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And if you go to twitch in the chat anytime irrelevant if we're live streaming or not, if you type in exclamation mark social, a whole bunch of links will pop up that should provide you all the links to these social networks, as well as our Discord page, where we're fairly active. There's a few people that are fairly active on there, me included, and some of the mods and some of the people sharing everything and anything. Right, which is fantastic. It's become sort of our own little forum to share information without censorship. Awesome. Hello, Cheryl, how are you doing? Lechalon, how are you doing? Long time. Hey, Chicho, after years, finally I made it to a live stream. Awesome. I think you've been here before in a live stream. Or is it your username, same username on YouTube? I recognize your name. Maybe it's similar to someone else's. Hello, hello. Did you ever play D&D? When I was young, elementary school, I played and then when I went to high school, I changed areas where I was at. I went to a private school that was out in the next town nearby. It took me an hour by bus to go there every day. Two hours of busing every day. I lost my D&D crowd, so I didn't get back into it. D&D, you need the core group. C, Death 420, hello, hello, Chicho and all. Great, Lazane, how are you doing? Hello, how are you doing today? Doing fantastic, man. Thank you very much. Made some pancakes this morning. Ate some pancakes this morning. Had to be done, man. Lonely Piggy, hello, hello, how are you doing, brother? Any snacks? I got snacks today. Munchin' on Autumn Olives. We got Autumn Olives to last us for another couple of weeks. They're really good. Come on, focus. There it is. Look at those Autumn Olives. Really, they're beautiful. Look at that. What a unique fruit. It's got tons of nutrients. From what I understand what Cheryl posted, and I've heard this before, they're actually invasive species in some parts. For some reason, while they're invasive, I don't know how many people actually harvest the fruit.  I gave her three buckets. She turned one bucket into a jam, and she didn't take the seeds out, and she says it was amazing. I haven't tasted it because she's in a different town than I am, but next time I visit her, she's going to save me some and I'm going to taste it. These Autumn Olives, because before I said I've tried making jams with Autumn Olives before, but there's two different Autumn Olive trees that we have in our area. I tried making jam with the other Autumn Olives, and they're a little different than these ones. I've never tried making jam with these Autumn Olives. I still have some left, so I might try it out just a little bit, just to see what it's like. If it's good, Autumn Olives should still be there. Maybe they're getting towards the end. I might do a run and go grab some, and that's part of investing in getting, make your own food, forage, harvest, grow food, become... have food security, right? Ding Bobber, hey Chi Cho, your discord is actually dope. You're also open to ideas for it, and building it more for sure, Ding Bobber, for sure. Morning, all Spider-Man, how are you doing? How's life? Glad I finally caught a live. Awesome. Glad to have you, Sai Finn. Welcome, welcome. Dude, evening, all evening, evening, good morning, Anakin. Hello, hello. New Zealand is under your account rule. New Zealand is going crazy. They got COVID camps. Canada's building them too. Not a good idea. Man's Slayer. Hello, hello. Man's Slayer, Rudy. Welcome, welcome. Skella log, Corn Flakes. Skellix, Corn Flakes. Hey Chi Cho, hope all is well doing well. Cheryl, lots of love. Night's woke on. Chi Cho, I had a similar length bystri, lots of AA for my walk in an Iron Mania. Lots, lots of AA batteries getting. Imperial Dog, that's before MP3 players, right? You had your little Walkmans going on. What up, Chi Cho? Love your content. Finally caught a stream. Imperial Dog, welcome, welcome. I'm glad you're liking the content. Love sharing the information, Riot, and just sharing, period. I can't wait to hear how it works. Maybe I'll try Cheryl. If not this year for sure next year. Ding Bobber, before I get into the whole thing, we are recording the audio for this on a lapel mic, okay? So four live streams where we're doing these open discussions, where there is no visuals involved other than me sitting here going da da da da da da da. The audio will be uploaded to soundcloud.com. Chi Cho, C-H-Y-C-H-O as podcasts, and it should be available on your favorite podcasting platform including Spotify and iTunes. And we will be uploading this video to BitChute 100% and to YouTube as well. We'll keep the discussion, the topics where YouTube is censoring channels, nuking channels, demoting people, deleting videos and stuff. We'll keep those topics off the table for now because I think the personal finance stuff is pretty important to share as widely as possible.  And if I'm guilty of instigating that, let me know, we'll pull back on the throttle, right? And if you want to support this work on those platforms, subscribing, turning on notifications, sharing, liking, if you're on YouTube, joining YouTube membership is a fantastic way to support this project. And for those of you who've been supporting this work through YouTube membership, thank you very much for your support. Gang, welcome. I'm going to take these guys down. Ding Bobber. Chi Cho, any advice? Here's the situation. I signed a contract for what I thought was three months at a scammy gym like four years ago. I went through some stuff. I forgot about it. Two years later, they bill me $2,700. And the other day, I found them in my business bureau and I have worse credit. Oh, man, what do I do? I still owe them $2,700. Other people might give you advice as well. Hopefully they will. There's two things I would do, right? Or two things you could do. Take this with a gigantic grain of salt, right? First thing you could do, if you don't care about your credit score, tell them to f off, right? Go online and tell them that start writing bad reviews and don't lie, don't harass them. Just make it known that you consider this gym to be unreasonable or whatnot. You don't need to take it that far.  That'll be on your thing that they owe. And then they'll sell you this debt to someone else that'll call you up saying they need the money that would have bought your $2,700 for $1,350 for $0.50 on the dollar, not even that, right? $0.20 on the dollar. And then they'll try to collect. And if they can't collect, they'll sell it to a lower tier collection agency, you know? Go through this thing. They'll call you after seven years.  The other thing is you can call up and say, look, man, you guys are pulling a scam here.  You can call it a mistake. You can call it ignorance. You can call it whatever it is.  I like to refer to it as stupidity because it's a good way if you make a mistake in your businesses, right?  That sinks in better than saying they scam me, right?  Never sign a contract with a gym. Never sign a... By the way, gang, one bit of advice, take with a grain of salt if you want. When people give you things to sign, say, you know what? I don't really sign things. What is this? Get them to explain it. Never sign on the spot. Take whatever it is they want you to sign. Walk away with it. Sit on it for a long time, right? If they contact you and say, hey, we need that signature, then if you really want to continue doing business with them or doing whatever it is with them, hire someone, get them to read that thing because legal lingo is different than casual lingo. It's all about definitions, vocabulary, language, right? Pay someone to read it, okay? If you're not satisfied with their answer, pay someone else to read it, right? Look online.  And preferably, stop giving away your signature. When you're younger, you get into all these cons, sign a lot. As you get older, you sign less things. And personally, I haven't signed. The last thing I signed I think was five, six years ago where we signed the lease, like rental place that we're renting. I think that was the last thing I signed, okay? So those are your two bits. You can make a deal with them, probably. Call them up and say, hey, listen. If you want to take it really far, go stand outside the gym with a sign, saying, these guys rip me off, right? And by the way, I'm telling you this because I've pushed corporations to the limit. I took the CEO of Impark, one of the largest, if not the largest parking company that has a stock on the stock market, their headquarters in Vancouver in Canada. I took the CEO of the company, the Canadian office, which I think was a president of all of Canada. I took them to court. I had the guy on the stand for two or three hours questioning him. I cost them tens of thousands of dollars, me representing myself against two of their lawyers and their CEO and stuff like this because they pissed me off. So it really depends what you want to do. Will I do that again? I doubt it. I had time in my hands. I wanted to know how the legal system worked. I wanted to know how far these people would take it. I went to court. I sued them for $10,000. And it's a long story. I think I've shared it once. And then I lost. The judge, everyone knew I was in the right and they were in the wrong. Everybody knows this. That corporation is in the wrong. The people who are there scamming are in the right. We walked out of the court. The CEO was pissed.  They're like blah blah blah blah blah. I turned to him. I looked at him. I said, listen man, you see what just happened. That's just me solo. If I get one more phone call from you guys. And I did this for like a $450 thing they wanted from me. I said, if I get one more letter from you guys. One more phone call from you guys. I'm going to take a full page ad in the two main newspapers in Vancouver saying, I'm going to file a class action lawsuit against you guys. Who's been scammed by them the way I have? I'm going to file a class action lawsuit. I go, one more. The guy looked at me. I go, I ain't effing mad. One more. I dare you. Never heard from him again. Wiped clean the debt. Do you really want to take it that far? I don't advise it. Only if you're really pissed. I am now taking two days off a week to secure an extra 14 hours to help my team's financial difficulties. Awesome. Oh, my God. Fantastic. Gang, I'm going to scroll down to see if there's anything that says Chicho on it because I'm assuming there's, you know, I go off on rants and I miss a lot of, I don't keep up with the chat. So if I see Chicho, if anything directed towards me, let me know. Go at Chicho. That way it stands out. And I hope you guys are having a great conversation between each other. If you're talking among each other and advising and whatnot, right? Hi, Chicho. This is the first stream I've caught live. Awesome. Jay is almost 2000. Welcome. Welcome. El Fide. Hey, Chicho. Greetings from the Netherlands. Love your content. Awesome. Salutations to the Netherlands. I've been to Amsterdam. Spent a few days there. It was a lot of fun. It was crazy, though. Cool. I don't keep up with Bitcoin too much, but I hear it's a huge highs lately. It's 13,000 plus right now. Also, hi, Chicho in chat. I'll be drifting in and out since I'm at work, but hope you are all well. You too, Kulia. You too. Let's go on, Chicho. What's your thoughts on fiat currency and changing it back to gold standard? Do you think that will go back to the gold standard? I don't think we're going to go back to the gold standard. I know a lot of people want us to go back to the gold standard. I don't think we're going to go back to the gold standard. There's people doing yard work outside. They do the blow thing. So apologies about the sound gang. I don't think we're going to go back to the gold standard. I don't think it's viable. It's feasible. I don't think environmentally it's sound because basically what's going to happen with the gold standard and those people who want us to go back to the gold standard don't understand the environmental aspects of gold mining. The value of gold, let's say, keeps on going up because if fiat currency is going to go to the gold standard gold should be a lot harder than what it is. Everybody knows that. Gold should be like at $12,000, not at $2,000. Because it's being suppressed and more manipulation and stuff like this. But if price of gold continues to go up then that means economically it's going to be feasible for companies to go after deposits that aren't very rich. So let's say gold goes up, take it to a limit. Gold goes up to a million dollars, an ounce. They'll be willing to take down mountains. Not that they're not right now. They're taking down mountains right now. Imagine what they would be willing to take down, right? To harvest that little things, see little particles of gold. This distribution is so minute, right? Going back to a gold standard environmentally would be a disaster for humanity. Aside from that, I don't think it's going to happen. There are other things that are taking place right now. Donny Tay, that's only if you're actually 100% on the right. Otherwise they can collect through court. No company is going to take you to court for $2,700. I don't think so, right? Yeah, it was dumb. My friend, Ding Bobber says, convinced me he signed one and didn't get screwed so bad.  If you're intelligent, you'll know the game at play.   Okay, I'm scrolling down.  Sometimes, it's like a bulldog. If I get my teeth into something, I try not to let go unless I'm satisfied or I'm about to be taken out. Oh, my God. I don't know. I don't advise it. I don't advise it. Ban and stain. How are you doing? Hey, Chicho, working on my Simon for Newton's Laws of Motion. Nice, nice. How's everything going? Going a while and Newton's Laws. Awesome. Fun. Fun. Nice walk on with Chicho. I pay to wash that corn case. Man, I learned a lot doing that. Right? I once redecorated someone's car. I was scamming my sister. Thanks for the advice. Elder God and Chicho Ding Bobber says. Pixar didn't happen. To Elder God about the car. Hilarious. Good afternoon, Chicho Intrepid. How are you doing? How's things on this find? They're doing well, man. Thank you very much. Had pancakes this morning, so I'm all happy. Two hopeless two. Chicho, I like the advice that I heard from Tony Robbins. About investing a minimum of 10% of monthly income and 20% if possible. The worst way to earn money is trading your time for money. Investing and compounding is the path to real life. Yeah, like if you want to, in this economic system, if you want to acquire material wealth, let's call it because there's different types of wealth. There are people who are very poor, but they're healthy. They have amazing family, friends. Community. They have a place to live. They grow their own food. So wealth comes in multiple ways. First of all, Tony Robbins is a scam artist. He gives good advice, some of it. But this advice isn't really Tony Robbins advice. This advice is general advice. In our current economic system, if you want to become financially independent, you need to invest in something because fiat currencies, their value decrease. For me, as you know, I invest in collectibles.  My main collectibles is comic books. So you can invest in any tangible objects or cryptos or stock market if you want or whatever you want. But as I said before, we put out a video on personal finance. Invest in your health. I don't care how much money you have. If your health deteriorates, all the money in the world is not going to make you happy.  It's not going to buy you freedom. It's not going to relieve you of pain. Not on a serious level.  If you have extra money left over, 100%, you should be investing a little bit wherever you feel comfortable. And as you said, it says investing. So if you want to put money in the stock market, take a little bit of money, average over time, buy into stocks. If you want to invest in collectibles, comic books, sure, follow a certain genre and start accumulating some assets. If you want to invest in crypto, start accumulating averaging up or down over time. So you do need to invest if you want to become financially independent in this economic system. And that's general advice that's been around for a very, very long time. Greetings and salutations to all. Greetings, Gina. How are you doing? By the way, regarding Tony Robbins, you know the thing that made me just totally tune this guy off? I remember watching a lecture of his and he comes on. He's a really big guy and there's people clapping. First of all, the first thing I ever saw him that really turned me off with his videos with him with yachts and mansions, a lot of beautiful girls and stuff. I was like, man, what? I just didn't like that. That's not what I was going for.  So again, when you're taking advice, take with grain of salt and keep in mind who you're taking advice from. If you're looking to acquire yachts, take advice from Tony Robbins, I guess. Don't take advice from Chico. Things Tony Robbins said was this, on doing this lecture thing, right? He came out and he starts talking and starts talking. And then at some point, I think 10 minutes in, he goes, you know, you should do multiple things in life. Like why would you spend your time to watch a movie again? There are so many amazing movies out there. Why would you waste your time to ever re-watch a movie?  There's movies that are watched like 10 times because they're absolutely amazing. That statement that Tony Robbins says, why would you ever watch a movie again? It's like saying, why would you ever have sex again if you've had it one great time? Or why would you ever go for a walk down this amazing beautiful trail that is meandering through the mountains with waterfalls and beautiful scented flat? Why would you ever go down that path again? Because there's endless paths you could go down walking and explore new places. His logic is flawed because he's selling himself. He's selling his... pretend wisdom? I don't know what it is.  Yeah, and by the way, gang, what Elder God's saying? Clean house every now and then. Man, I'm saying, yeah, having a blast working on mechanic physics. Greetings from Norway. How are you doing? Must be getting colder now, just like Canada. Okay, interesting. Lechalon says, I see a lot of investors who are against the fiat currency investing in gold like crazy. They say fiat will fail and we will go back to the gold. I want to a different viewpoint. Yeah, it's not a bad idea to acquire some physical gold or physical silver. The mining companies, like, take a look at Kinross. It's been a five-banger over the last, like, three years. Like, Kinross dropped down. Their stock dropped down to, I think, like $2. And it's sitting at... Canadian anyway. And it's sitting at... Or US Canadian. It's sitting at $10, $11 right now. So it was a five-banger. It was a great place to be five years ago, right? It might have room to grow a lot higher, but it's not going to be a five-banger. I have a lot of wealth. I'm happy. The best kind of wealth in exactly Crafter, right? Happy, healthy, have family, have friends, have people you can communicate with, have books you can read, acquire things that you love, right? Knights of Volcomic, Chicho. My friend put faces under the car door handles of one of his intelligent enemies. What? Faces? Oh, feces. I saw faces, feces. Well, if he did, then he's looking to start a war, which isn't the best idea. I hope he did it for good reasons. Under the door handles of one of his intelligent enemies, man. I hope that intelligent enemy doesn't decide to escalate the situation. Barantolie. Hello, hello. Welcome to another live stream. Chicho, can you go over how you started your business and if you had any failed ones? For sure I've had failed ones. My comic book publishing company was a, financially, was a disaster for me, okay? Experiment-wise, what I learned by starting it was amazing, right? I don't understand leaf blowers. Really, leaf blowers don't make sense to me. Yeah, like right now in Canada, the Canadian government put out a mandate, but a recommendation for people not to rake the dead leaves because it's fall, that fall on the ground, because that becomes food to the soil, right? They're animals, species that live, that thrive under fallen leaves, right? So people have to be told, listen, let the leaves be. Meanwhile, you have people walking around with leaf blowers and these leaf blowers, they're, I think they're two stroke engines, right? So they pollute a lot, right? So it's just ridiculous, right? I've had failed ones, Anakin, just to let you know. Sorry about the leaf blower gang. It is fall. Let me read some comments. We'll listen to the leaf blower and I'll address some of your things. Loud, loud. I have watched the usual suspects, 113 times at least. 113 times. Kulio, sounds to me Tony is more concerned about experience accumulation rather than experience enjoyment. Well said, Kulio, possibly. Or even learning from your experiences, right? Some movies you have to watch multiple times to get the deep meaning behind them. Stan, yeah, it's a really, really cold, haha, in Norway. Snowed yesterday, yikes. So boots on and winter jacket. It has a snow where I am right now. Elder God, cryptocurrency. Should I invest 10K? It depends how much, what the total of your total liquid cash that 10K is. Elder God, if your liquid cash is 10K, I would not take 10K and put it into cryptos. If your liquid cash is 10K and you want to roll the dice and let it sit, or you want to start trading, take 10%, take a K and throw it in there, right? If you guys aren't liquid and you're going to go all in into whatever investment it might be, that's a bad idea. I don't care what that investment is. Don't go all in. I personally don't believe in crypto. Most of the people either don't use it or they don't know what it is, which in most of the cases it's just another casino type of commodity. To a certain degree, it's become that way. What's happening right now is it started off, should have been crypto currency, right? Currency, meaning people using it to buy and sell things, right? But Wall Street got their hands on it and it's no longer a currency, right? Not the way it was designed to be. It's more of a trading instrument and an asset that people are holding. So right now big players are going in there and putting cryptocurrencies or Bitcoin on their balance sheets, right? So just hoarding it, okay? So it's like hoarding a collectible really because that's what Bitcoin is. It's limited, right? So it's become a collectible. So people are hoarding a digital collectible a digital collectible, right? It has its uses but it's not being used for its initial design, right? So it's become a collectible, digital collectible. And at some point, right? And at some point, and I agree with certain economists that have come out and said at some point, like if people think centralized governments are gonna allow a currency to take over their economies people are out of their minds, right? Because at some point they might come out and say okay holding Bitcoin is now illegal. They'll confiscate the Bitcoins. Now for individuals that have cryptocurrencies that they haven't declared it and they're doing business in cryptos and stuff like this, that doesn't matter, right? So they can say, I mean they could bring up punishment say if you hold it we can seize your assets, we can do this and most people will let it go, right? But some people will hold on to it, right? However, those institutions that are buying up Bitcoin and putting it on their balance sheets if the governments come out and say Bitcoin is now illegal then all those institutions will have to dump their Bitcoin. Right now a lot of the push of Bitcoin going up has to do with some of these institutions and stuff like this buying these things as an asset as basically crypto gold, right? A collectible, a rarity, a commodity and putting it on their balance sheets this is the absurdity of this whole system, right? What happens if tomorrow United States comes out and says we're seizing all cryptos, okay all Bitcoin and it's illegal now? What's going to happen? There's going to be tons of crypto dumped on the market, right?   Nero Blossom, hey, Chicho, hello, my friend what's your number one unique learning from your comic book publishing company? Don't try to do everything yourself right? There's a few, really so first of all, don't try to do everything yourself second of all no matter how much you think balance out you need add a multiplier to it so if you think you need $50,000 to get this business off the ground minimum multiplied by two let's say you make sure you have access to $100,000 if you need $5,000 to get this business off the ground multiply it by three if it's lower, give yourself a bigger multiple if it's higher, give yourself a lower multiple but whatever you figure out that you need to get your business off the ground add a multiplier on it have access to cash and have a source of revenue coming in for me, I've always done multiple things I've sort of been decentralized my whole life I don't know why I did this I just did I grew up in a household where it was what do you call it it was a construction household where you had your own companies and stuff like this so I just decentralized from the get-go so I had certain revenue streams coming in here, here, here so if one failed, I wasn't left in the streets I still had certain revenue coming in that being said I put a lot of money into comic books publishing bad timing on my part, distributor wars collapsing market even Marvel comics declared bankruptcy so what's Chicho's company going to do? Mermaid Publications Nate, what up Chicho been missing the live streams but enjoying the salvia readings awesome, Nate, glad you're liking it's about 9% yeah Allah God possibly we're talking about bitcoin the government is not going to come out tomorrow and say illegal there's institutions institutions going in there it's sitting at $13,000 right now right? keep an eye on it if it doubles goes to 26 I would pull half you'd pull your original stake out and if you don't need the rest of it let it ride right? until politically things change or whatnot I don't know, I don't hold crypto so we do have a cryptocurrency playlist by the way I love your blog Chicho about the current economic situation that you published I believe 2014 recommended to every awesome awesome lesson on yeah it's a long game they play right? what is the best way in your opinion to learn financial in my experience public schools are very bad at teaching it do you think it's better to learn by investing little amounts or researching through websites and whatnot by doing both get your hands dirty like for example there's a rule in gambling and I've gambled I've held poker games in my house and I had two tables going one for a period of time and stuff like this there's a saying in poker that says the only way to learn poker is to play poker with money you have to play you can read all the rules you want all the rules you want but until you sit down at a poker table and play with real money against real people you don't know what the game of poker is and it will take time for you to learn it it's like all of these academics that come on and say how the markets should function but a lot of these academics have never really been in the open market they're academics the people you should listen to are traders people who have started normal businesses who do active trading who do import-export business those are the people that know how the economy works not academics so the best way to really learn financial literacy is to risk a certain amount of your assets into starting something and doing research at the same time and it stands gang don't go all in don't go all in and definitely don't go all in at the beginning of the game it's a long game you want to play in 1980 my father took me to Empire Strikes Backs in the theater over 10 times we don't regret a single viewing it'd be amazing right watching movies multiple times is one of the greatest joys in the world and TV series I've watched Cowboy, Peepop now the whole series at least five times Samurai Champloo Samurai Champloo too I've watched at least four or five times but Samurai Jack 52 episodes of Samurai Jack I watched them at the beginning and watched it again no break, didn't watch anything else it was that brilliant please gang, don't get me wrong I love blockchain technology and it's a big thing for our future I am just annoyed by this crypto market yes, cryptocurrencies might be decentralized but the way they sell it is heavily centralized 100% agree with you fees, limits and tons of trash currencies Bartoloni, I agree with you blockchain technology legitimate technology is going to see us into the future if it's done right the crypto currency market it's controlled by central like most of the cryptos are in the hands of very few people they can manipulate the market as they wish right, you got Wall Street coming in like institutional investors coming in because they're searching for any type of return right now they're searching for yield yield is more dividends coming in but they're searching for growth anything so they went through the real estate market the real estate market is crashing for the most part commercial real estate residential and farmland stuff is doing well because they're outside of central institutions right central centers, the centers where the populace is right so they've gone through the real estate they've gone through they've gone through different fields right right now they're hitting up the cryptos I put an article a while ago as soon as Wall Street got in I sort of said you know what I pulled out because I'm not here to support Wall Street was it a financially good idea to pull out? no not really because bitcoin has gone up a lot since I pulled out but I'm not interested in supporting Wall Street and their scam best memory ever Luke oh I won't say Luke everybody must have seen it Luke I am your father Luke Darth Vader voice that makes sense, Blossom says eagles and cycling hello hello hi Chichou what are your thoughts, opinions on selling products online as a business? great idea such as Amazon or others I have a friend who has done extremely well in this field 100% collectibles you can buy things in bulk and sell them like for example I got comic book calls coming right away I bought some comic books from this one seller okay I just paid for it yesterday and he's sending it out to me so probably in I'll get him in a couple of weeks or something like this right but basically the guy bought a storage container right or some place that was storage it was full of he said like 500 boxes of books and comic books right so this is a legitimate market to be in it's a legitimate business models auto records this is a business model that has been around for a gazillion years right or as long as cars have been around and other things have been around they buy things in bulk break them up and sell them in parts and make more than buying the thing in bulk companies do this where they go buy a company in wall street they do this it's predatory taking over a company they go into a company buy it out siphoning out money from the company's savings and retirements and all this jazz right screw over the workers start selling off the assets and disband the company so let's say they buy a company for 10 million dollars break it all up siphon out the money sell shares to dumb ass investors that think that these people are there to save the company and then they raise capital and then they bankrupt that company and they bought it for 10 million they pull out 40 million they're done right it's a legitimate business model it's the way our economic system works and 100% you can do this with collectibles or essentials you can buy things and sell them online why not diversify actually I have been on the DW a lot recently they call crypto as a favorite payment really and PayPal just allowed I believe Bitcoin transactions to be on there so it is legit it is legit so it's becoming more affordable to do to buy and sell things with crypto to a certain degree it's going into the mainstream so is it gonna go up most likely most likely high high could go a lot higher but it could go to 0 overnight as well so don't go all in but if I had a lot of extra cash around I might park some in there hey chichou it's been quite a minute quite a minute how's it going lions how are you doing welcome welcome Ireland coolio wall street is the main reason I no longer support or invest in the stock market maxdecker how are you doing how is everybody doing today how is everybody doing gang I'm scrolling down speaking of selling online I resell sneakers I buy for retail and sell at a higher price based on a set supply and demand market lions 100% I used to go there's a magazine called adbusters that is based in Vancouver and it hit the scene in the late 1990s and it's political and stuff like this they were based in Vancouver and just as a hobby they were on 7th downtown Vancouver 7th Street or something there was a period for like 2-3 months I was going to their offices and they had their adbusters magazines that you could buy just sitting there for like 2 dollars each and at the time some of their magazines were selling it for a fair bit so I would buy like 20 of them and then go list them on ebay I bought them for either 2 dollars or 5 dollars and I was selling them between 15 to 30 dollars after 9-11 there was some stuff they put in 9-11 was an interesting period there was some stuff they were publishing that culturally they were important and people were willing to pay a premium price for it so I would go buy their magazines and sell them on ebay it's a legitimate thing to do and you learn about and it's more educational in a big way you learn about trade commerce, money management speculation you learn the the technicals of how to list things online sell things online, the pitfalls how to ship doing you learn a lot by doing drainage drainage elder god also for the record I'm not buying anything illegal awesome elder god line is quite well surprisingly profitable as long as you know what shoes to go after fragment Jordan 3 dropping tomorrow for 200 pounds sell for 450-500 pounds sorry not pounds that's the euro symbol so fragment Jordan 3 these are collectibles the collectible market is hot and it's legitimate I don't know if I would invest in Jordan there will be a market there for a long time maybe for me comic books they go you're out of your mind what a waste of money dude do you guys understand that the collectible market has been around longer than Wall Street has been around longer than the stock market has been around collectibles have been a thing for thousands if not tens of thousands of years throughout human history Wall Street has been around for 150 years and people think Wall Street is more legit than collectible markets just imagine the brainwashing required for that right that's no fun coolio what would you say if the best investment what would you say is the best investment for a thousand dollars USD for a profitable return of investment preferably within a time frame of a few months to one to two years okay first of all if you're talking about investment of a thousand dollars in a few months you're not talking investment you're talking gambling okay or what do you call it speculation right and you can have good speculation and bad speculation right so a few months or a few weeks is not investment is gambling one to two years could be considered investment and it depends coolio depends what you're into think is going to be good one thing you could do is follow Hollywood see what type of movies they're putting out that are related to comic books find a character do your research go on the forums and stuff like this find not one find two or three characters that are going to make an appearance in a blockbuster movie buy their first appearances before the movie comes out or right after the movie comes out if you think the movie is going to be really popular sell them that doesn't require that much capital and you learn a lot or as lion said buy fragment Jordan 3's 200 euros so you could buy three of them three of them if you're talking about USD thousand bucks so buy three of them and sell them nights of all comment after being laid off after being laid off from a successful game company they offer to buy back all my stock for USD 15 I pay USD 2 they are private company advice I'd only be able to sell again if they offer go public or are acquired so what if they don't nights of all comic so what if they don't offer to buy it again if it's a private company can you still hold the stock in that company is that legit from what I understand you can't do that can you or go public, go public for sure they'll be open why do you have to sell all of it if you think they're going to go public or get acquired which is very if it's a small gaming company is successful then a larger company at some point will gobble it up unless the management is brutal and they're going to run it to the ground so here's one thing gang the choice is not all in or all out you could fragment it right so let's say you have 1000 shares nights of all comic if they're offering you $15 a share just say okay I'll sell you 500 I'll sell you half and keep the other half and let it ride you never know right if you don't need the cash that's what I would do personally if I need the cash I would say go ahead remember you're going to have to pay capital gains on that crap too right you got to take the tax implications and consideration if your salary is this much and selling the shares all of a sudden kicks you up to a major tax bracket don't do it because you're not really getting $15 a share now you're getting $9 a share because that is going to go to tax man right so you have to take those into consideration but my first advice would be can you sell partial if you want to Anakin, Chicho I bought Pokemon packs a couple of years ago for $30 and just sold them first 450 each recently awesome great job Anakin great job Chicho what's your take on blockchain based digital collectibles blockchain well I consider bitcoin to be digital collectible blockchain based digital collectible that's what bitcoin is to me right so it's a legit place to be if you have extra cash as long as you don't need that liquidity right it goes off hype if people in the street where sneakers community are excited or if it's a collab between two communities then the profit margin is high basic equation design company plus Nike divided by Jordan equals hype equals profit Nike Jordan brands instead of communities crazy right Lyons but it is what it is right I see Culeo says anyone invested in Bethasada is going to see their investment go up in value Microsoft just recently bought them I don't know what Bethasada is nice will come and she show yes I have legal documents as ownership the offer is only for all yeah they would have put a disclaimer in there this or little caveat in there all or nothing up to you nice will come back and look in your tax bracket first of all is that going to kick you seriously high up into a tax bracket where it's not $15 anymore it's only 750 and is it worth it to you do you need that liquid money do you have faith in the company that's going to get bought out going to go public or they'll make an offer again at some point by the way nice of all comic you can make a counter offer if you like right and make sure the company can't dilute your shares right Bartoloni the best long-term investment is always when you invest in yourself 100% agree if you invest in the stock market then your money stays in the casino the question is what is the best investment for you education, books, community your own business, tons of options tons of options and gang what Bartoloni is mentioning here is our first video first and second video in our personal finance playlist on youtube this is exactly what I was mentioning that should be in your top 5 your health, your education your family, your community that's the best investment you could make you do that and then if you have excess money that you feel like learning something new you want to enter a market do your research tip your toes in there try it out see if you really want to be there their video game company that made the fallout and elder scrolls games but they've been around, they're huge elder scrolls fallout and elder scrolls are huge Bartoloni the stock market is not a casino it's not gambling long-term the market has a 7% return after inflation I disagree with you there right now the stock market is completely the numbers where it is right now does not reflect the health of the economy it's centralized controlled given corporate bailout trillions of dollars for companies to buy back their own stocks it's it's a disaster most of the stocks in the stock market right now they are selling multiples of what they really be priced at right now the stock market is a casino and keep in mind everything is a cycle the stock market let's say here's a stock market corrected for inflation it did this in the 1970s and then 1980s crash 1988 1994 stock market goes up old crash, bubble crash then the scam of 2000s crash again it all depends on when you buy in is it a good idea to buy at the peak before a major crash because every peak is broken there's a stock market going to continue to go up sure, but it's going to be are you buying at the peak that it's going to take another 15 years 10 years to reach the peak again or is it done I don't know, I'd be a trader I wouldn't be a long-term holder of anything on Wall Street right now Lions, Chico off topic you've probably already discussed it what's your thoughts on Armenia as a present conflict if you have any relatives or loved ones in Armenia I pray for their safety, thanks Lions, appreciate it what about this, actually I was prepared yesterday we did a politics on live stream where I was prepared to talk about Armenia and Azerbaijan I did my research, I had my stuff and it gets my blood boiling a little bit because it is a complicated situation but not as complicated as people think it is it's about a people Armenian that are very much concerned of being genocided again by the same people that committed genocide on them in World War I that don't recognize that they committed genocide on them they want to cleanse an area and they started the war there's a lot of people at play so last night during our politics live stream I was going pretty hard because I was I had really prepared myself for the Armenians or by John discussion but it didn't come up and since we're doing this this is more of a personal finance discussion I rather not go there but as per your question yes I do have family there and yes the situation is really bad there and yes Azerbaijan with Turkey started this war and they're using ISIS fighters to try to commit genocide cleanse an area that has been for thousands of years Armenian ethnicity and they want to cleanse the area and get rid of those Armenians and bring in their own people so I'm biased I'm Armenian but I can honestly tell you Armenia is a democracy the information flowing in and out of Armenia is fluid it's very fluid Azerbaijan is a dictatorship Turkey is a dictatorship both Azerbaijan and Turkey do not allow free flow of information in that degree because the education system is completely indoctrination like crazy indoctrination look at and anything you say against the Ottoman Empire you could get killed in Turkey if you want an example look at Han Haran think that was a journalist in Turkey that was writing about the Armenian genocide of World War II that Turks committed genocide in Armenia and he was assassinated in Turkey and people cheered people in government cheered him the person that assassinated this journalist he was like a 17 year old kid I think he's still in jail but he was being praised by a lot of the politicians in Turkey Turkey and Azerbaijan are in the wrong they started this war thousands of people were dying and they're in the mindset of committing genocide on the Armenians and we can talk about this a lot more because there's a lot of history there and stuff like this but that's a general gist of it and Azerbaijan has been being armed to the teeth by different parties and stuff like this it's crazy and ISIS fighters are there and this is sort of a lashing out and what not but we'll leave it there I thank you for the concerns by the way thank you for the concerns it's heavy I'm currently working with a friend on a non-profit or business plan as well as a youtube channel we'll eventually monetize the youtube channel but that project is more for education and enjoyment first and foremost awesome while collectibles hold their trade value during a period of intense recession okay here's the thing Blossom pandemic hit earlier this year stock market dropped 30% Dow Jones and Dow Jones is not a great indicator of what's going on in the markets because what is it Tesla what's in the Dow Jones Microsoft and Apple during the Dow I forget which ones it were but two companies in the Dow are 40% of the weight of the Dow right so it was really an indication of four companies two companies in large part but the Dow Jones went from like 29,000 down to like 18,000 so it dropped 30% when the pandemic hit during the same time the price of comic books collectibles only dropped about 10% so which one is a more stable place to be during a recession sure comic book prices could fluctuate a lot as well and they do individually you can find amazing deals as we've seen through our comic book hauls I've bought some comic books that I bought for dirt cheap there's been comic books that I bought for a dollar $50 there's comic books that I bought for $70 that I wouldn't sell for $1,000 right take a look at our C.G.C. buy of mystic number 6 with Basil Wolverton I ended up buying that for $80 all in including shipping I would not sell that comic for $1,000 right now right and I wouldn't sold it for $1,000 then when I bought it so it really depends on the collectible market right Pokemon cards yeah they might drop a lot yeah sure there's certain collectibles that collapse what do you call it baseball trading cars sports trading cars collapsed have they recouped not even close but housing markets can collapse as well you have to do your own research blossom you have to do your own research but I agree there's certain markets industries that will collapse what's the usual dollar per share for software companies if they go public how do I tell if they can dilute my shares you can't put a dollar per share how much are they what's the net worth of the company and how many shares do they have and stuff like this look into the contract of the shares you bought nice it's a big problem find out if there's a clause there where they can dilute your shares so it's basically market cap of a company that decides so it's not a dollar per share it's the market cap and what they can do is they can say if the market cap is a billion dollars and they release they say we're going to release a million shares all it won't be a hundred thousand let's say a million shares then all you do you take a billion dollars divided by a million shares or yeah, divided by a million and that's how much the stocks are per share or 10 million shares so a billion divided by 10 million that means there are 10 million shares that's the price of the stock they might decide to release less stock or more stock but look into the contract find out what the what the mechanics hold are and if you need advice if it's worth a lot of money if you need advice find someone that understands can interpret that contract for you if it's not too much money and you want to let it ride then let it ride if it's a lot of money then think about this a purple cow sure, you could do much better with your own business but what's the value of your time there downside risk how many startups fail do you have rich family friends to support you in the meantime first of all you don't need to have rich family friends to support you if you're going to start a business you could plan ahead and build yourself a buffer and start your business if you want to go all in and quit everything else or you could start your business in slow mode while you do something else do this as well I wanted to have a presence online in 2005 I started blogging right, in 2007 I started releasing my first videos people would tell me, oh, how come you're spending so much time on this? well, I go, well because I love what I do and this is a place I want to be it's a new industry and I want to build up my own business here oh, you're crazy, you're wasting your time after a while, after 10 years or whatever it was 8 years or something YouTube monetized allowed monetization of videos oh, cool, now you can get a little bit of revenue and it was very, very, very little right, and it still is very, very little but you can diversify you can parlay that right, and then you get into live streaming you got multiple streams of revenue so it's not necessary to go all in it's not necessary to have friends or family to support you if you're depending if you want to start a business and you're relying on your friends to support you until your business takes off you're doing the wrong thing don't start that business you're out of your mind the probability of your business being successful is almost zero right as far as your time goes if you love what you do then you'll spend as much time in it as you like as you want so it really depends what it is that you're doing your passion for it, your love for it if it's part of your hobby if it's something you want to incorporate into your lifestyle or if it's just a burden on you a lot of that stuff has to be taken into consideration God, Armenian needs some beach property we're landlocked and that was by design, by the way by design of powers that landlocked Armenia because they wanted that area to be in conflict right, Lyons that really sucks to hear the bias that's fair from what I know, I'm pro-Armenian I'm already anti-Turkey in Lyons brother Erdogan and Turkey is in trouble and they're lashing out they're basically fighting wars on multiple fronts right now they're fighting a war in Syria they're fighting a war in Iraq they're fighting a war in Armenia okay Azerbaijan bombed towns in Iran they actually fired into Iranian territory we'll see what what the backlash from that is going to be the powers that be the western powers have been trying to drag Iran into a war for a long time now I don't think Iran is going to let Armenia fail or fall right, so this thing might explode huge Erdogan was lashing out in Libya Turkey man, if I lived in Turkey I'd be very, very pissed with that government right now because they brought in fanatics ISIS armed them, they started multiple wars killed countless of their citizens economically collapsed the country, the Turkish lira has gone from has dropped 85% in 10 years right, Turkey is in deep shit that is one of the reasons they're starting so many wars and killing so many people right because economically the country is collapsing one of the last bastions of dictators when their whole country is collapsing their economy is collapsing and people are pissed and they got fanatics in their midst because they allowed them in right, it's to start wars all over a place and deflect that's what Turkey is doing unfortunately they're killing a lot of Armenians in the process, right F them love and support to the Armenian people thanks Kulio don't need to know any of that target retirement, okay I'm scrolling down to see if there's anything directed to Ciccio Kulio Ciccio, how often do you sell your comics, not often we sold last year I believe we sold some comics before that it was in 2002 that I sold some comics and I regret selling almost all of those comics really, I even regret selling some of the comics I did last year some of those comics that I sold last year they've gone up multiple fold we sold Venom number 3 with the first appearance of Nal for $80 and the person tried to scam me and I disputed it and eBay was found in my favor we sold that comic it was a 9.8 condition for $60 that comic right now is selling in that condition for $300 plus we sold Venom number 4 for $10 that comic right now is selling for over 100 I believe there's other comics that I sold last year I remember when I listed them someone on YouTube came up saying these comics too high I'm like dude that's my collection this is when I'm willing to sell them and some of these things are pretty damn good price I'm selling them to collect data so we can do a little mathematics on them right now some of those comics are a lot higher than what I sold them for the people who bought them are very very happy some of those people good on them fantastic so to answer your question I sold in 2002 I regret selling almost all those comics I sold last year so it was 17 how many years? 17 years basically since I sold and the odds are I'm going to sell some comics in the next few months as well I want to raise some money because I need to do an upgrade to my computers and stuff like that so I need to raise a few thousand dollars to do a hardcore upgrade so this is assets I have I'm going to sell to keep my business going and that is what investing in collectibles or stocks or anything means you park your money somewhere hopefully the value of wherever you park your money goes up and when you need to you liquidate some of those assets to invest somewhere else or in yourself or in your business that's the way personal finance works what's the main financial demographic of your comic book buyers main financial I've had resellers buying my comics all the comics we sold I got scammed three times one of them I disputed four times maybe one of them I disputed my favor there's no way I was going to let that guy get away without me disputing it because I knew he was pulling a scam one person pulled a scam saying he never received a book and I know that was a scam because three days later he said refund me because I haven't got the book I'm like dude it's three days over Christmas what are you nuts we said wait but I knew he wasn't going to say he got it a reseller partially scammed me because he said oh this book is this and he took a picture and I said show it out of the bag and he never did and I refunded him half the money and another person I just refunded it it wasn't worth disputing so it's just business expense so who are my comic book buyer demographics there are people who are collecting comic books there are people who love comic books as a hobby there are people who are artists I know one person locally that bought some comic books he was an artist he wanted to have the comic books on his wall and there's resellers that were buying my comics because they were going to resell it so it's all over the place and fans right fans I know one person we sold Death Sandman number 8 the first appearance of Death and the person that bought that was in the United States and she was she loved the character Death and she wanted to have the first appearance of Death and she bought that at a fantastic price I think she bought it for 50 bucks 40 bucks I think and that comic now is worth over 100 I believe Mastaharo I remember hearing somewhere that Armenia was a big tech area for the Soviet Union and that has carried on to this day with a lot of industry in Armenia being service based stuff like IT companies is that true? I don't think there's that much but Armenia is a it is a center for innovation the MiG Russian MiG is MiGoyan as Armenian design Armenian education system this is what an education system should be like mandatory everybody that goes to school in Armenia every kid that goes to school in Armenia has to learn chess right this is a different different than the way people in Azerbaijan and Turkey are growing up so there's a lot of it's there's a lot of brain power there because it has from day one really try to make sure that one of its biggest resource is innovation human knowledge it's not heavily populated so they're not man and father they're raising people to be innovators it's a different game if so do you see a large part of the nation's output being intellectual property as something that is as secure as something that will continue to grow when compared to for example rural resource extraction I don't know too much about that I know Armenia is going through some hard economic times for the last few years and it was starting to do better this war is kicking it down because Turkey and Azerbaijan do not want to see Armenia do better right we need to arrange a voice chat on discord about the A versus A war maybe elder gods maybe we can do a live stream voice chat on discord will work as well let me know I'm willing to do sure you can dive deeper if you want a purple cow but don't act like that's necessary for people to do well in the stock market or even like it's generally a good idea to do so plenty of research shows that people who trade more do worse whose research is that is that research coming out of the big houses if you want to make it a casino you can make it a casino indeed you can make it a casino I personally for example when people say they own stock they own this they've done well what have you got you got mining companies banking companies your money is invested in military industrial complex how have you done more on paper and responsible for hundreds of thousands of people dying your investments are responsible for your centralized power taxing the living daylights out of you and taking your money and giving it to the military industrial complex you can look on paper to see if your value has gone up or not but what is the cost of that gain what is the cost of that gain people don't take these into consideration people say we had Monsanto stock you're an idiot you're okay buying stock of a company that is poisoning the planet that's what you're okay with it really depends man it really depends and by the way if you're investing in the stock market the stock market has done this look at the chart of the markets Dow S&P, Nasdaq do you really want to be holding do you really want to be holding here are you okay with holding here when are you going to cash out people invest they don't realize that hey maybe you should be pulling some of that money off the table maybe you should pull some of that money off the table people invest in the markets take all their disposable cash and put it in the markets because on paper they look good but their communities are collapsing their children don't get education they can't afford to buy nice healthy organic food because that's too expensive so they go buy genetically modified hormone bovine induced meat because the nice organic free range meat that is grown in your local farm is too expensive for you to eat meanwhile every month they give 10-20% of their money to 5% of their money to wall street clowns that's not a good investment just because on paper it looks good damn no man no no no what is the cost of your investment hey old friends mister he's like what are you doing what is your holy grail as far as comics my holy grail as far as comics the basil wolverton mystic number 6 the graded one would be one of my holy grails that's the one we bought for $80 that I wouldn't sell for a thousand right now right? wow only 3 times that's great blossom on ebay 3 times because I didn't really list that stuff and the comics I was selling they were great comics man I was really kind I communicated with everyone I packaged everything really nicely I take pride in what I do I wanted everyone to be happy I treated people the way I wanted to be treated and the way I didn't want to be treated right? when I get books, packages with comic books packaged nicely and they're nice exactly what the description says I'm happy I wanted to make sure other people were happy that's why I know those people that I had to refund the stuff they were scammers because there's no way that they would have been unhappy with the books as a reseller resellers suck yeah detective 27 is mine oh elder god if you have detective 27 rock and roll we read that we do a comic book reading of detective 27 that's the first appearance of Batman for those of you that want to know why that's important legendary Rob Boss if I wanted to win over a beautiful Persian woman with cooking what Persian dish do you think would do the job depends on the Persian woman the best way to do it is a staple Persian dish it's like a vegetarian it's not vegetarian but lots of greens it's got a little bit of meat and stuff with Persian rice dish Persian dish there are some Persian dishes what's a good one that will win over oh make them this is what you gotta do make them what we did yesterday yesterday we did the cooking no no two days ago we did the cooking stream but the main part of that is the tadik cook rice it's just rice really and whatever else you make on the side make it doesn't make a difference whatever stew you make but the rice make sure you cook it in a way where you have the crispy bread on the bottom of the pan so you cook the rice al dente rinse it and then take a platter put oil in the bottom I use olive oil but you could use butter as well and take flat bread, Persian flat bread put it on the bottom and if you have lamb meat you could do that too but the girl might be vegetarian and then put rice on top put it in the oven for 45 minutes for 20 and the bottom of the thing the bread will become crispy that's called tadik persians kill for that Armenians kill for that too and yesterday elder said he would kill for that what was the cost of that gain that hit home for me Jabba 197 yeah people need to take into consideration the cost of that gain thank god they changed Batman's outfit thank god there are socially responsible funds by the way purple cow you can't post links only me and mods can post links but the socially responsible funds yes they exist I was tracking some of them a few years ago recently but majority of the socially responsible funds that I saw no longer exist because they were losing money right because socially responsible funds goes against what the first doctrine of wall street is which is increasing shareholder value right but I agree with you there should be socially responsible funds and they should get more money going into them maybe an after stream discord chat about a twitch stream elder god what do you think is a smart investment for someone younger to be making for long term growth maybe something to put a bit of money in every week month so he can bolster retirement fund a bit later down the track look there are companies on wall street in the stock market which are good companies which do actually give you that actually have a yield that possibly could have a good upside personally for me the ones I've been looking at are some of the cannabis companies right because the cannabis industries in its infancy okay really the cannabis industry is in its infancy it has a lot more room to grow we're talking decades of room to grow do some research find some companies whose business model you agree with whose management you have faith in who listen to their what do you call it their quarterly and yearly conferences that they have investor conferences that they have if they're on the stock market they have to broadcast that live or they have to have it available for you to listen to you can listen to them and if you agree with their model take a look at their charts personally if I was going to step back into the markets there's some cannabis companies that I've been looking at one of them was there's two of them that are in my part of the world one of them is a cannabis a cannabis company that produces cigarettes but no tobacco with cannabis their stock was five months ago was 62 cents it did a pop it peaked at $3 right now sitting at $2 right so that was like a five banger in a matter of four or five months right there's another one that provides cannabis that dropped down to $2.50 now it's sitting around $6 and even at $6 it's still a good buy possibly right there's other things involved with it so look into the field that you're comfortable being in that doesn't compromise your ethics right because if you're going to park it for a long time you want to use it at your retirement make sure it's not something that goes against your ethical nature right because you have to live with that there are all folks homes places that have reeds that you can investment that give you yield right there's a few places right and those ones I don't know if they're I track some of them right SAG bonus hey chichou do you upload this stream on youtube too or just cooking stuff I'm going to upload this on youtube as well the only one right now that we're not uploading to youtube is the current events politics streams even though we've talked a little bit about politics right now hopefully the algorithms are going to avoid that right the sensors are going to avoid that so personal finance goes on youtube as well so right now it's entheogens is not going to go on youtube I don't think so no it's not going to go on youtube we only loaded one entheogen stream on youtube we've done two more since the first one we did and those are on bit shoot and we're going to do one tomorrow on entheogens and that's not going to be loaded on youtube so current events politics and entheogens don't go on youtube they go on bit shoot and at some point we might even reduce what we're putting on youtube just because the sensors might be clamping and tighter and tighter right the juliennes launch streams we're going to do next week two of them they will go on youtube okay hi chichou from sweden how are you doing well sweden how are you doing what's your real name by the way chichou i'm a chichichu okay thanks legendary rob boss my pleasure man my pleasure coolio have to keep our online privacy where we can especially people like chichou who have bigger followers tiger codes what are your thoughts on investing apps like robin hood i've been getting a little bit into it i've seen a couple of them i actually have one of those online investing apps contact me asking me to promote their stuff and they would give me money i think they said they would give me $500 per video that i put out that i had that little selling their app and stop promoting their app saying i use this app and they were giving me stock and you know they offer some kickback to me for me to promote their app i wasn't into it and i haven't played around with investing apps but investing apps they are a thing they should be legit just make sure they're a good one that you're using and stay active and don't put all your eggs in one basket don't put all your eggs in one basket very important somewhere i saw a picture of a persian food with a rectangular plane with something underneath and some grated cheese or something on top do you recall what that was triangular something underneath with grated cheese on top i might have been on discord grated cheese on top on our discord Blossom how often do i stream king boxer we got i've been streaming every day for the last week i think and we got another uh six streams to go in the next seven days i think and i do i announce in sets so as far as i don't set up a regular schedule because i adjust my time according to my partner she does shift work but basically i announce minimum two sets of live streams a month and each set is anywhere between six to or let's say five to ten uh live streams at a time so i'm streaming anywhere between 10 15 to 20 10 to 20 days a month at least how often do you get sponsorship offers as a youtuber would you ever consider doing one or no i've had offers before and i haven't accepted any of them yet i don't know if i ever will it's got to be something that i fully support it's got to be something that i use right uh like for example if valiant comics contact me and said chico will will pay you if you do a sponsorship you know sponsorship valiant comics i go hell yeah why not i buy valiant comics it's the only company that i buy all of their comics right i would do it i would also do it for some of the other independent comic companies as well right because i buy their comic books i love them right so it would really have to be something that my heart is in it but i haven't i've been offered for the last i don't know 14 years that have been let's say 10 year at least 10 years 12 years that have been loading on youtube i haven't accepted one yet i had one offer once back in 2008 where a company in california offered to pay me a few thousand dollars to go down to california and create a math series for them because they saw the math content that was putting out i declined i declined i had a company hnc the main one of the the main japanese television company i had one of their directors that makes um documentary films fly to vancouver and the representative from new york fly to vancouver to meet with me because they were making a documentary about mathematics and they wanted to use me as the presenter to do mathematics graffiti style on the on the walls that i was doing so i spent the day showing the walls and stuff like that it was cool i didn't it didn't go through yeah i think it was on the chicho discord just a few shave pieces of cheese on top of unmelted i don't know i don't know if that was me was that me blossom if you find that let us know i don't know which one it is i checked the pics on discord but i don't remember seeing something like that cheese are you sure it was cheese it was just recently if that was it that might have been the tatic uh that i made i haven't munched on the autumn olives yet autumn olives it's not gonna focus super delicious look at that thing what a cool fruit what a cool fruit fantastic berry it's addictive it's called autumn olives they don't taste like olives at all they're more berries very tasty incredibly tasty okay blossom thank you what is the cool fruit what is the cool fruit yeah it comes out in the autumn and most autumn fruit and vegetables are powerful they're like they contain because they have to see you through the winter so they contain a lot of nutrients if each of your fruit liqueurs was its own company which one would you invest in the most strawberry because strawberry everybody would eat or drink leaf blower i will make it my mission to try these bit storm triumph they're really good king boxer i'm 19 years old i know the system is messed up but i don't completely understand why i lack knowledge and want to change it can you recommend a good book to get started regarding the economy or regarding the system if you want to know delve deep into how messed up the system is in the united states specifically i've recommended this before days of destruction days of revolt by chris hedges and joe soco i don't know this does provide some solutions but it's more about the problems right so this is a great book gore let me put this here gore vidals perpetual war for perpetual peace this is a great book as well short book small book it's about timothy mcvay sort of focuses on that talk about the oklahoma city bombing how we got to be so hated gore vidal perpetual peace for perpetual war does it offer solutions to a certain degree it's about non-interventionism right as far as solutions specifically oh solutions krishna mortis and it's a free book you can read online krishna mortis education and the significance of life mandatory reading ok krishna mortis the author and the book is called education and the significance of significance of life and we have a video out where we talked about it and we read excerpts of it ok if you do if you do chicho education and the significance of life it should pop up and in the link of that description in the link of that video in the in the description of that video there's a link that will take you to the book that you can read it online ok should i invest in tesla stock no miro tesla is a is a war company now ok ellen musko go f himself he tweeted out when the coup happened in bolivia that they're allowed to the u.s. is allowed to coup anyone they want because he wanted their lithium right tesla stock is so so so expensive right his space sacks you know he said as a diamond mind he tweeted out that he can deliver u.s. military weapons anywhere around the globe within 15 minutes ellen musk is he's on the same level as steve jobs and bill gates and jeff bezos i wouldn't invest in tesla stock personally even though i owned or i was managing someone's funds when tesla stock before the 541 split bought into it at $25 would have been $5 right now right so according to today's price bought into tesla stock back in 2011 at $5 right now sitting at $430 right thank you i'm from scotland by the way awesome king boxer i hope you enjoy the book by the way king boxer start with christina morty and the significance of life very important book by the way gang i'm going to release the cooking video after this live stream the cooking live stream we did a couple days ago where we cook up lentil, persian lentil rice dish with lamb and the crispy bread in the bottom right and with a little paste of dates, raisins and cinnamon and onions fried up super delicious delicious cheecho what's your favorite Turkish dish Turkish dish turkey is an implant in that region pumpkin now that we're talking about it turkey or turkey or descendants of mongols turkey is basically has taken fruits and foods and stuff like this from other cultures and made it it's own right which is a legit thing to do as far as what's my favorite Turkish dish is i like Turkish coffee with a little bit of baklava and stuff like this actually one i learned one type of food to eat with from Turkish friends and stuff we had was tahini with honey is really good tahini and honey is really good you mix it up i've shown that you take tahini mix honey into it and it becomes really nice to eat i don't know what else it's sort of mix as persian food mainly that i know and persian food has been around a lot longer than Turkish food Persia was a country way before Turkey was even there so Turkey is just taking foods from other cultures Turkish pizza is nice Turkish pizza i don't know what Turkish oh you're talking Lama Jun Lama Jun is nice but that's more Arabic Lama Jun really flat pizza with Lama Jun that's not Turkish that's Arabic but you can call it Turkish because they take it and change the name and they say it's Turkish now Cheryl yes you have shown tahini and honey and now i'm hooked oh really Cheryl you incorporated it nice super delicious super good thank you for opening doors that looks like a ship heard about Tantuni i don't know what Tantuni is Tahini not Tahiti Tahini not Tahiti oh did you put Tahiti oh yeah Tahiti Tahiti and honey i wonder what that would be like Cheryl i don't know what Tantuni is i don't know what Tantuni is i might know it as something else some other name that speaks Turkish my father is fluent in Turkish it like nothing against Turkish people Turkish language Turkish culture but Turkish dictatorship totalitarianism governments where they wage war around around their vicinity and kill tens of thousands of people after them after them for two hours we're almost coming up to two hours Chico do you speak Arabic? No no i don't speak Arabic i speak Farsi, Persian but very broken my vocabulary is very limited pumpkin it's like meat and vegetables and bread and you roll it yeah that could be many things many things pumpkin but that sounds delicious i've had versions of that type of food from Iran probably Turkish because we have friends and family that are from Turkey Tantuni i know that name Blossom Tantuin i would have to see it i would have to see it if it's not a Persian name i would have to see it Persian or Armenian name i should probably know what it is but i would have to see it subject to criminal abuse oh my god i don't know what's going on funny funny gang should we call it a stream nice personal finance discussion investment discussion and we did a little bit of politics the planet of Tantuni is a star wars isn't it play it Martin how are you doing welcome welcome gang thank you for being here mods thank you for taking care of business if you're around Turkish poached egg on yogurt with alapo pepper sauce is phenomenal i don't think i've tried i don't think i've tried that sounds delicious just fine thanks for the stream my pleasure my pleasure dang i just came oh no miro miro you were here earlier oh it's okay we're gonna be on again tomorrow with an entheogen stream Thursday with math stream Friday we do comic book reading for halloween saturday we do a comic book reading for halloween i believe i got the dates right yeah saturday and then on monday and tuesday we do julien assange streams free your mouth from its bonds and free julien assange nice i was freaking but i've only been here for like that oh no miro sorry we're gonna be i got 5 more streams coming up right 1 2 3 6 more streams coming up in the next 7 days mushrooms for halloween can't wait for entheogen tomorrow tomorrow we do tomorrow we do gang thank you for everything thank you for the discussions i am on patreon patreon.com forward slash chico ch y c h o i want to support this work if you want to follow this work patreon is a fantastic way to do so i don't put anything beyond paywalls everything's great of commons share and share alike you can follow the work and if you think you have the means to support this work and you like the content here supporting this work through patreon is a fantastic way to make sure we continue to do what it is that we are doing and for those of you who've been supporting this work through patreon thank you for the support gang very much appreciated we are live streaming on twitch twitch.tv forward slash chico live ch y c h o l i v e mods thank you for taking care of business gang thank you for the follow thank you for the subs thank you for the cheers thank you for the discussions thank you for being here i do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on l o minds vk parlor gap and twitter and you can follow the work there you can go to our chat on our twitch and put an exclamation mark social and all the links will pop up and we do have a discord page and the links are in the description of this video and on the live stream and on our twitch page you should be able to find it and there's some amazing discussion being taking place on discord and a lot of great info and just everything being shared on our discord page so you're definitely welcome to come there and share your thoughts and share your ideas we will be uploading the audio of this discussion to soundcloud.com forward slash chico ch y c h o as a podcast and it should be available on your favorite podcasting platform including Spotify and iTunes and we will be uploading this video this live stream to both bit shoot and youtube and you can support this work by subscribing following turning on notifications sharing liking commenting and if you're on youtube you can join youtube membership and for those of you who joined youtube membership thank you very much for the support gang thanks for being here I've been listening to your podcast on soundcloud this is the first live stream awesome king boxer I'll have the politics one up tomorrow or the next day and then this one will be up in about 4 days so okay when the videos come up I released a podcast at the same time I released bit shoot videos so I'll have that up as well I'm glad you guys are enjoying the content gang if you can make it tomorrow and Theogenz I hope you have a fantastic Tuesday gang bye everyone


Hi, Wikimedians! So, for those who are watching us online, currently is 12.25. So, probably you might still be asleep while we're talking right now. But for those who are in the ESEAP region, also our delegates here on the onsite, welcome again. So, our next speaker today is a founder of the Wiki Advocates Philippines user group. He also a network organizer of the art and feminism and a regional committee member of the grants committee in the ESEAP region. He is a Filipino writer who has been published two novels in central decoll, language, and several collections of poetry and flash fiction of zines. Wikimedians, Anthony Diaz. Hello, everyone. I am Anthony Diaz from Wiki Advocates Philippines user group, a newly recognized group. And for those who have attended the virtual Wikimedia last year, so we are on the opening program. And now we are happy to be here to present to you about this new project that we have. So, I'd be presenting about the Wiki Bosses project. So, these are the initial ideas we had during the time we were creating our logo for the project. But initially this idea of preserving the voices of writers in the Philippines have come up when a friend of mine who is a notable writer in the Philippines have passed away. And he has a bio note on our local Wikipedia and I would have loved to have his voice recording and his biography. However, I have failed to do so. So, with this project, I have intended to record the voices of writers in the Philippines. So, this is our official logo. So, you can see this is a dialogue balloon in a comic strip voicing out and also the Wiki text. So, this would mean that all the voices that we have collected would be of free usage for everyone. Basically, this is just a project of collecting the voices of different writers in the Philippines. But in the future, we intend to also record some prayers and sacred texts aside from those literary pieces. And this project is also part of our language preservation advocacy wherein we would want to pour our small languages in the Philippines to be put in several Wikimedia projects. This Wiki bosses project is hosted in the Wikimedia Commons as of the moment. And lastly, we would also want to interlink those recordings. Say, for example, if a notable writer had an existing biography on the Wikipedia page, we would just get the file of the recorded voice and insert it on the existing article. So, if you would visit the site in Wikimedia Commons, this is the basic structure. So, as of the moment, this isn't so visually appealing. So, maybe some developers would want to help us to have this interface get improved. You're always welcome. So, as you can see, we have included the name of the volunteer writer and also the title of the literary piece and the genre. But as of the moment, we are still collecting just poetry, so it would not take a lot of time for them to record it. But if it would be in a form of flash fiction or a short story, they would just need to select some small passages and then record it. And next to it is the audio file. So, everyone who would wanted to hear about poetry, say, for example, in Cebuano language, in Heligaynon language, they can freely download the file. And if the contributor would permit us to have their picture, so they would also be identifiable, we would also put them there. So, as the project commences, we were able to involve 16 writers from different regions in the Philippines and as of the moment, we have six languages included. Most of them are from the Bicol region area because that's where our user group is situated. But we are happy that aside from the Bicol languages, we have also the Heligaynon, Cebuano and Tagalog. But in the future, we intend to maximize this number of languages. And we have 21 literary pieces that can be freely downloaded. I'll be giving you an example of a recorded poetry in a central Bicol language. So, let's hear it. Sa ibabaw kan mga kabukidan, mga nyugan, umadidik yung pang mga padang na, tiba at dahi naliwat magudak, bumataluman, minsan sa likod kan panatang, mapalik liwat. Minakusugan mga buot hulita maluluya paanda gubdob kan paabuto na tren, asin man anhinging pang pagsilbato. Harayog pa, harayog pa, alagadig pang tigba upugnaw sa huring kugos o huring hadok sa namumutan. Alagad pagsinasara nakan kakahuyan, anting raw kan tren na minapasilyab sa mga kabuk na nagrurolupadan, minaiktin ang mga bitis, dagos kabot sa mga daradara, patinaman sa daghan na uropang pano'n impagahe. Ako, aki, tugang, katuot, gerumdong, asin ang saliring haro. Asin sa pagabotkan tren, pagdangadang sanden, minaiba ang kulorkan kuklit nagiging siring ngili sa bulawan. Minaliwanag ang law, siring sa nakapintang kaumahal. Tiba at nakahili sa padudumanan na sa pagkuna harayu-unamahay. Asin ang pag ako, minaabot, susundan ninsinoblian ang kurusan, ang munyan sa namaturok. Paaram, sa liwat, asin ang makina maayon, sa nakakapungup niyang silpato. So, I wasn't able to provide an English translation of it, but the poem is about someone who is traveling on a passenger train. So, what do we see in the future about this project? We look forward that this project will not only be hosted in Wikimedia Commons, but it would have a separate project a bit. We can call it maybe wiki voice, since it's English, voice translates to voice in our language. We are imagining some kind of a Spotify application where there are collections of different literatures, prayers, not only from the Philippines, but also from several countries. So, that would be on the global collaboration. So, I would wanted some regions to also implement this type of project wherein they could also preserve the voices of the famous writers, or even those locals who just chanted their prayers or the sacred text. And lastly, for the wiki bosses to building to several wiki projects, especially in Wikimedia, in Wikipedia and in Wikicode. So, for those who would want to visit the site, just click on Commons column, wiki bosses on Wikimedia Commons. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you, Anthony. So, probably will have a ten minute, I'm sorry, I mean, five minute technical adjustment and then we'll go to an open Q&A.