays. Blogging teaching willow growing psychology management starts dogs and so forth. There is abundant support. These people would have helped us but you need to chore it. Predictably on this strange evening wine was drummed but other than an argentinian malbak now the winds were acclaimed american mellow the chew valley bala cello or rubbished much. Black sheep was drunk are in yorkshire after all the ball. Bill as you would expect was law much about two hundred and fifty pounds. Calculate the evening ended at least as far as we were concerned with activity. That might broadly. Be described. As luke i watched was like an ongoing seen from some surrealist film and titled endless night till end this pain or endless balls will some such some bowls very few pocketed but when they were they were not the killer or in the right bucket. Awful the team. You might have predicted the balls. Were confusing combination of poland. Snuggles that were to pink in two yellows but one of them is red. It was explained which run i asked. Doubt defends came. This won't slid reply tips. Missing from cues choosing was wri gamesmanship was a given. Both were moved into more or less for tourists positions depending on who is doing. The moving by language flowed seamlessly from the lips of the pliers. Fortunately the only witness to the scene of indescribable mayhem with me. And i stayed only to be able to compile this revolt after half an hour of this chaos. I left and headed for the same trick of the room. Skysports out we surprisingly met at breakfast and the tool. Turn to the meeting we would meet at yorkshire harm. That's fine. The topic would be pruning very sensible. Is it needs doing now. I must admit being somewhat taken aback by the day to the next week next sunday. Bloody how anyone would think we li- teacher we do. Of course and as i say pruning needs to happen very soon hence the immediate of the meeting. One of the thing about this rather bizarre thing. It would be remiss of me not to mention that. This was the first night away from the pope's since we got them late. September has looked would have it. I had left them feeling extremely cross with them because of their behavior in the park. That morning design worked. Well because it meant. I didn't have any qualms about leaving them. In fact i felt they deserve to be left now not left on their own. Of course number one soon is looking after them. So this morning there have been no wild leaping and voting on the bed as the dogs. While i try to drink my tea now attendant fascination when i blow my nose not tiptoeing around. When they're asleep on the bed you might say avoid allies yes..
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"Chapter ten a night out the hotel but no opera january two thousand and fourteen. You might say this was an historic meaty. The first one was time anyway. A powerful force. Yorkshire vintners gathered together to plan our strategy for world domination. Quite in a number of ways. First problem was me. The thing is that there is a part of my soul. That does not believe. I do not believe i am not the believer i do not in my heart of hearts believe that we will ever get grapes or ever make our own wine which is kind of okay will always hold. The project has experimental but it makes meeting with yorkshire vietna- colleagues slightly oakwood a bit of experience. In fact lies have been so changed in the last few months retirement. Dogs the things that we feel. We're on shifting. Sounds and seems to me. It's a very fine line between shifting sands in quicksand. I do. I like this one only adds to the feeling of. We're not in kansas anymore. Toyoto but also as i've written before these win yard blogs i feel a fraud all except one of us. If i may use that pronoun. Have much bigger acreage than we do. We'll making wine or at least seem to have a fair prospect of doing all of us except one of if i may use that pro. Have much bigger acreage than we do. Making wine or at least seemed to have a fair prospect of doing so. So who would have thought we'd be spending an evening in an ice hotel as a group of actual or prospective venice. Well i say. Now i put. My room didn't have skies sports. Even though that ubiquitous term the guests directory said we did say nice. But my room didn't have sky sports even though that ubiquitous is the guest director said we did. Apparently you only got it in a superior room. But i digress here. We were on a sunday evening. Ten of us all united under the heading of vine grows so tough much was discussed although none of it related to avignon as one colleague put it. You'd think we didn't like vineyards any inclination to discuss. Yorkshire vignon strategy was negligible. The thing is this is the second issue. We're over very different. Big and small vineyards ten thousand to two hundred long established at least.