Joe Rogan Podcast with Gary Vaynerchuk

I'll be honest, Joe Rogan was completely off my radar until this past spring.  Yeah, he's a podcast legend, but I've spent the last 11 years creating content, and consuming mostly business/marketing and news content.  So I wasn't looking for entertaining podcasts to listen to, I just didn't have the time.  Even when a friend talked about Rogan's podcasts back in April, I didn't bother listening. 

A couple months ago, I ran across an interview with Graham Hancock, talking about his new book, America Before.  It was really interesting, and I went looking for more interviews, more in depth stuff.  That's when I found Joe Rogan's podcast with Graham, which was amazing.  In it, they spoke of Randall Carson, and I listened to Joe's podcast with him.  So now I'm a Joe Rogan fan, he's smart, has a wild point of view and background, and just does really great interviews.

So when I stumbled across this podcast with Joe interviewing entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk in 2017, I had to listen to it.  This is fucking hilarious, gets really into some of Gary's thoughts and ideas, much deeper than the 100 pieces of content a day that Gary puts out.  And that's saying a lot.  If you're a Gary Vee fan, or just want to make more money, or maybe start or build your own business, watch/listen to this, it's freakin' awesome.

Street life photos from the last year or so...

 Top, on a super hot day in Richmond, Virginia last summer, I walked around a little wall, and found a ledge to sit on.  then I saw the sign behind me.  In front of Richmond Public Library downtown.  Just above, a free stocking cap from the little business Against Fake Love, at the gallery/co-op I hung out at a few times.  Below, Amish Tuff Wheel (BMXers get it), in Richmond's Shockhoe Bottom district.

 Waiting for the morning bus, heading to breakfast and blogging at McDonald's, after a half mile walk from where I slept, under the I-95 bridge, Manchester district, Richmond, VA. 

 Vulture.  There were sometimes a hundred of these guys (and gals) by the Manchester Bridge in the morning.  Richmond, Virginia, spring 2019.

 Hollywood Boulevard, where I setup to try and sell my artwork.  Fall 2019.  Hollywood & Highland, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Recent photos of Hollywood - 12/22/2019

Some of my memes - 12/22/2019

Lynette Zang says the debt bubble is popping right now

Lynette Zang says the massive debt bubble is popping right now.  Is she right?  Time will tell.  Probably not that much time.  Yeah, she's a "gold bug," you can write her off, right.  Why is she so hyped up about gold and silver?  You're about to find out. 

Juat ignore this canary in the coal mine economic post

As the impeachment arguments happen in the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Rosenberg here tells you about the "smoke and mirrors." 

Personally, I firmly believe there will be a major economy crash BEFORE the November 2020 elections, LONG before.  AND I believe Donald Trump will not be in the 2020 election.  In my lowly opinion, the charade, economically and politically, simply can't last that much longer.  Time will tell...

The Federal Reserve is pumping HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS into the economy in December to try and keep it from collapsing

Yes, the economy is doing great, just listen to Larry Kudlow and that guy getting impeached.  But The Fed is going to quietly jam $500 billion into the repo markets/economy, in December alone.  You know, just to make sure things are cool.  Because the $380 or so billion they already flushed into the Repo markets is just barely keeping the economy functioning.  Kind of. 

Like I've said before, in 2008, things got sketchy behind the scenes.  Then 100+ year old investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed and went bankrupt, "out of nowhere."  Then investment bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and closed shop a couple weeks later.  Then all hell broke loose, and The Fed began a massive bailout to keep the entire economy from collapsing.  We've actually had "rolling bailouts ever since, hyper low interest rates and "quantitative easing."  Then they tried to slowly edge interest rates back up, and begin heading back towards "normal" conditions in 2017.  The stock markets freaked, and The Fed did a quick U-turn.

This year, in 2019, when this thing called the Repo Market seized up in mid September, The Fed rushed in and through money at the problem like a Dubai oil baron throws money at strippers.  Well, actually, a lot more than that.  This time around, The Fed began the bailout BEFORE any major banks could collapse.  And they keep having to jam tens and hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem to try and keep banks and other businesses (names unknown, but including some hedge funds it appears) from collapsing.  This won't end well, and the longer they keep this charade going, the worse the inevitable financial collapse will be. 

To put 500 HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in perspective, that's like giving every single man, woman, and child in the United States $1,514 all at once.