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Pod Save America - Trump and Zelensky’s Disastrous Meeting

In this Pod Save The World Special, Tommy and Ben discuss Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting at the White House that erupted in a yelling match and resulted in Zelensky being told to leave. They dig into JD Vance’s role as instigator, the revealed motivations for attacking Zelensky in front of the press, and what Zelensky’s options are for pursuing peace from here.

 

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Motley Fool Money - The State of Weight-Loss Drugs

$150 billion. That’s how much some experts estimate weight-loss drugs could bring in in sales within the next five years.


Motley Fool analyst Karl Thiel joins Ricky Mulvey to check in on the GLP-1 landscape. They also discuss:

- How weight-loss drugs actually work, and how big-name prescriptions differ from each other.

- What investors need to know about Ozempic and Mounjarno’s patent cliffs.

- The scenarios in which Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are actually undervalued.


Companies discussed: LLY, NOVO, HIMS, PFE, RHHBY, VKTX, GPCR, ISRG


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Karl Thiel

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl


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Up First from NPR - Zelenskyy-Vance-Trump Blow Up, DOJ Demotions, Feds Plan for Bird Flu

Ukrainians react to the stunning events in the Oval Office that ended not with a signed minerals deal, but with shouting. Trump's Department of Justice demotes career lawyers who were involved in prosecutions of Trump allies and January 6th rioters. The Department of Agriculture announces plans to fight bird flu and high egg prices.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: He Solved Bitcoin Memecoins

Bob Bodily’s platform “Odin.fun” lets users trade tokens blazingly fast. He explains how he hides all the complexities of Bitcoin so the users get straight to trading.


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Bob Bodily explains how Odin.fun hides all the complexities of Bitcoin so the users get straight to doing what they want: trading tokens fast. Odin.fun solves the bonding issue, the token namespace reservations, threshold signing, etc. But at the end of the day you have to solve the biggest problem: user acquisition.


Notes:

• Chain abstraction for Bitcoin

• Engineering challenges of Bitcoin tokens

• User experience vs technical complexity

• Going head-to-head with the Solana ecosystem


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Timestamps

2:30 What is Odin.fun?

4:36 Why Are Runes Hard to Design For?

7:00 Under the Hood

11:56 Asian Markets

13:57 Token Creation on L2

15:57 Front Running

18:47 Abstracting Away Complexity

22:38 Current BTC Developments

24:52 OP_CAT

28:43 Plans for BRC20

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: MARA’s Plans to Expand Internationally, Purchase Energy Assets w/ Adam Swick

MARA wants to have 50% of its operations abroad by 2028. Here’s how they plan to do it.


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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For today’s Bitcoin Stock Show, MARA’s Chief Strategy Officer Adam Swick joins to discuss the forward-looking plans CEO Fred Thiel mentioned in MARA’s 2024 earnings call. Specifically, Swick unpacks claims that MARA wants to offshore 50% of its operations by 2028 by entering into similar joint-ventures as its Zero Two partnership in the UAE. Swick also speaks to the company’s goal to own more energy-generating assets in the United States and how it would finance such purchases. Finally, why MARA is so hot on the new ASIC manufacturer, Auradine, and whether or not we should expect MARA to enter the inference field for AI compute.


• Mara went from 0% to 70% owned mining assets

• Q4 revenue: $214.4M with lower operating costs

• Target: 50% of operations outside US by 2028

• Wind farm acquisition extends life of older miners

• Auradine partnership delivering quality ASIC miners

• Focus on AI inference rather than training models


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:53 MARA lowering OpEx

06:24 Trend toward owned assets

09:01 Zero cost mining

14:17 Debt financing BTC purchases

19:27 Considering power production

22:01 Foreign mining sites

27:08 Has Africa been sufficiently de-risked?

30:25 Free-er energy markets vs controlled

33:57 Auradine

40:40 AI & HPC


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World Book Club - Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Harriett Gilbert is joined by one of the boldest writers of her generation, Ottessa Moshfegh, to delve into her second novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation. This twisted Sleeping Beauty story is told from the perspective of an unnamed protagonist, a twentysomething art school graduate who, after the death of her parents, quits her gallery job to heal her pain by drugging herself into a year-long hibernation. Her only ties to the waking world are the bodega which she routinely slouches to for coffee, the most unscrupulous psychiatrist in New York, and her best friend, and object of contempt, Reva. We love this book because it’s a hypnotic, wickedly humorous character study of a woman who is broken, toxic, yet utterly fascinating. Even if you don’t take her to your heart, this character will linger in your mind every time you have a long lie in bed.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago-Area Sustainable Alternatives To Fast Fashion

From the creation of fabrics to the washing of synthetic fibers to the quick disposal of yet another piece of en vogue clothing, fast fashion harms the environment in multiple ways. Reset discusses local alternatives to fast fashion with Reset sustainability contributor Karen Weigert, co-director of Monarch Thrift Shop Mireya Fouché and Kate VanAsten, founder of the sustainable fashion brand Wulfka. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Is No Winston Churchill

A tense altercation between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ensued in the Oval Office today.

The bottom line: The United States of America will not be extorted by a country whose leaders are more interested in what they can get out of the American people than peace.

The point of the meeting? To sign a U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal. Trump is “very tired of subsidizing and paying for far-distant problems when we’re running a $37 trillion national debt,” and this deal would not only offset those costs but also, by inviting “American business into Ukraine, to help rebuild it and to profit … [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will be less eager to attack you if he understands there’s a thriving American concession there,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“Donald Trump is incurring a lot of criticism lately on the Ukrainian war. He's trying to negotiate an end to the war. Remember, there's probably somewhere around 1.5 million dead, wounded, missing, and captured on both sides, together. That is the largest casualty rate figure total in Europe since the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 and 1943. In his “Art of the Deal” style he came in and he said some things the last week that got people very angry. I'll just give you two examples. He said that Zelenskyy was a dictator and that he ‘should have stopped the war and never started it.’

“That got people anguished because we know that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24th of 2022. So, why did Donald Trump say that? Of course, he doesn't believe that Zelenskyy started the war because he has campaigned himself on the following narrative: ‘Under George Bush, in 2008, Russia invaded Ossetia and Georgia.

“‘In 2014, under the Obama administration, they invaded the Donbas and Crimea. On February 24th of 2022, under Joe Biden, they tried to take Kyiv. However, of the last four administrations, there was one in which they did not leave their borders to invade another nation—my administration. Why? Because unlike the prior three presidents, I was able to establish deterrence.’”

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